Seeing grown adult children, perfectly comfortable, still, grabbing food, whatever, from Mom and Dad - as grown adults, no judgement! Wow, I too, want to live there! Can you imagine an entire planet of "Children" living in that sacred security of FAMILY?! I can😍😘.💝💯♾️
@@cherylb2008I don’t see them doing it maliciously; Nancy is the only one who really tends to take advantage of it sometimes, but I would be glad that my family felt comfortable doing this. I want them to feel welcome in my home.
I wish my family would have treated me this way when I lost my baby. They were so busy thinking about how I couldn't afford the baby that died that they didn't even ask how I was dealing with losing my baby. It was thirty four years ago and it still hurts like it was yesterday. 😢
@@gracejones2831 I think they were but I turned around and got pregnant again because I wasn't relieved. I was distraught. When I finally told my grandmother she wasn't happy. She never liked my daughter and didn't mind letting her know. But the rest of the family welcomed her. I guess sometimes people feel how they feel. Since we lived far away from them we managed to survive.
The last scene with Doug and Willie, speechless... just so moving, so simple, nothing hardly said but so much Said, the charisma, how they make you feel... like they're a real family, you can't tell they're acting, they work so well together I can't envision at all anybody other than that cast playing the Lawrence family, touching
I realize I was too young to understand the emotions back then. Now I see the depth of real life feelings here. I didn't know as a life how truly warm, cathartic, healing this series was. 🧡
With all the talk about the house in the comments, I looked up the house on google maps and it looks almost exactly the way it did on the show (the outside). The Zillow value is just under $5 million, so yes, this is a VERY nice neighborhood!
I'm not watching these episodes in order, so u can imagine the roller coaster of emotions I'm going through... especially with this one. Another great cry. Thank you SO much for these uploads!
I remember having our family Dr coming to my house when I was a teenager. It was the early 80's and I had Mono super bad. I almost had to be in hospital.
insurance Agents 4 Home & Life insurance mAde H🏡me visits,which may not sound 🆒️,but they seen how ALL-Kinds of F❤LK's Lived,gOt a Personal Connection & if/when the time came They Steped-🆙️ 2 the plate 'n' went 2⚾️BAT🥎 ,'n' 🤺 Battle🏹4 the 💕🛡WH🎯LE💟FAMiLY❣💞
So digging rewatching this show as a 52 year old adult! As young child in elementary school in the late 1970s...I did not under or comprehend the vastness of the amazing acting and subject matter, however, knew this series was special a d the house/home. Buddy/Kristy was the main reason. Now, Nancy/Meredith is my favorite...she was a mess! MB-B is a very good actress. Roll my eyes with Nancy’s shenanigans. Family is home, transports me back home to another time. Ah, memories, 😊. My mom dressed us in polyester. Good Times.
I’m a fan from the beginning and I was in high school when it was first on. I related best to Buddy, not just in this show, but the other things she did back then. Really good example for me on how to feel-express herself-work through issues.
I can still remember after putting our kids to bed, watching this show @9:00 on Wednesdays evenings. I enjoyed it totally, so happy to watch it on CZcams. Thank you Xanthas71.
Why are men such hypocrites? Doug was mad at his father for cheating on his mother, yet 10 years later he did the exact same thing to Kate. And yet he still held a grudge against his father. Ugh.
I agree....very hypocritical, but perhaps Doug thought his Dad’s behavior set him up for the same behavior (bad example) so it made him angry about it. But, in truth, he should have seen what he DIDN’T want in his Dad’s behavior, then NOT repeated the same bad pattern.
@@ShawnBen Only an entitled weak man will blame others for his bad behavior. Adultery is not like a disease one may inherit ;ike alcoholism or mental illness. Adultery is a choice. It is right vs wrong. Doug made the wrong choice just like his father did. No way to spin that.
Nice to see Digger Barnes in a suit and actually sober. Thank you for posting this. It has really bothered me that U.S. fans were only able to purchase season1 and 2. Most other parts of the world were able to purchase the entire series. The same thing applies to the great series McCloud.
@@lindaf4369 I think that one reason why people seemed to age faster then is because people nowadays often focus on looking and acting younger. We have all sorts of cosmetic procedures and skin creams nowadays. If anything, nowadays there's sort of a stigma surrounding looking your age, especially if you're female and in the entertainment industry.
