A broke salesman buys a doll for his daughter with Olivia's down payment on a set of books.A broke salesman buys a doll for his daughter with Olivia's down payment on a set of books.A broke salesman buys a doll for his daughter with Olivia's down payment on a set of books.
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- Olivia Walton
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- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
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- (as Earl Hamner)
- Little Girl
- (as Anne Elizabeth Beesley)
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- TriviaThe title of this episode "The Five Foot Shelf" refers to a set of Harvard Classics that Olivia decides to buy from a traveling peddler/con-man. The collection that he was selling was real enough. Harvard professor Charles Elliot created the five-foot shelf of books: "to afford a good substitute for a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion."
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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Looking back down the years to the Great Depression, I realise now that our family was much more fortunate than most. Many things were in short supply, but we had the advantage of being able to live on the bounty of the rich Virginia country. And even more important than the gifts of the land, our family remained intact. We stayed together under one roof and were never deprived of the comfort and closeness of our mother and father. Those feelings easily made up for what we often lacked in material things.
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- Aug 18, 2021
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