Family - Lifeline (Part 1 of 2)

[@teresak1177]

These old commercials, reminding me what we did before the internet! 😂

[@lancelotdufrane]

Willie is the Backbone of that family! Always cleaning up family mess. Never hears a thank you. Everyone else asks him to do… whatever… he just does it.

[@soloh5843]

Thank you so much for uploading these. I love this show and in the current state with the virus and chaos this is a nice break.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...You are so right! 👍🏽🙂

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

Well done Meredith, finally a decent story arc for Nancy where she isnt dating the wrong bloke.

[@gpk1982]

Thank you so much for posting this - the commercials are taking me way back!!! 💕

[@kathrynoneill5862]

I love how Willie ate something throughout the whole episode. Typical brother.

[@mariacrochet8379]

I noticed he ate several pieces of fruit in one sitting. Healthy snacker!!

[@lindaoscutt62]

Not to preach to the choir but never a good idea to get involved with a married man. Nancy is such a good and caring friend.

[@dspscotty1]

I have been meaning to send you a Thank You card for a while. Family is from my teen years and I was not always allowed to watch it or Soap. Thanks again!

[@stutteringjohnsunpaidgasbi7285]

HAHA, I was little in the 70s and I wasn't allowed to watch "Soap" either. Which of course, made me want to watch it even more! But "Family" was ok in my house.

[@XxowendanxX]

Funny cos later Kristy did a sitcom with one of the actors from Soap.

[@johnhartsock1891]

@@stutteringjohnsunpaidgasbi7285 I was more interested in watching Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and Hawaii Five-0, although this was a good show, too.

[@lindaf4369]

@@johnhartsock1891 ALL of them were great shows and that's just naming a few

[@tanyastebbing9763]

@@lindaf4369 unlike the total mindless and fake, nasty, talentless drivel of today!!

[@jesusislordsoontoreturn2178]

1:32 Thank you for leaving the intro in at the beginning I love listening to that music. Also thank you for leaving the commercials in too

[@peterdurkin1499]

Way before it's time..excellent show

[@gheller2261]

Huh? This show was completely OF its time. Slow and melodramatic.

[@ravenpoe7093]

Thank you for these uploads. I avoided this show when i was a kid but getting into it now 40 years later 😂. The quality isn’t perfect but I still appreciate it. Thank you 💕

[@theresacarlson8822]

Thank you for these episodes!! Love seeing the old commercials

[@chrissyknowsitall5170]

The commercials are the best!! I need that vacuum cleaner!!!

[@Magazinelady]

@@chrissyknowsitall5170 I liked the handheld Singer sewing "machine."

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

I can't imagine Friends or Big Bang Theory having an episode like this. Thank you for posting this!

[@keithstebbing436]

Big Bang Theory try hard crude fake crud!!

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

My comment had more to do with how TV has changed. Silly sitcoms vs tackling real social issues

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

I couldn't either. However, there have been a couple of sitcoms that dealt with someone overdosing on pills. There was a two part episode of One Day At A Time called Barbara's Friend in the late 70s when a social misfit tries to befriend Barbara, but her antics only drive Barbara away. So, due to being depressed over feeling rejected, she takes almost a whole bottle of pills in an attempt to kill herself. Luckily, she pulled through at the end. But it has been done in sitcoms before.

[@gheller2261]

Those programs were sitcoms. This was a drama. Apples and oranges.

[@lizafield9002]

Incredibly well-done show, so well written. This plot was so sad & horrifying, but realistic in a culture with no deeper values.

[@LB-gz3ke]

Eunice from Soap fooling around with a married man again, lol. Only this time it is Cliff Barnes.

[@KennethofTroy]

that's where i've seen her before! thanks!!

[@59skupe]

Ken Kersheval

[@minx2528]

😆 🤣 😂

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Oh yeah.

[@rebelwithacause2229]

When he said, “I didn’t ask you to wait.” Ouch, Susie, ouch.

