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Eight Is Enough — Storyline

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Lee Mendelson
• Starring: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Grant Goodeve, Willie Aames, Dianne Kay, Connie Needham, Lani O'Grady, Adam Rich

Eight Is Enough — Series Details

Eight Is Enough — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Never Try Eating Nectarines Since Juice May Dispense (1977-03-15) — ""Never try eating nectarines since juice may dispense."" That's how Tom and Joan Bradford remember the names of their childrens: Nicholas, Tommy, Elizabeth, Nancy, Susan, Joannie,
• E2: Schussboomer (1977-03-22) — Matilda, Mary's very pregnant, unmarriage, friend stays in the Bradford house while she is between apartment, but her attidude toward marriage upsets Tom. She learns the joys of pa
• E3: Pieces of Eight (1977-03-29) — Tom's chance at managing the newpapers runs into trouble when the printers go on stike. The whole family pitches in to help earn extra money. Nancy is disappointed by a modelin
• E4: Women, Ducks and the Domino Theory (1977-04-05) — Topsy-turvy at the Bradfords when Tommy has his ""dream girl"" stand him up. Neither David nor Tom wants to go on their annual hunt. Nancy wants to be a cheerleader. Elizabet
• E5: Turnabout (1977-04-12) — David learns about his life at a party the family throws to celebrates doctor Maxwell's 25th anniversary, as his date and Maxwell don't get along. David helps an older woman stuc
• E6: Quarantine (1977-04-19) — Togetherness can be really funny when the whole Bradford household is quarantined, including Nancy's blind date,after Mary's boyfriend comes down with a mysterious ailment. Davi
• E7: V is for Vivian (1977-04-26) — Tony's sister shows up for a visit and turns the Bradford house upside-down when the encourages the kids to pursue their dreams and goals. David gets laid off and Vivian gets him
• E8: Hit and Run (1977-05-03) — Joannie has a fender-bender with a real developer who is upset with Bradford's column opposing his project. Meanwhile, Elizabeth goes from three prom dates to none when they all
• E9: The Gipper Caper (1977-08-10) — Tom is challenged to a family touch football game by his dentist. He learns that winning is not the only thing that counts. Elizabeth worries about Maria in Columbia.

