Waltons, The: The Complete Fourth Season
by Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Alf Kjellin, Harry Harris, Harvey S. Laidman
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Actor: Ellen Corby, Michael Learned, Ralph Waite, Richard Thomas, Will GeerDirector: Alf Kjellin, Harry Harris, Harvey S. Laidman, Ralph Waite, Richard Thomas
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 1233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 110884
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Actors: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer.
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Full Screen.
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0).
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Not Rated. Run Time: 1233 minutes.
DVD Reviews of Waltons, The: The Complete Fourth Season
DVD Review: The Surrogate Family
Summary: 5 Stars
My opinion of The Waltons series is 99.9% on the positive side, so first I'll mention a slightly negative aspect encountered with the series, namely very slight inconsistencies with an otherwise strong and diverse story line. The only examples I can think of--which says much for such a long-running series--were found between season 1's The Star, season 2's The Awakening, and season 3's The Statue. The closing monologue in season 2's The Awakening has John-Boy reminiscing about Mary Ellen's adult life and the fact she had married a university professor and was the mother of two boys, whereas in later seasons she was married to doctors and, in one episode, was injured, keeping her from having any more children than son John Curtis. The other inconsistency had to do with Grandpa Walton's requested gravesite on the side of Walton's Mountain in season 1's The Star, and season 3's projected gravesite in The Statue. In the latter episode Grandpa and Grandma had an argument over the placement of a statue Grandpa had won in a raffle. He wanted it placed over their future burial site in a local cemetery, which was located on flat land surrounded by shady trees. However, after Grandpa's death--made necessary due to actor Will Geer's actual death--whenever they showed his burial place it was on a sunny slope of Walton's mountain, which had been requested in season 1's The Star. To me these were niggling things that pointed out the importance of thinking through, planning, and maintaining a story line regardless of creative impulses urging otherwise.
On the mostly positive side I believe that, as the years and generations pass, the importance of having recorded The Waltons series will become increasingly evident and appreciated, perhaps even studied in the classroom. Earl Hamner's spirit of family life totally infuses the series with a love and family communion almost impossible to achieve these days in real life due to the myriad influences bent on tearing families apart. The longer The Waltons series ran the more these influences began showing themselves within the series itself and, perhaps more poignantly, within the lives of the actors who played the roles. I seriously doubt it would be possible to recreate the series today, so the fact that it exists at all, and can easily be obtained, should be a boon to future generations. It will be there for anyone who feels a need to expose others to a family where children loved--and loved being with--their parents, grandparents, and each other, were equally loved in return, and were mentored empathetically and in healthy directions by honorable and honored members of the older generation.
On a personal level, I'm not sure how my life would have turned out if it hadn't been for exposure to The Waltons, even if only through TV. Coming from a typical, modern, dysfunctional family, complete with paternal infidelity, divorce, and a parade of stepmothers, I needed this vicarious relationship with a family much closer to the idyllic norm. The Waltons not only exposed me to familial love and mutual cooperation/sensitivity that was hard to find at home, but also encouraged my love of writing, which, perhaps not too surprisingly, has found vent in stories about relatives and histories of my ancestors, where I've occasionally found people like the Waltons in my own family tree.
Description of Waltons, The: The Complete Fourth Season
Chronicles the life of the Walton family living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the Great Depression.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 01/23/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
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