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This article is most the 1976-80 American series. For other series with similar titles, see Family unit (disambiguation).

American television series

Family
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Created past	Jay Presson Allen
Starring	Sada Thompson James Broderick Gary Frank Kristy McNichol Meredith Baxter Birney Quinn Cummings
Opening theme	John Rubinstein
Country of origin	Usa
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	86 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Leonard Goldberg Mike Nichols Aaron Spelling
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	50 minutes
Product companies	Icarus Productions Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Distributor	Lexington Broadcast Services Visitor Sony Pictures Television receiver
Release
Original network	ABC
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	March 9, 1976 (1976-03-09) – June 25, 1980 (1980-06-25)

Family is an American idiot box drama series that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) goggle box network from 1976 to 1980. Artistic control of the show was carve up amid executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling, and Mike Nichols. A total of 86 episodes were produced.

Overview [edit]

Family depicted, for its time, a contemporary traditional family with realistic, believable characters.^[i] The bear witness starred Sada Thompson and James Broderick every bit Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married centre-form couple living at 1230 Holland Street in Pasadena, California with their three children: Nancy (portrayed past Elayne Heilveil in the original miniseries, then Meredith Baxter Birney for the remainder of the show's run), Willie (Gary Frank), and Letitia, nicknamed "Buddy" (Kristy McNichol). An early episode establishes that the couple had another son, Timothy, who had died five years prior in an accident. The evidence raised the profile of all of its featured actors and, in item, catapulted McNichol to stardom.

• Kate is the practical, rational voice of the show. She always stands by her opinion and is motivated to exercise what is correct, even if it makes her unpopular ("Jury Duty"). An accomplished total-time homemaker, she resents people telling her that because she had high aspirations in school and had achieved a keen deal academically ("Home Movie"), she could have attained much more in life. However, at i indicate she expresses frustration with the monotony of her life, feeling that all she does is run errands and make phone calls, usually on behalf of other people ("An Eye to the Hereafter"). She eventually returns to college as a music major, then becomes a music teacher at Buddy's high school in season four.
• Doug is an independent lawyer who aspires to be a judge but never uses his intellect to make others feel junior. He is a family man who listens to what Kate tells him and ever makes fourth dimension for Buddy.
• Willie, Doug and Kate's son, is an aspiring writer. He secures his parents' permission to take a year off loftier schoolhouse to write a screenplay but, to his father's chagrin, after drops out of school completely. He later on pursues work, assisting in a photography studio, an advertizing agency, and at a TV show called "The Dame Game" just eventually quits, dubbing the piece of work uninspiring, and aspires to leave Pasadena.
• Younger girl Buddy is somewhat tomboyish, although she sometimes considers adopting a more feminine appearance ("Coming of Historic period"). She is a loyal friend, compassionate toward others, and well-liked past her classmates. She has a habit of walking into a room where adults are discussing something confidential and demanding to know what is transpiring. She commonly seeks her mother's assist when faced with a dilemma. Willie has a shut human relationship with Buddy, whom he affectionately calls "Peaches."
• Eldest daughter Nancy Lawrence Maitland's motility back home with her young son Timmy is the story goad during the premiere episode. She does so afterwards catching her husband, Jeff Maitland (played by John Rubinstein, who also composed the show's theme song), in bed with another adult female. They divorce shortly afterward and Nancy enrolls in law school, where she excels.

In the fourth flavor, eleven-year-erstwhile Annie Cooper (Quinn Cummings) is adopted past the family unit after the death of her parents, Kate and Doug's college friends, in a car accident.

Willie with Doug and Kate.

Storylines were very topical. The show is ane of the outset to characteristic what has recently been termed "very special episodes". In the first episode, Nancy walks in on her husband having sex activity with i of her friends. During the second season she and Jeff divorce, but he appears occasionally thereafter to complicate the Lawrences' lives. Other storylines include Kate's possible chest cancer and Buddy'due south dilemmas about whether to take sexual activity; she always chooses to await. Other episodes deal with homosexuality: in a 1976 episode ("Rites of Friendship"), Willie's childhood friend Zeke is arrested in a gay bar and Willie struggles to accept his friend'south sexuality, while a 1977 episode ("We Love You lot, Miss Jessup") deals with Buddy'due south friendship with a lesbian instructor. Family too contends with alcoholism (Doug'due south sister; Buddy'south friend) and dementia: A 1979 episode directed by Joanne Woodward guest-stars Henry Fonda as Doug'south father, who is beginning to experience cerebral pass up. 2 years later, Fonda would win an Academy Award for playing a similar character in On Gold Pond.

