"Mary Elizabeth McDonough Mary Elizabeth McDonough (born May 4, 1961) is an American actress, best known for her role as Erin Walton on ""The Waltons"" from 1972 to 1981. In 1988, she married Rob Wickstrom, with whom she has a daughter, Sydnee. The couple divorced in 1996. She has lupus erythematosus, claimed to be from leaking silicone breast implants. In the 2000s, she returned to television acting, guest-starring on ""Boston Legal"" and ""The New Adventures of Old Christine"". McDonough is a radio guest and has been on international and syndicated shows such as ""Get Focused Radio"" with Kate Hennessy. She"
"Simpson family The Simpson family consists of fictional characters featured in the animated television series ""The Simpsons"". The Simpsons are a nuclear family consisting of married couple Homer and Marge and their three children Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. They live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the fictional town of Springfield, United States, and they were created by cartoonist Matt Groening, who conceived the characters after his own family members, substituting ""Bart"" for his own name. The family debuted on Fox on April 19, 1987 in ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" short ""Good Night"" and were later spun off into their own"
"1. This collection features all 13 episodes of the series on DVD for the very first time. The Barkleys The Barkleys is an American animated television series that ran from 1972 to 1973 on NBC and was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The cartoon - inspired by the CBS sitcom ""All in the Family"" - featured an anthropomorphic dog family consisting of Arnie, a bus driver (voiced by Henry Corden) and his wife Agnes (voiced by Joan Gerber). They had two teenagers, Terry and Roger (voiced by Julie McWhirter and Steve Lewis respectively) and one younger child, Chester (voiced by Gene"
"Robinson family The Robinson family are a fictional family from the Australian television soap opera ""Neighbours"". The family were created by Reg Watson and introduced in the first episode of the serial, broadcast on 18 March 1985. The family initially consisted of Jim Robinson (Alan Dale), his mother-in-law Helen Daniels (Anne Haddy), and his four children Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis), Julie Martin (Vikki Blanche), Scott Robinson (Darius Perkins), and Lucy Robinson (Kylie Flinker). The Robinsons have one of the largest and most complex family trees in the show's history. The Robinson family was one of three central families introduced to"
"The Smith Family (TV series) The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard and produced by Don Fedderson Productions in association with CBS television. The series aired on ABC from January 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes. Chad Smith is a police detective in Los Angeles. The show covered the exploits of Sergeant Smith and his relationships with his wife Betty and their three children, 18-year-old Cindy, 15-year-old Bob and 7-year-old Brian. The opening season theme song was ""Primrose Lane"", composed by Red Callender (as George Callender) and Wayne Shanklin."
"The Smith Family (TV series) The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard and produced by Don Fedderson Productions in association with CBS television. The series aired on ABC from January 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes. Chad Smith is a police detective in Los Angeles. The show covered the exploits of Sergeant Smith and his relationships with his wife Betty and their three children, 18-year-old Cindy, 15-year-old Bob and 7-year-old Brian. The opening season theme song was ""Primrose Lane"", composed by Red Callender (as George Callender) and Wayne Shanklin."
