A Walk Down Memory Lane with the cast of ‘The Waltons'
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2015
- From the multi-Emmy award winning television series ‘The Waltons,’ actors Michael Learned, Richard Thomas, Judy Norton, Mary McDonough and Kami Cotler share their favorite memories from the show.
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I don't think anything in television history moved me as much as Ellen Corby returning after her stroke. THAT was 100% real, a little triumph of the human spirit captured for us all to remember forever.
I found myself crying during the clip of Grandpa and Grandma Walton. Realizing that they are both gone now, along with Ralph Waite. Such talented people who brought joy to so many through their characters. This show was a big part of my childhood. Thank you to everyone involved in making it happen.
me too. Every time I see that episode, I always end up crying. Same as when Will died in real life and they had the ceremony on the mountain and when grandma said "Old man you live in all of us" I bawl like a baby every time because it is so true. He did live on in all of them
Loved and still love the show. They don't make shows like this anymore.
@@christinegaetano1226 you're so right Christine. God how I wish they did make shows like this again. Trouble is, in today's society of this world, they wouldn't last long. SAD
You are so correct Tami ....I miss them too and those times ...a better time and better America.
Mine too !! Just brings you back to better days doesn't it ?
I was a 23 year old working in a nursing home in Macon, Ga. when this show was running. The old folk would gather in the lounge to watch each week, but the best part was when they'd sit around afterwards until bedtime sharing memories. It stretched their minds wonderfully and it gave me some great insights into a life and time just before my own, but a world removed. That was 1973-4.
I love the Waltons and Little House on the prairie. Those were the days when people actually cared about their fellow man and familys stuck together.
Yes house on the prairie to both so good
I loved Grandpa, he was always smiling, I could rell he enjoyed the hard work he did on the show. The Lessons our own parents did not explain I came to learn so much from this God Blessing We had on TV. How I wish we had shows like it now.
When I watched the Waltons as a kid, I always wanted to be friends with the family, and I thought Mary McDonough as Erin was beautiful and she is still beautiful
Yes she is and Mary Ellen too Elizabeth is really pretty and her hair is so long and full.
This brought tears to my eyes. Grandma saying, “ you old fool” ❤️❤️
Me too! 😭
I still Remember that Episode ..
Yeah, I think I cried when I saw it at the time, but, I never really liked the Grandma. As a free spirit myself, she seemed like a drag, a party pooper, so, she wasn't my favorite. I didn't hate her, I just thought she was a drag.
I liked Grandma Walton, Ellen Corby, very much. Loved how she always said, You old fool!
@@danbasta3677 they were made for each other , Grandpa getting into the recipe. tell b s stories about riding with Teddy Roosevelt .
The scene with Grandma and Grandpa Walton made me cry. Such great memories!!
My tear ducts had a temporary malfunction. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
That was a good wholesome tv program. Unlike the cursing, half naked , ect tv programming today.
Cherry McCall I watch it every day
Well said Cherry.
Do not find out how the actors real lives went
Thank you the Waltons will forever be my favorite show
My favorite show ever! You learned morales, discipline, respect, integrity and so on.
Yes we did and that’s why they don’t produce this kind of quality show anymore.
They put on shows that express just the opposite of the the values the Walton’s did so incredibly well!❤
I grew up watching the Waltons and now my children watch it with me. I love John Boy because he made me love writing. awesome Family
jamie barrera same here I'm a author because of John Boy.
I kept a journal for years because of him. I wanted to be a journalist.
John boy was cute and sexy
Goodnight john boy
I named my baby girl Erin
I just ordered the box set of this series...in my opinion,one of the best tv series dramas ever....
It's funny, when we were kids we identified with the kids, then later identified with the parents and it was a whole new show. Now, in our evening of life we see it through the eyes of Grandma and Grandpa. What a wonderful program...
WOW, Richard Thomas is AGELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's 64 years old there at the time this was filmed. I know people way younger who look like they are in their 70s!
the scene with will here and Ellen Corby has to be one of the most moving scenes ever made..pure class and so nice
I grew up with The Waltons and I still seeing it on reruns every afternoon My mom grew up with that many people in the house at one time
My mom watched the show when it was first on and I made fun of it. Years later after my.mom was gone I was home after surgery and started watching it. I realized my mom recognized her life in it. She grew up on a farm during the Depression and became a nurse. I felt badly that I never appreciated it before. I still will watch it at times now.
