Take care darling. All the best

@@atticusfinch4266 Thank you! That was really nice of you.

I'm so sorry for your loss. God bless. Hug hug

@@thehashearthasheart7146 Thank you so much! I appreciate your kindness.

Audrey Ann very sorry for your loss.

I love buddy to bad shes gay

So true. I love an earlier episode, Rites of Friendship, which dealt with Billy's friend, Zeke, who was struggling with his sexuality. Jay Presson Allen's writing is fantastic.

@@davidperkins1817 Buddy is not gay!

@@davidperkins1817 why too bad that she is gay?

@@XxowendanxX Kristy Mcnicol is a lesbian. She came out in 2012

Who's Shirley?

@@MooseCall Sorry wrong video

Not SO different.

Wow I didn’t know that. Preference shouldn’t matter to anyone. Should never be an issue or anyone’s business imo. Who cares? You are who you are.

Yeah but the gay community is not doing a great job in separating themselves from MAPs.

Very true!. I was wondering how Kristy McNichol handled it during this episode. Her and I are the same age and I didn't come out till I was 18 after high school. It was impossible to be out in school. Overall, it was a hard time to be gay during that era thats for sure!

with no != wholesome

Yeah, me too. I love when shows have every other episode working an affair into it or thinking a pedophile just "made a mistake" when he had sex with a 17 year old student and was in the process of going after another. Just a few examples, of many others. Yeah, this show definitely had no filth and sent "great messages".

@@jenniferwilcox9759 there was no kidfriend, halfwit. But marriage is a mistake.

This episode is iconic . Especially since Kristy McNichol is gay.In so many ways this show was ahead of it's time There was alot of bulliying dealt with and people being forced to leave their jobs..Lots of judgement calls here..Great show with messages before any show brought them up.Very out spoken .Bravo

It's on a tv app called tubi. All 5 seasons are free.

Homophobe.

I also thought it was strange that the teacher accepted a dinner invitation from a student’s parents (dual relationship), and at the end of the episode, Buddy and the teacher were in a classroom alone together. Certainly doesn’t help the teacher’s case. That said, the writing was excellent and it made me wonder if Kristy was out to the people she worked with then?

Nor was giving her a ride home! Inappropriate and a liability !!!

when the founders of western civilization made sex between teachers and students a rule. when you’re not all teachers nor all students. should (expective) → ouht (debitive) you mean.

@@merlenewitcher8069 who is a folk? The episode was kind of realistic but for how Jessup didn’t look like a lesbian.

The same thing is happening again. This episode was inspired by Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” campaign to repeal civil rights protections for gays and lesbians in Miami/Dade County, Florida, and to make being gay or lesbian a basis for terminating any public school teacher. Now the same forces are back 45 years later and have established a law making it illegal to mention or raise the issue of anything to do with homosexuality, bisexuality or being transgender when it is not “age appropriate.” Since the law was intentionally written to both sound anodyne and be very general and unclear teachers AT EVERY level of education are essential gagged from either mentioning they are gay or being identified as gay for fear of losing their jobs. Meanwhile, in Texas, parents are being investigated and threatened with investigation by the state for child abuse by seeking hormone treatments for their transgender children.

Really ?!!! Kate is sick and buddy asks for a sandwich? Shame on her!

...And ex-wife of actor Martin Balsam (Psycho, Archie Bunker's Place). Their daughter Talia appeared opposite her father in an episode of Archie Bunker's Place; & played Mona, the onscreen first wife of her off-screen husband, actor John Slattery, on AMC's Mad Men. 👍💯🌝

Joyce was in bad News bears and oglivie from bad News bears also appeared on the show

@@user-mj8nf2vp7q Martin was also in "Twelve Angry Men", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and a few Twilight Zone episodes. Great actor.

Helen hunt has worked with both James Broderick and Matthew Broderick

I think I must have missed something about Carson McCullers and the book and film "The Member of the Wedding." I've always loved both. I thought the story was about Frankie, the young girl's loneliness and feeling of isolation. She felt all the time that she was a "me" and wanted so much to belong, to be part of a "we," as she put it in her words. Can you explain what wasn't clear to me?

@@elaineteeter9485 McCullers was a lesbian, as is the teacher Blair Brown played.

@@Themanwhocameback2 I didn't know that, thanks for telling me. Now I understand the reference. In Shelley Winters' autobiography she described seeing how nervous Carson McCullers was at the after-party, waiting for the reviews of her play on opening night and how Shelley never wanted to write her own play. But of course, she did, later in her own life.

Me too. Quarantine is giving me the blues.

Binge sorry

They're dudes.

@@williamroberts1693 gee, how intelligent of you ... you're a regular Rhodes Scholar.

@@annasutherland You certainly did research that thoroughly didn't you?

@@williamroberts1693 Your actual name is Beavis, isn't it?

I did not realize this. It does cause one to wonder.

I love everything about this house and family -it all gives me the warm fuzzies !

@@dafdfasdfdfasfdfadfd I know exactly what you mean.

The mother allowed it

THANK YOU SOoooo much for these episodes 🥰😘🥰😘🥰😘🥰😘 I loved this show when first aired..

