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Which Bradford Sister do you Go For? (clockwise from top left)

Susan	0 votes
Elizabeth	9 votes
Mary	0 votes
Nancy	3 votes
Abby (technically, not a daughter, but you may find her MILFY enough to compete)	0 votes
Joanie	0 votes

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2008 09:21 PM

Let's say you're buds with Willie Ames. We'll in fact call you Charles. If you're truly "in charge" which Bradford sister do you want as your own "shortcake."

cooby Mar 23 2008 09:36 PM

I wavered a lot. I liked all of them but Mary (who years later I found out was my husband's choice). But Nancy was sure pretty. Susan looked like shit with blond hair.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2008 10:03 PM

This show didn'tt launch many good careers. Mary was found dead with a deadly combo of meds in her system. Susan and Tom Jr. also have had lots of issues with addiction.

metirish Mar 24 2008 04:42 AM

Elizabeth.

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 07:24 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 24 2008 08:42 AM

Tommie Bradford's goofball friend (Ernie, I think) went for Elizabeth, and so did goofball I. Elizabeth was playded by Connie Needham, which I read as "Connie Need Him." She needed me. (And speaking of she needed me," I always thought Mary looked like Anne Murray. Similar low clear voice, too.) Karmic payback came for all the times Tommie jerked around his flunky when he bacame Scott Baio's flunky, first in Zapped! and then on Charles in Charge. Welcome to first-run syndication, hot-shot. As outlined in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, when hipster douchebag author Dave Eggers and the editorial staff of Might! magazine staged the fake fast-lane death of Adam Rich (Nicholas) to make some douchebag commentary on magazine-reader fascination with celebrity death, Adam didn't have the consideration to tell everybody who Might! be affected, and Entertainment Tonight broke the news on camera to Dick Van Patton, who broke down in heaving sobs.

seawolf17 Mar 24 2008 07:40 AM

g) None of the above. But I will select Nicole Eggert from "Charles in Charge."

HahnSolo Mar 24 2008 07:55 AM

Ditzy-looking blond, lower right. Thought her character name was Lauri, I guess not.

metirish Mar 24 2008 08:13 AM

I have no idea what show this is but the older man in front must like the sauce, even in black and white I can tell he has that shiny red nose heavy drinkers often get.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2008 08:38 AM

I was an Elizabeth Man myself, and a big time one at that, but am frequently surprised by how often the redheads steal these things away. Also, the blonde (Nancy, Hanhsolo) is a Cuteypie, no doubt. Mary to me may as well have been a guy. I'm pretty sure Abby was hotter.

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 09:05 AM

Mary, (somehow, I left her name out of the post above) was the Anne Murray imiatator. Careers: Mary: Doctor Joanie: Stage Actress/Director. Nancy: Model Susan: Baseball Wife (Susan is the lone fictional member of the developing UMWWDB. Elizabeth: College Student. Part-Time Activist. Social Experimenter. Foreign versions: Spain: Con Ocho Basta. Italy: Otto Bastano France and French Canda: Huit, Ça Suffit! Eight is enough was a strange hybrid in that it was presented as a dramatic one-hour show the first season. It had modest success (as nothing bombed on ABC in that era). Then they retooled it, adding a new theme (sung by Grant Goodeve), an Abby, and a laugh track. (The ABC schedule was filled with sitcoms). It was strange, as the show clearly wasn't shot on a stage set, and the laughter was always sort of muffled. It was probably the only one-hour show at the time with a laugh track. (Love Boat would put a laugh track on one of their three story lines per episode.) The actors mugged for laughs but they weren't really funny. They hadn't been hired to be funny. It made me feel awkward, but, admittedly, I watched for years. When it was in its death throes, they brought in Ralph Macchio and started steering it toward the melodrama it was meant to be. Too late.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2008 09:15 AM

It was hard not to get excited when Elizabeth went on The Pill. I think that was the first time I'd even heard of that.

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 09:31 AM

The seedy underbelly!

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 09:35 AM

Damn right, I have to see where this goes...

Willets Point Mar 24 2008 10:53 AM

I guess this show was before my time. Judging on one picture I'll go with the Irish-looking girl second from left.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2008 10:58 AM

I think Elizabeth would be thrilled to know she's the No. 1 choice of so many Cranepoolians. Shall I write her?

Fman99 Mar 24 2008 11:06 AM

I'd like to claim credit for this thread as this is the picture I used to indicate 8 days remaining till the season starts. Having said that, I don't remember who the characters are but I, like Willets, am going with the second one from the left in the back row. She's got that 70's thing going that works for me :)

