Behind the scenes with Judy Norton - 10
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2024
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Judy Norton (The Waltons) I answer fan questions about the layout of the sets and how they connected. Parking, paydays, mementos from the show. (set pieces, props, costumes) How costumes are decided, where they come from and are they repurposed? All in this Behind the Scenes.
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These recaps are just wonderful. I still watch reruns almost daily, as nothing current compares to the goodness of The Waltons.
Thank you for continuing to watch.
I used to not like to hear about how the house wasn’t really there, or how it was just sets. It took away from the illusion, but now I’m enjoying hearing how it all came together with such talent to give us that perfect illusion. Thank you. It’s so good to be talking Walton’s “stuff” once again. Mary
I agree about wanting to keep the illusion about the house. I have been successful in turning off the "truth" when I watch the episodes,band it is interesting to hear these details!
Glad you are finding it interesting to hear about some of the secrets.
Sad to say , it has been torn down in the last few months .@@megfuchs9425
If you can, I recommend visiting John & Olivia’s Bed and Breakfast in Schuyler, Virginia, Earl Hamner’s hometown. It is built & furnished like the Walton’s TV house. Walking into it is uncanny.
I always love the way the grandparents bedroom was situated. I love the idea of going down those few steps into their bedroom❤
I love that the houses had a downstairs bedroom for elderly parents
Judy looking Gorgeous this morning!!
Thank you.
I caught today's BTS at broadcast time! I thought the dresses and skirts you all wore were pretty. I like 30s and 40s fashions and 70s! You have such a detailed memory of the sets; that's wonderful! Vintage fashions are popular now! There are sewing pattern companies that create reproductions! Of course, during the Great Depression the Flour companies used printed fabric bags when they caught wind that women were sewing clothes from the flour bags!! I'm sure Mr Hamner's Mom and sisters sewed their share of "Flour Dresses!" 🧡Have a wonderful weekend, Judy and Walton's everywhere!
Thanks Holly. I guess 9 years of 9 months of filming per season left me with a pretty clear memory of all those regular sets we used.
Every video you postbrings more to light about old friends. I have been watching the Walton’s since I was 10 (1972). I never get tired of watching the series in fact my wife and I watch every night. Thank you for every video you post
I agree. Old friends. Great memories
Thank you. So glad you enjoy the show.
Judy,
I guess I always thought actors from such a famous show like The Walton’s would be rich and a bit out of touch with us common folk. Thank you so much for the work you do on your channel. You’ve helped to dispel that illusion I once had by sharing your experience and with some of the guests you’ve interviewed. I’ve come to realize though you are famous, you truly are just a person who has a job to do and want to live your life, just like the rest of us.
Thank you for being so real, relatable and down to earth.
I appreciate your kind comments. Yep, most of us live regular lives :)
Always enjoy learning more about the show, new insights & never tire of your beauty and charm! ♥️♥️♥️🙂
Much appreciated.
@@judynorton2598 likewise 🙂
Good morning from Arkansas.
Good morning! Welcome.
Well Judy!! You did a great job during the long strike and I love the insights that you have had about the other things in your career. Kudos to you Judy!!!
Thank you. Hopefully since they are back in talks with the producers the strike will be over soon. I considered these questions more general about sets and costumes than specifically about the stories or episodes - so thought they’d be okay to answer.
Judy, I'm thrilled to be hearing about the Waltons again. One of the costumes you wore in the early seasons was that straw hat so cool. That was so Mary Ellen sad no one got a hold of that one. Everyone always comes up with great questions I'm loving it. Till next time, Mary Ellen! Have a great weekend, Judy! 🥰
I would have liked to see her nurse outfit preserved.
Yes, it was a great hat. I loved wearing that one.
I just got in at 36 seconds maybe I got in first finally. Love the reminiscing
Awesome! Welcome.
Happy Thanksgiving to you Judy ❤
Thank you. Yes, Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up!
