Episode 1: The Empty Nest
1978-09-21100 min
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.
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The Waltons Season 7 — Episodes and Where to Watch
23 episodes · first aired 1978-09-21
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Episode guide
Episode 2: The Calling
1978-09-2850 min
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.
Episode 3: The Moonshiner
1978-10-1250 min
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.
Episode 4: The Obsession
1978-10-1950 min
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.
Episode 5: The Changeling
1978-10-2650 min
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.
Episode 6: The Portrait
1978-11-0250 min
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.
Episode 7: The Captive
1978-11-0950 min
Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Corabeth 's drinking problem becomes severe and Elizabeth has to drive Aimee and Corabeth home.
Episode 8: The Illusion
1978-11-1650 min
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.
Episode 9: The Beau
1978-11-2350 min
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.
Episode 10: Day of Infamy
1978-12-0750 min
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.
Episode 11: The Yearning
1978-12-1450 min
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.
Episode 12: The Boosters
1978-12-2850 min
Ben talks the townspeople into opening an auto court against John's advice. Yancy Tucker goes into business for himself.
Episode 13: The Conscience
1979-01-0450 min
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.
Episode 14: The Obstacle
1979-01-1150 min
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.
Episode 15: The Parting
1979-01-1850 min
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.
Episode 16: The Burden
1979-01-2550 min
After a car jack slips and falls and Jim-Bob escapes serious injury, Jim-Bob decides to become a minister.
Episode 17: The Pin-Up
1979-02-0850 min
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.
Episode 18: The Attack
1979-02-1550 min
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.
Episode 19: The Legacy
1979-02-2250 min
Ashley Longworth Jr, who bears striking resemblance to his dad, comes to the Baldwin home and is courted by Miss Emily and Erin.
Episode 20: The Outsider
1979-03-0150 min
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.
Episode 21: The Torch
1979-03-0850 min
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.
Episode 22: The Talespin
1979-03-1550 min
Jim-Bob can not join the Air Corps because he fails the eye exam. Jim-Bob decides to run off and join the Army.
Episode 23: Founders' Day
1979-03-2250 min
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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