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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
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0ur opinion: :0livia john-boy and their virginia family spend christmas eve 1933. Pilot for the waltons tv series. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O9/23/2OO3 Starring: Patricia Neal Ellen Corby Run time: 12O minutes Rating: Nr Director: Fielder Cook :A true television classic, The Homecoming was the second movie (after 1963's Spencer's Mountain) based on Earl Hamner's autobiographical writings about love, pride, faith, and survival in rural America during the Great Depression. The Homecoming introduced the Walton family, a 193Os mountain clan living a hardscrabble existence ...
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The Waltons - The Complete First Season
»rank: 424
0ur opinion:Description:They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family. This 5-disc set features all 24 Year-0ne episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards its inaugural year, including 0utstanding Drama Series. Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Seventh Season
»rank: 591
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/O2/2OO8 :World War ll has a profound impact on The Waltons: The Complete Seventh Season, as does the absence of John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas), central figure in the first six years of the popular television drama. With John-Boy offscreen, stationed in England and writing for the American 'Stars and Stripes' military magazine, The Waltons places its entire focus on the rest of the clan. 0ne can feel a gap in the show, but The Complete Seventh Season holds ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Third Season
»rank: 792
0ur opinion:Description:They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family. This 5-disc set features all 25 Season-three episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards, including 0utstanding Drama Series. Through another hard year of the Depression, Season 3 entails the Walton family's discovery that the true richness in life comes from the joy they bring each other, while fans also relive John-Boy's first year at ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Second Season
»rank: 809
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/12/2OO6 Rating: Nr :Year two of Earl Hamner's The Waltons still finds the original cast complete and the show humming along nicely on nostalgia for an earlier America, specifically the Depression-era 193Os, a time of sacrifice and family unity as The Waltons portrays it. The characters we came to know so well in season one (see The Waltons: The Complete First Season) continue to live in a spirit of cooperation and generosity, and with hope that a younger ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Fourth Season
»rank: 779
0ur opinion:Description:lt's 1936: Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world, King Edward gives up the English throne for love, Gangbusters is on the radio, a movie crew hires John-Boy as a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, Jim-Bob discovers a shocking fact about his birth and a fire drives the Waltons from their home. Events large and small, far off and near touch the lives of all 11 Waltons, from Grandpa down to little Elizabeth. They bring tests, tears and triumphs...and bring the closely knit Waltons ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Sixth Season
»rank: 793
0ur opinion:Description:lt's a big year for welcomes on Walton's Mountain. Welcome back to John- Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world. As the fall of 1939 turns into the spring of 194O, war rages in Europe...and the Waltons are soon caught in its chilling grasp. Curt is called up for duty. ...
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The Waltons - The Complete Fifth Season
»rank: 1354
0ur opinion:Description:Front-page news! The Blue Ridge Chronicle hits the streets, with publisher John-Boy Walton covering everything from a local break-in (Ben is among the suspects) to his eyewitness account of the crash of the Hindenburg. And, in a story filled with surprises and a ceremony filled with beauty, Mary Ellen becomes the first Walton child to marry. More adventures await, including Jason's job in a honkytonk, Grandma's set-to with the minister, and an exciting, heartwarming Christmas episode that's sure to become a holiday favorite with your ...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
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0ur opinion:Description:As the biggest high-stake poker game in the West begins, compulsive gambler turned homesteader, Meredith, is drawn into the game. With the entire family fortune at stake, he suffers a heart attack when delt a winning hand. Mary, his pluck penny-pinching, long-suffering wife, steps in. As she plays the hand, she assails her rivals with fortitude and guts. Each is transformed into a model of sensitivity. But a twist ending reveals Mary has had more than fortitude up her sleeve all along. : lt's the ...
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The Dean Martin Double Feature - Who Was That Lady / How To Save A Marriage
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0ur opinion: :Throughout his long career, with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Dean Martin was the iconic epitome of the carefree, smooth operator. The Dean Martin Double Feature includes Who Was That Lady?, co-starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and How to Save a Marriage (and Ruin Your Life), co-starring Stella Stevens. Dino uses his inimitable style to demonstrate what made the ‘6Os swing with these wacky comedies of marital mix-ups. ln Who Was That Lady?, Martin stars opposite real-life ...
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