Season 2

• E1: Is There a Doctor in the House? (1977-09-14) — Dr. Max shows up on Tom's doorstep after a fight with his wife and ends up staying with the Bradfords, driving them crazy with his fussy ways. David tries to borrow money from hi
• E2: Trial Marriage (1977-09-21) — This episode introduces Betty Buckley in the contract role of Sue "" Abby"" Abbott. At first she was a special guest star. Tommy breaks his ankles at a touch football game and wi
• E3: Triangles (1977-09-28) — David's new roommate romance both Susan and Joannie.Tom decides he has been neflecting Nicholas and drives Nicholas crazy by spending too much time with him. Tommy organizes a f
• E4: Double Trouble (1977-10-05) — After Tom and Abby break up, the Bradford children set Tom up with another woman in an effort to make Abby jealous. Nancy enters the Miss Scaramento beauty contest. David and T
• E5: Mortgage Burnin' Blues (1977-10-19) — Tom throws a party to celebrates paying off the mortage on the Bradford house. Unfortunately, the kids get into a melee when Susan punches a heckler at David and Tommy's singing ap
• E6: Dark Horse (1977-10-26) — Mary runs for a seat of the Board of Education and enlists the famil's help on her campaign. Abby is too busy to keep her dates with Tom. Tom proposes to Abby after she and Ma
• E7: The Bard and the Bod (1977-11-02) — Joannie agrees to do a nude scene in a shakespearean play and is relives when Tom says he can't make it to the show, or so it goes. [Obviously, a sweeps stunt.] Abby's former fat
• E8: Children of the Groom (1) (1977-11-09) — After much debate, Tom and Abby decides on November 9th as their wedding date and agree to let the children handle the wedding plans, but it almost does not happen when things get
• E9: Children of the Groom (2) (1977-11-09) — The children get carried away with the weddind plans and nearly cause the wedding to be canceled. Abby asks Elizabeth to be her maid of honor and develop a special relationship.
• E10: I Quit (1977-11-16) — Tom and Abby take the kids to San Francisco where Tom is scheduled to accept an award for his column anbd the trip doubles as a honeymoon. Mary is upset when she is rejected by a
• E11: All's Fair in Love and War (1977-11-23) — Abby coordinates Spring cleaning at the Bradford house. Mary is upset when the son of Tom's friend comes to Sacramento to open an army recuriting office on campus, which does not
• E12: The Return of Auntie V (1977-11-30) — Tom's eccentric sister Auntie V returns for another visit with the Bradfords. She surprises Tom and Abby with a new house as a wedding present. The kids are excited, but as they fi
• E13: Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (1) (1977-12-14) — The Bradfords celebrate their first Christmas without their late mother,Joan. Nicholas mistakenly assumes the man he finds in the house on Christmas Eve is Santa Claus and lets h
• E14: Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (2) (1977-12-14) — The kids convince Tom to shoiw some Christmas spirit by bailing Sam out of jail and inviting him to the house for Christmas dinner as they celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.
• E15: A Hair of the Dog (1978-01-04) — Tom is upset when Abby makes arrangements for Elizabeth to get birth control pills. Tom is drafted into doing a ""Dear Abby"" for the paper. Abby's studies are keeping her busy
• E16: Author, Author! (1978-01-11) — The family gives Tom a day of peace for his birthday, and it drives him crazy. David goes for the weekend and gives Tommy the use of his apartment but Tommy winds up throwing a p
• E17: Much Ado about Garbage (1978-01-18) — With Abby's encouragement, Tom takes a leave of absence to pursue the dream of writing a book about his family. He can't get it published the norman way, but has a special issue do
• E18: Dear Ms. Dinah (1978-01-25) — Abby is upset about when David gives Nicholas a BB gun. Tom's column about garbage causes a controverty when he writes a tongue-in-cheek column. That's when his troubles start to
• E19: Hard Hats and Hard Heads (1978-02-01)
• E20: Seven Days in February (1978-02-08) — Joannie, Nancy, and Susan meet new guys at a disco over winter break and love times three drives the Bradford household crazy. David's friend tries to convince him to go on a bli
• E21: The Boyfriend (1978-02-15) — Susan and Tom are jealous when Abby spends too much time with Susan's new boyfriend she brought home for dinner, and Abby strikes up too much connection with her date. Nicholas i
• E22: Great Expectations (1978-02-22) — Frustrated by the transporation arrangements, Tommy, Elizabeth, Nancy, and Susan buy their own car. Tom is upset that Tommy is failing English and pressures him to get a good gr
• E23: Long Night's Journey into Day (1978-03-01) — Abby suffers a concussion when she falls off a ladder. Tha Bradfords take turns keeping Abby awake by telling her stories and sharing memories, which are flashbacks from previous
• E24: The Lost Weekend (1978-04-28) — Abby convinces Tom to spend the weekend with her parents in Pasadena, leaving the kids alone for the weekend. While they are away, despite a rule against having any non-Bradfords i
• E25: Poor Little Rich Girl (1978-05-03) — David meets an attractive young woman who is the daughter of a wealthy construction man. Joannie tries to get the family to communicate better using encounter-like truth games.
• E26: Who's on First? (1978-05-10) — Joannie directs a talent show to raise money, for the orphanage she is vo;unteering at . Joannie tries to get the whole family to enterain. Nicholas believes ha has seen a UFO, b

