So so wright....

AMEN

@@zalinabrooks1198 9999 L L 888888888

I miss them too...so much. Life was so much simpler.

It was an awesome decade.

I agree, todays world is sorry,

Leif Garrett was my crush back in the day 💕

You got that right! Those were the days, and I miss them!

Such good memories. Coming home from school and go play outside. Then have dinner do homework. Watch your favorite night time show. Simple times. Good times.😊

Had a crush on Leif as well ~ I had such a wonderful childhood thanks 2 every single family & friends back than. Their all about gone now. But Not in my soul, their memories R. alive & well. That's were they will stay, mine for ever. God Bless

Yeah well he was super gorgeous

I agree❤

This show was just propaganda.

I had a crush on Leif myself! lol I loved growing up in the 70s! Simpler times for sure!!

Me too,

Omg 😳 😂

When I saw a picture of him not too long ago, he was bald as a cue ball!

@@nassauguy48 He's an old man now.

And a time when Times Square was comprised of nothing but live nude shows.

L. H. Yes. It was more real life not Disneyfied and owned by billionaires and corporations.

Social media has become the scourge of society.

I miss them, this was a great show, those were better days

You are so right! Best time of my life because I was a kid.

You and me both sister!!!

You aint lied!! ......in the blink of an eye!

And I def had to watch the ones that had that somber music and was going to deal with hot button issues, like your first period, etc! It would go something like: "..Tonight on a special Family"

@@carolyndarley1045 do you know what season & episode that particular one was on?

Me too. I was the exact same age as Kristy McNicol. I miss the '70's.

🎁🎁🎁💝🎈

Me too, I miss those days 🙂

Me, too. Born in 67.

Same, Liz!

Great decade, keep the ugly clothes

Oh my gosh 40 years where did that time go I liked him too

My little sister loved Leif. I'm 5 years older. For me it was Peter Noone and Paul McCartney.

Mine was Shawn Cassidy 😘😍😗

@@capricornlove4816 My little sister had the hots for him.

@James Henderson Shawn Cassidy, he was the brother of David Cassidy, Shawn was my love back in the day Lol, I would dream about him. 😊

I can't tell you how many forts we built. The 70s and 80s WERE THE BEST I WOULD DO IT AGAIN

Taking the BUS to the MALL . Pinball machines. Wacky Packages. @@lovesallanimals9948

I was born in the 2000s and I did the same things, I didn’t get a phone til middle school. I basically lived outside, I hated being inside. So although technology was around, I didn’t use it. I’d give anything to be a kid in the 70s, but at least I got to experience some version of it.

I hate that my kids and grandkids will never know how much fun we had back then...

We were outside in the 80s and 90s 🙄 I'm 42 and didn't get my first (prepaid) cellphone till I was 20 y.o. (Oh, and my mother got it for me!)

David Cassidy!

David Cassidy was over by 1976.

And as for me Right On Magazine,Essence and so many others.

Generation X kid here, born June 18, 1967. Loved the 1970's! I had a huge crush on Shaun Cassidy! Hello from Tyler Texas U.S.A.

nay rod me too!!! Constantly reminiscing about the 70’s.

I was born in 1970. I think about it all the time!

Buddy has a serious attitude problem

Meanwhile in real life, I went to a party ('79) and watched Kristy make out with Jodie all night and then Leif take off in his car drunk, stoned only to crash and nearly kill one of our friends. We weren't so 'innocent' as people thought.

@@evhvariac2 yeah I like her too

There is good and bad in this modern era. I like that there is more diversity and inclusivity, where all sorts of families and relationships are represented. It's really just the trash TV reality shows that I lament.

@@RowanWarren78 The trash tv, such as all of these reality TV shows are the ones people go to for their fix of diversity and inclusion. None of those shows are anything close to this one.

​@@evangel7012 Not in my experience. Rather it is the films on carriers like Netflix, documentary and independent films that nurture diversity and inclusion. Reality TV programs seem to exacerbate stereotypes and toxic behavior; putting a spotlight on the lowest common denominator in a way that makes that gesture seem almost like an endorsement.