I have to admit, I never ever noticed that the same room was used for both the parents and girls' room and it was only through watching your bts segments that I became aware of that. Considering what you have said in this and previous segments about the house, the production team must have worked tirelessly to create such an illusion because as a viewer, I was literally transported into the house and it all looked seamless the way they put it all together. So happy to hear about my beloved show again Judy. Thank you and best wishes to you from your waltonian superfan in a mild England😉
It is always amazing how realistic it all looks when edited together.
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Love hearing about the production side of The Waltons. Sad that the house wasn't a real home. Thank you Ms Judy. Always look forward to learning The Walton series. I still watch the shows today. God's speed.
Thank you so much.
All the sets were always so realistic! Love Ike's store and the Baldwin and Mrs. Brimmer's houses! ❤❤❤
Our set team were awesome.
I would love to hear what it was like working with the lovely actress who played Maude Gormley. She was such a character! Always loved the scenes she was in.
She was indeed quite a character. Very much like what you saw on screen.
Thanks again judy always learning things from you much appreciated
Thank you so much for continuing to watch.
Well Judy, I just finished the entire series. Of course, we watched the series as a family when I was young but it was like a whole new show. I STILL love it today! ❤ I enjoy your channel too!
Thank you so much.
Loved this. Thanks Judy. ❤
Thank you.
It just shows how interested your viewers are. Talk about longevity well done to all. You certainly know what you are talking about. Greetings from Manchester UK
Thanks for watching.
Im guessing the set was almost like a second home at times spending so many hours working there. The set designers were very good with the details right down to the front doors lockset. The slight hint of wear and grim on other doors were another authentic touch. The toung and grove bead board by the staircase case a nice authentic detail. They stopped using that kind of wood when plywood was invented in the late 1940s. The exterior of the house on the back lot is always a joy to see. For me it's like home movies seeing you all out there in the beautiful California sunshine amongst those tress and bushes doing your scenes. I was up north in the San Francisco bay area most likely having the same kind of weather under the same sun. As usual more tricks of the trade revealed. Duct tape sure dose come in handy. Have you tried Gorilla tape that stuff can fix any thing ! That's your tip of the day make sure you keep some Gorilla tape around the house, and at the hores stable too ! : )
Yes. Even being a part of it and being part of all the tricks and behind the scenes deceptions, I’m still amazed at how seamless it all looks when edited together.
@@judynorton2598 Absolutely amazing how seamless the finished product was. You and the other cast members made it look effortless as you played your roles, full knowing how much really does go in to every performance. You made it look so easy.
Thank you! This was fascinating. Watching the show, I had no idea about the continuity of the house vs outside scenes. Well done, Judy. How wonderful. Sad the continuity of the grandchildren wasn't as thought out in the specials. ❤
lol - so true… guess that family tree should have been drawn up and shared with one and all.
Finally got The Waltons back on my cable channel after a year or more. The first episode I got to see was The Burnout. It made me think it was so much better that they wrote that Elizabeth was was worried about losing loved ones, rather than having her be afraid of the house catching on fire again.
Good point. It made it very personal.
I just want to say thank you. Thank you so, so much for making these videos. The Waltons is so nostalgic to me ♥️ but only older folks seem to remember it. I’m an exception (20yo) - I grew up on this show, and oh man, I wanted SO badly to be Elizabeth’s friend. I begged my mom to let me “meet” you guys 😂 Oh my little heart.
Glad you enjoy it! I love when younger people find and appreciate the show.
Judy thank you for answering our questions. I've learned a lot of behind the scenes information from watching your videos. I've watched every episode of The Waltons numerous times. It's a very comforting show. 😊
Do your neighbors know that you were on TV?
Do you have any crazy fan stories?
Yes, a number of my neighbors know. But they know me more as just a person :).
It’s hard to imagine the house not being as we actually saw it. You all had such a different perspective of being on sets and sound stages. I’ll keep my fantasy going that the house was all complete. Thanks for explaining all the technicalities to us. 😊
I do like knowing all the little behind the scenes secrets Judy is telling us. It's like a magician telling us how the magic tricks work. At least for me I want to know. ☺
Thanks for sharing the magic.
