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Trying not to outright spoil anything which you may not have already seen, I will say that The Waltons ultimately reaches a point where (for me, at least), it became almost unwatchable. I don't have time to check right now to see exactly which season(s) the particular downhill turns occurred, but I (particularly) had issues with the fact that a different actor was brought in to play the character of John Boy (an unrecoverable mistake, IMO), and I also took issue with certain plotlines concerning Mary Ellen's marriage and husband. (Anyone who's seen these later eps will know what I'm referring to.)
IMO, MTM, Home Improvement and The Golden Girls stayed pretty good for their entire runs. Others may feel differently, of course...
I never cared much for All In The Family, and I've never watched a single full episode of either The Simpsons or Married With Children, so my opinions on any of those would be useless. (Not necessarily a deliberate choice in either case; I just never made the effort to try to catch them in either their original runs or the endless syndication runs. I've worked evening and night shifts for over 20 years, so all of my prime-time viewing involves specific choices and deliberate effort...i.e. recording. Thank goodness for VCRs and DVRs!)
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