The Ordeal Pts. 1 & 2 - The Waltons (Season 6, Episode 21) - Apple TV (2024)

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What happened to Elizabeth Waltons legs? ›

Elizabeth breaks both legs in a fall from a log pile. When she comes home from the hospital, the family must adjust to her injuries and devise ways to help her walk again, something the Doctors aren't sure she'll be able to do.

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Ben and Jim-Bob feel guilty after Elizabeth breaks her legs in a fall from a log pile they stacked improperly.

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In season six, they welcome a son, John Curtis Willard. In season seven, Mary Ellen receives a telegram notifying her that Curt has been killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, but in season nine she learns he is still alive, using an assumed name.

"Subversive" is not the first word (or the 10th) that springs to mind when someone mentions The Waltons. The 1970s series, about a rural Virginia family struggling through the Great Depression, ran for nine seasons on CBS, earned 13 Emmys, and at its peak was watched by an estimated 18 million people weekly.

The CW announced a new movie, “The Waltons' Thanksgiving,” which will debut in the fourth quarter of 2022. A follow-up to 2021's “The Waltons' Homecoming,” the special will feature Bellamy Young, Logan Shroyer and Richard Thomas reprising their roles with Teddy Sears newly joining the cast.

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Then Curt was killed at Pearl Harbor in the 1978 season, and Mary Ellen found new love with Arlington Wescott “Jonesy” Jones (Richard Gililand) while taking premed courses. The romance was threatened when Curt was discovered not to have died after all, but the two decided their marriage had ended and divorced.

The Walton family is back for the CW's The Waltons' Homecoming, premiering Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET, and Richard Thomas — the original John Boy Walton — is celebrating the new chapter.

How many of The Waltons are still alive? ›

All but three are still alive. Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) passed away in 1978, while the show was still running. Ellen Corby (Grandma Walton) passed away in 1999 and Ralph Waite (John Walton...

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S9 E10: Mary Ellen finds Curt alive in Florida, but he's a very different man.

During the end voice over , John boy states that Erin's marriage is as strong today as it was when they got married , but in A Walton Thanksgiving reunion , she is divorced and states that it was because she found out Paul was cheating on her .

In the television show "The Waltons," the character of Olivia Walton had two different health issues: tuberculosis and polio. She contracted tuberculosis in season one and spent time in a sanatorium to recover. Later in the series, she contracted polio, which left her paralyzed for a time but eventually recovered.

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