A movie is being shot at Walton's mountain at one of the old houses. While that is happening, John-Boy gets a tempting offer to go to write movies because he helps rewrite some aspects of the script to make them more "true" to mountain life and speech dialects. Mary Ellen falls for a young production assistant who is British and reminds her a lot of pictures of her "crush" King Edward VIII. The mountain is astir not only by the local goings on of the movie shootings but also (along with the rest of the world) debating what will King Edward do now that he has been caught with that Simpson woman. Of course those who know history knows he abdicates his throne. Mary Ellen is crushed that he would do that and grows up a little. John Boy does not leave the mountain at all.