The episode aired on November 30th 1972 with the words. Growing up on Waltons Mountain in those, Depression years when times were lean and money was scarce I learned early that hard work was a central fact of life and a key to survival. I wasn't afraid of work but, above everything else, I wanted to be a writer. Gripping a book, reading and re-reading the wonderfully colored sentences... this was as close as I could get to another writer; until, one afternoon, I met someone who showed me the way I must take to be a literary man. A stranger, A.J. Covington, who plays Good Samaritan when John-Boy's truck breaks down, says he is a writer. He entertains John-Boy with his tales of adventure and the famous authors he has known. His advice to the fledgling writer, John-Boy Walton, is to try to write about what he knows: his life, his family, and his friends. Fortunately, A.J. Covington is on hand when Jim Bob develops a severe stomachache. Covington suggests that it is likely to be ************and realizes that Jim Bob needs to go urgently to the ******** to have his ******** removed. Can John and Olivia afford what Jim Bob needs? Will this writer make John Boy forget about being a writer and concentrating on his family instead? The episode was better then the last one and I give the episode 7 weasel stars.