After my stroke I watched that show about grandma walton and i was able to talk and do alot of things. A wonderfull show.
I did a google search. Her name was Esther.
It is so good to see Richard Thomas at the reunion.
I remember crying when the episode about Grandpa Walton dying was on. My paternal grandparents were deceased when I was born, so I always felt like Grandma and Grandpa Walton were my grandparents. Will Geer was such a hoot, and Ellen Corby a real sweetheart. This was so great to watch....
Michele Huffman I still have tears when I watch this two part tribute to him. You can see the real emotion in the Walton kids at his "grave" on the mountain! I love the Waltons!
Michele Huffman yes I remember that I'm from the 🇬🇧 UK it's just the best show ever, I cry when I c it now
Me too...my real grandma hated me, so I felt a closeness with grandma Walton.
@@1943ofour How sad to have a grandmother hate their grandchild 😶 Glad you felt a closeness with Ellen Corby, and I understand why as she was the best Grandma! ❤
Yeah, I remember crying buckets, because I loved Grandpa Walton.
I lost my father when I was 5 hears old in 1935. I may have been 40 years plus, but John Walton was the father I never had. How I loved him.
I would love to live in a house just like theirs. Especially the location. This was, and still is, one of the best family shows that was shown on television. And to me, these host dressing up like that is an insult. Great comment
The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie and Bonanza. Those were my childhood. Also throw in Gomer Pyle, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched and so many other wonderful shows from the 60s and 70s. Such a wonderful time. You don't get good clean television like that anymore. Now it's all about sex and violence.
That's a lovely sentiment......I think I felt the same, as I lost my father when I was 15, but it felt like I never knew him, because I was in those days 1973 dad's didn't seem as able to show emotion. ......or maybe that was just my Dad. John Walton seemed so warm open and loving. X
@@christinesharland8478 I think most dads showed affection to their kids back then...my dad is bipolar so I am sadly used to being treated like shit by him....and still do....I was born in 65. My friends on the other hand had dads who were kind and so sweet to their kid and to me.
He would have been approximately the same age as you. He could not have been a father figure.
Wowwww, Michael Learned too! She was soo freaking beautiful back then, and looks absolutely stunning for her age now too!
and can't forget the little cutie pie, Elizebeth! You could tell when she was young that she would grow up to be a very beautiful lady and she sure did too!
But, I still (love) Judy the best!!!
I had a tears in my eyes. RIP Will Geer
How did you know that they were gay?
Michelle Bischoff If you look him up, you'll find it. Something about being blackballed as well
I just read Will Geer 'S autobiography from an old article in the New Times, didn't see anything about him being gay. Looked him up on Google. Was he on a different website?
poida I heard that too. Didn’t know about Grandma.
@@danbasta3677 Found out about that a long time ago .
I cld cry for things, for times, and for shows like these that we'll never see again. That could never be made again. But I do thank God that the Waltons, and Little house, are on every single night (altho Very late), on Hallmark Channel (NY/NJ area), 189.
I love The Waltons. So many precious memories of watching them with my parents ❤❤
If it had not been for Watching Grandma Walton as a child I would not have recognized my Own Grandmother was having a stroke and gotten her to a hospital when I was much older. We were able to enjoy my Grandmother for several more years before her death. Thank you to the cast of the Waltons , the writers and their program!
Have been binge watching this show for 2 weeks now! So nice to watch instead of all these reality shows where no one gets along! Thank you hallmark!
True - my kids and me watch this and now we are watching little house on the prairie too
The Walton's was such a great "family" show.
The actors all look good.
i loved the show, brings back childhood memories, these shows are like gold, never have many like these since. makes me sad whats on tv now for kids
There are none like this anymore. Today's TV is all about sex and violence.
Oh my god....crying my eyes out
@@kellie77381 It show how times have changed. What it was people wanted to get away troubles of war and have fun ,so they did it through the Waltons. The generation now doesn't understand what we went through. The worries of being drafted into the army and stuff.
This hasn't happened in this generation.
