Airdate: 2/26/76
Mr. Johnson, the
owner of The Jefferson County Times, the
newspaper where John-Boy works as a stringer, has decided to pack up and move
to Florida, but offers to sell John-Boy his old printing press. Stirred by the
prospect of starting up his very own local newspaper, he accepts the offer, but
takes up a part time job at a bus station to afford the down payment.
Additionally, he moves out of the Waltons homestead into a boarding house, but
finds that they’re aren’t enough hours in the day for everything, not even his
novel, which his college professor is pressuring him to work on. Fired from his
job, John-Boy is disheartened to find that Mr. Johnson has already moved away
and taken the press, but when he arrives home, he sees that the press is in the
barn, the down-payment paid off by his professor.
Autobiographical
episode penned by series creator Earl Hamner is a touchtone in John-Boy’s life:
with the acquisition of a printing press, he’s now a budding entrepreneur, one
step closer to being gainfully employed as a writer. Good supporting characters
enhance a sharp, singular-plot script, and now we know the secret ingredient in
a top-notch burger!
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