You’re doing an excellent job with you channel Judy. A BIG thank you from us fans. Keep up the great work. 👍🏻
Thank you so much!
No surprise you went on to direct with this level of recall!
Thank you :)
I just had to laugh, Judy - being duct taped into your costumes! What I THOUGHT existed, but really didn't, is still so interesting to me...and another laugh for me - picturing you all pretending to go up and down! I never ever, even after many viewings of the same episode or even after I learn something from you, get the feeling that anything is fake. Of course, I do now think of things you've said about the sets or how something was filmed when I am watching an episode, but it doesn't "spoil it" for me. When you're all in a room, to me, you're actually IN the room and I just get caught up in the show! Thanks, Judy!
I’m with you on that one. Even when I know how it was filmed I can still enjoy the final show.
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Hi Judy i love hearing about the production of the Walton's and about the wardrobe of the different episodes just love watching the Walton's i catch the reruns love them
So glad. Thank you.
this is very interesting how the sound stages were put together. I watched the episode about the fire today. it was a Great episode of course all of it is Great to Me. I Loved what you said about Memories they are Truly the real Treasures for You, and that can't be taken away or bought. Looking forward to your next video. God Bless You and take care.
Thank you :)
yvw!!! Judy. God Bless You. @@judynorton2598
Thankyou Judy for sharing how the house scenes were filmed.I had found that very innersting.Every episode seemed to be so life like.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Memories are memorable.
Very interesting, thank you.
Did being in the Waltons have any influence on how you brought up your son,and did you ever cook Walton recipes at home?
As I have mentioned before, my family were known as the English Waltons and I took down everything ever eaten in a recipe book,as well as collecting a few Waltons recipe books,and made every recipe over the years.A favourite were the butter popcorn balls,I remember.😊
How fun. I never cooked Walton recipes. Not sure what I would consider those recipes to be as there was never an official cookbook. Just lots of folks trying to claim they are :).
Judy, your insight into this well loved show and the background and behind the scenes info is just fascinating to hear. I relate to so much of what you describe. I worked as a high schoool art teacher and loved to help with the theater department's productions, so I designed, built and created the sets for a large number of shows as well as working backstage with the tech crew to make sure the magic happened. I also went thrifting for costumes at thrift shops and yard sales to create the illusion of a period. One of my most intensive shows probably was "My Fair Lady;" building those 1910-15 picture hats for the Ascot scene was so labor intensive. I used styrofoam insulation to build the hat forms and then used fabrics, and flowers and even christmas ornament birds to give that grand look required for the scene. "Legally Blonde" was also a very challenging set dominated show. It is definitely a labour of love to work with the intensity necessary to make everything look effortless for the audience so that they can suspend reality for the couple of hours of entertainment. Keep sharing your experience, I don't think I will ever tire of hearing all the ins and outs of your theatrical experiences.
So true. Thank you for sharing your theatre stories.
Thankyou Judy another friendly, caring video xx
Thank you for watching.
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Thanks for answering my questions about costumes. I had a chuckle about the tape on the inside of a piece of fabric. It reminded me about a time when I was getting ready for a dance and I popped my hem down from my skirt. I just use a stapler to put it back up. No one noticed the staples. Thanks again.
Yep - costume “challenges” are the source of many great theatre stories!
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There was a dress with Billy goats on it that showed up on about 6 different women in various different episodes. We'd be like, "There those Billy goats again". Lol. Thanks for sharing !
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You are doing so well! Like listening to an ole classmate from that time. Interesting how vintage (1920-1950) is very popular now. You can buy decade specific shoes like from American Duchess or vintage style make up Besame cosmetics. I love that decade and sometimes dress up. Wishing you well. Mary Ellen/ Judy. Thanks for preserving the history of that wonderful show and cast. Cheers
So glad you are enjoying these.
all interesting & fun - thanks judy! :)
Thanks for watching.
when you lived in wpg what was your fav place to eat. i still love rae and jerrys, im 64. been going there since 1977,
Gosh… it’s been about 25 years since I’ve been there. Because of the intensity of the rehearsal schedule I rarely got to go out to eat. The theater was in a hotel so mostly we ate there for convenience.
