The BEST episodes directed by Ralph Waite
#1 - The Boondoggle
The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 5
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.
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#2 - The Five Foot Shelf
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 23
A traveling salesman named George Reed talks Olivia into buying a 5 foot collection of books called The Harvard Classics. George uses the down payment to buy his daughter a doll.
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#3 - The Fawn
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 9
John-Boy secures a position of rent collector for a hated landlord while Erin, who is disappointed by her knight in shining armor, nurses an orphaned fawn back to health.
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The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 24
John decides to expand his business by building a new mill. To meet a deadline for a big order, John works day and night & gets pneumonia. While he's in the hostipal his friends finish the mill, but he loses the big contract.
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The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 13
Zeb's old friend returns to Walton's Mountain without his wife. The Walton's learn that she died earlier but he will not acknowledge her passing.
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#6 - The Ghost Story
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 21
The Children get a Ouija board from Ike. Olivia and Grandma have misgivings about the children playing with it and speaking to it's spirits.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 20
Jason falls in love with Vanessa, Curt's sister, who left her husband so she could become a singer. John-Boy begins to publish sections of his novel in the newspaper.
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The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 19
John-Boy meets up with a runaway girl named Muffin who's 12 years old. Muffin tells him that she was abused and is trying to find her mother. John-Boy takes her home and she fools everyone but Grandpa.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 4
John refuses to visit the tent meeting or get baptised, even with the presence of a famous evangelist.
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