The Waltons (TV Series)

The Substitute (1973)

Earl Hamner Jr.: The Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal]  When I was growing up on Waltons Mountain in those years of the Great Depression, for me and my brothers and sisters it was a time of making do with the little there was; a time of stretching a nickel 'til it bought a dime's worth; often a time of doing without. In such times, keeping children in school was just too much of a strain for many families but, for my father, educating his children had almost the same importance as feeding and clothing us. I remember one day when the regular routine of our school life was threatened.