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Kate Lawrence - Sada Thompson Doug Lawrence - James Broderick Nancy Lawrence Maitland (1976) - Elayne Heilveil Nancy Lawrence Maitland ('76-'80) - Meredith Baxter Birney Willie Lawrence - Gary Frank Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence - Kristy McNichol Jeff Maitland - John Rubinstein Mrs. Hanley - Mary Grace Canfield Salina Magee - Season Hubley Annie Cooper - Quinn Cummings Timmy Maitland - Michael David Schackelford |
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Episodes Known
To Be In Existence
(listed in alphabetical
order -- no further episode info is currently available):
THE ATHLETE
Air Date: 3-1-79
Writer: Marshall Herskovitz
Director: Kim Friedman
Guests: Michael Biehn, Mary Oedy
Synopsis: Buddy, volunteering at a hospital, encounters a star high-school basketball
player who is there for a broken leg -- or so he thinks; Annie runs for class
president against her nemesis, Emmy Sheldon.
BALLERINA
Air
Date: 3-15-79
Writer: Edward Zwick
Director: Edward Zwick
Guest: Stephanie Zimbalist
Synopsis: Willie has a fling with a ballet dancer; Doug purchases a workout
set by mail order.
CHANGES
Air Date: 10-12-78
Writer: Carol Evan McKeand
Director: Edward Parone
Guest: Constance McCashin
Synopsis: Nancy is all set to re-marry Jeff; Annie, heretofore known as "Annie
Cooper," decides to add "Lawrence" to her name; Buddy, ever the
traditionalist, is bothered by it all.
COMING APART
Air Date: 10-6-76
Writer: Hindi Brooks
Director: John Erman
Guests: David Hedison, Jane Alice Brandon, John Rubinstein, Edith Atwater, Gaye
Nelson, Drew Michaels, Michael David Schackelford
Synopsis: Buddy gets a job at a bakery, and introduces Willie to her boss, "Big
Al"; Nancy gets involved with Peter, while she's finalizing her divorce
from Jeff -- despite the latter's pleas for a reconciliation. NOTE: The part
of Nancy Lawrence Maitland is now played by Meredith Baxter Birney.
COMING OF AGE
Air Date: 11-9-76
Writer: Elizabeth Clark
Director: John Erman
Guest: Tommy Lee Jones
Synopsis: Buddy officially reaches puberty; Nancy is caught between Kate's resentment
of her thoughtlessness, Peter's proposal of marriage, and a come-on from a complete
stranger.
DAYLIGHT SERENADE
Air Date: 3-10-80
Writer: Liz Coe
Director: Edward Parone
Guests: Ted Danson, Timothy Wead, Louise Foley, Hallie Eckstein, Julie Alter,
Michael Convertino
Synopsis: Buddy has an ambiguous relationship with a nerdy schoolmate whom Kate
is training for a piano recital; Nancy begs Annie to teach her how to roller-skate,
so she can go to a party with a handsome fellow lawyer.
GIFTS
Air Date: 12-21-78
Writer: Paul Wolff
Director: Philip Leacock
Guests: Marge Edmond, Jan Arvan, Michael Keaton, Lew Horn
Synopsis: Annie, who still misses her parents, can't relate to the Lawrences'
holiday cheer, and decides to run away until Christmas is over; Willie runs
into his old barber, who is about to close up shop for good.
HARD TIMES
Air Date: 1-28-80
Writers: Liz Coe & Sally Robinson
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest: Helen Hunt
Synopsis: Two friends of Buddy's who have been going steady for 3 years are
having relationship problems -- and when she tries to help, the results aren't
quite what she expected; Nancy is having trouble at work, which starts to affect
even Timmy.
JUST FRIENDS
Air Date: 11-9-78
Writer: Walter Koenig
Director: Peter Levin
Guest: Kim Cattrall
Synopsis: Willie considers an affair with a married woman he met in a writing
class; Nancy, sick of living in a "fishbowl," decides to move out
of the guesthouse and into an apartment of her own.
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES
Air Date: 6-11-80
Writer: Liz Coe
Director: Richard Kinon
Guests: Estelle Omens, Stephen Keep, Louise Foley
Synopsis: Buddy tries to make everyone think she didn't get into any of the
schools she applied to; Doug wants Annie to share his obsession with baseball.
LETTING GO (Final episode)
Air Date: 6-25-80
Writer: Edward Zwick
Director: James Broderick
Guests: Kraig Cassity, Dana Plato, Tim Maier
Synopsis: Doug is upset when Buddy starts dating a 21-year-old; Annie is jealous
of an old friend who has matured much faster than she has.
LIFELINE
Air Date: 1-31-78
Writer: Hindi Brooks
Director: Richard Kinon
Guests: Jennifer Salt, Ken Kercheval, Vincent Baggetta, Quinn Cummings, Ruth
Manning, Lisa Blake Richards, James Jeter, Ray Guth
Synopsis: Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide,
to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up her; Buddy baby-sits a
whiny kid.
