Massive Numbered Siblings / Live-Action TV

• 7th Heaven is a drama about a pastor, his wife, and their five kids. Then they have twins Sam and David at the start of the third season, bringing the number up to... seven, of course.
• All My Children saw this develop with Dr. Maria Santos's family. First, the viewers were introduced to her sister Julia, who came to stay with her in Pine Valley. Then her brother Mateo also showed up... and then their younger sisters Anita and Rosa joined them.
• Boardwalk Empire:
  • Eli has a stereotypical Irish litter, to the point that one of his political cronies gets their names wrong trying to be avuncular.
  • Margaret is one of an Irish family of five, four daughters and a son.
• The Brady Bunch is about a blended family of her three daughters and his three sons.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine mentions that Detective Santiago is the youngest of eight children, and the only girl. Other characters use this to explain her ultra-competitive streak. So far, we've only met one of her brothers, David, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
• Call the Midwife: A standard trope as it's set in 1950's and 1960's London. Much is made in the earlier episodes about the lack of contraception available as a tool for family planning, necessitating the presence of a midwifery order of nuns in the area. The pilot episode features a family with 24 children, and until the show is solidly in the 1960's, it's unusual to see a family with fewer than 4-5 of them. This is lampshaded in an episode in series 8, in which a family is in need of both a district nurse for a terminally ill teenager as well as a midwife for her mother. Sister Hilda comes to check on the teenager and is met by a gaggle of small children rushing out the door. She asks the teenage girl how many younger brothers she has, and the girl quips she doesn't know, because "they never slow down long enough for me to count them."
• Carla Tortelli begins Cheers with 4 children from one man. She ends the series with 8 children from three. This is not a spoiler. In an interview, Rhea Perlman described her character as "very fertile".
• Pierce of Community has 32 "ex-stepchildren" from his seven failed marriages.
• The Huxtables from The Cosby Show barely qualify, with five.
• In Cranford, there are Miss Mary Smith's half-siblings. There is five little Smiths and the eldest is barely seven. Mrs. Smith is young and when seen on-screen, she's either chubby or already pregnant again.
• The Vasnetsov family in Daddy's Daughters now stands at five daughters and a newborn son.
• Charlene and Carlene from Designing Women have numerous siblings. The Sugarbakers don't qualify by themselves, but they do have a paternal half-brother named Clayton born in between Julia and Suzanne; the spin-off also establishes that they have an intellectually disabled brother named Jim.
• Doctor Who: In "The Vampires of Venice", alien matriarch Rosanna has 10,000 sons, of whom Francesco is the eldest.
• Eight is Enough had eight siblings: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas. Late in the series a cousin moved in.
• The Fosters has this, largely through fostering/adoption. There's Steph's biological son, Brandon, from a previous marriage; Jesus and Mariana, twins whose mother was a drug user and dealer and their father was never in the picture, and Callie and Jude, half-siblings who ended up in the foster system when their father went to prison for vehicular manslaughter after getting their mother killed while driving drunk. Lena wants a biological child of her own, too, and at one point she remarks that she's the only member of this family that isn't a blood relative of anyone else in the family; said baby would be the sixth. The first attempt at an in vitro pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
  • Callie gets a bonus one, because upon finding out that Jude's father wasn't actually her biological father as she'd believed for all of her life, she meets her real father — and half-sister. So even without the baby, Callie already has 3 brothers and two sisters.
• Frasier has Daphne, who is one of nine children, and the only girl of the family. Several of her brothers appeared over the course of the show, but even on her wedding day, the group they showed on-screen was not even close to all of them.
• Friends - Joey Tribbiani is the only male out of eight siblings. His sisters Gina, Tina, Dina, Mary-Angela, Mary-Therese, Veronica, and Cookie are revealed in a few episodes that encounter Joey's family.
• Game of Thrones universe:
  • Game of Thrones:
    • Ned Stark has six kids — five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, is actually his nephew.
    • Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate (though bastards are no big issue at all in Dorne).
    • Walder Frey has twenty-nine legitimate children by eight wives as well as numerous bastards.
    • In sharp contrast to the Starks and the Baratheons, the Lannisters have several siblings, relatives with cousins and nephews aplenty, and multiple lines to inherit and keep their land and titles. However, Tywin Lannister is obsessed with ensuring the main Lannister line is represented by himself and remains at the top of the succession ladder.
  • House of the Dragon:
    • Despite detesting the idea of motherhood in her youth, Rhaenyra eventually becomes a mother of six children. She also adopts Daemon's two daughters from his second marriage, meaning her household consists of eight children.
    • Also applies to Rhaenyra herself and the other surviving children of King Viserys from a different mother — Aegon, Aemond, Helaena and Daeron (who's not mentioned in the first season but George R. R. Martin invokedhas confirmed his existence).
• Blanche's family from The Golden Girls just barely qualifies. On the series, we meet her younger sister Virginia, her older sister Charmaine, and her gay younger brother Clayton. On the spinoff Golden Palace, viewers meet her mentally impaired older brother Tad, whom she never mentioned to her friends.
  • Rose's family qualifies even more. She was adopted by the Lindstroms, who had eight of their own children.
