Airdate: 1/25/73
Olivia’s Uncle Cody comes to visit the family. He’s a quiet, rather depressed man who had just lost his banking job, so the elder family members hatch a plan to fix him up with an older woman just as literate and worldly as he is, Cordelia Hunnicut. When he finds out that she had been married four times, he begins to have reservations about their relationship, but ultimately, true love prevails. The episode ends with the first of several weddings on Walton’s Mountain, this one presided upon by none other than Reverend Fordwick (again played by John Ritter).
Young love (the previous “The Love Story”) is followed by vintage love, and the twilight romance in this show is truly charming indeed. Eduard Franz plays Cody as a classic tragic figure, a sad man at the end of a long career with little to show for it. Leave it to the Waltons to afford him a rare happy ending.
Time shift: In the episode “The Ceremony,” the time period indicated is September, 1935; now, according to Hamner’s narration, it is the Spring of 1933. (They sure didn’t waste much time putting up a picture of FDR!)
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