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  Family Matters (TV series) Summary
Depicted as the son of a neurosurgeon, he was a studious bookworm with genius-like abilities in math and science; traits that made him a rare representation of fl youth for prime-time television.
Family Matters was an American sitcom about a middle class African American family living in Chicago.
Family Matters ranks as one of the longest running African American sitcoms along with The Jeffersons and The Cosby Show.
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  Family Matters (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In one episode in particular, she felt she was not being given the respect she deserves from her family, so she went on a domestic 'strike,' which lead to the house becoming a disaster (and a teacher jumping to the erroneous conclusion that the Winslows were dysfunctional).
During the early years of the series, he was a high school student with sometimes stereotypical traits of a high school boy (e.g., poor grades, membership on the basketball team, irresponsible behavior).
The family matriarch, Estelle is the mother of Carl, mother-in-law of Harriette, and grandmother of Eddie, Laura and Judy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_Matters_(TV_series)   (3735 words)

  
 Family (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Family was an award-winning television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980.
Storylines were very topical, and the show was one of the first to feature shows that have recently been termed as "very special episodes." In the first episode, Nancy, who was pregnant, walked in on her husband Jeff making love to one of her friends.
In the later seasons, there were instances in which Buddy had to decide whether or not to have sex; she always chose to wait, most notably in an episode with guest star Leif Garrett, who was a teen idol at the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_(TV_series)   (456 words)

  
 Family Album Information
Family Album is also the name of a comedy TV series.
Family Album is the name of a Danielle Steel romance novel and of a TV movie based on it.
But more important to her is her family life, from her marriage, the birth of her children, the separations and reconciliations with her husband, the struggles to raise her children and the problems they go through once grow up until, in the end, they come through stronger from the ordeal.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Family_Album   (301 words)

  
 Family Ties TV Show - Family Ties Television Show - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Family Ties first aired in September of 1982 on NBC and was one of the first of a wave of family comedies that emerged in the 1980's.
With a rocky start in the ratings, Family Ties rose to number 2 after it was placed in the prized time-slot right after The Cosby Show and remained there from 1984 until 1987.
It's a time for healing and learning to deal with life without family patriarch Paul (the late John Ritter), as the Hennessys discover the frailties of life and the strength of the family unit, on...
www.tv.com /family-ties/show/268/summary.html   (552 words)

  
 Family Year
The families we have chosen for this series cover a range of incomes, occupations, and structures, from the young Czech parents looking forward to the birth of their first child to the middle-aged Russian couple concerned about the health of their young granddaughter.
By watching this series the audience is made aware of some of the things they can do for themselves and their children to lead to a healthier future.
A single TV series was developed for use throughout Central and Eastern Europe on the assumption that the common experiences in this region, particularly during the decay of the health infrastructure, would result in a common understanding of health concerns, goals, approaches, resources and priorities and resources.
www.ceche.org /programs/famyear/famyear.htm   (1991 words)

  
 The Hogan Family (TV series)
The premise was straightforward enough--take one harried mom (Valerie), juggling part-time career and full-time responsibility for running a household due to the frequent absence of her husband (Michael), an international airline pilot; add one rambuncious teenager (David) and two super-cute fraternal twins (Willie and Mark).
NBC decided to continue without her, retitling the series "Valerie's Family" (some suggested "Where's Valerie?" or "Who's Valerie?" might be more appropriate).
Valerie was written out of the series as having died, and Michael's divorced sister Sandy moved in to serve as a sort of surrogate mom.
www.angelfire.com /biz/hoganfamily   (274 words)

  
 Jackson family shops TV series
That's how a TV project featuring Michael Jackson and some of his relatives is being pitched to broadcast and cable outlets.
Sources said the show was positioned as offering a "portrait" of the famous family and a behind-the-scenes look at how parents Joe and Katherine and Michael Jackson's eight brothers and sisters rallied around their brother following his indictment by prosecutors in Santa Barbara, Calif., in November 2003.
Sources familiar with the proposal said the pitch suggests that the family has at least some footage of their activities during the trial already in the can, though it is unclear how many family members have agreed to appear on camera should the show land a network home.
www.azcentral.com /ent/celeb/articles/0616jackson.html   (362 words)

  
 Photo Help on New TV Series--Family Tree Magazine
Tune your TV set to PBS, where Taylor will appear in the network's "Ancestors" series, which began its second season in June.
She shares her family-photo know-how in the season's final episode, "Writing a Family History." The episode tells the story of Taylor McDonald, who set out to write a family history and discovered that the "legends" about his grandfather taming the Wild West—even riding with Poncho Villa—were true.
The first series, which aired in 1997, aimed to motivate people to search for their roots (and helped spark the current genealogy boom).
www.familytreemagazine.com /articles/aug00/ancestors.html   (344 words)

