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Post by Heather on Jun 1, 2015 12:41:41 GMT -5
What is the one thing that you wish most had happened during The Waltons run that didn't ever happen?
I fervently wish that Ashley Longworth, Sr. had returned to Miss Emily. To carry such a love for so many years... *Sigh*
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Post by jrijr on Jun 1, 2015 14:48:43 GMT -5
I often wonder what would have changed if Ellen had not had her stroke, and Will had not passed away. Granted, the viewers were given the gift of seeing Grandma Walton come home and twirl with her "Old Fool" once more, but it definitely was not in the cards of how the story line was originally to play out. I posted this question about a year ago, and received a few responses. But, I definitely wish we had more time with Grandma and Grandpa Walton. |
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Post by rabner59 on Jun 1, 2015 15:34:08 GMT -5
Wish John boy would have stayed,An we could have seen more of Olivias family. 
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Post by AuntieEm on Jun 1, 2015 15:39:18 GMT -5
Of course they didn't know that the 9th season would be the last. But it would have been nice to have Olivia and John make an appearance in the last episode.
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Post by patriciaanne on Jun 1, 2015 16:48:24 GMT -5
I wish the main characters who had to leave could have come back once in awhile. Richard did for 3 episodes, which was great. If only he could have done just 1 or 2 episodes a season. Same thing with Michael and Ralph, although Ralph left in the final season anyway. I agree that Miss Emily should have gotten her Ashley back. I also wish they had 1 or 2 more episodes with the farrier who adopted the boy and I wish Chad had stayed in Erin's life.
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Post by Heather on Jun 1, 2015 16:51:06 GMT -5
YES patriciaanne! I loved Chad and I think he should have been Erin's forever.
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Post by clyde on Jun 1, 2015 17:26:54 GMT -5
I would have wanted Richard Thomas and Michael Learned not to have left.
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Post by cinlou on Jun 1, 2015 18:05:21 GMT -5
I too wish that Richard Thomas and Michael would have stayed on the show and that Ashley Longworth came back for Miss Emily. Also, I would have liked to see more historical events shown.
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Post by RebeccaLee on Jun 1, 2015 19:45:57 GMT -5
I would have liked it if Erin had married Hank Buchanan and that Mary Ellens first husband return from the war...only missing in action and that real Johnboy stayed in the series staying on the mountian to write his second novel and continue the paper....sigh...only in my imagination...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 5:45:20 GMT -5
I'd change a few things.
Many of them others have mentioned...Richard Thomas stays all the way, so do Ralph Waite and Michael Learned. I also wished Mary Ellen married anyone else but Curt David Spencer, I like Chad with Erin too.
One other thing I would change...I wish G.W. would have come back, alive. It was a sad moment when he died.
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Post by patriciaanne on Jun 2, 2015 7:31:32 GMT -5
I'd change a few things. Many of them others have mentioned...Richard Thomas stays all the way, so do Ralph Waite and Michael Learned. I also wished Mary Ellen married anyone else but Curt David Spencer, I like Chad with Erin too. One other thing I would change...I wish G.W. would have come back, alive. It was a sad moment when he died. So true...I would have been happy for GW to marry either Mary Ellen or Erin. He was so cute showing up with those flowers on the episode about her Quilting. |
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Post by sdw on Jun 2, 2015 10:55:18 GMT -5
I wish that Erin did not get the Dear John letter from Ashley.I wish that Grandma was in more of the episodes the last three seasons.
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Post by goodnight on Jun 2, 2015 22:16:56 GMT -5
I too wish that Richard Thomas and Michael would have stayed on the show and that Ashley Longworth came back for Miss Emily. Also, I would have liked to see more historical events shown. They could have brought up things like the War of the Worlds panic, speculation about Amelia Earhart's fate, listened to Seabiscut's races on the radio. |
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Jun 2, 2015 22:47:13 GMT -5
I too wish that Richard Thomas and Michael would have stayed on the show and that Ashley Longworth came back for Miss Emily. Also, I would have liked to see more historical events shown. They could have brought up things like the War of the Worlds panic, speculation about Amelia Earhart's fate, listened to Seabiscut's races on the radio.
I have thought that it would have made a great Halloween episode on The Waltons for them to have done the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. Grandpa, Grandma, John and Olivia could have been at home listening to it while their children were at different friend's houses or out on dates. Ike and Corabeth listening to it while Aimee was out with friends too. Just show Walton's mountain in a panic, scrambling to find each other.  It happened on October 30, 1938.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation
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Post by goodnight on Jun 3, 2015 23:42:21 GMT -5
This is a little off topic, but it's about War of the Worlds. In the now cancelled show Cold Case, the homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman who died that night in 1938 (it's a VERY cold case). The older version of the woman's husband (who was the murderer by the way) in present day was played by Ralph Waite.
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It happened on October 30, 1938. 