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Series Details
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 112
Creators: Lee Mendelson
Networks: ABC
Status: Ended
First Air Date: Mar 15, 1977
Recent Air Date: May 23, 1981
Run Time: m
In Production: No
Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Episodes
![Season 2 Episode 1 Season 2 Episode 1](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/igCjhzEOItnuIo1wHHBlJq89FK.jpg)
Episode 1
14 September 1977 - Is There a Doctor in the House?
Dr. Max shows up on Tom's doorstep after a fight with his wife and ends up staying with the Bradfords, driving them crazy with his fussy ways. David tries to borrow money from his brothers and sisters to cover a bad check he wrote at poker game to cover a debt.
![Season 2 Episode 2 Season 2 Episode 2](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/mbEZZSe3zjpnihlJYuGUQnUP0Uh.jpg)
Episode 2
21 September 1977 - Trial Marriage
This episode introduces Betty Buckley in the contract role of Sue "" Abby"" Abbott. At first she was a special guest star. Tommy breaks his ankles at a touch football game and will miss school for five weeks. Mary moves in with her boyfriend, a young psychiatry students [Doug] . Sandra Sue Abbott is sent to tutor Tommy while he is absent from school.
![Season 2 Episode 3 Season 2 Episode 3](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tUzyDkGiY7cNR8SNmRgn4gNRYQR.jpg)
Episode 3
28 September 1977 - Triangles
David's new roommate romance both Susan and Joannie.Tom decides he has been neflecting Nicholas and drives Nicholas crazy by spending too much time with him. Tommy organizes a family garage sale to earn money.
![Season 2 Episode 4 Season 2 Episode 4](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/d7DKYBBVJQjJVvldG6V1KftR06o.jpg)
Episode 4
05 October 1977 - Double Trouble
After Tom and Abby break up, the Bradford children set Tom up with another woman in an effort to make Abby jealous. Nancy enters the Miss Scaramento beauty contest. David and Tommy hang aroung a laundromat in hopes of meeting girls.
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Episode 5
19 October 1977 - Mortgage Burnin' Blues
Tom throws a party to celebrates paying off the mortage on the Bradford house. Unfortunately, the kids get into a melee when Susan punches a heckler at David and Tommy's singing appreance and Tom has to remortage the house to pay the damages as seven of his children were arrested after a fight in the nightclub. David waits for the results of his contractor's exam. Nicholas felt left out since he was never arrested.
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Episode 6
26 October 1977 - Dark Horse
Mary runs for a seat of the Board of Education and enlists the famil's help on her campaign. Abby is too busy to keep her dates with Tom. Tom proposes to Abby after she and Mary are able to work out their difficulties over Mary's running for the school board. Abby accepts Tom's proposal.
![Season 2 Episode 7 Season 2 Episode 7](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/1le7x4428UEsRiXza8bED6mrELF.jpg)
Episode 7
02 November 1977 - The Bard and the Bod
Joannie agrees to do a nude scene in a shakespearean play and is relives when Tom says he can't make it to the show, or so it goes. [Obviously, a sweeps stunt.] Abby's former father-in-law visits and she is hesitant to introuduce him to Tom and tell him about her plans to marry him. David arranges for Tom to buy an engagement ring for Abby through a friend at work, but it turns out to be too hot to handle.
![Season 2 Episode 8 Season 2 Episode 8](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/y0c5DXHF0bZ3jikjCfKyNCNPxgz.jpg)
Episode 8
09 November 1977 - Children of the Groom (1)
After much debate, Tom and Abby decides on November 9th as their wedding date and agree to let the children handle the wedding plans, but it almost does not happen when things get too crazy. Elizabeth and Nicholas are not as excited about the wedding plans as the rest of the Bradford children.
![Season 2 Episode 9 Season 2 Episode 9](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/ffYyGWBnnn9OVVTbqc604N9jRFi.jpg)
Episode 9
09 November 1977 - Children of the Groom (2)
The children get carried away with the weddind plans and nearly cause the wedding to be canceled. Abby asks Elizabeth to be her maid of honor and develop a special relationship.