@@georgeschubert9652 My brother his 53 and he looks late 30s at the most like most people do know days look at Jennifer Lopez even without the work she has done to herself she would still looks younger than she is. This lady at my church is 61 at looks like she could be James' daughter. Maybe he doesn't look 77 but he looks at least 68 he is still handsome but people did look older back then.
Doug is from a time when it was nobel to work hard, provide for his family & value what is truly important. A time before lounging by the pool & eye cream for men became popular.
Thank you so much for posting this episode and all the other Family episodes on your channel. I have been watching them in chronological order, and this one from Season 3 was missing! It was my favourite show growing up and brings back great memories :)
Well you see - that's the M.O. of the scriptwriters of this show. It's a feature of almost every episode. They'll have one character act completely irrational, or be completely in the wrong. Like the Christmas episode where Doug was being an unconscionable ball breaker to Willie. Then by the end of the episode he or she will relent and see the error of his or her ways, and at the end of the episode there will be this big awwww moment that the entire episode was building up to. All of the characters have been used this way and on lots of occasions. And so after 3 or 4 seasons, each character will have more than enough reasons to be disliked. They've all acted like jerks, and on many occasions. You can point to any character in this series and name more than a few ahole-ish things that they have done.
I had a feeling that, towards the end, that the loss of her baby would finally hit Nancy and that she would finally grieve the loss of her and Jeff's child. And Jeff showed that he truly did love Nancy for still being there for her despite how she treated him earlier.
Our TV shows represent out culture, our society. I would love to go back in time. They weren't perfect but the 70s were a nice time in America. I wasn't a big fan of Nancy though.
One of the great ironies of the show that only revealed itself in hindsight. At the time Nancy was written to represent an independent woman who has come out of a failed marriage and is trying to pull together the loose ends. Years later it becomes painfully obvious that while Jeff was flawed he very much loved his ex-wife and child and Nancy was always stringing him along and basically treating him like a child.
In these times, Nancy could be put away for Domestic Violence for what she did to Jeff. In those times, it was accepted that a wife slaps her husband. Interesting change in times.
Kate has to do her laundry in the kitchen? Not what I would expect in a large house in one of Pasadena’s most exclusive neighborhoods. And what about that car Doug drives? A Ford Maverick??
LOL, my dad drove a 1970 Ford Maverick in the late 80s. I guess because he was a "maverick" who figured if a car had four wheels and a motor, it didn't matter. But re: Doug's car, it was identified as a Ford Maverick in the pilot episode and probably would have been a middle-of-the-road car in 1976.
@@joannmoran8513 The house used as the Lawrence home in Family was built in 1922 in South Pasadena. It's still around today in that location, and from online real estate views the exterior looks the same as it did during the run of the series. Not far from my neighborhood in USA, there has been a home with the same triangular prominence and front wall as the Lawrence home. I think that home was built in the 1930s or '40s. It is smaller than the Lawrence home, but the similar distinctive façade is unmistakable. I notice it whenever I drive by. It is currently undergoing restoration work.
I can tell you from experience, sometimes you DO feel unsettled & a little dizzy and very weak ... moving slowly & in the 'brittle' way Nancy was moving is exactly how I felt ... not to mention the pain before & after and the dry heaves. It depends on what kind of miscarriage you have, at what point in the pregnancy you have it and how it affects you personally. I can guarantee you, my doctor DID want me to go to the hospital but I begged him to let me stay home. I always reacted in pretty extreme ways to early pregnancy -- the "morning" sickness lasted all day for a couple of months.
The show got this one all wrong. Nancy behaved like someone who hasn't gone thru it would expect women to behave. Miscarrying is not like losing a tooth.
Nancy’s responses to people seem dumb…. She doesn’t say things that should be said, she doesn’t think of other people’s feelings…it seems.. not. Just in this episode but others
James Broderick was 51 at the time. Sada Thompson also 51. Willie was supposed to be 17 when the series began, yet the actor Gary Frank was really 26! People looked older back then.
I think I am the only one who thinks James Broderick looks good. Maybe a few years older than his age but not 10-20 like a lot of people say. I must be blind.
Nancy is beautiful and smart, what did she see in Jeff, a homely looking jerk with no personal achievement of anything AND worse he kept cheating on her, except that he came from a rich family.
She didn't understand why Nancy wouldn't grieve. She felt that everyone else in the family was grieving, but Nancy refused to. Buddy couldn't understand that refusal.
