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.
Writing | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Novel |
Writing | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Teleplay |
Directing | Fielder Cook | Director |
Production | Robert L. Jacks | Producer |
Production | Lee Rich | Executive Producer |
Editing | Gene Fowler Jr. | Editor |
Costume & Make-Up | Dione Taylor | Hairstylist |
Sound | Jerry Goldsmith | Original Music Composer |
Camera | Earl Rath | Director of Photography |
Costume & Make-Up | Robert Sidell | Makeup Artist |
Art | James Cane | Set Decoration |
Production | Pam Polifroni | Casting |
Art | Robert Emmet Smith | Production Design |
Editing | Marjorie Fowler | Editor |
Directing | Max Stein | Assistant Director |
Sound | Harold Lewis | Sound Mixer |
Costume & Make-Up | Robert Harris Jr. | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | Betsy Cox | Costumer |
Production | Edward O. Denault | Production Manager |
Sound | Morton Stevens | Music Supervisor |