[@loriryan2045]

Ken Kercheval who portrayed “Cliff Barnes” on the TV Series “Dallas” is in this episode.

[@lisamoag6548]

I really want a power picker upper! Sounds great!

[@lylebobroske5172]

Willy is always eating!!!! ☺

[@janeporter818]

Lol! Yes he is

[@danielc1978]

But thin as can be....

[@minx2528]

Free food!! 😆 🤣 😂

[@lisamoag6548]

He is growing.

[@MarvinaBigby]

Willie is a good brother.He cares about his sisters and thier friends thats rare

[@JeanneGuarnieri-vs7zn]

I'm completely addicted to the Family. I never got to watch it even though I lived only 20 minutes away from where it was filmed. (Sherman Oaks to Pasadena)

[@lezliecunningham5484]

Marcy is actually Annie in other episodes 🤪

[@lisamoroney3036]

Yea - what’s up with that

[@sugarplumfairy420]

I don't get it. There must be thousands of child actors in Hollywood, surely they could have found someone else to play the role of Annie given that Quinn Cummings had already been cast in the series in another role.

[@janethunter664]

So I don't get it? Marcy was just a neighbor kid whose parents paid Buddy to walk her home from school 3 days a week? But then she was adopted by the Lawrences & became Annie?

[@SlimKeith11]

@@sugarplumfairy420 I can guarantee you, there weren't many child actors like Quinn Cummings back then, today they're all over the place but. back then, she was pretety unique-she was so verbal & articulate. She was coming off the hit "The Goodbye Girl". I HIGHLY highly recommend the film if you haven't seen it. Especially in these covid days when we're still inside more (altho I think it's coming to an end soon! yippee!). It stars Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason-it's really cute, funny and sweet. Quinn is brilliant in it.

[@valferguson8322]

@@SlimKeith11 That movie is very annoying to say the least, very period piece of the 70’s. And she’s annoying. I could barely get thru it. She’s just as annoying as Annie in later episodes on this show! Although there were a couple episodes where I did feel sorry for her...

[@mad7fisher]

Geez, sometimes I think Buddy's as perfect as her mother, especially for her age. 🤗

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

I loved watching this on WWOR, WGN, A&E, & LIFETIME in syndication...80s-90s. 👍🏽💯🍀🤗

[@ApartmentKing66]

I found it quite implausible that that manager, after Willie tells him Susie's "trying to kill herself," just forks over the keys, closes the door, and goes on with his evening.

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Yeah, the manager is like "Okay, here's the keys. I deal with this shit all the time."

[@mad7fisher]

Is willy ever NOT eating ? 😃 Well, he does seem to be a healthy snacker though, but he always seems to have something in his hand going into his mouth. 🤗 He (Gary Frank) studied under the famous acting coach Lee Strasburg, so who knows,. Maybe this is part of a technique. 😎😅

[@ddivincenzo1194]

Quinn Cummings was such a great child actress, esp. in "The Good Bye Girl".

[@debbieschultz9768]

I love when they added her to the later episodes.

[@annalee-rw9es]

I think she is perfect such a different type of personality and there are k8ds in the really world just like her and im glad they picked her and her characters personality 😊

[@wyosagekat.]

Wake up little Susie, wake up.

[@sandykelting9548]

Willie does love eating🤭!!! I don't have a brother, but if I did, Willie wops 'em all! He's loyal and CARES!!!💝💯♾️

[@nealbfinn]

Ken Kercheval before he met JR Ewing

[@SunshineandRoses1111]

I thought "Marcy' was "Annie", their God child that lives with them ?

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

The commercials are especially funny

[@ykook7000]

Meredith Baxter Birney is such an amazing actress

[@minx2528]

I agree! ❤️

[@bobs1356]

Yes she is I didn't care for the first Nancy when the show started.

[@terridemaio7334]

She's Awesome she was Great As Betty Broderic

[@KathysIndieZoNe]

I would class her incredible performance of BB next to practically any actress.

