The Burn Out Pts. 1 & 2 - The Waltons (Season 4, Episode 18) - Apple TV (2024)

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What caused Waltons house to burn? ›

Studios that destroyed the farmhouse used in the TV series The Waltons was set by an arsonist, according to Burbank, Calif., fire officials. Burn patterns indicated that a flammable substance was splashed around a chicken coop on the set and inside the house, an arson investigator said Wednesday.

S4 E18: A flash fire demolishes the second floor of the Walton's house and begins a series of events that threatens to destroy the family.

June 4, 1981

The Waltons / Final episode date

Michael Learned, who played mom Olivia Walton, had a foolproof way of handling dinner scenes — she just didn't eat the food! "We always joke about how Michael Learned never actually ate," Norton remembers.

Because he was not a weekly cast member, he had time to pursue other roles, which he did until December 1976, when he left for a starring role in the hit sitcom Three's Company (the Americanized version of the 1970s British Thames Television series Man About the House) in 1977.

Given he was a main character and had been on since its beginning, people were curious as to why he left. According to IMDb, it call came down to budgetary reasons — and wanting a shift in the audience of the show. "Ralph Waite was fired from his role on due to budgetary issues," the site wrote.

The final appearance of Ralph Waite as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons comes in the final-season episode "The Move." It's an emotional episode, charged with feeling, and it finds John deciding to be the one to take Olivia to Arizona when tuberculosis threatens her health.

At the end of almost every episode, as the night. descended on Walton's Mountain, the camera panned. over the Walton's house to show the lights going out.

Almost all of Erin's romances are ill-fated: the object of her affections either dies or proves to have poor character. Eventually she meets and marries Paul Northridge; they have three children: Susan, Amanda, and Peter.

Did any of the actors on The Waltons date each other? ›

The love stories carried over behind the scenes. Ma and Pa Walton — Ralph Waite and Michael Learned — quietly fell on love on set. And remember Jason and Toni, who we just mentioned in the prior paragraph? Well, actors Jon Walmsley and Lisa Harrison tied the knot in real life in 1979!

S6 E7: As Mary Ellen's baby comes due, one of her friends' baby is born prematurely and stillborn. Out of grief, she torments Mary Ellen with talk of bad omens and portents about Mary Ellen's baby. Jason gets a job at the burlesque theater. Mary Ellen gives birth, but a grieving neighbor steals the baby.

The Hamner House (Earl's childhood home) was sold on January 12, 2023. It is now a private residence and no longer included in the tour of the B&B.

Learned left because of the grueling nature of the television shooting schedule. According to an Associated Press interview, she decided after she finished The Waltons that she was done with working in television. However, just two years after her departure, she joined the cast of a new series, entitled, Nurse.

Her character's abrupt disappearance in Season 7 was explained by Olivia developing tuberculosis and entering a sanatorium in Arizona. She returned in Season 8 and later appeared in four of the six Waltons reunion movies made during the 1980s and 1990s.

The house has a total of three bedrooms and beautiful pine and oak floors can be found throughout the living areas and upstairs. Due to its important place in Americana, the Hamner House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.