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.

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. 😢

Jeff sucks

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.

I did too!! It’s a beautiful neighborhood. I live in southern cal, my daughter loves the neighborhood!!

Agree !!!

I can imagine someone else playing Nancy.

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.

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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.

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.

😂 lol

Gen X 😂

Another role the producers kept recasting. Keenan Wynn also played Digger.

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.

Lol. Nancy was a heartbreaker

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

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)

I’d love the house plan

They actually have 4 different people play Doug’s father.

He was the best

Get your vision checked.

I find her outbursts of anger quite disturbing.

​@@vickie7036, she's a spoiled brat.

Of course. You see, Nancy was always Doug's favorite child. But, as for Buddy, she is definitely Kate's favorite.

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!

Yeeees!!!!!!

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.

You better hope that the doctor "takes your insurance " or is "in your network ".

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.

Yes. The one where she has sex with everybody.

When Doug's sister was an alcoholic... no screaming

T Price 🤣🤣🤣

@@XxowendanxX lol

So spoiled.

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.

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

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.

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. :-(

Upper Middle class.

he's a man. it's simple physiology.

He also had no right to rant at her and yell in her face

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

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!

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.

*She did research...

5 I think. Henry Fonda was the best

Right??? Was just thinking the same thing 😂

@@moomoo0508 LOLOLOL!!

I noticed that too!

There not close

Doug had been binge watching The Simpsons.

Socially inept. She seems "off" with her inappropriate responses. No impulse controll.

Maybe her character had a borderline personality disorder

It's on this channel...look at the playlist

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.

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. ;-)

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.

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. 😂

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.

@@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!

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.

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.

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

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