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- Prolog
- Star Trek
- This Side of Paradise
- SPECIAL: My Path to THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
- Metamorphosis
- SPECIAL: The Scarf And METAMORPHOSIS
- SPECIAL: Metamorphosis revisited again
- SPECIAL: Who Voiced the Companion?
- Bread And Circuses
- Obsession
- Return To Tomorrow
- Is There In Truth No Beauty?
- SPECIAL: Companion and the Ambassador
- The Tholian Web
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages - Season Two
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages - Season Three
- SPECIAL: Leonard Nimoy's Passing
- SPECIAL: STAR TREK and Me
- SPECIAL: Me and the Devil in the Dark
- ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS
- Dr. Kildare
- Twilight Zone
- Channing
- Route 66-Naked City
- Arrest and Trial
- The Nurses
- East Side West Side
- Breaking Point
- Suspense Theatre
- The Fugitive
- 12 O'Clock High
- Chrysler Theatre
- The Big Valley
- The FBI
- The Wild Wild West
- Mission: Impossible
- Judd For The Defense
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- Insight
- The Bill Cosby Show
- Then Came Bronson
- The Partridge Family
- Nanny and the Professor
- Matt Lincoln
- Dan August
- Night Gallery
- The Rookies
- Barnaby Jones
- Search
- The Waltons
- The Chicken Thief
- The Gift
- The Cradle
- The Conflict: Part I
- The Conflict: Part II
- The Marathon
- SPECIAL: Dancing at The Marathon again
- The Beguiled
- The Fire Storm
- SPECIAL: The Fire Storm rages again
- The Pony Cart
- SPECIAL: The Pony Cart Comes Home
- SPECIAL: Beulah!
- The Grandchild: Part I
- The Grandchild: Part II
- The Warrior
- Grandma Comes Home
- The Portrait
- SPECIAL: Walton's Mountain Revisited
- SPECIAL: Why I Loved Directing The Waltons
- A Dream For Christmas
- Black Lives
- Death Cruise
- Planet Of The Apes
- The Family Nobody Wanted
- Medical Story
- Three for the Road
- Jeremiah Of Jacob's Neck
- City Of Angels
- Westside Medical
- Family
- Eight Is Enough
- The New Adventures Of Heidi
- Hart To Hart
- How The West Was Won
- Dynasty
- Casablanca
- The Paper Chase: The Third Year
- The Paper Chase: The Graduation Year
- The Right Regrets
- From MCI to MGM in 21 years
- Epilog
- The Earlier Treks
- Special
Author Archives: Ralph
Part I
FILMED June-July 1978 I completed filming GRANDMA COMES HOME on THE WALTONS in February, 1978 and was booked to direct the opening episode of that series for the following season. What should have been a restful two or three-month hiatus … Continue reading
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Lovers And Strangers
FILMED November-December 1976 My string of “family” shows away from Waltons Mountain continued, scheduled in between helming more episodes of THE WALTONS. After THE FAMILY KOVACK (an unsold movie-of the week/pilot filmed partially in Chicago) and THE FAMILY NOBODY WANTED, … Continue reading
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Part II
FILMED December 1974 I don’t remember having any conversations about whether THE FAMILY NOBODY WANTED was a possible pilot for a series. At that time practically every movie made for television was, if not contractually at least hopefully. And in … Continue reading
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Part I
FILMED December 1974 A year after completing A DREAM FOR CHRISTMAS I was back in the pulpit with another minister with a large family. I wonder if it was a coincidence that after directing the family oriented THE WALTONS in … Continue reading
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Part II
FILMED October-November 1973 Not all of our location work was in southwest Los Angeles. The building and office for the man who was going to tear down the church to build his shopping center had to be an impressive building … Continue reading
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Part I
FILMED October-November 1973 I directed twelve episodes of THE WALTONS. If I had filmed them back-to-back, they would have been completed in a little more than nine months. But I didn’t film them back-to-back, so the elapsed time from the … Continue reading
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Grandma Comes Home
FILMED February 1978 Ellen Corby had suffered a serious stroke sometime after we had worked together on THE PONY CART in October, 1976. When I reported to begin prep on GRANDMA COMES HOME, I was told that as an amnesiac … Continue reading
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The Warrior
Filmed August 1977 Again with a nod to ALL ABOUT EVE’s Margo Channing: Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy fight. The day following completion of photography on THE GRANDCHILD I received the replacement script for my … Continue reading
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The Grandchild: Part II
FILMED July 1977 I missed John-Boy. I knew John-Boy Walton better than I knew Richard Earl Thomas. I had been involved with John-Boy from when he was a seventeen year-old confused teenager struggling with his conscience over what to do … Continue reading
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The Grandchild: Part I
FILMED July 1977 Again using the new opening format established in the previous fifth season, the show started with a climactic scene from later in the story, which then led into the billboard. The previous practice had been to select … Continue reading
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