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DVD The Waltons - The Complete Second Season
Year two of Earl Hamner's The Waltons still finds the original cast complete and the show humming along nicely on nostalgia for an earlier America, specifically the Depression-era 1930s, a time of sacrifice and family unity as The Waltons portrays it. The characters we came to know so well in season one (see The Waltons: The Complete First Season) continue to live in a spirit of cooperation and generosity, and with hope that a younger generation of Waltons will prosper and dream new dreams for everyone.
The 24 episodes included in this box set feature a number of very strong stories, including a handful of classics, all immersed in the series' typically old-Hollywood production values. (Several season two shows were directed by Waltons' star Ralph Waite.) Among the best is the premiere, "The Journey," in which the ever-noble, college-bound John-Boy (Richard Thomas) passes on a school dance and an important date to take an aging neighbor, Maggie Mackenzie (Linda Watkins), on a special, final journey. "The Separation" finds Grandpa (Will Geer) and Grandma (Ellen Corby) Walton feuding—even living apart--after the former crafts a secret plan to raise money to pay the family's electricity bill. (Their reconciliation is one of the series' most enjoyable and tender moments.) The memorable "The Thanksgiving Story" is a nail-biter in which John-Boy, facing a hopeful future as he awaits college and a visit from his girlfriend, endures a head injury in the family mill and must undergo surgery. Finally, "The Honeymoon" sees John (Waite) and Olivia (Michael Learned) finally taking their honeymoon after 19 years of marriage and seven kids. Throughout all the major storylines is a constant buzz of subplots concerning John-Boy's younger siblings—their joys and disappointments, first loves, accomplishments and relationships with one another. The Waltons never slows down, but it is capable of revealing the most delicate of feelings within shared or private moments. --Tom Keogh
Review(s): DVD The Waltons - The Complete Second Season
Excellent!
Short and simple- this is the best televison series to date! Great writing, acting, and directing! What more can I say?!
Retro Family Entertainment everyone should watch
I am glad these are finally coming out, since my entire family enjoys them, and they teach timeless values of loyalty, trust, self-reliance, and simplicity, at a time when our lives are increasingly complex. Transfer to digital is good, although this is actually a replacement for a Volume 2 which had "blocking" in a few episodes. Have not had the problem with Vols. 1 & 3.
Really the best TV show I've ever seen.
I'm a huge fan of Star Trek Next Generation. What I appreciate about that show are the strong values, compelling situations, and the thoughtful exploration [sic] of the process of deciding how to resolve situations, and how to implement those decisions.
The Waltons, however, is an entirely different class.
It is the most compelling television ever.
The quality of the relationships, the strong morality (as distinct from strong "values"), the clear, kind, sensible thinking and interaction that is depicted on the screen is amazing.
This kind of television would not be made today.
- Who would write it?
- Who, even in their imagination, thinks so clearly about "difficult" moral issues?
There is hardly a shared vocabulary in modern society for even talking about moral issues, let alone advancing them.
The people depicted in this program are not perfect, but they are being perfected. They are growing. And most important, that they are supposed to be kind, hard working, long-suffering, patient, that they are to do what's right regardless of the cost, is written firmly on their heart, even when they occassionally stumble in their actions.
Unfortunately, these people are only characters portrayed by actors. But they are portrayed so well, they give us all a model for behavior and thought to aspire to.
That some would aspire, for the benefit of us all.
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The Waltons' nearly 10-year run on network television grew out of the popular, 1971 made-for-TV movie The Homecoming, which was derived from a Depression-era, rustic setting ("Walton's Mountain"), and characters based on Earl Hamner Jr.'s autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain--itself the source for a very nice 1963 feature film starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. That's a lot of entertainment sprouting from Hamner's prose. But something about his seminal story of family values, rugged independence, and big dreams amidst a hardscrabble existence captured the hearts of American audiences, many of whom personally recalled severe economic adversity in the 1930s.
A true television classic, The Homecoming was the second movie (after 1963's Spencer's Mountain) based on Earl Hamner's autobiographical writings about love, pride, faith, and survival in rural America during the Great Depression. The Homecoming introduced the Walton family, a 1930s mountain clan living a hardscrabble existence that forces patriarch John Walton (Andrew Duggan) to seek work, far from home, in the city. When John fails to return home, as promised, on Christmas Eve, his iron-willed wife Olivia (Patricia Neal) keeps a lid on their children's worry. Oldest son John-Boy (Richard Thomas), who privately dreams of becoming a writer but worries about disappointing his parents, is dispatched to find his dad. Graceful yet harder-edged than the subsequent TV... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Fielder Cook DVD Release Date: Released the 23 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Waltons: The Complete Third Season finds series creator Earl Hamner's running story about the proud, Depression-era family living and working on Walton's Mountain going through some changes. The big news is that oldest son John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is now a freshman at Boatwright University, pursuing his dream of becoming a writer but encountering a lot of tough challenges and distractions. Still living at home but driving to classes every day, John-Boy gets an unpleasant taste of hazing from arrogant upperclassmen, grief from impatient professors, insecurity in a competitive writing class, and an ever-broadening sense of how the other half lives through exotic, quirky, yet sometimes sweet and attractive young women he meets on campus.
I love the LHOTP series, but the DVDs could be so much better. Editing, timing, sound are often way off, but like big corp. has figured out, I'll watch it anyway, because the show is just so wonderful. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael Landon DVD Release Date: Released the 14 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Nellie has her twins!!!! Love the character of Nellie. The other stories were interesting. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael Landon DVD Release Date: Released the 15 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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