9 Season
210 Episode
The Waltons - Season 4 Episode 5 The Boondoggle
The Landmark Series That Celebrates Family.
Porter Sims, a reporter from New York, comes to get material for a guide book on Virginia. John-Boy takes him to see the Baldwin sisters who allow him to look through the late Judge Baldwin's private papers. These reveal that their father was accused of treason for harboring Yankee soldiers during the Civil War. Deeply shocked and hurt, they decide not to leave their house ever again.
- Year: 1981
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: CBS
- Keyword: small town, world war ii, big family, great depression, family, 1940s, 1930s, lighthearted, comforting, compassionate
- Director: Earl Hamner, Jr.
- Cast: Ralph Waite, Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, David W. Harper, Earl Hamner, Jr., Eric Scott