John Rubinstein wrote the opening theme to "Family". John is the son of the renowned classical pianist, Arthur Rubinstein. John also plays Jeff Maitland in "Family". I just learned this fact today, and I'm flabbergasted that all this time has gone by and I never realized who John Rubinstein's father was.
@@ddivincenzo1194 I saw photos of John Rubinstein taken in recent years, and he's a very distinguished looking gentleman. You didn't notice that when he wore that awful 1970s hairstyle while playing Jeff.
All five seasons were available to stream on Tubi. Just looked yesterday and they were gone. So I’m back here. All these years later, Family is still my favorite. 😊
Buddy and Doug were a delight in their sailor number! Nancy was right; Buddy being herself can beat out any would-be high school sexpot. They were just so cute and funny!
I was 10 when I loved watching this show. I still do! I can't believe how self centered and immature Nancy is. She takes food from her mom constantly, foists the baby on everyone constantly with no notice, never wants to do things with Buddy as an older sister, and now wants her extremely unattractive ex back with a jealousy tantrum almost changing the visitation agreement to get back at him. Way to go, Nancy, very centered and mature. My god, they wrote her character to be a complete nitwit. Hahaha. I never noticed it in the 70's watching this. It's hilarious to watch. ❤️
@@tanyastebbing9763 He was for the time unconventionally attractive, which is the going thing these days. I can go for conventional or non conventional & I've always found him sexy. 👍💯🌝
I grew up watching Family Ties- and that’s where I first met Meredith Baxter. Since then I have seen her in so many other movies and TV shows, and I have loved watching her in every single thing she’s ever done. I really love her work, but mire than that, she infuses each role with just enough personality to make you feel as if you personally know her.
If Jeff could so eadily break up with his supposed "fiance" Vickie. just like that, he wasn't worth having for her. Obviously he wasn't committed to her at all 😐 💔
What a mature woman Jeff ends up with over lil selfish Nancy.... Vicky's Amazing...she deserves better..❤ I love Buddy 😢.. what a neat character.. I watched Kristy McNichole play her cop character in her late 20s too...Gosh what a sweetheart of a person..❤
Thank you for the upload. I have never understood why they paired up Jeff with beautiful women constantly. I have always found myself questioning the producers for their decision-making where he was concerned.
That John Rubinstein is simply creepy, he looks like he's going on 12, and can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, and why they paired him with that WASP princess is a mystery to me. Is it because neither of them can act?
@@Xanthas71 You probably already know this, but John Rubinstein is the son of the renowned American-Polish classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein. John also wrote the opening theme music for "Family", not only the theme for the pilot episode but also the theme for the regular series. He has had a remarkable career on stage and screen. I have just learned all of these interesting details about John Rubinstein today. I know that Jeff Maitland is not a very popular character on Family, but I've always liked him. Maybe I've sensed something about the brilliant person behind that character. Thank you for all you've done to bring our "Family" back home to us here on CZcams. I've been watching television since Ike was inaugurated in 1953, and "Family" is my favorite series of all time.
In the 70's it was in for beautiful women to be with average, or below average, men. Sonny and Cher opened the door. Jeff was probably considered hot in the 70's. It was a different definition on male beauty. When you look at Burt Reynolds was he really all that super hunky?
Nancy and Jeff have to be the best examples of the most immature, self-absorbed and entitled people in television history (daytime soap opera characters excluded).
We had exactly those same lounge chairs with the bright yellow cushions when I was a kid. I don't remember anyone ever sitting or lying on them, though.
I recently found a copy of The Pirate Movie on an archive website and sat through it for old times' sake. I was horrified! I still cannot believe I saw it in the theater during its run, back in the day. I must have had more of a crush on her than I remember now. Have you ever seen Little Darlings? Ugh! What was I thinking? I hope she's doing alright now, wherever she is...
And no laugh track. I was actually just thinking while watching this, how Family and Eight is Enough seem like they could exist in the same exact universe where the characters from either show could wander into the other and it would seem natural. Maybe the two families could even be related. Road trips between northern and southern California for holidays and such. What throws if off here is the presence of Willie Aames as someone who is not Tommy Bradford.
