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The Best Episodes of The Waltons Season 7

Every episode of The Waltons Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Waltons Season 7!

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS

Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Empty Nest" is the best rated episode of "The Waltons" season 7. It scored 8.5/10 based on 192 votes. Directed by Philip Leacock and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1978. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Calling".

  • The Empty Nest
    8.5/10192 votes

    #1 - The Empty Nest

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1978

    Everybody mourns the death of Grandpa Zeb and Flossie Brimmer. John struggles hard to fill a huge lumber contract and Mary Ellen & Erin move to Charlottesville and they get an apartment.

    Director: Philip Leacock

    Writer: N/A

  • The Calling
    7.5/10129 votes

    #2 - The Calling

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1978

    Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.

    Director: Gwen Arner

    Writer: Kathleen Hite

  • The Moonshiner
    7.6/10128 votes

    #3 - The Moonshiner

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1978

    Boone Walton comes back to Walton's mountain and gets in trouble with the law. Boone gets released in Jason's custody. Daisy Garner also comes back to Walton's Mountain to visit.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: N/A

  • The Obsession
    6.9/10122 votes

    #4 - The Obsession

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1978

    Mary Ellen gets prescription drugs and abuses them in order to study long hours for her Nurse's exam. Cissy Tucker Yancy Tucker's wife has had enough and she puts her foot down.

    Director: Gwen Arner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Changeling
    5.7/10195 votes

    #5 - The Changeling

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1978

    Just before Elizabeth's 13th birthday, she becomes reluctant to grow up and creates a poltergeist. Jason starts a new job as a radio talk show host giving advice to the lovelorn.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: Robert Pirosh

  • The Portrait
    6.1/10129 votes

    #6 - The Portrait

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1978

    Erin is both attracted and repelled by a brooding artist who is here from Paris. As part of a war-time mural on the wall of an old house the artist asks to paint Erin's portrait.

    Director: Ralph Senensky

    Writer: N/A

  • The Captive
    7.3/10125 votes

    #7 - The Captive

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1978

    Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Corabeth 's drinking problem becomes severe and Elizabeth has to drive Aimee and Corabeth home.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Illusion
    7.6/10129 votes

    #8 - The Illusion

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1978

    Ester Verdie's daughter comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree & unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John McGreevey

  • The Beau
    7.4/10114 votes

    #9 - The Beau

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1978

    Grandma's ex-boyfriend comes calling on Grandma much to the horror of Elizabeth. Jim-Bob persuades Yancy Tucker to make fuel in his still instead of moonshine.

    Director: Gwen Arner

    Writer: N/A

  • Day of Infamy
    8.3/10154 votes

    #10 - Day of Infamy

    Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1978

    Christmas 1941. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Paul Savage

  • The Yearning
    7.0/10119 votes

    #11 - The Yearning

    Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1978

    Elizabeth falls in love with the minister when he is forced out of the parsonage by a skunk. Erin is helping the Baldwin sisters write their memoirs and Erin finds a ring that was left by Ashley Longworth.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Boosters
    7.2/10107 votes

    #12 - The Boosters

    Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/1978

    Ben talks the townspeople into opening an auto court against John's advice. Yancy Tucker goes into business for himself.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Robert Pirosh

  • The Conscience
    7.6/10113 votes

    #13 - The Conscience

    Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1979

    Jason has second thoughts about joining the military service and considers becoming a Conscientious Objector much to Ben's dismay. Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo.

    Director: Gwen Arner

    Writer: Michael McGreevey

  • The Obstacle
    7.7/10119 votes

    #14 - The Obstacle

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1979

    Mike Paxton, John-Boy's old friend, is confined to a wheel chair and believes there is no hope for the future. Through the help of the family, he comes out of his shell.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Parting
    8.0/10123 votes

    #15 - The Parting

    Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1979

    John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Kathleen Hite

  • The Burden
    6.8/10115 votes

    #16 - The Burden

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979

    After a car jack slips and falls and Jim-Bob escapes serious injury, Jim-Bob decides to become a minister.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Pin-Up
    7.4/10124 votes

    #17 - The Pin-Up

    Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1979

    Ben enters a casual picture of Erin in a contest where she wins 1st prize. She finds herself the center of attention and the official pin-up girl of Camp Lee to John's dismay.

    Director: Larry Stewart

    Writer: N/A

  • The Attack
    7.9/10119 votes

    #18 - The Attack

    Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1979

    Ike has a heart attack because of the pressures and shortages of war-time shop-keeping. The Walton children pitch in and help keep Ike's store open in his absence.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Legacy
    7.6/10122 votes

    #19 - The Legacy

    Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1979

    Ashley Longworth Jr, who bears striking resemblance to his dad, comes to the Baldwin home and is courted by Miss Emily and Erin.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Outsider
    7.1/10121 votes

    #20 - The Outsider

    Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1979

    Ben comes home in the middle of the night with his new wife Cindy and they set up housekeeping in the shed. The early years of marriage aren't easy until Grandma steps in.

    Director: Philip Leacock

    Writer: N/A

  • The Torch
    7.1/10108 votes

    #21 - The Torch

    Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1979

    Cally May, John's ex-girlfriend, comes to Walton's mountain and buys the Dew Drop Inn. John and Olivia's kids try to protect John from Cally May's attention. Ike, Cindy and Elizabeth turn Godsey's hall into a canteen for soldiers from Camp Rockfish.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Talespin
    7.9/10118 votes

    #22 - The Talespin

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1979

    Jim-Bob can not join the Air Corps because he fails the eye exam. Jim-Bob decides to run off and join the Army.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Founders' Day
    8.1/10116 votes

    #23 - Founders' Day

    Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1979

    Jason tries desperately with his music professor to meet the course's requirements of an original composition. He composes Appalachian Portrait while he plans the piece.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A