  
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 The Michael J. Fox Database :: Acting Career :: TV Series :: Family Ties
The day to day happenings of your not-so-typical 1980's family with liberal parents and (for the most poart) conservative children.
However, he did not wish to be tied down to a series.
Family Ties was an extention of Gary David Goldberg's relationship with his life partner, Meehan.
www.michaeljfoxdatabase.com /Career_TV/series_FT.html   (828 words)

  
 KQED.org: Public TV: American Family: TV Family Portraits: The Hessons
KQED Public TV 9 is producing portraits of five Bay Area families to air alongside the American Family TV series.
The Hesson family home in Santa Cruz, CA is ruled by laughter, love and a strong sense of play.
The family's attitude towards life, along with the strong support from their community, has often helped to get them through difficult times.
www.kqed.org /w/americanfamily/portrait1.html   (888 words)

  
 Movie Info for The Partridge Family [TV Series] on MSN Movies
Loosely inspired by the career of the real-life family singing group the Cowsills, the ABC sitcom The Partridge Family starred Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, widowed mother of five musically inclined children.
Almost by accident, Shirley began singing with her kids during an impromptu garage jam session, and thus was born the Partridge Family, a popular singing aggregation who traveled from one engagement to another in the family's battered, psychedelically decorated bus -- all the while trying to lead a "normal" life.
During the series' fourth and final season, Ricky Segall was seen as Ricky Stevens, a four-year-old neighbor kid who occasionally performed with the Partridges.
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 KQED.org: Public TV: American Family: TV Family Portraits: The Strauses
The results have not only kept the family farm going, but have allowed it to grow by more than 400 percent in the last eight years.
Dozens of other family farmers in West Marin have also decided to capitalize on the organic market and are growing organic vegetables, planting organic orchards and raising grass-fed beef.
By the 1970s, family farmers were finding it more lucrative to sell their land to developers than to farm it.
www.kqed.org /w/americanfamily/straus.html   (1009 words)

  
 American Family [TV Series] | Plot | MTV Movies
Beyond the fact that it was seen on PBS, the dramatic series American Family bore no relation to the classic docudrama series of the 1970s.
Created by filmmaker Gregory Nava, the series focused on a "typical" Latino family in East L.A., and as such was the only program on "regular" TV to feature an almost exclusively Latino cast.
According to Gregory Nava, the series' dramatic thrust was that the Gonzalezes were "trying to deal with their identity -- who they are, where they came from, and where they are now." American Family began its 12-episode run on January 23, 2002.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/219881/plot.jhtml   (312 words)

  
 Family-Friendly TV Series Comes to DVD
Standing the test of time, the drama takes place during the turbulent years before World War II when America was undergoing financial disaster and families had to make sacrifices in order to survive poverty and fears of an unknown future.
Created and narrated by Earl Hamner, Jr., the program was a reflection of the author’s own upbringing during the same era, with his experiences re-told to the viewer through the eyes of aspiring writer John Boy Walton (Richard Thomas).
The success of the series opened the doors for future family-pleasers such as Eight Is Enough and Little House on the Prairie.
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 The Addams Family (Animated TV Series) - Television Review
The characters teach viewers not to fear or mock people who are different than they are -- but, on the other hand, their actions (and their house itself) can be scary and gruesome.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY follows the animated adventures of a silly-yet-gruesome family composed of vamps and Frankenstein look-alikes who have a spare body part as a pet.
The Addams Family movie and its sequel, Addams Family Values, are both available on DVD.
www.commonsensemedia.org /tv-reviews/Addams-Family.html   (580 words)

  
 eBay - family ..., DVD, HD DVD Blu-ray, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Movie Info for The Family [TV Series] on MSN Movies
In this ABC reality series, ten members of an Italian-American blue-collar family were invited to live in the luxury of a mansion in West Palm Beach, FL.
Whoever was still living in the house at the end of the series won a grand prize of one million dollars.
Determining who would be allowed to stay and who would be asked to leave were a group of "trustees," actually the mansion's staff of servants, who based their assessment on the behavior (good, bad, polite, boorish) of the contestants.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=540997   (142 words)

