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Press. TCM International Sites. Eat Cookies. This was the pilot movie for "The Waltons" (which began its long run in September 1972), recounting the events of one day -- Christmas Eve, 1933 -- in the lives of a rural American mountain family. Later called "The Homecoming -- A Christmas Story," it won a Christopher Award as well as Emmy...
Ellen Corby plays Grandma in both the pilot movie and the TV series. The story takes place at Christmas 1933 during the Depression, and father, John Walton, has traveled over fifty miles away to find work. The family is eagerly awaiting his return home on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the holiday.
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story is a 1971 made-for-TV movie that served as the pilot for the long-running CBS television drama The Waltons. It is 1933, during the Great Depression, and being Christmas Eve, the Walton family is in the midst of their Christmas preparations and hoping to celebrate it together. The problem is that there are many events which seem to prevent John from arriving ...
Earl Hamner, Jr. Novel, Teleplay. Fielder Cook. Director. 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.
Patricia Neal won the Best Actress Golden Globe for The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, and was nominated for an Emmy. Edgar Bergen was delightful as Zeb Walton (Grandpa) and in the film is drawn to the radio to hear President Roosevelt and Fibber McGee and Molly (which didn't premier until 1935-two years later than the year in which the film is set!).
The television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Based on its success, the CBS television network ordered the first season of episodes (to be based on the same characters) and that became the television series The Waltons . [2]
