Kim O'Brien

The Walton household is upset when John-Boy brings home a teenage college-student genius with a photographic memory.

The first day at Boatwright College is full of complications for John-Boy Walton.

Ponch and Jon try to intervene between the surfers and "valley" kids before things get out of hand and someone gets seriously hurt.

A Vietnam vet is denied government assistance, despite having lost a leg and an arm.

A sequence of tragedies leads to the death of three cowboys, one of them an old friend of Matt's.

At a luxurious but remote tropical island resort, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke somehow makes the secret dreams of his well-heeled guests come true, although twists of fate occasionally turn those dreams into nightmares. He is assisted by Tattoo, a little person who could be trusted to sing out, "Da plane! Da plane!" as each group of guests arrived. In the final season of the series, Roarke is joined by Lawrence, a dapper Englishman. As a sort of anthology series, the show featured new guest stars each week, and many big names of the era made a trip onto "Fantasy Island."