1 00:01:58,219 --> 00:01:59,620 Times were hard everywhere 2 00:01:59,687 --> 00:02:01,955 during the days of the Great Depression. 3 00:02:02,022 --> 00:02:05,859 But on Walton's Mountain, we were better off than most. 4 00:02:05,926 --> 00:02:08,796 For many though, it was a time of wandering... 5 00:02:08,862 --> 00:02:10,998 of looking for some better place... 6 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:14,802 a new grasp on life or a change of scene. 7 00:02:14,868 --> 00:02:16,370 And I remember when some wanderers 8 00:02:16,437 --> 00:02:17,405 came to our mountain... 9 00:02:17,471 --> 00:02:20,574 one wild, stormy summer night. 10 00:02:43,664 --> 00:02:45,098 No one. 11 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:46,434 Get the others. 12 00:04:50,123 --> 00:04:52,593 Came to the right place. 13 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,295 There was nothing wrong with where that dial was set. 14 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:03,797 It's the storm doing it. 15 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:07,034 I'm just trying to get it come in a little clearer. 16 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:10,003 If that static keeps up, maybe we ought to turn it off. 17 00:06:10,070 --> 00:06:13,340 That's what I've been trying to do with her for years. 18 00:06:13,407 --> 00:06:16,910 I don't know which is more fun making popcorn or eating them. 19 00:06:16,977 --> 00:06:19,179 -Making them. -Eating them. 20 00:06:19,246 --> 00:06:21,449 Big old thunder and lightning storm coming up. 21 00:06:21,515 --> 00:06:23,851 It'll probably shake down the whole house. 22 00:06:25,419 --> 00:06:26,954 Mama, she's scaring me again. 23 00:06:27,020 --> 00:06:29,423 Mary Ellen, stop scaring your sister. 24 00:06:29,490 --> 00:06:31,892 Honestly, isn't she the nastiest thing? 25 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:35,529 That's exactly how I feel. Nasty as an old fishing worm. 26 00:06:35,596 --> 00:06:37,465 It feels squishy. 27 00:06:38,365 --> 00:06:39,667 And they taste squishy, too. 28 00:06:39,733 --> 00:06:41,735 "I see the lights of the city... 29 00:06:41,802 --> 00:06:43,571 "Gleam through the rain and the mist 30 00:06:43,637 --> 00:06:45,272 "And a feeling of sadness comes over me 31 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:46,840 "that my soul cannot resist 32 00:06:46,907 --> 00:06:49,209 "A feeling of sadness and longing 33 00:06:49,276 --> 00:06:50,711 "That my soul cannot explain 34 00:06:50,778 --> 00:06:54,948 "And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain" 35 00:06:55,015 --> 00:06:57,084 Ben, I'm gonna knock a hole clean through you! 36 00:06:57,150 --> 00:06:58,752 I don't care, they were picking on me! 37 00:06:58,819 --> 00:07:00,788 Can't even take a joke, Mary Ellen. 38 00:07:00,854 --> 00:07:03,090 Everybody in this house is always picking on me. 39 00:07:03,156 --> 00:07:05,392 Nobody in this house ever really listens to me. 40 00:07:05,459 --> 00:07:06,794 I listen to you. 41 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:09,497 Tell me one thing you've ever heard me say. 42 00:07:09,563 --> 00:07:11,532 A while ago, you said.... 43 00:07:12,933 --> 00:07:15,168 Someday I'm going 1,000 miles away from this place. 44 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:18,806 You'll hear from me only after I'm famous and go on the radio. 45 00:07:18,872 --> 00:07:20,440 What are you gonna do on the radio? 46 00:07:20,508 --> 00:07:22,543 Sing, crack jokes, and tell all the world 47 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:26,113 how you all picked on me all the time. 48 00:07:26,179 --> 00:07:29,182 -Who's ready to make popcorn? -I am! 49 00:07:29,249 --> 00:07:31,251 -Watch out, it's hot! -That looks good. 50 00:07:31,318 --> 00:07:32,920 Careful. 51 00:07:32,986 --> 00:07:36,123 Found a new word in the dictionary today.Ambivalence. 52 00:07:36,189 --> 00:07:38,926 That's me: Wanting things to stay like they are forever... 53 00:07:38,992 --> 00:07:40,628 here on Walton's Mountain... 54 00:07:40,694 --> 00:07:42,162 and yet wanting to be grown up and away... 55 00:07:42,229 --> 00:07:45,265 to find new things to see and write about. 56 00:07:45,332 --> 00:07:47,267 Ambivalence. It's a good word. 57 00:07:47,334 --> 00:07:48,902 Thing is, knowing the word doesn't make 58 00:07:48,969 --> 00:07:52,205 the two wants any easier to live with. 59 00:07:52,272 --> 00:07:55,342 There was no violence, however, as the wily gunman... 60 00:07:55,408 --> 00:07:58,512 spirited out of the area by the time the police moved in. 61 00:07:58,579 --> 00:08:01,615 Nelson is known to be a close friend of John Dillinger... 