John-Boy Walton

Ralph Waite

John Walton, Sr.

Michael Learned

Olivia Walton
(as Miss Michael Learned)

Ellen Corby

Esther Walton

Will Geer

The Grandfather

Judy Norton

Mary Ellen Walton

Jon Walmsley

Jason Walton

Mary Beth McDonough

Erin Walton
(as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)

Eric Scott

Ben Walton

David W. Harper

Jim-Bob Walton

Kami Cotler

Elizabeth Walton

Joe Conley

Ike Godsey

Earl Hamner Jr.

The Narrator
(voice)
(as Earl Hamner)

Virginia Capers

Vesper Oakes

Eduard Franz

Col. Seth Linville

Doreen Lang

Meg Phillips

Kathleen Quinlan

Selina Linville

Karen Teitelman

Ariel 'Effie' Robins

Director
- Richard Thomas
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- John McGreevey
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Trivia
The opening scene takes place at the same location as the opening scene of "The Andy Griffith Show" where Opie throws the rock into the pond.

Goofs
While dinning with "Selena" and her father John Boy is having trouble trying to figure out how to eat his lobster. In fact he remarks "aren't there times when you just have to admit your licked" and gives up trying to eat it and asks for rolls. But in a previous episode Season 2, episode 1, he seems to have no trouble dismantling one when dinning with the elderly lady "Maggie". Or at least that is what a close up shot of his dinner plate shows.

Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Though the early years of the Depression were difficult on Waltons Mountain, we still felt a sense of security in our isolation from a troubled world. The building turmoil of the times, it seemed, lay beyond the mountains and across a distant ocean. Then, in 1936, we became aware of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. A war was being fought in Spain. Historic events; yet all of them were overshadowed by my acquisition of an old printing press and the prospect of publishing my own small-town newspaper.

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Featured review

6/10

Rain In Spain Falls Too Far Away

For a John Boy meets a messed up girl episode this isn't bad. Doesn't provide in depth analysis of Spanish Civil War. Story succeeds in showing the futility of longing for or owning material possessions. Elizabeth gets a good back story in this one.