This episode made me realize why I never liked Nancy, and I never will. It also makes me realize how good Meredith Baxter (plus Birney at the time) was at playing her.
Weird how no one (except Nancy in her convo. with her Mom) asks the important question about Jeff's culpability in this whole thing, it's all Nancy's doing and her bad. So sexist, so 1970's!
Funny you say that. The first time I ever saw Ashton Kutcher, that dude was straight out of 1978... They did a great job casting him in that 70s show. All he was missing was the centerfold spots in Tiger Beat!
@@Ilostmyfob First time I thought that also, from watching this specific episode. She was in the middle of adolescence; she looked different as she got older....
So ackward of Jeff to introduce his his ex-wife as Nancy Maitland to his fiance Vicki Weber (including their last names)? Plus, why would they want to take baby Timmy on a ski trip anyway?
i believe she is also in the TERRIBLE sequel to "The Poseidon Adventure" - where, if nothing else, she looks absolutely LOVELY in her black evening gown!!! ;-)
The family's kitchen appliances make me have convulsions. For those who didn't live through these days, the kitchen is set up for a much earlier period, which isn't strange. Once people have their kitchen established, they tend to use the same equipment until it becomes painfully obsolete or fails altogether. I'm living in the house my family built in 1976, the house in which I watched these episodes when they were first on ABC, and my current oven and stove are original and thus contemporaneous to this time. They have digital displays and look more appropriate to STAR WARS (which debuted in 1977) than to a country farmhouse as we see here. I totally dig the coffee pot that makes an appearance in each episode. It's actually nice, and I'd use it today. If anyone noticed, it replaced the first season's percolator, an archaic technology that might have been familiar and comforting to the parents. Percolation produced HORRIBLE coffee that tasted burnt, and no one would consume such a thing unless they had grown up with it. I can attest to you that by 1977 we were in the era of microwave ovens and Mr. Coffee and no longer forced to depend on such a contrivance. Onward and upward...
@@trawlins396 Dude was a lawyer working in Pasadena. Dude would have had a microwave oven and Mr. Coffee by this time, unless he was just a Luddite. I grew up in the top 1% and know what it was like. Word!
@@afwalker1921 CLEARLY, you don't know. And the Lawrence family was FAR from the top "1 percent". They were VERY middle class. They spoke of money problems on more than one episode.
I adore my percolator and the coffee it creates. I travel with it. Have stopped in RestArea to brew my own perfect coffee ☕️ frugally and much tastier than anything in gas stations or DD or Starbux... and if it broke don't fix it. Older appliances last forever. I want an Avocado fridge to open and find my granny's jello salad
I honestly don't know what Nancy saw in this homely looking guy called Jeff and he kept cheating on her too. The only thing he had was a rich father. And Willie was always on Jeff's side.
If Nancy had any self respect, she would have invited them both to enjoy the dinner Kate cooked and get to know this woman who may be Timmy's step mother. What an immature woman Nancy is.
Yes! You're noticing a change in alcohol consumption within the culture that I think is very much for the better. It's a generational thing; if you're in your forties in the Seventies you would have grown up in the Forties, a time when (as I've complained before in this series' comment stream) manhood was defined as booze and broads and everyone drank to excess, to the exclusion of all other recreational chemicals. When I dipped into FAMILY back in the day I never noticed the prominence of alcohol in it, but my own family was destroyed by alcoholism and that generation of my relatives is gone now, having died young. For myself, I am pushing sixty, I have a medical marijuana permit in California and I spend lots of time in Canada, where they treat their citizens as responsible adults and have loosened up their drug laws considerably. As the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, "Where there are more laws, there is more crime." I can make better choices for body and my life than any bureaucrat can. Gestern Hanf, Heute Hanf, Immer Hanf! Alcohol is the feces of the yeast beast... you can drink from a sewer if you want to, but I respect myself too much to do the same. It pains me to watch this now, and I have almost shut off YOU TUBE several times when the characters have had their celebratory snort. It isn't the core of Western civilization, it is its imminent demise.
@@afwalker1921 wow. Could you be any more melodramatic?? Alcohol is still in MAJOR consumption in the US. We drink as much wine as the French. Talk to ANY (whtewoman) in the US over 21. Guarantee wine is her beverage of choice. It's the FIRST thing they go do after getting home from work.
