Line #1 Heartwarming/TheWaltons


1	* When the family cow, Chance, gives birth to a healthy calf, John has to sell it to make ends meet; but when Elizabeth and Jim-Bob start to suspect something is wrong with the calf's new owner, they try to save it. This is a good episode and very well written. It was sweet when Jim-Bob and Elizabeth run off with the calf and John and John-Boy go out looking for them.
2	* All the scenes from "The Fawn" with Erin and the orphaned fawn Lancelot.
3	* This closing narration from "The Runaway".
4	--> '''John-Boy''': I often remember Jim-Bob saying to my father, "It's OK, next time I'll make you listen." I wish that it were in the power of all children to say that to their parents, and to know that indeed they would be heard, as we were in those wonderful days on Walton's Mountain.
5	* In the pilot movie, ''The Homecoming,'' John Walton has gotten Christmas presents for everyone, and has a big pad of writing paper for John-Boy. In a welcome aversion to the FantasyForbiddingFather stereotype, John notes that he doesn't know about John-Boy's prospects as a writer, but if that is the calling he wants to pursue, then he wants his son to be the best he can be.
6	** His presents for the rest of the family also count as this. Near the beginning of the movie, the kids talk about what they'd like Santa to bring them - a doll for Elizabeth, a teddy bear for Jim-Bob, a train set for Ben. Their daddy comes through with all of these. Jason doesn't get a piano, but he does get a fine new harmonica. Meanwhile, Olivia keeps pining for springtime, so John surprises her with a small pink rosebush; she almost cries to receive "flowers in the dead of winter!"
7	* The closing of most episodes with the family members (or key guest characters) wishing "Good night" to each other. While [[MemeticMutation oft-parodied]], the scenes themselves are heartfelt and fall more under NarmCharm for audiences.
8	* One early-season episode shows Olivia washing clothes in the kitchen sink with a scrub board, even letting her dinner get cold until John forces her to come back to the table. The rest of the episode centers around John-Boy working for the Baldwin sisters to earn enough money to buy his mother a washing machine. It's heartwarming on two levels:
9	** One, John-Boy just really loves his mother, and wants her to not have to work so hard, so ''he'' busts his ass to earn that money. He's absolutely the family hero when that big tub gets trundled into the kitchen; even Grandma is at a loss for words about how proud she is, and has to settle for giving him a big kiss on the cheek.
10	** Two, while working for the Baldwin sisters, John-Boy helps them arrange a family reunion, for which their visiting cousin has encouraged them to make an extra-big batch of "the recipe." Not only does the cousin steal all of the moonshine (and ''John's truck''), but arguably worse, all of the invitations for the reunion are returned to sender - because [[TearJerker the sisters' entire extended family have either died or become so distant that they no longer have clear contact information]]. John-Boy can't bear to see how crushed the sisters are, so he goes home and explains the situation to his parents and grandparents... who immediately get the whole family dressed in their best and head over to spend the evening with the Baldwins. Miss Mamie and Miss Emily almost break down crying because they're so happy. Midway through the festivities, the sheriff arrives to join them (and to assure John that the truck has been found and the felonious cousin arrested).
11	* At the end of "The Victims," during the usual goodnight montage, Elizabeth asks John-Boy if she can come visit him in New York. He warns her that she'd probably hate the place, since all the lights make it hard to see the stars and you can't hear the birds like you can on Walton's Mountain. She replies that she understands that, but also that New York has something even more special - him.
12	* In ''The Literary Man'' John Sr., despite being behind on a major lumber contract, drops everything and stays in the hospital when Jim-Bob comes down with appendicitis. He is also very forgiving of John-Boy for both getting distracted and taking a longer lunch while the latter was working with an author, as well as when they accidentally broke the saw when pushing it over its limits.
13	** At the end, the titular Literary Man decides to sacrifice his chance to settle down in an old foreclosed property and uses most of the money he got from selling his gold pocketwatch (which had been second prize in a writing contest when he was young) and "loaned" it to the family in order to pay for Jim-Bob's surgery.

Context Heartwarming / TheWaltons