It was such a more simpler time. Family was close. Morales meant something. There is just so much more to this show. There is nothing on TV today as far as I am concern that is as entertaining as this one. All the actors truly were great in their roles and made this show so great. It this busy world we have today it really still a joy to watch this today.
Teresa Cole, it was a very special show. It was threatened with the axe early on because the ratings were poorer than what CBS wanted. To his credit, William Paley, the president of CBS at the time, believed in the show and gave it the chance it needed to build an audience. The show did sometimes use overly melodramatic plots to hook and keep its audience, and the show suffered terribly, in my opinion, after Richard Thomas left the cast followed by Michael Learned. I wish they had stuck in there a little longer, but perhaps they had a better sense than the producers and writers that the show had run its course. The show was at its best when it was at its simplest in the early years. The episode where John Boy struggles to please his father but can't bring himself to shoot a deer is a very good example of such an episode. I suspect it was a ratings bomb, though.)
It was not a simpler time then. It seems like it was because this is TV, after all, and because we humans are nostalgic and sentimental creatures. It was an incredibly hard and difficult time. The Great Depression and the war were terrible trials. (I could list a plethora of social problems and conflicts of that era as well as problems we don't even have to consider or worry about any longer, e.g., polio.) I think the point of the show is that family can be a source of strength, as well as conflict, that can help us manage the complex times we face now, just as they faced theirs.
Teresa Cole I feel the same way..
@Teresa Cole This, and more for me, Little House on the Prairie were/are shows held dear to my heart. Times WERE simpler. Everybody is supposed to embrace technology - especially this e-crap hi-tech world, where instant communication/gratification is demanded. What we are losing is the one to one human interaction/contact, let alone Biblical morals & principals. Never thought I'd live long enough to see my childhood years and way of life as something completely foreign in 2018.
Marty Howe I feel the same way. I didn't take my phone with me one day and was out for hours. When I got home my phone was full of calls and messages by two people trying numerous times to reach me, they were actually upset and could not understand why I did not answer. I long for the day when you left the house and could go about your day without checking your phone every 5 minutes. I was at the dentist and I had to fill a form out ( via email) back to them for my next appt., Lol, rather than just make it then and there with the receptionist Finally I went to my daughters school at noon break to pick her up, I walked into the cafeteria to see if I could see her and EVERY student in there were on their phones !! No one was taking to one another physically and they all had mad looks on their faces..It was such a sad sight really. I see little toddlers in strollers being pushed by their parent and the toddler on a tablet. It's just going to.get worse too. Soon most things like groceries will all be done online and you go in and punch in your code, a window will open and push your groceries out in crates ( that you ordered on the Website ) for you to load in uour vehicle. There will be no workers .
Teresa Cole this show was so accurate in how they portrayed a large family living in the mountains for the time.
My favorite family growing up. My Dad was not much of a TV watcher, but you can bet we all had to be quiet when the Waltons came on.
The waltons and little house on the prairie
After I watched the complete Waltons series I watched little house on the Prairie and then Dukes of Hazzard
Yes, both great shows.
I still watch both!
YES
And ROOTS too
Those were wonderful time
growing up with the waltons every satuday evening . Great life and family values.
Antonio Garcia it was on Thursday’s
I loved ralph waite as the father and michael learned as the mother. reminded me of my own parents. strict and hardworking and all for the family..
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one of the first shows where the families were ordinary hard working blue collar workers ( other then westerns) the kettles were a blue collar family too ma was hard working pa was lazier then a cut tom cat lol
Did not like grouchy grandma
@@judithryle2113 i didnt care for her either i thought she was a grouchy old bag
@@jimanderson7648 could you imagine being her daughter in law with her grouchy bossy ways.
Judy Norton is absolutely beautiful
The Waltons and Little House On The Prairie are my favorites…Great family shows!! I wish we had more shows like them today!! ❤️😀
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A Walk Down Memory Lane with the cast of ‘The Waltons'. 31.1.24. a look of Mark twain, perhaps?
I was a little kid when this show was on and I loved ol grandpa Walton. Think I cried when I heard he died.
First time I've seen this today (4 years later), but as someone who grew up with this show - thank you. The memories of Grandma/Grandpa and Ralph Waite were heartwarming.