![Season 2 Episode 10 Season 2 Episode 10](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/RuE6nXyNrrRDvneasz29c2i6Rw.jpg)
Episode 10
16 November 1977 - I Quit
Tom and Abby take the kids to San Francisco where Tom is scheduled to accept an award for his column anbd the trip doubles as a honeymoon. Mary is upset when she is rejected by a medical school and Abby wants to contact an old friend to help her get in. The kids wrangle their way along the trip as chaos begins.
![Season 2 Episode 11 Season 2 Episode 11](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/8a7sPfpGUFHlZ6G0jxMWOBq9P2q.jpg)
Episode 11
23 November 1977 - All's Fair in Love and War
Abby coordinates Spring cleaning at the Bradford house. Mary is upset when the son of Tom's friend comes to Sacramento to open an army recuriting office on campus, which does not please her liberal anti-war feelings. Over the course of time they learn to respect each other's beliefs. Tom gets the wrong idea when he spots Mary and Richard in a hug. Tommy helps Nicholas deal with a school bully. Another of Tommy's money making schemes backfires.
![Season 2 Episode 12 Season 2 Episode 12](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/ecZEGHe3TQqSHhfFaWTuRwGRuNt.jpg)
Episode 12
30 November 1977 - The Return of Auntie V
Tom's eccentric sister Auntie V returns for another visit with the Bradfords. She surprises Tom and Abby with a new house as a wedding present. The kids are excited, but as they fix up the house for sale they begin to fall in love with it again. Nancy wants to expand her horizons by going on a cruise with Auntie V. Nancy falls for the estate agent who is trying to sell the Bradford house.
![Season 2 Episode 13 Season 2 Episode 13](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/x30iyjRrw6sLfEyWZRKwk6xvqEF.jpg)
Episode 13
14 December 1977 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (1)
The Bradfords celebrate their first Christmas without their late mother,Joan. Nicholas mistakenly assumes the man he finds in the house on Christmas Eve is Santa Claus and lets him steal the Christmas presents, putting Christmas temporaily on hold.
![Season 2 Episode 14 Season 2 Episode 14](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/rqqoioeUFwdIbdKBab1ki4ibs82.jpg)
Episode 14
14 December 1977 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (2)
The kids convince Tom to shoiw some Christmas spirit by bailing Sam out of jail and inviting him to the house for Christmas dinner as they celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Tommy receives a special Christmas present from his mom.
![Season 2 Episode 15 Season 2 Episode 15](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/5Jo5Gg7YyDAVAUqFOnwwsNrCf1J.jpg)
Episode 15
04 January 1978 - A Hair of the Dog
Tom is upset when Abby makes arrangements for Elizabeth to get birth control pills. Tom is drafted into doing a ""Dear Abby"" for the paper. Abby's studies are keeping her busy and leave little time for the family. Abby decides to stay at home more and drives everyone, including herself a little crazy trying to be a Betty Crocker-type. David and Tommy fix Abby's car.
![Season 2 Episode 16 Season 2 Episode 16](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/9IbIcqAXxfpSskftdzljvtVB3By.jpg)
Episode 16
11 January 1978 - Author, Author!
The family gives Tom a day of peace for his birthday, and it drives him crazy. David goes for the weekend and gives Tommy the use of his apartment but Tommy winds up throwing a party. Abby's parenting skills are tested when Tommy gets drunk.
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Episode 17
18 January 1978 - Much Ado about Garbage
With Abby's encouragement, Tom takes a leave of absence to pursue the dream of writing a book about his family. He can't get it published the norman way, but has a special issue done for each member of the family. David goes on a double date with Nancy and they come home with different stories of the same night.
