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- 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.
- Tommy contemplates buying a used car; Elizabeth develops an inferiority complex about her appearance; the Vice-President accepts Nicholas' invitation to join the Bradfords for Thanksgiving dinner.
- The family makes itself scarce for Tommy's intimate graduation party, but when Tommy is called away to help an injured Irving J. Moore, word gets out that the Bradford house is unoccupied, leading to an all-out brawl for the Class of 1980.
- 1977–19811hTV-G8.0 (102)TV EpisodeTom learns the importance of family relationships when David moves out
- 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 play winter ball in Puerto Rico; Nicholas goes on strike for a raise in his allowance.
- 1977–198150mTV-G8.0 (48)TV EpisodeThings get a little tense around the Bradford home when Tommy is stood up and neither David nor Tom want to go on their annual duck hunt.
- Dr. Max shows up on Tom's doorstep after a fight with his wife and ends up staying with the Bradfords.
- 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 truck and agrees to sell Tommy his van. Tom is upset when Abby loans the girls the money to get their own apartment.
- Tom uncovers corruption and angers garbage workers. He refuses to give up his source for the article even after being threatened with jail.
- While Tom and Abby are visiting her parents the kids are left alone for the weekend.
- Tom's sister arrives for a visit and disrupts the Bradford household when she encourages the kids to pursue their dreams and goals.
- David and Janet's decision to move in together threatens Tom's chances for a Father of the Year award, while the family's excessive reliance upon David threatens the future of his relationship with Janet.
- The Bradfords plan Susan's surprise baby shower; Tommy's frustration with his girlfriend's inexperience leads him to pursue a much older friend of Mary's; Nicholas inadvertently plays Cyrano for a school chum.
- David learns about life at a party the family hosts to celebrate Doctor Maxwell's 25th anniversary -- when David's date and Maxwell don't get along.
- When each of the Bradford men find reasons not to attend a speech given by Abby, it sparks a stand-off in the household; Nancy gets a job pumping gas at a local service station.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.8 (45)TV EpisodeThe Bradford's locate their stolen belongings and the man responsible. They forgive and befriend the lonely old man. A special gift is found hidden away for Tommy from his mother. Christmas is finally felt by all.
- Elizabeth has difficulty meeting eligible men on campus; Tommy is hazed by the crew when he goes to work for David, which causes a fallout between the brothers; Nicholas has to write a paper on Tom for a class assignment.
- Tom dates another woman to get over his break-up with Abby. Nancy enters a beauty pageant.
- Abby thinks she is pregnant and Tom faces an IRS audit.
- Mary's friendship with a doctor begins to develop into a romance; Nicholas dabbles in sales with cure-all face cream; Joannie produces a documentary on her family to gain a promotion at work.
- Tom's elation at finally paying off his mortgage dissipates after seven of his children are arrested.
- When an all girl band beats out Tommy and Ernie's group for a gig at Senior prom the boys want payback. They decide to nominate Tommy for homecoming queen but when the event gets closer Tommy has doubts.
- Is winter break really a vacation with seven kids in the house?
- Tom's dentist challenges the family to a touch football game.
- Tom seeks help for his insomnia, but miscommunication leads the kids to think he has a heart issue. In a minor plot Tommy tries to juggle two girlfriends.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.7 (47)TV EpisodeThe family all have separate plans for Christmas Eve, and during the night, an old man appears to ruin their holiday. Part two reveals the reason for all the trouble.
- Tom and Abby stage an elaborate sting operation to get the house to themselves for a weekend; Susan babysits a friend's precocious daughter.
- Tom and Abby struggle to decide on a wedding date; when they finally do, the kids plan the entire event but go way overboard. Many arguments ensue, putting the very ceremony in jeopardy. The girls give Abby a bridal shower and Tom attends his bachelor party. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Nicholas are not entirely in favor of the wedding or marriage; their thoughts are with their late mother.
- The Bradford wedding takes place after the bride's parents come to town from Pasadena.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.6 (24)TV EpisodeStill in Hawaii, Tom and his father contemplate whether they can or should bother to reconcile their relationship.
- Susan brings her baby home from the hospital; Abby senses disapproval from Joan's parents when they arrive to meet their new granddaughter; Tommy starts work as a guitarist at a male strip club, but finds it pays more to take to the stage.
- A torrential downpour causes a power outage across Sacramento, trapping Tom and Abby in an elevator, leaving Nancy stranded at work, and causing imaginations to run wild at home -- especially after a knock on the door from a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to Norman Bates in "Psycho."
- Mary brings home a pregnant friend, Matilda, whose attitudes towards marriage upset Tom. She learns the joys of parenthood, and paternal Tom helps deliver the baby.
