After doing a reading at Sweet Billy’s funeral, Mary Ellen resolves to study to be a doctor, discouraged by her father and Dr. Celebrating the receipt of a bank check, the Baldwin sisters send Jason some Recipe for his birthday, while Corabeth is adopted by a young soldier. His sister Ronie comes down from the hills, knowing with her odd intuition that he is dead. On her rounds, Mary Ellen discovers Sweet Billy Cotter in terrible pain, but he won’t let her take him to the doctor until it’s too late and then they cannot save him. John-Boy is transferred back to Paris just as Mary Ellen writes to him about trying to find a direction in her left, while the family wonders what to get Jason for his birthday. The family then watches the President’s funeral train go by. Then John arrives home with Harley the last thing the President did was sign his pardon. The sad news mars John-Boy, Jason, and Toni’s reunion, but makes Ben discover his CPO has a heart after all. John’s papers about Harley are taken to the Presidentand then a few hours later news comes that he has died. Drew buys Pepper from Elizabeth and gets her to agree to raise her together. Elizabeth is just about to entice Drew into going horseback riding when Molly breaks loose and crashes through the fence, severely injuring herself, and Cindy is the only one with enough courage to shoot the suffering horse.
Finally realizing how bored Corabeth is with housewifely duties, Ike sets her up in the real estate business. Because Harley won a Naval commendation in World War I, John heads for Warm Springs to see President Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy at that time. Verdie and Harley part in tears before he’s taken back to prison, leaving Ep guilty and John further resolves to do something. John is later jailed when he refuses to give up Harley, who turns himself in when he finds out John’s sacrifice. While Harley hides at a logging cabin, John and Verdie seek out Harley’s original defense attorney, Nathan Moore, who reluctantly and wearily takes the case. With further evidence against Harley, Ep is forced to search the Fosters’ house, and not finding him, goes to the Walton house instead with his arrest warrant, giving John one day to do something or go to jail. To Drew’s dismay, Elizabeth seems to be totally preoccupied with her horse, Molly, and her filly Pepper, while Ben’s CPO reprimands him for working without a helmet and weapon in a combat zone. John and Verdie beg him to stay to clear himself, and he reluctantly does while John hunts up a solution. Before he runs away, Harley tells John he’s the man Ep is looking for, and that the killing was an accident: while pushing away a drunken, deadbeat customer, Harley shoved him so hard that the man struck his head and died. Corabeth, in an effort to mollify Ike, becomes the perfect housewife, while Cindy smarts at the restrictions put on her doing chores. He accidentally meets Toni Hazelton in Paris and bets her he can find Jason before she can. In Paris, John-Boy tries desperately to contact Jason, who is nearby in a combat unit south of the city. John pooh-poohs the idea, but Harley refuses to give Ep a straight answer and puzzles Verdie with his brooding.
Ep Bridges then tells John that Harley was recognized as a “Leroy Harley,” the escaped murderer of a white man. With no men around, the girls have to pitch in with the farm chores, while Ben’s outfit prepares to go overseas and Corabeth looks forward to the postwar boom by preparing to sell real estate, to Ike’s dismay. In the spring of 1945, Harley, who is now working for John, is thrown out of a restaurant by white bigots, angering his friend. Screenplay: Rod Peterson and Claire Whitaker Perhaps they are now with their mother (and hopefully not with their abusive dad). Rose stays on as “Mom” to the busy family, but Jeffrey and Serena have completely disappeared with no word spoken about their whereabouts. Rose Burton: Peggy Rea (through “The Heartache”)Įxecutive Producers: Earl Hamner and Rod PetersonĮxecutive Production Supervisor: Edward O.
Virginia “Ginny” Walton: Clare and Elizabeth Schoene
John Curtis Willard: Michael and Marshall Reed Mary Ellen Walton Willard: Judy Norton-Taylor John Walton: Ralph Waite (through “The Move”) "Flying Dreams" The Waltons Episode Guide Season 9
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