Loved hearing about the house layout 😊 and the costumes. I had (in 1979 or 1980) the most amazing 1940’s style suit. It was Air Force Blue and would have been ideal for the costume department 😊. Ah gaffer tape for repairs - maybe that’s where Wundaweb got the idea from 😂
So glad you enjoyed this.
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I really enjoy this and you look great!!!!
Thank you so much!!
You mentioned the clothing styles used. The Walton boys in the later episodes wore blue jeans that were made by Levi Strauss. This line never changed through the years. For instance a pair of levis manufactured in the 40-50s was no different today maybe rotted ahd not wearable. Also bibbed coveralls then are still very popular today with very little difference. Yes, the 70s did bring back styles from the 30-40s.
I wasn’t familiar enough with jeans over the decades so I never knew when people said we were too modern if that was true.
@@judynorton2598 The ladies dresses did make some changes, compare the dresses Olivia, the Baldwin ladies and the girls wore in the early episodes. The Walton girls wore dresses in John-Boy and Janet's wedding that could pass for today's wardrobe.
One day I was looking up The Walton’s bloopers and there was one from the episode where John Boy and Grandpa were in the hot springs… they got up and turned around and they had bare butts… I laughed so hard… 😂😂😂 that was so funny…
Yep :). Richard and Will misbehaving :).
Awesome as always thanks
Thank you Judy, very interesting. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Love that house
Judy has aged wonderfully. Looks better now than on show!
Very kind of you to say.
Great segment Judy! I loved hearing about how the set actually was because it was amazing how it looked like a real house! From time to time I would notice too someone wearing a hat or dress that a prior character wore.
They do manage to make it all look so real.
I was recently watching a video about depression era flour sack material and how it was starting to get used for clothing so manufacturers would start using more specialized prints on them for women to create nicer garments. Seems like the Waltons costumers picked up on this!
Nice of the manufacturers to try to help out.
Hello Judy I was wondering if there was ever an episode that featured Hobie shanks before the Braggard? It seems to me I remember an episode where he came to spend time with The waltons when he was still in the orphanage thank you 🙂
No, that was the first time we met Hobie.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Judy, love each and every one of your videos. This is somewhat off topic but I've always been curious about something. The original movie about Earl Hamner's family, Spencer's Mountain, with Henry Fonda and the beautiful incomparable Maureen O'Hara has always been one of my family's favorite movies to watch together. Was there ever any comparison between the The Walton's series and Spencer's Mountain. Several things were different . . . location, number of children, family situations. I was just curious if the producers ever tried to deliberately differentiate your series from the original film at all? Bless you!
Not entirely sure. I wasn’t familiar with that movie when we were filming. I know both were based on Earl’s family growing up. Our original names in the first script I saw of The Homecoming were the same names from that movie, but I believe they had to be changed due to rights on the movie.
Hi Judy. Your wardrobe discussion got me curious about the cleanliness of the clothes and accessories on the show. Was everything washed at the end of the day's filming or did you have to re-wear dirty clothes for multiple days?
Did you have a favorite wardrobe piece? Conversely, did anything make you cringe when you saw it laid out in your dressing room?
Clothes were dry cleaned overnight when needed. I don’t think that happened every time you wore something. Probably depended on how long you wore it and what sort of action you were doing while wearing it. I did have some favorites and some I liked less.
My mother born in early 1930s told me that she only had two dresses during the the depression, and I have photos of her in a dress similar to what Elizabeth wore. I liked what Mary Ellen wore a lot - the dresses, the length and I think saddle shoes with bobby socks, sometimes. And overalls. My mom and I watched the show and I was about your age when you played Mary Ellen as a school age young lady. It was the late 60s and I was wearing a lot if the same things, and your costumes didn't seem far fetched. My mother had one dress for church that she referred to, in jest, as her uniform. She sewed clothes for us for a dance or event. We didn't have much and we were happy much like The Walton's, with a hard-working father who was a family man. I enjoyed hearing about the set; however, I think I know the house so well from what it was intended to be. The little stairs to the grandparents room, that little landing, and then down several steps into their room. But I always especially like invisioning the living room with the porch intended to be on the other side of the windows were the couch was.