Season 3

• E1: Who's Crazy Here? (1978-09-06) — Suffering from imsommia and thinking he's going nuts.Tom visits a psychiatrist to find the cause. Tommy develops two personalities, ""disco kid"" and ""mellow man"", to impress t
• E2: Nine Is Too Much (1978-09-13) — Nicholas convinces Tom to coach his little league football team. Tired of having no privacy, the Bradford children have their own phone line installed. Tom resigns as little l
• E3: Here We Go Again (1978-09-20) — Abby has her own problems when she thinks sha may be pregnant and is relucant to tell Tom. Tom panics when he finds out he is going to be audited by the I.R.S, and the family pit
• E4: Cinderella's Understudy (1978-09-27) — Joannie gets accepted into a theater company and her first role is that of gopher and understudy.When the lead actress quits the play, Joannie has 24 hour to learn her lines and is
• E5: Milk and Sympathy (1978-10-11) — Nicholas has a crush on his teacher and buys her self-portrait at her garbage sale, but tries to hide it from the kids, who think there is a valuable painting underneath. The Bradf
• E6: The Flunked and the Funked (1978-10-18) — Tom is chosen to teach a journalism class at the university and is impressed by one student who is working his way throu college. Nicholas and Irving, who are making prank calls,re
• E7: Cops and Toddlers (1978-10-25) — Susan struggles to find the right career after she realizes she's not out to be a professional athlete. So she decides to try out to be a cop. Nancy opens a day care center at the
• E8: The Hipbone's Connected to the Thighbone (1978-11-01) — Many struggles with medical school and charaviristic professors. Susan, Elizabeth, and Nancy try to reach Tommy to drive is reluctant to do it. Tommu is embrassed top be seen with
• E9: Fast and Loose (1978-11-08) — David starts living gangerously after a close friend dies oif a heart attack at a young age. The kids try to help and eventually David cleans up his act. Nicholas tries to help by
• E10: War Between the Bradfords (1978-11-15) — The male Bradfords refuse to attend a speech that Abby was selected to give. War erupts between the Bradfords men and woman when the woman feel they are not respected by the men. N
• E11: All The Vice President's Men (1978-11-22) — Abby's parents are flying in from Pasadena for Thanksgiving.Nicholas is surprised when the Vice-President accepts his invitation to Thanksgiving dinner with the Bradfords. He picks
• E12: You Won't Have Nicholas to Kick Around Anymore (1) (1978-11-29) — The Bradford children plan a party for Tom and Abby's anniversary and Nicholas fell left out. Tom and Abby unknowingly bid against each other for ""A Christmas Line"" tickets for
• E13: You Won't Have Nicholas to Kick Around Anymore (2) (1978-11-29) — In San Diego, Nicholas is taken in by Joe Simmons, an old con man and bum who was a friend of Sam's. He then performs his best scam trying to get Nicholas back to the Bradfords.
• E14: Alone At Last (1978-12-06) — Tired of not having time to themselves, Tom and Abby conspire to get rid of the kids so they can spent the weekend alone.They send the kids camping for the weekend. Susan brings
