""Never try eating nectarines since juice may dispense."" That's how Tom and Joan Bradford remember...

Matilda, Mary's very pregnant, unmarriage, friend stays in the Bradford house while she is between a...

Tom's chance at managing the newpapers runs into trouble when the printers go on stike. The whole...

Topsy-turvy at the Bradfords when Tommy has his ""dream girl"" stand him up. Neither David nor Tom...

David learns about his life at a party the family throws to celebrates doctor Maxwell's 25th anniver...

Togetherness can be really funny when the whole Bradford household is quarantined, including Nancy's...

Tony's sister shows up for a visit and turns the Bradford house upside-down when the encourages the...

Joannie has a fender-bender with a real developer who is upset with Bradford's column opposing his p...

Tom is challenged to a family touch football game by his dentist. He learns that winning is not the...

Dr. Max shows up on Tom's doorstep after a fight with his wife and ends up staying with the Bradford...

This episode introduces Betty Buckley in the contract role of Sue "" Abby"" Abbott. At first she was...

David's new roommate romance both Susan and Joannie.Tom decides he has been neflecting Nicholas and...

After Tom and Abby break up, the Bradford children set Tom up with another woman in an effort to mak...

Tom throws a party to celebrates paying off the mortage on the Bradford house. Unfortunately, the ki...

Mary runs for a seat of the Board of Education and enlists the famil's help on her campaign. Abby...

Joannie agrees to do a nude scene in a shakespearean play and is relives when Tom says he can't make...

After much debate, Tom and Abby decides on November 9th as their wedding date and agree to let the c...

The children get carried away with the weddind plans and nearly cause the wedding to be canceled....

Tom and Abby take the kids to San Francisco where Tom is scheduled to accept an award for his column...

Abby coordinates Spring cleaning at the Bradford house. Mary is upset when the son of Tom's friend...

Tom's eccentric sister Auntie V returns for another visit with the Bradfords. She surprises Tom and...

The Bradfords celebrate their first Christmas without their late mother,Joan. Nicholas mistakenly...

The kids convince Tom to shoiw some Christmas spirit by bailing Sam out of jail and inviting him to...

Tom is upset when Abby makes arrangements for Elizabeth to get birth control pills. Tom is drafted...

The family gives Tom a day of peace for his birthday, and it drives him crazy. David goes for the...

With Abby's encouragement, Tom takes a leave of absence to pursue the dream of writing a book about...

Abby is upset about when David gives Nicholas a BB gun. Tom's column about garbage causes a contro...

Joannie, Nancy, and Susan meet new guys at a disco over winter break and love times three drives the...

Susan and Tom are jealous when Abby spends too much time with Susan's new boyfriend she brought home...

Frustrated by the transporation arrangements, Tommy, Elizabeth, Nancy, and Susan buy their own car....

Abby suffers a concussion when she falls off a ladder. Tha Bradfords take turns keeping Abby awake...

Abby convinces Tom to spend the weekend with her parents in Pasadena, leaving the kids alone for the...

David meets an attractive young woman who is the daughter of a wealthy construction man. Joannie t...

Joannie directs a talent show to raise money, for the orphanage she is vo;unteering at . Joannie tri...

Suffering from imsommia and thinking he's going nuts.Tom visits a psychiatrist to find the cause....

Nicholas convinces Tom to coach his little league football team. Tired of having no privacy, the...

Abby has her own problems when she thinks sha may be pregnant and is relucant to tell Tom. Tom pan...

Joannie gets accepted into a theater company and her first role is that of gopher and understudy.Whe...

Nicholas has a crush on his teacher and buys her self-portrait at her garbage sale, but tries to hid...

Tom is chosen to teach a journalism class at the university and is impressed by one student who is w...

Susan struggles to find the right career after she realizes she's not out to be a professional athle...

Many struggles with medical school and charaviristic professors. Susan, Elizabeth, and Nancy try to...

David starts living gangerously after a close friend dies oif a heart attack at a young age. The kid...

The male Bradfords refuse to attend a speech that Abby was selected to give. War erupts between the...

Abby's parents are flying in from Pasadena for Thanksgiving.Nicholas is surprised when the Vice-Pres...

The Bradford children plan a party for Tom and Abby's anniversary and Nicholas fell left out. Tom...

In San Diego, Nicholas is taken in by Joe Simmons, an old con man and bum who was a friend of Sam's....

Tired of not having time to themselves, Tom and Abby conspire to get rid of the kids so they can spe...

Both Elizabeth and Tommy learn that there is no easy way to success. Elizabeth wants to go to an exp...

Tired of Tom's strict rules, Nancy, Susan, and Joannie look for an apartment of their own because To...

In an effort to keep the remaining Bradfords at home, Tom repeals all curfews but Abby doubts his wi...

Abby's mother arrives for a visit and Abby is upset to learn that her parent are breaking up. Abby's...

On a rainy night in Sacramento, the Bradford house is turned upside-down when the power goes out and...

Nicholas tries to avoid a young lady who has a crush on him. Tired of saying goodnight to each ot...

