tim
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Post by tim on Dec 4, 2010 12:50:46 GMT -5
I'm wondering if anyone can recall any episodes that show winter weather. Virginia does experience snow - after all it's the mountains. Did they every try to show winter? It seems strange without it! Especially when I think of LIttle House on the Prairie episodes that depict tough winters.
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Post by Marilyn on Dec 4, 2010 15:16:28 GMT -5
The Christmas episode where everyone was out of the house going through their own drama's... Grandma and Grandpa snowed in at a hotel, The car going into the frozen pond, etc...
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Post by dfnmeows44 on Dec 4, 2010 15:42:40 GMT -5
There was also snow on The Homecoming. The most snow however is the one that ssmarilyn mentions
which was The Best Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2010 16:39:36 GMT -5
the Easter story has snow
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Post by sambda on Dec 10, 2010 12:04:27 GMT -5
The Christmas episode where everyone was out of the house going through their own drama's... Grandma and Grandpa snowed in at a hotel, The car going into the frozen pond, etc... "The Best Christmas". Yes, I like that episode as a special - far better than both "The Homecoming" (which doesn't feel like proper "Waltons" to me) and "The Children's Carol" (which suffers from a completely un-Christmassy atmosphere, as well as some very poor acting). They tried hard in "TBC" to get it to look cold and they *almost* pull it off - only a couple of shots of soap suds give the game away. A bit of tighter editing would have fixed that. |
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Post by Marilyn on Dec 10, 2010 14:16:50 GMT -5
I thought it was funny when the car went off the road and into the frozen pond, the slabs of ice bobbing around were styrofoam! Being from the North, that made me chuckle! Saw styrofoam in Chance's water bucket too. 
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Post by bothepug on Dec 13, 2010 8:49:39 GMT -5
Where they lived, while you are supposed to think of them in the mts, they are more or less on the foothills and where they live in Vir. there is not much winter or snow, not that is doesn't happen, but go to a weather site, type in their hometown and it is mild compared to Minn, and little house winters.
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Dec 13, 2010 13:02:34 GMT -5
Speaking as someone from virginia where I live as well as waltons mountain does get snow, quiet a lot as a matter of fact already this winter we have had two snow falls of 12 inches or more as well as several 6 inches or less.
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Post by bothepug on Dec 15, 2010 15:04:35 GMT -5
I beg to differ somewhat. The average high from Nov. through March goes from is anywhere from 45-60 and the low is just below freezing. This is average, not that is does not get warmer or colder sometimes, but the climate is moderate compared to Little House, Minn which averages highs Nov. thru March as below freezing and lows of average closer to 10 or lower. Snowfall in Waltons home averages more or less a trace of snow with a big snow on occasion. With less than 5 ins a month and the warm weather, I am sure it does not last very long.
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Dec 15, 2010 16:02:19 GMT -5
Ok once again I'm not saying where were at in virginia compares to the little house are which is in the NORTH, we are southern but yey we do get snow we have had a foot on the ground now since sunday as a matter of fact and suppose to get another 6 inches tonight, as I say i live here and have for 25 years.
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Post by john8486 on Dec 15, 2010 19:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by davidm on Dec 17, 2010 14:25:06 GMT -5
The Homecoming was filmed where there was actual snow. The series was filmed in Burbank California where the winters are a balmy 50-70 degrees. Eric Scott mentioned this in another thread. So any episode from the series would have to have props to simulate snow. That's probably why there aren't many episodes with snow in them.
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Post by ncwaltonsfan on Dec 18, 2010 5:20:19 GMT -5
I believe "The Homecoming" was filmed in Wyoming, where "Spencer's Mountain" was also filmed. They can get a lot of snow in Virginia. My sister lives in Charlottesville, where they had more than 4 feet of snow in a single snowfall last winter. I know that does not happen often in Virginia, but it shows they can get a lot of snow.
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Post by davidm on Dec 20, 2010 1:57:46 GMT -5
I grew up in Maryland and last year they had over 6 feet of snow at BWI airport, and I lived 3 miles from there the last place I lived in Maryland. I heard they dumped a lot of it in the Chesapeake Bay as they had no place to put it when they plowed.
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Post by sambda on Dec 20, 2010 12:20:25 GMT -5
Actually, in general the show avoided both extremes, didn't it? We've talked about the lack of snow, but there's also a lack of it looking *really* hot. Even though the Producers sometimes remember to tip a cup of water, er sweat, down the front of John's shirt (after he's been hard at it in the mill) they never quite manage a "too hot to do anything" atmosphere, and there's never much sweat to be seen on anybody's brow on the indoors set, for example.
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