Interestingly enough, after revisiting this series I realize now in retrospect that there was A LOT of bedhopping and adultery going on in this show's plotlines. Still, I appreciate the way in which they handle discussing ethics and mores in these situautions and some of the touchier subjects overall. Some topics were titillating, but at least the writers tried to show a family that communicated about what they were experiencing as individuals, and as a family unit.

@@RowanWarren78 "Diversity and inclusion" are liberal fantasies and NOT typical reality. Even in progressive communities such as where I live, people who look like one another and/or come from the same socio-economic background tend to socialize with one another. Doesn't mean they hate other groups. You want art to use a quota. That creates material that is contrived and not natural. I don't know if you are trolling or not but I just threw up in my mouth a little and I do consider myself a progressive and I am mixed heritage--not 100% White. But the last thing I ever want to see on tv shows or in movies (even art house types) are token characters. You can smell them a mile away.

Very well said. I was born in ‘65, and was in grade school when this show was made. We watched it every week. There’s no exaggeration, no negative anti-hero types; all just well written, well performed stories about a close family who works through things. It’s a very positive show with a lot of good life lessons. Modern tv producers have sold their viewers out to the lowest elements of society. Kids need good positive examples like this.

"we're going to do that science project at Zach's house. He's got the equipment""

@@XxowendanxX 🤣🤣🤣

@@jonathanwoods9843 that's exactly what she said 🤣 I wonder if the writers did that on purpose

This show was garbage.

Nobody cares. It’s 2023 bow down to negros and check your privilege and obey the liberals.

Great memories..Can't quite explain to the younger generations how GREAT simpler times WERE😊

There's that an the fact that she was cute as a button ❤️❤️❤️

@@XxowendanxX, she was so adorable.

Ditto🙂

Me too!

My Mom and I always watched the show..🎁💝🎈

Same here.

I wanted to BE Kristy McNichols so badly in the 70’s! She’s one month older than I am

yes, I agree totally sure miss those days

So true!

I had it even better. I was born in the mid-50’s. Graduated high school in 1973. What a great time to grow up. No Internet, no cell phones, no social media. You didn’t have to make a lot of money to afford a car, an apartment, go to a concert, or go to college. If I could find a time machine, I would be on a continuous loop between 1964 and 1980.

@@mnob1122 Mine would be 80-87.

@@wisdomseeker3362 No doubt, the 80s were great for me too. I would say 77 to 87 are the years I would like to relive. I think people that grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s got lucky. I think any time in that 40 year period was a good time to grow up in the US. Before then, life was pretty hard for most people. Going into the 90s, especially the later 90s, life started getting overly complicated.

Ummmm, seriously?!

Nobody cares. It’s 2023 bow down to negros and check your privilege and obey the liberals

Me too.

Me too

Me three!

Me too

Bust out mom and dad ancient turntable and that old marantz receiver , a little vintage Earth wind & fire LP and climb aboard you have just stepped into the time machine

Ya figuring out why I liked this show so much...... Girl crush on Buddy. The stuff of Lesbian dreams!

@@diannawilson1329 just don't grab Timmy's ass he's not your type

I graduated in 1980. There was only one girl who got pregnant in our freshmen year. She left school half way through the school year and I never saw her again. I grew up in a small town and went to a regional h.s. Fast forward to 2009. I was working in DC. I was walking from the metro station to work and I passed by a h.s. There was a truck that was delivering baby supplies to the school. I thought it is important to support the mother and child. The mother needs to finish her h.s. education. But does this program promote having a baby as a teen?

There wasn't a whole lot of morals back then either it seemed to me. Family was about a close knit family weathering the time period.

Mmmmm Buddy was a million times cuter than Blair

That simple line got to me too. Beautifully delivered by MMB and beautifully received by KM. Brilliance!

