The Waltons

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 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 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 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 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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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 Townie - S1-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When John-Boy picks up Sarah at her house and also later when he brings her back, the reflections of crew members and equipment are visible in the window, behind the clothesline. (00:02:10 - 00:08:50)

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The Literary Man - S1-E12

Visible crew/equipment: When John-Boy walks into his home late and explains that A.J. helped him fix the truck, the long white tape mark is visible on the floor at John-Boy's feet, as well as the small white tape mark near Ben's feet. (00:10:55)

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The Beau - S7-E9

Visible crew/equipment: After Jim-Bob finishes siphoning the gas out of John's car, when John walks over to the vehicle Jim-Bob tells him he has a surprise for him, and the distinctive shadow of one of the location's large carbon arc lights is visible on the ground behind John. It's seen again after John's comment about mechanics and Jim-Bob's car. (00:33:10)

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Day of Infamy - S7-E10

Visible crew/equipment: After everyone listens to FDR's address to Congress on the radio, when Verdie knocks on the door Olivia walks over, and just as Olivia opens the door the shadow of the boom mic moves up the wall by the couch. (00:38:20)

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Day of Infamy - S7-E10

Visible crew/equipment: After the shots of Olivia and John singing in the truck, when Mary Ellen wishes her parents were home, in the tracking shot as the camera moves past the vehicle, we can see reflections of equipment and the camera operator wearing a hat. Also, the T-mark (plastic type) is visible on the ground where Mary Ellen stops, before she sees Verdie. (00:14:50)

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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 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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