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.
as Olivia Walton
as John-Boy Walton
as Ebenezer Walton
as Esther Walton
as Emily Baldwin
as Mamie Baldwin
as Charlie Snead
as Hawthorne Dooley
as John Walton
as Sheriff Ep Bridges
as Ike Godsey
as City Lady
as Jason
as Mary Ellen
as Erin Walton
as Ben
as Jim-Bob
as Elizabeth
