Pearl Shear

Ray and Debra have Thanksgiving at their house with all the in-laws.

After Pugsley befriends Gorgo, a circus gorilla, Gorgo decides to follow Pugsley and Gomez home, where he is accepted as one of the family. But Gorgo gives Morticia's tea guests, the Ladies League members, quite a shock.

The Bundys vote against a two cent beer tax.

John-Boy struggles with guilt after fire destroys part of the Walton home and the family becomes temporarily separated.

John-Boy becomes the target of public indignation when he insists on printing excerpts from Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

John struggles to fill a huge lumber contract; Erin and Mary Ellen move to Charlottesville; guest Michael Conrad.