The Waltons Return to Celebrate 'A Waltons Thanksgiving' on The CW (2024)

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1. The Waltons has also been a positive influence for me for as long as it has been on TV. I watched it with my grandparents. I enjoy watching the series over and over, especially the series about WWII. I hope reconsideration will be given to offer this series again. Television needs more family shows providing a positive influence. So much trash and filth is on TV today.

2. Waltons Thanksgiving 2022 movie the show started in 1934. What year did the t.v. version start. Was Ben really adopted?
   Thank you

3. I enjoy the Waltons’ stories and their values. Unfortunately, W-2022 shows a comfortable, bright material world where everyone is well dressed, and the W home has decorator curb appeal.
   The Waltons were POOR, struggling to survive the depression. Part of the Walton’s charm is that they just scraping by, but were wonderful people, as so many were then. In W-2022, clothes look fresh from the store. Fabric prints and dress styles look like the early 1900’s, mostly, but brand new. Wash all dresses and boys’ shirts about 50 times so the colors fade. These are farm kids who work and play in maybe one or two shirts or dresses, not a new outfit every day. They are POOR but we love them anyway.
   Mrs. W would not have walked around showing her cleavage as she did in W-2022.
   Boys and men all are in nice vests and new shirts. Is that black velvet on the banjo player’s vest? Ben is adopted and immediately has a new shirt and a vest. No. He’d have a hand-me-down shirt and overalls. Mrs. W. might sew him a new shirt for Christmas. Maybe from new fabric, maybe by cutting down a larger used shirt.
   Grandpa-1970’s wore overalls. At W-2022 Thanksgiving dinner, he is in a suit jacket.
   Adults and children should dress like they have done a lot of farm work and see little money.
   The W-2022 farmhouse is freshly painted and trimmed with Victorian-style frou-frou. Should be plain and in need of paint. John Boy’s bedroom looks like Better Homes and Gardens. Bedroom furniture fresh from the furniture store. The real writer worked in a shed he fixed up.
   Mrs. W and Grandma-2022 always just stepped out of the beauty salon with not a hair out of place. Mom’s a farm wife with a bunch of children. not a movie star!
   John Boy 2022, the 17-year-old teenager, is played by a very handsome 23-year-old. Richard Thomas was not a teen in the first series, but he looked boyish, not movie star perfect. His clothes did not look like they were right out of the store, or just ironed before the scene was shot.
   In 2022, we need a show that say you don’t have to be well-off to be beloved heroes.

   • Oddly enough the clothing change isn’t that drastic by comparison

4. I watched the movie. They left out Ben again. The actress who played Olivia was too high strung. The actor who played John boy was too leniet. The actress who played Elizabeth was hard headed.

   • Ben wasn’t left out! He was the carnival boy that they adopted!

5. With the way CW has presented the most classic of storylines through a sexual and occultic lens (e.g. river dale/archie) I’m hoping that, for once, they dont pervert this as well. Perhaps they’ll see that there’s also a market for vintage and good natured story lines, we’ll see.

   • It’s almost like Riverdale uses modern lens and is based on modern Archie comics

6. I grew up watching the Waltons,it was Familly,like I was blessed to have a beautiful,loving Family,Thanks

7. Love it watch seen most of them all good thank you

8. LoveThe Walton family watching right now the day the power man came turned off the power good one

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