After greater than a yr’s absence following a debilitating stroke in 1976, the tenacious Ellen Corby returned to her beloved function as Grandma Esther Walton in one of the touching The Waltons episodes ever, “Grandma Comes House.”
Ellen was solely 67 in November of 1976, when the Waltons forged and crew, in the course of filming the Season 5 episode “The Ferris Wheel,” seen that she hadn’t proven up for work. Figuring out that Ellen was by no means late, Will Greer (Grandpa) instantly sensed one thing was incorrect and went with some producers to her home. They discovered Ellen at dwelling and instantly took her to the hospital, the place she was handled for a stroke.