Nope, nothing to do with that. The "John-boy?" "Chief?" "McCloud!" thing is an Elder Days GweepCo reference, to an MST3K joke which stemmed in turn from... I forget if Dennis Weaver was in the movie they were doing that week, or if it just had an overall resemblance to the NBC Mystery Movie, or what. It was a long time ago. Anyway, the Chief and McCloud had a fairly adversarial relationship on McCloud, and there was often a bit of shouting. (Exactly where The Waltons came into it I can't remember at all.)

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