Kate acted mature in some ways (bravo!) and spoiled, pampered, REALLY emotional (w/o reason), & naive, in other ways.....I get quite annoyed when a woman of that age is unable to muster the strength to BE mature.
@@lgempet2869 I don't know what you're complaining about. Kate is about the most rational consistently mature realistic character ever put on television.
Good show but bad continuity. When James last appeared the previous season he was in love with beautiful torch singer Constance Humes. The show was all about Doug being unable to accept the relationship. Connie’s not even mentioned now and Doug’s beef is some affair James had 36 years ago. Did David Jacobs fall asleep or what?
@@pezmezsez9565 There were actually 4 actors who played Doug's Dad: Charles Lane (Thursday’s Child in 1976) ; John Beal (On the First Day of Christmas in 1976); David Wayne (The Covenant in 1978); and Henry Fonda (Thanksgiving in 1979). I think back in those days when we only watched the show once a week, and not many homes had VCRs, we didn't keep track of (or remember) details like that. Nowadays with binge watching the shows, these details seem much more obvious!
Seeing grown adult children, perfectly comfortable, still, grabbing food, whatever, from Mom and Dad - as grown adults, no judgement! Wow, I too, want to live there! Can you imagine an entire planet of "Children" living in that sacred security of FAMILY?! I can😍😘.💝💯♾️
Would be a great world if everyone had these strong caring parents.
I love this house..always wanted a house like that...screw open concept😁😁😁
@@cherylb2008I don’t see them doing it maliciously; Nancy is the only one who really tends to take advantage of it sometimes, but I would be glad that my family felt comfortable doing this. I want them to feel welcome in my home.
The conversation between Buddy and Kate regarding when life begins was priceless. It was perfect.
Except that when Kate miscarried at six weeks, she lost a "baby."
She basically gave her what some people think and with some doubt I’m very surprised she said it wasn’t a baby it actually was a baby.
WORD!!!
I wish my family would have treated me this way when I lost my baby. They were so busy thinking about how I couldn't afford the baby that died that they didn't even ask how I was dealing with losing my baby. It was thirty four years ago and it still hurts like it was yesterday. 😢
It sounds like they were relieved.
@@gracejones2831 I think they were but I turned around and got pregnant again because I wasn't relieved. I was distraught. When I finally told my grandmother she wasn't happy. She never liked my daughter and didn't mind letting her know. But the rest of the family welcomed her. I guess sometimes people feel how they feel. Since we lived far away from them we managed to survive.
I’m very sorry for your loss and the hardship your family put you through.
@@spiritmatter1553 I thank you for your kindness. I have forgiven them for their mistakes and hope I am being forgiven for my own.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that alone. 😢
The last scene with Doug and Willie, speechless... just so moving, so simple, nothing hardly said but so much Said, the charisma, how they make you feel... like they're a real family, you can't tell they're acting, they work so well together I can't envision at all anybody other than that cast playing the Lawrence family, touching
Agree !!!
I can imagine someone else playing Nancy.
I realize I was too young to understand the emotions back then. Now I see the depth of real life feelings here. I didn't know as a life how truly warm, cathartic, healing this series was. 🧡
Willy is just such a good guy. Wow. Waiting up for his father when he knows he might be upset. And what a great older brother to Buddy.
Jeff sucks
With all the talk about the house in the comments, I looked up the house on google maps and it looks almost exactly the way it did on the show (the outside). The Zillow value is just under $5 million, so yes, this is a VERY nice neighborhood!
I did too!! It’s a beautiful neighborhood. I live in southern cal, my daughter loves the neighborhood!!
I'm not watching these episodes in order, so u can imagine the roller coaster of emotions I'm going through... especially with this one. Another great cry. Thank you SO much for these uploads!
Love everything about this show....especially the house. Thanks so much for posting.
I’d love the house plan
Doesn't Nancy ever go grocery shopping?
She's always raiding their refrigerator.
Nancy is a flake
It grows there, everything is possible onTell lie Vision.
Nancy’s too entitled to go shopping!
Seriously, it's super annoying.
Doctors actually made house calls back then..... miss those days.
