The Waltons

The Boosters - S7-E12

Visible crew/equipment: While Ben tries to convince John about the autocourt he tells him it's a sure thing, and when John tells Ben to run along because he has paperwork, the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible on the wall behind Ben. (00:07:10)

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The Conscience - S7-E13

Visible crew/equipment: After Jim-Bob leaves the recruiting office, when he walks past the barber shop the reflections of the crew's equipment and a director's chair are on the store's glass windows. Then when Jim-Bob approaches the busy tattoo artist, the chalk T-mark is visible on the wood floor where he stops to watch. (00:06:40)

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The Obstacle - S7-E14

Visible crew/equipment: After J.D. refuses to hire Mike even though he's right for the available job, in the following shots when Mike and John are on the porch, the chalk T-mark is visible on the floor beside the wheelchair. (00:34:25)

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The Parting - S7-E15

Visible crew/equipment: After Elizabeth shares with Olivia some details of learning to cook with Esther, Olivia tells her daughter that she has come down from her treehouse (a poignant compliment). In the next shot, when John drives up to the home, crew reflections are visible on the vehicle's windows. (00:08:55)

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The Parting - S7-E15

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia lays down on the beach while John continues to fish, when it cuts to Ike and Corabeth on the motorcycle and sidecar, a director's chair (beside the normal Walton lawn chair) is visible at the left side of the screen, just as they turn toward the home. (00:25:50)

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The Attack - S7-E18

Visible crew/equipment: Despite Elizabeth's objections Jim-Bob sells old Blue to Clarence, and in the next shot as Erin and Jason walk to the vehicle, the moving boom mic is reflected on the chrome surface. Then as Jason drives away, the reflection of location lighting is visible on the vehicle's rear window. (00:09:55)

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The Torch - S7-E21

Visible crew/equipment: After Callie compliments Elizabeth and leaves the store, Corabeth asks, "Who is that female," and when Ike answers the question he walks around to the back of the counter, and the shadow of the boom mic is visible on the mail room wall, at the right side of the screen. (00:14:30)

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The Home Front: Part 2 - S8-E2

Visible crew/equipment: After Calvin makes more threatening remarks to John in front of Godsey's store, when Ike asks John if Calvin threatened him again, Ike turns to watch John walk away, and the tip of the hidden microphone is visible inside Ike's shirt, under his bow tie.

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The Home Front: Part 2 - S8-E2

Visible crew/equipment: When Ike removes the gas pump from John's truck he turns to put it away, and the black wire as well as the bulging outline of the mic transmitter are visible at the back of his waist. Then after John pays Ike for the gas, Calvin pulls alongside John just as he reaches up to wipe his truck's windshield, and we can see the bulging outline of the mic transmitter and its wire on John's back.

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The Diploma - S8-E4

Visible crew/equipment: While Mary Ellen takes over Nora's job by visiting the people of Blue Ridge's backwoods hollows, when Mary Ellen mounts the horse we can see the bulging outline of the mic transmitter at her back, such as when she leaves Grandma Floyd after giving her the roses. (00:21:30)

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The Innocents - S8-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia nearly hits the boys who ran in front of the vehicle, she gives the children a lift back to Pickett, and as Olivia and Cindy drive away from Godsey's, the reflections of a few crew members are visible on the vehicle's windows. (00:05:10)

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The Starlet - S8-E6

Visible crew/equipment: While the Hollywood camera crew are at the Pickett plant filming their heavy box scene, when Larry, their cameraman, is walking backwards the bulge of the hidden mic transmitter is visible at the right side of the actor's waist, along with its wire running up his back to his shoulder. (00:06:35)

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The Rumor - S6-E14

Visible crew/equipment: At the mill, when John tells Buck that Willie Brimmer might be at the Montgomery cabin with Jim-Bob, in the next closeup of John we see a billowy trail of cigarette smoke at the bottom right corner of the screen, but the only people standing there are Elizabeth, John, and Buck, and none are smoking. Presumably, it was someone offscreen smoking too close to the camera (similar to a mistake in 1978's "Halloween"). (00:26:05)

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The Unthinkable - S8-E15

Trivia: While John is reading the newspaper funnies to John Curtis, we hear Erin and Mary Ellen come home, so John puts the folded newspaper down on the couch. And as the newspaper lies on the couch, we can see the large white adhesive label with typewritten sentences adhered to the center of the funnies page. Presumably, these are the actor's lines as he was reading quite animatedly to the toddler (sweet moment). (00:06:25)

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