Airdate:
12/20/79
It’s Christmas of 1943, and some mysterious developments
have the locals scratching their heads: smoke from the mountain, the
disappearance of potatoes, a break-in at the Godsey’s. It seems to be the work
of a young man named Paul, who becomes a special friend to Jeffrey. John and
the rest of the Waltons want to meet the new friend, but he disappears any time
others come near him. Finally, on Christmas Eve, he is invited inside the house
and explains that he is an escaped German prisoner of war from North Carolina,
although an American by birth. John feels the sprit has imparted on to young
Jeffrey is more important, and so he allows him to stay.
Plot wise – paper thin; all the sneaking around is
essentially just a who-is-it mystery (which the Waltons have done before) leading up to the revelation of this
guy’s identity. But the story he tells, about St. Nicholas, the depth of his
message, and the idea that the “enemy” has a human face, propels this into that
trademark Waltons-style warmth. And there’s a new dog for Jeffrey in it too!
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