I remember having our family Dr coming to my house when I was a teenager. It was the early 80's and I had Mono super bad. I almost had to be in hospital.
insurance Agents 4 Home & Life insurance mAde H🏡me visits,which may not sound 🆒️,but they seen how ALL-Kinds of F❤LK's Lived,gOt a Personal Connection & if/when the time came They Steped-🆙️ 2 the plate 'n' went 2⚾️BAT🥎 ,'n' 🤺 Battle🏹4 the 💕🛡WH🎯LE💟FAMiLY❣💞
Saw „Family“ in the late 70ties with my mother in the late afternoon when I was a teenager. What a bitter-sweet memory.
So digging rewatching this show as a 52 year old adult! As young child in elementary school in the late 1970s...I did not under or comprehend the vastness of the amazing acting and subject matter, however, knew this series was special a d the house/home. Buddy/Kristy was the main reason. Now, Nancy/Meredith is my favorite...she was a mess! MB-B is a very good actress. Roll my eyes with Nancy’s shenanigans. Family is home, transports me back home to another time. Ah, memories, 😊. My mom dressed us in polyester. Good Times.
I’m a fan from the beginning and I was in high school when it was first on. I related best to Buddy, not just in this show, but the other things she did back then. Really good example for me on how to feel-express herself-work through issues.
I can still remember after putting our kids to bed, watching this show @9:00 on Wednesdays evenings. I enjoyed it totally, so happy to watch it on CZcams. Thank you Xanthas71.
I was in high school when this show aired (class of 1980) and I loved it. My girlfriend and I shared our enthusiasm for it.
@@elizabethfaraone (Class 0f 1970)
The actor playing Doug’s Dad also played Digger Barnes on Dallas. Played a drunk, did a great job 👏
Another role the producers kept recasting. Keenan Wynn also played Digger.
I like the sound of the birds 🐦 at the house. Cheerful atmosphere.
This is the 3rd actor to play his father. I like him a lot but I really like consistency.
After all this time, this episode made me cry once again. Family...no greater love.
I never realized with all these uploads how many shows I had missed. Thank you!!!!
Why are men such hypocrites? Doug was mad at his father for cheating on his mother, yet 10 years later he did the exact same thing to Kate. And yet he still held a grudge against his father. Ugh.
I agree....very hypocritical, but perhaps Doug thought his Dad’s behavior set him up for the same behavior (bad example) so it made him angry about it. But, in truth, he should have seen what he DIDN’T want in his Dad’s behavior, then NOT repeated the same bad pattern.
Doug and his father share the same messed up DNA! Having an affair was bound to happen!
@@ShawnBen Only an entitled weak man will blame others for his bad behavior. Adultery is not like a disease one may inherit ;ike alcoholism or mental illness. Adultery is a choice. It is right vs wrong. Doug made the wrong choice just like his father did. No way to spin that.
@@micheleatlilacsrust5785 As another female I understand!
The Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree as the saying goes.
Baby Timmy would have been a great big brother. He could have raised him just the way he raised himself.
😂 lol
Gen X 😂
Ahhh, the good ole days. Thank you for sharing these gems and making homesick for a time so long ago.❤
Jeff use to annoy me when I watched this as a teen but now as an adult, I love him. Nancy on the other hand 🤔
Scott's wife that’s how I used to feel about Annie and how I like her
Hi Lisa do you know what year this episode this one is?
@@krisdiaz3525 February 21, 1978 😁
I couldn't stand Kate but she did some cool stuff and now I think she is an awesome lady and a good mother.
Nancy was a flake
ALWAYS LOVED THIS SHOW STILL DO👍
Wow thank you for these precious shows 😊🌸🌸🌸🌸
Yesterday Henry Fónda was his farher
They actually have 4 different people play Doug’s father.
He was the best
Nancy is just a ‘not nice’ person!
Run, Jeff, RUN!
Lol. Nancy was a heartbreaker
Doug and his father look the same age!!
Get your vision checked.
"I'm sorry you saw that," James said. Not sorry he did it, just that he got caught. Hmmm. I suppose it explains a little about Doug's affair.
Don't like the way they made Nancy always slap Jeff
Yeah really, leave her after the first slap Jeff. Awful.
I agree. It is so ugly.
Completely agree.
LOVED the one where he slapped her back!
Nice to see Digger Barnes in a suit and actually sober. Thank you for posting this. It has really bothered me that U.S. fans were only able to purchase season1 and 2. Most other parts of the world were able to purchase the entire series. The same thing applies to the great series McCloud.
Nancy has a hand problem lol remember the divorce hearing?
