
The life of a Depression-era family in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains is the subject of this wholesome series. The show is seen from the point of view of eldest son John Boy, who eventually goes to college, serves in World War II and becomes a novelist.

The Pearl Harbor attack shakes everyone, especially Mary Ellen, whose husband, Curt, is stationed in Hawaii.

A new minister joins the community at Walton's Mountain; Elizabeth helps him settle in, and begins to fall for him; Erin helps the Baldwin sisters with their memoirs.

Ben shocks the family with a new bride, and finds married life is not that easy; Ike surprises Corabeth with the wrong fountain.

Ben decides to take advantage of a wartime increase in traffic by opening an auto court; Yancy studies barbering through the mail.