I lived in the uk then and these were never shown, even now UK tv is absolutely crap. ❤

@@flight101What?! I love British TV. Especially shows from the 70’s - 2010’s. So many wonderful programs!

Congratulations for being born in a certain time and place.

You're old

@wk1810 I currently "watch over" my roommates kid whose cell phone has been permanently sealed to his hand. He is on it her entire shift of 12+ hours 3 days a week after which she retrieves him to haul off to the boyfriend for the next 3 (despite thereby wasting what I charge her for rent and the fact that he doesn't understand that this is technically their home). He'll be 6 soon and has never been to school, literally knows nothing but how to pull up the next ignorant video. Even chooses to go without what little food his mom has finally brought in because it'll mean sitting at the table without his phone. She claims she doesn't let him on the phone when they're at the bfs but I don't believe that one bit. He may not have bruises but he is the epitome of abused IMO.

Well done, Jim! Be proud, be very proud of yourself.

Jim, every time you choose to "say no" is a celebration every "no is a victory" Life is a work in progress and 5 years is nothing to scoff at. Keep up the great work

@@Lucailey Thank you so much!

well done! best of luck~!

Jim Halpert Hey! You jumped back on! Good on you!!!!

I agree. Hang in there

Me too

You can and will do it. When you’re ready. ❤❤❤

@taniagerlach, what you're going through now it's part of your recovery journey. Keep trying (I know it's easier said than done) but there will be one day when you will have your last drink. Believe it! Sending you good energies ❤

I hope that you find the courage and strength to get sober. You are worth it!!! ❤️❤️☺️

I thought that was her!!! 😂🤣

You’re awesome for that one.

Came here to say that

OMG!!!!!

It was the worst accident I ever seen.

My partner works all week so never drinks but even the one night he does I despise him. He is a total asshole scuse the language, and what worries me is he is taking early retirement and I can see him on the grot every day. Not something I relish. He always has to start….

​@@flight101Well just pray and I'll pray too that the situation will work out. I know sometimes in marriages wives and husbands have difficult problems in their lives . So I can only imagine that people with their partners have problems with underlying issues that can't always easily be solved as life gets so hectic.

I thought I recognized her. Love Family and remember the episode

She is a kind, lovely person. I watched this when it was originally on TV. Wonderful show.

It's not maturity. It's survival. My older sister had to bathe us, dress us for school, etc. If she hadn't, we would have been in foster care.

I would argue that parentification is a form of dysfunction.

@@radio_obscura Absolutely. Robs you of your childhood.

Nah. This is exactly how the oldest/only child handles an alcoholic parent. They are alway the most responsible.

@@LoloO42 It's both. The oldest child in dysfunctional families have no choice but to mature fast because they become an adult in caring for younger siblings in addition to the alcoholic parent (sometimes both parents) and/or the enabling parent too. The survival mechanism leads to the maturity in the child.

My dad was a recovering alcoholic...AA when I was 23, until he passed away at age 70...

i graduated in '86 nice to know kids from the 90s know what a film strip and projector are

Do yo mean it was a film on a reel-to-reel projector? Film strips were a series of stills.

Yes I meant reel-to-reel film, my bad.

I saw this film when it came out. We use to watch these films on TV when we got home"after school."I was in junior high 79-81.

They were still doing that, then? I thought things had progressed in the classroom by then. Cell phones coming out and all. Computer classes.

Same. So I just started smoking weed and have been happier ever since. :)

@@cfinley81 I tried weed once , don't like it , this was when I was 19 / 20 yrs old , now it's legal here , but I don't touch it , cigarettes are my habit , nothing else . Iam 69 going on 70 .

Unfortunately alcoholism runs on my late ex's family. I have 3 out of 7 who are drinkers. They had an uncle who drank excessively, and I felt so sorry for his wife. She put up with a lot. I hate drinking. I hate throwing up, and I hate hang overs. I don't like being around drunk ppl.

@@janetduncan87 I grew to hate my husband , he kept on drinking until he got cancer , and died . I vowed to never marry again , Iam still single to this day , not changing ! I have one cousin that is going down that road , and I expect to hear of his death anyime . Last time I saw him , he had lost weight , thats a sure sign he has cancer . I just couldn't see myself going through that , and making it hard on my kids , its bad enough there is a drunk in the family . Hope your days are brighter , we all need a little sunshine in our lives .