Tommy offers to marry a pregnant friend who was a girl, Lori, even though he's not the father of her...

Abby uses the family as subjects in a research project for school. Nicholas's new friend, Bobby,...

While substitute teaching at the high school, Abby refuses to pass the star basketball player, and t...

Tom and Abby are surprised to learn that Nicholas is musically talented but Abby is upset when Tom g...

Abby and the children are frustrated when they are trying to study for finals and a youth-oriented a...

Tom is proud when Elizabeth and Joannie are graduating the same week (Joannie from college and Eliza...

Tom finally realizes his dream of being a published author when a magazine prints his short story, b...

David and his traveling companion continue on their cross-country trip and he gets involved in a han...

Nicholas and Susan meet Merle the Pearl, a local minor league baseball player. Nicholas is upset...

David returns and is determined to win Janet back from her new boyfriend. Merle confides to Nicho...

David and Janet set a wedding date but it turns out to be the same day Merle and Susan decided to mo...

Chaos hits the Bradford house when everyone's activities go around the clock. In order to get her...

Things are not as they seem at the Bradfords when Merle's sister, Linda Mae, comes from the farm and...

Joannie gets a job in the research department of a TV station. Mary finds a hidden home pregnancy te...

Three Bradfords struggle to meet the expectations of others: Nicholas turns truant to escape the lon...

Tom's sister Vivian sweeps into town with an offer to take the entire family on vacation to Hawaii,...

Still in Hawaii, Tom and his father contemplate whether they can or should bother to reconcile their...

When Tommy is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, Mary and Nicholas both feel culpable for...

The furnace is on the blink, causing a cold front in the Bradford house, but Tom dismisses Mary's of...

Tom and Abby believe that Susan is depressed because Merle is gone but learn that she is pregnant. T...

Tom talks David into hiring Tommy as a construction worker but Tommy has to prove himself to his fel...

Joannie tries to convince her boss that she is ready for more responsibility at work. Joannie wants...

Upset that an all girl band was chosen to play at prom, Tommy protests by running for prom queen....

Tom is upset that everyone is neglecting their household duties so Abby and the kids pool their reso...

Abby tries to cheer Tom up on his 50th birthday. Tom feels the pressure of teh youth movement at...

Tommy is upset when Jill's idea of a commitment is not the same as his and then misinterprets signal...

It's winter break and Joannie, Nancy, and Mary meet strange men that drive Tom and Abby crazy. To...

Tom's new temporary secretary is overly attentive. Joe Simons, the con man who helped Nicholas re...

Ernie misreads Elizabeth's friendly gestures. David is jealous that Janet is working long hours w...

Abby needs time to deal with memories of her late husband after a fellow prisoner of war shows up in...

Merle recruits the girls for a charity basketball team. Tom is jealous when a publisher offers to...

Joannie gets an important assignment at work but Jeffrey believes that the boss will be expecting a...

Tom is upset that Tommy hasn't sent in any college applications but Tommy wants to be a musician and...

Nicholas starts a dog-sitting service. Nancy falls in love with the 5-year-old daughter of the yo...

Tom and Abby agree to let Tommy and a few friends have the house for a small party after graduation....

Nicholas and Tom start boy scouts and Nicholas volunteers Tom to be the assistant scout master. E...

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Abby goes to a funeral in San Francisco and returns with her nephew, Jeremy, who has nowhere else to...

Abby gets a job as a guidance counselor at a rough high school filled with trouble. Tom discovers...

Susan brings the baby, Sandra Sue, home from the hospital. When Joan's parents visit the Bradford...

Ernie introduces Tommy to a slightly older songwriting woman who has a 4-year old son. When he falls...

Nicholas and his friend, Melvin, start a messenger service to earn money and get more than they barg...

Caught up in a newspaper strike and laid-off, Tom tries to bring the feuding parties together thanks...

Tom is nominated for a political post by the governor. A political appointment for him ends up more...

Abby is proud of the progress one of her students has made and invites her to the house for dinner....

Joannie is tired of not getting any serious assignments at work and Abby encourages her to take a le...

Joannie involves David in the renovation of an old opera house. However, Janet is the legal counsel...

Jeremy meets a new girlfriend at a Fred Astaire film festival. Tom and Abby decide to renew their...

Tommy and Ernie, back from college with a ""preppy"" look, run into Jill, Tommy's old girlfriend. Wh...

Nancy's modeling career is about to take off but she needs to make an important decision as she late...

Jeremy wants to manage Tommy's band and tries to get him a gig. Joannie is chosen to organize a c...

This year it's the boys' turn to meet new women. Tommy dates the daughter of a radio station owner i...

Just as Tommy's career is about to take off, his old girlfriend returns to tell Tommy she is pregnan...

Ellen tells Tommy that she doesn't want to marry him and Tommy isn't sure what he wants to do. At th...

Jeremy is suspicious when he finds a skull while digging in the garden. David and Janet consider...

Merle suffers a career-ending shoulder injury and doesn't know what to do if he can't play baseball....

Finally ready to be a father, Jeremy's father returns for a visit and wants to take him back to Los...