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* The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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... along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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... along with siblings. [[spoiler:Season 3 introduces the other thirty-six babies 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 ([[spoiler: sixteen in the Sparrow's timeline]]) were [[BizarreBabyBoom born under mysterious circumstances on October1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but 1st 1989]], and some have pointed out scenes throughout the series all but confirm that [[spoiler: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 ''women'' becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
** According to the intro narration, forty-three children ([[spoiler: sixteen in the Sparrow's timeline]]) were [[BizarreBabyBoom born under mysterious circumstances on October
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* ''Series/CallTheMidwife:'' A standard tropes 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 [[LampshadeHanging 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."
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* ''Series/CallTheMidwife:'' A standard tropes 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 [[LampshadeHanging 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."
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* ''Series/CallTheMidwife:'' A standard tropes 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 [[LampshadeHanging 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."
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* ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'': Farmer McDonough has seven daughters despite wanting a son.
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* ''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.
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** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': 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.
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*** 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.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 Creator/GeorgeRRMartin [[invoked]][[WordOfGod has confirmed]] his existence).
*** 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''
*** 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 Creator/GeorgeRRMartin [[invoked]][[WordOfGod has confirmed]] his existence).
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned Stark has six kids -- five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son [[spoiler:who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is actually his nephew]]]].
** Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate.
** 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.
** Ned Stark has six kids -- five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son [[spoiler:who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is actually his nephew]]]].
** Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate.
** 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.
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* ''[[Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire Game of Thrones]]'' universe:
** ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** *** Ned Stark has six kids -- five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son [[spoiler:who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is actually his nephew]]]].
** *** Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate.
**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.ladder.
** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': 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.
** ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
**
*** Walder Frey has ''twenty-nine'' legitimate children by eight wives as well as numerous bastards.
** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': 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.
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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Suzie Bingham has six named siblings, and a few more besides. Her parents' home is decidedly chaotic.
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* ''Series/RuyisRoyalLoveInThePalace'': The historical Qianlong Emperor had over twenty-five children (though many died young). The series includes more than fifteen of them.
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* The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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... along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
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* The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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... along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
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* The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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. Along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer's Mountain''.
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* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer's Mountain''.
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* The titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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. Along siblings... along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer'sMountain''.
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* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer's
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* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' 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.
* ''Series/AllMyChildren'' 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.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'':
** 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.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' is about a blended family of her three daughters and his three sons.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' 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 Creator/LinManuelMiranda.
* Carla Tortelli begins ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' with 4 children from one man. She ends the series with 8 children from three. This is not a spoiler. In an interview, Creator/RheaPerlman described her character as "very fertile".
* Pierce of ''Series/{{Community}}'' has 32 "ex-stepchildren" from his [[SerialSpouse seven failed marriages]].
* The Huxtables from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' barely qualify, with five.
* In ''Series/{{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 ''Series/DaddysDaughters'' now stands at five daughters and a newborn son.
* Charlene and Carlene from ''Series/DesigningWomen'' 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.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]", alien matriarch Rosanna has ''10,000'' sons, of whom Francesco is the eldest.
* ''Series/EightIsEnough'' had eight siblings: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas. Late in the series a cousin moved in.
* ''Series/TheFosters'' 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, [[spoiler: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. [[AllLesbiansWantKids 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. [[spoiler:The first attempt at an in vitro pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
* ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned Stark has six kids -- five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son [[spoiler:who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is actually his nephew]]]].
** Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate.
** 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.
* Blanche's family from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' 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.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has five children, two girls and three boys, [[GenderBlenderName all with masculine names]] (PJ, Teddy, Gabe, Charlie, and Toby).
* In "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", the famous episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' 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!"
* ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'' is about a couple with eight children, the youngest of whom is born in the first season. In an episode where they figured into [[Series/GrowingPains 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.
* ''Series/TheKidsAreAlright2018'' has the Doyle family, but with eight male children.
* Two episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involve detectives investigating Christian families with 10+ children. However, in one of the episodes, [[spoiler: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, [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations by the time the youngest sibling was born]].
** One episode featured a SmugSnake 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 ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', 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.
* ''Series/TheOriginals'': Esther Mikaelson had seven children: Finn, Freya, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Kol, and Henrik, with all but [[spoiler: Klaus]] being a product of her marriage to Mikael Mikaelson.
* Parodied by ''Series/RTLSamstagNacht'', who subtitled Kelly Family, an Irish clan of musician, mentioning some more family members like Otto Kelly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kelly Petra Kelly]], Creator/GeneKelly, Creator/GraceKelly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl Dr. Helmut Kelly]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella_von_Sinnen Kelly von Sinnen]]...
* ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'': Farmer McDonough has seven daughters despite wanting a son.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/SecondNoah'' was a tween series in TheNineties about a couple who adopted eight kids.
