The Waltons season 1 An Easter Story (2024)

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Did Olivia Walton recover from polio? ›

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.

S1 E24: Olivia develops polio and the stunned family unites to help her and each other.

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.

"An Easter Story" was the final episode of the first season of The Waltons. It was also the first two-hour show of the series.

The actors playing Ben and Cindy Walton both happily married but still became inseparable. One of the earliest appearances of Cindy Brunson Walton comes in one of the most emotional episodes of The Waltons, an episode called "Founders' Day."

After the seventh season she left the show. 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.

Along the way, she expressed her desire to become a mother herself. She didn't get the chance until Seasons 15 and 16, when she found baby Noah in a motel room drawer during a sex trafficking case and eventually was able to adopt him.

Why Mariska Hargitay is missing from six episodes of Law & Order: SVU Season 8. Hargitay was on maternity leave! In 2006, Hargitay gave birth to her first child with husband (and fellow SVU actor) Peter Hermann.

"The Waltons" The Search (TV Episode 1976) - Earl Hamner Jr. as The Narrator - IMDb.

Why did Erin and Paul divorce on The Waltons? ›

It is later revealed (in the fourth of the six post-series reunion movies) that they are divorced as Paul had become unfaithful. Erin has earned a teaching certificate, and by the final reunion movie she is a school principal.

The beloved Walton family reunites in the year 1969 to celebrate John and Olivia's 40th anniversary, but like all families, not everything goes smoothly. John-Boy is now a successful writer and television news anchor, living with his wife, Janet in New York City.

All of the Waltons were based on real people — Hamner's family, his grandfather and grandmother, his father and mother, and his brothers and sisters, of whom there were seven in the show but eight in real life.

Early life. Smith was born in Gravesend, Kent, England. At age 16, he was mistaken for a poacher and shot in the back leading to a spinal cord injury that left him with complete T10/T11 paraplegia.

Olivia Walton was stricken with tuberculosis and entered a sanitarium in Arizona. She apparently recovered, as she appears in the later reunion movies.

Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe. Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights.

She is an actress and producer, known for Superman Returns (2006), Kidnapped and The Waltons (1972). She was previously married to Jon Walmsley.

Actors Donald Sutherland (above) and Alan Alda both played the role of Hawkeye Pierce and both had polio as children.