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Après avoir purgé trois ans de prison pour couvrir son petit ami gangster, Kevin, Gloria retourne à New York pour l'argent qu'on lui a promis. À l'intérieur de la base d'opérations de Kevin, elle trouve Nicky, dont la famille a été tuée.

Five years after J.R. Ewing lost Ewing Oil and apparently committed suicide, he turns up alive and well. He returns to Dallas and plots to bring his family back together, and regain control of Ewing Oil from his archenemy Cliff Barnes.

In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorman in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place John-Boy lived as a child is Aurora, a TIME magazine photographer who is doing a story on John-Boy. Meanwhile, Elizabeth returns from her travels and announces to Drew, who is still working at the mill with Ben, that she is home to stay. She is very upset to find that Drew did not wait for her, and that he has a new girlfriend. Also, problems arise for John-Boy and Janet because the longer John-Boy stays on the mountain, the more he becomes convinced that he would like to settle down there, raise his family, and continue with his writing, whereas Janet wants to stay in New York.

The Waltons reunite once again to celebrate the 1960s wedding of their eldest, John-Boy, but impending crises threaten to shatter the family's happiness.