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The Move - S9-E8

Visible crew/equipment: While the family starts packing up their car with John's suitcases and boxes, right after John says, "I just don't want any kind of a big scene," a cluster of boom mics dip into view and stays there at the top of the screen, over Mary Ellen and Jason. Then in the closeup, as John agrees that they will all go see Olivia, a crew member wearing a blue shirt (with a front pocket) is visible in the vehicle's window reflection. (00:44:40)

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The Threshold - S9-E17

Visible crew/equipment: After Ike goes off to help Jim-Bob and Jason with the antenna cable, just at the moment it cuts to John-Boy on the porch, at the start of the shot, on the right side of the screen we can see the shadow of someone's arm motioning to the young actor who is playing John Curtis, so he can open the screen door to step onto the porch at the correct time. (00:39:40)

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The Move - S9-E8

Visible crew/equipment: When Ben and Cindy enter the mill's office to speak to John, as John says, "We've got a lot of talking to do," the chalk T-mark is visible on the floor behind Cindy. John will stand at this spot when he gets up and tells the couple not to worry about him. (00:17:45)

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The Beginning - S9-E14

Visible crew/equipment: When Toni is setting the table Mary Ellen walks over to give her a hand, and the white tape mark is visible on the floor where Mary Ellen stands. It's most noticeable just as Jim-Bob lifts his leg over the bench, when he sits at the table. (00:13:50)

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The Pearls - S9-E15

Visible crew/equipment: After Elizabeth informs Ike that Corabeth's sister, Orma Lee, is resting in the back room it cuts to the Walton family having dinner, and as Jason tells the others they should all stay out of it, the shadow of the boom mic is moving about on the white door. (00:09:55)

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The Heartache - S9-E19

Visible crew/equipment: After Stanley drives Rose home, when she tells him that she does not want to marry him Rose gets out of the vehicle, and as the camera tracks closer, the reflection of the camera operator is visible in the small window beside Stanley. (00:20:15)

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The Heartache - S9-E19

Visible crew/equipment: After Cindy brushes Virginia's hair it cuts to Mary Ellen and Erin serving Rose, and in the background we can see the green tape mark on the floor near Elizabeth, then when Elizabeth walks toward the table the yellow T-mark is also visible on the floor behind Ben. (00:37:55)

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The Revel - S9-E22

Visible crew/equipment: After John-Boy says goodbye to his family then walks up the road it cuts to Belle in her office, and when she says that Mr. Fairfield is a man after her own heart, the shadow of the boom mic is moving on the wall at the upper right corner of the screen. (00:03:40)

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The Heartbreaker - S5-E21

Factual error: When Elizabeth asks Zeb how Vanessa can be happy, Zeb has his old catalog with a bunch of flower seed packets on his lap, and as they both hold up the packets, particularly Elizabeth, the modern Universal Product Codes are at the back of the packets. The UPC did not exist until many years later. (00:10:05)

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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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