Who was your favorite character on "The Waltons"?

[Maccagirl]

I saw a video clip of the cast on the Today Show being reunited for the 40th anniversary. I watched it throughout high school and I loved Grandpa.

[alphafemale]

1. Well...I know I wanted to slap the snot out of that self righteous perfect John-Boy.

Even when I was...shit how old was I when that came out... 9-10 maybe?

Erin was kinda the rebel middle child. Original Jan Brady.

[Rhiannon12866]

27. Did you ever notice that these days

He always seems to be cast as an insane serial killer? :scared: :)

[dimbear]

2. I liked Sam, the traveling salesman cousin who sold them cheap crap that broke right away. n/t

[rurallib]

3. My choice too. Always drove a 25 year old truck.

[nolabear]

4. Grandpa. I liked his way of slapping the "Old Woman" on the fanny and being affectionate.

The character just seemed to like life.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Grandpa.

Out of the kids, Jim Bob. I also really liked the Baldwin Sisters. They were a hoot.

I saw the lot of them on the Toady Show this morning. "Elizabeth" has hardly changed since that show ended.

[grasswire]

24. this morning?

What's the occasion?

[Kali]

6. what else was on at the same time?

we had a tee vee and I know some of my friends watched that show but we didn't at my house...wonder what we watched instead???

[LiberalAndProud]

9. Laverne and Shirley/Benson or Fantasy Island?

No Waltons for me.

[Kali]

20. oh probably L and S, but for sure Benson then

ick - fantasy island

[rrneck]

7. The truck. nt

[blueamy66]

8. those 2 boys in the back never got to say a word

what's up with that?

[femmocrat]

10. I loved "The Waltons".

My favorites were the dotty old sisters who made "the recipe" (home-made liquor).

[jmowreader]

11. The guy who typed up the end credits

"We're poor but we're proud" is not the kind of show I ever liked to watch.

[texanwitch]

12. I like Grandpa.

John boy had a nice butt in the show.

[applegrove]

13. My mom grew up on a farm during the depression. She loved that show.

[texanwitch]

14. My MoM did also.

Hard to imagine the kids in the show would have been my Mother's age back then.

[applegrove]

16. Yes. My mom would have been about the age of the littlest girl. Dirt roads. Grandad was a Dr. so

they got paid in bales of hey or eggs for a decade. They were luckier than most. Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

[Brother Buzz]

15. The General Lee

[grasswire]

17. And actor Will Geer (grandpa) was a righteous lefty!

And bi-sexual to boot!
From wikipedia:

Geer was born in Frankfort, Indiana, the son of Katherine (née Aughe), a teacher, and A. Roy Ghere, a postal worker.<1> He was deeply influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native state. Geer started out to become a botanist, studying the subject and obtaining a master's degree at the University of Chicago. While at Chicago he also became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

He began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats. He worked on several left-oriented documentaries, including narrating Sheldon Dick's Men and Dust, about silicosis among miners.

Geer was also the lover of gay activist Harry Hay.<2> In 1934, Hay met Geer at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to radical gay activism in the person of "Clarabelle," a drag queen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police. Later that year, Hay and Geer performed in support of the San Francisco General Strike.

[grasswire]

19. more

Geer was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Unamerican Activities Committee.

And more...

Geer became a member of the Communist Party of the United States in 1934. Geer was also influential in introducing Harry Hay to organizing in the Communist Party. In 1934, Geer and Hay gave support to a labor strike of the port of San Francisco; the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike lasted 83 days. Though marred by violence, it was an organizing triumph, one that became a model for future union strikes.<3> Geer became a reader of the West Coast Communist newspaper, the People's World.<4>

Geer became a dedicated activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie (whom he introduced to the People's World and the Daily Worker; Guthrie would go on to write a column for the latter paper).<3><4> In 1956, the duo released an album together on Folkways Records, titled Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie. In his autobiography, fellow organizer and gay rights pioneer Harry Hay described Geer's activism and outlined their activities while organizing for the strike.<5> Geer is credited with introducing Guthrie to Pete Seeger at the 'Grapes of Wrath' benefit Geer organized in 1940 for migrant farm workers.

[mysuzuki2]

21. He was a hell of a guy for many reasons.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Mary Ellen. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm...

[Aristus]

25. I had a righteous crush on Judy Norton Taylor.

She was pretty, sassy, and tough; all the things I love in a woman... :loveya:

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. 3 1/2 years older than me. Oh how I love older women...

She was the bomb before the term was even coined.

[BiggJawn]

22. Ike Godsey's wife.

Always though she'd be a lot to handle with some of "The Recipe" in her...

[EFerrari]

23. Definitely Grandpa. He could sing, dance, and tickle fish.