The Walton family is unpleasantly surprised when Ben (Eric Scott) comes home at the ungodly hour of 3 a.m. in the company of his girlfriend Cindy (Leslie Winston, in her first series appearance). No sooner has the family adjusted to this development than Ben drops the big bombshell: he and Cindy have just gotten married! In the days that follow, the suspicions of the younger Walton kids are aroused concerning the reason that Ben made so sudden a decision, while the fiercely independent Cindy balks at being ordered about by her new husband. Elsewhere, Corabeth Godsey (Ronnie Claire Edwards) is in for a bit of a letdown when she purchases a fountain that she had loved as a youth. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi