Book Vs Movie "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story" (1971)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie: “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story” (1971)</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Basis of the Waltons TV Series Started as a TV Movie!</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/MV5BMTYyMjg4MzgyMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDczNDAwMQ._V1_.jpg" alt="" width="331" height="475" /></strong></p> <p><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos decided to get into the Depression-era holiday spirit with a look at “</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Homecoming: A Christmas Story</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">” which was written by author & creator of</span> <a href= "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068149/"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Waltons</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">TV series--</span><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hamner_Jr."><strong>Earl Hamner, Jr. </strong></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamner has a fascinating career as a writer with several scripts of “The Twilight Zone” including the famous</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bewitchin%27_Pool"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Bewitchin’ Poo</span></em></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">l, (the very last episode of the original American series.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also created 80s TV nighttime soap,</span> <a href= "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081858/"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Falcon Crest</span></em></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">!)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In between, he wrote the 1961 novel Spencer’s Mountain which became a movie starring</span> <strong>Henry Fonda</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <strong>Maureen O’Hara</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">as Clay and Olivia Spencer. They play a couple living in the Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming and their eldest son “Clay-Boy” is set to become the first in his family to go to