@@afwalker1921 I am so sorry for your family. I am Canadian. Even though I never had a taste of marijuana, I do agree with you that we are right in decriminalizing it. It's not a crime. Jail belongs to real criminals. U.S. jails are full of people who are not criminals. You guys should rally up in the coming November election to vote for the Democrats who are more in touch with ordinary people, not only the rich, the big corporations and the religious fanatics whom the Republicans work for.
@@leanderrowe2800 I don't know what to do in the upcoming election. My older brother is a devoted supporter of the political left, as he has a lifelong habit of grooming underage boys, getting them drunk and then buttraping the fool out of them; it's his hope the Dems will legalize his habit of sodomizing children. However, I'm not a Christian, and I've been told by a neighbor that if the coalition of Republicans and Evangelical Christians take over I will be driven out of my country like a Jew, and rightly so. He doesn't know, but I was born physically intersexed and would almost certainly be murdered by our Christian right, for Christ's sake. I hate both factions and want them to murder each other as a way of destroying the diseased culture of the lower states, something of which I want no part. Calgary is looking better and better. I'm a novelist, I write scifi, horror and things that are difficult to place on a shelf. I think Canada could find a place for me...
These scenarios with all 3 kids and their respective partners could only be this loose in the 70s. Wouldn't Willie be dating someone, than an old fling shows up etc. Buddy and her Boyfriends had situations like this too and even the parents. But Nancy was the worst though. She was dating someone while finalzing her divorce and another guy (played by Tommy Lee Jones)forces her to go out with him. She ends up staying at his place and going back to her bf.
Vickie telling Nancy that she might be ruining a good marriage... her fiancé has already cheated on her, that's not exactly the basis for a good relationship, let alone a marriage.
Didn't Nancy divorce Jeff because he cheated on her? And now she's "the other woman"? When will she get it? A man smiles at her and her knees turn to jelly. Such an easy target.
Really Frederick...? I've had a thing for Jewish boys since grade school....but Rubinstein, no thanks, he looks like he still hasn't been Bar Mitzvahed yet, it's almost creepy that they keep pairing him with these 'Barbie Doll' uber WASPs
@@seanobrennan2372 It wasn't until I saw John Rubinstein in a play in London that I finally understood his magnetism -- and that he's a terrific actor. On 1970s TV he always came across as a bit creepy, and the way he was cast sometimes reflected that (did you ever see A Howling in the Woods, with him and Barbara Eden? [shudder]). But he was a big Broadway star at the time of Family, and is a composer (it's already been mentioned that he composed the theme from Family).
i never thought john was very attractive in his younger days, but to see him now, he is a very attractive older man!! [personally, i was busy crushin' on willie when i first saw him in my closeted, budding teen years! i would melt every time he called buddy 'peaches'!! so endearing!!]
I love the music in the intro, it takes me back in time.
John Rubinstein wrote the opening theme to "Family". John is the son of the renowned classical pianist, Arthur Rubinstein.
John also plays Jeff Maitland in "Family". I just learned this fact today, and I'm flabbergasted that all this time has gone by and I never realized who John Rubinstein's father was.
I prefer War Pigs……..
@@vivianpowell1732 He made a couple of appearances in "All in the Family".
@@ddivincenzo1194 I saw photos of John Rubinstein taken in recent years, and he's a very distinguished looking gentleman. You didn't notice that when he wore that awful 1970s hairstyle while playing Jeff.
Alice was spoiled
I’m going through a rough patch and these uploads are getting me through. Thank you.
Same
All five seasons were available to stream on Tubi. Just looked yesterday and they were gone. So I’m back here. All these years later, Family is still my favorite. 😊
I’m right there with you. Major challenges on so many fronts and I find these episodes so comforting and entertaining.
Wow, thought I was the only one....
@@1Rdby Me too...
I missed out on this show as a child. There is some high drama ! I’m hooked ! Crazy how I can binge watch this decades later
Me too!
I love Miss Sada Thompson's one liners☺
Nancy is so manipulative. She seduced Jeff and then says, “It’s so FUN being the other woman.”
