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Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with

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    Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 1 - Never Try Eating Nectarines Since Juice May Dispense
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    #1 - Never Try Eating Nectarines Since Juice May Dispense

    S1:E1

    ""Never try eating nectarines since juice may dispense."" That's how Tom and Joan Bradford remember the names of their childrens: Nicholas, Tommy, Elizabeth, Nancy, Susan, Joannie, Mary, and David.Tired of fighting with his father,David move out of the Bradford house and the youngest Bradford children fight over his bedroom, prompting Tom to learn the importance of having a family relationship.Elizabeth is arrested for possession of narcotics and Tom and Joan have to find 1,500 to pay a lawyer. Nicholas had his tonsils removed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 2 - Schussboomer
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    #2 - Schussboomer

    S1:E2

    Matilda, Mary's very pregnant, unmarriage, friend stays in the Bradford house while she is between apartment, but her attidude toward marriage upsets Tom. She learns the joys of parenthood and paternal Tom helps deliver her baby. Tom is upset that Susan wants to spend the weekend with her bofriend at Square Valley.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 3 - Pieces of Eight
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    #3 - Pieces of Eight

    S1:E3

    Tom's chance at managing the newpapers runs into trouble when the printers go on stike. The whole family pitches in to help earn extra money. Nancy is disappointed by a modeling agent but Joan geta a job as a photographer to earn money during the strike. Tom and Joan argue about her continuing to work after the strike is settled.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 4 - Women, Ducks and the Domino Theory
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    #4 - Women, Ducks and the Domino Theory

    S1:E4

    Topsy-turvy at the Bradfords when Tommy has his ""dream girl"" stand him up. Neither David nor Tom wants to go on their annual hunt. Nancy wants to be a cheerleader. Elizabeth gets grounded over curfew.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Peter Lefcourt

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  5. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 5 - Turnabout
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    #5 - Turnabout

    S1:E5

    David learns about his life at a party the family throws to celebrates doctor Maxwell's 25th anniversary, as his date and Maxwell don't get along. David helps an older woman stuck in a traffic jam, but his dates seems to cause more trouble with his family than he bargained for.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 6 - Quarantine
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    #6 - Quarantine

    S1:E6

    Togetherness can be really funny when the whole Bradford household is quarantined, including Nancy's blind date,after Mary's boyfriend comes down with a mysterious ailment. David has to run errands for his quaranteened family. Nicolas hides some toys he brought into the house without buying them. Cabin fever eventually drives the family crazy.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 7 - V is for Vivian
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    #7 - V is for Vivian

    S1:E7

    Tony's sister shows up for a visit and turns the Bradford house upside-down when the encourages the kids to pursue their dreams and goals. David gets laid off and Vivian gets him a job as an architect. Mary gets ""C' in Introductory Philosophy. Joanie considers traveling in an acting company if she gets accepted by the director.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 8 - Hit and Run
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    #8 - Hit and Run

    S1:E8

    Joannie has a fender-bender with a real developer who is upset with Bradford's column opposing his project. Meanwhile, Elizabeth goes from three prom dates to none when they all show up at the same time. Tommy breaks the window of a local church house.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Eight Is Enough Season 1 Episode 9 - The Gipper Caper
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    #9 - The Gipper Caper

    S1:E9

    Tom is challenged to a family touch football game by his dentist. He learns that winning is not the only thing that counts. Elizabeth worries about Maria in Columbia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 1 - Is There a Doctor in the House?
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    #10 - Is There a Doctor in the House?

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 2 - Trial Marriage
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    #11 - Trial Marriage

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Philip Leacock
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 3 - Triangles
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    #12 - Triangles

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Philip Leacock
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 4 - Double Trouble
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    #13 - Double Trouble

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 5 - Mortgage Burnin' Blues
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    #14 - Mortgage Burnin' Blues

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 6 - Dark Horse
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    #15 - Dark Horse

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 7 - The Bard and the Bod
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    #16 - The Bard and the Bod

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 8 - Children of the Groom (1)
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    #17 - Children of the Groom (1)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Philip Leacock
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 9 - Children of the Groom (2)
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    #18 - Children of the Groom (2)

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Philip Leacock
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 10 - I Quit
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    #19 - I Quit

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:David Swift
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 11 - All's Fair in Love and War
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    #20 - All's Fair in Love and War

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:David Swift
    Writer:Marion Hargrove

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  21. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 12 - The Return of Auntie V
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    #21 - The Return of Auntie V

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 13 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (1)
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    #22 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (1)

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 14 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (2)
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    #23 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (2)

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 15 - A Hair of the Dog
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    #24 - A Hair of the Dog

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Eight Is Enough Season 2 Episode 16 - Author, Author!
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    #25 - Author, Author!

    S2:E16

    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.

    Directors:Irving J. Moore, Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Peter Lefcourt

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Best Episodes Summary

"Never Try Eating Nectarines Since Juice May Dispense" is the best rated episode of "Eight Is Enough". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/15/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Schussboomer".