i've never seen this, i am watching and hoarding away all the series like a squirrel so i can rewatch them over and over again, they fill my days with warmth and delight. one of my most favourite shows as a child and brought to us again courtesy of your wonderful channel, blessings to you.
I agree 100 percent with you. I grew up on this show and loved it. They don't m and shows this good anymore in 2023. Anyways I am rewatchingbthem with my son and daughter. My children love it now too. It's a nice show t o.leav e for my son and daughter to watch with their spouse and children. A legacy of a loving show to leave for my family and generations to come.
Me to where I live they are showing a whole weekend of this show, from Saturday jan.2023 on decades on missed a couple of episodes and remember everyone of them. I feel like I am back in the 70's and in my 20's.
Did you notice how she left her car window down that's exactly how it was back then and your possessions would still be there..it's sad what this world has turned into..it's downright scary and a shame
Thought that was her...remember her from Remington Steel, altho that was another tv show I didn’t watch like Family but now enjoy catching up on what I missed.
The ballerina was the only chick Willie ever got who wasn't desperate, a nut job or had something else unusual going on. Worst thing you can say about Josie is that she was half nuts from overwork.
I’m watching these episodes again after so long & it’s a delight. A well-crafted family program. I think it’s so much more impressive given the poor TV and movies nowadays. The family dynamic, the easy dialogue and excellent acting of Sada and Broderick really anchored the whole program, didn’t it?
Heavy coats and wool hats on the passesby in the early scene... I've said it on other episodes, this was the most overly clothed series ever!! They were in Pasadena for heaven's sake!!!
I can speak from experience that it gets very cold there in December and January. I decorated Rose Parade floats and it was bitter cold. Hands would get numb after awhile.
@@echt114 No. Remember what Kate, Willy's own mother said. "He's my son and I love him but he's not worth what you're giving up (ballet)." Willie feels he's beneath the ballerina. It's his ego. You see this same jealousy trait in Kate in this episode and in another episode where Kate's friend tries to make Buddy a star in a play and tells Kate off, saying Kate is jealous that Buddy would be a star when Kate couldn't be one. One MAJOR moral of this episode that is sublime is that to keep a family together, to make a relationship work with this family nobody is allowed to be exceptional. Everybody has to be average. You also see that in another episode where Buddy hated a school football hero, claiming he was stuck up. When the football hero was diagnosed with cancer and was losing his scholarship and future and life THEN Buddy was consumed with him. If Willie truly loved the ballerina he would have stayed with her. Willie couldn't stick to any commitment. He dropped out of high school. He keeps changing jobs. You and the ballerina's boss are saying the ballerina can have no boyfriend and no outside fun EVER for her to keep her job as a ballerina. If not the dancing Willie would have found another reason to dump the ballerina. Kate would have continued to snub the ballerina too. Willie was engaged to someone else and he dumped her right before the wedding. Willie is full of turbulence, ballet or not.
@@priscillasalzberg5349 I appreciate your taking the time for analysis. Though fiction, most of us have seen these themes at least near our own lives. But Kate didn't state that, she asked her, "do you really think he can take the place of....." Later she asked Willie, "How could you have let her make such a drastic change in her life when you've known her such a short time?" Willie let this nag at him a while and it got to him while he was watching her perform "Willie feels beneath..." ?? That's your projection. Like usual, Willie needed time to weigh the impermanence of his current emotions. I think their relationship was too sudden and new for Willie (or her) to know that they should/could be a long term thing. Willie does have a history of being impulsive and a bit resentful of anyone who tries to argue against the impulse, but he's a learner and most important has a foundation of empathy and caring. The whole family does, and I think that's what makes them appealing. What you apparently see as a negative makes me respect the Lawrence ethic even more. People who worship outliers and see their (or usualy the dominant culture's) version of success as an excuse to push others aside, usually just prove to be human garbage worth avoiding if you're looking out for your long term happiness and stability.
@@echt114 VERY well said, thank you! This person leaves the most negative comments, some even bordering on deranged. YOU defended our favorite TV Family better than I could have, lol!
Pinto as you all see is the cars used in this program. ergo, their sponsor, Freddy Krueger aka Robert England is the ballerina trainer or ALVIN. ABC was an ok network. Family had amazing guest stars. PINTO was a crazy popular selling car then, why? gasoline was getting costly then those land yachts were costly! the time were a time of transition. from big cars to smaller cars!
doug looking at pictures of bodybuilders while he's using that ridiculous contraption with the pulleys; as if that thing is gonna put muscle on him. i had a version of that when i was a kid and it did absolutely nothing...lol.
@@XxowendanxX - no, it was similar to what doug was using. it was blue and white plasti-coated ropes and you'd attach it to a door handle. looking back, it may have been okay as a cardio thing but certainly not as a muscle developer. i know the thing you mean. i think it was supposed to build your chest.
Gary Frank and Stephanie Zimbalist teamed back up in the '90s to star as husband and wife in a truth based TV movie about male guards in a women's prison engaging in a sex ring.