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Family (1976) is a drama web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Family online in HD.

Family — Storyline

The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Jay Presson Allen
• Starring: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Meredith Baxter, Gary Frank, Kristy McNichol, Quinn Cummings, Jimmy Weldon, Mary Grace Canfield

Family — Series Details

Family — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Pilot (a.k.a. The Best Years) (1976-03-09) — Buddy hears Kate say something about her, and isn't happy. Also, Nancy walks in on Jeff with another woman.
• E2: Monday is Forever (1976-03-16) — 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.
• E3: A Special Kind of Loving (1976-03-23) — 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.
• E4: A Right and Proper Goodbye (1976-03-30) — Kate's mother comes for one last visit.
• E5: Thursday's Child (1976-04-06) — 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.
• E6: Point of Departure (1976-04-13) — Doug resents Willie's attitude towards work, the universe, and everything; a string of burglaries sweeps through the neighborhood.

Season 2

• E1: Coming Apart (1976-10-06) — 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 pl
• E2: Such Sweet Sorrow (1976-10-19) — Salina drops by, at a time when Willie is having problems with Alex; Doug is offered a great job in New York.
• E3: Home Movie (1976-10-26) — Willie drives everyone crazy by following them around and filming them; Buddy has difficulty with a school assignment — writing a speech on the topic of ""How I intend to leave my
• E4: Coming of Age (1976-11-09) — 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.
• E5: Jury Duty (1) (1976-11-16) — Kate is subjected to widespread abuse for being the lone holdout; Buddy captures first prize, T.J.'s heart, and (for good measure) the real killer.
• E6: Jury Duty (2) (1976-11-23) — Kate is subjected to widespread abuse for being the lone holdout; Buddy captures first prize, T.J.'s heart, and (for good measure) the real killer.
• E7: The Cradle Will Fall (1976-11-30) — Buddy completes her orthodontal treatment; Salina returns to town once again, only to be plunged into a custody battle with her daughter's father; Kate finds out that Elaine's husb
• E8: Skeleton in the Closet (1976-12-07) — Doug must face his sister Emily's alcoholism. Buddy tries to help a senior citizen she spots shoplifting food from the supermarket.
• E9: On The First Day Of Christmas (a.k.a. The Christmas Story) (1976-12-21) — Doug is suspicious when his father introduces his new, and much younger, girlfriend; Nancy and Jeff have a fight over who gets Timmy over Christmas.
• E10: Rites of Friendship (1976-12-28) — 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.
• E11: An Eye to the Future (1977-01-04) — Buddy (as ""Diamond In the Rough"") gets heavily into the CB scene; Kate decides to go back to college; Doug does a stint as a judge.
• E12: Lovers and Strangers (1977-01-11) — Willie gets cradle-robbed by a visiting movie director, and takes it much too seriously; Doug gets a dog as a birthday present.
• E13: Return Engagement (1977-01-18) — Maggie Calder, the woman who nearly destroyed Doug and Kate's marriage 20 years ago, is back for a second attempt. Buddy feels she's being treated like a baby.
• E14: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . . (1977-02-01) — A daughter whom Elaine gave up for adoption years ago finds her, through Kate; Willie is intrigued by a pretty client at the photo studio where he works.
• E15: Someone's Watching (1977-02-08) — A series of anonymous gifts eventually makes Nancy feel threatened; Buddy's motor-mouth school-project partner uses the Lawrences as his surrogate family.
• E16: A Safe House (1977-02-15) — A former friend of Willie's, now an outlaw, gives him a call; Buddy thinks she has a great scoop for the school paper.
• E17: Best Friends (1977-02-22) — Nancy attends her high-school reunion, meeting the guy she dumped to marry Jeff; T.J. asks Buddy to a formal dance, causing a rift with Audrey.
• E18: Taking Chances (1) (1977-03-01) — When Doug loses his sight after getting hit by a car, opinions are divided as to whether he should undergo an operation that could either restore it, or kill him; in the meantime,
• E19: Taking Chances (2) (1977-03-08) — After spending an eternity as a blind man whose youngest daughter despises him, Doug finally musters up the courage to have the operation — and, of course, all's well.
• E20: Comings and Goings (1977-03-22) — Willie and Salina search for an apartment together. Jeff's mother Sylvia is confined to the Lawrence home following a back injury and a quarrel with Jeff's father.
• E21: . . . More Things in Heaven and Earth (1977-03-29) — Kate is shaken by what a supposed psychic says about her long-missing aunt; Nancy lands a prestigious legal assignment, and suspects her looks are the reason.
• E22: An Endangered Species (1977-05-03) — A recently-divorced friend wants to hang out with Kate; Nancy gets upset when a classmate asks to use her place for an affair with a married man.

