

Product Description Waltons: The Complete Ninth Season (DVD)Good night, Waltons. For nine inspired and inspiring seasons (from 1972 to 1981), the Walton family became America’s family. Viewers’ hearts were captured by the story of John and Olivia Walton, their seven children, Grandpa and Grandma as they faced the Depression and World War II with not much more than a love of the land and the rock-solid support of one another. This elegiac final season is the ideal capstone to the Emmy®-honored and beloved series. After enduring terrifying dangers in Europe and the Pacific, the Walton boys gratefully return to Walton’s Mountain after the war ends. But peace brings new challenges and new beginnings. And for many of the family, young and old, it brings new love. Share the final goodnight with The Waltons.]]> .com The final season of The Waltons is notable for the ever-changing number of people sitting at the family's long dinner table. Early in the season, with all four boys at war in Europe and Japan, plates are set for John Sr. (Ralph Waite), cousin Rose (Peggy Rea)--the de facto woman of the house with matriarch Olivia (Michael Learned) gone away--and sisters Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor), Erin (Mary Beth McDonough), and Elizabeth (Kami Cotler), plus brother Ben's wife Cindy (Leslie Winston). Once the war is over and Ben, Jim-Bob (David W. Harper), Jason (Jon Walmsley) and John-Boy (Robert Wightman, replacing Richard Thomas) are back home, the number of people seated at that table still continues to go up and down for all kinds of reasons. That fluctuation says much about the state of the family and of The Waltons itself, long past the era when all those kids were still in school and regularly eating with a full complement of parents and grandparents. With both of the latter gone and even John Sr. disappearing halfway through the season to help ailing Olivia move to Arizona, it's the young people ruling the roost now. Things start off powerfully with the two-part "The Outrage," in which John Sr. leaps to the defense of an African-American employee, Harley (Hal Foster), who has been living under an assumed name since escaping a chain gang years before. Never a show to back off from issues of discrimination, The Waltons: The Complete Ninth Season, tackles gender bias (Mary Ellen is turned down for admission to medical school, while Erin is one of many women on Walton's Mountain who lose their jobs to returning veterans) and anti-Semitism (Jason's wonderful girlfriend Toni, played by Lisa Harrison, causes a stir when everyone discovers she's a Jew). Meanwhile, John-Boy falls in love with a Parisian bookseller who encourages him to write an article about stray land mines, though his true destiny as a writer leads him back to his roots. Ben, too, is full of ambition following the war, eager to attend engineering college but needed at the family mill after John Sr. leaves. Jason takes over the Dew Drop Inn and finds a way to make a go of it with Toni's help. Rose rediscovers love again when her dance partner, Stanley (William Schallert), returns, albeit as an emotional wreck. (The Rose-Stanley storylines in season nine are among the sweetest episodes.) In a strange development, Mary Ellen's allegedly late husband turns up, a very different and darker personality than he was before. Other new and recurring characters continue to add color and texture to the show, most notably Ike (Joe Conley) and Corabeth Godsey (Ronnie Claire Edwards), the Baldwin sisters (Helen Kleeb, Mary Jackson), and newcomer Rev. Tom Marshall (Kip Niven), who starts off a firebrand and ends up a civilizing influence over the aforementioned anti-Semitic tensions. --Tom Keogh
W**R
Waltons Season 9
Season 9 not yet viewed. Our family now has all nine seasons of this series on DVD. The series is uplifting and provides reflections on the benefits of family and community life in difficult times (e.g., great depression of 1930s, world wars) and happier days.
J**.
Good price
Great family movie
B**Y
Waltons Season 9
Like all the seasons leading up to it, season nine was well worth the purchace to complete the set, unfortunatly the actor michelle Learnedis hardly featured in epidodes and towards the end neither is John Walton I was only disapointed a little though,The quality of the storys in each episode was of a high standardthough the last episode didn't seem to actually 'Wine' up the Series, for something that went for so many years i sort of expected, perhaps a double episode at the end of the Season orMaybe summing up & a few un-answered stories or 'somthing like that?Anywayz, all in all was a great final season, but i'm sure there's alot of other episodes out there that were missing.Hmmm!....'missing episodes'?(Actually there's one episode i saw where jason has a full-on moustache and goes to new-york ect. wonder what happened to that episode?
C**E
Love The Waltons !!!
I've always Loved the Waltons and never did see the last two seasons. I was so very glad to be able to buy them from Amazon. The changes of characters or some of them not being on the show kind of saddened me but actually I did get used to it. I was thinking because of that I wouldn't care to watch the last two seasons, but I was wrong and enjoyed them as well as the earlier seasons. I still need to get the movie DVD and then my collection will be complete. When I'm done watching I will start over from the beginning. I like to watch at least one show almost every night before going to bed, it gives me such a Very Good Deep Down Feeling. It brings back the memories of me and my big family when we were growing up.
D**G
This disks actually play on both sides.
