The Hot Rod

Episode aired Feb 19, 1981
TV-G
1h

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

125

YOUR RATING

Drama Family Romance

Jim-Bob and Jody open an auto repair place. The Baldwin sisters' still is discovered by the government and they come to dismantle it. Ike helps them find a way to continue making the recipe.Jim-Bob and Jody open an auto repair place. The Baldwin sisters' still is discovered by the government and they come to dismantle it. Ike helps them find a way to continue making the recipe.Jim-Bob and Jody open an auto repair place. The Baldwin sisters' still is discovered by the government and they come to dismantle it. Ike helps them find a way to continue making the recipe.

Director
- Bob Sweeney
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Scott Hamner
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

125

YOUR RATING

Director
- Bob Sweeney
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Scott Hamner
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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2snitzell

Always one sequel too many???

We have here an entire season too many. What a pitiful house full of judgemental know it alls who to be honest contribute little to the household. Funny they won't serve Jody a beer which was quite common after Vietnam but they let him fix their cars.

Trivia
The characters Josh Foster and Jody Foster have their final series incarnations in actors Jason Moses and Charles R. Penland. Actor Todd Bridges introduced us to Josh in ep.6.2, The Stray, and reprises him in ep.7.8, The Illusion. Actor James Bond III played Josh in ep.6.16, The Festival and ep.8.17, The Prodigals, while Jason Moses first plays Josh in ep.9.1, The Outrage. Actor Erin Blunt introduced us to Jody Foster in ep.2.5, The Roots, followed by actor T.K. Carter in ep.6.16, The Festival.

Goofs
When Jim-Bob sat on his parents' bed looking at Mama's scrapbook, several of the pages are blank. The pink hobnail glass lamp is also missing from the bedside table.

Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The end of World War Two brought a period of readjustment for the men who had served in the armed forces. Restless soldiers returned home to towns that looked smaller than they remembered. And families found their sons to be different from the boys who had marched off to war. Some of them were eager to assume the responsibilities of life, while others floundered, determined to make up for the years they had lost.