  
 Open Casting Call | Teen Actor | Acting | VH1 | Partridge Family TV Series | Singing | Reality TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
VH1 is scouring the United States for peeps who can act and sing like the great '70s TV family, The Partridges.
The search for a 21st century Partridge Family is going to be recorded and turned into a seven-episode reality TV show called In Search of the Partridge Family.
Okay, so now that you've figured out who the Partridge Family is, you need to start preparing for the audition.
www.kidzworld.com /article/4602-casting-call-the-partridge-family   (223 words)

  
 American Love Stories . TV Series | PBS
Your local public TV station may schedule repeat broadcasts, so check the ITVS database to find out if it's scheduled in your area.
Funding for the series was provided by Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Fisher Foundation, British Broadcasting Corporation, ARTE, Playboy Foundation, Eastman Fund, Gund Foundation, Waterman Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation, and private donations.
The film is presented in conjunction with several series partners.
www.pbs.org /weblab/lovestories/tvseries   (177 words)

  
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THE family of a teenager found dead in woods only weeks before she was due to appear in a reality TV show have insisted it should go ahead.
The producers of the six-part series Colony last night told the Yorkshire Post the family was adamant it should still be screened, but it will be delayed for three months.
The fly-on-the wall series, which aimed to show how early settlers lived at the turn of the 19th century, was due to be aired on June 6, but producers yesterday announced they would delay screening until September.
www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1034381   (868 words)

  
 The Addams Family Biographies
After the "Addams Family," Astin went on to countless guest spots as an actor and soon began directing episodes of various comedy and drama series.
Pugsley was his only part in a TV series, though he played it three times; first in the original 1964 series, next as the voice of Pugsley in the 1973 animated version and then finally in 1977 provided the voice of Pugsley again in "The All New Addams Family Halloween" cartoon special.
Uncle Fester was played by former childstar Jackie Coogan in the original series, Rip Taylor in one of the recent cartoon series, and Christopher Lloyd in the big-screen movie.
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 The Unofficial Addams Family Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There may be something of the "New Addams Family" which Fox produced for the then Fox Family Channel, which is now owned by Disney/ABC.
If you see Addams Family DVD sets for sale they are bootlegs copied from the TV.
The only previous official release of Addams Family episodes was the first 24 on VHS video tape and LaserDisc.
www.addamsfamily.com   (766 words)

  
 TV Series Finale - 2006 Series Finales: Unseen Family Connections
TV Series Finale - 2006 Series Finales: Unseen Family Connections
Series like Malcolm in the Middle, That '70s Show and The West Wing have each given us many hours of enjoyment.
Thankfully for Masterson family members, their finales are airing on different nights.
www.tvseriesfinale.com /2006/05/2006_series_finales_unseen_family_connections.html   (465 words)

  
 Family Ness TV Show
Show Summary: "The Family Ness was written and created in 1983 by Peter Maddocks, who also created the cartoons Penny Crayon, (voiced by Su Pollard) and Jimbo and the Jetset.
The Family Ness was the first of these three instantly recognisable cartoons made for the BBC; The Family Ness appearing in 1983.
Angus and Elspeth are the son and daughter of Mr McTout, they live in a little cottage by the side of Loch Ness.
www.retrojunk.com /details_tvshows/1498-family-ness   (232 words)

  
 family - OneLook Dictionary Search
FAMILY : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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Words similar to family: kin, category, class, families, fellowship, folk, home, house, household, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsperson, menage, phratry, sept, clan, family line, family unit, ilk, more...
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 The magic of ‘American Family’ returns - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com
I have a family, an American family, and this is what American families are going through right now.
EST Sunday) to relate the history of the Gonzalez family as well its present-day joys and sorrows.
Sonia Braga is another family member, an ephemeral one: Her character, Jess’ wife, died last season.
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 Family Guy, Family Guy on dvd, buy Family Guy dvds
To the ranks of shows too brilliant and outrageous for prime time (The Ben Stiller Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), add Seth McFarland's Family Guy.
This animated series, which debuted after the 1999 Super Bowl, simply sparked too much controversy and offended too many sensibilities to survive (Entertainment Weekly dubbed it "the Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air").
That the Fox network also played hackysack with its schedule, ensuring viewers would not be able to find it, sealed its fate (it was cancelled in 2002).
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 Family Guy TV Show
But after a huge cult following and tremendous sales of the DVDs, the show was resurrected by FOX in May 2005 and Family Guy started right where it left off, making people laugh with 80s references, celebrity bashing, and sexual and racial jokes that make you just cant help but to laugh at.
why would you want to shut down family guy in 07 when that is the best show of them all and i would die if you take it off the air please dont............
This show scared the shit out of me in 2006 when they aired the 5th episode of their 5th season because at the beginning, Peter fell down unexpected.
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