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Earl Hamner

John-Boy Wrote For The Twilight Zone!

June 4, 2012 by fpdorchak

Publicity photo of Ralph Waite (John Walton, S...
Ralph Waite (John Walton, Sr.), Richard Thomas (John Boy), and Michael Learned (Olivia Walton) from The Waltons. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yeah, wrap your head around that one!

My wife and I were watching The Waltons the other day. Yeah, you heard that right–I was watching The Waltons. It’s really a very good show–even today. Tame, to be sure, but extremely well-written and well-acted.

Anywho, as my wife and I were talking about Earl Hamner, Jr.–whose name really had a familiar ring to it besides it being from The Waltons–we did some Internet searches…and found that (I’ll be damned!) Earl Hamner, Jr., had written eight Twilight Zone episodes!

Ergo, John-Boy–who is obviously the character for Mr. Hamner, Jr.–left Walton Mountain and ended up writing for Rod Serling!

Twilight Zone.

Just thought you should know.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Earl Hamner, Jr., Rod Serling, The Waltons, Twilight Zone

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