History Series / EightIsEnough

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Well the title does refer to the fact there are ''eight'' children.

* PlayingGertrude: Abby Bradford, who at age 30 is only a few years older than Tom's oldest children. (In the fall of 1977, David Bradford had just turned 23, while his sisters Mary was 22 and Joanie was 21.) In real life, Laurie Walters, the actress who played Joanie, was ''six months older'' than Creator/BettyBuckley, the actress hired to play her stepmother, Abby. Betty Buckley was actually 30 just like Abby, however.

* PlayingGertrude: Abby Bradford, who at age 30 is only a few years older than Tom's oldest children. (In the fall of 1977, David Bradford had just turned 23, while his sisters Mary was 22 and Joanie was 21.) In real life, Laurie Walters, the actress who played Joanie, was ''six months older'' than Betty Buckley, the actress hired to play her stepmother, Abby. Betty Buckley was actually 30 just like Abby, however.

* ActorExistenceFailure: The actress who played Joan Bradford, Diana Hyland, died of cancer after only appearing in four episodes. So Tom [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim became a widower]] in season 2.

* WeddingDay: Two of the series' most memorable episodes revolve around weddings, both aired during sweeps periods (and predictably, both did very well in the Nielsens). The first aired in November 1977, when Tom and Abby are married; the second came in October 1979, when two of Tom's children – David and Susan – are married in a double ceremony.

* PlayingGertrude: Abby Bradford, who at age 30 is only a few years older than Tom's oldest children. (In the fall of 1977, David Bradford had just turned 23, while his sisters Mary was 22 and Joanie was 21.) In real life, Laurie Walters, the actress who played Joanie, was ''six months older'' than Betty Buckley, the actress hired to play her stepmother, Abby.

* TheOtherMarty: David, the oldest son, was played by Grant Goodeve for most of the series. In the pilot, he was played by none other than [[Franchise/StarWars Mark Hamill]]!

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Abby Bradford, who at age 30 is only a few years older than Tom's oldest children. (In the fall of 1977, David Bradford had just turned 23, while his sisters Mary was 22 and Joanie was 21.) In real life, Laurie Walters, the actress who played Joanie, was ''six months older'' than Betty Buckley, the actress hired to play her stepmother, Abby.

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An American comedy-drama series running from March 15, 1977 until August 29, 1981 on {{ABC}}, centered around the Bradford family with eight children living in Sacramento, California.

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* {{Mad}}: ''Eight is Too Rough''

* HeyItsThatGuy: In the pilot episode, Mark Hamil played the oldest son David.
* DawsonCasting: Laurie Walters, who was 30 when the series began; her character, third-oldest child Joanie, was 20 and in college.

** David – who would be divorced sometime in the 1980s – was remarried in a 1989 TV reunion movie, "An Eight Is Enough Wedding."

* ActorExistenceFailure: The actress who played Joan Bradford, Diana Hyland, died of cancer after only appearing in four episodes.

* BasedOnATrueStory: As stated above, it was based on the family of newspaper columnist Thomas Braden.

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* ActorExistenceFailure: The actress who played Joan Braden, Diana Hyland, died of cancer after only appearing in four episodes.

* ActorExistenceFailure: The actress who played Joan Braden, Diana Hyland, died of cancer only appearing in four episodes.

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