Waltons - The Complete First Season

Pros: Family Friendly, great stories and characters
Cons: No extras

I remember watching The Waltons with my family as a child and I remember watching the reruns as an adult with my children. I have to say that I was very excited to see the series begin to be released by season in box sets. The Waltons - The ...

Pros: Realistic stories deeply told, wonderfully acted with heart and it shows. No gimmicks.
Cons: No English subtitles. Other years not yet available.

This is a radical concept in American entertainment-- create a TV show without egregious sex and violence. Tell stories with real human feeling and depth. Show a model of a strong family and how they cope with ordinary everyday problems, and the ...

Pros: Great 70's family drama!
Cons: No extras!

‘The Waltons’ was classic 70’s family drama of the best kind. I have become even fonder of the series over the years when comparing it to the rubbish that has dominated in more recent years. I highly recommend this collection for the programming. Further, the sound and picture are more than adequate, though not exceptional.

What this collection is lacking, however, and gives it only an average grade is the lack of extras. There are no bonus materials—no commentary, no cast interviews, no biographies, no ‘making-of’ documentary, no promos, no Emmy Award speeches (the series won five for the first season)—nothing. What makes this an even grater crime is the fact that this collection comes on duel-layer (double sided) discs, and the tenth side is blank.

Nevertheless, I highly recommend this package for the 24 first-season episodes it contains, starting with the opener, ‘The Foundling’, about a deaf girl left at the Walton’s doorstep, and ending with ‘An Easter Story’ in which the mother, Olivia, develops polio, and by resolving and struggling to walk again by Easter, teaches her children an important lesson about fulfilling their potential.