Very sweet actors , love them for all time
I have Will Geers Autograph...I've hung on to it since 1970 when I got it from him. He signed his picture to me "To Melissa Dear....Love Will Geer" ...Priceless!
Judy is so beautiful she looks so young, she definitely aged gracefully 😇
I loved Will Geer, (may he Rest In Peace)
He was a damn gay communist
@@Palmettogirl He was the best one for sure. And idiot above...he was a beautiful bisexual man and was not communist. And unlike you he was a loving kind soul. Being staight and narrowminded ain't doing you any favors 😜
@@tigerlilly573 Telling the truth is not being narrowminded. Sorry you cant handle the truth.
@@Palmettogirl Being narrominded is believing that all of mankind was ever heterosexual to begin with. Be careful your bigotry and judgmental behavior is a sin and looks ugly on you😄
I met him while working at the wild animal park in San Diego . He was very kind, unlike some of the behavior seeing written here.
Richard Thomas is amazing!
I’m 60 and watching this is fun! I’m the same age roughly as Erin and Jim-bob and I missed all the shows after 1976 because I worked 7 days a week in high school, it’s awesome to see how the show has twists and turns and funny how I watch Maryellen go through nursing school being that I’m a nurse.
Wow, that was interesting tid bit that Micheal told about Will Geer and Ellen Corby.. I would call that a very true caring friendship.
whyputaname I had no idea that Grandpa was gay in real life. I was so sad when he died and didn’t return to the show.
I was 1 year old when this show started. I didn’t start watching it until a few months ago. It is my absolute favorite show now!!! The authenticity of the love between this family is unmistakable! You can tell that they were just as close knit off the screen as on. I love everything about the show! The actors, the characters, the stories, the writer and narrator!
I was born in 71 also but, I grew up watching the show. I have been rewatching it recently and I have gotten so much more out of it as an adult. It’s a beautiful piece of history.
I'm younger
I was 80 years old in 1971 and I still watch the Walton's well I can't hardly see anymore but I can still barely hear them on tv
I'm just discovering the Walton's now, because I was a baby, too, when they were on primetime TV. I'm 54 now. I originally just wanted to check out the show, never expecting to actually enjoy it, but what a great show! I'm binge-watching the entire series. It's so cool that they are such good friends in real life all these years later! I love it! 🥰
As a boy i was an only child with no friends - i remember always wishing i had a brother or best friend like Jimbob
No friends?!?!
william f You have thousands of viewer (Walton) relatives! 🙌
I can relate as I never had any true friends either. Was always made fun of and picked on at school.
Dan Basta Now, you have the advantage, being isolated with the "pelosi pandemic" - you are no stranger to surviving without a bus load of friends. Stay safe and keep your chin up! 😷👍
@@danbasta3677 Specky four eyes
♥️I loved The Walton's and The little house on the prairie,why can't they make any series like it now.🤗
They mentioned God and family values too much for modern society.
watched it for years, kinda lost when Grandpa and John boy left
Good family values kinda show .. people are hungry for this again that why we resort back to watching it . We all wanna go back home when family was family . I love the Walton's and Mr. Walton or grandpa always had some wisdom to share . ❤️❤️❤️
Does anyone really know why hallmark took the Waltons off hallmark? It was the best show ever made
It is on Hallmark drama and the inspiration channel.
@@matthewnewman2077 Thank you Mathew I have hallmark drama now and I get to watch the Waltons seven days a week and they are on two or three times a day, love it , love it, have a blessed day.
Loved The Waltons, Watch Them Almost Everyday, These Take All Of Us Back, Ty For The Memories
The Waltons, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Fantasy Island, Night Gallery, Little House on the Prairie .... How could you go wrong growing up with these. Sitcoms missed also were Sanford& Son, Good Times, Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, All in the Family and the Jeffersons. Good days, good writing, good plots and good memories.
And the forerunner -
Father Knows Best.
Jane Wyman -I think, the boy Bud, Elinor Donahue?
Seeing reruns of the Waltons helps me travel back down memory lane. Every Thursday night on CBS my family watch the show. We laugh together, cried, mourned the passing of Will Geer, and celebrated the milestones of the series run. I hope that the reboot lives up to the original.
