The Changeling

Episode aired Oct 26, 1978
TV-G
1h

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

201

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Kami Cotler and Michael Learned in The Waltons (1972)

Drama Family Romance

Elizabeth is turning 13 years old - not quite a child, not quite a woman. Strange things begin to happen due to her being unsettled. Jason has a job giving love advice on the radio.Elizabeth is turning 13 years old - not quite a child, not quite a woman. Strange things begin to happen due to her being unsettled. Jason has a job giving love advice on the radio.Elizabeth is turning 13 years old - not quite a child, not quite a woman. Strange things begin to happen due to her being unsettled. Jason has a job giving love advice on the radio.

Director
- Lawrence Dobkin
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Robert Pirosh
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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

201

YOUR RATING

Director
- Lawrence Dobkin
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Robert Pirosh
Stars

10User reviews

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Trivia
While attempting to listen to Jason on the radio Olivia mentions a show called "John's Other Wife." This was a radio soap opera that ran from 1936-1942.

Goofs
The scene where Olivia and Elizabeth go to Ike's, Ike is stacking cans and one of them is upside down, camera changes and the can is upright with the others.

Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The approach of a birthday in our family has always been a time of excitement and joy. But there was one notable exception. On Elizabeth's thirteenth birthday it seemed that she wasn't quite sure whether she wanted the clock to turn forward or backward.

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Featured review

10/10

Predates Spielberg's 'Poltergeist' by 4 Years

This is the most unusual episode of the Walton's which is why I judge it my favorite. Elizabeth shines in this episode. As she reluctantly turns thirteen bizarre occurrences begin. Floating stones in her bedroom, a fallen vase, a dancing rocking chair...you get the picture. Elizabeth is even causing electromagnetic disturbances by causing radio static when she's near their big 1930s vacuum tube radio! Without revealing more all I'll say is this is a great episode where Walton's Mountain enters the Twilight Zone. Oh, and there's the other story in this episode in which Jason is Cousin George on the radio giving advice to the lovelorn, or more specifically to the Godseys. It's amusing whereas Elizabeth's story is just a little, well, creepy...