1 00:01:57,185 --> 00:01:59,520 A mountain has no need for people 2 00:01:59,587 --> 00:02:02,456 but people do need mountains. 3 00:02:02,523 --> 00:02:04,458 We go to them for their beauty... 4 00:02:04,525 --> 00:02:06,427 for the exhilaration of standing closer 5 00:02:06,494 --> 00:02:08,762 to mysterious skies... 6 00:02:08,829 --> 00:02:11,399 for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored 7 00:02:11,465 --> 00:02:13,401 to reach a summit. 8 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:15,436 And I remember a day in the 1930s 9 00:02:15,503 --> 00:02:17,438 when I went to Walton's Mountain... 10 00:02:17,505 --> 00:02:19,507 in search of manhood. 11 00:03:12,059 --> 00:03:15,396 John-Boy! 12 00:03:15,463 --> 00:03:17,164 What am I gonna do for eggs if you murder 13 00:03:17,231 --> 00:03:18,799 my best-laying hen? 14 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:21,602 -Just practicing, Mama. -Just practicing. 15 00:03:21,669 --> 00:03:24,572 I figured it's time I started doing my share of the providing. 16 00:03:24,638 --> 00:03:27,375 Your daddy provides me for the table. 17 00:03:27,441 --> 00:03:30,177 Why don't you wait till next year? 18 00:03:30,244 --> 00:03:32,546 Mama, other boys younger than me go hunt. 19 00:03:32,613 --> 00:03:35,816 One Walton man banging away at turkeys is plenty. 20 00:03:35,883 --> 00:03:38,586 Let the other one tend to things at home. 21 00:03:38,652 --> 00:03:40,621 Mama, I'm going on that hunt tomorrow... 22 00:03:40,688 --> 00:03:42,055 and I'm gonna bring me back... 23 00:03:42,122 --> 00:03:44,458 the biggest turkey gobbler on that mountain. 24 00:04:03,411 --> 00:04:04,945 What's the matter with you, girl? 25 00:04:05,012 --> 00:04:07,781 You could've made me pull the trigger, kill Mama's best layer. 26 00:04:07,848 --> 00:04:10,551 That old hen's so tough a bullet wouldn't crease her. 27 00:04:10,618 --> 00:04:12,986 -Let me show you my crack shot. -That things's loaded. 28 00:04:13,053 --> 00:04:14,688 Pow-pow-pow! Turkey on the table! 29 00:04:14,755 --> 00:04:18,859 Come on, give it back before it goes off and kills somebody. 30 00:04:18,926 --> 00:04:22,262 John-Boy, don't shoot any baby turkeys tomorrow, okay? 31 00:04:22,330 --> 00:04:24,598 Don't worry, that gun he's using is so old... 32 00:04:24,665 --> 00:04:28,268 he's not likely to hit a turkey of any size, except by accident. 33 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,089 Hey, Jason. Hey, Sprocket. 34 00:04:49,156 --> 00:04:51,291 Daddy, when you gonna quit calling me Sprocket? 35 00:04:51,359 --> 00:04:54,528 Reckless, get off. What do you want me to call you, son? 36 00:04:54,595 --> 00:04:56,797 How'd that get started in the first place? 37 00:04:56,864 --> 00:04:59,867 Charlie Sneed named you that when you were just a wee baby. 38 00:04:59,933 --> 00:05:03,737 -The name kind of stuck. -I'm not a wee baby anymore. 39 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:07,207 No, son. I guess you're long gone from that. 40 00:05:07,274 --> 00:05:08,776 Good job. 41 00:05:08,842 --> 00:05:11,078 Little lint still down there. Better go after it. 42 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,680 Yeah. 43 00:05:12,746 --> 00:05:15,616 Daddy, when you shoot a turkey, does he die right away? 44 00:05:15,683 --> 00:05:19,019 If your aim is true. Right, John-Boy? 45 00:05:28,996 --> 00:05:32,633 Your brother's gonna be a good hunter, Jason. 46 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,135 And next year, you can go with us. 47 00:05:35,202 --> 00:05:37,738 -Okay? -Yes, sir. 48 00:05:52,420 --> 00:05:54,455 -Hi, Mr. Godsey. -Hi, Mr. Godsey. 49 00:05:54,522 --> 00:05:57,791 Look it here. More customers than I've seen all day. 50 00:05:57,858 --> 00:06:00,828 I'm the customer. I want to make another payment. 51 00:06:00,894 --> 00:06:03,130 -Hi, Mr. Godsey! -Hi, Elizabeth. 52 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:05,833 Another payment? You sure have been busy, haven't you? 53 00:06:05,899 --> 00:06:08,268 -17 cents. -How did you earn it this time? 54 00:06:08,335 --> 00:06:11,505 I sold three combs of wild honey for five cents apiece... 55 00:06:11,572 --> 00:06:13,707 and got a two-cent tip from Miss Mamie Baldwin. 56 00:06:13,774 --> 00:06:17,511 How do you like that? 17 cents. Okay. 57 00:06:18,846 --> 00:06:23,851 That's 17, plus the $2.63 that you've already paid in. 58 00:06:23,917 --> 00:06:26,454 That comes to $2.80. 59 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,989 Only 20 cents more, and it's all paid for. 60 00:06:29,056 --> 00:06:32,259 -Can I hold it for a minute? -I don't see why not. 61 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:34,728 It's more yours than mine right now. 62 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,704 Just wait till G.W. sees this. 63 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,811 I'll be able to handle anything G.W. throws at me. 64 00:06:50,878 --> 00:06:54,247 -See you tomorrow, Mr. Godsey. -The big day. 65 00:06:54,314 --> 00:06:56,917 -Hey, G.W. -Hey, Mary Ellen. 66 00:06:56,984 --> 00:06:59,820 Tomorrow I'll be making the last payment on the catcher's mitt. 67 00:06:59,887 --> 00:07:02,590 -Hello, Mary Ellen. -Hey, Martha Rose. 68 00:07:02,656 --> 00:07:05,959 -The candy, G.W. -Yeah, sorry. 69 00:07:06,026 --> 00:07:08,562 -$0.2 of peppermints, please. -Okay, G.W. 70 00:07:08,629 --> 00:07:10,531 If you'd like to come with me when I pick up-- 71 00:07:10,598 --> 00:07:13,734 G.W., I want you to look at this dress. 72 00:07:13,801 --> 00:07:16,136 Isn't that the sweetest dress you've ever seen? 73 00:07:16,203 --> 00:07:17,505 If you say so. 74 00:07:17,571 --> 00:07:19,907 We can take turns using the mitt, G.W. 75 00:07:19,973 --> 00:07:23,243 Wouldn't I look like a dream walking in this dress, G.W.? 76 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:24,745 You'd be something. 77 00:07:24,812 --> 00:07:26,614 Here you are. Two cents' worth of peppermints. 