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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Cast
- Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton
- Richard Thomas as John-Boy Walton
- Edgar Bergen as Ebenezer Walton
- Ellen Corby as Esther Walton
- Dorothy Stickney as Emily Baldwin
- Josephine Hutchinson as Mamie Baldwin
- William Windom as Charlie Snead
- Cleavon Little as Hawthorne Dooley
- Andrew Duggan as John Walton
- David Huddleston as Sheriff Ep Bridges
- Woodrow Parfrey as Ike Godsey
- Sally Chamberlin as City Lady
Details
- Director
- Fielder Cook
- Released
- December 19, 1971
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Studio
- CBS
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.3 / 10 from 19 votes
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