The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
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Cast
- Patricia Neal — Olivia Walton
- Richard Thomas — John-Boy Walton
- Edgar Bergen — Ebenezer Walton
- Ellen Corby — Esther Walton
- Dorothy Stickney — Emily Baldwin
- Josephine Hutchinson — Mamie Baldwin
- William Windom — Charlie Snead
- Cleavon Little — Hawthorne Dooley
- Andrew Duggan — John Walton
- David Huddleston — Sheriff Ep Bridges
- Woodrow Parfrey — Ike Godsey
- Sally Chamberlin — City Lady
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