Where were you June 4, 1981

[markb]

Hello everyone -- Okay, I am sorry to be such a bore on this topic, but I have really been hit by the fact that this show was last seen on this date in 1981. I would love to hear what you were doing, where you were that day? Did you see the last episode? Remember it being announced as such? I don't recall seeing it then, but have seen it several times for remembrance. Would love to hear your thoughts.

I had just graduated 8th grade, probably enjoying that last summer before high school started, mowing lawns. I didn't re-discover the show until later, maybe a year or two later.

[Marilyn]

I had just moved from Denver back to North Dakota and we moved to a small town that didn't get many channels. I think the town has 40 people and we got maybe 2 stations. I didn't start to really watch the Waltons diligently until the reruns started on Hallmark.

[ncwaltonsfan]

I watched "The Waltons" occasionally during its original run but started watching the reruns regularly in 1995 when it was shown on the Family Channel (now ABC Family).

[lorijean]

Lets see....I had a 1-1/2 yr old son and my new 2 month old daughter. I don't recall the last episode on this date. I was probably changing diapers and rocking my daughter to sleep.................Gosh do I ever miss those days

[Tracey]

I just finished my freshman year in high school when the show ended.

[Deleted]

I was 11 years old.I don't remember what I was doing at the time the show last aired.I was probably on Summer vacation from school by then.

[dfnmeows44]

I watched it in the evening at the usual time. At that time the TV set was in my bedroom
next door to the computer room where I am now. Although I did not have any cats then my
parents were still very much alive.
June 4 1981 was the 30th anniversary of my promotion from kindergarten to the first grade. After the
episode was over I called my kindergarten teacher to reminise---she lived until 1993. Her name was Elizabeth Lewis---no she did not write YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANTGZE however.going to school there was going to school in your living room---a preview of what homeschool would be like!

[Tonyray]

I was in the Air Force station in Italy. Don't remember what I was doing but know I couldn't have seen it we didn't get live TV from the U.S. back then.

[markb]

Thanks for the interesting posts, everyone! Wow, Tonyray I bet you had a good time in the air force. My dad was an AF veteran, thought of him a lot this past memorial day and also his and mom's anniversary was June 4 (1955) so that is probably why I remember that episode with such fondness. I never get tired of the show and like to hear all the details about what others like you think of it.

[Honeybee]

i wasn't even born, that year. God, didn't want me, to be born that year.

[ncwaltonsfan]

I was a sophomore in high school when the series ended. Like I said previously, I watched some during the original run but I have watched as a fan since 1995. Like fine wine, "The Waltons" improves with the years.

[cherfan]

I watched that final episode right here in my house in N.J. Will never forget watching it and was glad NBC picked up the show for 3 tv movies. I hope there is one more reunion movie to be made in the 2000's.

[Marilyn]

buttercup is a pup.

[maxwalton]

I had just graduated from college and had a lot more hair than I do now. Quite frankly, because of school work, I did not watch much of the last season until the reruns.

About the last episode, all I remember first hand is being moved by Jim Bob helping Elizabeth move out of John and Olivia's bedroom. The Jim Bob/Elizabeth scenes were always my favorite Walton moments.

[dfnmeows44]

Regarding boeth the Waltons and Little House after 1979 I did not watch as frequently but
when the reruns started I watched all of those---BTW

I did not know until the beginning of 2007 in the week just prior to the Super Bowl that
Albert Ingalls had died on Little House---I finally saw the rerun of that episode then