62 00:08:01,682 --> 00:08:03,216 public enemy number one. 63 00:08:03,283 --> 00:08:06,019 And police have established.... 64 00:08:08,556 --> 00:08:10,123 What's with the static from the young'uns 65 00:08:10,190 --> 00:08:12,860 and static from up there, I think we'd best go to bed. 66 00:08:12,926 --> 00:08:16,830 You're right, Pa. Turn it off. It's driving me crazy. 67 00:08:22,102 --> 00:08:24,171 How come when we're all eating the same thing... 68 00:08:24,237 --> 00:08:27,107 Jim-Bob always makes his look like it tastes better than mine? 69 00:08:27,174 --> 00:08:28,508 It probably is. 70 00:08:28,576 --> 00:08:30,878 Keep it out of your hair, Jim-Bob. You, too, Elizabeth. 71 00:08:30,944 --> 00:08:32,846 -Yes, ma'am. -I will. 72 00:08:32,913 --> 00:08:35,883 Why I try to listen to the radio when a storm's threatening. 73 00:08:35,949 --> 00:08:37,785 It's enough to drive a man to drink. 74 00:08:37,851 --> 00:08:40,220 Try a popcorn ball. 75 00:08:40,287 --> 00:08:43,023 Going over to Matt Beckwith's tomorrow to help with plumbing? 76 00:08:43,090 --> 00:08:44,357 Said I would. 77 00:08:44,424 --> 00:08:46,927 I want you to take a casserole to Martha when you go. 78 00:08:46,994 --> 00:08:49,229 Jason, when we finished airing out the Baldwin place... 79 00:08:49,296 --> 00:08:52,833 do you remember if you closed the second story window? 80 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:55,235 -Didn't you? -I think so, but I'm not sure. 81 00:08:55,302 --> 00:08:57,971 You think? Miss Mamie and Miss Emily are paying you a fortune 82 00:08:58,038 --> 00:08:59,673 to look after their house while they are away. 83 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:02,375 I know. We better go check on it right away. 84 00:09:02,442 --> 00:09:03,944 Better wear something warm. 85 00:09:04,011 --> 00:09:06,446 Jason, get my coat and gloves. I'll go light up a lamp. 86 00:09:06,513 --> 00:09:09,182 -Sure. -Alright, you children. 87 00:09:09,249 --> 00:09:11,652 Let's save some of this for tomorrow. 88 00:09:11,719 --> 00:09:14,855 -Oh, can't we keep them? -No. 89 00:09:29,369 --> 00:09:30,971 Go get Daddy. 90 00:09:53,326 --> 00:09:54,862 Sure made a big hole. 91 00:09:54,928 --> 00:09:57,965 Times are hard enough without feeding the foxes as well. 92 00:09:58,031 --> 00:10:01,201 It was no fox, Mama. Too big. It was a dog. 93 00:10:01,268 --> 00:10:02,402 Would you look at that? 94 00:10:02,469 --> 00:10:05,405 The way I make it, it killed four hens, Mama. 95 00:10:05,472 --> 00:10:07,040 Leghorns. 96 00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:09,843 I never saw a fox that size before. 97 00:10:09,910 --> 00:10:11,344 -It was a dog. -I reckon. 98 00:10:11,411 --> 00:10:14,314 Fox or dog, we'll have to shoot it if it comes here again. 99 00:10:14,381 --> 00:10:18,018 -Come on inside. -I'll fill up the hole, Daddy. 100 00:10:19,219 --> 00:10:20,821 Get in! 101 00:10:24,524 --> 00:10:27,360 Franzia, at last. 102 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:33,133 Mama... 103 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,902 you? 104 00:10:44,177 --> 00:10:45,879 Come. 105 00:11:02,696 --> 00:11:05,365 Something wants my baby. 106 00:11:07,567 --> 00:11:10,003 No, Franzia. 107 00:11:10,804 --> 00:11:12,372 Twice today... 108 00:11:12,439 --> 00:11:15,976 the wind tried to suck his breath away. 109 00:11:17,544 --> 00:11:21,114 And when the black clouds were overhead... 110 00:11:21,181 --> 00:11:25,352 something dropped from them that was not rain. 111 00:11:26,553 --> 00:11:30,090 Little black drops of poison. 112 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,830 The old one will know what to do. 113 00:13:29,242 --> 00:13:30,577 Excuse me, everybody. I gotta run. 114 00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:32,479 Where are you rushing off to, young lady? 115 00:13:32,545 --> 00:13:34,982 G.W. Haynes. Promised him we'd meet and toss a few. 116 00:13:35,048 --> 00:13:37,417 I'd like you to toss a few dishes first. 117 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:40,087 Why can't Erin do them? Erin likes doing dishes. 118 00:13:40,153 --> 00:13:43,056 Look at her putting words in my mouth. I hate doing dishes! 119 00:13:43,123 --> 00:13:45,158 Alright, girls. Get about your chores. 120 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:51,031 You ought to take turns. 121 00:13:51,098 --> 00:13:54,001 John, I told you it wasn't gonna rain. 122 00:13:54,067 --> 00:13:55,435 How'd you know that, Grandpa? 123 00:13:55,502 --> 00:13:58,538 Because of the new crescent moon tilting upwards. 124 00:13:58,605 --> 00:14:01,308 It never rains when it is in that position. 125 00:14:02,509 --> 00:14:03,810 I'm glad it didn't... 126 00:14:03,877 --> 00:14:07,380 since you two boys never did get to check on the Baldwin place. 