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Post by clyde on Mar 14, 2013 12:48:16 GMT -5
For those of you with no Waltons access, INSP recently showed the Ferris Wheel episode, where Elizabeth was sleep walking and having nightmares. I can understand sleep walking, but I can't understand how an 11 or 12 year old girl got all the way to the top of the ferris when John Boy and Ben had a hard time getting up to get her, and they were strong young boys. Were there other Waltons episodes where we were asked to believe the impossible, or was this just a fluke?
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Post by carol on Mar 14, 2013 13:27:01 GMT -5
I think The Changeling was a bit of a stretch of the imagination.
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Post by Brenda on Mar 14, 2013 13:31:02 GMT -5
For those of you with no Waltons access, INSP recently showed the Ferris Wheel episode, where Elizabeth was sleep walking and having nightmares. I can understand sleep walking, but I can't understand how an 11 or 12 year old girl got all the way to the top of the ferris when John Boy and Ben had a hard time getting up to get her, and they were strong young boys. Were there other Waltons episodes where we were asked to believe the impossible, or was this just a fluke? Clyde, the ferris wheel episode does appear to defy belief, but it apparently is not impossible Here is a true story about a 15-year old girl who climbed a 130 foot crane while sleepwalking. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-354802/Sleepwalker-age-15-curled-crane.html
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Post by clyde on Mar 14, 2013 15:12:15 GMT -5
Wow! That's an amazing story Brenda. Wonder if that girl in London had watched that episode of The Waltons earlier that evening?
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Post by Brenda on Mar 14, 2013 15:33:27 GMT -5
Wow! That's an amazing story Brenda. Wonder if that girl in London had watched that episode of The Waltons earlier that evening? Well, the article doesn't say, Clyde, but I watched The Ferris Wheel episode this week. I sure hope I don't go sleepwalking and climb up a 130 foot crane at 2:00 AM.
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Post by weezer29 on Mar 15, 2013 19:36:27 GMT -5
Brenda, the article you posted is completely creepy. LOL I watched The Ferris Wheel this week also. It is not a real believable episode. I think the family would have thought of a different way to be alerted to a sleep walking child. Although Jim-Bob's idea was creative.
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Post by navywife on Mar 16, 2013 7:57:11 GMT -5
This is absolutely one of my least favourite episodes. It was a bit unbelievable, and I did not care for the weird psychedelic flashes and scenes thrown in there. Was I really watching The Waltons or was I on some bad ferris wheel ride??
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Post by twinkle on Mar 17, 2013 7:03:32 GMT -5
I agree with you, in fact any episode that focused on Elizabeth and her growing-pains are episodes that I tend not to bother with. She is my least favourite character in the show.
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Post by dc1888 on Mar 17, 2013 19:24:27 GMT -5
Definetly a strange episode, not one of my favourites if im honest.
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Post by goodnight on Mar 18, 2013 9:30:50 GMT -5
This is absolutely one of my least favourite episodes. It was a bit unbelievable, and I did not care for the weird psychedelic flashes and scenes thrown in there. Was I really watching The Waltons or was I on some bad ferris wheel ride?? I've noticed Elizabeth seemed to get the weird episodes. You know another thing that I think defies belief. In "The Ordeal", how did she get out of the house to the pony cart with crutches and braces on her legs without anybody hearing her. Yes she had Amy to help, but Amy was just a child and smaller than Elizabeth.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Mar 18, 2013 21:52:46 GMT -5
The Waltons often had deafness after goodnights and a hard day. Ben Erin, Elizabeth, Mary Ellen, JohnBoy, Jim Bob all snuck out at one time or another
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Post by clyde on Mar 19, 2013 9:35:41 GMT -5
Earl Hamner had written for a super creepy program called The Twilight Zone in the late 50's and early 60's, so maybe he had some of that wierdness left in him when The Waltons came along.
And now that you mention it, they always do seem to be creeping about in the night in their PJ's (or in John's case, his long johns)
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Post by carol on Mar 19, 2013 13:14:25 GMT -5
You would think that being out in the quiet country they would hear every little sound at night.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 19, 2013 13:20:26 GMT -5
I think that with eleven people in the house, they may have long since managed to put a lot of the sounds out of their heads.... like some folks today can manage to sleep with the tv on !!
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Mar 19, 2013 13:57:47 GMT -5
From 1994 until 2001, my husband & I rented a house & the railroad tracks ran right by the front of the house. You could stand on the front porch & hit the train with a rock if you wanted to.
You think that trains are loud & you wonder how anyone who lives around them could get any sleep.......well, in no time at all you get used to it & sleep right through the train coming by your house. The only thing that we had to do different was, if we were watching TV, we would have to turn the volume up until the train passed.
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