The Waltons: Season 09 (1980)

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The ninth and final season of The Waltons opens with the series 200th episode, in which John Walton (Ralph Waite) pays a visit to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to clear his black friend Harley Foster (Hal Williams) from a trumped-up criminal charge. As for the other resident of Walton Mountain, John's wife Olivia continues battling TB at a health spa in Arizona (actress Michael Learned is no longer a regular); oldest son John-Boy (Robert Wightman) has recovered from his wartime injuries and is working as a news correspondent in Paris. Another son, Ben (Eric Scott), has been captured by the enemy but is released when WW2 ends, whereupon he returns to his Viriginia home with plans of becoming an engineer. Not long after applying for medical school, daughter Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) discovers that her husband Curt (Tom Bower), reported killed at Pearl Harbor, is still alive -- which puts her in quite a dilemma since in the intervening years she has fallen in love with another man. And son Jason (Jon Walmsley) is engaged to WAC Toni Hazelton (Lisa Harrison). With hostilies in Europe at an end, John-Boy returns to America to launch a new aspect of his journalistic career at an experimental college TV station; ultimately, however, he comes back to Walton mountain. As the series comes to a close, John Walton prepares to leave Virginia to join Olivia in Arizona -- but who will take charge of the family's lumber mill? ~ Rovi