127 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:12,285 I'm sorry, I forgot. 128 00:14:12,352 --> 00:14:15,355 That fox raided the chicken coop last night, it slipped my mind. 129 00:14:15,422 --> 00:14:18,125 I still say it wasn't no fox, it was a dog. 130 00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:20,493 -You'd better get over there. -Thank you. 131 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,729 I've gotta meet Matt Beckwith at Ike Godsey's. 132 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:25,232 If you fellows want a ride, hurry up, I'll take you. 133 00:14:25,298 --> 00:14:27,400 I've a few things for you to pick up. 134 00:14:27,467 --> 00:14:29,469 Make a list and you've got them. 135 00:14:31,171 --> 00:14:33,306 I'm gonna warm up the truck. Come on, Jason. 136 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,116 -So long, Daddy! -So long, Daddy! 137 00:17:32,619 --> 00:17:36,123 We may have left a window open, but I know we locked the door. 138 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:38,057 Come on. 139 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:49,001 Do you see anything? 140 00:17:49,068 --> 00:17:50,237 There's people in there. 141 00:17:54,607 --> 00:17:56,276 They're real strange-looking. 142 00:17:57,210 --> 00:17:59,746 Could be Baldwins. 143 00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:02,081 No, they look like foreigners to me. 144 00:18:40,687 --> 00:18:42,422 -Let's go. -What do you wanna do? 145 00:18:42,489 --> 00:18:44,257 We'd better tell the Sheriff. 146 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,709 -Here you go, Matt. -Thanks, Ike. 147 00:19:02,775 --> 00:19:06,045 I tell you the truth, if a fellow's gonna face bad times... 148 00:19:06,112 --> 00:19:09,882 he's better off facing them here than in a big city. 149 00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:12,385 I tell you, the smartest move you ever made... 150 00:19:12,452 --> 00:19:14,421 is moving here and buying the Benson place. 151 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:15,955 I'll tell you something else, too. 152 00:19:16,022 --> 00:19:18,858 This is the first time in my life that I've met real people. 153 00:19:18,925 --> 00:19:20,627 You take John Walton. 154 00:19:20,693 --> 00:19:23,062 He's not only doing that plumbing job for me... 155 00:19:23,129 --> 00:19:25,632 but he drove all the way to Drew Narramore's place... 156 00:19:25,698 --> 00:19:27,967 just to pick up them used U-joints. 157 00:19:28,034 --> 00:19:31,538 You're the one who told about them just to save me money. 158 00:19:31,604 --> 00:19:34,507 John said if he wasn't back in an hour... 159 00:19:34,574 --> 00:19:36,576 that he'd meet you over at your place. 160 00:19:36,643 --> 00:19:38,878 I was kinda depending on him for a ride. 161 00:19:38,945 --> 00:19:40,980 I don't know how to get that pipe to my place. 162 00:19:41,047 --> 00:19:43,650 I'll bring it to your place at lunchtime. 163 00:19:43,716 --> 00:19:45,618 -Can I use your phone? -What's the matter? 164 00:19:45,685 --> 00:19:47,720 Some Gypsies broke into the Baldwin place. 165 00:19:47,787 --> 00:19:50,089 We nearly walked in on them. Lucky we're still alive. 166 00:19:50,156 --> 00:19:51,958 Let's go there and take a look. 167 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:53,760 I think I better let Sheriff Bridges know first. 168 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:55,928 You've done enough in telling us. 169 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:58,398 -Ike, can you round up-- -I think John-Boy is right. 170 00:19:58,465 --> 00:20:00,132 I think the Sheriff should take care of this. 171 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:04,804 -Just round up two or three-- -I've heard things about them. 172 00:20:04,871 --> 00:20:06,306 Never thought I'd run into them. 173 00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:09,242 A band of them came here a year or so... 174 00:20:09,309 --> 00:20:11,811 and walked out with half my merchandise in their pockets. 175 00:20:11,878 --> 00:20:14,614 We had a situation up North. Just last year... 176 00:20:14,681 --> 00:20:16,349 a whole band of them no-goods. 177 00:20:16,416 --> 00:20:18,485 We settled with them in short order. 178 00:20:28,928 --> 00:20:31,664 I'll tell you, by the time we were done with them... 179 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:33,700 we didn't have any more trouble with Gypsies. 180 00:20:33,766 --> 00:20:35,702 Not as long as I lived there. 181 00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:38,070 Well, you should've let the law take care of that. 182 00:20:38,137 --> 00:20:39,872 Law's too slow. 183 00:20:39,939 --> 00:20:42,742 We had one thing in mind: Get those foreigners out of there. 