They talk about a cold front as a rare weather occurrence when in fact they come through at least once a week.
When John gets on the bus and starts looking for a place to sit , Elmer , an African American man is sitting toward the middle , back in the 1930's , this would not have been allowed due to segregation being in effect at the time , Elmer would have had to sit in the back of the bus .
In the barn when John Boy is trying the cigarette, it has a filter. Filter of that type were not offered until sometime later.
This movie takes place in 1933 Virginia. But the movie fails to depicts the racial segregation that would have been present in those times. As the movie shows it, African Americans and whites are mixing everywhere, including on the bus. In fact, John Walton sits right next to a black on the bus. And there is a black policeman stopping traffic at the accident site where the bus skids off county road 29.
The movie shows Grandma and Grandpa Walton leaving to go home , but in the original movie and the t.v. show , the entire family lived in the same house .
When they got their land 1725. The movie took place in 1933 that's 208(yrs )-27(John Sr's age)=163 yrs BTW 3 generations.
Olivia only learned that morning that John was going to be coming home for the holidays , so how would Rose , Charlie Sneed or even the sheriff for that matter have seen him , if they didn't know that he was coming home until Olivia mentioned it .
In this movie , John boy says that Elizabeth still lives in the house with her family , but in the original movie , the narrator says that his mother still lives in the house , but she lives alone because their father passed away in 1969 .
The scenery outside both John and John boys windows moves very slowly , showing that it's a possible projection of some sort .
John Walton Sr. talks about no longer wanting to travel for jobs and how he wants to stay home and work the farm full time , in the t.v. show , John Sr. wasn't a farmer , he ran a saw mill and lumber mill .
The potato that Olivia is peeling goes from being partially peeled to completely peeled in a matter of a few seconds .
Olivia lights her candle from Roses candle twice .
In the cemetery scene , it goes from snowing \ not snowing from one shot to the next .
Midway through, Olivia Walton turns on the radio and it instantly produces sound; back in the 1930s, all radios used vacuum tubes that took 10 seconds or more to warm up and work.
When John Boy pulls a dime from his father's coat pocket the reverse shown is a Roosevelt dime. This design was introduced in 1945.
At one point in the movie, Erin, who is known to be very interested in movies and movie actors, playfully exclaims, "I'm ready for my close-up!" Presumably, that is a reference to a famous line of dialogue spoken by the actor Gloria Swanson in the movie Sunset Boulevard. However, Sunset Boulevard was not released until 1950, long after the 1930's setting of The Waltons.
In the original series the Sheriff's name was Ep. Here it is Ed.