V pohoří Blue Ridge ve Virginii, během Velké hospodářské krize, rodina Waltonů dosahuje malého příjmu ze své pily na Waltonově hoře. Příběh je vyprávěn očima nejstaršího syna Johna-Boye, který chce být romanopiscem, chodí na vysokou školu a nakonec si splní svůj sen. Sága sleduje rodinu prostřednictvím hospodářské krize a druhé světové války; a prostřednictvím dospívání, školy, námluv, manželství, zaměstnání, narození, stárnutí, nemoci a smrti.
Hrají: Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Kami Cotler, Judy Norton, David W. Harper, Earl Hamner Jr., Ralph Waite, Richard Thomas, .....Joe Conley, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, John Ritter, Jeff Maxwell, Robert Wightman, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Richard Gilliland, Keith Coogan, Helen Kleeb, Lewis Arquette, Robert Donner, Kevin Scott Allen, Jackie Earle Haley, Glenn Withrow, Enrique Castillo, Mary Wickes, Ernie Lively, Scott Hylands, Bob Bralver, Kenneth Tigar, Eric Stoltz, Janit Baldwin, Jean Marsh, Peggy Rea, Paul Michael Glaser, Barbara Eda-Young, Diana Douglas, James Karen, Alley Mills, Joan Pringle, Tom Bower, Gloria Stuart, Lee Purcell, Tony Moran, Jonathan Frakes, Lisa Eilbacher, Charlotte Stewart, Dorothy Tristan, George Tobias, Noah Beery Jr., Robert Dryer, James Gammon, Rance Howard, Todd Bridges, Richard Hatch, Peggy McCay, Wayne Northrop, Lanna Saunders, Dee Carroll, Conrad Janis, Meg Wyllie, T.K. Carter, Melody Thomas Scott, Joanna Moore, Victor French, Jack Ging, Barry Miller, William Lucking, Deborah Richter, Jay Robinson, Wyatt Knight, Ned Beatty, Brian Avery, Ben Piazza, Jeanette Nolan, Denver Pyle, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Casey Tibbs, Charles Tyner, Lynn Wood, Mary Jo Catlett, Ivan Bonar, Dick Sargent, Sab Shimono, Barbara Tarbuck, Pat Corley, Mills Watson, Eduard Franz, William Schallert, John Karlen, John Mitchum, Pippa Scott, Sian Barbara Allen, David Huddleston, Gregory Sierra, Louise Latham, Susan Krebs, Virginia Capers, Victor Arnold, Don 'Red' Barry, Bill Erwin, John McLiam, Bonnie Bartlett, Henry Darrow, Jordan Charney, Allyn Ann McLerie, Frank Ferguson, Virginia Gregg, Robert Shayne, Bill Quinn, Don Hanmer, E.J. André, Eddie Ryder, Robert Karnes, Jim Antonio, Arthur Malet, Jacques Aubuchon, Charlie Picerni, Sam Gilman, Victoria Carroll, Alan Fudge, Paulene Myers, Kaiulani Lee, Eric Lawson, Macon McCalman, Basil Hoffman, Warren J. Kemmerling, William Bryant, George Wallace, Rebecca Perle, John Crawford, Lin McCarthy, Fran Ryan, Robert Sorrells, Neva Patterson, Richard Venture, Elise Caitlin, Leonard Stone, Larry J. Blake, Nolan Leary, David Clarke, Alvy Moore, Booth Colman, Arthur Space, James Bond III, Ted Gehring, Billie Bird, Les Lannom, Dennis Redfield, Tony Becker, Roy Engel, Erin Moran, Celia Lovsky, Damon Douglas, Ford Rainey, Joyce Jameson, Amzie Strickland, Meegan King, Bruce French, George Chandler, William Phipps, John Myhers, Paul Linke, Don Keefer, Richard X. Slattery, Kent Williams, Richard O'Brien, William Bramley, Ed Call, John Furlong, Kathleen O'Malley, Willie Aames, Hal Williams, Vernon Weddle, Jon Lormer, Queenie Smith, Jack O'Leary, Garry Walberg, Linda Marsh, Sheila Allen, Jack Collins, Ross Elliott, Seamon Glass, Penelope Windust, Robert Rockwell, Beeson Carroll, Janet Julian, Herbert Anderson, Peggy Webber, Michelle Stacy, Davis Roberts, Taylor Lacher, Kip Niven, Dan Frazer, Mary Jackson, Richard Eastham, Lynn Hamilton, James Ingersoll, Randall Carver, Linda Watkins, Todd Susman, Abby Dalton, Anita Dangler, Ivy Jones, Stephen Keep Mills, F. William Parker, Patch Mackenzie, Michael Richardson, Peter Fox, Wayne Heffley, James Saito, Julie Cobb, Art Gilmore, Jean Allison, Deanna Lund, Teddy Wilson, Nora Marlowe, Mark Miller, Noah Keen, Bernard Barrow, Bettye Ackerman, Michael Conrad, Hank Stohl, Lewis Charles, Victor Izay, Woody Chambliss, Arthur Hanson, Don Collier, Paul Jenkins, Helen Page Camp, John Hawker, Robert Clotworthy, John Carter, Audrey Christie, John Wheeler, John Lawrence, Maggie Malooly, Pamela McMyler, Claudia Bryar, Tom Lacy, Ivy Bethune, Burton Gilliam, Hank Brandt, Curtis Credel, Len Wayland, Mariclare Costello, Craig Huxley, Kat Sawyer, Alice Hirson, Richard Christie, Carolyn Coates, Jason Wingreen, Lew Brown, Louise Lorimer, Thomas Bellin, Harry Hickox, Sandra Deel, Elizabeth Harrower, Jay Ripley, Jenny Sullivan, Donald Hotton, Eldon Quick, Gino Conforti, Barry Cahill, Bill Morey, Robert Gooden, Corinne Camacho, Helen Craig, Erin Blunt, Shirley O'Hara, Sandy Kenyon, Regis Cordic, Tim Haldeman, Lucille Benson, Richard Kelton, Harry Basch, Byron Morrow, John Walsh, William Wintersole, Anne Loos, Angela Greene, Jack Manning, Karen Kondazian, Patricia Wilson, Penelope Sudrow, Sherry Hursey, Jordan Clarke, Richard McKenzie, John Steadman, Dana Gladstone, Jean Howell, Judy Motulsky, Warren Vanders, Molly Dodd, Deborah White, Joan Tompkins, Elayne Heilveil, Edward Bell, Shawn Shea, James Nolan, Logan Field, Jerry Fujikawa, Marjorie Eaton, Gary Vinson, Jimmy Nickerson, Britt Leach, Joseph Bernard, Jon Locke, Brad Trumbull, Michael McGreevey, Sally Kemp, Tamar Cooper, Mitzi Hoag, C. Lindsay Workman, Kelton Garwood, Adrienne Marden, Bill McLean, John J. Fox, Vicki Schreck, Kym Karath, Bob Hastings, James Nusser, Ken Wright, Susan Blu, Barbara Cason, Monty Margetts, Bella Bruck, Dennis Cross, Iggie Wolfington, Royce Wallace, Jordan Bennett, Russ Marin, Frederic Downs, Kevin Geer, John Pearce, Ivor Francis, Herb Armstrong, Patrick Gorman, Lew Palter, Ted Jordan, Peter Hooten, Danna Hansen, Ruth Warshawsky, Vicki Iovine, Adele Claire, Jerado Decordovier, James Jeter, Johnnie Collins III, Chester Jones, Jack Garner, Theodore Lehmann, Diane Shalet, David Armstrong, Cindy Fisher, Cindy Eilbacher, Ted Eccles, Al Hopson, William Lanteau, Jerry Gatlin, George Tracy, Dorothy Neumann, Kin Shriner, Judith Woodbury, Brad Rearden, Peter Brandon, Doreen Lang, Elizabeth Gill, Ethelreda Leopold, Bill Sorrells, Herbert Nelson, Tamar Howard, James Brodhead, Ruth Manning, Danielle Aubry, Mayf Nutter, Vernon Washington, Lane Bradbury, Dorothy Meyer, Frank Janson, Tiger Williams, Bert Conway, Pearl Shear, Cissy Wellman, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Vivian Brown, Sid Conrad, Glen Gordon, Burt Prelutsky, Michael Thoma, Devon Ericson, Louie Elias, Dinah Anne Rogers, Gary Imhoff, Jeffrey Reese, Trish Garland, Jim Henaghan, Calvin Clements Jr., James Carroll Jordan, Stuart Taylor, Ann Noland, Gary Dontzig, Ron Thompson, Kathleen Cody, Cathy Worthington, David Hooks, Kim O'Brien, Philip Linton, David Ankrum, Dave Shelley, Richard Molnar, Dan Priest, James Crittenden, Virginia Peters, Morgan Stevens, Antoinette Stella, Bob Harks, Hal Bokar, Granville Van Dusen, Lynn Carlin, Jimmy Weldon, Tom Henschel, Don Matheson, Nancy Priddy, Dana Craig, David Moody, Sig Frohlich, Arthur Peterson, David Doremus, Jan Burrell, Stephanie Silver, Hersha Parady, Diana Webster, Iris Korn
Režie: Gabrielle Beaumont, Bernard McEveety, Robert Butler, Lee Philips, Vincent Sherman, Philip Leacock, Alf Kjellin, Lawrence Dobkin, Nicholas Webster, .....Richard Thomas, David F. Wheeler, Stan Lathan, Larry Stewart, Gwen Arner, Ralph Waite, Bob Sweeney, Ralph Senensky, Jack Shea, Herbert Hirschman, Harry Harris
Tvůrci: Earl Hamner Jr.
Scénář: Dale Eunson, Ray Cunneff, Daniel B. Ullman, Jim Byrnes, William Bast, Marjorie Fowler, D.C. Fontana, Robert Pirosh, Larry Bischof, .....Jeb Rosebrook, Tony Kayden, Richard Fielder, Marion Hargrove, John Hawkins, John McGreevey, Michael McGreevey, Richard Carr, Theodore Apstein, Ernie Wallengren, Nigel McKeand, Joanna Lee, Seth Freeman, Paul Savage, Peter Dixon, Earl Hamner Jr., John Furia, Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella, Max Hodge, Sheldon Stark, Carol Evan McKeand, Hindi Brooks, James Menzies, Joseph Bonaduce, Paul W. Cooper, Matt Robinson
Producenti: Robert L. Jacks
Hudba: Jerry Goldsmith, Alexander Courage, Arthur Morton
Kamera: Russell Metty, Michael D. Margulies, Robert Caramico, Earl Rath, John M. Nickolaus Jr., Fred Jackman Jr., Al Francis, Emil Oster
Střih: Marjorie Fowler, Gene Fowler Jr., Samuel E. Beetley, Fred W. Berger, John C. Howard, Michael McCroskey, Marshall Neilan Jr., Alan Jaggs, David Blangsted, .....Marsh Hendry, Dick Wormell, John Farrell, Howard Terrill, Ken Zemke, Bernard Balmuth, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher, Bill Mosher
Scénografie: James Cane, Joanne MacDougall, Ron Jeschke, Toby Considine, Ed Graves, Carl Braunger, Carl Braunger
Kostýmy a make-up: Shirley Crawford, William Reynolds
Zvuk: Norman Webster