"of parents Simon and Jane, and their four children - Jessica (22), Emily (19), Charlotte (17), and Tom (14) who live in Harbledown, Canterbury, Kent. They had more than 20 cameras placed in their semi-detached home, capturing their every move over a period of four months and were controlled from the house next door. The Hughes family were not the original family planned to participate in the first series. They were brought in as reserves after the father of the intended family was found to be a steroid dealer and was consequently pulled from the programme. The Hughes also have"
"Beata, who was stillborn. Her younger siblings include, James (b. 1835), William (1837 - 1930), Edward (1839 - 1887), Richard (1841 - 1929), Mary Weidler (1842 - 1936), Henry Jr. (1843 - 1844), Jacob (1845 - 1913), Harry (1846 - 1891), Emma Dorwart (1848 - 1915), and Albert (1850 - 1851). Ellen moved to the Moravian settlement in Salem in 1844, aged about ten at the time of her arrival. Soon there after Ellen was adopted by Dr. Friedrich Heinrich Schumann (Frederick Henry Shuman) and his second wife Theodora ""Schultz"" Schumann (Shuman). Friedrich and Theodora never had children together, though"
"action and won $3200, enough to open his first store in Queens. At the beginning of ""The Jeffersons"", he was operating five stores throughout New York City, with another two opening during the following seasons. Louise made friends with Tom and Helen Willis, an interracial couple with two adult children of their own (whom George derided as ""zebras""): son Allan (played by Andrew Rubin in the first-season finale, and by Jay Hammer throughout season 5), a white-passing college drop-out; and daughter Jenny, an aspiring fashion designer. Jenny and Lionel became a couple, married on December 24, 1976, and later became"
"Home for the Holidays (1972 film) Home for the Holidays is a 1972 American made-for-television horror film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter and Walter Brennan which premiered on ABC on November 28, 1972. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he suspects his second wife of poisoning him. Shortly after, the girls learn that their stepmother was accused of killing her first husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer"
"the family. Joe and Sons Joe and Sons was a television series broadcast on CBS from September 9, 1975 to January 13, 1976. It ran for a total of 14 episodes, including the pilot. The show focused on an Italian-American widower, Joe Vitale, who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey with his two teenage sons, Mark and Nick. Gus Duzik worked with him as a typical middle-class family worker at the Hoboken Sheet and Tube Company. Estelle was a cocktail waitress who lived in the apartment across the hall who helped Joe with his sons and liked to cook an occasional"
"Sons and Daughters (1974 TV series) Sons and Daughters is an American drama series that launched from the pilot television movie called ""Senior Year"" which aired on CBS from September 11 until November 6, 1974. The show was set in California during the mid-1950s and portrayed the trials of life for two young people — Jeff, portrayed by 24-year-old Gary Frank and Anita, played by 17-year-old Glynnis O'Connor. John S. Ragin portrayed Anita's divorced father, Walter Cramer. The program, which contained strong adult themes for the time, was cancelled and replaced in December 1974 with a variety program starring singers"
"Joe and Sons Joe and Sons was a television series broadcast on CBS from September 9, 1975 to January 13, 1976. It ran for a total of 14 episodes, including the pilot. The show focused on an Italian-American widower, Joe Vitale, who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey with his two teenage sons, Mark and Nick. Gus Duzik worked with him as a typical middle-class family worker at the Hoboken Sheet and Tube Company. Estelle was a cocktail waitress who lived in the apartment across the hall who helped Joe with his sons and liked to cook an occasional meal for"
"Robert Pulcini, the cast includes Tim Robbins as Bill, Diane Lane as Pat, Thomas Dekker as Lance and James Gandolfini as Craig Gilbert. ""An American Family"" episode nine end-credits; rerun airdate April 24, 2011, 7 a.m., WNET-TV An American Family An American Family is an American television documentary filmed from May 30 through December 31, 1971, and first aired in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from January 11, 1973, to March 29, 1973. After being edited down from about 300 hours of raw footage, the series ran one season of 12 episodes on Thursday nights at"
"daughter Calista, Robert's daughter Ever, and Keith's son Cade and daughters Martha Plimpton and Sorel are all actors. David's daughter, Kansas, rides horses in rodeos. John's son Christopher is an architect and vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering. The following are only a few examples of the many roles John Carradine performed on television between 1947 and 1986: Explanatory notes Citations Further reading John Carradine John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. A member of Cecil B. DeMille's"