[@gheller2261]

Amazing actress? Based on this show? Come now.

[@cathmckinney7100]

This must be before the character Annie comes along.

[@KennethofTroy]

...which completely threw me when i first saw her and heard of her parents paying buddy. wasn't she adopted later...? odd.

[@hoagie1978]

Ken Kercheval aka....Cliff Barnes from Dallas.

[@minx2528]

Isn't that the actor that played Cliff Barnes on Dallas?

[@Kate-ui5kc]

Cliff Barnes... similar despicable character.

[@wyosagekat.]

Couldn’t fast forward through the commercials back then.

[@DizzLexic]

haha ... 29:20 .... I actually have that Healing Foods book

[@TomMarvan]

Potatoes prevent stroke! Can that be true?

[@lindaf4369]

@@TomMarvan I wondered about that too when they can be so fattening..Idk everything in moderation I guess..Google it

[@MIMIDSH]

They say TERRIFIC at least 3 times in every episode lol

[@DanielGarrett0123]

So not as often as your generation says AWESOME, then?

[@MIMIDSH]

@@DanielGarrett0123 LOL I was 15 years old in 1978 when this show was on TV. But I don't remember ever saying "terrific". Though the shampoo "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" was very popular back then. We said "bitchen" but I don't think that would be ok for family TV

[@johnhartsock1891]

@@XxowendanxX Nancy could have fixed Suzy up with Willie. That would be quite the mature couple! He could write a book about how a woman can live in a fantasy world like she does!

[@johnhartsock1891]

People like Willie and Suzy make my decision not to ever be a parent a very comfortable one!!

[@XxowendanxX]

@@johnhartsock1891 your comments on here make everyone else very comfortable about your decision never to become a parent 😉

[@pamelarichardsen862]

Was there really such a shortage of child actors that they had to use the same child to play two different people? This is truly disappointing for a show as good as this one.

[@lindaf4369]

I agree..I recognize Annie immediately..maybe did such a great job acting that they decided to incorporate her into the show as Annie..who knows

[@LB-gz3ke]

I am just guessing, but maybe they liked her so much they wanted to bring her back as a more permanent character. As in, they created the role of Annie with QC in mind.

[@fleurmartin]

I still wonder about that. Not with this show, but through the 90s, tv shows would bring on new characters with actors that played on the show before as someone else. I think the worst was on Matlock when Matlock defended a lady he had a crush on for murder, then maybe a year later that same actress was brought back permanently as his daughter. Creepy!

[@shadypines9929]

Little House on the Prairie did the same thing. The actor who player Albert had previously played a young Charles Ingalls in a flashback episode. I guess Michael Landon like the kid and bought him back as a regular character.

[@janfrederick9034]

They most likely tried her out with the cast to see how she would work out as a regular part of the show. Good actresses like her can take on a variety of roles. Not disappointing. Smart thinking, as they already had ideas for her to be a regular.

[@Nancie680]

Annie played Marci too.

[@vcrcooking]

I like the woman who runs "Sunset Villa" apartments. That woman is no nonsense and doesn't go for Suzy's drama and BS.

[@echt114]

@vcrcooking: So you just want people dead who can't handle things they way you think they should? What a POS you must be.

[@trevorbarnhill3399]

Nope, she doesn't play.

[@KathysIndieZoNe]

A hardcore character like that has probably seen all kinds of scenarios. She had to be no nonsense to not get taken advantage of with tenants’ drama.

[@gheller2261]

Or, she lacks the social feelers to sense that another person is in crisis and lacks empathy. Like you apparently.

[@lamburdzy]

@@gheller2261eMpAtHy 🥴 It’s a tv show. It’s not real 🙄

[@priscillasalzberg5349]

Nancy was supposed to go away and have a weekend of peace instead she spent it looking for Susie. I don't understand this Marcy thing. In other episodes the same person is named Annie and I thought Annie was another one of Doug and Kate's kids.