@@debbiemelillo2011 I was waiting for that trollop Nancy to get it on with Zach. She likes competing against Buddy for tookie

@@XxowendanxX HAHAHAHAHA!!!! She sure does, doesn’t she?!?!?🤣🤣🤣

That line was also brilliant bc after you thought about it, she could have said “there are gonna be so many Zachs in your life”. But this was a much more realistic line IMO. It got more to the heart of the matter, like don’t do something you’re not comfortable and you normally wouldn’t do with bc you’re jealous of the Cathy of the moment.

hoagie1978 - I thought that was the girl from Facts Of Life!

10/28/78 here!

@NoBody is here October 1st 1961 alive and kickin

1967 here! This was one of my favorite episodes.

@@rubyputnam8526 . I was '68

Me too! Where did the time go! Scary...

@@randysills4418 I know...completely freaky...I miss it

@@randysills4418 Yes!

I was in highschool too. We moved from Long Island to Southern CA. and I thought buddy was cool for board skating. She seemed able to do everything.

Me too

Same here joyce

I loved this show. I was born the same month and year as Kristie McNicol.

I was just thinking the same thing. I wish I could go back to the 1970s... and make it better this time, the best it could possibly be, because now I'd know exactly how to do that.

💜 Miss my mom too.

yesorlando05 You summed it up very well....I agree w/you!!

Truth

Well said

His point was ridiculous. Oh Buddy how I want you and to keep you and so if you don't want to screw I'll take the pressure off you by banging this other chick

I was the same age too but unfortunately i never heard of any teen talk like this in real life not even close there's no way Leif Garrett would be talking like this or about wants and needs a Porky's movie would be more accurate of those times haha

School looked very liberated in the USA in the 70s.

80’s sucked. 60 and 70’s better.

You are so right miss the 70s so much

YES growing up in the 70's was awesome, best of times all around :)

You're right. I'm 52 and it was all SO great. 70s and 80s ruled and just the feel of it,feels so good. Take me back.

jplasmid yes it was the best decade

Exactly 💯💯💯💯💯

So was the music. And the clothes. Couldn't agree with you more!

Exactly 💯

Amen. Kids look like kids even. Truly the best days!

My son love vinyl also he is 29

Wasn't she though. She and Jodie Foster and so far more mature than the Other Actresses on TV from The Love Boat, Brady Bunch, or even The Waltons during that time. She also should be given kudos for being the First Celebrity to show Bipolarism/Manic Depression and how it affects you. Leif Garret was truly a Teen Tragedy. He drove under the influence, his Friend became paralyzed for life and to this day he has so many problems. Sometimes I wish that he, Les McKeown (The Bay City Rollers), Bobby Sherman, Frankie Avalon, Fabian & Bobby Rydell would have an Intervention with Aaron Carter and try to help him.

@@laminage Actually, Patty Duke was the first public celebrity who would bring bipolar disorder to the forefront. She gave her 1970 Emmy acceptance speech while in the middle of a manic phase of bipolar disorder - and nobody knew what it was. Everybody thought she was on some drug or alcohol trip. She wasn't diagnosed until 1982. I remember seeing Kristy McNichol on Empty Nest and how she abruptly left midseason to address her bipolar disorder in late 1992. She returned for the series finale in the spring of 1995 to applause that was kept in to draw out her scene.

@@millenniumman75 You ar e so right on. I stand corrected. I only remember first seeing Patti Duke Astin in the ABC Afterschool Special Please Don't Hit Me Mom with her Son Sean, and Nancy McKeon (Jo The Facts Of Life). She was a bit before my time. I had no idea of her Legacy in Broadway, Movies and TV. I also remember her and Jimmy her Brother on The Mike Douglas Show singing "Enjoy Yourself" by The Jacksons. It's amazing how Kids who were Actors/Actresses were deluded into believing that they could be Pop Stars. Even Barry Williams (Ex-Greg Brady) admitted that back in the day.

I loooved her in Emptiness

@James Henderson I agree, they were both messed up and shouldn't have been in a car. Leif said he was going to look after him and then he sued Leif for like 7 million dollars. I kind of understand but he could have waited to see if Leif was going to do what he said. I'm probably biased cause I was madly after watching "I was made for dancing all night long".

All on Pluto TV.

@@asyouknowmesoiam ...... Really?? I'll need to check it out! What's the name of the channel or channels?