Veronica Hamel! Beautiful as always.
What a fox!
She's almost stunning!
Adorable performance by Buddy and Doug! ❤️
Nancy is so self entitled - it’s aggravating
Having your ex end up with Veronica Hamel is pretty devastating
I was trying to figure out who that woman was.
LOl what a beauty
Buddy and Doug were a delight in their sailor number! Nancy was right; Buddy being herself can beat out any would-be high school sexpot. They were just so cute and funny!
I use to love watching this show. Nice and wholesome ❤️
Kate sure supplied Nancy with a nice dinner on the spot from her fridge/pantry.
I was 10 when I loved watching this show. I still do! I can't believe how self centered and immature Nancy is. She takes food from her mom constantly, foists the baby on everyone constantly with no notice, never wants to do things with Buddy as an older sister, and now wants her extremely unattractive ex back with a jealousy tantrum almost changing the visitation agreement to get back at him. Way to go, Nancy, very centered and mature. My god, they wrote her character to be a complete nitwit. Hahaha. I never noticed it in the 70's watching this. It's hilarious to watch. ❤️
I find Geoff gorgeous, soft and handsome, a nice, kindlly face.
@@tanyastebbing9763 who is now, in his golden years, quite attractive!!! google him!
@@tanyastebbing9763 He was for the time unconventionally attractive, which is the going thing these days. I can go for conventional or non conventional & I've always found him sexy. 👍💯🌝
@@tanyastebbing9763 at first I didn't think Jeff was attractive but he grew on me. He looked cute in this episode.
@@KennethofTroy yep. He's still attractive.
Vicki is definitely the grownup in that childish triangle. Nancy can be such an asshole sometimes.
That dance number with a 13 yr old was a bit much.
Lmao
Panning in on her butt was definitely over the top.
Even in this era in time, that dance number very inappropriate for that age & cringey!!
For real!! Very cringe!! I skip over it😂
I grew up watching Family Ties- and that’s where I first met Meredith Baxter. Since then I have seen her in so many other movies and TV shows, and I have loved watching her in every single thing she’s ever done. I really love her work, but mire than that, she infuses each role with just enough personality to make you feel as if you personally know her.
Have to say she is a very talented at capturing your attention and making you feel part of conversation.
She did an excellent job playing Betty Broderick! I saw interviews with Betty and she had her down to a t. Great actress.
@@dianalewandowski7421 Yes, she did. I liked her in "Winnie", too.
did you ever see her in "My Breast"
She was great as Betty Broderick.
If Jeff could so eadily break up with his supposed "fiance" Vickie. just like that, he wasn't worth having for her. Obviously he wasn't committed to her at all 😐 💔
Buddy Lawrence...the most angsty teen in America.
When i watched this as kid/teen i saw Nancy was beautiful, i mever saw how mean and selfish, she was. All me, me.
She is lovely looking. But that is it. I always wonder why MBB wanted to play this character.
Willie is hysterical in the musical number and actually very pretty!
...I thought so too.
@Ted Ozdowski You can take the boy out of Spokane...
He looked like Boy George.
@@echt114 yes he did lol
Always loved this. Nancy and Jeff could not get it right. They were all great. James Broaderick died shortly after this ended.
😔
Is his death the reason the show ended?
No. He passed after the show ended.
@@kathybryson7539 ~ 2 years after I think.
@@rafaellewis4528 no
This episode is the epitome of why I hate Nancy.
What a mature woman Jeff ends up with over lil selfish Nancy.... Vicky's Amazing...she deserves better..❤
I love Buddy 😢.. what a neat character.. I watched Kristy McNichole play her cop character in her late 20s too...Gosh what a sweetheart of a person..❤
For Vicky's sake I hope she ran the other way and kept going.
Thank you for the upload. I have never understood why they paired up Jeff with beautiful women constantly. I have always found myself questioning the producers for their decision-making where he was concerned.
Because he's rich!!
That John Rubinstein is simply creepy, he looks like he's going on 12, and can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, and why they paired him with that WASP princess is a mystery to me. Is it because neither of them can act?
He creeps me out. Something is off about him, I wouldn't date him.