184 00:20:48,781 --> 00:20:50,683 -They're still there? -Far as we know. 185 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:53,453 Settled in for the winter, if I know that breed. 186 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,054 How many are there? Could you tell? 187 00:20:55,121 --> 00:20:56,789 Four or five. 188 00:20:56,856 --> 00:20:59,592 -We'll come with you, Ep. -I don't need any help, Matt. 189 00:20:59,659 --> 00:21:01,661 I'm going that way, I could use a lift. 190 00:21:01,728 --> 00:21:02,962 We're gonna come, too, Sheriff. 191 00:21:03,029 --> 00:21:04,331 What am I running, a sightseeing tour? 192 00:21:04,397 --> 00:21:06,566 Come on, climb in. Let's go. 193 00:22:03,390 --> 00:22:04,924 Yes? 194 00:22:04,991 --> 00:22:08,661 -You're the leader of them? -Alright, I'll handle this. 195 00:22:08,728 --> 00:22:10,329 Jason, go inside and see... 196 00:22:10,397 --> 00:22:12,565 what kind of damage there is in there. 197 00:22:15,868 --> 00:22:17,704 You folks are trespassing. Who are you? 198 00:22:17,770 --> 00:22:20,006 And what are you doing here? 199 00:22:20,072 --> 00:22:23,443 My name is Volta. I am seeing to the needs of my family. 200 00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:26,212 By breaking and entering? 201 00:22:26,278 --> 00:22:27,780 By any means I can. 202 00:22:27,847 --> 00:22:31,183 Your means just landed you in a peck of trouble, Gypo. 203 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:32,852 Alright, now hold it, Matt! 204 00:22:34,887 --> 00:22:36,589 You're breaking the law, mister. 205 00:22:39,659 --> 00:22:41,761 There was a storm coming. 206 00:22:41,828 --> 00:22:45,765 The wagon roof was broken. The women needed protection. 207 00:22:45,832 --> 00:22:48,701 I brought them here because there was no other place to go. 208 00:22:48,768 --> 00:22:51,303 So you just bust in and make yourself at home? 209 00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,440 We have harmed nothing! 210 00:22:53,506 --> 00:22:57,043 It so happens that the owners of this place are our friends. 211 00:22:57,109 --> 00:22:59,912 Matt, I'll thank you to keep out of it. 212 00:22:59,979 --> 00:23:01,080 Is that baby sick? 213 00:23:01,147 --> 00:23:03,349 Bringing Lord knows what kind of disease. 214 00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:04,884 They've broken the law, arrest them. 215 00:23:04,951 --> 00:23:07,487 How am I gonna lock up five Gypsies and a sick baby? 216 00:23:07,554 --> 00:23:11,223 That baby needs a doctor, not a jailhouse. 217 00:23:11,290 --> 00:23:13,493 Jason, what kind of damage was done in there? 218 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:14,827 There's no harm done, Sheriff. 219 00:23:14,894 --> 00:23:17,730 It's a little messy, but nothing broken. 220 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:22,602 What am I gonna do? 221 00:23:23,803 --> 00:23:25,972 I reckon they could camp out at our place. 222 00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:28,608 Oh, John-Boy. You don't know what you're saying. 223 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:30,643 They've got a broken wagon and a sick child. 224 00:23:30,710 --> 00:23:32,211 What do you expect them to do? 225 00:23:32,278 --> 00:23:35,815 Can't you just see this passel of ungodly thieves... 226 00:23:35,882 --> 00:23:37,917 descending on the Walton place? 227 00:23:43,022 --> 00:23:45,992 You're welcome to come to our home if you like. 228 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,990 Daddy, Gypsies are coming to live here! 229 00:24:18,057 --> 00:24:22,094 I know. I just saw Ep Bridges and Matt Beckwith. 230 00:24:22,161 --> 00:24:23,429 Where is John-Boy anyway? 231 00:24:23,496 --> 00:24:26,232 He's off with the Gypsies, showing them the way here. 232 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:29,401 It's alright to be curious about people, I can understand that. 233 00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:32,705 But bringing Gypsies home, now that's going too far. 234 00:24:32,772 --> 00:24:35,474 Gypsies steal children and make slaves out of them. 235 00:24:35,542 --> 00:24:38,410 On second thought, it'll be fun to travel in a Gypsy caravan. 236 00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:41,748 I wouldn't volunteer if I were you. Let them abduct you. 237 00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,684 Livie, what ever possessed that son of ours? 238 00:24:44,751 --> 00:24:48,120 Maybe some of his father's generosity, I guess. 239 00:24:48,187 --> 00:24:49,689 Look, they're coming! 240 00:24:59,632 --> 00:25:01,934 Reckless, stop that. Ben, tie him up behind. 