Notable invitee stars [edit]

Many well-known (or before long-to-exist well-known) actors and actresses appeared on the series, including Howard Hesseman, Ted Danson, Michael J. Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, James Wood, Michael Keaton, Kim Cattrall, Shelley Long, Henry Fonda, Mare Winningham, Helen Chase, Dana Plato, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annie Potts, Blair Brown, Dominique Dunne, and Steve Guttenberg.

Meredith Baxter's real-life female parent, Whitney Blake, guest starred, equally did David Birney, who was Baxter'due south married man at the fourth dimension.

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Family unit was widely acclaimed, with many critics calling it a rare quality offering^{[2] [3]} in ABC's primetime schedule, which at the time contained Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and The Love Boat. Family was nominated iii times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, in 1977, 1978, and 1980. Sada Thompson, Gary Frank, and Kristy McNichol won Emmy awards (McNichol twice); James Broderick and Meredith Baxter Birney were nominated.

In the fourth flavor, critics quibbled with the show'southward management. In February 1979, Noel Holston of The Orlando Watch called Family unit "ABC's most prestigious programme" simply claimed "the producers' crisis-of-the-calendar week arroyo is starting to strain the series' credibility."^[4] Some critics complained that Family, like many TV shows of the period, had go likewise reliant on sexual activity-related plots.^[five] In bound 1979, ABC shifted the evidence to a Friday dark death slot of 8pm, and its previously solid ratings dropped to well-nigh the bottom of the nautical chart. Equally a result, Family unit was renewed for a final season of 13 episodes that began at midseason and aired intermittently.

Despite its occasionally adult themes, the series was consistently praised by the National Parent-Teacher Association. In February 1979, the PTA said Family contained "skillful parenting lessons" and "slightly controversial" merely "excellent" content,^[6] recommending it for viewing past teens and older.

Vii years after the serial' cancellation, information technology was widely reported that a Family Reunion TV movie was planned for the 1987–88 season.^[7] At least one study indicated that if its ratings were strong enough, the serial would exist revived for the then-current ABC schedule.^[8] The plot was to involve the Lawrence children gathering for Kate'due south remarriage. (James Broderick had died of cancer in 1982.) But the writers' strike that year halted production, and the project was abandoned.

Episodes and product details [edit]

The initial showrunners of Family were Nigel McKeand and Carol Evan McKeand, who previously had been writers for The Waltons. Later on the fourth season, the McKeands departed^[9] and were replaced by Edward Zwick, who would get on to produce the acclaimed series thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and In one case and Again.

Broadcast history and Nielsen ratings [edit]

Season	Time slot (ET)	Rank	Rating
1975–76	Tuesdays 10 p.m.	34 [x]	North/A
1976–77	Tuesdays 10 p.thousand.	39 [eleven]	North/A
1977–78	Tuesdays 10 p.m.	31 [12]	19.8
1978–79	Thursdays 10 p.k. (Sep 1978-Mar 1979) Fridays eight p.k. (April-May 1979)	52 [13]	Due north/A
1979–80	Mondays ten p.m. (Jan-February 1980) Mondays 9 p.thousand. (Mar 1980) Wednesdays 8 p.yard. (June 1980)	61 [xiv]	N/A

Theme music [edit]

In the original bound 1976 miniseries run of Family, the theme music is a dramatic-sounding, however easygoing piano solo with small orchestral contingents, composed by cast member John Rubinstein (son of classical musician Arthur Rubinstein). When Family was picked up as a regular serial for the fall 1976 schedule, the theme music was changed to a more cheery, upbeat instrumental dominated by trumpets and horns, also written by Rubinstein. This version lasted the residue of the run.