"like back to school, birthdays, a road trip and more. The episodes show outings and daily things but with two sets of twins and four year old sextuplets. All children were conceived using In vitro fertilization. Parents Children Table for 12 Table for 12 was an American reality television series featuring the Hayes family with two sets of twins and a set of sextuplets, who reside in Morganville, New Jersey. The series debuted on TLC in 2009. Eric is a police officer and Betty is a stay-at-home mom. The family was originally introduced in a one-hour TLC special, ""Twins, Twins"
"share), according to ""The New York Times"". ""Sanford and Son"", which ran from 1972 to 1977, was included on the ""Time"" magazine's list of the ""100 Best TV Shows of All Time"" in 2007. ""All in the Family"", premiered on January 1971, is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series of all time. Following a lackluster first season, the show became the most watched show in the United States during summer reruns and afterwards ranked number one in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. It became the first television series to reach"
"13 years, had started a family of their own out of wedlock, and now were a modern yuppie couple raising young daughters Jennifer (Erin Leigh Peck) and Tess (Donna Vivino). Ben was a successful businessman, running a local bookstore in the city square, and Mary was on the heels of relaunching her long-abandoned dancing career. All other series principals besides the Newell/Abbott family had now either re-established their ties with the town they all attended college in, or had remained there since college and had not seen their other friends in years. The most internationally known member of the group"
"(Gillian Spencer, Erika Slezak after 1971) in June 1969, the Siegels' twin children, Julie Siegel (Lee Warwick) and Tim Siegel (Bill Fowler, William Cox), premiere on the series. David serves as the primary legal counsel for dynamic characters on the series, and Eileen as the familial confidante of Joe. While on a reporting assignment in California for ""The Banner"" in September 1970, journalist Joe is presumed dead after his car drives over a cliff and his body goes missing. Joe's widow Victoria Lord Riley (Slezak) declares him legally dead and begins dating Steve Burke (Bernard Grant) in 1971, to Eileen's"
"The Family Tree The Family Tree is an American 1983 television series that aired on NBC. Its pilot episode was a made-for-television movie called ""The Six of Us"", broadcast a year before. Annie Benjamin (Anne Archer) a divorced woman with three children, who worked part-time selling real estate, meets and then marries Kevin Nichols (Frank Converse); a divorced owner of a lumber company with grown children of his own. Annie's children, who all lived with their mother, include oldest son, Sam (Martin Hewitt); Tess (Melora Hardin); and Toby (Jonathan Hall Kovacs) who is deaf. On Kevin's side of the family,"
"a slight name change. When it had initially aired in January 2002, it was simply known as ""American Family"". Nava envisioned the second season as an epic story in 13 parts that featured current events as well as how the family was involved in the Mexican Revolution. Edward James Olmos plays Jess Gonzalez, a Korean War veteran and barber with a cranky disposition as well as five adult children. He and his wife Berta (Sonia Braga) seek a better life for their children. Conrado is a medical school student, who, at the end of the first season, enlists in the"
"in 1975. His grandchildren include actress Tracy Nelson and musicians Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson. He was also the former father-in-law of Kristin Harmon and June Blair. Cultural historians have noted that the on-screen laid-back character was very different from the real-life Ozzie Nelson, who has been characterized as an authoritarian figure who monitored every aspect of his children's lives. In 1998, A&E broadcast a documentary entitled ""Ozzie and Harriet: The Adventures of America's Favorite Family"", which depicted Ozzie Nelson as a dictatorial personality who ""thwarted his sons, preventing them from attending college and reminding them that they were obliged"
"Spelling Television (later produced by CBS Paramount Network Television for the eleventh and final season) before it was shut down and became an in-name-only unit of CBS Television Studios. The series follows the Reverend Eric Camden—a Protestant minister living in the fictional town of Glenoak, California—as well as Eric's wife Annie and their seven children. Except for Lucy, the children are all named after key biblical figures. Originally, there are five children (making it a family of seven). The twins are born in season three, in the episode ""In Praise of Women"". Four of the children, Matt, Mary, Lucy, and"
"The Family (1974 TV series) The Family was a 1974 BBC television series made by producer Paul Watson, and directed by Franc Roddam. It was a fly-on-the-wall documentary series, seen by many as the precursor to reality television. It was similar to an American documentary which had aired the previous year in 1973 (but which had been filmed in 1971), called ""An American Family"". It followed the working-class Wilkins family of six (led by Margaret and Terry, who divorced in 1978) of Reading, through their daily lives, warts and all, and culminated in the marriage of one of the daughters,"
