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.
Season 7 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Waltons" season 7 is "The Empty Nest (1)", rated 8.5/10 from 183 user votes. It was directed by Philip Leacock and written by N/A. "The Empty Nest (1)" aired on 9/21/1978 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Empty Nest (2)".
8.5/10 183 votes#1 - The Empty Nest (1)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1978-09-21
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
7.5/10 121 votes#2 - The Empty Nest (2)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1978-09-21
2nd part The Waltons and the rest of the townspeople think of Grandpa and Flossie Brimmer.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 121 votes#3 - The Calling
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1978-09-28
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
7.0/10 114 votes#4 - The Moonshiner
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1978-10-12
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
5.8/10 186 votes#5 - The Obsession
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1978-10-19
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
6.1/10 122 votes#6 - The Changeling
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 1978-10-26
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
7.1/10 117 votes#7 - The Portrait
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 1978-11-02
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
7.5/10 121 votes#8 - The Captive
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 1978-11-09
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
7.4/10 106 votes#9 - The Illusion
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1978-11-16
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
8.3/10 141 votes#10 - The Beau
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1978-11-23
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
7.2/10 111 votes#11 - Day of Infamy
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1978-12-07
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
7.2/10 100 votes#12 - The Yearning
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1978-12-14
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
7.4/10 105 votes#13 - The Boosters
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1978-12-28
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
7.7/10 109 votes#14 - The Conscience
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1979-01-04
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
8.0/10 113 votes#15 - The Obstacle
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1979-01-11
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
6.9/10 107 votes#16 - The Parting
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1979-01-18
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
7.2/10 112 votes#17 - The Burden
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 1979-01-25
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
7.9/10 111 votes#18 - The Pin-Up
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 1979-02-08
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
7.6/10 114 votes#19 - The Attack
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 1979-02-15
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
7.2/10 113 votes#20 - The Legacy
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 1979-02-22
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
7.2/10 101 votes#21 - The Outsider
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 1979-03-01
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
7.9/10 112 votes#22 - The Torch
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 1979-03-08
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
8.0/10 108 votes#23 - The Talespin
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 1979-03-15
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
NaN/10 0 votes#24 - Founders' Day
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 1979-03-22
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