Airdate:
10/28/76
There’s a
prowler on the loose in the woods of Waltons Mountain. Everyone’s now a bit
skittish, and a lot more vigilant. Talk about bad timing: Jason decides to rent
a social hall from Ike with which to host a dance with live music, but with a
mystery menace out and about, selling tickets to this thing is like offering
swimming lessons in a pool of piranhas! John and Zeb snoop around the area to
find new neighbors: a hostile backwoods woman and her son, who never seems to
be there. You guessed it: it’s him; while practicing, Jason tackles him to the
ground to find that he’s a mute, harmless young man with a talent for weaving.
John helps him get a job repairing wicker furniture, and dance is a huge
success!
OK episode is a
good Halloween yarn, but little more. Ending is satisfying, if a little tidy.
Peggy Webber is good as the mute man’s mother, and maybe more about why she’s
so overprotective could make this more of a character study than the equivalent
of “Bigfoot Meets the Waltons.”
A lot of
terrific camerawork this season, especially more handheld work. Good stuff!
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