78 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,482 How much is this dress, Mr. Godsey? 79 00:07:28,549 --> 00:07:32,285 $2 and 98 cents, and worth every penny. 80 00:07:32,352 --> 00:07:35,155 Peppermints, G.W. 81 00:07:35,222 --> 00:07:39,026 I'm gonna tell my daddy to just buy me this little dress. 82 00:07:39,092 --> 00:07:41,629 That's exactly what I'm going to do. 83 00:07:41,695 --> 00:07:44,498 It's a beauty alright. 84 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:49,837 Mary Ellen, are we going home? 85 00:07:51,171 --> 00:07:53,306 Yeah, sure. 86 00:07:53,373 --> 00:07:55,509 Nothing to keep us here. 87 00:07:56,744 --> 00:07:59,913 -Goodbye, Mr. Godsey. -Goodbye. 88 00:08:01,682 --> 00:08:03,617 More pie, John? 89 00:08:03,684 --> 00:08:05,385 No thanks, honey. 90 00:08:05,452 --> 00:08:07,254 I think I can save some room for all that turkey 91 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,558 we figure to eat tomorrow. 92 00:08:10,624 --> 00:08:13,260 -Do it again. -Please, Daddy. 93 00:08:15,796 --> 00:08:17,998 You sound just like a turkey. 94 00:08:18,065 --> 00:08:20,934 -I'm the flock's Rudy Vallee. -All you need is a megaphone. 95 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:23,236 Wish I was going hunting with you boys tomorrow. 96 00:08:23,303 --> 00:08:25,338 We're gonna have fun. Why don't you come along? 97 00:08:25,405 --> 00:08:29,342 No, I think I'll just stay home with my old sweetheart. 98 00:08:29,409 --> 00:08:31,478 My hunting days are about over. 99 00:08:31,545 --> 00:08:35,716 You brought home more game than three men in your time, old man. 100 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:39,853 Did I ever tell you boys about the time... 101 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,590 I brought down four turkeys with one shot? 102 00:08:42,656 --> 00:08:45,926 -No, Grandpa. -How'd that ever happen, Papa? 103 00:08:45,993 --> 00:08:49,262 Well, there were these four turkeys... 104 00:08:49,329 --> 00:08:52,499 three beauties, sassy hens just sitting up there... 105 00:08:52,566 --> 00:08:54,768 roosting on one branch, all together. 106 00:08:54,835 --> 00:08:58,071 All lined up. I took a bead on them and.... 107 00:08:58,138 --> 00:08:59,106 pow! 108 00:08:59,172 --> 00:09:01,742 One, two, three. 109 00:09:01,809 --> 00:09:04,511 But you said four, Grandpa. 110 00:09:04,578 --> 00:09:06,113 So I did. 111 00:09:06,179 --> 00:09:08,782 Those three of them bunched up together, they was easy. 112 00:09:08,849 --> 00:09:10,918 But the fourth, an old tom turkey... 113 00:09:10,984 --> 00:09:13,520 he was roosting on another branch on another tree. 114 00:09:13,587 --> 00:09:17,090 As soon as he heard the sound of my shot, that set him hustling. 115 00:09:17,157 --> 00:09:20,594 And durned if he didn't fly right smack-dab into my shot... 116 00:09:20,661 --> 00:09:23,731 just as I dropped the third one. 117 00:09:24,732 --> 00:09:26,566 Grandpa.. 118 00:09:29,436 --> 00:09:31,171 Something's at the chickens. 119 00:09:32,673 --> 00:09:34,942 John-Boy, you come with me. 120 00:09:35,008 --> 00:09:37,344 The rest of you stay put. 121 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:39,346 Excuse me, honey. 122 00:09:44,217 --> 00:09:46,453 John-Boy, load up. 123 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:48,255 Load up? 124 00:09:54,995 --> 00:09:57,931 I told you to stay put. Now, get inside. 125 00:10:28,161 --> 00:10:30,597 I didn't want to say anything. 126 00:10:30,664 --> 00:10:33,200 I want to tell you something. This is just between you and me. 127 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:35,969 -Do you understand? -Yes, sir. 128 00:10:36,036 --> 00:10:39,406 -Bear at Nickerson's last night. -A bear? 129 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:41,241 Big bruiser. He killed a calf. 130 00:10:41,308 --> 00:10:43,643 -Rafe shot at him. -He hit him? 131 00:10:43,711 --> 00:10:46,279 Don't know. 132 00:10:46,346 --> 00:10:49,016 I'm going inside. You be careful, you hear? 133 00:11:14,842 --> 00:11:16,977 See anything? 134 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:33,360 Probably just a nighthawk or an owl. 135 00:11:41,501 --> 00:11:44,772 I didn't want to say anything inside to upset the others. 136 00:11:44,838 --> 00:11:48,175 I knew you and me could handle it. 137 00:11:48,241 --> 00:11:52,079 I reckon. 138 00:11:52,145 --> 00:11:55,582 It's a warm feeling to stand off and look at your home... 139 00:11:55,648 --> 00:11:59,419 to know your wife and loved ones are inside, safe and warm. 140 00:12:00,988 --> 00:12:03,123 You'll know one day. 141 00:12:04,792 --> 00:12:09,429 Must've been what it was like before things got so civilized. 142 00:12:09,496 --> 00:12:12,933 I mean, a man standing between his family 143 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,502 and anything that might hurt them. 144 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:18,738 I'm real proud you're going with me on the hunt tomorrow. 145 00:12:18,806 --> 00:12:20,507 I know. 146 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:22,675 A man's first hunt should be something he remembers 147 00:12:22,742 --> 00:12:24,544 all his life. 148 00:12:24,611 --> 00:12:26,446 I asked Charlie and Hawthorne to go along 149 00:12:26,513 --> 00:12:28,982 because they're good old boys. 150 00:12:29,049 --> 00:12:33,120 We're gonna have a solid gold, 100% good time. 151 00:12:34,687 --> 00:12:36,423 Hundred percent. 152 00:12:39,326 --> 00:12:42,529 We better get in or your mama will send out a search party. 153 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:44,731 Now, remember this bear's between you and me. 154 00:12:44,798 --> 00:12:47,000 -Don't forget. -I won't. 155 00:12:56,409 --> 00:12:58,178 Maybe I've killed without knowing. 156 00:12:58,245 --> 00:13:02,449 A spider or a frog or something I've stepped on. 157 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:04,584 It's knowing that I'm gonna take life from something... 