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The Scholar - S1-E22

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia and Esther leave for the bus to Richmond, when it cuts to Mary Ellen telling everyone that Erin isn't feeling well and she can't talk, the boom mic pops into view at the bottom of the screen, towards the right. (00:12:00)

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The Scholar - S1-E22

Visible crew/equipment: After Elizabeth tells her parents that she's sorry about her fib, when Olivia picks her up and carries her up the stairs, at the right side of the screen in the background we see lighting equipment and a hanging yellow cable, and in the foreground at the top right corner we see a bit of the barndoor set lighting. (00:39:00)

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The Scholar - S1-E22

Visible crew/equipment: While Verdie and John-Boy are in front of Godsey's, when the bus drives towards the camera the reflections of crew members, including one wearing a bright red sweatshirt, are visible on the windshield. Then as Verdie steps up onto the bus, the reflection of equipment and a crew member wearing sunglasses are visible to the left of the doorway. (00:47:25)

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The Bicycle - S1-E23

Visible crew/equipment: While Ann is riding the blue bicycle trying to catch up to Curtis, in the second closeup of Curtis driving the vehicle, the reflections of equipment and crew members who are in front of his moving car are visible on the windshield. (00:47:50)

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An Easter Story - S1-E25

Visible crew/equipment: While Mary Ellen walks home with G.W. after the Sunday services they're alone, and when G.W. tells her, "People learn how to dance," right at the start of the next shot we can see the blue shirt of a crew member at the lower left side of the screen. (00:08:30)

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The Journey - S2-E1

Visible crew/equipment: After their visit to the beach, Maggie and John-Boy go into the nearby town to look for the restaurant, and when they stop at the corner we can see the chalk T-mark on the sidewalk, then they walk a bit and another chalk T-mark is visible, and when Maggie spots the restaurant two final chalk marks are visible at their feet. (00:38:15)

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The Separation - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: After all the children leave for school, the man from the electric company goes to the back of the Walton house to turn the power off, then while Olivia, Esther, and Zeb stand near the home John gets into the truck, and in the next shot of John in the truck we can see a crew member (who appears to be shirtless) through the windshield, walking around inside the barn (this cannot be anyone else other than a crew member). (00:05:10)

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The Separation - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When John and Esther go to the Baldwin house in search of Zeb, while John leans on the vehicle door talking to Esther, in the closeups the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the back of the truck. (00:17:10)

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The Separation - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: After Zeb retrieves the misplaced perfume from the Baldwin sisters, when he meets up with John-Boy on the road, the reflections of crew members are visible on the truck's windshield when John-Boy arrives, and also when he backs up the truck. (00:36:40)

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The Theft - S2-E4

Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when John-Boy walks into his house with a bag of groceries and the newspaper, just as he says hi to his mother the boom pole and mic are visible at the top, left corner of the screen. (00:01:45)

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The Roots - S2-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After Harley tells Verdie that he's an auto mechanic but things are slow, when Jim-Bob and Elizabeth rush over to John-Boy to tell him they can keep the peach tree, the shadow of the moving boom pole and mic is visible on the ground beside Jim-Bob, at the right side of the screen. (00:06:35)

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The Roots - S2-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia and Esther talk to Verdie about Harley, while they're all busy in the kitchen with the peaches, when it cuts to Harley walking we can see set equipment at the right side of the screen. (00:21:30)

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The Roots - S2-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After John-Boy reads from the Count of Monte Cristo, everyone climbs down from the treehouse, and as Ben, Elizabeth, and Jim-Bob walks toward the Walton house, we can see a balding crew member wearing white pants, at the left side of the screen. (00:25:15)

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The Chicken Thief - S2-E6

Visible crew/equipment: After Esther scolds Zeb for falling asleep during the earlier sermon Ben tells John-Boy he wants to talk, and at the start of the next shot just as John walks to the truck, we can see black set equipment on wheels on the right side of the screen (in the next wide shot it's gone). (00:28:35)

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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 Unthinkable - S8-E15

Trivia: While John is reading the newspaper funnies to John Curtis, we hear Erin and Mary Ellen come home, so John puts the folded newspaper down on the couch. And as the newspaper lies on the couch, we can see the large white adhesive label with typewritten sentences adhered to the center of the funnies page. Presumably, these are the actor's lines as he was reading quite animatedly to the toddler (sweet moment). (00:06:25)

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