{"id":57056,"date":"2022-07-02T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-waltons-star-richard-thomas-reflects-on-success-of-the-classic-series"},"modified":"2022-07-02T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:53:57","slug":"the-waltons-star-richard-thomas-reflects-on-success-of-the-classic-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-waltons-star-richard-thomas-reflects-on-success-of-the-classic-series","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Waltons&#8217; Star Richard Thomas Reflects on Success of the Classic Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his nearly 70-year career, Richard Thomas has earned some truly impressive roles. In addition to his most recent project, playing Nathan Davis in Ozark, Thomas also appears in Blue Bloods, Chicago PD, Law &amp; Order, and the 1990 TV adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s It. His most iconic role by far, however, is John-Boy Walton in the classic TV series The Waltons.Over the course of 26 years, Richard Thomas appeared in a variety of Waltons productions as the eldest child of John and Olivia Walton. And though his final John-Boy role came in 1997 for the TV movie A Walton Easter, the character remains beloved by fans across the country to this day.View this post on InstagramA post shared by The Waltons TV Show 1972-1981 (@thewaltonstvshow)For Richard Thomas, the enduring success of The Waltons is nothing short of miraculous. Though he&#8217;s always loved the series, he never expected it to remain popular for half a century. In a recent interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his nearly 70-year career, Richard Thomas has earned some truly impressive roles. In addition to his most recent project, playing Nathan Davis in Ozark, Thomas also appears in Blue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,163,170],"class_list":["post-57056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-tv-videos","tag-tv-series"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}