158 00:13:04,651 --> 00:13:07,821 that treasures life as much I treasure mine. 159 00:13:07,888 --> 00:13:09,622 It's the planning ahead... 160 00:13:09,689 --> 00:13:14,494 going looking for it, hunting for it that makes it murder. 161 00:13:14,561 --> 00:13:16,796 I'm right sick about it... 162 00:13:16,864 --> 00:13:19,466 and I'm right scared of tomorrow. 163 00:13:19,532 --> 00:13:23,536 I'm also scared of what my life is going to be like if I fail. 164 00:13:30,177 --> 00:13:32,579 -Yeah. -Mary Ellen. Let me in. 165 00:13:43,556 --> 00:13:46,359 I think I'm having a heart attack. 166 00:13:46,426 --> 00:13:48,896 -Heart attack? -It keeps going wham! 167 00:13:48,962 --> 00:13:51,764 It stops for the longest time, and I think I'm suffocating. 168 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:53,433 How did it start? 169 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,769 I've been trying to go to sleep, trying to figure out things. 170 00:13:56,836 --> 00:14:00,273 -What kind of things? -A boy likes a girl one day... 171 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:03,176 and the next day he's off chasing some other girl. 172 00:14:03,243 --> 00:14:06,046 I know what kind of heart trouble you've got. 173 00:14:06,113 --> 00:14:08,748 G.W. Haines heart trouble. Right? 174 00:14:08,815 --> 00:14:10,783 I don't know what he sees in her. 175 00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:13,353 She can't catch, can't run, can't throw. 176 00:14:13,420 --> 00:14:15,555 Screams if she sees a woollyworm. 177 00:14:15,622 --> 00:14:18,892 Not more than a week ago, G.W. was making fun of her. 178 00:14:18,959 --> 00:14:21,428 What happened? 179 00:14:21,494 --> 00:14:23,430 Well, sister, there comes a time 180 00:14:23,496 --> 00:14:25,832 when boys like girls to be different. 181 00:14:25,899 --> 00:14:28,868 And G.W. may be at exactly that point. 182 00:14:28,936 --> 00:14:30,537 Where a fancy dress is more interesting 183 00:14:30,603 --> 00:14:32,505 than a great catcher's mitt? 184 00:14:32,572 --> 00:14:34,641 Well, he might still like the catcher's mitt... 185 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:38,545 but he'd rather see the girl in a fancy dress. 186 00:14:43,050 --> 00:14:44,817 Did I leave my harp in here? 187 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:48,555 No. I don't know, Jason. Look around. 188 00:14:48,621 --> 00:14:49,889 Alright. 189 00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:57,797 -You got a safety pin, John-Boy? -Look over on the dresser. 190 00:14:57,864 --> 00:15:00,467 The strings in my pajamas broke. 191 00:15:02,335 --> 00:15:05,438 Can I sleep in here, John-Boy? There's a mouse under my bed. 192 00:15:05,505 --> 00:15:06,573 Hmm-mm. 193 00:15:16,516 --> 00:15:18,518 -Hey. -Hm? 194 00:15:18,585 --> 00:15:20,120 What are you writing? 195 00:15:20,187 --> 00:15:22,489 Stuff. Go on to bed. 196 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:41,441 John-Boy, will you kiss me good night? 197 00:15:41,508 --> 00:15:45,678 Sure, honey. Good night. Go on to bed now. 198 00:15:53,653 --> 00:15:56,589 Now, what's it doing under here? 199 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:02,662 Play something pretty, Jason. 200 00:16:24,184 --> 00:16:26,119 What is this, a family reunion? 201 00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:31,624 Go on writing, John-Boy. You're not bothering us. 202 00:16:31,691 --> 00:16:35,428 Oh, no? But you are bothering me. Now go to bed, all of you. 203 00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:37,430 But you said I could stay. 204 00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:39,832 Well, I am now saying that you can go. 205 00:16:39,899 --> 00:16:43,703 What do you think I am, an old mother hen? Go on, scat! 206 00:16:46,106 --> 00:16:48,108 Go on, scat! 207 00:16:49,176 --> 00:16:51,944 Go on, scat! 208 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:53,946 Out! 209 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,482 Out! 210 00:17:05,225 --> 00:17:08,095 -John. -Hm? 211 00:17:08,161 --> 00:17:11,498 Have you noticed the chicken house lately? 212 00:17:11,564 --> 00:17:13,366 Hmm-mm. 213 00:17:13,433 --> 00:17:17,137 There's a hole in the roof big enough to sling a cat through. 214 00:17:17,204 --> 00:17:20,140 I'll get to it as soon as I have time, Liv. 215 00:17:21,674 --> 00:17:26,546 Come a good rain, I'm gonna have a flock of wet, droopy chickens. 216 00:17:31,284 --> 00:17:34,654 I certainly would like to have that roof fixed. 217 00:17:37,657 --> 00:17:40,560 Why couldn't John-Boy stay home and fix it? 218 00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:43,363 Now, Liv. 219 00:17:43,430 --> 00:17:45,398 I can't make him stay home. 220 00:17:45,465 --> 00:17:48,835 He's been looking forward to this hunt for weeks. 221 00:17:48,901 --> 00:17:51,538 Not looking forward. 222 00:17:51,604 --> 00:17:53,106 Dreading. 223 00:17:53,173 --> 00:17:54,841 That's natural. 224 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:56,376 Going up in the mountains with seasoned hunters... 225 00:17:56,443 --> 00:17:58,711 like Charlie, and Hawthorne, and me. 226 00:17:58,778 --> 00:18:01,514 He wants to prove himself a man in front of men. 227 00:18:03,550 --> 00:18:05,852 He didn't ask to stay home, did he? 228 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:08,121 No. 229 00:18:08,188 --> 00:18:11,958 He says he wants to go... 230 00:18:12,024 --> 00:18:14,594 but I'm not sure he's telling the truth. 231 00:18:16,129 --> 00:18:18,698 He's never in his life killed a living thing. 232 00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:21,401 Liv, he's gonna do just fine. 233 00:18:21,468 --> 00:18:24,604 There's more to being a man than shooting turkeys. 234 00:18:25,238 --> 00:18:28,040 That's for sure. 235 00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:30,977 But part of being a man is providing food 236 00:18:31,043 --> 00:18:32,845 for a hungry family. 