Four carnival performers are stranded after the carnival leaves Walton's Mountain, so they stay with the Waltons while they try to get back home.Four carnival performers are stranded after the carnival leaves Walton's Mountain, so they stay with the Waltons while they try to get back home.Four carnival performers are stranded after the carnival leaves Walton's Mountain, so they stay with the Waltons while they try to get back home.
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- Olivia Walton
- (as Miss Michael Learned)
- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
- Jim-Bob Walton
- (as David Harper)
- The Narrator
- (voice)
- (as Earl Hamner)
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- TriviaThe 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, mentioned as just having begun, places this episode around its opening date: May 27, 1933. Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs (1933)" was released on the same day.
- GoofsGrandma Walton is wiping the kitchen table with a cloth. Her glasses are at the edge of the table beside a pot, out of her reach. A moment later they are in the middle of the table, where the motion of her hand knocks them off the table and they break.
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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Few strangers ever came to Waltons Mountain. We got our news of the outside world from the radio or from an occasional copy of a magazine. But I remember when I was about seventeen, four visitors arrived and gave me my first unexpected glimpse of the other world beyond our mountain.
There was a lesson on judgment on people you don't understand. Having gotten to know the performers who were traveling through personally, everyone, especially Olivia learned that despite their differences on the outside, there were more similarities than differences.
I am amazed when I stop to realize that the on-screen relationships exist only on screen. If I had to explain one scene in particular to children today, they probably couldn't understand it, even though I do. It's as if they have always been a family, living for the day, dreaming of something more, and often settling for a lot less than they hope for. I don't dislike this episode, I happen to like a lot of episodes a lot more, but this is still excellent in its entirety.
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