- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] As close-knit and self-sufficient as our family was, still, neighbors were very important in those days when we were growing up on Waltons Mountain. There were families like ourselves, struggling to keep the land we owned, and there were tenant farmers at the mercy of the weather, crop prices and absentee landlords.
- John-Boy Walton: How's everybody around here?
- Zack Roswell: Well, wife's laid up with the pleurisy. Been doctoring herself with mutton tallow poultices. I'd rather have the pleurisy than be doctored with that mutton tallow.
- Erin Walton: Harold, don't just sit there, do something!
- Harold Beasley: [Feigns injury] Ow, my back, ow.