John-Boy and Jim-Bob fall in love with a visiting wing walker who is hiding a dark secret.John-Boy and Jim-Bob fall in love with a visiting wing walker who is hiding a dark secret.John-Boy and Jim-Bob fall in love with a visiting wing walker who is hiding a dark secret.
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Michael Learned
- Olivia Walton
- (as Miss Michael Learned)
Mary Beth McDonough
- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
Earl Hamner Jr.
- The Narrator
- (voice)
- (as Earl Hamner)
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Contrary to the other review, Lee Purcell (as the wing walker) made the episode nearly unwatchable. She was miscast and she overacted in all of her scenes. I'm just thankful we never see that character or actress on the show again.
She looked like she stepped out of a ladies magazine from the 1970s. Can't a lady wingwalker not look glamorous? They got her walking around in pants so that the guys can get a good look at her behind. Amelia Earheart was attractive , but she didn't look like a model.
I thought John Boy was way miscast in "IT" as a 'Man's Man' and a lady killer. But not as unbelievable as in the later episodes of The Waltons. He's too far over the top with that Don't walk away from me. I got things to say.
A ravishing beauty alighted upon Walton's Mountain, the gracile Lee Purcell, she lights up a room.
The knife slit mouth harridan Gramma of course denigrates the beauty. This episode would have been garbage without Lee Purcell.
Did you know
- TriviaThe first female wing walker was Lillian Boyer January 15, 1901 to February 1, 1989 was an American wing walker who performed numerous aerial stunts that included wing walking, automobile-to-airplane transfers, and parachute jumps between 1921 and 1929.
- GoofsBeing an air mail pilot in the 1930s was a deadline-driven, stressful job (not to mention dangerous). There's no way that the pilot mentioned at the beginning of the episode would regularly deviate from his course (even "slightly") so Jim-Bob could wave at him.
- Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] While we were walking the green meadows of Waltons Mountain, daring flyers were conquering the beckoning blue skies. We had come to know an airmail pilot who would fly slightly off course just to say "Hello" to us, and especially to Jim Bob. Jim Bob's head was in the clouds back in those days, dreaming of machines which he hoped one day to fly.
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