* Both the [[Series/ShamelessUK original UK version]] and the [[Series/ShamelessUS 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 [[LongLostRelative long-lost half-sister]] named Sammi. Patriarch Frank is implied to have even more illegitimate kids running around and the American version [[LampshadeHanging even likens the family]] to ExplosiveBreeders, stating that, due to the Gallaghers' great fertility, the USA will consist mainly of them and Mexicans.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', 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.
* ''Series/StepByStep'' is about a blended family of three of his children, three of hers, and eventually their daughter, plus his nephew.
* In ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'' the lead character is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fourth of seven children]]. The actress Jenna Ortega also counts in real life as one of six children.
* In the ''Series/That70sShow'' 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.
* ''Series/UltramanZ'' introduces a new invader to the series, the SpacePirate 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 titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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. Along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer's Mountain''.
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* ''Series/AllMyChildren'' 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.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'':
** 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.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' is about a blended family of her three daughters and his three sons.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' 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 Creator/LinManuelMiranda.
* Carla Tortelli begins ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' with 4 children from one man. She ends the series with 8 children from three. This is not a spoiler. In an interview, Creator/RheaPerlman described her character as "very fertile".
* Pierce of ''Series/{{Community}}'' has 32 "ex-stepchildren" from his [[SerialSpouse seven failed marriages]].
* The Huxtables from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' barely qualify, with five.
* In ''Series/{{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 ''Series/DaddysDaughters'' now stands at five daughters and a newborn son.
* Charlene and Carlene from ''Series/DesigningWomen'' 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.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]", alien matriarch Rosanna has ''10,000'' sons, of whom Francesco is the eldest.
* ''Series/EightIsEnough'' had eight siblings: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas. Late in the series a cousin moved in.
* ''Series/TheFosters'' 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, [[spoiler: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. [[AllLesbiansWantKids 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. [[spoiler:The first attempt at an in vitro pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
* ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Ned Stark has six kids -- five legitimate children (three sons and two daughters) and one illegitimate son [[spoiler:who, as revealed in the Season 6 finale, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo is actually his nephew]]]].
** Oberyn Martell has eight daughters who are all illegitimate.
** 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.
* Blanche's family from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' 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.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has five children, two girls and three boys, [[GenderBlenderName all with masculine names]] (PJ, Teddy, Gabe, Charlie, and Toby).
* In "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", the famous episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' 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!"
* ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'' is about a couple with eight children, the youngest of whom is born in the first season. In an episode where they figured into [[Series/GrowingPains 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.
* ''Series/TheKidsAreAlright2018'' has the Doyle family, but with eight male children.
* Two episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involve detectives investigating Christian families with 10+ children. However, in one of the episodes, [[spoiler: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, [[PracticallyDifferentGenerations by the time the youngest sibling was born]].
** One episode featured a SmugSnake 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 ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', 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.
* ''Series/TheOriginals'': Esther Mikaelson had seven children: Finn, Freya, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Kol, and Henrik, with all but [[spoiler: Klaus]] being a product of her marriage to Mikael Mikaelson.
* Parodied by ''Series/RTLSamstagNacht'', who subtitled Kelly Family, an Irish clan of musician, mentioning some more family members like Otto Kelly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Kelly Petra Kelly]], Creator/GeneKelly, Creator/GraceKelly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl Dr. Helmut Kelly]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella_von_Sinnen Kelly von Sinnen]]...
* ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'': Farmer McDonough has seven daughters despite wanting a son.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/SecondNoah'' was a tween series in TheNineties about a couple who adopted eight kids.
* Both the [[Series/ShamelessUK original UK version]] and the [[Series/ShamelessUS 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 [[LongLostRelative long-lost half-sister]] named Sammi. Patriarch Frank is implied to have even more illegitimate kids running around and the American version [[LampshadeHanging even likens the family]] to ExplosiveBreeders, stating that, due to the Gallaghers' great fertility, the USA will consist mainly of them and Mexicans.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', 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.
* ''Series/StepByStep'' is about a blended family of three of his children, three of hers, and eventually their daughter, plus his nephew.
* In ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'' the lead character is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fourth of seven children]]. The actress Jenna Ortega also counts in real life as one of six children.
* In the ''Series/That70sShow'' 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.
* ''Series/UltramanZ'' introduces a new invader to the series, the SpacePirate 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 titular Academy of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' 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. Along with the other thirty-six babies born under mysterious circumstances on October 1st, 1989. (At least forty-three children were born, but some have pointed out that the narration mentions forty-three women becoming suddenly pregnant, and in the ['ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy comics]] there was at least one set of twins.)
* A central aspect of ''Series/TheWaltons'' 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 RealLifeWritesThePlot; series creator Earl Hamner was himself one of eight children, and the series was inspired by TheFilmOfTheBook for his autobiographical novel ''Spencer's Mountain''.
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