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[R.I.P.] Walton's Star Ralph Waite dies at 85

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Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr. in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

Read more here: BBC News - Waltons star Ralph Waite dies at 85

I hadn't thought about this show for a long time, but I do remember enjoying watching it.

Rest in peace, Ralph Waite, you provided a lot of entertainment for a lot of people over the years.
 
Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr. in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

Read more here: BBC News - Waltons star Ralph Waite dies at 85

I hadn't thought about this show for a long time, but I do remember enjoying watching it.

Rest in peace, Ralph Waite, you provided a lot of entertainment for a lot of people over the years.


Goodnight, John.
 
Huh.

I haven't even really thought of the show in years but we'd watch it every week.
 
THE WALTONS was one of my favorite TV shows and I own many seasons of it. While the focus was on John Boy as the lead character - Waite was really the anchor that held the old thing together. I remember seeing him as the perfect father figure in many ways. Great actor and a pretty good guy in real life as well. He will live on.
 
Huh.

I haven't even really thought of the show in years but we'd watch it every week.

:agree: So did we. Could he be the third in the old saying "celebrity deaths come in threes?" Sid Caesar, Shirley Temple Black, and now Ralph Waite? All had long running radio or TV shows, which is why I didn't include Whitney Houston, who was a celebrity in a different genre.
 
I blame Obama.

Do you think the Walton's would have voted for Obama or would they have been labeled as redneck hillbillies by the Democrats today ?

I didn't watch the Walton's that much but I seem to remember they had to travel some distance to use the Roosevelt Phone at the general store.

RIP Ralph.
 
It was a great show, wasn't it?

You know....I really can't remember any specific episode. At some point we switched from watching The Waltons to watching Eight is Enough and, frankly, I can't remember much of anything about either of them. They were good family shows but my interests were always more with my family than with theirs.
 
Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr. in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

Read more here: BBC News - Waltons star Ralph Waite dies at 85

I hadn't thought about this show for a long time, but I do remember enjoying watching it.

Rest in peace, Ralph Waite, you provided a lot of entertainment for a lot of people over the years.

That's weird because (believe it or not) I only saw the Waltons for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I kinda liked the show too because it was more wholesome than half the **** you see on TV today.
 
You know....I really can't remember any specific episode. At some point we switched from watching The Waltons to watching Eight is Enough and, frankly, I can't remember much of anything about either of them. They were good family shows but my interests were always more with my family than with theirs.

I watched a couple of episodes recently, like the one where John Boy's sister sold his typewriter and they had to track it down because it was borrowed. Or the episode where a trees smashed into the churches roof on Christmas eve and everyone had to work Christmas eve to repair the Church for Christmas services...
 
That's weird because (believe it or not) I only saw the Waltons for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I kinda liked the show too because it was more wholesome than half the **** you see on TV today.

its better than 90% of the crap on TV today.
 
You know....I really can't remember any specific episode.
At some point we switched from watching The Waltons to watching Eight is Enough and, frankly, I can't remember much of anything about either of them. They were good family shows but my interests were always more with my family than with theirs.




Same here.

I just remember that it was a great show.
 
THE WALTONS was one of my favorite TV shows and I own many seasons of it. While the focus was on John Boy as the lead character - Waite was really the anchor that held the old thing together. I remember seeing him as the perfect father figure in many ways. Great actor and a pretty good guy in real life as well. He will live on.

:agree: RIP Ralph Waite. Condolences to his family and friends.

Greetings, Haymarket. :2wave:
 
There were always lessons to be learned (for the youngin's) on that show.

RIP. :(
 
Gibbs's father died?!? Oh, horrors. You all are so far in the past, he was Gibbs's father on NCIS for years. Granted only a few episodes here and there, but still.

RIP
 
Huh.

I haven't even really thought of the show in years but we'd watch it every week.

It was a great show, wasn't it?

:agree: So did we. Could he be the third in the old saying "celebrity deaths come in threes?" Sid Caesar, Shirley Temple Black, and now Ralph Waite? All had long running radio or TV shows, which is why I didn't include Whitney Houston, who was a celebrity in a different genre.

Gibbs's father died?!? Oh, horrors. You all are so far in the past, he was Gibbs's father on NCIS for years. Granted only a few episodes here and there, but still.

RIP
The Walton's is currently showing on one of the Hallmark cable channels.
 
There were always lessons to be learned (for the youngin's) on that show.

RIP. :(

There were lessons for all of us. I remember one show where Anti- German feelings were running high with WW2 and the town was burning German books. John Boy tried to talk sense into folks but got nowhere. In the last scene he asked a woman of German ancestry to pull a book from the big pile they were about to burn and read the first few lines for everyone. She started reading and it turned out to be the Bible. Nobody burned any books from that point on. It was very powerful.

http://www.the-waltons.com/season5.html#The_Firestorm

season 5 episode 5 The Firestorm

I also really liked how the Ralph Waite character was spiritual but did not go to church on Sunday with the rest of the family. He would go up on the mountain or walk in the woods and that was how he observed Sunday. Now from time to time he would go to church - but that was the exception rather than the rule for him.
 
loved that show as a kid; my family would watch it together. rest in peace.
 
Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr. in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85.

Read more here: BBC News - Waltons star Ralph Waite dies at 85

I hadn't thought about this show for a long time, but I do remember enjoying watching it.

Rest in peace, Ralph Waite, you provided a lot of entertainment for a lot of people over the years.

Indeed. I watched the entire series in re-runs as I didn't appreciate it before.

R.I.P Father Walton
 
One of the best tv shows ever. RIP Mr. Waite - you will be missed.
 
Do you think the Walton's would have voted for Obama or would they have been labeled as redneck hillbillies by the Democrats today ?

I didn't watch the Walton's that much but I seem to remember they had to travel some distance to use the Roosevelt Phone at the general store.

RIP Ralph.

I remember the episode when social security was brought in and they were happy about that. I'm guessing they'd have been liberal.
 
loved that show as a kid; my family would watch it together. rest in peace.

Our family did, too. My (step)mother even adopted their tradition of holding hands during grace and kept it until she died .....even when we had company.
 
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