[@Xanthas71]

Quinn Cummings used to guest star on a lot of different TV shows back in the 1970s. I guess they figured most people wouldn't remember her appearing in one episode the previous season.

[@patriciajones4761]

I need to order "Wagon Wheels"...I'm an old Cowhand from the Rio Grande...

[@nadinenc3097]

Did I miss a reason that Willie ate thru the entire episode?

[@pam0626]

Willie is eating Nancy out of house and home.

[@Chariots1981]

Wow, Eunice Tate ("Soap") and Cliff Barnes ("Dallas")???

[@nancyrhm2094]

Willie is eating in every scene he's in, and of course talking with his mouth full. But that's something he does in most episodes. Was that considered ok on TV in the 70s?

[@thegreatselkie6009]

I’m pretty sure eating has always been okay. 😂

[@Thursdayization]

This role of a rescuer is very unlikely for Nancy's character; she's supposed to be immature and selfish; that is what she's known to be

[@echt114]

@Thu Yang: True. I always thought it was unrealistic for someone as impulsive and ditzy as her to be in law school.

[@KathysIndieZoNe]

Yup. This episode seemed very uncharacteristic of Nancy.

[@debra13]

I don't think Nancy is any "one" thing- she has a self-centered streak at times, but she also has been growing through the show- she is very smart, she is confident , partially because of being spoiled, but she is also beginning to believe in herself. People are complex - I don't see her as ditzy at all..

[@farhanarahman9009]

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DATECA MARRIED MAN.!.

[@XxowendanxX]

If he's sexy?

[@lindaf4369]

No way..married people should be off limits period

[@Ylremik]

Low self esteem, no sense of self or value without outside validation. Fear of rejection/abandonment. Easy prey for a philandering husband. The storyline hints at early childhood trauma. Possible borderline personality disorder. They have a high rate of suicidal thinking. This episode is called Lifeline-referencing that national suicide prevention lifeline perhaps. She does a lot of typical behaviors of those contemplating suicide-“I’ll show ‘em,” giving away treasured items.

[@juliepeters3716]

Either low self esteem or an unwillingness to commit, after all a married man is not free to marry you!

[@CalmingTheChaos]

LOL....EZ Glider Commercial.

[@vcrcooking]

Junk

[@justlikebuttah]

Marcie became Annie?

[@sandrafyke6703]

Does Willy just stuff his face?

[@annehajdu8654]

Yep.

[@That_80s_Chick]

Maybe the reason Willie is always eating is because he’s got the “munchies”. Maybe he smokes a lot of Mary Jane 🚬

[@CindyHeff]

I have to wait for willy to call Jeff to find out when he's bringing Timmy back...I have to wait for Willy to bring me my car....good heavens

[@minx2528]

IKR??! Willie, was actually Kate's personal assistant, child psychologist, life coach, driver, event planner, etc etc..

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

@@minx2528 ...Beats paying rent. 👍🏽💯🤔

[@pbamse]

This was the first Quinn Cummings episode, but not as "Annie"

[@jenniferwilcox9759]

Where's part 2? SO IRRITATING when people upload only half of their video.

[@thegreatselkie6009]

I found it by scrolling down from this episode.

[@AnnetteTurner-b2w]

A time when a young woman getting married received pot& pans at her shower.

[@justsheila1965]

Why is Annie's name Marci? What did i miss?

[@helanesolomon1724]

justsheila1965 Looks like they cast Quinn in this role and then later cast her as Annie.

[@musicfanhawk4523]

I wondered the same! I don't remember her before Annie, I am a Marcy so was surprised to hear it!

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@helanesolomon1724 Correct; Quinn was Marcy Willis first, then brought back as Andrea (Annie) Cooper.

[@lisamoroney3036]

Good question

[@efuller3333]

Who played Susie, the credits were cut.