237 00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:38,084 Did you see him practicing all day today? 238 00:18:38,151 --> 00:18:40,620 Practicing is one thing. 239 00:18:40,687 --> 00:18:42,655 Coming face to face with a living creature 240 00:18:42,722 --> 00:18:44,857 and having to kill it is another. 241 00:18:46,926 --> 00:18:49,329 And he's so heart-bent to please. 242 00:18:49,396 --> 00:18:52,332 He's a good boy, Liv. 243 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:56,903 I wish I could hold back time... 244 00:18:58,938 --> 00:19:01,974 keep these happy days... 245 00:19:02,041 --> 00:19:04,911 my children with me... 246 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:07,814 young, innocent. 247 00:19:10,750 --> 00:19:12,685 You know... 248 00:19:16,623 --> 00:19:21,294 if you keep your children young and innocent... 249 00:19:21,361 --> 00:19:24,564 you'll rob them of what we've found. 250 00:19:44,551 --> 00:19:46,853 Look here, steel in them firing pins 251 00:19:46,919 --> 00:19:49,656 just as good as the day I bought it in '02. 252 00:19:49,722 --> 00:19:53,025 Old man, you decided to go after all? 253 00:19:53,092 --> 00:19:55,127 No, I'm just caring for it. 254 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:58,331 Yes, sirree. It's as good as the day I bought it. 255 00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:01,834 There they are. 256 00:20:01,901 --> 00:20:03,870 Here we go. 257 00:20:03,936 --> 00:20:06,539 Charlie and Hawthorne. Those old boys are right on time. 258 00:20:06,606 --> 00:20:09,876 Any kind of a hunt or an open bottle, then Charlie Sneed's 259 00:20:09,942 --> 00:20:11,544 first to cross the line. 260 00:20:11,611 --> 00:20:14,547 Charlie Sneed's a sociable type, Mama. 261 00:20:22,622 --> 00:20:25,224 -Good morning, men. -Morning! Morning! 262 00:20:25,292 --> 00:20:27,927 Beautiful day. Praise the Lord! 263 00:20:27,994 --> 00:20:29,896 Sprocket, are you as good as your daddy? 264 00:20:29,962 --> 00:20:32,999 Charlie, he's decided he wants to be called by his right name. 265 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:38,170 Okay. John-Boy, are you as good as your daddy? 266 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:41,541 Oh, that boy's gonna be alright. 267 00:20:41,608 --> 00:20:44,411 Don't go calling out like that where I can't see you plain. 268 00:20:44,477 --> 00:20:48,080 I'm liable to mistake you for the real thing. 269 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:50,082 Good morning, Mr. Walton. You coming with us? 270 00:20:50,149 --> 00:20:51,718 Morning. Not today, Hawthorne. 271 00:20:51,784 --> 00:20:56,489 I'm taking potatoes. Got plenty of things to do around here. 272 00:20:56,556 --> 00:20:58,325 Where did you get this old blunderbuss, John-Boy? 273 00:20:58,391 --> 00:21:01,328 That's an old one my daddy used to have. 274 00:21:01,394 --> 00:21:04,531 You mean this old beanshooter still works? 275 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:07,600 Little off at sight and it kicks like a mule, but it's alright. 276 00:21:07,667 --> 00:21:10,937 Any turkey that comes around you will at least 277 00:21:11,003 --> 00:21:12,171 have a sporting chance. 278 00:21:12,238 --> 00:21:13,406 I reckon. 279 00:21:13,473 --> 00:21:15,475 -Morning, Charlie. -Hello, Livie. 280 00:21:15,542 --> 00:21:18,611 -Hawthorne. -Morning, Mrs. Walton. 281 00:21:18,678 --> 00:21:20,613 -Thank you, Mrs. Walton. -How's your family, Hawthorne? 282 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,883 Oh, hungry 24 hours a day and growing like weeds. 283 00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:27,654 -Mine, too. -You know, the Gospel says... 284 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,255 "A man does not live by bread alone." 285 00:21:29,322 --> 00:21:32,325 I preach it because I believe it. 286 00:21:32,392 --> 00:21:33,860 My kids need bread and meat. 287 00:21:33,926 --> 00:21:36,228 And a preacher's pay doesn't pay for neither. 288 00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:38,297 -Hope you get a turkey today. -Thank you, Mrs. Walton. 289 00:21:38,365 --> 00:21:41,401 John-Boy, this being your first hunt, I aim to wish you luck. 290 00:21:41,468 --> 00:21:44,737 -Thank you, Grandpa. -But you'll need more than luck. 291 00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:47,574 Take this. 292 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,543 That's your gun, Grandpa. 293 00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:54,847 That way, I figure I aim to be part of this here hunt. Take it. 294 00:21:57,817 --> 00:22:00,453 -Thank you. -Use it well, son. 295 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,389 Let's go. 296 00:22:13,566 --> 00:22:14,967 Reckless, settle down. 297 00:22:21,408 --> 00:22:24,243 I could use a cup of coffee, Grandpa. 298 00:22:24,310 --> 00:22:26,879 - How about you? - Hmm-mm. 299 00:22:35,588 --> 00:22:37,890 -Come on, John-Boy. -I'm coming, Daddy. 300 00:22:37,957 --> 00:22:40,893 Pick them up, boy! Pick them up! 301 00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:47,400 -What am I doing running? -This is uphill. 302 00:22:47,467 --> 00:22:49,068 Your daddy started it. 303 00:22:49,135 --> 00:22:53,473 What are you trying to do, John? Give me a heart attack? 304 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:55,742 I just felt like lifting my heels. 305 00:22:55,808 --> 00:22:59,211 No law says you have to do the same, Charlie. 306 00:22:59,278 --> 00:23:04,083 I swear, that fireplace will be standing long after all of us. 307 00:23:04,150 --> 00:23:06,819 Your great-great-granddaddy built that fireplace. 308 00:23:06,886 --> 00:23:10,256 -You know that, John-Boy? -Yes, sir. 309 00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:11,724 You ever seen him, Daddy? 310 00:23:11,791 --> 00:23:14,861 No. He died long before I was born. 311 00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:19,866 Papa knew him, though. 