• E15: The Yearning Point (1979-01-10) — Both Elizabeth and Tommy learn that there is no easy way to success. Elizabeth wants to go to an expensive college in Vermont with a good dance program but Tom can't afford the tui
• E16: Moving Out (1979-01-03) — Tired of Tom's strict rules, Nancy, Susan, and Joannie look for an apartment of their own because Tom has trouble accepting that his daughters are growing up. David buys a new t
• E17: Mother's Rule (1979-01-10) — In an effort to keep the remaining Bradfords at home, Tom repeals all curfews but Abby doubts his wisdom. Tom shows everyone that it is possible to have too much of a good thing.
• E18: Inlaws and Outlaws (1979-01-24) — Abby's mother arrives for a visit and Abby is upset to learn that her parent are breaking up. Abby's father arrives shortly, and musical rooms becomes the name of the game. The
• E19: Horror Story (1979-01-31) — On a rainy night in Sacramento, the Bradford house is turned upside-down when the power goes out and leaves the Bradfords stuck at home with Nancy's blind date – a Norman Bates loo
• E20: Just the Ten of Us (1979-02-14) — Nicholas tries to avoid a young lady who has a crush on him. Tired of saying goodnight to each other every night, David and Janet decide to live together. Tom is nominated fo
• E21: Best of Friends (1979-02-21) — Tommy offers to marry a pregnant friend who was a girl, Lori, even though he's not the father of her baby. The Bradfords rally to support Tommy's taking of responsibility. Nicho
• E22: The Kid Who Came to Dinner (1979-02-28) — Abby uses the family as subjects in a research project for school. Nicholas's new friend, Bobby, runs away from his foster family because he wants to become part of the Bradford
• E23: The Better Part of Valour (1979-03-07) — While substitute teaching at the high school, Abby refuses to pass the star basketball player, and troubles begin for Tommy. It's an awkward meeting when Tom meets Janet's paren
• E24: Dads, Daughters, Different Drummers (1979-03-14) — Tom and Abby are surprised to learn that Nicholas is musically talented but Abby is upset when Tom gets him a drum set. Joannie falls for the local drama critic who gave her a g
• E25: The Final Days (1979-05-02) — Abby and the children are frustrated when they are trying to study for finals and a youth-oriented article Tom wrote in his column runs into trouble with a senior citizen and inspi
• E26: Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy (1) (1979-05-09) — Tom is proud when Elizabeth and Joannie are graduating the same week (Joannie from college and Elizabeth from high school). Joannie doesn't know what to do with her life after g
• E27: Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy (2) (1979-05-09) — Tom finally realizes his dream of being a published author when a magazine prints his short story, but finds it published in a man's magazine more famous for its ""illustrations""
• E28: The Graduates (1979-05-23) — David and his traveling companion continue on their cross-country trip and he gets involved in a hang-gliding competition and learn a few lessons about life.

