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Pilot: The Best Years: Directed by Mark Rydell. With Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Elayne Heilveil, Gary Frank. Nancy walks in on Jeff and finds him with another woman and moves back home.
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- Drama, Family
- Mark Rydell
- 1976-03-09
Jan 19, 2024 · From Season 1, Episode 1 'Pilot: The Best Years' - Nancy walks in on Jeff and finds him with another woman, and moves back home. Buddy overhears something Ka...
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Nancy walks in on Jeff and finds him with another woman and moves back home. Buddy overhears something Kate says about her children, and runs away.
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- Life Moved More Slowly
- Exploring Mortality
- Brotherly Advice
Today, “the emotional life of a family” is a genre, not a premise, but back then this portrayal of the Lawrence clan was a breakthrough – not because TV hadn’t portrayed families (indeed, most Nick at Nite classics feature families), but because it hadn’t done so with such care and detail. At least not to this degree of popular or Emmy Award succes...
While “Family’s” staging and camera setups don’t break new ground, it skirts viewer expectations in another way – with artistic directing choices. When Doug (James Broderick) tells son Willie (Gary Frank) that Kate has a lump on her breast and might have cancer (2, “Monday is Forever”), we see the conversation from a distance with no sound; it ends...
“Family’s” most “of the time” element isn’t a moment or scene, but rather the pacing. It suggests that life moved more slowly, and more thoughtfully (and with fewer commercials; each episode is 48 minutes long, rather than today’s 44). There’s time for sardonic humor, like when Kate tells Buddy that coffee will stunt your growth: “Without coffee, y...
Justifying the somber music, mortality is a popular theme, with Kate’s cancer scare; the death of the grandmother (4, “A Right and Proper Goodbye”); and reflections on the death of Timothy, a fourth child who had died five years earlier at age 10 in a canoeing accident (5, “Thursday’s Child”). (Watching it today, the theme of mortality is even more...
I love the way Buddy counts on Willie for big-brotherly advice (these siblings are the two best characters), and the parents’ balance between strictness and love seems appropriate. All six major characters have depth. But there’s still a black-and-white-era stiffness to Kate and Doug, and Nancy and Jeff are almost non-factors after the pilot episod...
Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from March 9, 1976 to June 25, 1980. It was conceived as a six-episode limited series, [1] but initial high ratings led to the production of 86 weekly episodes. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols.
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S01:E06 - A Point of Departure. A rash of burglaries, including one at the Lawrence house, combined with increased pressure from Doug concerning Willie's plans for the future, forces Willie to decide to move to the dairy farm Hattie bequeathed him. Watch Family Season 1 Episode 1 The Best Years Free Online. Nancy walks in on Jeff and finds him ...
