Name: The Genius
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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A former girlfriend returns to Walton Mountain and challenges John-Boy to re-examine his life's goals.

The Waltons

The Collision

John-Boy takes a full-time job to earn a down-payment for a printing press.

The Fledgling

Grandma joins with the Baldwin sisters, against her husband, to save a house in her hometown from demolition.

The House

Defying Grandma, Mary Ellen refuses to take part in a quilting bee planned to mark her emergence into womanhood.

The Quilting

The offer of a full-time job as a dressmaker in a fashionable shop opens new opportunities for Olivia; guest Abby Dalton.

The Test

A 12-year-old girl tries to con the Waltons and Baldwins out of $25 in order to free her swindler grandfather from jail.

The Big Brother

John-Boy struggles with guilt after fire destroys part of the Walton home and the family becomes temporarily separated; the Walton children learn lessons about themselves away from home.

The Burn Out

Despite his battle tales, Grandpa resists efforts to reunite him with his Spanish-American War comrades. Directed by Richard Thomas.

The Fox

Suspecting that he may be adopted, Jim-Bob investigates the circumstances of his birth and uncovers a long-hidden family secret.

The Secret

Olivia, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth set out to visit a friend but wind up becoming lost on Walton's Mountain; guest Wilford Brimley.

The Search

Ben, his pride wounded by a girl, leaves home as the Waltons compete with another lumber company for an important railroad contract.

The Intruders

Mary Ellen learns about math, science and humanity as she works with a public-health nurse while preparing to enter nursing school.

The Nurse

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A mountain family struggles during the Great Depression and the years following.

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John-Boy brings home his college tutor, a 16-year-old genius who seems to possess no social skills.

S4 E2 | The Genius