Posted on 09/15/2012 3:42:16 PM PDT by BigReb555
The ambitions of the Walton children included: John-Boy who wanted to be a writer, Jim-Bob an aviator, Mary Ellen a nurse and Jason a musician who loved playing Grandma’s favorite song “Carry me back to Ole Virginia.”
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Oh, BTW, I was talking about the actress, Judy Norton, not Mary Ellen doing the nude pictures. You probably knew that.
I like Little House OK but there was always somebody crying or dying and it got a little depressing at times. I love the Waltons.
Geer was also a committed Communist and was blacklisted by HUAC. I don't allow anything with him in it to be shown in my house -- Nor anything with Andy Griffith.
The book that the show is based on is called Spencer’s Mountain..it is written by Earl Hamner.
Boy I loved that show.
Some of my most fondest memories include watching The Waltons in the early 70’s with my family. Grandma had just bought us a new Zenith color tv. My good christian mother would pick out what we could and could not watch.
What was wrong with Griffith?
What was wrong with Griffith?
Well, I’m now I’m hooked on the horns of a dilemma. I paused Jeremiah Johnson to watch the Tennessee game. Redford is bad enough, but now I find out Geer was a Marxist sodomite. not sure if I will finish the movie or not.
She did have a one-time gig on The Love Boat..
If yours was like mine you couldn’t watch very much. The Walton’s, Littlle House, and Gunsmoke were some of the only ones we watched. My parents were horrified by a lot of shows of that era, shows that seem almost Christian by the standards of today.
The father was Andrew Duggan.
No, actually he played a troublemaker - at least in one episode. He was a local who thinks a German immigrant family are Nazi spies.
I know right!? and don’t forget the occasional holiday movie like The Ten Commandments, which we were practically forced to watch every Easter when it aired on CBS evry year.
At bedtime the Walton’s turned off the lights and said good night .....
I wished at the end of one episode Gramps would have yelled: “STFU, I’m trying to sleep!”
LOL, you must be the only person who feels the way I do! Even when I was a kid, "Little House" got on my nerves because Michael Landon BAWLED every week! Even now, I can't bear the re-runs for that reason.
We watched The Ten Commandments every year. My whole family sat in the den and watched our fancy Curtis Mathis. I’m not sure how big the screen was, but I think it was a nineteen incher. It was connected to a giant antenna. We had to go outside and turn it when we changed channels or if the signal faded. I don’t remember my dad ever complaining about having to go out in the rain or cold to change the channel. Ours was the nicest set on our street.
My kids have no idea what life was like for those of us who grew up in the sixties and seventies.
In fact the Democrat party tried to get Griffith to run against Jessie Helms in 1984 — He didn't because in ‘84 that was like being asked to be a sacrificial lamb. Griffith has campaigned for Obama and other hard Left candidates and was a virulent supporter of Obamacare.
The guy turns my stomach
mother = Patricia NealFather= Andrew Duggan
Grandfather = Edgar Bergen (yes, Candace's father)
Grandmother = Ellen Corby
I could watch Little House, since it’s on the same Dish channel as The Waltons, but I don’t watch Little House. It’s just not my cup of tea, either. I was not happy to learn last year that Will Geer was not anything like Grampa Walton, but I still watch The Waltons and remember when it first aired when I was a teenager growing up on the farm. The theme song hits my heart every time.
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