Season 3

• E1: Acts of Love (1) (1977-09-13) — While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a physics student named Lizzy — who, as he soon finds out, h
• E2: Acts of Love (2) (1977-09-20) — Lizzy dies, but not before Willie convinces her to marry him first.
• E3: The First Time (1977-09-27) — Kate unhappily contemplates her 49th birthday; T.J. asks Buddy to go steady with him, but she's not sure.
• E4: Change of Heart (1977-10-04) — Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.
• E5: Annie Laurie (1977-10-25) — Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.
• E6: We Love You, Miss Jessup (1977-11-01) — Buddy's English teacher gets outed; Willie suspects Nancy of being a home-wrecker.
• E7: The Little Brother (1977-11-08) — Willie fails to understand a black thing; Buddy develops an interest in genealogy.
• E8: Childhood's End (1977-11-15) — Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and — guess what? — she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorced father, is apprehensive about seeing his kids again.
• E9: A Tale Out of Season (1977-11-22) — Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater; Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Thanksgiving spirit.
• E10: Labors of Love (1977-11-29) — Buddy, upset by a lack of attention from T.J., tries to make him jealous by hanging out with a geek; Willie catches the eye of his cute über-boss.
• E11: A Child is Given (1977-12-13)
• E12: More Than Friends (1978-01-03) — Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things get awkward when he pans Willie's script.
• E13: Princess in the Tower (1978-01-10) — Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo — and gets trapped overnight, along with a very pregnant younger woman; Buddy has t
• E14: Echoes of Love (1978-01-17) — Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her parents are splitting up, and angry that Doug is representing he
• E15: See Saw (1978-01-24) — Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on installing Timmy's new bed; Buddy leaves for a week-end of skiing
• E16: Lifeline (1978-01-31) — 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.
• E17: . . . And Baby Makes Three (1978-02-07) — Nancy and Jeff aren't sure whether to get back together; Buddy is disgusted that Audrey has fallen for the cheap ploys of the school Casanova.
• E18: Crossing Over (1978-02-14) — Willie has an appointment with a big-shot film producer, on the eve of his 21st birthday; then, he and Doug make friends with a stripper.
• E19: The Covenant (1978-02-21) — 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.
• E20: A Friend of the Family's (1978-02-28) — A somewhat unscrupulous former friend of Willie's drops by; Buddy needs driving lessons; Kate and Doug consider taking separate vacations.
• E21: Fear of Shadows (1978-05-02) — Kate has a recurring nightmare about running over a little boy; Buddy gets a pet raccoon.
• E22: Sleeping Gypsy (1978-05-09) — Everyone at school dislikes Buddy's bohemian friend; Kate gives Doug a plaid jacket he doesn't much care for.
• E23: Counterpoint (1978-05-16) — Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug contemplates early retirement after his tennis partner has

