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American 1972–1981 television series

For other uses, see The Waltons (disambiguation).

The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and subsequent wartime homefront of World War II of the early 1940s.

It was created by screenwriter / authorEarl Hamner Jr. (1923–2016), based on his 1961 book Spencer's Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name. The Waltons aired almost a decade later from 1972-81, however relocated from the Spencers family 1963 film portrayal of the geographic site in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming and late 1950s era to creator Hamner's real-life memories and home turf of western Virginia (born and raised near Schuyler, Nelson County) and appropriate time period of the Depression era '30s