Medical crises abound in the family when James reveals to Doug that he must soon undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy begins to miscarry Jeff's baby.
Seeing grown adult children, perfectly comfortable, still, grabbing food, whatever, from Mom and Dad - as grown adults, no judgement! Wow, I too, want to live there! Can you imagine an entire planet of "Children" living in that sacred security of FAMILY?! I can😍😘.💝💯♾️
@@cherylb2008I don’t see them doing it maliciously; Nancy is the only one who really tends to take advantage of it sometimes, but I would be glad that my family felt comfortable doing this. I want them to feel welcome in my home.
I wish my family would have treated me this way when I lost my baby. They were so busy thinking about how I couldn't afford the baby that died that they didn't even ask how I was dealing with losing my baby. It was thirty four years ago and it still hurts like it was yesterday. 😢
@@gracejones2831 I think they were but I turned around and got pregnant again because I wasn't relieved. I was distraught. When I finally told my grandmother she wasn't happy. She never liked my daughter and didn't mind letting her know. But the rest of the family welcomed her. I guess sometimes people feel how they feel. Since we lived far away from them we managed to survive.
The last scene with Doug and Willie, speechless... just so moving, so simple, nothing hardly said but so much Said, the charisma, how they make you feel... like they're a real family, you can't tell they're acting, they work so well together I can't envision at all anybody other than that cast playing the Lawrence family, touching
With all the talk about the house in the comments, I looked up the house on google maps and it looks almost exactly the way it did on the show (the outside). The Zillow value is just under $5 million, so yes, this is a VERY nice neighborhood!
I realize I was too young to understand the emotions back then. Now I see the depth of real life feelings here. I didn't know as a life how truly warm, cathartic, healing this series was. 🧡
So digging rewatching this show as a 52 year old adult! As young child in elementary school in the late 1970s...I did not under or comprehend the vastness of the amazing acting and subject matter, however, knew this series was special a d the house/home. Buddy/Kristy was the main reason. Now, Nancy/Meredith is my favorite...she was a mess! MB-B is a very good actress. Roll my eyes with Nancy’s shenanigans. Family is home, transports me back home to another time. Ah, memories, 😊. My mom dressed us in polyester. Good Times.
I’m a fan from the beginning and I was in high school when it was first on. I related best to Buddy, not just in this show, but the other things she did back then. Really good example for me on how to feel-express herself-work through issues.
I remember having our family Dr coming to my house when I was a teenager. It was the early 80's and I had Mono super bad. I almost had to be in hospital.
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I'm not watching these episodes in order, so u can imagine the roller coaster of emotions I'm going through... especially with this one. Another great cry. Thank you SO much for these uploads!
Why are men such hypocrites? Doug was mad at his father for cheating on his mother, yet 10 years later he did the exact same thing to Kate. And yet he still held a grudge against his father. Ugh.
I agree....very hypocritical, but perhaps Doug thought his Dad’s behavior set him up for the same behavior (bad example) so it made him angry about it. But, in truth, he should have seen what he DIDN’T want in his Dad’s behavior, then NOT repeated the same bad pattern.
@@ShawnBen Only an entitled weak man will blame others for his bad behavior. Adultery is not like a disease one may inherit ;ike alcoholism or mental illness. Adultery is a choice. It is right vs wrong. Doug made the wrong choice just like his father did. No way to spin that.
I can still remember after putting our kids to bed, watching this show @9:00 on Wednesdays evenings. I enjoyed it totally, so happy to watch it on RU-vid. Thank you Xanthas71.
@@lindaf4369 I think that one reason why people seemed to age faster then is because people nowadays often focus on looking and acting younger. We have all sorts of cosmetic procedures and skin creams nowadays. If anything, nowadays there's sort of a stigma surrounding looking your age, especially if you're female and in the entertainment industry.
@@georgeschubert9652 My brother his 53 and he looks late 30s at the most like most people do know days look at Jennifer Lopez even without the work she has done to herself she would still looks younger than she is. This lady at my church is 61 at looks like she could be James' daughter. Maybe he doesn't look 77 but he looks at least 68 he is still handsome but people did look older back then.
Doug is from a time when it was nobel to work hard, provide for his family & value what is truly important. A time before lounging by the pool & eye cream for men became popular.
Nice to see Digger Barnes in a suit and actually sober. Thank you for posting this. It has really bothered me that U.S. fans were only able to purchase season1 and 2. Most other parts of the world were able to purchase the entire series. The same thing applies to the great series McCloud.
Our TV shows represent out culture, our society. I would love to go back in time. They weren't perfect but the 70s were a nice time in America. I wasn't a big fan of Nancy though.