@@Xanthas71 You probably already know this, but John Rubinstein is the son of the renowned American-Polish classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein. John also wrote the opening theme music for "Family", not only the theme for the pilot episode but also the theme for the regular series. He has had a remarkable career on stage and screen.
I have just learned all of these interesting details about John Rubinstein today. I know that Jeff Maitland is not a very popular character on Family, but I've always liked him. Maybe I've sensed something about the brilliant person behind that character.
Thank you for all you've done to bring our "Family" back home to us here on CZcams. I've been watching television since Ike was inaugurated in 1953, and "Family" is my favorite series of all time.
In the 70's it was in for beautiful women to be with average, or below average, men. Sonny and Cher opened the door. Jeff was probably considered hot in the 70's. It was a different definition on male beauty. When you look at Burt Reynolds was he really all that super hunky?
Nancy and Jeff have to be the best examples of the most immature, self-absorbed and entitled people in television history (daytime soap opera characters excluded).
Boomers!
@@wednesdayschild3627don’t blame it on boomers. All associates and aquaintances were raised to take the higher ground and we do.
@@wednesdayschild3627give it a rest millennial🙄
Us Gen X'ers would never behave in this way! It's all the Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z'ers, etc.!
What I would say--boomers
Seems like Jeff wants the best of both worlds. He is no prize, someone who always has to have his way. I feel bad for his new girlfriend.
We had exactly those same lounge chairs with the bright yellow cushions when I was a kid. I don't remember anyone ever sitting or lying on them, though.
I like willie and buddy as brother and sister. He’s there for his little sister
Kristy McNichol...& years later, The Pirate Movie ☺️
I recently found a copy of The Pirate Movie on an archive website and sat through it for old times' sake. I was horrified! I still cannot believe I saw it in the theater during its run, back in the day. I must have had more of a crush on her than I remember now. Have you ever seen Little Darlings? Ugh! What was I thinking? I hope she's doing alright now, wherever she is...
This show is like a more serious version of Eight Is Enough with less kids. I just started watching Season 2.
I agree
And no laugh track. I was actually just thinking while watching this, how Family and Eight is Enough seem like they could exist in the same exact universe where the characters from either show could wander into the other and it would seem natural. Maybe the two families could even be related. Road trips between northern and southern California for holidays and such. What throws if off here is the presence of Willie Aames as someone who is not Tommy Bradford.
But the writing is so much better.
@@pam0626 I was watching it on Tubi but they removed it. I don't like Tubi.
Joyce Davenport vs. Elyse Keaton. Who would have thunk it?
Good one! ;)
This episode made me realize why I never liked Nancy, and I never will. It also makes me realize how good Meredith Baxter (plus Birney at the time) was at playing her.
Meredith Baxter was great in family ties
Dad’s Thompson was the ultimate t.v. Mom of the 70’s
Assertive smart and motherly
...Besides the lounge lizard leisure suit in the first scene, Jeff looks pretty good in this episode.
he looks like a fairy.
@@nonrepublicrat ...Spoken like the tROLL that you are. C'mon now, use your big boy words.
Taming down the afro makes a huge difference.
Willie could read Nancy like a book.
Sada was such a classy lady.
This is true. 👍💯
I actually thought she was heavy, now if I looked like her I would walk the streets naked!
Always so "poised"
Very classy!
All entertainers are trans so technically she's a man
Vickie dodged a bullet she just doesn't know it yet. Jeff's a zero.
So true! Once a cheater, twice a cheater! She’s better off. Nancy is just such a narcissist. Always about her! It gets old....
Why she would want someone who wants everyone else is beyond my understanding
Don’t do it!!! He’s a X for a reason!!!!
Weird how no one (except Nancy in her convo. with her Mom) asks the important question about Jeff's culpability in this whole thing, it's all Nancy's doing and her bad. So sexist, so 1970's!
Yeah he's an X because he's a piece of garbage who cheats on the mother of his child and with another one on the way.
Does everyone agree that this is the perfect family, warts and all, though fictionalized, that we should aspire to?
Yep!
Nope.
Maybe...
It’s easy to see where Matthew Broderick got his stage talent!
Willie's (Gary Frank) is right! He's right a lot! l like him the most out of all the characters! GET OUT OF THE WAY NANCY!!!