![Season 2 Episode 18 Season 2 Episode 18](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/mpBuk9ZRGmsGO0zR9JgriV7Grom.jpg)
Episode 18
25 January 1978 - Dear Ms. Dinah
Abby is upset about when David gives Nicholas a BB gun. Tom's column about garbage causes a controverty when he writes a tongue-in-cheek column. That's when his troubles start to pile up, along with his garbage. Tom is prepared to go to jail rather than reveal his source for his column.
![Season 2 Episode 19 Season 2 Episode 19](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/lzWBwGF4FCQknJaLcvzfEraZ8pJ.jpg)
Episode 19
01 February 1978 - Hard Hats and Hard Heads
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Episode 20
08 February 1978 - Seven Days in February
Joannie, Nancy, and Susan meet new guys at a disco over winter break and love times three drives the Bradford household crazy. David's friend tries to convince him to go on a blind date, so he fixes David with one, but the ""date"" turns out to be totally unexepectely...his sister Mary. Tommy desperatiely tries to win rock concert tickets.
![Season 2 Episode 21 Season 2 Episode 21](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/sK7mNyLsNPUGcCQbf8CErYksOYW.jpg)
Episode 21
15 February 1978 - The Boyfriend
Susan and Tom are jealous when Abby spends too much time with Susan's new boyfriend she brought home for dinner, and Abby strikes up too much connection with her date. Nicholas is appointed water monitor at home during a water shortage, and gets fired for being too tough. Tommy gets into trouble at school and wrongly assumes he's home-free when the principal calls David instead of Tom.
![Season 2 Episode 22 Season 2 Episode 22](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/qeWpnRpbKbIhbtS5fZaUl6C9WAX.jpg)
Episode 22
22 February 1978 - Great Expectations
Frustrated by the transporation arrangements, Tommy, Elizabeth, Nancy, and Susan buy their own car. Tom is upset that Tommy is failing English and pressures him to get a good grade. Tom learns a lesson about parental pressure when Tommy, trying to please him,buys a term paper from a high school hustler. Joannie wants Nicholas to play Prince Charming in her play.
![Season 2 Episode 23 Season 2 Episode 23](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/vLH3ddwyr1GN28B19loKqLR8qKB.jpg)
Episode 23
01 March 1978 - Long Night's Journey into Day
Abby suffers a concussion when she falls off a ladder. Tha Bradfords take turns keeping Abby awake by telling her stories and sharing memories, which are flashbacks from previous episodes.
![Season 2 Episode 24 Season 2 Episode 24](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/i5rFscjCQiNN0Oa2qsBrFSDTseu.jpg)
Episode 24
28 April 1978 - The Lost Weekend
Abby convinces Tom to spend the weekend with her parents in Pasadena, leaving the kids alone for the weekend. While they are away, despite a rule against having any non-Bradfords in the house, the kids throw a party, but then the house is overrun with chaos and the kids barely manage to get things back in order before Tom and Abby return. A distant cousins shows up on the Bradford doorstep for the flower children.
![Season 2 Episode 25 Season 2 Episode 25](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/tDHPtqjEehv8d6Y802qXTyhix5P.jpg)
Episode 25
03 May 1978 - Poor Little Rich Girl
David meets an attractive young woman who is the daughter of a wealthy construction man. Joannie tries to get the family to communicate better using encounter-like truth games. Tom, which helping Nicholas build a car, takes over completely.
![Season 2 Episode 26 Season 2 Episode 26](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/a0FhZ5gQpf43ScywYN9317yGLEd.jpg)
Episode 26
10 May 1978 - Who's on First?
Joannie directs a talent show to raise money, for the orphanage she is vo;unteering at . Joannie tries to get the whole family to enterain. Nicholas believes ha has seen a UFO, but nobody else believe him. It turns out to be only a practical joke by one of the neighborhood kids. ""Abby"" sing a song she wrote herself. ""SO-LA"". music by Jim Hurt, Ira Newborn and Betty Buckley aho also wrote the lyrics. ""David"" sings a song he wrote hisself. ""Eight is Enough"". lyrics by Molly-Ann Leikin, music by Lee Holdridge. This song replaced the original theme song from the next season on.
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