When Miss Hunter is called away unexpectedly, a substitute teacher with ways of her own takes over.When Miss Hunter is called away unexpectedly, a substitute teacher with ways of her own takes over.When Miss Hunter is called away unexpectedly, a substitute teacher with ways of her own takes over.
- Olivia Walton
- (as Miss Michael Learned)
- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
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- (as Earl Hamner)
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- TriviaThe youngest Walton son Jim-Bob, played by David W. Harper, is mysteriously absent from The Substitute (1973).
- GoofsThe children go from having separate classes according to age group, though all taught by Miss Hunter, to all being in the same classroom together. In Season 1's The Star, Ben is shown having Miss Hunter give a spelling bee that only Elizabeth knows about until after it is over. Also in Season 1, in The Fire, John-Boy and Jason are shown having a science class, also taught by Miss Hunter, with only students of high school age. After the building is burned to the ground, she goes to Ike Godsey's store to find a classroom for the older high school students. She says she has found alternative classrooms for all of the other students except for the older ones. Now she is suddenly the teacher for children of all ages in the same classroom.
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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I was growing up on Waltons Mountain in those years of the Great Depression, for me and my brothers and sisters it was a time of making do with the little there was; a time of stretching a nickel 'til it bought a dime's worth; often a time of doing without. In such times, keeping children in school was just too much of a strain for many families but, for my father, educating his children had almost the same importance as feeding and clothing us. I remember one day when the regular routine of our school life was threatened.
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