The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

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.

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  Patricia Neal

  Olivia Walton
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  Richard Thomas

  John-Boy Walton
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  Edgar Bergen

  Ebenezer Walton
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  Ellen Corby

  Esther Walton
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  Dorothy Stickney

  Emily Baldwin
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  Josephine Hutchinson

  Mamie Baldwin
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  William Windom

  Charlie Snead
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  Cleavon Little

  Hawthorne Dooley
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  Andrew Duggan

  John Walton
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  David Huddleston

  Sheriff Ep Bridges