In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

He also returned to more light-hearted cinema in Spencer's Mountain ( 1963 ), which was the inspiration for the TV series, The Waltons.

* Fielder Cook ( March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003 ) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

The Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros.

When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.

He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

Frazier Park was also used in filming for The Waltons television show.

The show was moved from Thursdays, where it outrated CBS ' The Waltons, to Sundays where it replaced the cancelled sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica.

The series, which ran from December 1981 to May 1990, was created by Earl Hamner, who had created The Waltons a decade earlier.

As a result he was unable to continue his formal education beyond a basic level and in 1968 at age 16 Tatchell started work as a designer, sign-writer and window-dresser in Melbourne's principal department stores, first Waltons and then Myer.

He became nationally recognized for his portrayal of John " John-Boy " Walton, Jr., in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real life of writer Earl Hamner, Jr.

Thomas left the series and his role was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas returned to the role in three Waltons TV movies, 1993-97.

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was a ratings success, and served as the pilot for Lorimar's first major hit production, The Waltons, which premiered in 1972.

The Waltons reported that they were disappointed to learn that Steward was not a medical doctor as Spaulding had promised, but a hypnotherapist.

Spaulding and Steward would later report that the Waltons had stayed with them for over two hours, while the Waltons insist they were at Steward's office for, at most, 45 minutes, most of which was occupied with trying to determine the nature of Steward's qualifications.

William Conrad was nominated for an Emmy Award in both 1973 and 1974 ( Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series ), but Richard Thomas won for The Waltons and in 1974 Telly Savalas won for Kojak.

The site was operated by the cut-price clothes and homewares chain Waltons for the next decade and was later developed into the Chapel Street Bazaar.

The show was created by Earl Hamner, who had previously created The Waltons which had just finished its final season in 1981.

As a novelist, he is best known for the novel Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voiceover narration.

After bit parts in movies in the mid -' 70s ( most notably in John Wayne's final film, The Shootist in 1976 ), she was offered bit parts on nighttime series such as The Waltons, The Rockford Files, and Charlie's Angels.

In 1972, he was cast as Zebulon Walton, the family patriarch on The Waltons, a role he took over from Edgar Bergen, who played the character in the pilot.

When Geer died, shortly after completing the sixth season of The Waltons, the death of his character was written into the show's script as well.

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For some years, he then made guest appearances in primetime series such as Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons, as well as appearing in several made-for-TV movies such as The Hatfields and The McCoys with Jack Palance, Addie and the Kings of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last of the Belles with Susan Sarandon, and Deadman's Curve in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group Jan and Dean.

The Waltons, APRO and the National Enquirer then agreed to keep the results of this polygraph a secret, due in large part, they insisted, to doubts about McCarthy's methods and objectivity.

Wolfington worked in the earliest days of live television, then became a familiar face on popular television shows like Gunsmoke, Get Smart, The Andy Griffith Show, The Waltons, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Fantasy Island, and The Rockford Files.

* Earl Hamner ( 1923 ), American television writer and producer, best known for his work in The Waltons at Afton, Nelson County, Virginia and Falcon Crest

* Will Geer, best known as Grandpa Zeb on The Waltons

Richard Earl Thomas ( born June 13, 1951 ) is an American actor, best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons.

Earl Henry Hamner, Jr. ( born on July 10, 1923 in Schuyler, Virginia ) is an American television writer and producer ( sometimes credited as Earl Hamner ), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest.

He is best known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons.

He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

The band was originally known as " Neurotic Paperboy ", before changing to The Waltons.

Michael Learned ( born April 9, 1939 ) is an American actress known for her role as Olivia Walton on The Waltons.

* Michael Learned, ( Arts Educational School, Tring site ) Actress, best known for her role in The Waltons

Judy Norton-Taylor is an American actress and theater director who is best known for her role on The Waltons television series and subsequent Waltons TV movies.

In addition to his musical career, Walmsley is also known for his accomplishments as an actor, most notably a nine-season run as " Jason Walton " on The Waltons ( he also returned for all of the Waltons reunion projects during the 1980s and 1990s ), as well as creating the voice of Christopher Robin for Disney's Winnie the Pooh cartoons.

Mary Elizabeth McDonough is an American actress ( born May 4, 1961, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, best known for her role as " Erin Walton " on The Waltons.

She is best known for her role as young Elizabeth Walton, which she played in both the 1971 movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, and the series The Waltons.

She is best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV show The Waltons.

She has been acting professionally since 1963 and is best known for the role of the bossy " Corabeth Walton Godsey ", wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the CBS television series The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner, Jr. She also appeared as Charlene Frazier Stillfield's mother, Ione Frazier, in an episode of CBS's Designing Women.

In a career covering nearly fifty years, she may be best known for her role as " Miss Mamie Baldwin " on CBS's The Waltons ( 1972 – 81 ).

She is best known for the role of the lovelorn " Miss Emily Baldwin " in The Waltons and was the original choice to play " Alice Horton " in Days of our Lives.

The politically-minded couple moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s and settled in Santa Monica, California where Geer pursued a movie career, but ultimately became best known as " Grandpa Walton " on the television series The Waltons.