• Good Luck Charlie has five children, two girls and three boys, all with masculine names (PJ, Teddy, Gabe, Charlie, and Toby).
• In "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", the famous episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky, first-time godfather Fred finds himself in the waiting room at the hospital with Mr. Stanley, a man who has six daughters. His wife is currently in the maternity ward, and he's hoping that she'll finally have a boy. The nurse then emerges to tell Mr. Stanley that they have a "surprise" for him, and he begins to celebrate... until she tells him that his wife didn't have a girl or a boy. It's then that three nurses appear, each carrying a baby girl. Fred tells Mr. Stanley to look on the bright side: "You can always plan on a girl's softball team!"
• Just the Ten of Us is about a couple with eight children, the youngest of whom is born in the first season. In an episode where they figured into the show from which it spun off, Boner was amazed at this, and figured they were Catholic. The show makes it clear that this is actually the case; the family's involvement in the Catholic church is central to the show's premise.
• The Kids Are Alright (2018) has the Doyle family, but with eight male children.
• Two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit involve detectives investigating Christian families with 10+ children. However, in one of the episodes, the youngest "sibling" was actually the child of one of the older daughters.
  • Elliot Stabler edges into the mild end of this since he has five children, though a substantial age gap between the youngest and the other four meant that the first two children were already adults, with the oldest living outside the house, by the time the youngest sibling was born.
  • One episode featured a Smug Snake lawyer who had been impregnating women and then emotionally manipulating them to give birth because he wanted to have as many children as possible, with no care at all for the effect that this has on the mothers. Towards the end of the episode, he reveals he has 47 children (each by a different woman), and at least one additional woman is currently pregnant.
• In Malcolm in the Middle, Lois and Hal start out with four kids (Dewey, Malcolm, Reese, and Francis), which expands to five with the addition of baby Jamie. However, since Jamie is born long after Francis is out of the house, they don't have to raise all five kids in the house at once. Also, in the series finale, Lois discovers she's pregnant again, prompting a loud scream from Hal.
• Nanny 911 has "The Silcock Family", a family consisting of 23 adopted sons living in the same house. It got so hectic that all three of the nannies had to be called in.
• The Originals: Esther Mikaelson had seven children: Finn, Freya, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Kol, and Henrik, with all but Klaus being a product of her marriage to Mikael Mikaelson.
• Parodied by RTL Samstag Nacht, who subtitled Kelly Family, an Irish clan of musician, mentioning some more family members like Otto Kelly, Petra Kelly, Gene Kelly, Grace Kelly, Dr. Helmut Kelly, Kelly von Sinnen...
• Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: The historical Qianlong Emperor had over twenty-five children (though many died young). The series includes more than fifteen of them.
• Schmigadoon!: Farmer McDonough has seven daughters despite wanting a son.
• Played for Laughs in Scrubs with Dr. Stone who has 7 children from his 6 ex-wives. He and his new wife, with whom he has separated, are expecting another child.
• Second Noah was a tween series in The '90s about a couple who adopted eight kids.
• Both the original UK version and the American remake of Shameless have the central Gallagher family with the six main siblings — Fiona, Lip, Ian, Carl, Debbie, and Liam. Later on, in both versions, another is added to the fold — in the UK version, it was baby Stella; in the US version, it's a long-lost half-sister named Sammi. Patriarch Frank is implied to have even more illegitimate kids running around and the American version even likens the family to Explosive Breeders, stating that, due to the Gallaghers' great fertility, the USA will consist mainly of them and Mexicans.
• In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Cardassians are said to have huge families, and several generations live in one household. Gul Dukat says he has seven children with his wife, and an eighth from an affair. Notably, Cardassians are family-oriented, so when the affair comes to light, he's essentially shunned from Cardassian society.
• Step by Step is about a blended family of three of his children, three of hers, and eventually their daughter, plus his nephew.
• Stranger Things: Suzie Bingham has six named siblings, and a few more besides. Her parents' home is decidedly chaotic.
• In Stuck in the Middle the lead character is the fourth of seven children. The actress Jenna Ortega also counts in real life as one of six children.
• In the That '70s Show episode "Stolen Car", Eric says to Kelso, "Your parents have seven kids. They won't even notice you're gone!" However, only one of his siblings, Casey, appears in the show.
• Ultraman Z introduces a new invader to the series, the Space Pirate Alien Barossa, who claims to be the eldest of 10,000 siblings. Further Barossas have since shown up in the franchise, claiming to be seeking revenge for their dead brother.
• The Umbrella Academy: The titular academy is made up of seven (now-adult) siblings. Granted, they are adopted, but their paternity is a mystery and it is very possible that they are biologically siblings. Season 3 introduces the Sparrow Academy, another group of seven adopted siblings that were also born on October 1st 1989, although they're from a different timeline than the Umbrellas.
  • According to the intro narration, forty-three children ( sixteen in the Sparrow's timeline) were born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st 1989, and some scenes throughout the series all but confirm that their birth was caused by their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, meaning they might all be biologically related to an extent. Additionally, the narration specifically mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the comics there was at least one set of twins.
• A central aspect of The Waltons is that the family has seven children. (They actually should have ten, but two died at birth and one was a miscarriage.) This is a case of Real Life Writes the Plot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by The Film of the Book for his autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain.