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title: The Waltons text: The Waltons The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his book "Spencer's Mountain" and a 1963 film of the same name, about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. The television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Based on its success, the CBS television network ordered one season of episodes based on the same characters and that became the television series "The Waltons". Beginning in September 1972, the series subsequently aired on CBS for nine seasons. After the series was canceled title: The Waltons text: in 1976 and Tuesdays at 19.00 through 1977. After that, seasons 6-9 would be broadcast on BBC 2 again, starting on April 30, 1979 and concluding in April 1983. The three reunion TV movies filmed in 1982 were also shown on BBC 2 from December 21 to December 28, 1983. The show was repeated on Channel 4 in the 1990s. It currently airs on True Entertainment in the UK. The Waltons The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his book "Spencer's Mountain" and a 1963 film of the same name, about a family title: 1, 2, 3 Go! text: 1, 2, 3 Go! 1, 2, 3 Go! is an American filmed children's television series hosted by Jack Lescoulie with Richard Thomas (who would later go on to star in the successful CBS drama series, "The Waltons"); The show also featured Richard Morse, only for the first episode as The Courier, and Joseph Warren, who portrayed Thomas Jefferson in the first episode. The 30-minute educational series was telecast on NBC in 1961-62, opening with this theme song: Each episode had a theme and was narrated by Thomas. The show established that adult and child were on an equal footing, sometimes title: The Waltons text: by CBS in 1981, NBC aired three television movie sequels in 1982, with three more in the 1990s on CBS. "The Waltons" was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in syndication. The main story is set in Walton's Mountain, a fictional mountain-area community in fictitious Jefferson County, Virginia. The real place upon which the stories are based is the community of Schuyler in Nelson County, Virginia. The time period is from 1933 to 1946, during the Great Depression and World War II, during the presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. title: The Waltons text: which Warner owned. Warner Bros. acquired Lorimar in 1989, and has continued to syndicate the series ever since. Reruns currently air in the U.S. on INSP, the Hallmark Channel. In Canada, "The Waltons" airs on Vision TV and BookTelevision. In the UK, the series was broadcast on BBC 1 and BBC 2 during the 1970s/1980s - the first three seasons were broadcast on BBC 2 from February 18, 1974 to May 17, 1976, on Mondays at 20.00 GMT, and seasons 4 and 5 were shown on BBC 1 from September 5, 1976 to August 30, 1977, on Sundays at 16.10