My family was from Cedar Run originally, not so far from what Waltons mnt was supposed to be. My great- great- grandfather born in 1854 in Cedar Run, left the farm and moved to Washington City, in 1883. I have no pictures but have visited, and found my people's records at the Falqueir Library and the graveyards of Colvin gravestones. I wanted to be like Mary Ellen back in say Junior High. I'd say to me the show was really about her, and I felt like John-Boy as the writer of the stories if tye family wrote about everyone, but especially her.
It's great to see these UA-cams of the Walton's.
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your own experience.
Hello Judy i always wait for Tuesdays and Thursdays so I can see you and write to you. As for costumes, Yeah, I ALWAYS wondered why I never saw PATCHES. Now I'm a child of the 50's and my family was by no means poor as my Dad was a doctor. but even I had patches. I used to drive my mother NUTS with the wore that i could put on a pair of brand new jeans. Before our school went to uniforms, my mom would buy two pairs of jeans in August that I could not wear until school started. These were my school jeans which I alternated after two days or so. My old school jeans (the better of the original two) would be what I would change into, patches and grass stains and all, until they literally were rags. The oldest pair that was literally rags was worn if I had to do something messy. They were seldom washed unless absolutely necessary and would later be tossed out or cut up for rags as the denim then was soft as satin. As for jeans you all wore yeah they were too tight. The overalls were spot on (and you looked cute in them BTW) but men's and boys clothes in the 40's wee loose and baggy with deep pockets and the cuffs were sometimes rolled up an inch or so.
Thinking about sets, building them was my first job when I joined the drama club in high school. As you know, theater sets are much lighter than TV because the former are made to be moved and also repainted and reused. I can still remember stapling linen to a 4 or 6 foot by 8 orr 10 foot frame and covering it with wheat paste and then gesso and painting them. Spent many nights after school building them since our drama club had been defunct for many years and we were starting all from scratch. One school night we were working so long and hard on a set that before we realizes it, it was 1:00 in the morning. Our drama teacher was in a complete panic thinking our parents would have him fired at the next school board meeting, but I think they were happy we were doing something constructive for a change so any fears of being drawn and quartered on the football field at half time subsided by 4:00 p.m. the next day.
P.S. You should have taken the straw hat, I love you in that hat. Me? I would have taken Cindy's Mercury.
Your stories here are interesting! Did you attend a rural or mountain school such as The Walton's that you wore jeans in the 1950s? It was college before I was permitted to wear "those dungarees" as my Mom called them. I'm the city during the 60s, girls still wore dresses to school. In the parochial school we had uniforms. In parochial highschool our uniform skirt and sweater was 100% wool and very itchy! No one was allowed to wear jeans to school at least that I knew of until college in the 70s! I was shocked when even the professor's wore jeans!! 😄
@@hollyavillella554 Well. yes and no My school was a very small Catholic parochial school in a town of 4000 people where 30% were Irish, Italian, Croat, and German Catholics. We had a two story brick building built in 1911 with two classrooms upstairs and two on the main floor and cloak rooms for each, and a library of sorts upstairs. Four Mercy nuns taught two classes at the same time . Grades were first through eighth with anywhere from 23 to 27 kids in each class and 46 to 54 kids in a classroom. And the desks were the old wooden type, sometimes shared, until new modern desks were purchased when I was in third grade. So it was parochial and also primitive country We wore regular clothing until uniforms came in when I was in the seveneth grade. There was a dress code of sorts, boys could wear jeans and tennis shoes, but no shoes with cleats. Shirts had to have collars except in the early grades. The big thing with the girls was they had to wear dresses, no cullottes, but in the winter they could wear shorts under their dresses. NO PATENT LEATHER SHOES . Yes that was no joke, the girls could not go out on the asphalt playground if there was puddles. Because the nuns were sure that the boys could see up the girls skirts by looking at the reflection on their shoes or in the puddles. And the skirts could NOT be above the knee. Thank God the nuns weren't aware of burkhas !
