Season 5 • Episode 22
LatestFinally 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 return to Sacramento for their 10 year high school reunion. Tom and Abby fight with Jeremy's dad for custody of Jeremy.
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.
Acting
Dick Van Patten's everydad exhaustion is genuinely timeless.
Production
That unmistakable wood-paneled, earth-tone 70s aesthetic.
Creator
Lee Mendelson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was ABC's answer to The Brady Bunch but with 'real' problems — divorce, death, teen pregnancy scares — making it proto-prestige family TV.
The real Tom Braden hated the show and called it 'preposterous,' which only makes watching it more delicious.
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