I still watch the re-runs on TV. What is amazing is that their meal scenes...they were actually eating food. And it looked really good. Even the coffee was coffee and it was hot.
If you read Mary McDonough's book (you won't regret it!) you'll know that the food wasn't all that good, and sometimes they had to eat all day long . . . and the coffee wasn't hot for long, either.
I did hear about that. I can't imagine. Probably cold and tasteless.
Marilyn S j
What channel??
doug avila Michael Learned said those scenes were awful. The food sat around all day because it could take hours to complete filming.
These people were my family growing up, I had no siblings and I wanted to
Live on Walton’s mountain, the show
Was the best escape ever, loved it!!!
Please rerun! PLEASE!
James Crawford The waltons are on Amazon Prime 👍
Me tv now has them
I Love the waltons watched them from 1981 through current 2019 appreciate them the actors and actreses respect them highly enjoyed Richard Thomas Ralph waite Mary Beth McDonough and Kami Kotler miss those yrs what a Great time for the series God Bless them
Will Geer was my favorite actor on the Walton's.. Watching this brings back many good memories from my childhood.. Growing up watching the Walton's was a staple in our family.. They were all perfectly joined for the cast of the Walton's.. I still watch it every night before bed..
When I was in my early teens, I saw it in Spanish while living in South America. I could relate to many of the scenes while living with my grandpa. A self-made man, a widower, that worked for his family (six kids) was fair to all and gentle with his grandkids.
I am watching the show on TV as I write this...I love the Waltons and I love the family bond they had, watching the show at 55 still makes me long for the old days and the family way
I. LOVED THE WHOLE SHOW. I REALLY REALLY LOVED THE SHOW 😍😭
Hello Eileen
How are you doing today?
It's a good show,I started watching it this year when I started to stay home more when virus lockdown happened. It has good morals and all the storylines are interesting. That's the only show I watch because TV isn't as good as it was back then.
TV rubbish today....sigh! Agree loved this show
I Loved that show. It was so good! I'm 72 now and never missed an episode.
My favorite tv show. This is my comfort zone.
Mary Dend Mine, too!
The Waltons was the best show ever, if more people were like the waltons our society would be a better place to live in and more people would get along, we need that today , their is too much heaterd.
And we need more love and respect
I love the Waltons. I still watch reruns every day. Pretty much every episode brings tears to my eyes.
Every Sunday I remember the Waltons and little house on the prairie.
I have the entire Walton movie set at home I just looooove it!!!!!
Walton's and Little House are my FAVORITE shows! Bot Mom's looked like my Mom, and Grandpa/ ma were just like my Grandparents. It could have been MY Family. Thank you
Yip me too loved them both still do all these years later.
The worst day of my life when the Waltons family show ended! I still cry today watching this 2017 on youtube !
Zep was the grampa every one wanted
I agree, they have all aged well. That's sweet they are all still close.
My favorite show of all time I had a huge crush on John boy when I was a kid.Will Geer was my great grandmother's Fern Geer cousin I would have loved meeting him but I never got the chance
Constance1263 Pine that is amazing!!! He was the best!!
Here in Brazil they were very successful, I was a teenager and loved to see John Boy, the series was very well dubbed and very well represented a family from the countryside. I never forgot the opening and that song, time passed for all of us ...
Wow that scene with grandma and grandpa Walton make me cry every single time
I swear Mary Ellen has not aged at all!!!
you sound so salty
So glad I grew up in 70s it was the best show! Family was important ! Times have changed so much. Nice seeing all the actors
One of the best series ever been written and filmed!!!!
Love it. Still watch it today. It's sad the world has lost so many of its talented cast. They are missed.
Will was so awesome! You could just tell how wonderful he was through his character Grandpa! Man, I had a pretty good grandpa too. God bless them both and thank them from me please.
Vitality Massage he was bisexual
ima hossenpfeffer so... What's your point?
ima hossenpfeffer That's part of what made the man so awesome... he never tried to hide it, he was very out-front with it. He was an amazing man that loved life! Who cares if he was bisexual? If you do, then that's YOUR problem.
I was so shocked when I read grandma and grandpa Walton were both gay in real life
Not sure if "awesome" is the word I would use to describe an avowed Communist as was Will Geer.
