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The Waltons Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
The Sermon
Thu, Sep 11, 197560 mins
The reverend and teacher get married. Olivia is asked to be the substitute teacher and John Boy is asked to preach the sermon.
Episode 2
The Genius
Thu, Sep 18, 197560 mins
John-Boy's dean asks him to take care of a 16-year-old genius college student for a weekend. The genius is gifted in all academic areas, but woefully lacking in social graces.
Episode 3
The Fighter
Thu, Sep 25, 197560 mins
A prize fighter arrives searching for work, living and training in the Waltons' barn. Some are put off by his fighting, but he wants to build a church in the community.
Episode 4
The Prophecy
Thu, Oct 2, 197560 mins
John's 25th high school reunion is being planned, but he is apprehensive about facing his highly successful classmates. John-Boy fears he will never make a living as a writer. Jim-Bob makes a profound comment.
Episode 5
The Boondoggle
Thu, Oct 9, 197560 mins
A traveling reporter visits the mountain to write story about Judge Baldwin. What he finds upsets the Baldwin sisters and disturbs the community.
Episode 6
The Breakdown
Thu, Oct 16, 197560 mins
Jason's spending too much time playing with a band that it's taking a toll on his school work, his music lessons and even his health. And John-Boy gets a part time job working in a library and the librarian is trying to coax him into taking it up as a profession.
Episode 7
The Wing-Walker
Thu, Oct 23, 197560 mins
John-Boy and Jim-Bob fall in love with a visiting wing walker who is hiding a dark secret.
Episode 8
The Competition
Thu, Oct 30, 197560 mins
A young man visits Walton's Mountain in order to learn about lumbering; both Mary Ellen and Erin take a liking to him causing jealousy between the sisters. Meanwhile Olivia wants to have another baby but is told she shouldn't; instead, she takes in a foster baby.
Episode 9
The Emergence
Thu, Nov 6, 197560 mins
Marsha, John-Boy's old girlfriend, returns to sell her family home at the urging of her fiance. Wedding plans end when the fiance realizes the home is in debt. Olivia helps a disadvantaged student get glasses.
Episode 10
The Loss
Thu, Nov 13, 197560 mins
Cousin Olivia, who married on the mountain in The Shivaree episode, returns to Walton's Mountain following her husband's sudden death. Family cat has kittens and dies giving birth. Elizabeth and Cousin Olivia both have to heal.
Episode 11
The Abdication
Thu, Nov 20, 197560 mins
King Edward VIII abdicates the throne and the Waltons follow the story. Meanwhile, a movie production team is in town and John-Boy reconnects with a friend who's part of the production crew. John-Boy is offered a job.
Episode 12
The Estrangement
Thu, Dec 4, 197560 mins
The family helps Vera Walton and her husband, Wade, navigate a rough patch in their marriage. She cannot get used to the city and he is too used to it. He has fallen into the criminal element.
Episode 13
The Nurse
Thu, Dec 11, 197560 mins
Mary Ellen is eager to begin nursing school, but is unhappy to learn that she lacks the education in algebra and chemistry needed to enter.
Episode 14
The Intruders
Thu, Dec 18, 197560 mins
Ben is upset at how he is treated at the mill. He gets a job at another lumber company, not realizing they are competing for the same jobs.
Episode 15
The Search
Thu, Jan 1, 197660 mins
Olivia takes Jim-Bob and Elizabeth on a trip to visit family, but along the way their tire blows out, they get lost in the woods and stumble upon a moonshiner cabin. Out of fear of being caught by authorities, the moonshiners take Olivia and the kids further into the woods and leave them stranded. Meanwhile the Walton men start a search party to find the missing family members who must survive in the woods overnight during a storm.
Episode 16
The Secret
Thu, Jan 8, 197660 mins
Jim-Bob wonders if he is adopted because he does not look like other family members. No one wants to talk about his birth, so he investigates and uncovers a long hidden family secret.
Episode 17
The Fox
Thu, Jan 15, 197660 mins
Grandfather learns that a Rough Riders anniversary celebration is being planned and John-Boy, in search of an adventure story, gets involved by suggesting a reenactment on Walton's Mountain, but Grandfather doesn't show much interest in the event and neither does Grandmother who remembers how hard the war was on her; meanwhile Ben captures a fox for its pelt to make money but isn't sure he can kill the animal.
Episode 18
The Burnout
Thu, Jan 22, 197660 mins
John-Boy is working hard on his novel. But when a fire ravages the Walton house, he is stuck with just a few pieces of charred paper, and his family stuck without a home. Olivia reluctantly agrees to let the children stay with friends until the house is rebuilt. But she starts to see changes in them that she doesn't like, especially in little Elizabeth, who becomes more and more withdrawn. And all the while, John-Boy's guilt about the fire prevents him from beginning his novel again.
Episode 19
The Big Brother
Thu, Jan 29, 197660 mins
While John and Olivia are away for business, John-Boy befriends a young girl who is alone; he takes her home to the family and she cons her way into their good graces, except for Grandfather who suspects she's hiding something; as the girl cons more people it eventually catches up with her and John-Boy learns the truth.
Episode 20
The Test
Thu, Feb 5, 197660 mins
Olivia gets a job in the city as a dressmaker. She enjoys it but soon realizes she misses the family too much. Maude Gormley isn't adjusting well to life in a retirement home and returns to the mountain.
Episode 21
The Quilting
Thu, Feb 12, 197660 mins
Mary Ellen resists joining in on a quilting when she reaches the marrying age. This hurts Grandma's feelings.
Episode 22
The House
Thu, Feb 19, 197660 mins
Grandma starts a petition to save the old Whitley house, which Grandpa has been contracted to tear down. John-Boy, as editor, writes to suggest that people salvage parts out of the house. Jason plays piano in a music recital.
Episode 23
The Fledgling
Thu, Feb 26, 197660 mins
When John-Boy is presented with the opportunity to buy a printing press and run his own newspaper, he comes up with a plan that requires him to get a full-time job to earn the money to buy the press while still attending school; he finds a job close to school and, to the disappointment of his family, decides to move out of the Walton home to help save time which he stretches thin in his effort to make a dream come true.
Episode 24
The Collision
Thu, Mar 4, 197660 mins
And old love (Kathleen Quinlan) returns and urges John-Boy to join the rebellion in Spain.