Episode
The Waltons: The Bequest
Overview
Grandma finds out she has inherited $250 and decides to share her wealth. Mary Ellen experiments with being a blond and uses Jim-Bob as a test case.
Details
- Series
- The Waltons
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1973-11-29
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Bequest is Episode 12 in Season 2 of The Waltons. It aired on 1973-11-29. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 11: The Substitute
An inexperienced but brilliant young sub teacher wreaks havoc in the Walton's Mountain School. Because of her insecurity, she refuses advice from anyone until Olivia steps in.
Episode 13: The Air Mail Man
An air mail pilot, due to engine trouble, lands his plane in the Walton's meadow. With the help of John, the plane is repaired and Olivia receives a surprise birthday gift, a plane ride!
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Story
John-Boy anticipates a visit from his girlfriend and is pending a college scholarship exam. He has an accident in the sawmill and his vision is blurred. He is unable to finish his test and eventually must undergo surgery.
Episode 14: The Triangle
John-Boy experiences a heart ache because Miss Hunter, his teacher, starts dating Reverend Fordwick.
Episode 9: The Fawn
John-Boy secures a position of rent collector for a hated landlord while Erin, who is disappointed by her knight in shining armor, nurses an orphaned fawn back to health.
Episode 15: The Awakening
Grandma's 68th birthday is here and the 2 faces of age are keenly felt by her as Grandma is confronted by old age. Mary Ellen, now 14 years old, poses an impossible barrier between her and a college student who lays claim to her heart.
Episode 8: The Braggart
Hobart Shank a teen-age orphan returns to the Walton home while John attempts to get him a contract as a professional baseball pitcher. He breaks his arm after falling out of the tree house losing his chance at fame.
Episode 16: The Honeymoon
Olivia and John go on a late honeymoon at Virginia Beach while John-Boy & Marcia Woolery try to come to an understanding in their relationship.
Episode 7: The Prize
The Country Fair has come to Walton's Mountain. Grandma has entered a quilt in the competition. Ben sells a pig for the greased pig contest and Olivia's old suitor, now politician, visits the fair.
Episode 17: The Heritage
An investor talks John into selling the mountain as a tour center. John thinks it over but realizes what the home means to the rest of his family and turns the ofter down.
Episode 6: The Chicken Thief
John-Boy accidentally sees a family friend, Yancy Tucker, stealing chickens and must decide whether to turn him in to the sheriff. Yancy has been helping poor friends but is arrested and charged with shooting the chicken's owner. All is resolved when the owner admits to falling and shooting himself.
Episode 18: The Gift
Jason learns one of life's hardest lessons: the death of a close friend. Seth Turner learns he has only one year to live because he has a fatal disease.