@cfinley81 my son started smoking weed and he quit drinking. He said he's had no craving for alcohol. Thank God.

So sad. I'm so grateful to have 497 days sober today.

So sorry for your loss..my mother was an alcoholic when I was a child but went to treatment back in 1984 In our state of Minnesota at the Willmar state hospital and treatment for alcoholism, she has been sober and recovered since then. She just turned 80 years old April 29th, 2022 and is a born again Christian and also married to a pastor as she also is the associate pastor of our church. God is a good God when you open up to him and trust him and give your life to his only begotten son Jesus.

My mother just died too, from complications of alcoholism june 22nd. I’m so sorry for your loss 😔

They would be too realistic for millenials

@ladybug3864 You found this one here, you can find many more. I found and added more than 30 of them to my watch later account and am wading thru them. I had never realized they had started when I was 4 and didn't end until '97! I only ever saw maybe 7 of them in 78-81. If the topic didn't interest me, I preferred outside, Gilligan's island, Brady Bunch, Love Boat, etc. 😂

Congratulations on your recovery.

@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc ❤

If they didnt use alcohol, a lot of women from this time period were rage -o -holics like both my parents, actually. Life is so difficult and happiness is so fragile, a lot of people never make it to their full kindness potential…they get bogged down in anger and sadness. Hugs to everyone who survived their awful parents!!

My parents were both. Both of them.

Yes. Women of today get upset because they gave to work but it's better than being stuck in a relationship you couldn't get out of with everyone saying, "you made your bed, now lie in it." How can you know your husband would become an abusive prat?

@au_barb Can I assume those kids of said alcoholic moms are the cruddy moms of today? Using the various subjects that arrived after alcohol slowed in it's popularity, working their kid's life away, dragging them around to several boyfriends and/or trash talking their father's that they punish by not letting them see them...

How do you clim out the window?

39:53

Your English is perfect. I wish I could write French, half as well. Bon soir.

My dream is to speak fluent Spanish. It is such a hard language and I am struggling

@@judithrandall4690bonjour ! Buenos días!

I struggle with my listening skills as what they never teach us is street Spanish.. good luck with your learning, you’ll be fine

Mingled? What does that mean?

This is a good movie. It brought tears to my eyes though I can't even imagine the pain and struggling life they are going through :(

☺🍉☺😊😊❤

Oh stop with that. If they don’t know about classical music it’s because they’re not familiar with any adults who listen to classical music.

Probably about as much as teens back then did. It's a cultural thing, not a generational one.

There was still shootings.. just not as often. There was phones too.

I totally agree, except for, uh, the Mom. Lol. Hugs!

Can you give me the names imo

Martin Tahse, who originally developed the After-School Special for ABC, grew up with alcoholic parents and felt very strongly about how they should be portrayed

There were a lot of alcoholic moms in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. So many women were stuck in unhealthy/abusive marriages with kids to take care of and no job experience. Those "good ol' days" really weren't all that good, women didn't have as many rights back then.

​@@au_barbI notice more alchoholic women nowadays to be honest. Back when I was young it seemed that it was more of a male thing.

This. Thankfully my parents are not, but one of my friends, Lisa, my uncles, aunt and cousins (male + female)are alcoholics... And I'm, a young 20 years old girl am worried for my aunt and two uncles who, I have the impression have no hope to quit ...

Recently, I've decided quitting completely for months until Christmas. I have no withdrawal or whatsoever, no addiction, I've just noticed that when I was drinking it was literally for the feeling of it. To get tipsy (I was never getting drunk or sick, I always respected limits and was always presentable). But, what started as drinking for the taste of it, turned into the desire of being buzzed and joyful... My tolerance grew and what used to be 2 glasses of sangria per Saturday and Sunday, became 6 in order to achieve that buzz. Later on taste was not even the matter anymore, and one day when my mom was in the garden, I took advantage of this short amount of time to drink some gulps of red wine straight from the box, not caring about the sourness and bitterness anymore... Another day, as my mom was sick and laying, I had 3 glasses of Passion fruit liquor, pretending to have orange juice, which worked, but I'm still not proud of this until now... Anytime, when I was buzzed, every consecutive 2 week ends a week, in the house, I would hide from my parents in so many ways. Putting concealer on my cheeks so that my blush is unnoticeable, keeping my eyes very open and focused and blinking a lot, trying to talk as rarely as possible and responding by humming so that my slightly slurred speech is unnoticeable as well... I've been completely sober with not a drop for already 3 months. I want to keep it until Christmas and I thankfully have no trouble doing so. I think my tolerance increase is what really awakened and scared me :')

