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DVD The Waltons - The Complete Third Season
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.
Meanwhile, John-Boy's father, John Walton (Ralph Waite), nurses a dream of opening a father-and-son-operated lumber mill, knowing full well that the very busy John-Boy can't do much without sacrificing his education. (John also discovers next-in-line son Jason (Jon Walmsley) is already dreaming about his own career beyond the mountain.) Walton mom Olivia (Michael Learned) looks wistful over the speed with which her children are growing up, and Grandpa (Will Geer) tries to do his part for the family's well-being within the limits of his age and rocky health. The Complete Third Season starts powerfully with a story about Walton kin, living elsewhere on the mountain, who refuse to leave their generations-long home in an eminent domain struggle with the government. Glimpses of the world Grandpa grew up in--full of moonshine, guns, and hardheaded men and women--abound in this fascinating episode. Other dramas concern heart problems for Grandpa; a runaway crisis when Jim-Bob (David W. Harper) bolts from home; a proper (and long-delayed) wedding for formerly eloped couple John and Olivia; a horse race that's supposed to be fun but takes on greater dimension; and troubles for John-Boy with a femme fatale and Boatwright's flawed honor code. --Tom Keogh
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Another great season!
I love The Waltons,and this was a great season some of my favorite episodes are The First Day,The book,The Song,and The Lie was pretty good one. But there is a few episodes I do not care to watch that much or are kind of boring are,The Matchmakers, The Beguiled,The Venture and The Marathon. Those episodes were the only reason I did not give this product 5 stars.Make sure you do not miss this season!
The Walton's 3rd DVD set
Once again I am very pleased with my service from Amazon.com. My DVD set of the 3rd season of The Walton's is very enjoyable and I look forward to future purchases.
Quality Show - Poor Quality Reproduction
The third season of the Waltons continues the tradition of meaningful family entertainment. Just like the first two seasons, there are wonderful episodes in this season as well, with extensive character development in the children, John and Olivia Walton, and of course the trials of aging in Zeb and Esther Walton. The family members are so real, the plots so interesting, and the acting so excellent, that one forgets that this is a show. It is so engrossing, it is like watching a real live family.
The biggest disappointment for me is the quality of the reproduction. The first two seasons displayed superb video reproduction. The color is vivid, the film is scratch and blotch-free, and the sound quality is clear. Unfortunately, the third season episodes show none of these quality markers. My version shows scratches, blotches, poor faded color, and an inferior sound track. Much to my disappointment, the quality is not any better than taping the shows off the television. To produce the episodes without cleaning up the scratches and imperfections is uncharacteristic of the Walton tradition. The Waltons is a show known for its quality, and here are reproductions that fall far short of acceptable quality standards.
While it is nice to have the third season on DVD, viewing the episodes in this shoddy condition is a major drawback. I hope the producers of this series clean up their act and clean up their tapes before producing season four.
Jim Konedog Koenig
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While we are getting ready to say goodbye to John Boy in the 5th season (not this 4th season), every episode deserves 5 stars. I loved this show growing up (high school) and can watch reruns forever. I'm planning on purchasing all seasons, as I treasure every episode. This is my all time favorite television show and, I think, always will be. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Harry Harris - Ralph Waite - Gwen Arner - Ivan Dixon - Gabrielle Beaumont DVD Release Date: 23 January 2007
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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.
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.)... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Harry Harris - Ralph Waite - Gwen Arner - Ivan Dixon - Gabrielle Beaumont DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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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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