MAGIC
Air Date: 10-19-78
Writer: Channing Gibson
Director: Richard Kinon
Guests: Annie Potts, Charlotte Rae
Synopsis: Kate, in the hospital for a physical, meets a burned-out former rock
star; Annie needs Doug's help to impress her classmates with magic tricks.
MONDAY IS FOREVER
Air Date: 3-6-76
Writer: Armyan Bernstein
Director: Glenn Jordan
Guest: Kim Richards
Synopsis: Kate has to wait until Monday to find out whether she has cancer;
Buddy and her friend Laura Richardson have until Monday, when the latter's family
is scheduled to move to Detroit.
MORE THAN FRIENDS
Air Date: 1-3-78
Writers: Randa Haines & Leah Appet
Director: Stuart Millar
Guest: David Selby
Synopsis: Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things
get awkward when he pans Willie's script.
POINT OF DEPARTURE
Air Date: 4-13-76
Writer: Gordon Glasco
Director: John Erman
Guest: Vic Tayback
Synopsis: Doug resents Willie's attitude towards work, the universe, and everything;
a string of burglaries sweeps through the neighborhood.
A RIGHT AND PROPER GOODBYE
Air Date: 3-30-76
Writers: Nigel Evan McKeand & Carol Evan McKeand
Director: Randal Kleiser
Guest: Mildred Natwick
Synopsis: Kate's mother comes for one last visit.
RITES OF FRIENDSHIP
Air Date: 12-28-76
Writers: Bethel Leslie & Gerry Day
Director: Glenn Jordan
Guests: Biff McGuire, Brian Byers, Bobby Doran, Morgan Jones
Synopsis: A friend of Willie's comes out of the closet; Buddy, after getting
invited to the "Junior Jump" by a popular boy, asks Nancy to teach
her to dance.
SMARTS
Air Date: 6-18-80
Writer: Edward Zwick
Director: James Broderick
Guest: Dana Hill, Jenny O'Hara, Debbie Lytton
Synopsis: Annie gets picked on by her classmates, for being too smart; Buddy,
studying for her SATs, worries that she's not smart enough.
A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVING
Air Date: 3-23-76
Writer: Fred Segal
Director: Randal Kleiser
Guest: Howard Hesseman
Synopsis: Willie meets, and starts spending lots of time with, Salina -- leading
to a tiff with Buddy, right when she needs him to help conquer her fear of diving.
SUCH A FINE LINE
Air Date: 3-17-80
Writer: Gina Frederica Goldman
Director: James Broderick
Guest: Michael J. Fox
Synopsis: A schoolboy has a crush on Kate; Jeff, now an in-over-his-head rock
manager, blows into town with his band. NOTE: Meredith Baxter Birney & Michael
J. Fox later starred together in the hit comedy series, "Family Ties."
SUCH SWEET SORROW
Air Date: 10-19-76
Writer: Lawrence M. Konner
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest: Patsy Garrett
Synopsis: Salina drops by, at a time when Willie is having problems with Alex;
Doug is offered a great job in New York.
TALE OUT OF SEASON
Air Date: 11-22-77
Writers: Barbara Elaine Smith s: Len Jenkinr
Director: Richard Kinon
Guests: Frances Lee McCain, Lawrason Driscoll, Beverly Todd, Shane Sinutko,
Connie Sawyer
Synopsis: Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater;
Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Thanksgiving spirit.
THANKSGIVING
Air Date: 11-20-79
Writer: Sally Robinson
Director: Joanne Woodward
Guest: Henry Fonda
Synopsis: Doug's father starts showing his age.
THURSDAY’S CHILD (Premiere Episode)
Air Date: 4-6-76
Writers: Nigel Evan McKeand & Carol Evan McKeand
Director: Glenn Jordan
Guest: Charles Lane, Ralph Williams, Barbara Cason, James Ray, Bill Zuckert,
Brendan Dillon, Patricia Tidy, William Putch
Synopsis: As Timmy Jr.'s christening approaches, the whole family (especially
Buddy, who stubbornly refuses to take part) relives the painful memories of
Timmy Sr.'s death.
'TIS THE SEASON
Air Date: 12-24-79
Writer: Joan Taylor
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest: . Pat O'Malley
Synopsis: A pre-Christmas argument with Willie nearly gives Doug a heart attack;
Buddy invites her school's janitor to her house, where he quickly endears himself
to everyone but Kate.
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS
Air Date: 1-21-80
Writer: Sally Robinson
Director: Gwen Arner
Synopsis: Kate finds out she's pregnant; a friend of Buddy's, on vacation from
her all-girls school, picks Willie as a seduction target.
Found your episode? Then where can we take you?
Family
was a prime-time soap opera that followed the travails of the middle-class
Lawrence family in Pasadena, California. Doug was the father, a
highly independent lawyer, and Kate his quiet, steadfast wife. Some
of the story lines included Daughter Nancy having a baby, Timmy, divorcing
Jeff, then began having affairs. Brother Willie, age 17, vulnerable
and idealistic, was confronted with his first love, an unwed mother, then
married a girl with a terminal illness. Buddy, age 13, ran away
from home.