- Overwhelmed and overextended, the family pools its funds to hire a part-time housekeeper; Tommy comes to realize that his best friend has a drinking problem; Nicholas tries to break a world's record.
- After discovering that Tom can't afford the tuition, Elizabeth vies for a scholarship so she can attend an expensive college in Vermont; Nancy takes a correspondence course in hair styling; Tommy gambles away the investors' capital of his latest get-rich-quick scheme.
- Tommy fractures his leg and must stay home to recover; Abby comes as a tutor and meets Tom. Mary moves in with her boyfriend Doug (Don Johnson).
- When Joanie gets put in charge of a charity benefit for a children's home and the main act cancels, she has to rely on family to put on a show. In a minor plot Nicholas thinks he's been abducted by aliens.
- Tommy and his friends get David's apartment for the night.
- Tom takes over the Dear Ms. Dinah column and Elizabeth wants to go on the pill.
- Tommy feels pressure to get a good grade in English Composition.
- Joannie has a fender-bender with a real-estate developer who is already upset with the Bradfords' column opposing his project. Meanwhile, Elizabeth goes from three prom dates to none when they all show up at the same time.
- Abby's mother lands on the Bradfords' doorstep after leaving her husband; a rent increase forces Susan, Joannie and Nancy to return home; Nicholas grapples with learning to sleep in his own room; Tom's station wagon becomes a magnet for parking tickets every time one of the kids borrows it.
- 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; Nancy plays travel guide for a visiting colleague from China who doesn't speak English.
- In the throes of puppy love over his elementary schoolteacher, Nicholas obtains a painting from her that might be worth millions; Tommy goes to Max for outside help with a delicate problem.
- Joanie, Susan and Nancy experience miscommunication as they settle into a routine in their new apartment; Using reverse psychology, Tom lifts all house rules in an attempt to get the remaining kids to honor their curfews.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.5 (23)TV EpisodeMary struggles to keep up in med school amid the chaos and distractions of family life; Tommy burns through family members as he takes the wheel in preparation for drivers' education.
- David gets a job as a copy boy at the Sacramento Register after feeling "less than" after a reunion with friends; Nancy, Susan and Joanie bet to see which of them can reach their ideal weight first.
- When Abby goes back to school to finish her PhD, Tom turns to the ranks for help in looking after Nicholas; Nancy tries to prove her worth as she goes to work at a stock brokerage.
- Elizabeth's part in a senior prank gets her barred from attending graduation, just as Tom is asked to deliver the commencement speech; Joannie faces an uncertain future as she approaches college graduation, which leads to a blowout with Abby; Tommy agonizes over cutting his hair for a summer lifeguard position.
- Appearances are deceiving -- or are they? -- when Merle's provincial sister arrives from Arkansas on an average day in the Bradford home, which leads to a comedy of errors -- and a vice raid.
- David's new roommate causes friction in the Bradford house when he romances Joannie and Susan at the same time. Tommy runs a yard sale while Tom worries that he isn't spending enough time with Nicholas.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.4 (22)TV EpisodeFeeling guilty and isolated after accidentally causing a house fire, Nicholas sets off on his own to San Diego.
- On the heels of splitting up with Merle, Susan discovers she's pregnant; Joannie is intrigued by a man with extrasensory perception; Tommy uses Nicholas as bait to pick up girls.
- A tale of two weddings: David and Janet's elopement is derailed by Susan and Merle's plan to tie the knot the same weekend so she can join him on the road; Nancy lacks the necessary skills in her job delivering singing telegrams.
- Tom wins a journalistic award which takes the Bradfords to San Francisco. Once there, Abby meets with an old flame on the board of admissions at the medical school to advocate for Mary, who has recently been wait-listed. During their time in the big city, Tom has a fallout with the family based on their constant protests to his way of parenting. This episode was filmed on location in the Bay Area.
- Joannie is excited to share the news that she's gotten a part in a Shakespeare play, but when she learns that she has a nude scene, she doesn't know how to tell her father.
- Tommy takes responsibility for an unwed classmate who discovers she's pregnant; David and Janet are forced to move into the Bradford house for several days while their apartment is being fumigated.
- Nancy starts a day care business for pre-schoolers out of the Bradford hone, while Susan trains for a spot on the police force.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.2 (26)TV EpisodeTom'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.
- 1977–1981TV-G7.2 (19)TV EpisodeTom sells a short story, but his elation turns to mortification when the publication turns out to be a stag magazine; David and Janet no sooner announce their engagement than they begin seeing the pitfalls of wedded life, ultimately leading David to break off the engagement and take off on a cross-country road trip.
- After getting talked into being Nicholas' little league coach Tom quits when the parents get to be too much. Tom becomes on of "those" parents after Abby takes over the team.
