Episode
The Waltons: The Pledge
Overview
Mary Ellen feels inadequate as a nurse to help Mountain folk. Against the Dean's advice, Mary Ellen applies for medical school.
Details
- Series
- The Waltons
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1980-12-04
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Pledge is Episode 3 in Season 9 of The Waltons. It aired on 1980-12-04. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 1: The Outrage (1)
John is thrown to jail after he tries to defend a black neighbour, who is accused to murdering a white man.
Episode 5: The Premonition
Cindy has bad dreams about Ben, who becomes a POW. John-Boy falls in love with a french girl in Paris who runs a book shop.
Episode 6: The Pursuit
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Episode 7: The Last Ten Days
Ben is taken on an unexpected trip by his captor who turns Ben in to the American forces. Toni is seriously courted by Jason.
Episode 8: The Move
Ben comes home from the war and tells John he wants to study engineering. The long awaited vacation that Erin plans to go on is interrupted. John tells the his family he has to take Olivia to Arizona to the sanitarium.
Episode 9: The Whirlwind
Mary Ellen agrees to marry Jonesey but finds out that Curt might very well be alive. The Dew Drop Inn is reopened by Jason.
Episode 10: The Tempest
Mary Ellen finds out that Curt is still alive. He is living in Florida but is quite the different person from the man she remembers. J.D. asks Erin to come back to work by begging Erin.
Episode 11: The Carousel
Cindy's father gets killed and Cindy finds out she is adopted when she goes through some old papers. Cindy goes to find her Mother. Elizabeth and Drew have problems.
Episode 12: The Hot Rod
Jim-Bob and Jody get discharged from the service. They celebrate and they decide to open up a garage. The Baldwin sisters get forced to close their recipe machine until they discover their Grandfather's still in a secret room.
Episode 13: The Gold Watch
Stanley Perkins comes again and eventually says he is suffering from a nervous break down. Because of a new singer at The Dew Drop Inn that pays too much attention to Toni, Jason has problems. Rose gives Stanley a gold watch.