![The Homecoming: A Christmas Story Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//wcXI79DjFThXsy4YcJaTl6PVWFu.jpg)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
75.67%
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December 19, 1971
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Drama, Family, TV Movie
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Featured Crew
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Novel
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Teleplay
Fielder Cook
Director
Cast
![Patricia Neal](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//sbPnNXzc4bYCUPgbcgFlZxgQ89O.jpg)
Patricia Neal
Olivia Walton
![Richard Thomas](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//yLV41csipJfb7qF135vD4Wu7VQH.jpg)
Richard Thomas
John-Boy Walton
![Edgar Bergen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//x3we9U4ejHUx6WHyytjK6VDUofe.jpg)
Edgar Bergen
Ebenezer Walton
![Ellen Corby](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//sf45aqBW2iYSnWU1aTGozEemMby.jpg)
Ellen Corby
Esther Walton
![Dorothy Stickney](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//f30zMMgSKUU1g2FGGY0vGu1dPka.jpg)
Dorothy Stickney
Emily Baldwin