As for patched clothes, my hometown was still in the throes of the depression in the 50's since the mines we depended on were no longer needed by the railroad owners who were switching to deisel engines. It took over a decade after WWII to transform the town from a coal mining town to a bedroom community for commuters who work elsewhere. So we had some poorer kids in school with us and a lot of farm kids with big families. So we had our share of kids in hand me downs and boys with patches on their knees. But we always had to dress clean and neat, The nuns saw to that, as did our parents. All in all we did get a good education and most of us went on to have very successful lives.
This why I enjoy the show so much and share stories here because in all my life i have never seen a TV show that so mirrors my own life , as I have written here many times. Jim Bob's character could have been based on my life but there are aspects that mirror John Boys, Bens, and Jason's as well
@@billgrandone3552 You're a very good writer yourself! No doubt that is partly a reflection of your education! My college was established by Sisters of Mercy!! I majored in Elementary Education and Secondary English! I am surprised they let you boys wear jeans, but given the mining town population it is understandable! Our parochial elementary schools were mostly Sisters of St Joseph.
You and I were very fortunate to attend such schools at such a time in history! I am always grateful to have been a teacher at the very tail end of the "golden age of American education" ~ late 70s early -mid 80s. I stayed home to raise our own children and returned to teaching in about 2007. The classroom had greatly changed as had the children. We were lucky to go to school when we did. I'm ever grateful to the college I attended! Thank you for sharing your stories! I enjoyed reading them! 🏫🚸📚📓📝📖
Must have been a long walk from the supper table to the bathroom. Now I know why the Waltons never had chili for supper. Hey where's the bathroom? Oh. its at the other set where we shoot the outdoor scenes! Sorry.
Thanks Bill. Fun to hear your own theatre stories.
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HEY JUDY NORTON QUESTION!!!
What were your thoughts on the Carol Burnett Show episode when they did the sketch The Walnuts? If you know; what were the other cast members thoughts on it too?
I seem to recall we all thought it was great fun. I was flattered - figured it meant we were significant enough, successful enough to be spoofed.
Judy for a next ask Judy or other, can you elaborate if any of the young actors had braces on the set and how did they disguise them for the time frame of The Waltons. Just curious how shows filmed during the 1970s, how they hid the braces.
None of us wore braces during the run of the series.
Wonderful insight to the inner workings of the best tv show Ever. Do you think there would ever be another Waltons movie with original actors?
I think it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever get to do another show.
One thing I've always wondered is how far/close was Godsey's store and the church supposed to be from the Walton House? Y'all always walked to the store and you'd walk or drive to church (even Grandma would walk to both sometimes). I've also always wondered if the Walton home, Godsey's store, the church, the Dew Drop Inn, and the Baldwins home were drawn out on a map, what would the map look like? Thank you for answering and I continue to love your "behind the scenes" episodes!!
Good question. I’ll try to cover it soon.
I always liked you in the nurse outfit. "How u doin" ? 😉
Thanks :-). Doing well.
Were the most frequently used sets all on the same soundstage? I always wondered if the barn was on a soundstage or on the lot outside. The Baldwin set has intrigued me as well as I have seen different parts of the house used in other episodes. Great segment ✌
All our interior house sets were on the same sound stage along with the interior of Godsey’s store and the entry and parlor of the Baldwins. Other sets were usually built on another sound stage. Our barn was shot on the actual barn set outside.
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where did your baseball glove end up did we ever see it again after john walton put it on when you got married, when he was in the shed. he saw it and put it on and saw your name on it , i still get teared up. great scene.
I expect it went back to the prop dept.
Good morning Miss Judy just finished watching the episode about the house fire..
Thank you for continuing to watch.
Judy this is great tuning in to your Your video as I watch 'The Burnout' parts 1 and 2. 😊
Meant to ask, when you were evacuating the house in flames was that an actual house in flames or structure? The realism was incredible😮
@@mnnomad1870 - If you search her channel and type "burnout" you will find a number of videos where Judy discusses this episode.