Sound of the seventies.
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy!!!
Shout out to Carole Lombard!!!
Sometimes I swear when watching this show, Kristy McNichol looks like she could be related to Ashton Kutcher.
Shelley I see a young Natalie Portman
Funny you say that. The first time I ever saw Ashton Kutcher, that dude was straight out of 1978... They did a great job casting him in that 70s show. All he was missing was the centerfold spots in Tiger Beat!
@@Ilostmyfob I definitely see that too
@@Ilostmyfob First time I thought that also, from watching this specific episode.
She was in the middle of adolescence; she looked different as she got older....
Veronica Hamel is gorgeous!
Helene ~ Yep! Just Dynamite!
So ackward of Jeff to introduce his his ex-wife as Nancy Maitland to his fiance Vicki Weber (including their last names)? Plus, why would they want to take baby Timmy on a ski trip anyway?
This is awesome! ❤
Jeff was no great shakes.
Veronica from hill street blues!
I never watched that show, but she is very good in this.
i believe she is also in the TERRIBLE sequel to "The Poseidon Adventure" - where, if nothing else, she looks absolutely LOVELY in her black evening gown!!! ;-)
The family's kitchen appliances make me have convulsions. For those who didn't live through these days, the kitchen is set up for a much earlier period, which isn't strange. Once people have their kitchen established, they tend to use the same equipment until it becomes painfully obsolete or fails altogether. I'm living in the house my family built in 1976, the house in which I watched these episodes when they were first on ABC, and my current oven and stove are original and thus contemporaneous to this time. They have digital displays and look more appropriate to STAR WARS (which debuted in 1977) than to a country farmhouse as we see here. I totally dig the coffee pot that makes an appearance in each episode. It's actually nice, and I'd use it today. If anyone noticed, it replaced the first season's percolator, an archaic technology that might have been familiar and comforting to the parents. Percolation produced HORRIBLE coffee that tasted burnt, and no one would consume such a thing unless they had grown up with it. I can attest to you that by 1977 we were in the era of microwave ovens and Mr. Coffee and no longer forced to depend on such a contrivance. Onward and upward...
You sound silly. Not everyone had a microwave by 77. They were still a rarity. Their kitchen was very realistic for the time.
@@trawlins396 Dude was a lawyer working in Pasadena. Dude would have had a microwave oven and Mr. Coffee by this time, unless he was just a Luddite. I grew up in the top 1% and know what it was like. Word!
@@afwalker1921 CLEARLY, you don't know. And the Lawrence family was FAR from the top "1 percent". They were VERY middle class. They spoke of money problems on more than one episode.
I adore my percolator and the coffee it creates. I travel with it. Have stopped in RestArea to brew my own perfect coffee ☕️ frugally and much tastier than anything in gas stations or DD or Starbux... and if it broke don't fix it. Older appliances last forever. I want an Avocado fridge to open and find my granny's jello salad
@@ladavidson9269As the saying goes, "The past is another country. They do things differently there."
SEXY? To be sexy there has to be something sexy, and she was not sexy but cute.
I'm sorry but at times...most times the Lawrence trio of kids are spoiled impetuous brats. Weird being that they were raised by Doug and Kate.
They do act stuck up! We are all equal according to death!
Young ppl are all usually very selfish and self absorbed.
Boomers raised by the greatest generation.
I honestly don't know what Nancy saw in this homely looking guy called Jeff and he kept cheating on her too. The only thing he had was a rich father. And Willie was always on Jeff's side.
I never understood her attachment to Jeff either. His character was such a worm.
@@trawlins396
😆😆
Agree. He doesn't look masculine at all.
Jeff homely? wow, opinions sure differ. He's sexy in my opinion. He is a loving dad, thats part of it. And I like his looks.
what she saw in him was his bank account.
Willie was always just so...... so "Willie".
🤣🤣. He was definitely an original character.
Beautiful Lady
For once, I'm glad that Jeff is with someone who's prettier and a lot more sophisticated than the egoistic Nancy
Yes, and kinder and less bitchy and self-involved. Probably has her own place too.
His fiance was beautiful.
