The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

The 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 & crew

Patricia NealOlivia Walton

Richard ThomasJohn-Boy Walton

Edgar BergenEbenezer Walton

Ellen CorbyEsther Walton

Dorothy StickneyEmily Baldwin

Josephine HutchinsonMamie Baldwin

William WindomCharlie Snead

Cleavon LittleHawthorne Dooley

Andrew DugganJohn Walton

David HuddlestonSheriff Ep Bridges

Woodrow ParfreyIke Godsey

Sally Chamberlin

Sally ChamberlinCity Lady