Family - Sleeping Gypsy (P1 of 2) 1978 Kristy McNichol/Dinah Manoff from Empty Nest

[@denisespurlock7869]

Dinah and Kristy were so good together. So glad they shared a sitcom together later on.

[@fwdthinker]

THIS is an example why you can't burn your bridges in entertainment. You NEVER know who you are going to end up working with - or for - later. So funny seeing them together when they were younger. I LOVED their dynamic on "Empty Nest". They were a hoot!

[@brklyn345]

Yeah, Empty Nest was not the same when Kristy left the show. Even when Lisa Rieffel and Paul Provenza were brought on for Dinah to play off of, it just didn't work.

[@audreyann1975]

I love their house. I love them. The parents are so nice. So together. I know it's a TV show but it's nice to fantasize.

[@garnet0101]

I was abused and wanted to live in that house with those parents so bad.

[@echt114]

@Audrey Ann: And yet idiots in these comments complain about them on a regular basis.

[@marcosgomez8618]

Every bit of this is fantasy but it's fun. What really puts me back to Earth is realizing the father passed away way back in 1982 in real life from cancer

[@SnazzyDetritus]

I know, especially when you're a person like me who sees the world as bleak and generally awful

[@Exotic3000]

I agree. They were the all American family. Sometimes I wish I had a family like that. But I do love ❤ the one I've got!

[@MsTexas73]

Now this is an episode I didn't remember. How interesting seeing "Carol" and "Barbara" from Empty Nest together here. WHo knew they would end up on a show together 10 years later.

[@audreyann1975]

I knew it. I knew that was both sisters from Empty Nest...

[@MsTexas73]

Audrey Ann Yes. We know they played on the show. But my point being the coincidence that they acted together in the 70s and later ended up paying sisters on the same show.

[@audreyann1975]

@@MsTexas73 Yes, I understood. You confirmed it for me. That's all I meant.

[@MsTexas73]

Audrey Ann ✌🏽👌🏾

[@audreyann1975]

@@MsTexas73 😁😃

[@sCulturefan]

Dinah Manoff is really good in this role, probably the best acting work she’s done

[@MsLane61]

Have you seen her in Ordinary People? Excellent movie.

[@JackWaller85]

The future stars of "Empty Nest" 10 years before they are Barbara and Carol.

[@SnazzyDetritus]

8:07 Man, how these kids whine when they're actually forced to make their own sandwich!

[@sharon_l_0805]

Thank you for sharing this show. I never watched it growing up. I’m a huge Kristy McNichol fan.

[@dafdfasdfdfasfdfadfd]

Willie can’t fix his own lunch?!!!

[@FreedomPost]

It's cool to see Barbara and Carol Weston as teenagers.

[@chefevilee9566]

So funny!

[@denburkgregoryjr.1597]

They were in their 20s

[@jessicapigg]

Kristy was 16 Dinah was 22

[@XxowendanxX]

Buddy and Mara are both teenagers

[@Chasstful]

Mara was a great character, she wasn't meant for the mind numbing conformity of High School/

[@paulamiles9559]

Isnt it spelled " Moira"?

[@brandyl2183]

Thank you so much for posting these episodes of family. I loved this show from childhood. It’s so nice to see them again. I can’t thank you enough.

[@XxowendanxX]

Carol and Barbara: The High School Years

[@etodd568]

Dinah Manoff has the sweetest kindest voice....and her hat highlights her EYES.....

[@handlethis009]

I loved her sense of HUMOR 😎

[@talkingstraightwithnate]

That's pretty cool. 2 Empty nest stars years before the show aired.

[@DaPhilthyDog]

Makes me want to watch Empty Nest!!!

[@_sheebie]

Me too! 😃

[@etodd568]

Empty Nest is next for me......I loved that show

[@DaPhilthyDog]

@@etodd568 True classic! Still as funny as before!!!

[@XxowendanxX]

It's not as good as this

[@kolkishon]

"Mara" really must have been neglected by her parents, she's 22 and still in high school! :) "Buddy'' is easily 5 or 6 years younger than her, and it shows! Thanks for the episode, you have a great channel.

