5.4/10141 votesLoading...#1 - The Tempest
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 2/5/1981
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.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: N/A
5.7/10195 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.1/10129 votesLoading...#3 - 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
6.5/10109 votesLoading...#4 - The Starlet
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1979
The film company comes to Walton's Mountain and Pickett plant is used for a war-time documentary. Erin is convinced by the director that she has potential in Hollywood.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
6.5/10134 votesLoading...#5 - The Pursuit
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/1981
Jim-Bob's ex-girlfriend comes to Walton's Mountain saying that Jim-Bon is the father of her baby. In the Pacific, Ben is still a POW.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
6.6/10123 votesLoading...#6 - The Diploma
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1979
Mary Ellen subs as the county nurse. John tries to prove to the army that he really did graduate from high school. John can not find his diploma so he takes another test.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10113 votesLoading...#7 - The Victims
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1981
The Waltons help a woman who's husband beats her when he is drunk. Jim-Bob decides he will make a fortune by investing in war surplus.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
6.6/10105 votesLoading...#8 - The Lumberjack
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1981
A member of a influential family named Paul Matthews Northridge brings mystery & romance to Erin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10105 votesLoading...#9 - The Journal
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1979
A publisher asks permission from John and Olivia about printing the new book that John-Boy wrote in Europe. Jeff does not want Reckless put to sleep after Reckless becomes sick.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
6.7/1098 votesLoading...#10 - The Unthinkable
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1980
There's a recruit working for Jason's company who is Jewish. He tells how his grandfather was arrested and killed by German soldiers in Warsaw.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10111 votesLoading...#11 - The Pledge
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 12/4/1980
Mary Ellen feels inadequate as a nurse to help Mountain folk. Against the Dean's advice, Mary Ellen applies for medical school.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
6.7/10120 votesLoading...#12 - The Whirlwind
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 1/22/1981
Mary Ellen agrees to marry Jonesey but finds out that Curt might very well be alive. The Dew Drop Inn is reopened by Jason.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10116 votesLoading...#13 - The Indiscretion
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/1981
Corabeth finds Ike's old love letters and files for a divorce. Drew wants to spend a romantic night with Elizabeth.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10145 votesLoading...#14 - The Elopement
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1977
Erin's 1st love, Chad Marshall, comes back and asks Erin to be his wife. She agrees but John emphatically says no so Erin and Chad run off to elope.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
6.8/10115 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.8/10104 votesLoading...#16 - The Remembrance
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1980
Zadoc Walton, Zeb's cousin, arrives to keep a 21 year old promise and makes a surprising contribution to Boatwright University.
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Writer: Marion Hargrove
6.9/10144 votesLoading...#17 - The Seashore
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1977
The Waltons have an encounter with a strange English girl while on a small vacation at the Baldwin sister's beach cottage. Ben stays home alone expecting to live the life of a carefree bachelor.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Marion Hargrove
6.9/10128 votesLoading...#18 - The Children's Carol
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1977
Two British children escape the London Blitz to find safety in Walton's Mountain with the Baldwins and the Waltons for Christmas. Meanwhile, Jason contemplates whether he can fight in the impending war, and Olivia has a faith crisis as she can't understand how God could allow war.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Kathleen Hite
6.9/10122 votesLoading...#19 - 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
6.9/10105 votesLoading...#20 - The Lost Sheep
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1979
Ashley Longworth Jr. comes back and asks Erin to be his wife. She has some serious doubts after he says he has lost his faith in God.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10104 votesLoading...#21 - The Premonition
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 12/25/1980
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.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
6.9/10110 votesLoading...#22 - The Threshold
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/1981
John-Boy comes home to ponder his future and he ends up doing a TV show for Boatwright University. Rose is given a run for her money by Zuleika Dunbar over the affection of Stanley.
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Writer: N/A
6.9/10124 votesLoading...#23 - The Hostage
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 5/28/1981
A 14 year old girl is promised marriage in mountain tradition. Mary Ellen interferes and the bride-groom kidnaps Elizabeth to get his bride back. Octavia, an eccentric cousin of the Baldwins, is treated to a visit by him.
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Writer: N/A
7.0/10119 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.0/10131 votesLoading...#25 - The Silver Wings
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1979
Jim-Bob meets Betsy, a married woman and falls in love with her while delivering her a package.
Director: Stan Lathan
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of The Waltons
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The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Tempest" is the worst rated episode of "The Waltons". It scored 5.4/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont and written by N/A, it aired on 2/5/1981. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Changeling".