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Eight is Enough - Season 1

Series: Eight is Enough

(10)

Episodes

Rating

TVG

Year

1977

Language

English

Publisher

Warner Bros.

About

This often comical, always touching, drama stars Dick Van Patten as the father of eight very independent and different children. Together, this close-knit family faces the hardships and challenges of the ups and downs of everyday life in a family of ten. Guest stars include Robin Williams, Rosanna Arquette and Ralph Macchio.

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Episodes

1. Never Try Eating Nectarines As Juice May Dispense

Tom learns the importance of family relationships when David moves out

2. Schussboomer

Mary brings home a pregnant friend, Matilda, whose attitudes towards marriage upset Tom. She learns the joys of parenthood, and paternal Tom helps deliver the baby.

3. Pieces of Eight

Tom becomes the editor-in-chief at his newspaper, but he quickly runs into trouble when the printers go on strike. The whole family pitches in to help earn extra money.

4. Women, Ducks and the Domino Theory

Things get a little tense around the Bradford home when Tommy is stood up and neither David nor Tom want to go on their annual duck hunt.

5. Turnabout

David learns about life at a party the family hosts to celebrate Doctor Maxwell's 25th anniversary -- when David's date and Maxwell don't get along.

6. Quarantine

Togetherness can be really funny when the whole Bradford household is quarantined, including Nancy's blind date, after Mary's boyfriend comes down with a mysterious ailment.