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Actors: Ronnie Claire Edwards, Nora Marlowe, Robert Donner, Richard Gilliland Director: Gabrielle Beaumont Rating: Features: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Number of Discs: 3 Running Time: 1148 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: April 29, 2008 Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1972 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Viewers will be captivated by the seventh season of The Waltons which is comprised of 24 episodes that will make consumers laugh cry and cheer. As the season unfolds the United States entry into World War II brings big changes to Waltons Mountain. The family mourns the loss of Grandpa. Mary Ellen and Erin get an apartment in Charlottesville. Jim-Bob falls in love with a young girl who is preparing to be a nun. Elizabeth creates a poltergeist when she refuses to grow up. Olivia is diagnosed with Tuberculosis and must visit a sanitarium. Ben takes a new bride named Cindy with whom he sets up housekeeping in the shed. Godsey Hall is turned into a canteen for soldiers. Mary Ellen prepares to see Curt in Hawaii until news of Pearl Harbor hits and the family learns of his death.System Requirements:Running Time: 1200 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 883929010233 Manufacturer No: 1000037093
World War II has a profound impact on The Waltons: The Complete Seventh Season, as does the absence of John-Boy Walton Richard Thomas, central figure in the first six years of the popular television drama. With John-Boy offscreen, stationed in England and writing for the American "Stars and Stripes" military magazine, The Waltons places its entire focus on the rest of the clan. One can feel a gap in the show, but The Complete Seventh Season holds up largely because of the war's influence on storylines. Patriarch John Sr. Ralph Waite, his wife Olivia Michael Learned, and their large brood spend 1941 adjusting to ceaseless changes, beginning with increased demand on John's lumber mill to meet defense contract demands. With John spending more and more time off the mountain negotiating with the government like a buttoned-down businessman, operation of the Waltons' mill falls to his son Ben Eric Scott, who has to learn what it means to be the boss of hired hands. Meanwhile, Jason Jon Walmsley gets closer to graduation and still makes his way by playing piano at the Dew Drop Inn. He also finds himself feeling guilty over not enlisting in the war effort, but is uncertain about whether or not he might be a conscientious objector--a position that doesn't sit well with some of the men in town.
Jim-Bob David W. Harper dreams and dreams of becoming a pilot but is too young to enlist. The laconic teen also falls in love with a girl leaning toward entering a convent--the experience is painful, to say the least. But something in Jim-Bob grows up after that and stays that way. As for the girls, Mary Ellen Judy Norton Taylor struggles with a full-time job as a nurse while leaving her baby at home, though none of those complications compares with the loss she endures the day Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, where her doctor husband is stationed. Erin Mary Beth McDonough and Elizabeth Kami Cotler carry on with work and school, and Grandma Ellen Corby gets around pretty well while suffering the long-term results of a stroke. The war affects everything on Walton's Mountain, including race relations, the clientele at the Dew Drop Inn, the employment scene. But if that's not enough change for The Complete Seventh Season, there's a whopper of a development midway through the year affecting the health and presence of Olivia in the show. There's always change on The Waltons, but none has ever been quite as extensive or sad as what happens on The Complete Seventh Season. Despite or even because of the withdrawal of Richard Thomas from The Waltons, there is a delicate balance between the other characters heretofore unseen. --Tom Keogh
