Waltons cast members today
Winged!
Whatever Happened To The Cast Of The Waltons?
ByPaul Gaita
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story," which introduced television audiences to the Waltons, a large family living in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains during the Great Depression.
Waltons cast members today
The TV movie, which earned three Emmy nominations (winning one), led to the Emmy-winning "Waltons" series, which ran from 1972 to 1981, and six reunion TV-movie between 1982 and 1997. Many of the actors who appeared as members of the Walton family in the TV movie reprised their roles in the series, including Richard Thomas (who played John-Boy Walton) and Judy Norton Taylor (who played his sister, Mary Ellen).
However, Patricia Neal (Olivia Walton) and Andrew Duggan (who co-starred as her husband, John Sr., in the telefilm) were replaced by actress Michael Learned and Ralph Waite, respectively, for the series.
As the CW prepares a new version of "Homecoming" to celebrate the TV movie's semi-cente