Well you see - that's the M.O. of the scriptwriters of this show. It's a feature of almost every episode. They'll have one character act completely irrational, or be completely in the wrong. Like the Christmas episode where Doug was being an unconscionable ball breaker to Willie. Then by the end of the episode he or she will relent and see the error of his or her ways, and at the end of the episode there will be this big awwww moment that the entire episode was building up to. All of the characters have been used this way and on lots of occasions. And so after 3 or 4 seasons, each character will have more than enough reasons to be disliked. They've all acted like jerks, and on many occasions. You can point to any character in this series and name more than a few ahole-ish things that they have done.
I had a feeling that, towards the end, that the loss of her baby would finally hit Nancy and that she would finally grieve the loss of her and Jeff's child. And Jeff showed that he truly did love Nancy for still being there for her despite how she treated him earlier.
Thank you so much for posting this episode and all the other Family episodes on your channel. I have been watching them in chronological order, and this one from Season 3 was missing! It was my favourite show growing up and brings back great memories :)
One of the great ironies of the show that only revealed itself in hindsight. At the time Nancy was written to represent an independent woman who has come out of a failed marriage and is trying to pull together the loose ends. Years later it becomes painfully obvious that while Jeff was flawed he very much loved his ex-wife and child and Nancy was always stringing him along and basically treating him like a child.
In these times, Nancy could be put away for Domestic Violence for what she did to Jeff. In those times, it was accepted that a wife slaps her husband. Interesting change in times.
Kate has to do her laundry in the kitchen? Not what I would expect in a large house in one of Pasadena’s most exclusive neighborhoods. And what about that car Doug drives? A Ford Maverick??
LOL, my dad drove a 1970 Ford Maverick in the late 80s. I guess because he was a "maverick" who figured if a car had four wheels and a motor, it didn't matter. But re: Doug's car, it was identified as a Ford Maverick in the pilot episode and probably would have been a middle-of-the-road car in 1976.
@@joannmoran8513 The house used as the Lawrence home in Family was built in 1922 in South Pasadena. It's still around today in that location, and from online real estate views the exterior looks the same as it did during the run of the series. Not far from my neighborhood in USA, there has been a home with the same triangular prominence and front wall as the Lawrence home. I think that home was built in the 1930s or '40s. It is smaller than the Lawrence home, but the similar distinctive façade is unmistakable. I notice it whenever I drive by. It is currently undergoing restoration work.
This show is big on "feelings". "I had no right to impose my feelings on you. To expect you to feel, what I was feeling"....😀🤪 "I used to love the way you felt. I swear I could feel it. I would press myself closer so I could feel it even better. " 😁
I can tell you from experience, sometimes you DO feel unsettled & a little dizzy and very weak ... moving slowly & in the 'brittle' way Nancy was moving is exactly how I felt ... not to mention the pain before & after and the dry heaves. It depends on what kind of miscarriage you have, at what point in the pregnancy you have it and how it affects you personally. I can guarantee you, my doctor DID want me to go to the hospital but I begged him to let me stay home. I always reacted in pretty extreme ways to early pregnancy -- the "morning" sickness lasted all day for a couple of months.
The show got this one all wrong. Nancy behaved like someone who hasn't gone thru it would expect women to behave. Miscarrying is not like losing a tooth.
Nancy’s responses to people seem dumb…. She doesn’t say things that should be said, she doesn’t think of other people’s feelings…it seems.. not. Just in this episode but others
James Broderick was 51 at the time. Sada Thompson also 51. Willie was supposed to be 17 when the series began, yet the actor Gary Frank was really 26! People looked older back then.
I think I am the only one who thinks James Broderick looks good. Maybe a few years older than his age but not 10-20 like a lot of people say. I must be blind.
Nancy is beautiful and smart, what did she see in Jeff, a homely looking jerk with no personal achievement of anything AND worse he kept cheating on her, except that he came from a rich family.
She didn't understand why Nancy wouldn't grieve. She felt that everyone else in the family was grieving, but Nancy refused to. Buddy couldn't understand that refusal.
Good show but bad continuity. When James last appeared the previous season he was in love with beautiful torch singer Constance Humes. The show was all about Doug being unable to accept the relationship. Connie’s not even mentioned now and Doug’s beef is some affair James had 36 years ago. Did David Jacobs fall asleep or what?
@@pezmezsez9565 There were actually 4 actors who played Doug's Dad: Charles Lane (Thursday’s Child in 1976) ; John Beal (On the First Day of Christmas in 1976); David Wayne (The Covenant in 1978); and Henry Fonda (Thanksgiving in 1979). I think back in those days when we only watched the show once a week, and not many homes had VCRs, we didn't keep track of (or remember) details like that. Nowadays with binge watching the shows, these details seem much more obvious!