241 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:03,169 Okay, Mama. 242 00:25:22,121 --> 00:25:24,657 Volta, this is my mama and daddy... 243 00:25:24,724 --> 00:25:28,260 my grandparents, and my brothers and sisters. 244 00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:31,564 -Where best we put the wagon? -It's fine where it is for now. 245 00:25:31,631 --> 00:25:33,833 -John Walton. -Welcome. 246 00:25:38,938 --> 00:25:41,874 But for the broken roof of the wagon and the sick baby... 247 00:25:41,941 --> 00:25:43,910 we would not be bothering you. 248 00:25:43,976 --> 00:25:46,212 What's wrong with the baby? 249 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:49,248 He has a bad humor. 250 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:52,852 -I'll look at him. -I do not think so. 251 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:04,230 This is my family. That is Zvelei, my brother. 252 00:26:04,296 --> 00:26:06,699 The boy is Craska, my son. 253 00:26:08,601 --> 00:26:11,103 This is Franzia, my woman. 254 00:26:12,138 --> 00:26:14,874 Zena, my mother. 255 00:26:16,342 --> 00:26:19,045 We will repair our wagon, and we will go. 256 00:26:19,111 --> 00:26:21,648 You're welcome to use any tools you need. 257 00:26:23,015 --> 00:26:26,152 We ask for nothing. We take nothing. 258 00:26:27,654 --> 00:26:30,723 That's the croupiest cough I ever heard. 259 00:26:30,790 --> 00:26:33,059 -Let me take a look at that. -No! 260 00:26:33,125 --> 00:26:35,394 Good heavens, I was just trying to help. 261 00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:36,829 Zena will look to him. 262 00:26:36,896 --> 00:26:40,633 We will now look for a place to make our camp. 263 00:26:46,706 --> 00:26:49,742 They're not exactly friendly. 264 00:26:49,809 --> 00:26:52,578 They're proud, Grandpa. 265 00:26:52,645 --> 00:26:55,314 What have they got to be proud of? 266 00:26:55,381 --> 00:26:58,250 Grandma, you don't know anything at all about these people. 267 00:26:58,317 --> 00:26:59,551 And you do? 268 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:02,488 It'd take a long time to get acquainted with them. 269 00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:05,958 Alright, you children, get in. Time to wash up for supper. 270 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,036 Go, get out of there! 271 00:27:17,103 --> 00:27:20,606 Daddy, I'm sorry, but I couldn't let them sit there... 272 00:27:20,673 --> 00:27:23,710 with that sick child, and maybe get arrested. 273 00:27:25,011 --> 00:27:27,947 I've been thinking. 274 00:27:28,014 --> 00:27:31,751 Maybe they ought to camp right here, near the water spout. 275 00:27:31,818 --> 00:27:33,853 Alright, I'll go tell them. 276 00:28:44,090 --> 00:28:46,926 I thought I'd bake an extra pie for them. 277 00:28:46,993 --> 00:28:49,461 Take care you don't get your hand bitten. 278 00:28:49,528 --> 00:28:51,030 That's just their way. 279 00:28:51,097 --> 00:28:54,133 Most people have been mean to them, they don't trust anybody. 280 00:29:10,716 --> 00:29:12,018 Hi. 281 00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:15,287 You wanna swing? 282 00:29:18,457 --> 00:29:20,026 Go on, I'll push you. 283 00:29:31,137 --> 00:29:34,373 We need wood for the fire. 284 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,342 We've got lots. Take some of ours. 285 00:29:36,408 --> 00:29:40,546 Go to the forest. Cut what we will need for supper. 286 00:29:57,263 --> 00:29:58,865 How goes it? 287 00:30:01,934 --> 00:30:04,070 It goes alright. 288 00:30:07,339 --> 00:30:09,842 Where do you folks hail from anyway? 289 00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:13,045 Across the water. 290 00:30:14,180 --> 00:30:17,449 You headed any place special or you just.... 291 00:30:21,387 --> 00:30:22,922 No. 292 00:30:25,391 --> 00:30:27,593 What's it like, traveling around? 293 00:30:29,962 --> 00:30:33,199 -It's alright. -It must be wonderful. 294 00:30:36,468 --> 00:30:38,104 Sometimes. 295 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:47,880 Don't let me interrupt, I was passing the time with you. 296 00:31:37,429 --> 00:31:40,299 -You want anything else, Mama? -No, thank you. 297 00:31:40,366 --> 00:31:42,068 Amos 'n' Andy will be onin 10 minutes. 298 00:31:42,134 --> 00:31:44,303 I'll be right there. 299 00:31:49,041 --> 00:31:51,743 Just listen to those vagabonds out there. 300 00:31:51,810 --> 00:31:53,980 Takes all kinds to make a world. 301 00:31:54,046 --> 00:31:55,681 Maybe. 302 00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:58,817 But I'm too old to have to learn how to cope with the odd ones. 303 00:31:58,884 --> 00:32:01,988 I can't see them traveling on with a sick baby. 304 00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:04,823 Yeah, that baby needs better looking after. 