Tim McD

I believe Curt was banging the second Nurse Nora while Mary Ellen was still engaged to Doctor One Life to Live.

"I won't be screamed at." Great stuff! I think I preferred John Ritter's comical sermon practicing in the front yard. "RE-PEEEENNNNT! "RE-PEEEENNNNT!"

It's kind of confusing. Doc McIvers treated Zeb when he had his for-real heart attack. Doc Shackleford admonished Zeb when he had his make-believe heart attack because of the falling star he saw. http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0211092/ Don't get me started on the two Nurse Noras.

The show seems to be veering into teenage soap-opera territory, which is a shame. I can do without all the nonsensical bed-hopping. And somebody needs to tell the writers that throwing a half-assed lesbian affair into the storyline is just plain lazy; I half expected to see Doug Stamper peering thorough the curtains. Why are Charlie and Abby even married? Do they know each other? Have they been introduced? Helen, who was awesome when she was helping Fritz to get laid, is turning into a sad joke. The story arc with Frank & Liza's daughter and the private seems to be sputtering and who the hell cares about this goddam French lady? Fortunately it's not too late and here's to hoping that Manhattan returns to more grown-up storytelling. I took it to be Charlie's drunken fantasizing. Helen yammering on about "The Wrong Brothers" brought him back to reality.

No, Ron Howard's dad was the doctor who treated Zeb after his heart attack. There was a third doctor as well who showed up sometimes (before Curt came along).

Miss Emily always mentioned a "golden shower" when she reminisced about Ashley, so that probably had a lot to do with it.

I've always liked the idea of Ashley Longworth being a figment of Emily's imagination. John-Boy mentioned this in the short story he wrote about the Baldwins, about how the townspeople suspected that Ashley was a creation of her addled mind, but went along with it to protect her delicate state. Of course that whole idea was shot to hell when Ashley Jr. showed up.

I can't believe Doc Whoever suggested that. "Olivia, the best way to deal with your devastation at not being able to bear any more children is to adopt a baby then have it ripped away from you just as you begin to emotionally bond with it." Same when the Waltons take in a kid from the orphanage for a couple of weeks, then POW!, back to the orphanage with ya, sucker!

Did anyone else catch Helen ordering Charlie to put the luggage in the cab? Way to assert yourself at the outset Helen! I hope they don't bump uglies next episode, that would be too predictable.

That librarian achieved a rare feat; he was more annoying than John-Boy.

In the episode that was being filmed when Corby had her stroke, she appears in a couple of scenes early on and that's it. What was weird was how they tried to cover for her by having Grandpa speak to her off camera. For instance you see Grandpa go into their bedroom and say, "Here I am Esther," which is bizarre because nobody ever does that.

The Ordeal is just a rehash of The Easter Story. Instead of Olivia, it's Elizabeth and instead of polio, it's a woodpile. Only the 6th season and they were already recycling storylines.

The killer has a disturbing resemblance to Kevin Love.

Like DoughGirl said, Grandma said early on that they had 3 kids, but later all mention of the third child ended and they only spoke of John and Ben. In TV parlance this is known as "Chuck Cunninghaming." An early episode also mentioned that Ben was buried on Waltons Mountain (I think we even saw his tombstone), but that later changed to Ben being buried in a military cemetery in France.

Yup, and the guy playing her grandfather was Cousin Cody, which is highly confusing.

That scene where he first lights up the pipe in front of his family is hilarious. Olivia's face looks like it's about to split.

Cora was John's cousin, not niece. Her father would have been one of Zeb's brothers, whom Cora described as an irresponsible wanderer like her husband. Cora's dad gave up his share of the land because he didn't want to be tied down by it. Zeb took that parcel and gave it to John-Boy. Great casting of the part of Cora by the way. That woman had a real Joadesque dust-bowl look.

Was it implied at the end of this episode that Frank is fooling around with the Mexican maid?

And he gets interviewed by young Raymond Tusk!

That entire episode would never have happened in real life. You would think people who write for TV shows would have some idea how movies are made. The New York film company would have shot the film in NYC, not haul the crew, cameras, lights (BTW what are they planning on plugging the lights into?), etc into the middle of nowhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Also John is hired to provide lumber for the sets; what sets? And where are they building them, inside the old house? Bollocks.

The Gypsies is a really bad episode. Surprisingly it's from the first season; it seems to belong with those terrible late season episodes that aired as the show was running out of gas. Watch it if you can; for Waltons fans it's 45 minutes of WTF???

I can't think of a Waltons character with less charisma than GW. Plus he was only in a couple of scenes in a handful of episodes. Strange decision to do an entire episode about the death of a character who was barely seen and who no one cared about.

Or Martha Rose Coverdale, she was kind of hot.

And then AJ went away and returned as a much shorter, fast-talking Brooklynite with a great career as a screenwriter, which John-Boy screwed him out of as well.

Richard Thomas is only 9 years younger than Will Geer was when The Waltons premiered in 1972.