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 11:43 AM

Willets Point wrote: I guess this show was before my time. Judging on one picture I'll go with the Irish-looking girl second from left. You're talking Elizabeth. Susan (Susan Richardson) once claimed filmmakers kidnapped her and tried to kill her in North Korea. She now works as a caregiver in a nursing home. Elizabeth (Connie Needham) now works as a dance teacher in Orange County. David (Grant Goodeve) would go on to become an inspirational singer/songwriter. He continues to act. Tommie (Willie Aames) appeared most recently on VH-1's Celebrity Fit Club 2. He and his wife tour the country speaking about their ordeals as survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Mary (Lani O'Grady) started suffereing from panic attacks on the show's set and would eventually die with a lethal (but legal! --- thanks, Doc) combination of Vicodin and Prozac in her. Joanie (Laurie Walters) "works" as an environmentalist (according to IMDB) and, like her character, directs for the stage. Tom (Dick Van Patten), patriarch of an acting family, continued to be an active and talented tennis player well into seniorhood. In December 2005, he made the news for pushing a high-end dog food, which he demonstrated as being so indistingushable from human food that he promoted it by eating it himself. In January 2006, perhaps relatedly, he was hit by a diabetic stroke. He has made a full recovery. Nicolas (Adam Rich), as noted, once faked his own death for publicity. He today owns 4 Tire stores in and around the Sacramento area, where the show was set. Abby (Betty Buckley) returned to the stage in middle age and became one of Broadway's biggest stars, most remembered for her performance of "Memory" in Cats. She performs extensively in the cabaret circuit and released an album called Quintessence in February. Nancy (Dianne Kay) continued to act, including a big role in Spielberg's flop 1941. In the last decade, she has become a full-time Mom, and turns 53 next week. Happy birthday, Dianne.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2008 12:02 PM

Boy. Even Joanie's post-show career has been a complete bore. I'm having trouble remembering any plot involving her. Oh, wait... she recruited the family to be actors when some calamity hit her show.

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 12:10 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 25 2008 06:55 PM

Two Joanie plots I remember. She got a job directing a school-age production and had to cast Nicholas to be a swashbuckling prince, thanks to nepotisim and his Prince Valliant hairstyle. Nicholas, in a nod to the gritty realism the show might have had but never fullly indulged, was beaten mercilessly at shcool for weeks. She auditioned for a big time local play and was instead given props and stage management duties, as well as understudying the lead. She convinced her Dad to review it in his column. When she was pressed to go on for the lead on opening night and was completely unprepared (to zero comic effect, if I recall) her Dad solved his moral quandry by panning her performance but praising the production values more representative of her work. I don't recall Mary ever having a date. I think I remember one guy interested in Joanie, but then turning out to be a cad, hitting on Nancy or something while Joanie was getting dressed.

Willets Point Mar 24 2008 12:22 PM

AG/DC wrote: ="Willets Point"]I guess this show was before my time. Judging on one picture I'll go with the Irish-looking girl second from left. You're talking Elizabeth. That's who I voted for. AG/DC wrote: Elizabeth (Connie Needham) now works as a dance teacher in Orange County. And she's still hot: http://www.dancedynamics.biz/instructors.htm

HahnSolo Mar 24 2008 12:26 PM

As I think more about this show, here are a few things that popped into my head. - In that photo above, the Bradford boys are the three prettiest in the picture. - Dianne Kay guest starred on an episode of Starsky and Hutch. Details are hazy (I think she played the kidnapped daughter of a pro sports team owner), however, she did spend most of the episode in a schoolgirl uniform. I remember things like this. Shoot me. - I thought David's wife (ably played by Joan Prather) was pretty hot. - Willie Aames, after discovering Christianity, was on TV and touring nationally as a superhero called BibleMan. I do hope that the childhood sexual abuse he suffered, as noted in AG's chart, was not from one of Leonard Unger's football teammates.

metirish Mar 24 2008 12:32 PM

Willets Point wrote: ="AG/DC"] Willets Point wrote: I guess this show was before my time. Judging on one picture I'll go with the Irish-looking girl second from left. You're talking Elizabeth. That's who I voted for. ="AG/DC"]Elizabeth (Connie Needham) now works as a dance teacher in Orange County. And she's still hot: http://www.dancedynamics.biz/instructors.htm Major MILF.

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 12:41 PM

HahnSolo wrote: As I think more about this show, here are a few things that popped into my head. - In that photo above, the Bradford boys are the three prettiest in the picture. - Dianne Kay guest starred on an episode of Starsky and Hutch. Details are hazy (I think she played the kidnapped daughter of a pro sports team owner), however, she did spend most of the episode in a schoolgirl uniform. I remember things like this. Shoot me. - I thought David's wife (ably played by Joan Prather) was pretty hot. - Willie Aames, after discovering Christianity, was on TV and touring nationally as a superhero called BibleMan. I do hope that the childhood sexual abuse he suffered, as noted in AG's chart, was not from one of Leonard Unger's football teammates. Notable from that picture is that Joanie looks like the biological daughter of stepmother Abby. How come Abby didn't bear a ninth Bradford herself?

AG/DC Mar 24 2008 01:22 PM

The score so far: Elizabeth (Connie Neeham): 7 votes Nancy (Dianne Kay): 2 votes Evabody else: Zip. Somebody is lobbying for a Dianne Kay comeback.

soupcan Mar 24 2008 03:22 PM

I have a friend who as a kid lived on the same street (Chiquita Street, North Hollywood, CA) as the house they used for the outside shots for 'Eight Is Enough'. I'd vist him in Cali and sometimes we'd watch them film some episodes. Adam Rich used to skateboard around on the street during breaks in filming. He was a little shit. Visited my friend's mom about a year or so back and that house was long gone. It had been at the end of the street and had a couple of acres surrounding it. The street had been extended and lots of little boxes made of ticky tacky have replaced it.

cooby Mar 25 2008 05:20 PM

Go Nancy Go!