I find her outbursts of anger quite disturbing.
@@vickie7036, she's a spoiled brat.
I was born in 1974. This reminds me of when I was preschool-age. 😊
Speechless.... a Masterpiece,
In all Aspects
Nancy was annoying. I know what Buddy meant when she said she feels like crying. Kate sides with Buddy.
Of course. You see, Nancy was always Doug's favorite child. But, as for Buddy, she is definitely Kate's favorite.
Is there one episode of this show were Meredith Baxter Birney doesn't yell and scream at somebody?
Yes. The one where she has sex with everybody.
When Doug's sister was an alcoholic... no screaming
T Price 🤣🤣🤣
@@XxowendanxX lol
So spoiled.
James Broderick is a terrific actor, so natural. He is about 52 on this show and looks 77.
I wouldn't say quite 77 but back then people did seem to age more earlier than today..Idk why
@@lindaf4369 I think that one reason why people seemed to age faster then is because people nowadays often focus on looking and acting younger. We have all sorts of cosmetic procedures and skin creams nowadays. If anything, nowadays there's sort of a stigma surrounding looking your age, especially if you're female and in the entertainment industry.
Yeah he died of thyroid cancer soon after..I think just a few years
@@georgeschubert9652 My brother his 53 and he looks late 30s at the most like most people do know days look at Jennifer Lopez even without the work she has done to herself she would still looks younger than she is. This lady at my church is 61 at looks like she could be James' daughter. Maybe he doesn't look 77 but he looks at least 68 he is still handsome but people did look older back then.
Doug is from a time when it was nobel to work hard, provide for his family & value what is truly important. A time before lounging by the pool & eye cream for men became popular.
Jeff looks like Brian May from Queen in the 70 `S
Yeeees!!!!!!
A house call by the family doctor... what memories of that. These days it takes 8 months to get an appointment with a dermatologist.
You better hope that the doctor "takes your insurance " or is "in your network ".
I lived on Spruce st in S.Pasadena - not far from this house ! I’d love to have a doctor like that !
Your so lucky! I love Pasadena!
@@mario-qi3yw also lived in Altadena (next door)
Nobody has a doctor like that. They stare at their laptops during your 10 minute appointment.
Look no cellphones!
I do not know what book Jeff was reading to Nancy but somehow I do not picture her as a sci fi fan. Nancy is very unlikable in this episode.
Thank you so much for posting this episode and all the other Family episodes on your channel. I have been watching them in chronological order, and this one from Season 3 was missing! It was my favourite show growing up and brings back great memories :)
Not sure where you live but in Canada all 5 seasons are now online here: www.ctv.ca/Family#/1. If you are in the States a VPN might work.
@@suzyparker8303 i have a vpn (i'm in the US) and it does NOT work. :-(
Love this show! Thanks for posting these
I never like Nancy to me she comes off as being arrogant
Beautiful show.
Awww, such a warm ending. James kept the Covenat (sp) years. I get SO mad at Nancy but....she ended it right, finally showing her feelings.
Well you see - that's the M.O. of the scriptwriters of this show. It's a feature of almost every episode. They'll have one character act completely irrational, or be completely in the wrong. Like the Christmas episode where Doug was being an unconscionable ball breaker to Willie. Then by the end of the episode he or she will relent and see the error of his or her ways, and at the end of the episode there will be this big awwww moment that the entire episode was building up to. All of the characters have been used this way and on lots of occasions. And so after 3 or 4 seasons, each character will have more than enough reasons to be disliked. They've all acted like jerks, and on many occasions. You can point to any character in this series and name more than a few ahole-ish things that they have done.
@@XxowendanxX as in life...
@@KennethofTroy too-shay
I had a feeling that, towards the end, that the loss of her baby would finally hit Nancy and that she would finally grieve the loss of her and Jeff's child. And Jeff showed that he truly did love Nancy for still being there for her despite how she treated him earlier.
Doctors that come to your fancy guest house-wow!
Best series I’ve ever watched. Thanks for these uploads!
Our TV shows represent out culture, our society. I would love to go back in time. They weren't perfect but the 70s were a nice time in America.
I wasn't a big fan of Nancy though.
She was a flake
70s weren’t a nice time. You had Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, drugs, so on and so on
@BryanFerguson-rv1gw True but it wasn't as prevalent as it is today
So how could Doug go and have an affair after suffering through what his father did?
he's a man. it's simple physiology.