Season 4

• E1: Starting Over (1978-09-21) — Annie's sole surviving relative dumps her into the Lawrences' lap — where she doesn't feel quite comfortable, at first.
• E2: All For Love (1978-09-28) — Zack tells Buddy that unless she sleeps with him, he will have to satisfy his manly needs with another girl; Doug thinks of buying a flashy sports car.
• E3: Changes (1978-10-12) — 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.
• E4: Magic (1978-10-19) — 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.
• E5: Just Friends (1978-11-09) — 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 h
• E6: Generations (1978-11-23) — The family decides to spend Thanksgiving at Hattie's farm where Kate faces ghosts from the past. Buddy is intrigued by a local boy.
• E7: Expectations (1978-12-07) — Nancy's new boss pressures her to sleep with him; Buddy tries out for the cheerleading squad.
• E8: Gifts (1978-12-21) — 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
• E9: The Friend's Affair (1979-01-04) — A colleague and friend of Doug's is cheating on his wife; Annie suspects a next-door neighbor of having murdered his.
• E10: Exits and Entrances (1979-01-11) — After Buddy stars in a high-school play (Shaw's Saint Joan), her interest in acting is strongly encouraged by a friend of Kate's, a professional actress; Annie gets a telemarketing
• E11: Moment of Truth (1979-01-18) — A man he once helped put in jail threatens Doug; Buddy and Audrey have a fight about who copied from whom on an algebra test.
• E12: Malicious Mischief (1979-01-25) — Nancy considers a marriage proposal from Timmy's daycare provider — until he gets accused of child abuse; Willie falls in love with a cat.
• E13: Sleeping Over (1979-02-01) — Buddy's invitation to a sorority becomes a sore point in her friendship with Audrey when Audrey isn't invited to join. Willie sleeps with Kate's musician friend, leading to a serio
• E14: Disco Queen (1979-02-08) — Buddy sneaks into a disco club, with the help of an older acquaintance, and finds it more than she bargained for; Annie has a date with a jock.
• E15: The Athlete (1979-03-01) — 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 neme
• E16: The Competition (1979-03-08) — Buddy learns the price of competition when an overachieving classmate commits suicide after losing a history competition to her. Annie's cookie-selling strategy is a riot.
• E17: Ballerina (1979-03-15) — Willie has a fling with a ballet dancer; Doug purchases a workout set by mail order.
• E18: Diversions (1979-03-22) — While studying for the bar exam, Nancy's attention is diverted by a charming and seemingly accident-prone neighbor.
• E19: An Apple For the Teacher (1979-03-30) — Kate's teaching career gets off to a rough start, when a student decides to continuously annoy her; Annie borrows Buddy's ""lucky"" ring to help during a spelling bee, and promptly
• E20: Prelude (1979-04-20) — Buddy has a crush on her swimming instructor, much to Zack's displeasure; Kate is tempted to call an old boyfriend.
• E21: Going Straight (1979-05-10) — Willie hires Bambi Deering, the stripper he met on his 21st birthday. Doug attempts to save hefty plumber's fees by repairing the household pipes himself.
• E22: From Russia With Love (1979-05-17) — Kate acts as escort to, and highly impresses, a visiting Ukrainian composer; Buddy and Annie play Monopoly to determine who gets Willie's old room.

Season 5

• E1: Thanksgiving (1979-11-20) — Doug's father starts showing his age.
• E2: 'Tis the Season (1979-12-24) — 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.
• E3: Jack of Hearts (1980-01-14) — Buddy and Nancy find themselves in a love triangle; Annie dabbles in the occult.
• E4: When the Bough Breaks (1980-01-21) — Kate finds out she's pregnant; a friend of Buddy's, on vacation from her all-girls school, picks Willie as a seduction target.
• E5: Hard Times (1980-01-28) — 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 h
• E6: Whispers (1980-02-04) — Buddy's friendship with a teacher gives rise to rumors; Annie uses questionable tactics to get Willie to let her interview him for her school paper.
• E7: Play on Love (1980-03-03) — Willie finds the director of his play more interesting than Rachel; Buddy insists on buying an old sports car, over Doug's objections.
• E8: Daylight Serenade (1980-03-10) — 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 w
• E9: Such a Fine Line (1980-03-17) — A schoolboy has a crush on Kate; Jeff, now an in-over-his-head rock manager, blows into town with his band.
• E10: The Ties That Bind (1980-06-04) — Elaine resurfaces in Kate's life after being dumped by Fred for a younger woman. Meanwhile, Annie experiences abandonment issues, too.
• E11: Just Like Old Times (1980-06-11) — 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.
• E12: Smarts (1980-06-18) — Annie gets picked on by her classmates, for being too smart; Buddy, studying for her SATs, worries that she's not smart enough.
• E13: Letting Go (1980-06-25) — 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Family have? 5 season(s) with 86 episodes.

Who created Family? Jay Presson Allen.

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