[@XxowendanxX]

She got left back after Vince Fontaine put roofies in her soda.

[@XxowendanxX]

Stockard Channing was 35 and still in highschool

[@SnazzyDetritus]

Dinah Manoff was 26 here!!

[@cindeed4422]

That’s why they had such great chemistry. They worked together before. Carol was on Soap playing Bert’s daughter-in-law. The chemistry with all three actors was there. That’s what made Empty Nest so good. Buddy was alot like Mara. She is a free spirit too. I thought Kristy then looked like a white Janet Jackson.

[@XxowendanxX]

I've found Kristy's singing voice to sound a bit like Janet's

[@amyt1238]

Thanks again! You are a big hit with our fan group on Facebook

[@MsTexas73]

WOW! Mine too. I posted an episode in one of my groups on FB and it got SO MANY likes! I was pleasantly surprised.

[@robintaylor4249]

Always going to grow up in a family like that when I was a kid just the perfect household

[@debutguitar5302]

They have the same dynamic , magic!

[@SnazzyDetritus]

Pretty much the same characters here as they were as Carol and Barbara on Empty Nest - Carol the clingy needy attention-whore, and Barbara the snide, perpetually annoyed realist.

[@ledzep75254]

I love Marla's voice....just realized she was Marty in Grease....!

[@marthamagruder3698]

This episode aired on 5-9-78. A couple of months before Grease was released in theaters!

[@KennethofTroy]

@@marthamagruder3698 wow! dinah certainly grew up quickly!! she sure was a hot potato in GREASE!! ;-)

[@dannydougin3925]

*Mara

[@susanbrogan3267]

This is my generation and l knew a Mara! Brings tears to my eyes.

[@jenniferwilcox9759]

Cotillion?!! Yeah right. Buddy, a debutante?

[@mississippimud7046]

Doug my heart sank too when I saw that jacket😐

[@KennethofTroy]

LOLOLOL!!!! ;-)

[@maidenmarian1]

He hates that plaid jacket...

[@annehajdu8654]

It's pouring rain and Buddy doesnt offer to share her umbrella. So self-centered.

[@musicfanhawk4523]

She didn't need to,her friend had a hat on!

[@tonyadenton9196]

@@musicfanhawk4523 That doesn't matter that she had a hat on it will eventually be drenched, it looks bad that the other person doesn't offer to share even a little side of the umbrella, , Buddy was spoiled rotten. 😀 like the show though.

[@MsLane61]

It never works out. The person under the edge gets dripped on.

[@paulamiles9559]

Buddy ,Willie and Nancy- soooo spoiled!!! Moira read the book when she was 11. Too much like me. 16:50

[@JoanCrawfordsghost]

I really couldn't stand self centered Buddy on this ep. She was horrible to her friend

[@maryjones0147]

Thanks so much 4 these videos of my favorite series

[@wendygillard2133]

Thank you for uploading this episode.

[@lb1262dt]

This great!!👍😄!!! I watch these two all the time on Empty Nest, on KZbin. I see this channel says, "Decades". I think i can get that channel on Fios, Verizon.

[@ravenpoe7093]

Looks like “Carol” was kinda strange then too 😂

[@frankf198]

Oh man the lady who played the teacher just died I saw she was great played on king of queens as dougs mother and did facts of life season one she was great

[@heyokaempath5802]

I always thought she looked a lot like Barry Manilow...well, a few facelifts ago. Barry's, not hers.

[@pinksparkle258]

Jenny O'hara

[@chersteencolby6344]

Jenny OHara is great! She didn't die. Her Mom Edith did die in 2020, though, at age 103.

[@Thursdayization]

Some High school kids are so naive to one's potential; some of them are too self involved

[@calliedurling3292]

She is Lee Grant's daughter.

[@KennethofTroy]

she really does look (and sound) a LOT like her mom, doesn't she!!!?!!

[@MsLane61]

Wow! I never knew that! Now that you made me aware of that, I can see the obvious resemblance. She does look much like her mother.

[@devinmceachern]

Carol and Barbara Weston from _Empty Nest_ FTW. Dinah Manoff and Kristy McNichol respectively, that is.