312 00:23:19,932 --> 00:23:22,234 He said he was the biggest man he ever saw. 313 00:23:22,301 --> 00:23:25,337 Coming to this country with nothing but a mule, a plow 314 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:26,673 and a rifle. 315 00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:29,476 They built men in them pioneer days all right. 316 00:23:29,542 --> 00:23:31,010 Big men, Charlie. 317 00:23:31,077 --> 00:23:34,380 A man had to be his own carpenter, doctor 318 00:23:34,447 --> 00:23:36,549 hunter, undertaker... you name it. 319 00:23:36,616 --> 00:23:39,952 Been me, I'd gone back and got on the first boat headed 320 00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:41,688 for the old country. 321 00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:44,624 I expect a few of my folks did exactly that. 322 00:23:46,493 --> 00:23:48,194 You joke about that, Hawthorne? 323 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:51,798 John, my folks had to learn to laugh to keep from crying. 324 00:23:51,864 --> 00:23:55,334 Well, you can't blame that on any of my family. 325 00:23:55,401 --> 00:23:58,237 I come from a long line of horse thieves. 326 00:23:58,304 --> 00:24:01,040 Charlie, you know you come from a long line of farmers... 327 00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:02,642 and you know it well. 328 00:24:02,709 --> 00:24:05,545 Don't spoil my reputation. 329 00:24:05,612 --> 00:24:08,781 A girl wouldn't look at an old dirt farmer... 330 00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:12,785 but she'd dance all night with a good-looking horse thief. 331 00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:18,691 Right, let's load up and hunt turkey. 332 00:24:18,758 --> 00:24:21,861 -That what you say, boy? -Yes, sir. 333 00:24:29,368 --> 00:24:31,103 Is this okay, Mary Ellen? 334 00:24:33,405 --> 00:24:35,542 Perfect. 335 00:24:37,544 --> 00:24:39,646 You all are learning real fast. 336 00:24:39,712 --> 00:24:41,948 When are Jim-Bob and me going to know enough... 337 00:24:42,014 --> 00:24:44,283 so we can go into the business for ourselves? 338 00:24:44,350 --> 00:24:47,654 You're still apprentices while I teach you the junk business. 339 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,157 Ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mary Ellen having Jim-Bob 340 00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:53,459 and Elizabeth collect stuff and you getting the money. 341 00:24:53,526 --> 00:24:56,062 It's fair, Erin. We'll all get to use the mitt. 342 00:24:56,128 --> 00:24:59,732 Yeah, when she and G.W. Haines aren't playing with it. 343 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:02,635 Elizabeth, just look at your hands! 344 00:25:02,702 --> 00:25:05,071 That's what soap is for, Miss Prissy-Pants. 345 00:25:05,137 --> 00:25:09,876 -I'm going to tell Mama on you. -Go ahead, Miss Dainty-Drawers. 346 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:12,511 Mama, Mary Ellen's got Jim-Bob and Elizabeth working for her. 347 00:25:12,579 --> 00:25:17,917 She's got Elizabeth just filthy, and now she's calling me names. 348 00:25:17,984 --> 00:25:22,221 Mary Ellen, how can you possibly manage so many things at once? 349 00:25:22,288 --> 00:25:25,024 I'm a good organizer, Mama. 350 00:25:30,229 --> 00:25:32,599 Listen to the noise of that wagon. 351 00:25:32,665 --> 00:25:34,934 It's like having your own band. 352 00:25:56,923 --> 00:26:01,160 Mrs. Walton, good morning. 353 00:26:01,227 --> 00:26:03,029 Good morning, Jake. 354 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:06,198 So... 355 00:26:08,267 --> 00:26:11,604 -You've been busy, Mary Ellen? -Yes, sir. 356 00:26:14,741 --> 00:26:18,344 Remarkable. Really remarkable. 357 00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,279 Where do you find such things? 358 00:26:20,346 --> 00:26:23,149 If I told you, you wouldn't have to buy them from me. 359 00:26:23,215 --> 00:26:25,918 If I ever thought of taking in a partner 360 00:26:25,985 --> 00:26:28,354 she'd be my first choice. 361 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,626 I'll give you 12 cents for the lot. 362 00:26:33,693 --> 00:26:36,696 -25 cents. -15 cents. 363 00:26:36,763 --> 00:26:38,030 Mama, look. 364 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:40,066 Don't get in the rain in that thing. 365 00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:42,601 Jake, you've been nice to me. 366 00:26:42,669 --> 00:26:44,603 See it's gonna be reasonable. 367 00:26:44,671 --> 00:26:46,538 22 cents. 368 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,574 22 cents! 369 00:26:48,641 --> 00:26:52,444 If that's the way she treats a person who's been nice to her... 370 00:26:52,511 --> 00:26:56,949 17 cents. I'll lose money, but money isn't everything. 371 00:26:57,016 --> 00:26:59,652 Mama, Jim-Bob's my husband. 372 00:27:01,087 --> 00:27:03,622 20 cents and the parasol and hat. 373 00:27:04,991 --> 00:27:08,227 I should make her a partner before she ruins me. 374 00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:11,463 Alright. 20 cents. 375 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:13,766 The parasol and the hat. 376 00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:17,003 Thanks, Mary Ellen! 377 00:27:17,069 --> 00:27:19,305 Five... 378 00:27:19,371 --> 00:27:23,409 ten...fifteen. 379 00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:26,412 It's nice to know the richest girl in the county. 380 00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:29,048 Sixteen, seventeen. 381 00:27:29,115 --> 00:27:32,785 And when I'm bankrupt, don't feel too bad. 382 00:27:32,852 --> 00:27:35,521 Eighteen... 383 00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:38,390 nineteen... 384 00:27:38,457 --> 00:27:40,960 twenty. 385 00:27:41,027 --> 00:27:44,363 Thanks, Jake. I'll help you load the stuff on the wagon. 386 00:27:44,430 --> 00:27:47,166 Why don't you come in for a cup of coffee, Jake? 387 00:27:47,233 --> 00:27:52,038 I wouldn't mind. I had cider with Ike... 388 00:27:52,104 --> 00:27:54,573 lemonade with the Baldwin sisters-- 389 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,776 What's new with Miss Emily and Miss Mamie? 390 00:27:56,843 --> 00:27:59,345 -They saw a bear last night. -A bear? 391 00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:00,880 They found blood, too. 392 00:28:00,947 --> 00:28:04,116 -Means he's wounded. -A wounded bear, Mama. 393 00:28:04,183 --> 00:28:07,353 Likely it's gone into the hills to die. 394 00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:10,156 Don't worry. Don't worry. 395 00:29:01,707 --> 00:29:03,342 Ah! 396 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:08,881 I think I've turned my ankle. 397 00:29:14,854 --> 00:29:18,024 Don't appear to be no broken bones. 398 00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:20,259 Test your weight on it. 399 00:29:26,665 --> 00:29:28,534 -Hurt bad? -It's okay. 400 00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:33,572 Look, son... 401 00:29:33,639 --> 00:29:37,709 this isn't the only turkey hunt we'll be having this year. 402 00:29:37,776 --> 00:29:39,979 No use suffering. 403 00:29:40,046 --> 00:29:42,514 -I'll go back to the truck-- -I can make it. 404 00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:47,086 Don't want you hurting yourself. 405 00:29:47,153 --> 00:29:48,955 Daddy, I'm counting on getting a turkey 406 00:29:49,021 --> 00:29:50,957 and I'm gonna be just fine. 407 00:30:37,403 --> 00:30:41,073 Some crime been committed up there? 408 00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:43,775 I was just sneaking off to the store, Mama. 409 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,145 Without a word to anyone? 410 00:30:46,212 --> 00:30:49,581 I sort of wanted to go by myself. It's more dreamy. 411 00:30:49,648 --> 00:30:52,618 As well as selfish not to take your brothers and sisters. 412 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:56,322 Mama, I never get to be alone. 413 00:30:56,388 --> 00:30:59,325 It is harder to dream in a crowd. 414 00:31:00,726 --> 00:31:03,362 -Go on. -Thanks, Mama. 415 00:31:21,914 --> 00:31:23,382 Reckless, what're you doing here? 416 00:31:23,449 --> 00:31:25,184 You're supposed to be tied up, boy. 417 00:31:25,251 --> 00:31:27,386 What's he doing here? 418 00:31:29,821 --> 00:31:32,424 Look, Daddy, it must've been a rabbit. 419 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,494 What's left of it. 420 00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,532 Bobcat, most likely. 421 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:43,469 -Or a fox. -Hawk. 422 00:31:43,535 --> 00:31:46,005 Whatever killed it, didn't eat all of it. 423 00:31:46,072 --> 00:31:48,140 I expect it was a fox then. 424 00:31:48,207 --> 00:31:50,709 A fox will kill just for the fun of it. 425 00:31:50,776 --> 00:31:54,546 I've seen a fox many a times worry a rabbit to death... 426 00:31:54,613 --> 00:31:56,282 like a cat will a mouse. 427 00:31:56,348 --> 00:31:59,385 Not many animals kill for the sport of it, though, Charlie. 428 00:31:59,451 --> 00:32:01,220 Don't it give you a little quiver 429 00:32:01,287 --> 00:32:02,955 when you pull the trigger, though, John? 430 00:32:03,022 --> 00:32:04,423 No, sir. 431 00:32:04,490 --> 00:32:07,426 I'm just thinking, meat on the table. 432 00:32:07,493 --> 00:32:10,762 Now, Reckless, how'd you get out here, boy? 433 00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:12,431 How'd you get out, huh? 434 00:32:12,498 --> 00:32:15,567 What're you doing up here, you old hound dog, you? 435 00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:23,976 You alright, son? 436 00:32:24,043 --> 00:32:25,577 Hundred percent. 437 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:30,782 Come on, Reckless, durn you. Why don't you just get on home? 438 00:32:30,849 --> 00:32:32,985 Go on now. Get! 439 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,521 Get! Go! 440 00:32:49,435 --> 00:32:50,502 Sweet potatoes. 441 00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:52,504 Thought they'd go real good with turkey. 442 00:32:52,571 --> 00:32:55,741 You're worse than John, roasting your turkey before it's shot. 443 00:32:55,807 --> 00:32:58,244 There's an old tom turkey up on that mountain. 444 00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:00,279 Must be near as old as I am. 445 00:33:00,346 --> 00:33:02,948 I sure hope they don't bring that one. 446 00:33:03,015 --> 00:33:04,516 Be tough as shoe leather. 447 00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:06,485 If there's a turkey up there, John'll bring it back. 448 00:33:06,552 --> 00:33:08,920 Don't sell that boy short, neither. 449 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:11,690 He has a Walton way with a gun. 450 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:24,836 We are getting close. 451 00:33:24,903 --> 00:33:27,606 You alright? 452 00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:31,077 -He's your boy, John. -No mistaking that. 453 00:33:35,314 --> 00:33:39,185 This being John's first hunt... 454 00:33:39,251 --> 00:33:41,487 why don't we let him take the first shot? 455 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:45,257 -Certainly. -Couldn't be no other way. 456 00:34:17,256 --> 00:34:19,325 A plague take that worthless son of Satan. 457 00:34:19,391 --> 00:34:21,059 A few seconds more... 458 00:34:21,127 --> 00:34:23,629 and you'd have had yourself the granddaddy of all turkeys. 459 00:34:23,695 --> 00:34:26,732 Don't fret. You'll get another chance. 460 00:34:50,189 --> 00:34:52,291 Now, boy. Now. 461 00:34:55,727 --> 00:34:56,695 Now. 462 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:12,844 What happened? 