She had that classic, preppy look that was becoming mainstream around this era; she had that aristocratic beauty too
*egotistic
I forgot how much I always hated the Nancy Maitland character. Meredith Baxter played her so well. No wonder she made the perfect Betty Boderick.
"Not hilarious. Not cute. SEXY."
☺️😂🤣😅👍🏽
Hilarious. Cute. NOT sexy.
Thankyou 😀
First loves are the hardest to let go of
That's it....Nancy looks like a young "aunt Bee" from Andy Griffith show. Just look at her in the eyes you'll see it 🤔🤤
Thats hilarious i never would have seen that. But just as you say look a couple if seconds. To me its the mouth. 😄
Ugm . Not at all.
If Nancy had any self respect, she would have invited them both to enjoy the dinner Kate cooked and get to know this woman who may be Timmy's step mother. What an immature woman Nancy is.
She's a person. That's why this show was so great.
Nancy lacks womanly grace. Doesn't invite Vickie to sit down then Nancy sips her tea & offers Vickie nothing to drink.
Didn't the dark haired woman play on Hill Street Blues???!!!!!
Yes. Actress Veronica Hamel.
Is it true that everyone drinks that often in those days ? Everything good or bad calls for a drink.
Yes! You're noticing a change in alcohol consumption within the culture that I think is very much for the better. It's a generational thing; if you're in your forties in the Seventies you would have grown up in the Forties, a time when (as I've complained before in this series' comment stream) manhood was defined as booze and broads and everyone drank to excess, to the exclusion of all other recreational chemicals. When I dipped into FAMILY back in the day I never noticed the prominence of alcohol in it, but my own family was destroyed by alcoholism and that generation of my relatives is gone now, having died young. For myself, I am pushing sixty, I have a medical marijuana permit in California and I spend lots of time in Canada, where they treat their citizens as responsible adults and have loosened up their drug laws considerably. As the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, "Where there are more laws, there is more crime." I can make better choices for body and my life than any bureaucrat can. Gestern Hanf, Heute Hanf, Immer Hanf! Alcohol is the feces of the yeast beast... you can drink from a sewer if you want to, but I respect myself too much to do the same. It pains me to watch this now, and I have almost shut off YOU TUBE several times when the characters have had their celebratory snort. It isn't the core of Western civilization, it is its imminent demise.
@@afwalker1921 wow. Could you be any more melodramatic?? Alcohol is still in MAJOR consumption in the US. We drink as much wine as the French. Talk to ANY (whtewoman) in the US over 21. Guarantee wine is her beverage of choice. It's the FIRST thing they go do after getting home from work.
@@afwalker1921
I am so sorry for your family. I am Canadian. Even though I never had a taste of marijuana, I do agree with you that we are right in decriminalizing it. It's not a crime. Jail belongs to real criminals. U.S. jails are full of people who are not criminals.
You guys should rally up in the coming November election to vote for the Democrats who are more in touch with ordinary people, not only the rich, the big corporations and the religious fanatics whom the Republicans work for.
@@afwalker1921
I didn't grow up in North America and I was amazed at how drinking is so rampant among young people here.
@@leanderrowe2800 I don't know what to do in the upcoming election. My older brother is a devoted supporter of the political left, as he has a lifelong habit of grooming underage boys, getting them drunk and then buttraping the fool out of them; it's his hope the Dems will legalize his habit of sodomizing children. However, I'm not a Christian, and I've been told by a neighbor that if the coalition of Republicans and Evangelical Christians take over I will be driven out of my country like a Jew, and rightly so. He doesn't know, but I was born physically intersexed and would almost certainly be murdered by our Christian right, for Christ's sake. I hate both factions and want them to murder each other as a way of destroying the diseased culture of the lower states, something of which I want no part. Calgary is looking better and better. I'm a novelist, I write scifi, horror and things that are difficult to place on a shelf. I think Canada could find a place for me...
Loved Buddy's Liza Minelli Cabaret song. Wish she would have finished the skit.
I do not like Nancy in this episode 👎🏼
She was always on the self-centered side.....my least favorite character in the series actually.
Agreed
I don’t either.
...I quite agree. There are women who are actually this vindictive.
Agreed. And I don't like Willie in ANY episode, ha. (But I always like Kristy McNichol.)
