The BEST episodes of The Waltons season 7

Every episode of The Waltons season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Waltons season 7!

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on Walton's Mountain. The story is told through the eyes of John Boy, who wants to be a novelist and go to college. The saga follows the family through depression and war, through growing up, school, courtship, marriage, employment, birth, aging, illness and death.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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9.27
15 votes

#1 - Founders' Day

Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1979

Jason tries desperately with his music professor to meet the course's requirements of an original composition. He composes Appalachian Portrait while he plans the piece.

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8.61
18 votes

#2 - The Outsider

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1979

Ben comes home in the middle of the night with his new wife Cindy and they set up housekeeping in the shed. The early years of marriage aren't easy until Grandma steps in.

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The Empty Nest
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8.43
21 votes

#3 - The Empty Nest

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1978

Everybody mourns the death of Grandpa Zeb and Flossie Brimmer. John struggles hard to fill a huge lumber contract and Mary Ellen & Erin move to Charlottesville and they get an apartment.

Directors: Philip Leacock
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8.29
17 votes

#4 - The Beau

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1978

Grandma's ex-boyfriend comes calling on Grandma much to the horror of Elizabeth. Jim-Bob persuades Yancy Tucker to make fuel in his still instead of moonshine.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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8.06
17 votes

#5 - Day of Infamy

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1978

Christmas 1941. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.

Directors: Harry Harris
Writer: Paul Savage
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7.94
16 votes

#6 - The Parting

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1979

John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.

Directors: Harry Harris
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7.94
16 votes

#7 - The Torch

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1979

Cally May, John's ex-girlfriend, comes to Walton's mountain and buys the Dew Drop Inn. John and Olivia's kids try to protect John from Cally May's attention. Ike, Cindy and Elizabeth turn Godsey's hall into a canteen for soldiers from Camp Rockfish.

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7.89
18 votes

#8 - The Captive

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1978

Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Corabeth 's drinking problem becomes severe and Elizabeth has to drive Aimee and Corabeth home.

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7.80
15 votes

#9 - The Boosters

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/1978

Ben talks the townspeople into opening an auto court against John's advice. Yancy Tucker goes into business for himself.

Directors: Harry Harris
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7.80
15 votes

#10 - The Attack

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1979

Ike has a heart attack because of the pressures and shortages of war-time shop-keeping. The Walton children pitch in and help keep Ike's store open in his absence.

Directors: Harry Harris
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7.69
13 votes

#11 - The Burden

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979

After a car jack slips and falls and Jim-Bob escapes serious injury, Jim-Bob decides to become a minister.

Directors: Harry Harris
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7.63
16 votes

#12 - The Illusion

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1978

Ester Verdie's daughter comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree & unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.

Directors: Walter Alzmann
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7.63
16 votes

#13 - The Obstacle

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1979

Mike Paxton, John-Boy's old friend, is confined to a wheel chair and believes there is no hope for the future. Through the help of the family, he comes out of his shell.

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7.62
21 votes

#14 - The Moonshiner

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1978

Boone Walton comes back to Walton's mountain and gets in trouble with the law. Boone gets released in Jason's custody. Daisy Garner also comes back to Walton's Mountain to visit. She and John-Boy never married.

Directors: Lawrence Dobkin
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7.56
16 votes

#15 - The Conscience

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1979

Jason has second thoughts about joining the military service and considers becoming a Conscientious Objector much to Ben's dismay. Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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7.53
17 votes

#16 - The Talespin

Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1979

Jim-Bob can not join the Air Corps because he fails the eye exam. Jim-Bob decides to run off and join the Army.

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7.50
12 votes

#17 - The Calling

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1978

Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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7.47
19 votes

#18 - The Obsession

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1978

Mary Ellen gets prescription drugs and abuses them in order to study long hours for her Nurse's exam. Cissy Tucker Yancy Tucker's wife has had enough and she puts her foot down.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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7.37
19 votes

#19 - The Portrait

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1978

Erin is both attracted and repelled by a brooding artist who is here from Paris. As part of a war-time mural on the wall of an old house the artist asks to paint Erin's portrait.

Writer: John Dunkel
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7.37
19 votes

#20 - The Yearning

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1978

Elizabeth falls in love with the minister when he is forced out of the parsonage by a skunk. Erin is helping the Baldwin sisters write their memoirs and Erin finds a ring that was left by Ashley Longworth.

Directors: Nell Cox
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7.36
14 votes

#21 - The Legacy

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1979

Ashley Longworth Jr, who bears striking resemblance to his dad, comes to the Baldwin home and is courted by Miss Emily and Erin.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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7.29
21 votes

#22 - The Changeling

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1978

Just before Elizabeth's 13th birthday, she becomes reluctant to grow up and creates a poltergeist. Jason starts a new job as a radio talk show host giving advice to the lovelorn.

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7.00
14 votes

#23 - The Pin-Up

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1979

Ben enters a casual picture of Erin in a contest where she wins 1st prize. She finds herself the center of attention and the official pin-up girl of Camp Lee to John's dismay.

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