It's called "Starting Over" and it was uploaded awhile back.

thanks for uploading - weak volume changes at 20:09 ,-)

@@Xanthas71 why is there no credit for Jessup?

serial capitals mean acronýms; the sound was mum; [tele]play, not show

I do think that is young Helen Hunt.

Yup

Yes it is

Yes!

It was a great episode! Kristy m Nichol was excellent!

I guess you must take a vow to get the toaster.

"I swear to do my sex and do my duty, for God and my country..." Yeesh!

It took me the better part of two season to even figure out that it was an oven. I've never seen one like that, with a sort of roll-top and lit looks like a regular oven underneath? I'd be interested to know what brand/type it was or what it was called. It's so cool.

patty1977 sure is

Yes!

I always think it's the writers that may be somebody on the team was gay. And they wanted to introduce this to the public. This is a good way to do it. It's a good episode

I remember my sister way back then commenting on Willie's picture. She said " who in the heck takes a picture like that?" I always think of that when I see the intro.😂

that's sad.

Homo sapiens? idemsexual.

Teachers are always the 🎯

spot on comment Our travelingzoo!

Very well expressed.

Tell that to Florida governor Ron Desantis and the Florida state legislature.

Because one of the other parents accused the teacher of molesting one of her students at a previous school

Cos Buddy was known to be friends with that teacher and she didn't want people thinking she was one of those.

@@XxowendanxX one of those, what a moronic thing to say!

@@thehashearthasheart7146 "one of those", as Buddy's antagonists at school might put it

Because of the rumors saying she molested a student.

I lost count count of all the great things Kate did, that's how great she was.

She wanted to get the full story before she made up her mind.

Yes. A very young Helen Hunt appears in this episode as Buddy's classmate. 📺

The sound goes back to normal at about the 20 minute mark. Before that turn the subtitles on (CC: closed captions) and you can read what is being said. 😊

That's what I thought. ☺

Being bipolar is rough. Poor Buddy. I love her.

I believe someone else had uploaded it, but then it was removed.

Xanthas71 Benjamin Binns had it ,but Sony removed the episode.

I just watched the episode with Kim Richards as Buddy's best friend who moves to another state after only appearing in one episode. This is in July of 2023. So this episode is currently on KZfaq. 😊

Seeing as it was only about seven or eight years after Stonewall things were certainly not as free as they are now. Marriage between a gay couple was just an impossible dream back them.

Meredith too.

UWBadger92 oh, I forgot!

@@UWBadger92 Meredith Baxter Birney proving that homosexuality is a choice.

Why does video I watch someone feels the need to address Kristy's sexuality. Is it always necessary?

@@TheMoonflwr671 Homosexuality is not a choice......Gay people know from a very early age there's something different about them I believe in some women who have been in an abusive relationship's either mentally,physically or both can seek a gay relationship shielding them from men for women is not about sex it's caring and understanding.

teenagers room

Mrs. Palemer is a jerk

In real life, that probably would have been the real deal. Like those homophobic politicians that get caught balling with gay prostitutes on the other side of town.

@@XxowendanxX not all lesbians are masculine or fit a type

The Alice Palmer character was some of the most lazy, virtue signaling writing in history. She was a one dimensional ogre straight out of central casting. The writers didn't even attempt any nuance when it came to her character.

@@XxowendanxX "nuance"? Go listen to some Republican politicians. These one dimensional ogres are still with us. And if they're not as direct about it publicly, they're constantly signaling to their bigoted base just what they're up to.

Our travelingzoo maybe, depends how stable she was, I bet the was traumatized though ,being just a kid

Not really. Kristy didn't figure out that she was gay til late 78 or early 79. I'm not sure when this was filmed but it's possible Kristy believed herself to be straight at this time.

You are assuming Kristy knew her sexual gender!!

@@debbieschultz9768 they didn't have sexual genders back then, it was invented on college campuses in 2011

@@XxowendanxX, you’ll have to explain that to all the working class and poor transgender people who have never been to college and also those who are in their 80s.

You took the words right out of my mouth

@@theeyeinthesky3854 Maybe if if viewers knew Blaire B. played a homosexual on tv, that would ruin her career. So she probably chose not to be credited. Homophobics would probably hate the actress Blair Brown if they knew she played the role of a homosexual teacher...

No, it looks like the video just skipped.

Obviously, you’ve never raised a teenager. That’s very typical.

I was a teenager back then, if I'd have given my mother a breakfast order? She would have laughed and told me to make it myself. And then asked me to make supper for everyone because she had to work late.

Two years ago those decisions were safe. Now with Trump’s conservative majority of 6 and the decision that destroyed Roe v. Wade and declared that there is no federal constitutional right to privacy, it seems entirely likely that it is just a matter of time until the Supreme Court will strike down any federal rights for LGBT people and say it is “up to the states” to decide, which means that just like abortion, you could actually see homosexuality criminalized again by a majority of states.

@@annasutherland everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Look at her now . _Scąřý_ .

@@cheriamour2429, and everyone is entitled to the opinion that you are an ass.

Could the producers of the show have known Kristy was gay at this time? More important, did Kristy? I'm not sure...

Kristy and Meredith Baxter are both gay in real life. Most people know that.