"(reflecting Ellen Corby's real-life stroke and the death of Will Geer, the actors who portrayed the characters). During the series' last few years, Mary Ellen and Ben start their own families; Erin, Jason and John-Boy are married in later television movie sequels. Conversely, the younger children Jim-Bob and Elizabeth, struggle to find and cement true love. World War II deeply affects the family. All four Walton boys enlist in the military. Mary Ellen's physician husband, Curtis ""Curt"" Willard, is sent to Pearl Harbor and is reported to have perished in the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Years later, Mary"
"knowledge of primary production. But she accepted the contract from the ABC's Rural Department and spent some weeks on a sheep station in Gunnedah to gather background. The show went to air on 21 February 1944 and slowly achieved a loyal country audience. The story revolved around the farmer John Lawson (Vivian Edwards), his wife Ellen (Ailsa Grahame), and their nineteen-year-old daughter Sue, played by Jane Holland. The original remit was extended to enable modern farming methods and seasonal information to be passed on to farmers, as well as the usual fare of soap operas. As the war ended, Grahame"
"on 10 August 2008, aged 73. Terry died on 31 October 2016, at age 82. The format was revived in 2008 (see ""The Family""). The Family (1974 TV series) The Family was a 1974 BBC television series made by producer Paul Watson, and directed by Franc Roddam. It was a fly-on-the-wall documentary series, seen by many as the precursor to reality television. It was similar to an American documentary which had aired the previous year in 1973 (but which had been filmed in 1971), called ""An American Family"". It followed the working-class Wilkins family of six (led by Margaret and"
"is the name of Sir Thomas' castle. His children are eldest son, Armus; the serious Richard; free spirited Cedric; and strong-willed daughter, Eleanor. Another son, William, appeared in the pilot episode, but was then directed by the program's writers to fight in the Crusades. Also featuring in Sir Thomas's life is his love interest, Lady Elizabeth. Thirteen episodes were produced, but only seven aired in the United States after ABC pulled the series from the air in November 1992. The series was an expensive show to produce, thanks to overseas production costs. Most of the cast and crew were British."
"The Addams Family (1973 TV series) The Addams Family is an animated sitcom adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973. Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy who played Uncle Fester and Lurch respectively from the 1960s television series returned in voice-over roles. The Addams Family consists of husband and wife, Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, as well as Grandmama, Uncle Fester, and their butler, Lurch. The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities. No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series. This series"
"in the NBC reality TV show ""Home Delivery"" when their home in Wyomissing was renovated to accommodate the large family. The family was then featured in a special on Discovery Health in September 2005 entitled ""Surviving Sextuplets and Twins"". A year later they were featured in another special entitled ""Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later"". With high ratings from the specials, Discovery Health signed the couple to a reality series that aired beginning in April 2007, called ""Jon & Kate Plus 8"", which documented their lives. To produce the show, the family was filmed for three or four days per"
"sole owner. It is a rival company with nearby Chandler Enterprises and Buchanan Enterprises. Legend Quartermaine family The Quartermaine family is a fictional family from the ABC soap opera, ""General Hospital"". Created and introduced by Douglas Marland, the wealthy and eccentric family has been a continuous staple on ""General Hospital"" since their introduction in the 1970s. The Quartermaines were first introduced in 1977, when Stuart Damon originated the role of Alan Quartermaine. His parents and sister were next to be brought on canvas. Anna Lee originated matriarch Lila Quartermaine, with David Lewis being the first to play her husband Edward."
"beginning, they have, over the history of the show, resided in the fictional towns of Five Points, Selby Flats (a suburb of Los Angeles) and eventually Springfield. With the transition to television the shows focus became the Bauer family, a working class, second generation German-American family. The television family was headed by a wise patriarch, Friedrich ""Papa"" Bauer, the father of three children, Bill, Meta, and Trudy. Papa Bauer, who immigrated to this country from Germany with little more than a dream, was a hard worker who was full of wisdom. He imparted his wisdom to his children in a"
"for four seasons. The son of Byron Jean McIntire and Chastine Uretta Herrick McIntire, John McIntire was born in Spokane, Washington, and was of Irish descent. He grew up primarily in Montana around ranchers, an experience that later inspired his performances in dozens of film and television westerns. Later, he lived in Santa Monica, California. He graduated from the University of Southern California. McIntire began acting in radio on ""Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher"", where he met his future wife, Jeanette Nolan. McIntire played the title role in a Los Angeles radio station's production of ""The Adventures of Bill"