There were real flames being fed from gas jet lines.
@@judynorton2598 oh my gosh could you feel the heat and everything? I would probably be terrified even at the age of 18 I think we were!
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Hi Judy. Were there any "outdoor" scenes that were actually done on a sound stage? I have watched other programs and noticed, for example, the clouds don't move or the leaves on the trees don't move so it is obvious those scenes are done in front of a backdrop. As far as taking "props" after the show ended (I know you didn't know it was ending) but you should have taken that 1932 Ford panel truck you drove after Mary Ellen was married. That thing is rare and pretty valuable 😊!
Rarely, but I certainly see it in shows.
Hi Judy! I echo the comments of so many, giving thanks for what you share with us. Question: Perhaps you have talked about this before regarding the door to the left of the main entrance that I believe was another entrance to the grandparents room. I noticed that sometimes it was there & other times not. Am i remembering correctly? 😮😊
The door was always there, but only used in a couple of episodes.
How do you decide what questions to answer online via text versus when you answer them audibly (on-air via youtube) during 'ask Judy' segments? How many fan's questions submissions do you get daily, weekly, or monthly?
If it is a question I have answered multiple times I will often just write the answer in the reply. If it’s a question I think might interest a lot of people I might choose it to reply in a segment. Just depends what strikes me at the time. I get over 1000 comments each week.
Thanks, again, Judy. ~A quick question about public Waltons reunions. Other than your enjoyment of gathering with your cast family, which understandably is great, is there anything the “producers” or public can do to lessen any feelings artists/guests may have of being ‘on display’? I ask this sincerely, as when I’ve seen autograph lines for authors or team athletes, etc., … it seems so unnatural.
I’m glad your next gathering has added options (a dinner & cruise?). But is there anything that helps those brief (or fleeting) meet & greets? Perhaps you and your cast family have compared notes on them. I’d like to hear more of your side of those experiences. (Maybe the fleeting greetings are inevitably challenging if there’s no common activity to share.). Thanks & Happy Fall
Great question. We often pow wow on options to enhance the gatherings.
Do you wish you had known it was to be your last show? What a sad sudden surprise. 😢 Were you and the others sad? How did you feel? Did you eventually have a Goodbye party?
I think it would have been really sad to know it was the last episode. When I did hear it seemed unreal for some time. Very mixed feelings. We never did have a goodbye party.
Roughly how many writers were there per season and did a writer write for more than one character?
Good question. I’ll try to cover soon.
Great episode once again. What other TV shows were filming close my the set of the Walton's? Thanks
At the time we were on the Warners lot shows like - Dukes of Hazzard, Eight is Enough, Fantasy Island, Kung Fu, ER, Bonanza…. movies like All the President’s Men, Poseidon Adventure, Lost Horizon… and many more were all filmed there.
@@judynorton2598 Who could have imagined at that time that these TV shows and movies would become so nostalgic, iconic and even cult classics. And the same thing with the Walton's. It's really something amazing to think about. ☺
I bet it was exciting to go into Carol's Bed in Breakfast in Schyuler and see the house put together as a house. She did an amazing job in the construction of her house.
Absolutely. Very surreal for all of us cast members.
*Judy, that was really interesting... as to taking stuff from the Walton set... I thought the Guitar would have been taken by Jon Walmsley or was it his own personal guitar that he played? 🙂.*
It was Jon’s personal guitar :)
What I love best about these are that you are still doing them. QUESTION: I know it has nothing to do with acting but I still would like to know if the plant or plants to your left as you are sitting during this vid are bamboo plants? If so, they are the nicest ones I have ever seen.
I'm guessing they are really nice silk bamboo trees, as I have several that look exactly like it. 😊
Thank you. It is a lovely fake bamboo plant :)
Do you recall working with Ivan Dixon on the Waltons? If so, what was it like working with him?
Yes. I loved working with Ivan as a director. He was a great director and a super nice person.
