Airdate: 1/17/80
When Josh Foster
and Jeffery chance upon a craps game with a group of soldiers, Josh can’t help
but take part, but just as Josh wins the kitty, Ike breaks it up and
confiscates the money. To get it back, the two boys break into Ike’s store, but
Josh gets caught while Jeffrey absconds with the money, which he buries in the
Waltons backyard. Keeping mum about the identity of his accomplice, Josh is
punished by having to paint Godsey’s store, but the guilt is too great for
Jeffrey to keep mum, so he fesses up – and happily doesn’t get the punishment he
feared: having to leave the Waltons.
We all knew Ben
was itchy to enlist in the war, but he now he’s climbing the walls. After some
soul-searching (of course), he joins the navy in a construction unit. Anchors
aweigh!
In comparison to
previous entries, this is a lighter-weight episode that updates a great Bible
story: Jonah and the Whale. It’s good to see Verdie and Josh Foster in this
one, but we learn that the father, Harley, has left for unexplained reasons.
The first separated single mother on Waltons Mountain?
It is now the
Spring of 1944 – and so we can anticipate Ben in the ETO, offering some more
war involvement. With D-Day around the corner, perhaps an epic two-parter about
the invasion? Time will tell.
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