Haha i cant get over the coincidence, and i have posted at least 5 replies stating this same fact. Ha. She was a good, very natural actress.

Yup saw that episode Carol did the role well.

It sure is.

It was good for you… 😂

And not thinking about getting cancer and spreading it or seeing people on commercials dying from LUNG CANCER!😥🙏🙏🙏

I still smoke at the breakfast table, my house, my table, my rules

and before anyone come, is it me my kids are grown healthy and have kids of their own

What a stink

Yup. Sadly 3 people out of my 6 alcoholics are like this :/

Thankfully my parents aren't but still

me too! 8/16/21. Keep on keeping on

The parents didn’t have any of that either and they were both awful.

Why are you so judgemental?

@@kristilynch8535 No judgment. An observation. There’s a difference.

His way of not dealing with issues was work..mom drank. Both had issues

I thought so, too!

That’s what I was thinking 😅

The actress was 21 at the time of filming.

😂😂😂

Skygazer Hi, just watched this short story, I don't think it's Ben Murphy, even though very similar features

@@gracehannon6751 ok! I wasnt sure

He was running away from the problem, and leaving his daughters in danger. Maybe he should consider a career change. Seriously.

It was not the dads responsibility to get the wife sober.Being a drunk and finding reasons that you are one is nonsense and always your own responsibility to fix

I suppose that was his own disordered way of coping. Grief meant the mother couldn't bear to be sober, and the father couldn't bear to be at home.

BusLady So if he was there and she still was a drunk would that have made anything better or protected his daughters from anything they still would’ve seen their mother being a drunk

@@chetyoubetya8565 you're right, of course. but it would've taken a lot of the stress off the kids. they wouldn't feel the pressure to take care of her and be the adults. and in some cases, they don't drink so much when the partner is around. i know that was the case when i was younger. i spent as much time out of the house as possible until my dad got back. then she'd put on a show of sobriety, cook dinner, and do the laundry and shit. everyone has their own ways of coping. (like snow said)

I thought that was neat

I was scrambling my brain trying to place her face! Thanx 😂

Yep it is.

Oh yeah, good eye.

Francesca played an alcoholic teen in an episode of Family…she was Kristy Macnichol’s friend who stayed the weekend and hit rock bottom. She broke into the liquor cabinet. Very campy just like this but also too real and tragic.

And Connie is Large Marge

@@EssexAggiegrad2011 what marge has to do with it...?

@@emnemnem1889 Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Exactly! This woman was so selfish, she's not a mother. I wanted to slap her when she ruined the birthday party!! Selfish!

When the child has to be the adult. :-(

Oh my goodness yes!! I have a recurring memory of a movie from this era where two kids were snowbound in a VW punchbug that she finally set on fire to alert the rescue planes. I only remember that scene after seeing it ONCE as a kid and never again. Lol!

That was the plan, a Halloween themed birthday party. 🎃 🎉 5:09

So true, he tried to run from his grief and basically abandoned his family, leaving his kids with an alcoholic mom. Not a good dad.

My guess is that the father has action on the side- hence his absence.

I noticed that too. I was born in the early 70s and just finding these shows now.

Mike is Benny Medina

This was the china pattern when i was growing up, and my mom still displays it in her china cabinet. Homer Laughlin, i believe! They still manufacture the pattern too, i still see it sold in stores. I think it is a bit gaudy but also very beautiful. It was the fine china, and not for everyday use. I noticed it in the first kitchen scene of this movie, too, but it looked like subsequent scenes used a different set of dishes? Crazy how we pay attention to all those little details, right?

Yup! Also, Bix was a stalker who wouldn’t take no for an answer

That's what you took away? I think you may need a little help.