Legal dispute [edit]

Family became the bailiwick of a 24-year legal dispute^[15] due to a lawsuit filed past writer Jeri Emmet in 1977. The merits was against Spelling Television and alleged that Spelling had stolen the idea for the show from a script that Emmet had submitted, titled "The Best Years". Spelling responded to the lawsuit with a statement explaining that he had conceived the idea in his kitchen with Leonard Goldberg, his professional partner. Next they pitched the idea to scriptwriter Jay Presson Allen to create the airplane pilot. She had just completed writing the screenplay for the film Funny Lady, starring Barbra Streisand and directed by Herbert Ross.

In October 1981, the conform was dismissed for lack of prosecution. Jeri Emmet filed an appeal the aforementioned calendar month. Approximately a year after, she withdrew her appeal as part of a settlement with Spelling and Goldberg for $i,000. Emmet later filed a legal malpractice activeness against her own lawyers in which it was argued that she would have won her original lawsuit but for the malpractice. The case went to trial and a jury awarded her $ane.7 1000000 in damages. The verdict was then successfully appealed based on the resumption of the suit having occurred beyond a 1-year limitation period allowed in the constabulary: the trial effect and judgment were overturned.^[16]

Emmet sued Spelling a second time, in 1996, later Spelling published his memoirs. She claimed that Spelling had defamed her in his book, equally she had not been credited with conceiving the original idea for Family. She lost on appeal in 2001, with the court maxim she had not met the standard for showing damages due to the alleged defamation and that she had non explained how the defamation legally constituted a second theft of the same intellectual belongings. The litigation finally concluded with Allen retaining her "Created past" credit for the serial.^[xv]

Abode media [edit]

On September 5, 2006, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the first 2 seasons of Family on DVD in Region 1. On January, 2016, two box sets containing a full of 28 episodes were released in Federal republic of germany by ALIVE VERTRIEBS- UND MARKETING. These box sets contain select episodes from seasons 1 to 3.^[17]

As of July 2021, all v seasons of Family — uncut, in their original broadcast running times, except for the season 4 episode 'Magic,' which appears in its syndicated edited form at 44 minutes in length (as opposed to the usual 49 minutes) — are available for streaming on Tubi.

The evidence currently airs on MeTV+, a companion network to MeTV that is available in select TV markets.

See also [edit]

• 1976 in American television

References [edit]

1. ^ Rowland Barber (21 January 1978). "Three Strikes and They're On". TV Guide . Retrieved thirty May 2016.
2. ^ Charles Witbeck (24 December 1979). "A fine gustatory modality of 'Family' is ABC gift to viewers". The Miami News.
3. ^ Peter J. Boyer (2 May 1980). "Information technology's all over for 'Family'". Associated Press.
4. ^ Noel Holston (21 February 1979). "Is this the last flavor for these serial?". Orlando Sentinel.
5. ^ Howard Rosenman (28 Dec 1978). "Has Information technology Come to This?". Los Angeles Times.
6. ^ Paul Weingarten (14 February 1979). "PTA TV ratings, from Alice to Wonder Adult female". Chicago Tribune.
7. ^ Susan Stewart (two June 1987). "Reunion Fever". Detroit Gratis Press.
8. ^ staff and wire reports (8 June 1987). "Ch. viii noon news score: One born, another on way?". Akron Beacon Journal.
9. ^ Lee Margulies (25 June 1979). "Inside TV". Los Angeles Times.
10. ^ "The final Nielsen". Chicago Tribune Telly Week. 27 June 1976.
11. ^ "Look Who's No. i". Chicago Tribune TV Week. 3 July 1977.
12. ^ "A flavour's worth of program standings" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1 May 1978.
13. ^ "Rounding upward the ratings for 'the season'" (PDF). Broadcasting. eighteen June 1979.
14. ^ "1979-80 Regular Series Ratings". Daily Variety. 4 June 1980.
15. ^ ^{a b} Kenneth Ofgang (xix November 2001). "C.A. Rules for Aaron Spelling in Long-Running 'Family' Litigation". Metropolitan News. Metropolitan News Visitor. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
16. ^ Cal Sup Ct (vii May 1992). "Laird v. Blacker (1992) 2 C4th 606". online.ceb.com/. Unknown. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
17. ^ https://www.amazon.de/Eine-amerikanische-Familie-Folgen-Fernsehjuwelen/dp/B014EISM4Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456266923&sr=8-i&keywords=Eine+amerikanische+Familie

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