305 00:32:04,890 --> 00:32:08,027 What he needs is a poultice to loosen up that cough. 306 00:32:08,094 --> 00:32:10,629 They're caring for it in their own way. 307 00:32:10,696 --> 00:32:11,930 They sure are. 308 00:32:11,998 --> 00:32:14,233 That cough's real bad, and what are they doing? 309 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,936 They're sitting out there, playing that Bolshevik music. 310 00:32:27,546 --> 00:32:31,117 Mikkla, come on. 311 00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:32,951 Good morning. 312 00:32:33,585 --> 00:32:34,520 Good morning. 313 00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:37,056 You come from very far from here? 314 00:32:37,123 --> 00:32:39,691 -Very far. -Where? 315 00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:41,260 A place you have never heard of. 316 00:32:41,327 --> 00:32:44,997 I know lots of places. I read about them in my geography book. 317 00:32:45,064 --> 00:32:47,666 Places I'll go someday. 318 00:32:47,733 --> 00:32:49,368 You hear of Bulgaria? 319 00:32:49,435 --> 00:32:52,704 Sure. It's in Europe, on the Black Sea. 320 00:32:52,771 --> 00:32:54,873 When did you leave there? 321 00:32:54,940 --> 00:32:57,543 We are not long here. 322 00:32:57,609 --> 00:33:00,312 This butter's almost done. Would you like some? 323 00:33:06,885 --> 00:33:10,356 We ask nothing. We take nothing. 324 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,777 I made some extra. I thought you might like some. 325 00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:35,481 It's vegetable stew. 326 00:33:35,547 --> 00:33:38,417 My family likes it and I thought.... 327 00:33:45,157 --> 00:33:47,326 We will take. 328 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:14,320 I've seen better manners. 329 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:18,124 Some folks need a good swift kick in the britches. 330 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,538 -$1.51. -Thank you, John-Boy. 331 00:34:33,772 --> 00:34:36,242 John Walton's got them staying at his place 332 00:34:36,308 --> 00:34:37,976 like they are part of the family. 333 00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:41,079 Matt, John is just trying to help them on their way. 334 00:34:41,147 --> 00:34:43,315 Now, what's wrong with that? 335 00:34:43,382 --> 00:34:45,417 You just wait until they show their true colors. 336 00:34:45,484 --> 00:34:47,319 You'll whistle a different tune, believe me. 337 00:34:47,386 --> 00:34:48,954 What harm can they do? 338 00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:51,757 They're just a bunch of poor people wandering the world... 339 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:55,427 without a place to call their own. 340 00:34:55,494 --> 00:34:57,429 What about them chickens that got torn 341 00:34:57,496 --> 00:34:59,165 to smithereens out at your place? 342 00:34:59,231 --> 00:35:01,667 -Fox. -Dog. 343 00:35:01,733 --> 00:35:04,770 They've got that dog foraging, same as they do. 344 00:35:04,836 --> 00:35:07,206 They're dirty, and they carry dirt. 345 00:35:07,273 --> 00:35:09,841 Lord knows what kind of disease they're spreading... 346 00:35:09,908 --> 00:35:11,277 with that sick baby. 347 00:35:11,343 --> 00:35:12,744 I say we get rid of the whole pack. 348 00:35:12,811 --> 00:35:17,048 You don't know a darn thing about those people. 349 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,084 Do you? 350 00:35:19,151 --> 00:35:21,653 Yes, sir. I think I do. 351 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:24,723 Since they here, that dog hasn't come near our chickens. 352 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:26,592 They haven't touched a thing that belongs to us. 353 00:35:26,658 --> 00:35:28,894 I don't know what's wrong with that sick baby... 354 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,664 but can you honestly tell me you can turn it away from your door? 355 00:35:32,731 --> 00:35:34,533 Like that. 356 00:35:37,503 --> 00:35:39,538 Then I feel sorry for you. 357 00:35:42,841 --> 00:35:44,543 See you later, Ike. 358 00:35:49,215 --> 00:35:50,882 Up you go. 359 00:35:50,949 --> 00:35:52,251 There you go. 360 00:35:55,754 --> 00:35:57,723 What are you so cheerful about, son? 361 00:35:57,789 --> 00:35:58,957 The Depression over? 362 00:35:59,024 --> 00:36:02,261 FDR gonna give us all 40 acres and a new mule? 363 00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:03,495 Are the banks open? 364 00:36:04,730 --> 00:36:07,233 I cannot abide Matt Beckwith and his kind. 365 00:36:07,299 --> 00:36:08,934 You have a run-in with Matt? 366 00:36:10,101 --> 00:36:11,903 Tempted to... 367 00:36:11,970 --> 00:36:13,472 but I held my tongue. 