Episode

The Waltons: The Gypsies

Name: The Waltons: The Gypsies
Released: 1973-02-01
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Ralph Waite, Jon Walmsley, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, David W. Harper, Earl Hamner, Jr.

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Overview

A gypsy family is stranded, but the leader refuses to accept help from the Waltons. His pride almost costs the life of his baby son.

Details

Series: The Waltons
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 19
Air date: 1973-02-01
Runtime: 50 min

Episode context

The Gypsies is Episode 19 in Season 1 of The Waltons. It aired on 1973-02-01. The runtime is 50 min.

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Episode 18: The Courtship 1973-01-25 | 50 min Olivia's uncle Cody Nelson comes to visit with the Waltons and finds love with a woman who has been divorced four times.

Episode 20: The Deed 1973-02-08 | 50 min It seems that the Waltons never officially registered the deed to Waltons Mountain. In order to help pay the legal fees, John-Boy leaves home for a job in the city. He meets new friends, gets mugged and earns a reward to help the family keep their home.

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Episode 17: The Love Story 1973-01-18 | 50 min John Boy falls in love with Jenny Pendleton who returns to Walton's Mountain. Jenny's father and new step-mother follow her to the mountain. Her father is killed in an auto accident and Jenny returns home with her step mother. John-Boy suffers his first lost love.

Episode 21: The Scholar 1973-02-22 | 50 min A neighbor lady, Verdie Grant asks John-Boy to teach her to read and write. He agrees to teach her as he helps Elizabeth. Things go wrong, however, and feelings get hurt.

Episode 16: The Fire 1973-01-11 | 50 min A young girls father objects to Miss Hunter's teaching Evolution. During a drunken rage he burns down the school and is killed in the fire.

Episode 22: The Bicycle 1973-03-01 | 50 min Local blacksmith, Curtis Norton has John-Boy write letters to his bride-to-be. When she arrives on Walton's Mountain, life and Curtis are much different than she expected. Meanwhile, Olivia is feeling new pangs for freedom and something "different" in her life.

Episode 15: The Actress 1973-01-04 | 50 min When her car breaks down, the famous extravagant actress, Alvira Drummond finds herself stranded on Waltons Mountain. The Children, especially Mary Ellen, are fascinated by her "Hollywood" ways.

Episode 23: The Townie 1973-03-08 | 50 min John-Boy's friend Sarah sees him as a way to escape her "trapped" life with her demanding mother. When John-Boy rejects her advances, she runs off and plans to elope with a townie.

Episode 14: The Minstrel 1972-12-21 | 50 min Mary Ellen meets a traveling troubadour, Jamie and neglects her responsibilities of helping pick fruit.

Episode 24: An Easter Story 1973-04-19 | 100 min The entire family suffers a crisis when Olivia is stricken with polio. Dr Vance prescribes the accepted treatment, but Olivia does not get better. John-Boy learns of a new treatment practiced by sister Kenny and the family tries it to success in time for the Easter service.

Episode 13: The Reunion 1972-12-14 | 50 min The Baldwin sisters and The Recipe play a pivotal role in this story involving their unscrupulous scheming cousin, Homer Lee Baldwin.

Episode 12: The Dust Bowl Cousins 1972-12-07 | 50 min The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the mountain and immediately upset everyone's life by their shiftless dishonest ways.