7.9/1042 votes#1 - Is There a Doctor in the House?
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1977
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: N/A
7.7/1046 votes#2 - Trial Marriage
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1977
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: N/A
7.4/1036 votes#3 - Triangles
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1977
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: N/A
7.6/1038 votes#4 - Double Trouble
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1038 votes#5 - Mortgage Burnin' Blues
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1036 votes#6 - Dark Horse
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1977
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: N/A
7.4/1035 votes#7 - The Bard and the Bod
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1977
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: N/A
7.7/1037 votes#8 - Children of the Groom (1)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1977
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: N/A
7.7/1039 votes#9 - Children of the Groom (2)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1977
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: N/A
7.4/1038 votes#10 - I Quit
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1977
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: N/A
7.2/1036 votes#11 - All's Fair in Love and War
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1977
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
6.9/1045 votes#12 - The Return of Auntie V
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1053 votes#13 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (1)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1977
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: N/A
8.0/1051 votes#14 - Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus (2)
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1977
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: N/A
7.3/1033 votes#15 - A Hair of the Dog
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1978
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: N/A
7.0/1034 votes#16 - Author, Author!
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1978
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.
Director: Alf Kjellin, Irving J. Moore
Writer: Peter Lefcourt
7.9/1033 votes#17 - Much Ado about Garbage
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Lefcourt
7.6/1034 votes#18 - Dear Ms. Dinah
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1978
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.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.4/1032 votes#19 - Hard Hats and Hard Heads
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1978
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Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
7.6/1033 votes#20 - Seven Days in February
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1978
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.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.2/1036 votes#21 - The Boyfriend
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1978
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
7.5/1030 votes#22 - Great Expectations
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1026 votes#23 - Long Night's Journey into Day
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1978
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.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
7.9/1031 votes#24 - The Lost Weekend
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/28/1978
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.2/1029 votes#25 - Poor Little Rich Girl
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/3/1978
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.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Eight Is Enough Season 2
Every episode of Eight Is Enough Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Eight Is Enough Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Is There a Doctor in the House?" is the best rated episode of "Eight Is Enough" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/1977. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Trial Marriage".