Like where Zachary is drinking liquor?

My crush was Shaun Cassidy!

Good show

So you're now 53, like Quinn Cummings is?

We strongly agree! Kristy and leif looks cute together!

Lawrence of Bavaria agree! It’s actually one of the most well written and acted tv shows I’ve ever seen.

I loved that show

It's on the tubi app

The 70's was probably the last decade for good tv shows that weren't gross or filthy. Imo

Get plutotv

This was an adult themed show; that wasn't insulting. They had class.

Crazy that there are no seatbelts😮😮😮

No we were not.

Heheh...I can almost feel the butterflies again. I DO recall a lot of nights with acne medicine.....& books. I love books!

Are we watching the same show?

​@@michaelsnyder7442 Yes, we were. The left has wrecked it all. Woke is cheered on and sledge hammered onto us, we are even told what and how to think! Unwholesomeness has taken centre stage, and being locked up for just a wrong opinion is coming,

😊

To be fair, a *lot* of horrible things were happening then, too - we just never heard about them in those pre-internet/social media days.

I didn't say when the world was perfect. I know that bad things are always happening in the world. 😐

Back when values like kindness and hard work were emphasized and rewarded

Yes, that was so cute!!😊

Awful awful clothes, everything else was fine just those damn ugly clothes

@@victorevanssr.5034 I know. I'm one of the few that actually likes some of the styles. I love the bell bottoms and the cool Rock n Roll TShirts they had back then! Also another type of bell bottoms were Elephant Bell Bottoms. Really wide ones. The music 🎶 was the bes t. Nowadays are just terrible as far as I am concerned. Thank you my dear.

The music was awesome absolutely no doubt about it. Cars were awesome I just hatred those darn clothes.

The music and tv shows were truly spectacular during the late seventies

I saw this one when it first aired. Seems like yesterday.

I never missed it either. I never watched it, and I never missed it

Two lesbians, one fake lesbian who's really str8. :)

Davey7358 Who’s the fake one ?

@@erenwatts6063 Nancy McKeon is str8 in real life though she played "Jo" a fake lesbian in Facts Of Life.

Davey7358 It’s true she is str8 In real life , I kept waiting for her to come out on the show but she had boyfriends , 😉😆

@@Davey7358-You obviously never watched the show. Jo was never a lesbian. Her boyfriend was a Navy sailor named Eddie Brennan. They almost eloped before Mrs. Garrett found them and talked her out of it.

@Kara Kelly Even back then when I was a kid, I always thought Buddy was not feminine. Now I know why. LOL

Generation X kid here, born June 18, 1967. I loved the 1970's! My crush was Shaun Cassidy! Hello from Tyler Texas U.S.A.

Funny thing is it was all a sham. Seemed so wholesome but in reality, both Baxter and McNichol were gay and Garrett was a heroine addict. 🤔

​@@nikkio100That was later on 🙄🙄

Odd, I call my Cat Tizzy Wiz. I wonder where I got that from ?

@Chesapeake Bay I thought it was Tizzy Lish.

I always thought "Buddy" was so unfeminine for a girl. I wondered why her nickname wasn't "Tish" or something similar.

I always thought that Buddy was a strange nickname for a girl.....Maybe if it was spelled Buddie ... and the show never explains how she got that name.

Letitia was her grandmother's name.

They are and It's funny he's cuter and more girly looking than her

Kristy, anyway

He was, she wasn't.

@@MarkHarrison733 dude, what the hell are you saying

@@XxowendanxX She looked like a man.

Not if you grew up abused and neglected.

@@jackb348 I'm so sorry. Yes that's true.

🤣

And with their pants pulled up so no one can see what color or pattern underoos they have on

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Wow, your age and ignorance is showing.

@@tinaroberts5858 wdy mean?

leif.typo yours.

please have family ties from every season i grew up on that

Now he's a balding, elderly man

@@joegriego3091 we all get old

Joe Griego my brother and half the high school had his hair cut. At the forty yr reunion most were going bald.

Generation X kid here, born June 18, 1967. I loved the 1970's! Hello from Tyler Texas U.S.A.

