The CW will premiere the brand new, unique made-for-television film A Waltons Thanksgiving on Nov. 20.
The film is a comply with as much as the community’s profitable The Waltons’ Homecoming, which was was the community’s second most-watched particular of the 2021-22 season. The newest flick reunites the Walton household as they put together for Thanksgiving in 1934. The Melancholy has affected everybody, however John Walton (Teddy Sears) has discovered a means to supply for his household by way of the farm and by choosing up odd jobs from the eccentric Baldwin Sisters. It’s additionally the time of yr for the Annual Harvest Pageant Honest, the place carnival rides, expertise exhibits and pie contests develop into the focus for the Waltons. Because the story unfolds, John Boy (Logan Shroyer) learns the true which means of taking duty, Mary Ellen (Marcelle LeBlanc) comes to know persistence and collaboration, Grandma (Rebecca Koon) finds that successful will be difficult, and Olivia (Bellamy Younger) shares her therapeutic coronary heart with each different Walton member of the family — at a time when every of them want it most. And when a younger boy enters the Waltons’ world, everybody’s life is modified in methods they might by no means have imagined — remodeled eternally by way of love, religion and kindness.
A Waltons Thanksgiving stars Bellamy Younger as Olivia, Logan Shroyer as John Boy, Teddy Sears as John Sr., Marcelle LeBlanc as Mary Ellen, Christian Finlayson as Jason, Tatum Matthews as Erin, Samuel Goergen as Jim Bob, Calloway Corrick as Elizabeth, Alpha Trivette as Grandpa Walton, Rebecca Koon as Grandma Walton, with particular visitor stars Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.
Richard Thomas, who initially starred as John Boy Walton in The Waltons as grownup John Boy, narrates the film. Its produced by Magnolia Hill Productions in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv, with government producer Sam Haskell, author/co-executive producer Jim Pressure, co-executive producer Hudson Hickman, producer Billy Levin, and producer Bobby Kelly.
Joe Lazarov is the director/co-executive producer and Tena Clark is the composer. The Waltons unique sequence was created by Earl Hamner.