The WORST episodes of The Waltons
Every episode of The Waltons ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Waltons!
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.
#1 - The Hostage
Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/28/1981
A 14 year old girl is promised marriage in the mountain tradition. Mary Ellen interferes and the bride-groom kidnaps Elizabeth to get his bride back. Octavia, an eccentric cousin of the Baldwins, is treated to a visit by him.
#2 - The Heartache
Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/1981
Rose cancels her wedding to Stanley because she hides a heart condition. Cindy realizes that she would rather stay home than work in the shop.
#3 - The Pledge
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/4/1980
Mary Ellen feels inadequate as a nurse to help the mountain folk. Against the Dean's advice, Mary Ellen applies for medical school.
#4 - The Prodigals
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1980
Josh and Jeffrey break into Godsey's store and are in trouble with the law. After being humiliated by a solider in uniform, Ben decides to enlist.
#5 - The Last Ten Days
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/8/1981
Ben is taken on an unexpected trip by his captor who turns Ben in to the American forces. Toni is seriously courted by Jason.
#6 - The Pursuit
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/1981
Jim-Bob's ex-girlfriend comes to Walton's Mountain saying that Jim-Bob is the father of her baby. In the Pacific, Ben is still a POW.
#7 - The Violated
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1979
Olivia searches for a soldier's wife at the request from the Red Cross. The soldier's wife won't answer her husband's letters. Corabeth expects an inheritance.
#8 - The Journal
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1979
A publisher asks permission from John and Olivia about printing the new book that John-Boy wrote in Europe. Jeffrey does not want Reckless put to sleep after Reckless becomes sick.
#9 - The Outrage (2)
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/27/1980
John goes and sees President Roosevelt for a pardon for Harley.
#10 - The Wager
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1979
All of Jefferson County watches with wonder when Mary Ellen and Erin decide to venture even farther into a man's world.
#11 - The Lumberjack
Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1981
A member of a influential family named Paul Matthews Northridge brings mystery and romance to Erin.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Pearls
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/1981
Orma Lee, Corabeth's twin sister, arrives to see Ike when Corabeth is away. Elizabeth goes to Arizona to see Olivia and John because she feels lonely.
#14 - The Triumph
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/18/1980
With the war drawing to a close, Jason and a young man in his squad deal with the question of killing. Ike and Corabeth face problems with the Ration Board.
#15 - The Move
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/15/1981
Ben comes home from the war and tells John he wants to study engineering. The long awaited vacation that Erin plans to go on is interrupted. John tells the his family he has to take Olivia to Arizona to the sanitarium.
#16 - The Inspiration
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1980
Mamie Baldwin makes it through a difficult operation with Grandma's help.
#17 - The Victims
Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1981
The Waltons help a woman whose husband beats her when he is drunk. Jim-Bob decides he will make a fortune by investing in war surplus.
#18 - The Indiscretion
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/1981
Corabeth finds Ike's old love letters and files for a divorce. Drew wants to spend a romantic night with Elizabeth.
#19 - The Seashore
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1977
The Waltons have an encounter with a strange English girl while on a small vacation at the Baldwin sister's beach cottage. Ben stays home alone expecting to live the life of a carefree bachelor.
#20 - The Furlough
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1980
John-Boy returns home physically cured but he still suffers from a loss of memory. Ike gets arrested for draft evasion because he ignores a letter from the Army.
#21 - The Hot Rod
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/19/1981
Jim-Bob and Jody get discharged from the service. They celebrate and they decide to open up a garage. The Baldwin sisters get forced to close their recipe machine until they discover their grandfather's still in a secret room.
#22 - The Tempest
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/5/1981
Mary Ellen finds out that Curt is still alive. He is living in Florida but is quite the different person from the man she remembers. J.D. begs Erin to come back to work.
#23 - The Last Straw
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1980
When John's equipment breaks down and Jim-Bob breaks his, John decides maybe he has had enough. Jeffrey builds himself a soapbox car sponsored by Godsey's store.
#24 - The Starlet
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1979
A film company comes to Walton's Mountain and the Pickett plant is used for a war-time documentary. Erin is convinced by the director that she has potential in Hollywood.
#25 - The Cloudburst
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1976
John-Boy sells his meadow to a mining company to meet payments on his printing press. Ike and Corabeth follow suit. What everybody doesn't know is that the company plans to strip mine which will ruin the land.