Leif Garrett had a couple of disco hits in the late 70's.

And since my name is Cathy, I loved hearing Leif saying my name. 16 at that time....😁

@@cathyskywalker77 this was right before "Facts of life" took off for Lisa ..

@@judyholiday1794 Yup! Used to watch a lot of those 80s shows.

Yup that is a thin Lisa Whelchel. Nancy was just a lesbian.

David Cassidy had a thing for her, she was on the Partridge Family for an episode too.

Generation X kid here, born June 18, 1967. I loved the 1970's! Hello from Tyler Texas U.S.A.

you're welcome.

@@videoarchiveman Thank you for uploading Family👏

@@michellerjackson5776 you 're very welcome.

yeeessssss

True

Same, same. I was 13. I loved horses and wide open spaces.

Generation X kid here, born June 18, 1967. I loved the 1970's!

Nobody cares. It’s 2023 bow down to negros and check your privilege and obey the liberal dems.

The only problem is, this is make-believe and most kids don’t have rational minds. Their minds are not fully developed at that age. So they don’t act like Kristy McNichol. So they need to be told what is right and what is wrong otherwise they don’t know they do have a general feeling on the inside some of them. I believe that everyone has been implanted with right and wrong, but sometimes children and get very confused especially if they’re being manipulated. You can see it here. She’s practically begging for someone to tell her what to do and they’re trying to be so politically correct and tiptoe around things. No one’s giving her any good advice. It’s pretty simple they’re not married all kinds of things could go wrong. She couldn’t get pregnant at 16. So we do need an adult sometimes to say what’s right and what’s wrong what’s moral and immoral. I’m all for talking it out as they do but if the child is not that mature, then more of a direct what is right and what is wrong is needed.

When you were taught critical thinking.

Judi Doyle Im a dummy had know Idea how popular the Osmond Family was.

Judi Doyle Me too!! Love Kristy & Sada Thompson was FANTASTIC as her Mother, loved the way she called Buddy by her nickname’Tizzy-Lish ‘LOL & Buddy had a great special relationship with her brother Willy. LOVED THIS SHOW WATCH IT EVERY WEEK

I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy! Hello from Tyler Texas!

@@paulaward2075 I'm in Tyler, Texas.

Yeah I remember you

I was the same age as Quinn Cummings was then. She was a great little actress as well.

I had the same haircut as KM too! A couple neighborhood boys said I looked like her and i think that was one of the best compliments I have ever received!

@@cindeed4422 Quinn Cummings was really good too. I think she was one of the only add on to a series kids that didn't cause the show to jump the shark.

Zach asked her to go away for the hole weekend

I love her sarcasm when she's talking to that jerk!

Me too. I was an 80's teen . I loved my David Bowie , Queen, Van Halen and Prince .

Nobody cares. It’s 2023 bow down to negros and check your privilege and obey the liberal Dems.

Maybe on this Show but I'm certain Leif was already sleeping with his Girlfriend, she lived with him at his Mother's house. Nicolette something ? I think.

@@lorimiller4301 Nicolette Sheridan. They were together for 6 years.

@@erinward4293 yes that's it, thank you. Wow, that's a long time for a young relationship. They really loved each other. Wasn't it heard that she tried to help him at one point when he was using heavily? I think he mightve been sexually abused by the Producers and those involved in Hollywood. It's starting to look routine unfortunately.

@@lorimiller4301 Yes. She tried to stage an intervention for him. She had some people over to his place to get him to go to rehab. Unfortunately, when he realized what it was he climbed out of his bathroom window and ran to a gas station, called his home and told everyone to get the f out of his house.

@@erinward4293 yeah now that comes back to me, I didn't really remember at first but what a shame all around. Something happened to make him an addict and I sure feel for him. I watched a video of his Mom and I think she knows. She said "they messed with my Son" and she looked so sad at that moment.

Yes, I remember when my friends & I heard this episode was going to be aired & we were definitely NOT going to miss it b/c it addressed so much of the dynamic we were already witnessing with boys & girls at school at that time.