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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

72.19% | Dec 19, 1971 | Drama, Family, TV Movie

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.

Featured Crew

Fielder Cook
Director
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Teleplay

Cast

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Patricia Neal
Olivia Walton
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Richard Thomas
John-Boy Walton
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Edgar Bergen
Ebenezer Walton
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Ellen Corby
Esther Walton
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Dorothy Stickney
Emily Baldwin

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