- Tom becomes the editor-in-chief at his newspaper, but he quickly runs into trouble when the printers go on strike. The whole family pitches in to help earn extra money.
- David gets a new girlfriend who tries to make decisions for him.
- Tom experiences a midlife crisis as he approaches his fiftieth birthday; Nicholas searches for the perfect name for Susan and Merle's coming child; Nancy has second thoughts when the dull stockbroker she dumped begins seeing Elizabeth.
- Nancy faces an identity crisis after flunking out of school; Tom takes a position teaching journalism at the local college.
- Mary runs against the incumbent for city council with the Board of Education.
- Abby hires the unemployed mother of one of Nicholas' classmates; Merle puts together a women's basketball team comprised entirely of Bradfords; Tom's effort to finish his novel is undercut when Abby gets published first.
- The annual winter break festivities lead to offbeat romances for Mary, Joannie and Nancy; Tom's boss coerces him into setting up Tommy with his visiting niece; Elizabeth's new beau is forced to cancel their date for the Valentine's Day dance.
- Susan's new boyfriend seems to have more in common with Abby.
- Joannie's investigative research for a stunt journalist implicates Tom in a potential scandal; Mary and Abby search in vain for the owner of the pregnancy test kit Mary finds hidden in the linen closet; Tommy is tasked with teaching Nicholas how to mow the lawn.
- The Bradfords become enmeshed in the plight of a lonely foster child befriended by Nicholas; Abby uses the kids as subjects for a research project on multi-sibling families.
- Tom's military buddy recruits locally, to Mary's dismay; one of Tommy's money-making schemes backfires.
- Abby feels responsible for the complications surrounding Susan's pregnancy; Susan gives birth prematurely, and the fate of the baby hangs in the balance; Elizabeth hides her live-in arrangement with Jack from the family.
- Tom decides to write a book based on the family, not taking into account their feelings.
- Abby and Tom decide to renew their vows on their anniversary, just as David and Janet announce their legal separation; Peer pressure dampens Jeremy's romance with a girl whose individuality clashes with his need to fit in.
- Abby accepts a job as guidance counselor at a dangerous inner-city high school; Nicholas falls in with a classmate with a penchant for stealing; Tom becomes a constant passenger after his driver's license expires.
- The chairman of a local radio station will plug Tommy's music on the condition that he put the man's accident-prone daughter in his band; David is relentlessly pursued by the girl's amorous mother; and Jeremy dates the girl's cousin, a sports enthusiast whose endurance he can't begin to match.
- Nancy bonds with her boyfriend's daughter; Tommy tries to help Ernie find a date for the prom; Nicholas tries running a dog grooming business.
- Susan faces unexpected complications as she nears the end of her pregnancy; Jack asks Elizabeth to move in with him; Nicholas volunteers Tom as assistant scout master of his cub scout troop.
- 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-son golf tournament; Nancy feels compelled to date a stockbroker uniquely positioned to help David's slumping business.
- Susan captures the attention of a minor league baseball player; Nicholas is in the throes of puppy love with a girl on his little league team whose family is planning to move; Tom trades in his sedan for a new car; Tommy conspires to get a sneak peek at a blind date for an upcoming dance.
- A kitchen sink pipe failure plunges the family into chaos while dealing with the pressures of finals week; Nancy sympathizes with a brainiac Elizabeth is using to help her pass algebra; Tom's column about passing the torch to the younger generation results in a picket line of protesting seniors outside the Bradford house.
- 1977–1981TV-G6.9 (22)TV EpisodeWhile covering his tracks to keep the family from realizing he's run away from home, Nicholas attaches himself to an elderly con man in San Diego.
- Nicholas learns the meaning of class distinction when he befriends an underprivileged schoolmate; David's jealousy over Janet's work colleague may be justified; Tommy becomes overprotective when his best friend begins seeing Elizabeth.
- Susan uses Abby's vintage car to ensnare a handsome antique car buff; Joanie gets her first professional acting job as an apprentice in a local theater company. When the temperamental star walks out the day before opening, Joanie is thrust into the leading role -- while Tom, unaware of this, allows the newspaper's theater critic to talk him into reviewing the show as a favor.
- Mary's bedside manner creates a monster when an oddball patient falls for her; Merle struggles to reinvent himself after an injury ends his pitching career; Jeremy angles for a raise in his allowance by pedaling a line of unpalatable health food products to the family.
- Nicholas's grandfatherly friend Joe Simons returns to Sacramento under false pretenses; Joannie tries to come up with a TV commercial to boost David's struggling business; Tom is smothered by a temp when his secretary goes on vacation.
- Tom and Abby find they have nothing in common with Janet's parents; Tommy is ostracized by his classmates when substitute teacher Abby flunks the school's basketball star.