[@davidedwards9048]

Jennifer Salt. She's still acting - now 79 years old.

[@debbievaldez168]

Willie eats n eats n eats...😅 Plus this one was kinda poor acting

[@krisfischer5153]

I want a Power Picker Upper ! 😂

[@tothewonder6248]

"I haven't asked you to wait." LOL I don't feel bad for Susie. Karma.

[@annettel3314]

Marcie later becomes sister Anni? 🤔

[@ladedalounge]

Cliff Barnes!!!

[@ShoshanaSmithberg]

Anyone order the Easy Glider?

[@greenonions5296]

So nice an episode without the parents for a change. Thank goodness Nancy didn't let up searching for Susie. They should have made Nancy a detective or private eye, she was pretty good.

[@homeschoolingsisters538]

It is so annoying how Willie is always eating. It takes away from the seriousness of the scene.

[@draydayj1]

But teenage boys and young men actually do it a lot! I know mine did!!!!

[@chrissyknowsitall5170]

He must have a tape worm.

[@farhanarahman9009]

I think thatcwomen who date married men have low self esteem.,.😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@farhanarahman9009]

Love this show,family.Kristy was amazing!.

[@lindaf4369]

Something is obviously wrong with them It's rare the married person actually leaves their spouse for them..jmo

[@lisalemster9361]

Suzie needed real help

[@peterdurkin1499]

Meredith should have a roomful of emmys!

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

@@jamesr1703 ...Why not? 👍🏽💯🤔

[@karenedmiston5964]

Willie likes eating fruit. He is a health food nut

[@johnhartsock1891]

He dropped out of high school. He isn't a book nut.

[@karenedmiston5964]

@@johnhartsock1891 Willie sure wasn't a book 🐛

[@johnhartsock1891]

@@karenedmiston5964 This was a depressing episode about an immature chick named Suzy who went off the deep end after some married doofus cut her from his jayvee team.

[@karenedmiston5964]

I guess I'm not the only one that likes 1970s tv

[@johnhartsock1891]

@@karenedmiston5964 I grew up with this show. Along with Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Hawaii Five O, and All in the Family. Throw Happy Days in there as well. Great TV, not the garbage that's on today.

[@BarB2-90Nine]

I want an Easier Glider

[@ddivincenzo1194]

Cliff Barnes as the boyfriend.

[@ontime3462]

NOTHING LIKE WATCHING A BUNCH OF COMMERIALS-----30 years old.

[@Jaqcarrera]

How stupid how they have the boring Gary Frank eating fruit in each scene.

[@ebonyruffles]

Did you miss the lollipop & the chocolate bar?

[@KennethofTroy]

his oral fixation TOTALLY works for me!!! ;-)

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...I much preferred the other Suzy, (Anne Schedeen). 👍🏽💯🤔

[@punkyduck28]

Why is Annie now called Marcie? I’m confused!!

[@Thursdayization]

She played another character

[@michaeljj43]

ok willie...enough with the eating bit.

[@madamex3247]

This was the most boring episode.

[@annmacleod1099]

If your nodding no then don't recommend that I watch this .

[@cryptoknowledgeispower]

Weird looking phones

[@lisaryan4362]

My least favorite

[@troyadeyemi1996]

Where are the black people? Lily white cast.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Black viewer here. My Mom watched in its heyday, & I watched in syndication during the 80s/early 90s. That's just how it was back then, except for sitcoms & recurring characters (e.g. Lynn Hamilton as Verdie on The Waltons, et al.). There were rare exceptions like Gail Fisher in Mannix & a few others. Still, it's one of my favorite shows of all time. 👍🏽💯😊

[@Xanthas71]

There is one episode that features black guest stars called "Little Brother." That's the only one really, but it's a great episode.

[@angelsalazar4011]

L

[@annalee-rw9es]

I'm sorry but Susie's acting was terrible especially the part where she cried and said she will make him sorry!! Im mean is cute but her acting was really bad!!