Those were real slaps, mind you.
When I first viewed this program many years ago, I rejected it as trite and corny.
At 70 yo, I now find it poignant, perceptive and heartwarming❤
Jeff did love Nancy....
One of the great ironies of the show that only revealed itself in hindsight. At the time Nancy was written to represent an independent woman who has come out of a failed marriage and is trying to pull together the loose ends. Years later it becomes painfully obvious that while Jeff was flawed he very much loved his ex-wife and child and Nancy was always stringing him along and basically treating him like a child.
They use saucers with the coffee cup wow how quaint
Upper Middle class.
I was today years old when I found out James Broderick (Doug) was Matthew's (Ferris Bueller) father
Great episode.
This is a different actor playing Doug’s dad. Did this one come first or second?
This Family solved everything with alcohol. All episodes are about dealing with problems with a drink. Even the one about alcoholism.
Nancy is pregnant & first thing they do when they unload groceries is pop open the wine bottle~
And times were so different. Alcohol while pregnant etc. Alcohol in general everywhere
How many different actors played JAMES, Doug's father? Over the years, I can recall at least 3.
Nice ending to a very good show.
Nancy is selfish. Buddy and Kte are both mad at Nancy for not telling them about what happened.
Nancy was a crummy character.
In these times, Nancy could be put away for Domestic Violence for what she did to Jeff. In those times, it was accepted that a wife slaps her husband. Interesting change in times.
He also had no right to rant at her and yell in her face
This is the 3rd actor they've had for Doug's father..
I like this gentleman as Doug's father.
James was only 13 years older than Doug (in real life). I thought he looked incredibly young to play his father!
Cracks me up that Doug looks like George Bush.
Right??? Was just thinking the same thing 😂
@@moomoo0508 LOLOLOL!!
I noticed that too!
Although not a dislikeable character, Jeff seems unstable and somewhat irresponsible. He and Nancy definitely do not belong together.
love this show!
29:45 Ouch, ouch, ouch, almost ouch.
It is hard for anybody to lose a baby. Hesrtbreaking.
Kate has to do her laundry in the kitchen? Not what I would expect in a large house in one of Pasadena’s most exclusive neighborhoods. And what about that car Doug drives? A Ford Maverick??
It is real
LOL, my dad drove a 1970 Ford Maverick in the late 80s. I guess because he was a "maverick" who figured if a car had four wheels and a motor, it didn't matter. But re: Doug's car, it was identified as a Ford Maverick in the pilot episode and probably would have been a middle-of-the-road car in 1976.
I thought maverick were mustang!
Their house is old--it was in Doug's family before they lived there. And Doug is always complaining about money, so maybe that explains the old car
@@joannmoran8513 The house used as the Lawrence home in Family was built in 1922 in South Pasadena. It's still around today in that location, and from online real estate views the exterior looks the same as it did during the run of the series.
Not far from my neighborhood in USA, there has been a home with the same triangular prominence and front wall as the Lawrence home. I think that home was built in the 1930s or '40s. It is smaller than the Lawrence home, but the similar distinctive façade is unmistakable. I notice it whenever I drive by. It is currently undergoing restoration work.
Buddy is smart. She done research on babies.
*She did research...
Does anyone know how to get the house plan of the Lawrence house-I know it’s a real house, but I’d love the interior plan
Jeff just wanted her back.
A miscarriage doesn’t cause you to limp around like you broke your hip..
@@RobinBoBobbin It did back then. A few days in the hospital was nothing then. It wasn't unusual for a week or two stay then.
I can tell you from experience, sometimes you DO feel unsettled & a little dizzy and very weak ... moving slowly & in the 'brittle' way Nancy was moving is exactly how I felt ... not to mention the pain before & after and the dry heaves. It depends on what kind of miscarriage you have, at what point in the pregnancy you have it and how it affects you personally. I can guarantee you, my doctor DID want me to go to the hospital but I begged him to let me stay home. I always reacted in pretty extreme ways to early pregnancy -- the "morning" sickness lasted all day for a couple of months.
The show got this one all wrong. Nancy behaved like someone who hasn't gone thru it would expect women to behave. Miscarrying is not like losing a tooth.
Jeff brought up that Nancy had thought about an abortion and then she miscarried.
Hahahaa I noticed that too!
How many dad's did Doug have? And why does he not call any of them Dad?
