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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.

Top Cast

  • Patricia Neal

    Patricia Neal

    Olivia Walton

  • Richard Thomas

    Richard Thomas

    John-Boy Walton

  • Edgar Bergen

    Edgar Bergen

    Ebenezer Walton

  • Ellen Corby

    Ellen Corby

    Esther Walton

  • Dorothy Stickney

    Dorothy Stickney

    Emily Baldwin

  • Josephine Hutchinson

    Josephine Hutchinson

    Mamie Baldwin

  • William Windom

    William Windom

    Charlie Snead

  • Cleavon Little

    Cleavon Little

    Hawthorne Dooley

  • Andrew Duggan

    Andrew Duggan

    John Walton

Overview

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.

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