The Waltons

Olivia, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth have their car break down. They walk into the woods. They come across a cabin with a still outside. Instead of getting as far away from it as they can, they knock on the door because Elizabeth keeps whining that she's thirsty. The moonshiners drive them off somewhere and dump them in the woods. Elizabeth continues to whine that she's thirsty, then that she's hungry. She was the cause of all this to begin with.

There was an episode of Little House on the Prairie where the crops fail and Michael Landon takes a job transporting a wagon load of nitro glycerine a la The Wages of Fear. This thing was The Waltons' inoffensive answer to Deliverance. They walk through the woods. They're menaced by a non-venomous snake and later slip quietly away when they run into a bear.

It seems like other shows taught important lessons to the viewer. Like the importance of leaving people alone and not letting mountain people know you've witnessed them committing a crime.

Jim Bob uses forest survival tips he got from his father and grandfather. He catches a fish with his bare hands and chases a bear away by hitting two rocks together.

If they had watched From Russia With Love, they might have done what James Bond did and offered to pay the hillbillies to let them go.

In The Seven Beauties, the Italian guy seduces the German woman concentration camp commandant. Captain Kirk used that ploy a few times, but that would be out of the question here.

I haven't watched The Waltons in over forty years and here I only caught the last part of the episode. I've thought back to it over the years. The grandmother seemed like a horrible person, and there was an episode set during World War Two where Olivia tries to cheer up a Gold Star mother by telling her that at least her dead son won't come home from the war an emotional wreck. For some reason the bereaved mother doesn't take that well.

There was one weird episode. Every time one of the cast entered the room, they were buttoning their clothes or fastening their overalls. Like what were they just doing? That was the episode where one of the girls says she witnessed Ben going to the bathroom on the barn.