The Waltons and little house on Prarie were twos of the best family shows ever put on television 😊
What great memories. Watched the Walton's all the time. I remember at hunting camp me and my Dad would start the "goodnight Fred boy... John boy... Don boy until everyone in camp was named!! LoL 😂. All the elders are gone now. RIP.
Watched this program faithfully every week when it was current, watched the old episodes when people were downloading them on RUclips (before Warner Brothers would have them removed for "copyright" infringement), and now have the entire series on DVD's (bought on eBay in a effort NOT to enrich WB). Obviously, love these shows and these characters. Wish they would talk to David Walper (Jim Bob) at these events. He appears at most of them but we never get a chance to hear him speak. ;o( These characters had the typical human tendencies to be "judgmental" and have pre-conceived impressions of folks based on stereotypes but were open minded enough to "learn the reality" and see the value of individuals, when it was warranted, by the end of the episode. Too bad we have grown so "thick headed" that we are unable to accomplish civility all these years later. Thank you Earl and "The Waltons" !!!
David HARPER surely? Not Walper.
The show was AMAZING But "This Is Us" is pretty great too. This show is totally a major part of my childhood watching this show with my parents and sister. Me and my sis were in love with John-Boy of course! He was so cute!!! Still handsome, well-seasoned. Was so happy to find this by accident today.
The Walton's they had great family they knew how torespect love,care for each other.And when they had problems they were there for each other.Thats what family should be like.What happened to family values?
One of the best shows they ever made!! Loved this show!
Totally agree. Just now started watching this series (age 80!) and can't believe the quality of the writing and acting and directing that went into just one of these episodes. So many and most of them A+++! Last night I watched The Obsession that featured Corabeth who was my favorite of them all. It was better than many movies I have ever seen. Her acting, the script, the integrity of the scenes, the absolute realism of the acting. Just hard to believe what they once did with television. Corabeth acted her heart out!!! as did so many of the actors, but she took the lead and ran with it. It is the treat of my early evenings to just watch yet another of these great storylines. And, can't say enough about Earle Hamner, Jr. for creating this show and his beyond-excellent writing!!!
Loved "The Waltons" show. Heard where life was not so good to some of the actors after the show ended...SAD ! Loved shows like this that were on television. Can't find such good shows today on television.
You sure can't best show ever, it showed how families should be and how we should help one another.
I still watch that show.
Lord I love this show these show will never die. It's give your heart piece on the inside.
Shantanique Darling it sure does
I have all 9 seasons of The Waltons.I have watched them 100's of times I Hope to meet you someday!
He made the show special. He made You look at nature in ways You never thought of before.
Michael Lerned does not look her age at all! What a beautiful "mama!"
She had plastic surgery
I truly liked the show. I loved Grandma and Grandpa !
Grandpa was the life of the party.
I'm just discovering the Walton's now, because I was a baby when they were on primetime TV. I originally just wanted to check out the show, never expecting to actually enjoy it, but what a great show! I'm binge-watching the entire series. It's so cool that they are such good friends in real life all these years later! I love it! 🥰
Thank you for having some of the daft members from the Walton’s on here. That show was my favorite show back then when it started. Wish there was more videos on them. They come back for more reunions.
Sherri
I still watch every day. Sometimes twice a day. I still mourn Will Geer's passing. He was the Grampa I never had.
these women all look so beautiful
This is awesome. I’m amazed at how time hasn’t changed their appearance too much.
LOVED " THE WALTON'S " I GREW UP WATCHING IT MISS GRANDPA, GRAND MA AND JOHN RIP!!!
Happy 65th Birthday Richard Thomas
"Will Gear was played by Grandpa Walton." Glad I didn't say it. I think what I liked about the show is that there was a lot of down=home wisdom and that it portrays the importance of leaning on one-another and sacrificing a little for someone else. That is how people survived the Great Depression. There was a clear sense of right and wrong that was needed at the time. I think people really want to see that sense of right and wrong and the reminder of what is really important in life.
Shelley Magnussen i
So true. We don't see people sacrificing any thing for any body else anymore. That is sad!!
It was nice watching the waltons seeing kami on live .the I waltons is a grate show !Thanks for sharing kami grate job