Season 4

• E1: Merle the Pearl (1979-09-05) — Nicholas and Susan meet Merle the Pearl, a local minor league baseball player. Nicholas is upset that his young girlfriend is moving out of town and wants to introduce her to Me
• E2: The Cupid Crisis (1979-09-12) — David returns and is determined to win Janet back from her new boyfriend. Merle confides to Nicholas that he wants to propose to Susan but Susan is upset when the entire Bradfor
• E3: I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do (1979-09-19) — David and Janet set a wedding date but it turns out to be the same day Merle and Susan decided to move up the wedding day to accomodate Merle's ballplaying career move. Nancy ge
• E4: Ten Ships in the Night (1979-09-26) — Chaos hits the Bradford house when everyone's activities go around the clock. In order to get her Ph.D. more quickly, Abby attends school full-time and has little time for the f
• E5: The Night They Raided Bradfords (1979-10-03) — Things are not as they seem at the Bradfords when Merle's sister, Linda Mae, comes from the farm and visits the Bradfords and is shocked at what she finds. Joannie talks Nancy into
• E6: The Devil and Mr. Bradford (1979-10-24) — Joannie gets a job in the research department of a TV station. Mary finds a hidden home pregnancy test and tries to find the owner. Joannie ""scoops"" Tom on a story on a porno the
• E7: Big Shoes, Little Feet (1979-10-31) — Three Bradfords struggle to meet the expectations of others: Nicholas turns truant to escape the long shadow of his siblings; Tom's boss pressures him to participate in a father-so
• E8: Fathers and Other Strangers (1) (1979-11-07) — Tom's sister Vivian sweeps into town with an offer to take the entire family on vacation to Hawaii, where she secretly plans to reunite Tom with their estranged father.
• E9: Fathers and Other Strangers (2) (1979-11-07) — Still in Hawaii, Tom and his father contemplate whether they can or should bother to reconcile their relationship.
• E10: Letter to One Bradford (1979-11-14) — When Tommy is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, Mary and Nicholas both feel culpable for different reasons; Merle and Susan adjust to the give and take of married life;
• E11: Separate Ways (1979-11-21) — The furnace is on the blink, causing a cold front in the Bradford house, but Tom dismisses Mary's offer to fix it; Susan's chance for an internship conflicts with Merle's offer to
• E12: Arrivals (1979-11-28) — Tom and Abby believe that Susan is depressed because Merle is gone but learn that she is pregnant. The girls try to cheer her up. Joannie meets a psychic and holds a seance to help
• E13: Brotherhood, Sisterhood (1979-12-05) — Tom talks David into hiring Tommy as a construction worker but Tommy has to prove himself to his fellow workers by standing up to them on his own. Nicholas needs to write a spee
• E14: Mary, He's Married (1979-12-12) — Joannie tries to convince her boss that she is ready for more responsibility at work. Joannie wants to do a documentary on her family. Mary learns that being an adult can be pai
• E15: My Son, the Prom Queen (1980-01-09) — Upset that an all girl band was chosen to play at prom, Tommy protests by running for prom queen. Joannie pushes her boss for some on-camera work.
• E16: The Courage To Be (1980-01-16) — Tom is upset that everyone is neglecting their household duties so Abby and the kids pool their resources to hire a maid. Tommy tries to help his friend Ernie, who won't admit h
• E17: Semi-Centennial Bradford (1980-01-23) — Abby tries to cheer Tom up on his 50th birthday. Tom feels the pressure of teh youth movement at work and believes that the Register wants to replace him with a younger columnis
• E18: The Commitment (1980-01-30) — Tommy is upset when Jill's idea of a commitment is not the same as his and then misinterprets signals from Mary's friend, Kerry, and gets deeper into trouble. Tommy presents Jil
• E19: Seven More Days in February (1980-02-06) — It's winter break and Joannie, Nancy, and Mary meet strange men that drive Tom and Abby crazy. Tom fixes Tommy up with his boss's niece.
• E20: The Return of Joe Simons (1980-02-13) — Tom's new temporary secretary is overly attentive. Joe Simons, the con man who helped Nicholas return from San Diego, shows up pretending to have struck it rich in the Yukon and
• E21: Bradford vs. Bradford (1980-02-27) — Ernie misreads Elizabeth's friendly gestures. David is jealous that Janet is working long hours with a male colleague. Tom counsels David and Abby counsels Janet, and they end u
• E22: Memories (1980-03-05) — Abby needs time to deal with memories of her late husband after a fellow prisoner of war shows up in Sacramento. She works out her feelings and returns to the family. Nicholas g
• E23: Official Positions (1980-03-19) — Merle recruits the girls for a charity basketball team. Tom is jealous when a publisher offers to publish Abby's thesis and Tom can't get his accepted. They pool their efforts,
• E24: A Matter of Mentors (1980-03-26) — Joannie gets an important assignment at work but Jeffrey believes that the boss will be expecting a favor in return. Joannie blows her chance at a big story. An experienced reporte
• E25: Roll Over Bradford (1980-04-02) — Tom is upset that Tommy hasn't sent in any college applications but Tommy wants to be a musician and is not interested in college. Auntie V brings her new fiance to meet the Bra
• E26: A Little Triangle (1980-04-09) — Nicholas starts a dog-sitting service. Nancy falls in love with the 5-year-old daughter of the young widower she is dating, but doesn't fall in love with her father. Ernie ca
• E27: (Finally) Grad Night (1980-04-30) — Tom and Abby agree to let Tommy and a few friends have the house for a small party after graduation. Nicholas and Irving are working on a school project when Irving gets hurt an

