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Family (1976)
The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.
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Episode 1 - Acts of Love (1)
Release Date: 1977-09-13While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a physics student named Lizzy -- who, as he soon finds out, has radiation sickness.
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Episode 2 - Acts of Love (2)
Release Date: 1977-09-20Lizzy dies, but not before Willie convinces her to marry him first.
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Episode 3 - The First Time
Release Date: 1977-09-27Kate unhappily contemplates her 49th birthday; T.J. asks Buddy to go steady with him, but she's not sure.
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Episode 4 - Change of Heart
Release Date: 1977-10-04Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.
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Episode 5 - Annie Laurie
Release Date: 1977-10-25Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.
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Episode 6 - We Love You, Miss Jessup
Release Date: 1977-11-01Buddy's English teacher gets outed; Willie suspects Nancy of being a home-wrecker.
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Episode 7 - The Little Brother
Release Date: 1977-11-08Willie fails to understand a black thing; Buddy develops an interest in genealogy.
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Episode 8 - Childhood's End
Release Date: 1977-11-15Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and -- guess what? -- she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorced father, is apprehensive about seeing his kids again.
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Episode 9 - A Tale Out of Season
Release Date: 1977-11-22Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater; Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Thanksgiving spirit.
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Episode 10 - Labors of Love
Release Date: 1977-11-29Buddy, upset by a lack of attention from T.J., tries to make him jealous by hanging out with a geek; Willie catches the eye of his cute über-boss.
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Episode 11 - A Child is Given
Release Date: 1977-12-13 -
Episode 12 - More Than Friends
Release Date: 1978-01-03Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things get awkward when he pans Willie's script.
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Episode 13 - Princess in the Tower
Release Date: 1978-01-10Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo -- and gets trapped overnight, along with a very pregnant younger woman; Buddy has the bright idea of dyeing her hair blonde.
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Episode 14 - Echoes of Love
Release Date: 1978-01-17Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her parents are splitting up, and angry that Doug is representing her mother in the divorce.
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Episode 15 - See Saw
Release Date: 1978-01-24Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on installing Timmy's new bed; Buddy leaves for a week-end of skiing with T.J. and his parents.
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Episode 16 - Lifeline
Release Date: 1978-01-31Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide, to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up her; Buddy baby-sits a whiny kid.
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Episode 17 - . . . And Baby Makes Three
Release Date: 1978-02-07Nancy and Jeff aren't sure whether to get back together; Buddy is disgusted that Audrey has fallen for the cheap ploys of the school Casanova.
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Episode 18 - Crossing Over
Release Date: 1978-02-14Willie has an appointment with a big-shot film producer, on the eve of his 21st birthday; then, he and Doug make friends with a stripper.
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Episode 19 - The Covenant
Release Date: 1978-02-21Medical crises abound in the family when James reveals to Doug that he must soon undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy begins to miscarry Jeff's baby.
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Episode 20 - A Friend of the Family's
Release Date: 1978-02-28A somewhat unscrupulous former friend of Willie's drops by; Buddy needs driving lessons; Kate and Doug consider taking separate vacations.
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Episode 21 - Fear of Shadows
Release Date: 1978-05-02Kate has a recurring nightmare about running over a little boy; Buddy gets a pet raccoon.
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Episode 22 - Sleeping Gypsy
Release Date: 1978-05-09Everyone at school dislikes Buddy's bohemian friend; Kate gives Doug a plaid jacket he doesn't much care for.
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Episode 23 - Counterpoint
Release Date: 1978-05-16Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug contemplates early retirement after his tennis partner has a heart attack.