The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

Dec 19, 1971

1h 39m

★ 7.2

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Family

TV Movie

Production Companies

CBS

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Cast

Olivia Walton

Patricia Neal

John-Boy Walton

Richard Thomas

Ebenezer Walton

Edgar Bergen

Esther Walton

Ellen Corby

Emily Baldwin

Dorothy Stickney

Mamie Baldwin

Josephine Hutchinson

Charlie Snead

William Windom

Hawthorne Dooley

Cleavon Little

John Walton

Andrew Duggan

Sheriff Ep Bridges

David Huddleston

Ike Godsey

Woodrow Parfrey

City Lady

Sally Chamberlin

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