The Homecoming: A Christmas Story 1971

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Drama Family TV Movie

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.

Release Date 1971-12-19
Runtime 1h 39m
Directors Fielder Cook, Earl Rath, Max Stein
Producers Robert L. Jacks, Lee Rich
Writers Earl Hamner, Jr., Earl Hamner, Jr.