- Tom's sister (Janis Paige) returns to Sacramento, this time buying a palatial house for the family, which plunges the Bradfords into deciding whether or not they want to pull up stakes.
- 1977–1981TV-G6.6 (24)TV EpisodeTom clashes with Joannie over her new boyfriend, an itinerant poet; Nicholas scores high on a music aptitude test, which results in unending noise from his new drum set; David goes into business for himself as a contractor, and Tom becomes his first customer.
- When one of his closest friends dies, a grief-stricken David goes on a binge of self-destructive behavior.
- Just as Tommy's music career is about to take off, an ex-girlfriend returns to tell him she's pregnant; Nicholas stands up to the class bully to impress a girl who then expects a hero every day; The Bradford sisters attempt to rehabilitate a homeless man.
- Elizabeth sets her cap for a vain classmate who doesn't see her as girlfriend material; David hires Nicholas to help him find an affordable apartment; Nancy's shot with a big modeling agency hinges on her going topless in a print ad.
- After returning to Sacramento, David sets out to win back Janet, who is engaged to another man; Susan finds Merle's courtship efforts lacking, so Nicholas plays Cupid for them.
- Tommy realizes he's become stagnant by not having gone away to college; David's traditional values are out of sync with the swinging singles scene; Nicholas starts a paper route delivering for Tom's rival newspaper.
- When Tommy protests Tom's frugality, Tom teaches him a lesson by putting him in charge of the family's finances; Joannie begins to doubt the intentions of the higher-up who gave her a plum assignment; Nicholas dukes it out with the class bully, who happens to be a girl.
- Nancy's modeling career takes off, bringing unwanted attention; Joannie's lack of advancement at the station leads her to abandon her career and enter into a hasty engagement to Jeff; Tommy becomes Nicholas' slave in exchange for the last remaining ticket to a sold-out concert.
- 1977–1981TV-G6.5 (25)TV EpisodeJoannie is put in charge of securing talent for a local telethon; Jeremy can't convince Tommy to let him be his band manager; David tries to unload an unwanted roommate (and her mother).
- A manipulative student of Abby's enmeshes herself into the Bradford family; Nicholas promises to cook dinner for a girl; Nancy becomes the model-spokesperson for a local business that turns out to be disreputable.
- To help keep Abby awake during a concussion scare, the family remembers funny/memorable events from the past two seasons.
- An unexpected development upends Tommy plans to marry Ellen; Joannie envies an attractive reporter who starts work at the station; Jeremy drops hints as his first birthday with the family approaches.
- Tommy's songwriting collaboration with a single mother turns personal; Jeremy reluctantly enrolls in high school and then does all he can to be expelled; David remodels the garage as living quarters for Susan and the baby until Merle's return.
- David's dream of restoring the city's opera house pits him against Janet, whose firm has been hired to demolish it for an urban renewal project; Susan and Merle take turns looking after the baby, which leaves them alternately exhausted; Nicholas inherits a retired racehorse.
- Jeremy's father returns to assert his parental rights, forcing the boy to decide where to live; Past and present merge for David and his former classmates in the days leading up to their ten-year high school reunion.
- Nicholas is targeted by an assertive classmate who wants to go steady with him; Abby's grief is triggered by the visit of a friend of her late husband; Nancy becomes overdrawn at the bank because of all the money she's been lending her siblings.
- David and Janet make a final attempt at reconciliation; Jeremy turns sleuth after digging up a human skull in the vegetable garden; Nicholas' chances of making the basketball team hinge on Elizabeth, who is dating the coach.
- An exploitative reporter threatens Tom's chances when the governor appoints him to the state's Board of Education; Joannie goes undercover to do an expose on video dating services; Nicholas turns hoodlum in an effort to change his wholesome image.
- Abby's troubled nephew stays with the Bradfords until his estranged father can be located; Joannie is promoted to sportscaster at the television station; Nicholas turns a profit from Mary's female anatomy textbook.
- Tommy decides to forego college in favor of a music career; Tom's sister Vivian returns with her new fiancé; Elizabeth tries out theories from her psychology class on the family.
- The newspaper closes its doors during a labor dispute, landing Tom on the unemployment line; All four of the family's cars are out of commission after a postal truck crashes into the Bradford driveway; Nicholas promotes a bartering system to navigate the family's financial crisis.
- Primed from reading too many spy novels, Nicholas believes he's embroiled in a real-life espionage plot; When his staff becomes hush-hush around him, Tom becomes suspicious that he's about to be fired.
- 1977–1981TV-G4.9 (22)TV EpisodeOn his odyssey to Santa Fe, David befriends Dutch, a veteran hang glider, who entices him to take flight on his own. When no experienced test pilots will fly Dutch's untried prototype in a local competition, David contemplates taking the risk to prevent the older man from doing harm to himself.