Dear Judy, You have always been my favorite Walton ever since the pilot when you called everyone pissants. You always seemed to be the rebel, I'll never forget how shocked I was when you chose to marry Curt instead of the other guy (can't remember his name lol) I do have one question, and you may have answered it already and I didn't see it, what happened to John Curtis in the reunion movie? Thanks for all the interesting content, sincerely Patrick Koch KC, MO
Thank you so much. Not sure why they never mentioned John Curtis in the later reunion movies. Best guess is that they thought the viewers “wouldn’t notice” or wouldn’t care he was missing. We - the cast knew that wasn’t true.
Hi Miss Judy. What was your first car, and what was your car when you became successful? We love you!
My first car was a Ford Pinto :). My favorite car I had for a few years was a 911SC Targa Porsche.
I was wondering Judy if as you watch the shows if there is a particular episode that you would say you could of done better job with that scene?
Absolutely! LOL
Hey Judy, I've always wanted to be involved with making movies and shows. Could you tell of all the categories and steps for a person to get involved in? Like acting and writing and directing etc.
Oh gosh, there are so many pieces to it. You have areas like acting, writing, directing. Behind the scenes crafts like camera, lighting, set building and design, props, costumes, hair and make-up, assistant directors, craft services (food on set) transportation, script supervisor, grips (who handle pieces of equipment, all the people in the production office, casting, editing, sound folks… it is a vast team. Not sure how folks break into some of these areas, but you can search websites that provide crews for shoots. Start out volunteering on low budget jobs and learn, apprentice and work your way up.
@@judynorton2598 Thank you so much for responding to your fans. I'm not too sure where to find websites and jobs like this, but with all those different kinds of choices. It'll give me a lot more options if I ever run into them.
How did you get involved with the whole entertainment business? I know it's probably a little different now, but that would be cool to hear.
I have an odd question. All my life I've heard about Jon Walmsley's (Jason) musical talent. In some episodes it looks like he's really playing the guitar or piano. In others, like "The Burn-Out," it looks like he's "playing" to pre-recorded music. Do you know if Jon pre-recorded the scales or pieces Jason would play on screen? (I play piano, and I'm not sure I could "play" to someone else's music.)
Jon did all his own playing. Sometimes with actual songs it was to playback, but I think he still did all the playing for the playback. A lot was done live.
Good idea for checks to be mailed.
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When you didn’t have a lot of scenes in a particular episode did you get days off that week or would you work on another episode during that particular week?
We would have the day off if we weren’t in any scenes filming that day.
Interesting that, to make the upstairs set, they "dug out" the stage so people could be seen (partially) going downstairs. (In the UK, I don't think I've ever seen a film or TV stage that isn't concrete, so digging down would be impossible. When they need something like the arrangement for The Waltons, it would mean building up the set on rostra above floor level to allow a bit of it to disappear down below. This, of course, would give all sorts of problems with footstep thuds and the like.) I would have thought digging out the stages would have compromised future productions, do I'm surprised the studio allowed it. After all, these facilities were rented by Lorimar, they didn't own them.
Yes, I was fascinated that they could do that.
Judy, do any outtakes or master shots survive that a gag reel could be constructed out of?? Were there gag reels made for wrap parties and other cast parties, and do any of those survive??😉 That could be a fun episode or series of episodes...😅😂
There were gag reels that were edited for our Christmas parties. No idea where they are now and they were on film.
Was there a specific reason why the girls room and the parents room were shared and not their own sets? Thank you and sorry if you discussed this previously
Not sure why that set choice was made.
Judy, I was watching an old episode of the Dukes of Hazzard recently and the Dukes stopped at a little store that looked VERY much like Ike's store. Is that possible?
Most likely it was the same set.
Just curious - When filming the episode when the house burned, did any of the children have any fears or anxiety from the experience? I know you were all professionals, but it was so realistic to viewers. I just saw that episode last week, and as an adult it still affected me. I am a faithful viewer of the show and your videos. Thank you for doing these for the fans.
It was definitely scary working with all that live fire.
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Have you ever had a parking ticket before? Which time stands out?
Yes, I’ve had several parking tickets over the years. None particularly stand out.