Airdate: 10/4/79
In order to
continue doing business with the Norfolk army base, John must prove that he
graduated high school – but he can’t find the diploma. It turns out his
principal claimed that he would arrange John’s graduation so he could join the
army earlier, but he never did. What to do? Olivia’s idea: take an equivalency
exam, one that she can (conveniently) proctor since she is currently a
substitute teacher. After poring through grammar and math books, John takes the
test, and is not at all confident he has passed, until is greeted with a
“graduation” party by his family.
Meanwhile, Mary
Ellen finds herself as the replacement for Nurse Nora, a doctor to the
backwoods folk of Waltons Mountain, and she isn’t exactly greeted with open
arms. To ingratiate herself with the locals she must be dogged and persistent,
and bringing along cute little John Curtis doesn’t hurt either!
Lightweight
episode, you could say, has the binding theme of fitting in. New cast members
Rose, Serena and Jeffrey are finding their groove, and John Curtis Jr. gets a
fairly sizable chunk of screen time.
We’re told that
this episode takes place sometime in 1943.
Anachronism
alert: gotta love those 80s-style designer jeans, Mary Ellen!
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