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List Price: $27.98Amazon.com's Price: $17.49 You Save: $10.49 (37%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391109716
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 1213 minutes
Sales Rank: 2777
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1976
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Product Description:
Front-page news! The Blue Ridge Chronicle hits the streets with publisher John-Boy Walton covering everything from a local break-in (Ben is among the suspects) to his eyewitness account of the crash of the Hindenburg. And in a story filled with surprises and a ceremony filled with beauty Mary Ellen becomes the first Walton child to marry. More adventures await including Jason's job in a honkytonk Grandma's set-to with the minister and an exciting heartwarming Christmas episode that's sure to become a holiday favorite with your family. And along the way old friends return new friends arrive and the family bedrock of love endures in this 5-Disc 24-Episode Season-5 Set of one of television's most enduring series.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 085391109716 Manufacturer No: 110971
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The Waltons: The Complete Fifth Season finds the Depression-era, Blue Ridge Mountains family a little more in touch with the outside world, largely because of the aspirations of the growing Walton children. The most dramatic example, over numerous epsiodes, results from the assertiveness of professional journalist John-Boy (Richard Thomas) as he insists on publishing national and international news in the small-circulation Blue Ridge Chronicle he writes, edits, and publishes. A lot of people in the county are mystified as to why John-Boy would want to bring Walton's Mountain closer to epochal events in Germany, or why he would choose to provide coverage of the Hindenburg zeppelin's aerial triumphs despite its link to the Nazis. Yet John-Boy is just as interested in his backyard as the world stage: In season opener 'The First Edition,' he stands up to strong pressure to kill a story about a judge whose drunk-driving offense causes costly property damage. In 'The Fire Storm,' locals are appalled when he prints excerpts from Hitler’s Mein Kampf in order to make readers aware of what kind of madman the German chancellor is.
While John-Boy stands up to popular opinion, brother Jason (Jon Walmsley), a talented musician, has to take a job playing piano at a roadhouse to make up for the loss of his college scholarship. The decision doesn't go down too well with the Walton women, but Jason's presence at the Dew Drop Inn allows for some interesting scenes over the course of the season, none more so than the unexpected visit of a fire-and-brimstone evangelist in 'The Baptism.' In that same show, father John Walton, played by Ralph Waite, notorious in his Christian community for eschewing church services, faces renewed pressure from wife Olivia (Michael Learned) to accept her faith, making for one of the most interesting episodes of the season. Meanwhile, John-Boy’s sister, Mary Ellen (Judy Norton), is wooed by a couple of different men and hears wedding bells with one of them. She also pursues her nursing degree and misdiagnoses an ailment of Grandma Esther (Ellen Corby), resulting in long-term hospitalization and no end of grief for Grandpa Zeb (Will Geer). The other, increasingly restless Walton boys and girls grab their share of the spotlight, too, but The Complete Fifth Season is, once again, John-Boy's year, capped by dramatic developments in his career and vision of himself. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Children growing up
In this season you see Mary Ann getting married.
You get a sad feeling that the parents are getting old and all the characters lives are changing rapidly.
Mary Anns wedding and meeting her doctor husband was my favourite episode.
Still all them are in there(which is good).
I honestly liked the 5th and
7th season better but still a good watch.
Rating: - Wholesome Family Entertainment
When my mom found out that The Walton's coming out on DVD, she was elated. The fact they are commercial free makes it even better. These disks are great entertain from tweens to the elderly. I would recommend the series to anyone.
Rating:  - The "Titanic" of "The Waltons": Season Five
Scriptwriters and producers sent "The Waltons" on an irrevocable slow sink (and stink) to the bottom of the TV sea beginning in Season Five. What breached the show's hull in 1976-77? Incredibly poor story ideas and unbelievably lousy character treatment/development. In Season Five, the navigating efforts of the writers/producers seemed more hopeful than certain. In Season Five, creative conviction disappeared. If the show's best actor, Richard Thomas, sensed this downslide, it is little wonder he ... Read More
Rating: - 5 Stars for 5 Great Seasons
The first 5 seasons are very good. I can watch them over and over. After that, I quit collecting the sets. I don't care for the next 4. Not the same after Will Geer died, Ellen Corby had her stroke and Richard Thomas and Michael Learned stopped being regulars. The latter seasons are too based on the war. You would think they are fighting it right there on the mountain. And they try too hard to include grandma in the story when she returns. And then there is Rose and the two kids with her. What's that ... Read More
Rating: - The Waltons Fifth season
Great series my wife and I enjoy the Waltons very much. We have the first four seasons also.
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