TV Guide: Ellen Corby

Listing: The Inspiration

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 08:00 AM HALMRK Miss Mamie refuses to undergo cataract surgery because her father died on the operating table. Miss Emily: Mary Jackson. Steve: Philip Linton. Grandma: Ellen Corby. Drew: Tony Becker. John: Ralph Waite. Mary Ellen: Judy Norton-Taylor. Elizabeth: Kami Cotler. Ike: Joe Conley.

Listing: Forever Amber

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:30:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 05:30 AM MOMAXe

Video: Waltons: The Complete Third Season, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:54:06 -0400

Set in Jefferson County, VA, in the year 1935 or thereabouts, season three of The Waltons opens with the two-parter The Conflict, in which oldest Walton son, John-Boy (Richard Thomas), is shot while trying to protect a relative. Fortunately he survives the ordeal and is packed off to his freshman year at Boatwright College right on schedule. Meanwhile, John-Boy's mother, Olivia (Michael Learned), considers enrolling in art school, and his 15-year-old sister Mary Ellen (Judy Norton Taylor) makes the decision to become a nurse. Of the many individual story strands, there are a few standouts, notably the episode in which Grandpa and Grandma Walton (Will Geer and Ellen Corby) move off the family mountain after an argument with son John (Ralph Waite); and at season's end, John is working himself into pneumonia while trying to keep his lumber mill active and prosperous in the depths of the depression. Also, the Waltons draw even closer together than unusual when Grandpa suffers a heart attack; and Ronnie Claire Edw

Video: Waltons: The Complete Sixth Season (Exclusive), The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:53:44 -0400

Although it was clearly established during season five that the events of The Waltons were taking place in 1937 and 1938, we've jumped ahead to 1940 as the series launches its sixth season. With Richard Thomas having left the program (save for a trio of guest appearances), it is explained that young aspiring journalist John-Boy Walton has gone off to seek fame and fortune in New York City. Also absent this season is John Ritter as Reverend Matthew Fordwick (Ritter) was now starring in his own sitcom, Three's Company. Thus, Fordwick is written off as having joined the army, whereupon he is replaced in the pulpit by Rev. Hank Buchanan (Peter Fox). Likewise conspicuous by her absence is Grandma Walton, due the fact that actress Ellen Corby had suffered a stroke the previous season. Happily, Grandma will return to the series for Season Five's final episode. Unhappily, that same episode will prove to be the last for Grandpa Walton; actor Will Geer died in April of 1978, not long after shooting wrapped. In other de

Video: Waltons: The Complete Fourth Season, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:53:39 -0400

It must be 1936 in Jefferson County, VA, as The Waltons launches its fourth season. This much we can determine by the episode in which the Walton family clusters around its radio to hear the abdication of England's King Edward VIII -- and by the final episode of the season, wherein aspiring journalist John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) is urged by his former girlfriend Selina Linville (Kathleen Quinlan) to write about the Spanish Civil War...as an eyewitness. Other story developments include the long-awaited, oft-delayed wedding of Reverend Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter) and schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter (Mariclare Costello); John-Boy's first professional writing job as a cub reporter, a frustrating assignment that prompts him to consider launching his own local newspaper; the first tentative steps by John-Boy's sister Mary Ellen (Judy Norton Taylor) towards becoming a nurse; a later confrontation between Mary Ellen and Grandma (Ellen Corby) when the old lady demands that the girl participate in the traditional