Season 5

• E1: And Baby Makes Nine (1) (1980-10-29) — Nicholas and Tom start boy scouts and Nicholas volunteers Tom to be the assistant scout master. Elizabeth considers moving in with her boyfriend. Susan keeps her pregnancy pr
• E2: And Baby Makes Nine (2) (1980-10-29) — .
• E3: Jeremy (1980-11-05) — Abby goes to a funeral in San Francisco and returns with her nephew, Jeremy, who has nowhere else to go. His behavior upsets the family, referring the Bradfords as that other famil
• E4: Welcome to Memorial Dr. Bradford (1980-11-12) — Abby gets a job as a guidance counselor at a rough high school filled with trouble. Tom discovers his driver's license has expired and fails the renewal test. Tom drives his fam
• E5: Generations (1980-11-19) — Susan brings the baby, Sandra Sue, home from the hospital. When Joan's parents visit the Bradford household to see the family and their great-grandchild, a conflict with Abby oc
• E6: Holly (1980-11-26) — Ernie introduces Tommy to a slightly older songwriting woman who has a 4-year old son. When he falls for her, she has second thoughts. The Bradford's convert the garage into an
• E7: Maltese Airline Bag (1980-12-10) — Nicholas and his friend, Melvin, start a messenger service to earn money and get more than they bargained for. One of their first deliveries turns out to be an airline bag full of
• E8: Strike (1980-12-17) — Caught up in a newspaper strike and laid-off, Tom tries to bring the feuding parties together thanks to something Nicholas says about giving and compromise. To save everyone mon
• E9: Bradfordgate (1981-01-07) — Tom is nominated for a political post by the governor. A political appointment for him ends up more than he can live with. Joannie goes undercover to do a story on a video datin
• E10: Darlene Dilemma (1981-01-14) — Abby is proud of the progress one of her students has made and invites her to the house for dinner. Jeremy falls for 16-year-old Darlene, who likes to flirt and cause trouble (s
• E11: Second Thoughts (1981-01-21) — Joannie is tired of not getting any serious assignments at work and Abby encourages her to take a leave of absence to evaluate her career, and falls for a co-worker. Nancy finds
• E12: David's Rib (1981-01-28) — Joannie involves David in the renovation of an old opera house. However, Janet is the legal counsel for the developer who wants to build low-income housing on the site. Nicholas
• E13: Vows (1981-02-18) — Jeremy meets a new girlfriend at a Fred Astaire film festival. Tom and Abby decide to renew their marriage vows on their 3rd anniversary and they agree to let the kids handle th
• E14: The Way We Were (1981-03-04) — Tommy and Ernie, back from college with a ""preppy"" look, run into Jill, Tommy's old girlfriend. When Jill picks Ernie over Tommy, David helps him realize that reliving the past i
• E15: If The Glass Slipper Fits (1981-03-11) — Nancy's modeling career is about to take off but she needs to make an important decision as she later finds out she has to pose topless for a jeans ad. Elizabeth is trying to at
• E16: The Best Little Telethon in Sacramento (1981-03-28) — Jeremy wants to manage Tommy's band and tries to get him a gig. Joannie is chosen to organize a charity telethon and tries to get celebrities to appear on the show. She recruits
• E17: Yet Another Seven Days in February (1981-04-04) — This year it's the boys' turn to meet new women. Tommy dates the daughter of a radio station owner in order to get his band some air time. Jeremy runs himself ragged trying to k
• E18: Idolbreaker (1) (1981-04-11) — Just as Tommy's career is about to take off, his old girlfriend returns to tell Tommy she is pregnant after it is announced that his band has been booked for a national tour. Ni
• E19: Idolbreaker (2) (1981-04-18) — Ellen tells Tommy that she doesn't want to marry him and Tommy isn't sure what he wants to do. At the last minute, they both realize it is not the right thing to do. Joannie is
• E20: Starting Over (1981-05-09) — Jeremy is suspicious when he finds a skull while digging in the garden. David and Janet consider getting back together. Nicholas assumes he's a shoo-in for the basketball tea
• E21: Goals (1981-05-16) — Merle suffers a career-ending shoulder injury and doesn't know what to do if he can't play baseball. Merle comes upon Nicholas and his friends playing ball. He is offered a job of
• E22: Father Knows Best (1981-05-23) — Finally ready to be a father, Jeremy's father returns for a visit and wants to take him back to Los Angeles. David relives old memories when four of his old high school buddies

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Eight Is Enough have? 5 season(s) with 112 episodes.

Who created Eight Is Enough? Lee Mendelson.

Where can I watch Eight Is Enough? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.