463 00:35:16,047 --> 00:35:17,849 I just can't do that. 464 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:41,673 You know, the first time I was ever in water over my head... 465 00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:44,943 Papa decided it was time I learned to swim... 466 00:35:45,010 --> 00:35:48,414 so he threw me in. 467 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,049 I'm not forcing you into deep water before you're ready 468 00:35:51,116 --> 00:35:52,851 am I, son? 469 00:35:56,855 --> 00:35:59,591 You see, I am... 470 00:35:59,658 --> 00:36:04,730 I'm just trying to understand, maybe help you understand, too. 471 00:36:04,796 --> 00:36:07,132 You know how I feel about killing just for the sport 472 00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:08,567 of killing, don't you? 473 00:36:08,634 --> 00:36:10,202 I know. 474 00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:18,410 I'm not one of the most churchgoing men in the world. 475 00:36:19,711 --> 00:36:21,247 But to me... 476 00:36:24,049 --> 00:36:25,917 life is a mystery. 477 00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:31,957 A sacred mystery. 478 00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:35,026 Part of that mystery seems to be the struggle 479 00:36:35,093 --> 00:36:37,128 we all have to stay alive. 480 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:41,132 To keep life in ourselves and in those we cherish... 481 00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:43,835 sometimes we have to take life. 482 00:36:43,902 --> 00:36:45,404 That's the way it is with all living animals 483 00:36:45,471 --> 00:36:48,807 right down through the whole chain of life. 484 00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:52,511 To me, that's what this hunt's about. 485 00:36:52,578 --> 00:36:55,247 Does it make any sense to you at all? 486 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:59,551 It makes perfect sense to me. 487 00:37:03,622 --> 00:37:07,393 You want to try again? I'm not forcing you. I'm just asking. 488 00:37:09,295 --> 00:37:12,898 Daddy, I don't think it would make one bit of difference. 489 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:16,735 I've found out about myself now... 490 00:37:18,637 --> 00:37:20,772 and I'm not like you or Grandpa. 491 00:37:22,308 --> 00:37:24,343 I'm just cowardly, and I've shamed you. 492 00:37:24,410 --> 00:37:27,012 Now you stop talking like that. 493 00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:30,816 You stop talking like that now. 494 00:37:30,882 --> 00:37:33,819 Not shooting some old turkey don't make you a coward. 495 00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:38,790 Sometimes it takes a sight more guts not to do something... 496 00:37:38,857 --> 00:37:40,826 if it goes against your feelings. 497 00:37:43,929 --> 00:37:46,498 You're a Walton. 498 00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:50,035 You're a Walton man... 499 00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:52,504 and you've never done nothing yet to shame me. 500 00:37:53,505 --> 00:37:55,641 You understand? 501 00:37:58,810 --> 00:38:02,581 I just don't know how I'm going to explain to Grandpa. 502 00:38:02,648 --> 00:38:06,051 Grandpa understands a lot more than you think he does. 503 00:38:09,388 --> 00:38:11,256 Well... 504 00:38:11,323 --> 00:38:13,959 Charlie and Hawthorne want to keep going, probably. 505 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:17,295 Well... 506 00:38:17,363 --> 00:38:19,498 You mind if I just head on home? 507 00:38:22,501 --> 00:38:25,404 Charlie, Hawthorne... 508 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:32,611 Well fellows, I reckon I'll be heading on home now. 509 00:38:32,678 --> 00:38:34,613 Ankle troubling you, son? 510 00:38:36,181 --> 00:38:37,883 No, Charlie, not exactly. 511 00:38:37,949 --> 00:38:41,052 John-Boy don't owe us any explanations. 512 00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:42,954 No. 513 00:38:43,021 --> 00:38:45,724 Y'all can stand around and jaw if you want. 514 00:38:45,791 --> 00:38:48,860 Me, I'm going after that turkey. 515 00:38:48,927 --> 00:38:52,431 It is a strutting beauty, for sure. 516 00:39:01,373 --> 00:39:02,641 Okay... 517 00:39:02,708 --> 00:39:04,943 I'll see you at home. 518 00:39:25,831 --> 00:39:28,667 I'll be danged if I'm not almost as excited about this day 519 00:39:28,734 --> 00:39:30,201 as you are, Mary Ellen. 520 00:39:30,268 --> 00:39:33,304 It seems like I've been working right along with you... 521 00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,040 during all these weeks. 522 00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:38,109 Fact is, I think I'm more excited about it than you are. 523 00:39:38,176 --> 00:39:39,911 You are excited, aren't you, Mary Ellen? 524 00:39:41,513 --> 00:39:43,449 Oh, I'm excited. 525 00:39:45,551 --> 00:39:47,318 Well, it's yours. 526 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:49,521 All yours. 527 00:39:55,861 --> 00:39:59,765 Guess anybody wearing this dress would be bound to look pretty. 528 00:39:59,831 --> 00:40:03,368 I don't think it would look too good with a catcher's mitt. 529 00:40:03,435 --> 00:40:06,772 Catch doesn't seem to be the game G.W. wants to play anymore. 530 00:40:20,552 --> 00:40:23,154 Mr. Godsey, since the price is the same 531 00:40:23,221 --> 00:40:26,458 can I have this dress instead of the mitt? 532 00:40:26,525 --> 00:40:28,660 You want this dress? 533 00:40:30,195 --> 00:40:31,830 Yeah. 534 00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:42,534 Mary Ellen, open this door at once. 535 00:41:53,211 --> 00:41:56,147 What are you doing in here with the curtains drawn? 536 00:42:00,318 --> 00:42:02,320 What's that you got on? 537 00:42:02,387 --> 00:42:04,990 A new dress, and I hate it. 538 00:42:05,056 --> 00:42:07,192 Look at me, Mama. Just look at me! 539 00:42:07,258 --> 00:42:08,727 I'm looking. 540 00:42:08,794 --> 00:42:12,063 Did you ever in your life see anything so pathetic? 541 00:42:12,130 --> 00:42:15,000 That dress, it's.... 542 00:42:15,066 --> 00:42:20,572 It's not your style. It doesn't bring out your best features. 