Forgotten Movies: A DAY OF THANKS ON WALTON'S MOUNTAIN

Although I would  not have made a reunion film without Richard Thomas as John Boy, the actor here does a fairly good job of playing him. Everyone else, save Grandpa, is here (1982), a year after the show was cancelled. The children are grown. But the good feelings remain. They did another one a decade later, which I have never seen.

I am glad the Waltons are still around on a cable station. We need shows like this to remind us you can be religious without being censorious, intolerant and excluding. Will Geer and Ralph Waite had a lot to do with that, I think. When I think of a Christian role model, I think of Olivia Walton.

Sad that none of the kids went on to something else but that rarely happens.