The Waltons

The Prize - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: While driving to the fair John-Boy tells Oscar it's the next turn on the right, then it cuts to two overhead shots of the fairgrounds, and in that second overhead shot we can see the crew's Panavision camera at the bottom right corner of the screen. As an aside, Panavision was founded in 1953. (00:28:40)

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The Prize - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: When Oscar and the Baldwin sisters get up to leave after their visit with the Walton family, they walk to the front door and we can see set equipment at the right side of the screen. Then when they get into the vehicle and start to drive away, the reflections of some crew members are visible on the vehicle windows. (00:10:20)

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The Rumor - S6-E14

Visible crew/equipment: At the mill, when John tells Buck that Willie Brimmer might be at the Montgomery cabin with Jim-Bob, in the next closeup of John we see a billowy trail of cigarette smoke at the bottom right corner of the screen, but the only people standing there are Elizabeth, John, and Buck, and none are smoking. Presumably, it was someone offscreen smoking too close to the camera (similar to a mistake in 1978's "Halloween"). (00:26:05)

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The Reunion - S1-E14

Ike: How's it feel to be a working man?
John-Boy: Ike, Mama would skin me alive! Everyone knows those two ladies make bootleg whiskey.
Ike: But they don't know what they're doing. They're just following their papa's Recipe.
John-Boy: But sometimes they sell it!
Ike: Yeah, but they're just like two little girls by a roadside selling lemonade.

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The Journey - S2-E1

Trivia: While Maggie MacKenzie and John-Boy are at the Mermaid Restaurant, when they both dance together Maggie envisions her long deceased husband, Michael MacKenzie, dancing with her instead of John-Boy. It is Earl Hamner Jr. who portrays Michael MacKenzie in this uncredited onscreen cameo during the scene (note teeth and facial features are identical).

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