368 00:36:15,441 --> 00:36:16,875 He's at the store telling everybody 369 00:36:16,942 --> 00:36:18,244 to get ready for the plague! 370 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:20,612 I don't believe the Lord would inflict... 371 00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:23,148 us with a plague on top of the Depression. 372 00:36:23,215 --> 00:36:25,317 He's spreading word over half the county... 373 00:36:25,384 --> 00:36:26,952 that the Gypsies brought something with them. 374 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:29,521 Telling everybody about that poor sick child. 375 00:37:16,134 --> 00:37:18,270 Where did it come from? 376 00:37:19,037 --> 00:37:20,872 The woman. 377 00:37:20,939 --> 00:37:22,741 She brought. 378 00:37:23,809 --> 00:37:26,345 You took from her? 379 00:37:26,412 --> 00:37:29,715 -Foreign woman, but good. -You took from her! 380 00:37:29,781 --> 00:37:32,751 -I have family to feed. -I feed! 381 00:37:45,531 --> 00:37:47,766 Volta, this is all. 382 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:03,715 We ask for nothing. 383 00:38:04,983 --> 00:38:07,653 We take nothing! 384 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,622 Even if we go hungry. 385 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:29,741 It's frustrating to have these people in the front yard... 386 00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:31,710 and not learn a thing about them. 387 00:38:31,777 --> 00:38:35,013 What I'd like to do is go down thereand sit with them. 388 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,783 Such sad music. 389 00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:15,921 We are so lucky. 390 00:39:40,245 --> 00:39:42,247 Where is the old woman? 391 00:39:42,313 --> 00:39:44,182 -Zena is in the forest. -Good. 392 00:39:44,249 --> 00:39:47,318 That cough's getting worse. 393 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:48,887 You mark me... 394 00:39:48,954 --> 00:39:50,489 that baby needs right attention... 395 00:39:50,556 --> 00:39:52,458 or there's no telling what might happen. 396 00:39:52,524 --> 00:39:54,960 We are doing for it. 397 00:39:55,026 --> 00:39:59,030 Let me take a look. Maybe there's something I can do. 398 00:39:59,097 --> 00:40:02,000 Zena is in the forest for the roots. 399 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:03,435 The roots? 400 00:40:03,502 --> 00:40:07,405 The roots, gathered the first day after the crescent moon. 401 00:40:15,346 --> 00:40:17,516 My baby will be well soon. 402 00:40:42,307 --> 00:40:44,810 It looks for all the world like influenza to me. 403 00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:47,445 We better keep the children away from them. 404 00:40:47,513 --> 00:40:49,247 Esther, couldn't you be mistaken? 405 00:40:49,314 --> 00:40:50,849 Of course I could. 406 00:40:50,916 --> 00:40:54,452 But that tight cough, chills, fever. All the signs are there. 407 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,254 And that old woman's treating that baby 408 00:40:56,321 --> 00:40:58,990 with some kind of hocus-pocus. 409 00:40:59,057 --> 00:41:01,126 Daddy, Sheriff Bridges is outside. 410 00:41:02,894 --> 00:41:05,096 Why don't you try some asafetida? 411 00:41:06,765 --> 00:41:08,233 That dog around now? 412 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:11,136 He's with my boy. They're hunting game. 413 00:41:11,202 --> 00:41:13,605 I know exactly what kind of game they're hunting. 414 00:41:13,672 --> 00:41:16,307 What's the trouble, Ep? 415 00:41:16,374 --> 00:41:20,546 Matt here says this fellow's dog raided his chickens last night. 416 00:41:20,612 --> 00:41:22,914 He killed three and dragged one off. 417 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:25,651 -You see the dog? -Clear as day. 418 00:41:25,717 --> 00:41:28,319 What you gonna do about it, Sheriff? 419 00:41:28,386 --> 00:41:31,389 That dog could get itself shot if he keeps this up? 420 00:41:31,456 --> 00:41:35,160 The dog was with my son all night. 421 00:41:35,226 --> 00:41:38,229 Is that all you're gonna do, Let him off with a warning? 422 00:41:38,296 --> 00:41:42,133 If you want my job, I suggest you run for it next election. 423 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,303 I just might do that. We'll have a little justice around here. 424 00:41:45,370 --> 00:41:48,607 In the meantime, I'm gonna run this the way I see fit. 425 00:41:55,246 --> 00:41:56,815 Don't touch! 426 00:41:58,817 --> 00:42:00,986 Children, all of you, get back in the house. 427 00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:02,053 Why, Grandma? 