Eight is Enough

  • Premiered: Mar 1977
  • Episodes: 112
  • Followers: 14
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Comedy Drama Family

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Season 4
4x1
Merle the Pearl
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 05, 1979
Nicholas and Susan meet Merle the Pearl, a local minor league baseball player. Nicholas is upset that his young girlfriend is moving out of town and wants to introduce her to Merle .. show full overview
4x2
The Cupid Crisis
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 1979
David returns and is determined to win Janet back from her new boyfriend. Merle confides to Nicholas that he wants to propose to Susan but Susan is upset when the entire Bradford .. show full overview
4x3
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 1979
David and Janet set a wedding date but it turns out to be the same day Merle and Susan decided to move up the wedding day to accomodate Merle's ballplaying career move. Nancy gets a .. show full overview
4x4
Ten Ships in the Night
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 1979
Chaos hits the Bradford house when everyone's activities go around the clock. In order to get her Ph.D. more quickly, Abby attends school full-time and has little time for the family. .. show full overview
4x5
The Night They Raided Bradfords
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 1979
Things are not as they seem at the Bradfords when Merle's sister, Linda Mae, comes from the farm for a visit. It's a comedy of errors when she calls the police after misunderstanding the family's crazy life style.
4x6
The Devil and Mr. Bradford
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 1979
Joannie "scoops" Tom on a story on a porno theater for her new job at a television station. The problem is that the theater is owned by a public corporation and Tom is a stockholder.
4x7
Big Shoes, Little Feet
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 1979
A new closeness develops between Nicholas and Abby after a substitute teacher expects him to live up to high standards set by his brothers and sisters. Meanwhile, Tom needs a partner .. show full overview
4x8
Fathers and Other Strangers (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1979
Tom's sister, Vivian wants to take the Bradfords to Hawaii for a vacation. The real reason is that she has found out that Tom's long-lost father is living there.
4x9
Fathers and Other Strangers (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1979
Tom and his father finally make up after the family plots to get them together to talk.
4x10
Letter to One Bradford
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 1979
Nicholas feels responsible when bad luck seems to run in the family after he breaks a chain letter. Merle and Susan argue about his choice of friends and her neglect of household duties. .. show full overview
4x11
Separate Ways
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 1979
Tom is up to his ears with kids when Susan returns home after a spat with Merle, while Nicholas is on strike for more allowance, and Mary and Elizabeth try to bill him for fixing the thermostat.
4x12
Arrivals
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 28, 1979
Merle returns to try to win Susan back, and receives some news that will change his life forever. Meanwhile, Ernie and Tommy use Nicholas as bait to meet girls.
4x13
Brotherhood - Sisterhood
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 1979
Tom talks David into hiring Tommy as a construction worker but Tommy has to prove himself to his fellow workers by standing up to them on his own. Nicholas needs to write a speech .. show full overview
4x14
Mary, He's Married
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 1979
Mary learns that being an adult can be painful when she falls for a resident at the hospital who is married. Meanwhile, Joannie wants to do a documentary on her family, and Nicholas goes into business selling wrinkle remover.
4x15
My Son, the Prom Queen
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 1980
Upset that an all-girl band was chosen to play at prom, Tommy protests by running for prom queen. Joannie pushes her boss for some on-camera work.
4x16
The Courage to Be
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 16, 1980
Tom is upset that everyone is neglecting their household duties so Abby and the kids pool their resources to hire a maid. Tommy tries to help his friend Ernie, who won't admit he has .. show full overview
4x17
Semi-Centennial Bradford
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 23, 1980
Abby tries to cheer Tom up on his 50th birthday. Tom feels the pressure of teh youth movement at work and believes that the Register wants to replace him with a younger columnist. .. show full overview
4x18
The Commitment
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 30, 1980
Tommy is upset when Jill's idea of a commitment is not the same as his and then misinterprets signals from Mary's friend, Kerry, and gets deeper into trouble. Tommy presents Jill with .. show full overview
4x19
Seven More Days in February
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Air date
Feb 06, 1980
It's winter break and Joannie, Nancy, and Mary meet strange men that drive Tom and Abby crazy. Tom fixes Tommy up with his boss's niece.
4x20
The Return of Joe Simons
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 13, 1980
Tom's new temporary secretary is overly attentive. Joe Simons, the con man who helped Nicholas return from San Diego, shows up pretending to have struck it rich in the Yukon and .. show full overview
4x21
Bradford vs. Bradford
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1980
Ernie misreads Elizabeth's friendly gestures. David is jealous that Janet is working long hours with a male colleague. Tom counsels David and Abby counsels Janet, and they end up .. show full overview
4x22
Memories
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 05, 1980
Abby needs time to deal with memories of her late husband after a fellow prisoner of war shows up in Sacramento. She works out her feelings and returns to the family. Nicholas goes .. show full overview
4x23
Official Positions
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 19, 1980
Merle recruits the girls for a charity basketball team. Tom is jealous when a publisher offers to publish Abby's thesis and Tom can't get his accepted. They pool their efforts, after .. show full overview
4x24
A Matter of Mentors
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Air date
Mar 26, 1980
Joannie gets an important assignment at work but Jeffrey believes that the boss will be expecting a favor in return. Joannie blows her chance at a big story. An experienced reporter .. show full overview
4x25
Roll Over Bradford
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 02, 1980
Tom is upset that Tommy hasn't sent in any college applications but Tommy wants to be a musician and is not interested in college. Auntie V brings her new fiance to meet the .. show full overview
4x26
A Little Triangle
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 09, 1980
Nicholas starts a dog-sitting service. Nancy falls in love with the 5-year-old daughter of the young widower she is dating, but doesn't fall in love with her father. Ernie can't find a date for the prom.
4x27 Season finale
Grad Night
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 30, 1980
Tom and Abby agree to let Tommy and a few friends have the house for a small party after graduation. Nicholas and Irving are working on a school project when Irving gets hurt and .. show full overview

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