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The series took a turn for heavier serious stories as they went through the war and in the episodes that came after. I mean, more serious problems than what they usually faced in the earlier years.

This episode was a stroll on the funny side of Walton's Mountain, with most of the humor provided by Ronnie Claire Edwards, playing not only Corabeth, who spent most of the episode visiting an aunt in Doe Hill, but her sister, Orma Lee, who is a total opposite of the character of Corabeth.

A lot of people here disparage Ms Edwards in this series. I think the actress was marvelous, but playing a role that wasn't supposed to be as likable as almost everyone else. Here, she showed great versatility in playing a hard-drinking, pool-shooting oft-married, blond who arrives to visit her sister and meet her brother-in-law just after Corabeth leaves on the train for Doe Hill.

There was even a funny slapstick scene (rare on The Waltons) involving Orma Lee's husband and Ike, when they failed to communicate clearly on meeting each other.

The secondary plot dealt with Elizabeth longing to be with her parents, largely because her grown-up siblings seemed to keep doing everything without her, including visiting brother Jason's saloon for a family bingo night.

My memory might fail me, but I cannot recall a Waltons episode that had so much of the story meant to be humorous. Seinfeld it wasn't, but it was a most amusing episode, so I gave it a 9.