Thursday, July 3, 2014

Classic Television - Prime Time

The Waltons
Original channel
CBS
Original run
September 14, 1972 – June 4, 1981
Starring
Richard Thomas
Ralph Waite
Michael Learned
Ellen Corby
Will Geer
Judy Norton
Jon Walmsley
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Eric Scott
David W. Harper
Kami Cotler
Peggy Rea
Joe Conley
Ronnie Claire Edwards
The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

The series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming: A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Beginning in September 1972, the series originally aired on CBS for a total of nine seasons. After the series was canceled by CBS in 1981, NBC aired three television movie sequels in 1982, with three more in the 1990s; on CBS. The Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in syndication.

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