Episode

The Waltons: The Vigil

Name: The Waltons: The Vigil
Released: 1976-09-30
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Ralph Waite, Jon Walmsley, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, David W. Harper, Earl Hamner, Jr.

The WaltonsSeason 51976-09-30

Overview

Mary Ellen, aspring nurse, makes a diagnosis about Grandma's illness which almost costs Grandma her life.

Details

Series: The Waltons
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 2
Air date: 1976-09-30
Runtime: 50 min

Episode context

The Vigil is Episode 2 in Season 5 of The Waltons. It aired on 1976-09-30. The runtime is 50 min.

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Episode 1: The First Edition 1976-09-23 | 50 min The first edition of The Blue Ridge Chronicle is published by John-Boy. He publishes a story about Ben and it makes his mother mad.

Episode 3: The Comeback 1976-10-07 | 50 min Jason gets news that his scholarship has been cancelled. Jason begins to hang out at the Dew Drop Inn. He is trying to interest Red Turner, a musician, into making a come back since his son's death.

More episodes from this season

Episode 4: The Baptism 1976-10-14 | 50 min John refuses to visit the tent meeting or get baptised, even with the presence of a famous evangelist.

Episode 5: The Fire Storm 1976-10-21 | 50 min John-Boy tries to keep the community updated about the news in Europe sohe decides to print excerpts about Hitler's Mein Kampf in his paper. A great outcry ensues and the town is torn apart over the issue of publishing unfavorable items in the Blue Ridge Chronicle.

Episode 6: The Nightwalker 1976-10-28 | 50 min A unknown person prowls through the night on Walton's Mountain. Godsey's Hall is open up by Ike Godsey & Jason decides to have a dance for the community

Episode 7: The Wedding 1976-11-04 | 100 min Mary Ellen surprises her parents saying that she and Dr. David Spencer are getting married. At the same time the family makes preparations, Dr. Curt Willard arrives and complicates matters.

Episode 8: The Cloudburst 1976-11-11 | 50 min John-Boy sells his Meadow to a mining company to meet payments on his printing press. Ike and Corabeth follow suit. What everybody doesn't know is that the company plans to strip mine which will ruin the land.

Episode 9: The Great Motorcycle Race 1976-11-18 | 50 min Jim-Bob fixes up Ike's old motorcyle & he enters a motorcyle race. The Godsey's want to adopt a baby but instead adopt a young girl named Aimee

Episode 10: The Pony Cart 1976-12-02 | 50 min Auntie Martha Corrine Walton comes to Walton's Mountain to visit and soon interupts everybody's life. She and Ben make an old fashioned pony cart and she comes to the realization that she is about to die.

Episode 11: The Best Christmas 1976-12-09 | 50 min The 11 members of the Walton family are together for Christmas This would be the last time that all of the Waltons would be together

Episode 12: The Last Mustang 1976-12-16 | 50 min The Waltons are emersed in a controversial election for sheriff and Grandpa fights to release a wild mustang that he says was caught on Walton property.

Episode 13: The Rebellion 1976-12-23 | 50 min Corabeth gives Olivia a permanent that turns out badly. Grandma is up against a new competition for playing the church organ.