[@elvieelizondo1502]

I like how the Sweet Husband Nd Wife Have a Little Drink Together 🍷😁❤️💋

[@XxowendanxX]

And they're thankful they don't have Buddy's problem 😄😅😂😂

[@robertamyers9382]

I watch these old clips constantly, but, man this family is weird!!!!

[@1911beauty]

They played sistets in empty nest 6-7 years later

[@kerriethompson2073]

That jacket is so 70s!

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

Awww Sisters, must of been a gag years later for them on Empty Nest Dinah and Kristy were hilarious.

[@sueyardley7489]

I know I've said a few negative things lately about the show and I don't want people to get the wrong idea. I love the show, I love the characters. But I feel like the writing is deteriorating in this season, sadly. Things are happening that are not realistic and in keeping with how the characters as we know them would behave.

[@XxowendanxX]

You're a real poopero these days 😅

[@sueyardley7489]

Ha ha, you are probably right! That's funny!@@XxowendanxX

[@sueyardley7489]

Mara was wrong. It doesn't matter how creative and brilliant you are, when you are part of a group project you don't hog all the work for yourself and then completely change the theme from what was agreed on by the group. I don't see why Buddy was made to feel as if she was in the wrong. She put her neck out to get her friend a position on the committee and then the friend behaved badly and made things difficult for Buddy. Buddy continued to defend her friend even when things were going badly, I felt for Buddy here, not Mara. Kate is usually so level headed but not this time. She should have (gently and kindly) told Mara that she made a mistake and explained why. As it was this girl went off into the sunset thinking that she did the right things and that others just didn't understand her superiority.

[@XxowendanxX]

I like Mara but can't find anything here to disagree with. People act like those other girls are evil or something for wanting Mara to abide by the will of the student body.

[@tauntonlake]

0:16 FFS, Pops, close the door when you're taking a leak.

[@MsDoxma]

Seriously? The down-to-earth Laurences having a coming out party for Buddy? Gross.

[@lindaoscutt62]

Buddy and Mara: to reunite in Empty Nest!

[@mojojojo8223]

This walkin in the rain scene wasnt properly done.

[@easybakeoven3624]

Wdym

[@KennethofTroy]

agreed. the sound is whack...and you can tell some of dinah's dialog is looped.

[@MrEvolution513]

That teacher was Scott Scanlon's mom in Bev Hills 90210

[@cheribee968]

Kristy and Dinah acted together again in the series Empty Nest

[@codzy3532]

buddys friend is marty one of the pink ladies from grease movie

[@kahlodiego5299]

The teacher looks like Shirley McClean.

[@mario-qi3yw]

The teacher is John Travolta’s mom.

[@JoanCrawfordsghost]

No.. John travoltas mom is Helen Cecilia Burke. She passed in 1978.

[@lb1262dt]

Please let me know, what channel, "Decades" is, thankyou.

[@Xanthas71]

We have a local affiliate here in Portland.

[@ourtravelingzoo3740]

It’s like PBS

[@cynthiagoldstein1133]

In the NJ area it’s 237, not sure if that’s different elsewhere.

[@minx2528]

In Washington State it's avaliable on Infinity/Comcast channel - 347 KFFV4..

[@lb1262dt]

Thankyou.​@@Xanthas71

[@cheesecakefan4880]

The parents drink daily in front of their kids, and Kate can be pushy at times.

[@marjoriecohn3868]

Is that Shirley MacLaine as the teacher in the Tess part?

[@JoanCrawfordsghost]

No...the teacher was Jenny O Hara

[@ddivincenzo1194]

@1:43 - just the slightest pause before walking on cue.

[@JoanCrawfordsghost]

No....the teacher was played by Jenny O Hara .

[@ddivincenzo1194]

@@JoanCrawfordsghost I am talking about Kristy, I don't know what you're on about.

[@handlethis009]

What happen to shows like this009 🍿

[@juliemcarthur3004]

I didn't know she did this show

[@paulamiles9559]

Willie is such an entitled spoiled brat. He should have to work for 5 minutes.

[@Thursdayization]

I thought that looks a lot like Dinah

[@wwemariochisaguano3648]

☝🏻 PRIMERO 🇪🇨