John-Boy and the family mule compete against a rich, young man and his thoroughbred in a traditional cross-country race that was won many years earlier by Grandpa Walton.
Ponch and his flight-attendant girlfriend are captured by two thugs seeking revenge against him and Bobby for catching them breaking into a warehouse. Meanwhile, Bobby and Kathy try to convince two teenage runaways to live in the real world. David Caruso and Phil Silvers guest star.
A champion bodybuilder, in San Francisco for a competition, secretly uses performing enhancement drugs that leave him with little control over his anger, leading to unintended consequences.
Kojak tracks down a college student who he suspects has been raped but is too afraid to come forward after she witnesses one of the assailants murdered by the other.