These scenarios with all 3 kids and their respective partners could only be this loose in the 70s. Wouldn't Willie be dating someone, than an old fling shows up etc. Buddy and her Boyfriends had situations like this too and even the parents. But Nancy was the worst though. She was dating someone while finalzing her divorce and another guy (played by Tommy Lee Jones)forces her to go out with him. She ends up staying at his place and going back to her bf.
Buddy: I am trying to get TJ not Alice! Kristy was funny!
The Maitland money must come into play somewhere because he's not such a great looking guy
Did you ever see Nancy get with a poor? She's all about the Benjamins.
Good Question: Was This Recorded Off ABC?
Was that girl Helen Hunt?!
I thought so too.
I've seen her in a few of these episodes.
I thought it was her here as well.
yes, it is.
That's what I thought!
No. She's the actress, Stacy Swor. I saw it on Imdb.
Vickie telling Nancy that she might be ruining a good marriage... her fiancé has already cheated on her, that's not exactly the basis for a good relationship, let alone a marriage.
I get the feeling that fornication is an everyday habit like they are with the alcohol
She has nothing to shake. Also an episode where Willie doesn't fall in ❤️....🥒
Nancy didn't think sleeping with Jeff would end his engagement?? LOLOL
Bahah jeff just playd nancy.
Jeff john Rubinstein ist ein toller Schauspieler und er sieht richtig hübsch aus
Didn't Nancy divorce Jeff because he cheated on her? And now she's "the other woman"? When will she get it?
A man smiles at her and her knees turn to jelly. Such an easy target.
Davenports first name was Joyce not Veranica.
14:31 - 14:46 😂👍🏼 great dialog!
oops. My time stamps were wrong! I meant 14:20 to 14:35 ;-)
I liked that too 😉👍
sada always gets the best zinger lines in the show...and delivers them PERFECTLY!!!
Does Meredith ever age?
Yes
Love love love this show! Only thing it seems like the story of Nancy & Jeff fight, make up, contemplate marriage then break up, is repetitive......
what Nancy did was brutal. I am surprised the writers made her out to be a villain like that.
Lots of long dramatic looks in this episode as Nancy works her magic.
What a lucky fellow to have a beautiful brunette or a beautiful blonde to choose from. I just thought I would add that thought in.
And yet I would also like to add that they need to practice fidelity.
Nancy and Jeff are so selfish. I can't stand her character... Wow.
Wasn't everything in a paper bag in the 70"s
TJ needs a cold shower! Down, boy, DOWN 🤣😍🤪
Does anyone know who played Vicky? She looks so familiar to me, but I can't place her.
Veronica Hamel
@@trainer1158 I'll look her up... thank you! :)
Veronica Hamel
Be careful what you wish for.
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Jeff being Jeff. Can't get past him in the role. Very very off casting for me.
Jeff was such a philandering creep. I lamented the fact Nancy ever bore him a child. She was well rid of him.
She is just scared and mixed up. She will make the right decision
I always had a crush on John Rubinstein
Really Frederick...? I've had a thing for Jewish boys since grade school....but Rubinstein, no thanks, he looks like he still hasn't been Bar Mitzvahed yet, it's almost creepy that they keep pairing him with these 'Barbie Doll' uber WASPs
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@@seanobrennan2372 It wasn't until I saw John Rubinstein in a play in London that I finally understood his magnetism -- and that he's a terrific actor. On 1970s TV he always came across as a bit creepy, and the way he was cast sometimes reflected that (did you ever see A Howling in the Woods, with him and Barbara Eden? [shudder]). But he was a big Broadway star at the time of Family, and is a composer (it's already been mentioned that he composed the theme from Family).
i never thought john was very attractive in his younger days, but to see him now, he is a very attractive older man!! [personally, i was busy crushin' on willie when i first saw him in my closeted, budding teen years! i would melt every time he called buddy 'peaches'!! so endearing!!]
@@seanobrennan2372 You sound like absolute trash.
At least the father figure didn’t turn out to be a serial rapist……..
Is that Helen Hunt?
Yes
Jeff ist ein süsser Junge
They sure do drink a lot on this show. It's the one thing I don't like about it.