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| 195.1 | Haven't aged much in thirty years have they? | ASDG::SBILL | | Thu Nov 25 1993 05:22 | 11 |
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I watched the reunion show too. I was a bit baffled about the timeframe
though. I was under the impression that the show was set in the mid
thirties (in the beginning) but the reunion show was set in 1963 and
they didn't look old enough. If I'm right about the time of the
original show, Johnboy would be at least in his forties yet he didn't
look much older than thirty. Do you think that they streched the time
of the show to conveniently coincide with the Kennedy assassination
nostalgia the networks are caught up in?
Steve B.
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| 195.2 | 42! | SMAUG::MILLER | Valerie Miller | Thu Nov 25 1993 05:56 | 9 |
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RE: John-Boy's age
According to the article in TV Guide, Richard Thomas is in fact 42 years
old! (And Michaeal Learned his "mother" is 54!) The article gave
everyone's age. I remember that some of them were the same age
(although they played different aged characters). I think they said
the girl who played Elizabeth is now 28.
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| 195.3 | I still love the WALTONS | SALEM::PORTER | Mike Porter, 285-2125, NIO/A19 | Sun Nov 28 1993 06:17 | 17 |
| If I remember correctly, the original show took us up to just
after WW II. I can remember the Walton boys coming home from the war.
This would help make the time frame a little more believable but still
something of a stretch.
My nine-year-old some was full of questions about the Kennedy
assasination and whether or not I remember any of it. (As if someone
who was old enough and lived through it could ever forget.) I must
admit that tears came to my eyes as I watched the reaction of the
Waltons to hearing the news.
The WALTONS still gets my vote for best TV drama ever, although I
have been watching I'LL FLY AWAY on PBS and find it hard to believe a
show so good could have been on TV and then lost to TV.
Mike
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| 195.4 | It was still a pretty good movie | ALFA1::ACQUAFRESCA | Take me to the beach, please!!!! | Tue Nov 30 1993 02:22 | 13 |
| From the article in TV Guide, Earl Hammer said not to even bother doing
the math, it will not work out. In other words, these characters are
not the age that they should be. John-Boy would be in his 40s by 1963,
but in the movie, he is portrayed in this mid 30s.
I wondered the same thing about John-Curtis. All I could think of was
that they nicknamed him Clay.
Another inconsistency was that Jim-Bob referred to Mary-Ellen as a
war-widow. But, we all know that Curtis didn't die, he was found alive
and living with another wife!!
Cheryl
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| 195.5 | Family Channel - Weeknites 7pm Eastcoast time | SCHOOL::SHOOP | Just visiting the OZONE | Wed May 17 1995 11:36 | 13 |
| My wife and re-discovered this show on the FAMILY channel
(yes - we have been living under a rock.....;^O....)!!!
With all the new books comming out about other TV shows,
has anyone seen/heard of a show book on the Waltons?
I checked with the local mall book pushers and they have no listing
(that they could find). We did find a VHS copy of Spencers Mountain
on which the story was based {according to the mall book pusher}.
ray
ps: (I did catch a 2-parter {harley's going back to jail} last
Friday that I had not ever seen....)
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