He was also the Creator and Executive Producer for the show "FALCON CREST'' 1981 thru 1988. The show starred Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Robert Foxworth, and Susan Sullivan. The show was set in the Napa Valley of California. And centered on the power and intrigues of the families involved in the wine producing industry.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert "Inky" Intlekofer
Hamner based the grandparents in his popular television series The Waltons (1972)
on his own maternal Italian-American grandparents Ora Lee and A.
Gianniny, an Anglicized version of the Italian name Giannini.