543 00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:22,908 That's for sure. I'm a freak. 544 00:42:22,974 --> 00:42:24,943 I better go run off with a carnival. 545 00:42:25,010 --> 00:42:26,845 I'm not like other girls at all. 546 00:42:26,912 --> 00:42:31,382 Mary Ellen, you are not a freak. 547 00:42:31,449 --> 00:42:33,018 You're a fine-looking girl. 548 00:42:33,084 --> 00:42:36,187 Next door to being beautiful. 549 00:42:36,254 --> 00:42:38,356 You only say that because you're my mama. 550 00:42:38,423 --> 00:42:40,592 Honey, listen... 551 00:42:40,659 --> 00:42:44,029 trying to be somebody she's not never makes a person happy. 552 00:42:44,095 --> 00:42:48,066 You're Mary Ellen Walton, not Martha Rose Coverdale. 553 00:42:48,133 --> 00:42:49,500 That's for sure. 554 00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:52,604 If you like yourself, others are gonna like you, too. 555 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,176 -Even boys? -Especially boys. 556 00:43:03,381 --> 00:43:06,852 Mama, how come you're so smart and I'm so dumb? 557 00:43:06,918 --> 00:43:08,920 Come look in the mirror. 558 00:43:12,157 --> 00:43:15,093 Do you see anybody dumb in there? 559 00:43:17,763 --> 00:43:20,265 Mama, would you help me get out of this thing? 560 00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:22,467 - Sure. - If I take it right back... 561 00:43:22,533 --> 00:43:25,737 Mr. Godsey will let me trade it in for my catcher's mitt. 562 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,275 Reckless. 563 00:43:34,646 --> 00:43:36,081 Reckless. 564 00:43:38,583 --> 00:43:41,720 Reckless! What happened, boy? 565 00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:44,289 What happened? 566 00:43:50,395 --> 00:43:53,364 I got you, Reckless. Here we go. 567 00:43:58,203 --> 00:44:01,139 Here we go. 568 00:44:01,206 --> 00:44:03,975 Down here. 569 00:44:04,042 --> 00:44:07,578 That's alright. Easy, boy. Easy. 570 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,781 Easy, Reckless. 571 00:44:42,147 --> 00:44:43,849 Daddy? 572 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:52,690 You there? I'm here. 573 00:44:59,430 --> 00:45:00,465 Daddy? 574 00:45:03,802 --> 00:45:05,937 Daddy? You there? 575 00:45:08,339 --> 00:45:10,742 John-Boy... 576 00:45:10,809 --> 00:45:12,744 don't move. 577 00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:16,714 Stay right where you are, John-Boy. 578 00:46:12,203 --> 00:46:14,405 You're a good man to have around. 579 00:46:17,375 --> 00:46:21,980 Grandpa's gonna have a new story to tell. 580 00:46:24,883 --> 00:46:26,885 Is Reckless okay? 581 00:46:28,253 --> 00:46:29,320 Yeah. 582 00:46:33,158 --> 00:46:35,293 Everybody's gonna be just fine. 583 00:46:49,307 --> 00:46:51,376 - Mighty good turkey. - Hmm. 584 00:46:52,944 --> 00:46:55,480 Kids seemed to think so. 585 00:46:55,546 --> 00:46:57,448 Tomorrow we'll have a nice turkey hash. 586 00:46:57,515 --> 00:46:58,816 Then turkey soup. 587 00:46:58,884 --> 00:47:00,485 When do we get the bear steak? 588 00:47:00,551 --> 00:47:02,753 What do you care? You can't chew it. 589 00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:04,789 I'll be found trying. 590 00:47:04,856 --> 00:47:06,591 That was the biggest bear... 591 00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:09,194 I've ever seen in all my born days on the mountain. 592 00:47:09,260 --> 00:47:11,196 One minute, Daddy would be on top 593 00:47:11,262 --> 00:47:13,298 the next minute, the bear would be on top. 594 00:47:13,364 --> 00:47:16,234 There was one time I lost you altogether. 595 00:47:16,301 --> 00:47:19,337 But I thought I was a goner, I'll tell you. 596 00:47:19,404 --> 00:47:21,739 Yeah. He's brought down with your gun, Grandpa. 597 00:47:21,806 --> 00:47:25,343 A good gun is a good gun. It's the man behind it that counts. 598 00:47:25,410 --> 00:47:28,146 And when it's a Walton like John-Boy.... 599 00:47:28,213 --> 00:47:31,049 Livie, these men will be sitting here bragging all night... 600 00:47:31,116 --> 00:47:33,251 if we don't take the dishes away. 601 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,022 Where did Mary Ellen get to? 602 00:47:37,088 --> 00:47:39,690 Mary Ellen is with her boyfriend. 603 00:47:39,757 --> 00:47:42,027 That's right, I forgot. 604 00:47:42,093 --> 00:47:44,930 Boyfriend? Mary Ellen? 605 00:47:45,863 --> 00:47:47,865 She's too young for a boyfriend. 606 00:47:47,933 --> 00:47:50,201 Come here and take a look. 607 00:48:03,915 --> 00:48:05,951 Good pitch, G.W. 608 00:48:06,017 --> 00:48:09,887 That's G.W. He's no boyfriend, he's just a friend. 609 00:48:09,955 --> 00:48:11,957 Have to start somewhere. 610 00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:19,697 I became not a hunter, but a writer. 611 00:48:19,764 --> 00:48:22,934 And I hope a source of some pride to my father. 612 00:48:23,001 --> 00:48:25,536 For to be a good hunter or a good writer 613 00:48:25,603 --> 00:48:28,739 one must know why he hunts or why he writes. 614 00:48:28,806 --> 00:48:32,510 And the why of it all, for me, lies in that house... 615 00:48:32,577 --> 00:48:35,913 and in the memory of voices that rise in the night... 616 00:48:35,981 --> 00:48:38,583 and will sweetly haunt my life forever. 617 00:48:40,851 --> 00:48:43,388 John-Boy. 618 00:48:43,454 --> 00:48:47,058 -What do you want, Elizabeth? -You asleep yet? 619 00:48:47,125 --> 00:48:50,528 -Not yet. -What're you doing? 620 00:48:50,595 --> 00:48:51,997 Thinking. 621 00:48:52,063 --> 00:48:54,699 I'm proud you killed the bear, John-Boy. 622 00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:56,867 Me, too. 623 00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:58,703 Good night, John-Boy. 624 00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:00,505 Good night, honey. 625 00:49:07,612 --> 00:49:09,247 In a moment 626 00:49:09,314 --> 00:49:12,350 some scenes from the next episode of The Waltons. 627 00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:18,389 [theme music]