5 I think. Henry Fonda was the best
Although I'm annoyed he's the third actor to play Doug's father....I do love this episode and the gravitas he brings to the role.
I can’t stand Nancy. She is so selfish.
Yes, everything is always about Nancy. Every family has at least one Nancy. LOL
never could stand Nancy and the way she always talks to people like they are idiots or beneath her...especially to her parents
Yeaah mee too meredith baxter always play selfish image😢
And I know what Buddy means when says she feels like crying.
No mention of his wife Constance? Right guys RUN JEFF RUN!
Maybe Nancy's just a Capricorn 😂
She had no right at all to slap him , and especially that hard ….
It was abusive and awful to see. Nancy needs a shrink.
Quite disturbing.
Sure she did.....he attacked her verbally by accusing her of being happy for the miscarriage.
Nancy’s responses to people seem dumb…. She doesn’t say things that should be said, she doesn’t think of other people’s feelings…it seems.. not. Just in this episode but others
Socially inept. She seems "off" with her inappropriate responses. No impulse controll.
Maybe her character had a borderline personality disorder
Why does Doug keep referring to his dad by his first name?
There not close
Doug had been binge watching The Simpsons.
That father is not 50 lol. He's much older.
James Broderick was 51 at the time. Sada Thompson also 51. Willie was supposed to be 17 when the series began, yet the actor Gary Frank was really 26! People looked older back then.
I think I am the only one who thinks James Broderick looks good. Maybe a few years older than his age but not 10-20 like a lot of people say. I must be blind.
would like to findthe Coming of Age episode.
It's on this channel...look at the playlist
Nancy is beautiful and smart, what did she see in Jeff, a homely looking jerk with no personal achievement of anything AND worse he kept cheating on her, except that he came from a rich family.
In Jeff's defense, Nancy was very self-centered and was, at times, a giant pain in the ass towards him. Just saying.
She's no prize. 😂
Lose the toupee James
Why was Buddy upset at Nancy for?
She didn't understand why Nancy wouldn't grieve. She felt that everyone else in the family was grieving, but Nancy refused to. Buddy couldn't understand that refusal.
To be like Kate; mature, luminous, strong. She's 38 years old. I'm 20 years older and I act like Nancy.
Kate acted mature in some ways (bravo!) and spoiled, pampered, REALLY emotional (w/o reason), & naive, in other ways.....I get quite annoyed when a woman of that age is unable to muster the strength to BE mature.
@@lgempet2869 I don't know what you're complaining about. Kate is about the most rational consistently mature realistic character ever put on television.
Kate-m Kate is 49.
Kate is 48 not 38
What did the "covenant" say? Tried to screenshot but still couldn't really read it.
How do you find out what year this episode was Buddy looks so young
This episode first aired on February 21, 1978 and she was 15
funny...having now binge-watched the fist three seasons, i was thinking how MATURE she looks by this episode. ;-)
Good show but bad continuity. When James last appeared the previous season he was in love with beautiful torch singer Constance Humes. The show was all about Doug being unable to accept the relationship. Connie’s not even mentioned now and Doug’s beef is some affair James had 36 years ago. Did David Jacobs fall asleep or what?
Yes and he morphed into or from Henry Fonda.
didn’t Doug have an affair and then almost again?
There have been 3 actors to play Doug's dad. Oof
@@pezmezsez9565 There were actually 4 actors who played Doug's Dad: Charles Lane (Thursday’s Child in 1976)
; John Beal (On the First Day of Christmas in 1976); David Wayne (The Covenant in 1978); and Henry Fonda (Thanksgiving in 1979). I think back in those days when we only watched the show once a week, and not many homes had VCRs, we didn't keep track of (or remember) details like that. Nowadays with binge watching the shows, these details seem much more obvious!
Jane J And here’s the other big glitch: the fourth child who died. I think he was mentioned in the pilot and one other episode, but never again.
Aw
Oh I For Got Doug cheated on Kate I'm Getting Re Introduced to this show
Nancy is a badass
Nancy was into herself. I hate get character.
Actually, she's a just plain ass
@@XxowendanxX yes she is
@@XxowendanxX well said!!
She's a spoiled brat lol
This episode is rotten.
Ohhhh what a load of crap!!!! You can not tell the gender of the baby at 12 weeks....try between 18 and 21 weeks. Family - FAIL moment.