1x12 The Dust Bowl Cousins - The Waltons Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x12
Title: The Dust Bowl Cousins
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: Dec. 07, 1972

Season 1 » Episode #12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins

The Waltons - 01x12 The Dust Bowl Cousins

Summary: When distant cousins of John's arrive on the mountain, they say that they will be staying long enough to get a letter that tells Job where he could find work. However, after an extended stay, the letter never arrives and the family wears out their welcome with their dishonest ways.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

John-Boy Walton	played by Richard Thomas
Sr.	played by Ralph Waite
Esther Walton	played by Ellen Corby
The Grandfather	played by Will Geer
Mary Ellen Walton	played by Judy Norton-Taylor
Jim-Bob Walton	played by David W. Harper
Yancy Tucker	played by Robert Donner
Ham Denby	played by Warren Vanders
Cora Walton Denby	played by Jay W. MacIntosh

Season 1 / Episode 12: - The Dust Bowl Cousins

Mary Ellen Walton: Ohhh, I'm gonna be thirteen forever! It's absolutely the worst possible time in a person's whole entire life!
Olivia Walton: You'll live through it. C'mon.
Mary Ellen Walton: Ohhh, some days I just hate to face the world! I'd like to just sit up in my room and not have to say a word to a soul.
Olivia Walton: That's natural at your age.
Mary Ellen Walton: I'm gonna die on Waltons Mountain and never see anything of the world but Charlottesville!
John Walton, Sr.: Now, sugar, I think it's time you found out. The world is flat. Twenty miles past Charlottesville, it just drops off into nothin'.
Mary Ellen Walton: Oh, Daddy, it's not funny!

Season 1 / Episode 12: - The Dust Bowl Cousins

Yancy Tucker: [discussing the Walton's shiftless cousins] Ain't that just like John and Livvy Walton, take in kin, house and feed 'em when times are like they are?
Ike Godsey: Yeah.
Yancy Tucker: I sure hope that business about breadin' cast upon the water's true.
Ike Godsey: Yancy, there are times, sad to say, when "bread upon the waters" comes back good for nuthin' except a soggy sandwich.

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