428 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,855 That little baby might have influenza 429 00:42:03,922 --> 00:42:06,825 and we can't chance getting it. 430 00:42:06,892 --> 00:42:08,627 What did she say about influenza? 431 00:42:09,961 --> 00:42:12,430 Grandma thinks the baby may have it. 432 00:42:12,497 --> 00:42:14,265 Come on, Ep. Let's get out of here. 433 00:42:16,167 --> 00:42:18,536 -I'm sorry for the bother. -No bother. 434 00:42:20,105 --> 00:42:23,141 You tie that dog as soon as he gets back. 435 00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:24,542 If you wish. 436 00:42:32,350 --> 00:42:34,485 Matt Beckwith sure has it in for those people. 437 00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:37,756 If he weren't them he'd be picking on somebody else. 438 00:42:39,725 --> 00:42:42,661 My baby! He can't breathe! 439 00:42:46,932 --> 00:42:48,967 -Give him to me. -Don't touch it! 440 00:42:49,034 --> 00:42:50,068 Come on. 441 00:42:50,135 --> 00:42:53,004 I was afraid something like this might happen. 442 00:42:55,974 --> 00:42:59,244 His little throat's so swollen he can't get any air in. 443 00:42:59,310 --> 00:43:03,414 You mumbo-jumbo all you like, but I'm gonna tend to this baby. 444 00:43:03,481 --> 00:43:06,652 Stop her! She will kill it. 445 00:43:09,988 --> 00:43:14,059 -They kill Gypsy babies. -Old woman, be quiet! 446 00:43:25,637 --> 00:43:27,706 -Is the flannel hot, Livie? -Almost. 447 00:43:27,773 --> 00:43:29,775 -Zeb, get the menthol salve? -Yeah. 448 00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:35,080 John, we'll need a crib in my room. 449 00:43:35,146 --> 00:43:38,316 This baby will need medication every couple of hours. 450 00:43:38,383 --> 00:43:39,818 Come on, breathe in. 451 00:43:40,686 --> 00:43:42,721 Okay, breathe in. 452 00:44:04,609 --> 00:44:06,377 He's better already. 453 00:44:10,515 --> 00:44:12,283 Thank you. 454 00:44:12,350 --> 00:44:16,688 I'm just mighty glad that I knew what to do. 455 00:44:30,468 --> 00:44:34,906 In the winter, we go south for the warm weather. 456 00:44:35,941 --> 00:44:37,242 It is a hard journey. 457 00:44:37,308 --> 00:44:41,279 Many towns will not let us stay overnight. 458 00:44:41,346 --> 00:44:43,749 We keep going. 459 00:44:45,550 --> 00:44:47,986 Very hard for me to imagine. 460 00:44:48,053 --> 00:44:51,256 Traveling all the time, never having a home. 461 00:44:52,758 --> 00:44:56,928 Home to us is not a place. 462 00:44:56,995 --> 00:45:00,098 It is a feeling of being together. 463 00:45:00,766 --> 00:45:03,301 The family. 464 00:45:03,368 --> 00:45:06,838 Your little boy's resting easy. Breathing real smooth. 465 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:10,475 I thank you. 466 00:45:25,590 --> 00:45:28,159 Mikkla, come! 467 00:46:05,530 --> 00:46:07,799 Daddy, he's over here. 468 00:46:31,422 --> 00:46:33,791 -No! -Craska. 469 00:46:42,733 --> 00:46:44,802 Come here, look at this! 470 00:46:57,048 --> 00:46:59,184 It was a fox. 471 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,222 Good dog, Mikkla. Come. 472 00:47:28,846 --> 00:47:31,616 You have been good to us. 473 00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:33,618 Good luck to you folks. 474 00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:38,990 For your trouble. 475 00:47:43,428 --> 00:47:45,530 We ask nothing. We take nothing. 476 00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:19,264 They might have come from some different planet... 477 00:48:19,330 --> 00:48:21,099 but they touched our lives briefly... 478 00:48:21,166 --> 00:48:23,401 and then, in my mind, went on into some 479 00:48:23,468 --> 00:48:28,039 gaudy, mysterious and wonderful world. 480 00:48:28,106 --> 00:48:29,774 Nearly 30 years have passed... 481 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,543 but still those days are bright in my memory. 482 00:48:32,610 --> 00:48:35,046 I can still hear the scratch of my pen 483 00:48:35,113 --> 00:48:37,182 as I recorded all that wonder. 484 00:48:37,248 --> 00:48:39,550 The cozy patter of rain on the roof... 485 00:48:39,617 --> 00:48:42,053 and our voices just before going to sleep... 486 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,689 as we called one last drowsy message. 487 00:48:46,424 --> 00:48:49,227 Mama, Mary Ellen's sleeping on the floor. 488 00:48:49,294 --> 00:48:51,963 Mary Ellen, why are you sleeping on the floor? 489 00:48:52,030 --> 00:48:53,631 I'm pretending I'm a Gypsy, Mama. 490 00:48:53,698 --> 00:48:56,401 Traveling in a caravan across Bulgaria. 491 00:48:56,467 --> 00:48:59,770 -Try to be home by morning. -I will. 492 00:48:59,837 --> 00:49:02,940 -Sweet dreams. -You, too, Mama. 493 00:49:08,146 --> 00:49:12,183 In a moment, scenes from the next episode of The Waltons.