We watched all of the ninth season everything was good. Thankfully we read the small print on the desk stating that you need to flip it over for more shows. Which we did, and there are
R**R
The Waltons: Ninth Season
As with the other seasons, this depicts life in the mountains of Virginia. This season depicts life during the years of World War II. The children have grown and new demands have entered their lives and new sorrow has also entered the life of the Walton Family. Good clean family entertainment, especially for those who love history and want to step back in history to a time when life was simpler and families stayed together and weathered the hardships of life. I don't think divorce lawyers would have survived in those years because both men and women believed marriage was until death do you part.
M**Y
The Waltons-- Season 9
So far a good season - my sons are especially interested in all things WWII - so are enjoying that aspect of the show.. there are some episodes we have avoided, like one in which a girl Jim-Bob dated claims to be pregnant with his child and shows up at their house -- we're not quite ready for that storyline (I probably watched this episode when the show orginally aired in the 70's when I was 10 or 11 years old - it probably just confused me more than anything!). Otherwise, we watched most all the other episodes - just use your own judgement...
L**U
Happy ending for some
The ninth or last season of the Waltons held happy endings for some, but not for all of the people living on Waltons Mountain. Not everyone's dreams were fulfilled, but it ended with all of the characters, seemingly, accepting whatever life gave them so far. As usual, all is well with the Waltons, but be forewarned that the tenth episode called, "The Tempest" should have never been written. The dead are always left better off dead and not brought back to life, especially in such a disagreeable way. That part was played by a different actor who was not the same actor who had played the original part of the person who was mistaken to be dead. They had to hire a totally new actor just to present us with this unlikely and unnecessary episode. Even the reality of war could not justify such an unbelievable episode as this one was. Neither did it have a happy ending or even a happy followup in another episode. It left me feeling sad and empty, unlike most of the other episodes that had given me so much comfort. The rest of this season was good, but it did not appear that this season was originally intended to end here. I would have preferred that this last season had given us a better ending to the entire story. That could have even been done by John Boy at the end of the last episode, but it was not. In speaking about himself, he could have also added some more information about the rest of the family members in his very last words. In another one of the last episodes of this season, Rose and Stanley finally got married, but it never showed what happened with the rest of the Waltons. Mary Ellen and Erin could have had a double wedding at the Baldwins house in the last episode (something a little more spectacular for a last episode than just an old people's reunion for the Baldwin ladies with the Waltons showing up). Although it was implied that Elizabeth and Drew would someday be married, what about Jason, and Jim Bob? In one episode, Jason and his girlfriend overcame the obstacles they faced to getting married, yet the season left them unmarried, not dating and no explanation! Jason and Jim Bob probably never did fulfill their dreams of becoming a concert musician and an airplane pilot, and you're left wondering if they settled for what they were doing at the moment. Mary Ellen was left still studying to become a doctor and who knows how far Erin went in her career, as well. That's reasonable, but did Olivia and John ever come home? And what about Grandma? They finally did tell where she was, but it still leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions about her and everyone else. John Boy continued writing, of course, but they really should have done a tenth season to answer these questions about the other characters. Even if they could not do this on a practical basis, at the very least, they could have used the Special Feature at the end of the eighth season, known as "A Decade of the Waltons" for an ending here, where it really belonged, at the end of the nineth season (at the very end of the Walton's story). That would have given the ninth season and its viewers some closure, if not a really satisfying ending. Even with all of my complaints about it, I still love all of the Walton series, including this one, but this tells me one thing. -Endings are important and should be done right. I'd still recommend that you buy it because the only thing that you'll really be disappointed in, is that it all ends here. Sadly, there is no more 'Waltons' and we'll never see anything this good in a television series ever again. I'm sure that we can all say 'Amen' to that.
B**Y
Grear product for the buck.
This takes you through a families life at a time when things were tough.The stories told by JohnBoy ,I enjoyed all of the seasons.I now have the whole set.
T**R
Waltons: Complete the Series
It is a Region 1 (USA) collection so we will have to buy a multi-region DVD player. They're cheap enough so it will be a sound investment for when the existing DVD player quits on us. We've enjoyed the whole story and are just going through Series 8. Here's hoping we can source the "one-offs".
K**S
Outstanding Series
I grew up with the Waltons and have always loved the series. The acting was second to none, and the family problems and conflicts are ones that we can all relate to. It is disappointing that Michael Learned was not in the later seasons. On a side note, I met Will Geer, Grandpa Walton, at the L.A. airport in January 1978 and it was one the highlights of my life. He was so gracious and kind to us! I want to add that you CAN get the specials in a dvd set which includes John Boy getting married. Anyway, I'd highly recommend this series.
A**R
Excellent quality and great value!
Thank you so much for providing The Waltons Season 9. It seemed impossiable to get as I live in Ireland (Region 2 dvd) but once we got a multi region dvd player it worked perfectly. Picture is clear and sound is fantastic. Would defintely reccommend this seller, if your looking for dvds.
C**E
The DVD's are perfect.
There is absolutely no problem with viewing and I've watched episodes so many times.
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