Wow!!! One of the best family episodes... well acted and well written. Such sensitive subject to write about with tact and empathy. Thompson and Potts are remarkable... I'm in tears.. Yes flames are a dime a dozen but true sparks are indeed rare.
Tell me about it! There is nothing like a lab technition walking in at 6am turning on the lamp and stcking a needle in your arm for a blood sample then having the bold faced cheek to tell me to relax and go back to sleep!
Wanting to give bed baths at 4 a.m then blood tests, temperature,blood pressure etc. No peace ! Then it carries on all day... I was exhausted from lack of sleep 💤
I was only in the hospital overnight a few times in my life. The last time I went in for bronchial asthma. When they gave me oxygen it helped a lot. I hadn't slept for lack of breathing for 2 nights and now I could sleep but they kept coming in - separately! every hour or so to take vitals, give me one of their useless breathing treatments that hadn't helped (the oxygen did) and now all I wanted to do was sleep. I asked one of the sleep interrupters if they could at least coordinate their interruptions so I was only woken up once instead of over and over and she laughed at me. And said "Sorry, you won't get much sleep here." I said "Why put me in a bed then? Might as well put me in a chair since you won't let me sleep!"
all heavy smokers irl I believeI Annie Potts had been in a near fatal car accident in these years, as she was starting her TV career and was in chronic pain
I watched this show every week when I was a teenager. I've begun watching it again and some of the things that are no longer done are interesting to see now - Answering services Weekend-long hospital stay for a basic check up Paper shopping bags (no handles) at the supermarket Basic magic tricks
In the late 1970's it was only paper bags with NO handles. You always had to hold the bags underneath. By the mid to late 1980's the cashier in the supermarket would say: Paper or plastic?
I was born in 1978 and remember the big paper grocery bags growing up. I wish they still used them instead of these plastic things we have to use where everything rolls around in before you can get it home. Markets also had trading stamps and you could get things like popcorn poppers, electric blankets etc...
Well here in Massachusetts there are supermarkets that only use paper or you can bring your own bags. And plastic straws are being replaced with paper. Plastic now is a major pollutant and never disintegrates. So long after we're gone, the plastic we use will still be here....... forever.
Yup,people used to go to hospitals to rest ,it was code for nervous breakdown And in the 70s-80s people smoked in hospitals, my pcp,smoked cigars,blue haze in the office,waiting room,teachers smoked,in teachers lounge
The title for this episode of this excellent dramatic series could not have been more appropriate. It's simply due to the fact that Kate 's comforting and wise words to Caddy at the ledge about the dangers of drug abuse and self-harm keep me spellbound, leaving me thinking about the young musical talents that suffered the same consequences that came with fame. Thanks so much for posting it:)
I was in my 20s when this show first aired and one day I wore a dress to work that I didn't particularly like. My best friend told me I looked like Kate Lawrence. I never wore that dress again.
Of course I remember the episode, and I remember the real Star of that show: that wonderful, hilarity-provoking, highly illegal plot device, the door that locks from the outside. cf The Office's "Launch Party"
My husband was older than i, he loved Janis joplin, I didn't really know of her until i met him. I was from a big family, lived in the country. We only had three channels. We were told by my mothers husband that music like hers was druggie music. Was told bad things about Rod stewart and Elton John based on rumours my parents had heard you could say we lead a sheltered life.
I am the same age - I certainly knew Janis but it depended on what kind of crowd you hung with - Buddy -is a (good girl) she would not be exposed to that type of music/ culture at that time she would have likely been into disco - roller skating that was popular in California at that time
Judging by the terrible fake instrumental disco music they always have Buddy listening to it's not surprising she didn't know who Janis Joplin was. @@pjpredhomme7699
No way would I put up with a smoking roommate. Kate didn't have to be there for illness or anything. I'd have walked out and come back another time. I have to say that they must have had some kind of fabulous insurance plan to pay for hospitalization for a check up and tests.
Yeah, all that is pretty weird. I’m about Buddy’s age and had a lot of pretty wealthy family friends (though we weren’t, my dad was an artist with patrons) and I do not recall smoking in hospital rooms nor inpatient checkup weekends.
Oh I very well remember when people smoked in the hospitals! Patients smoked in their rooms and visitors smoked in the waiting rooms. Expectant fathers weren’t in with their wives; they were chain smoking in the maternity waiting rooms. No lie! What’s wilder now listening to this is the nurse yakking on and disclosing another patient’s information; now there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen nowadays!
This episode really touched my heart ❤. I was so scared that the girl was going to jump. Thank goodness that Kate was able to talk her out of it. I had a cousin who commented suicide. It hurt me really bad. To have a loved one who doesn't care about their life. Life is so precious and I am so happy 😊 that I can live it one day at a time. The end was really funny 😂 the rabbit was eating the flowers. Good episode.
...She was a schoolteacher in hospital for full bi-yearly diagnostic tests, as indicated at the beginning of the episode. As for rest, good luck with that wacko Cattie character for a roommate.
She does seem to be on the go a lot - her families' functions and activities, college classes and events related to her industry (operas, etc) and running all types of errands like nonprofit tasks (drop off / pick up, baking, etc), dry cleaning drop off & pick up, choosing and working with catering companies for events, event planning and management at her house....not to mention all the cooking and running to the market for all types of ingredients. I remember not hardly ever doing fast food back then. All meals were home made, and no microwave, either, nor dishwasher.
@@dianabarnum359 Exactly. And her husband was a lawyer so there many expectations that would not be interesting enough to show in most episodes. Mom was the backbone of the family then and the one who kept everybody on schedule and on time. My mom died when she was 49 and it was very obvious who was the glue that kept everyone together.
Rest in the hospital? You got to be kidding me - and just to have tests ? That’s nuts even if it was the 70’s. I do remember when smoking was allowed at patients beds !
Strange how the most nothing of details come back to you while watching a forty year plus old series: like taking home groceries in paper bags. We only knew paper bags until sometime in the late 80s when it was all plastic because we were cutting down too many trees.
Well here in Massachusetts there are supermarkets that only use paper or you can bring your own bags. And plastic straws are being replaced with paper. Plastic now is a major pollutant and never disintegrates. So long after we're gone, the plastic we use will still be here....... forever.
@@EifertD I'm really glad we are finally waking up. There should never have been a change to plastic in the first place. Those bags are a menace in every single way.
@Blue Butterfly Oh I agree..I love the small details. Sitting down to a family meal, shopping in a grocery store. I find all that fascinating. And you are right..they barely pay attention to those details anymore.
The Surgeon General had declared that smoking was bad for your health in the early seventies. People continued to smoke everywhere, even in elevators and no one objected. It wasn't until the Surgeon General in the 80's said 2nd hand smoke exposes non smokers to cancer etc...Which personally I find hard to believe. I've known a lot of non smokers who lived with smokers and they never had a lung related illness. Exhaling causes smoke to dissipate in the air. I think the SG's motive was to have non smokers put pressure on smokers not to smoke. The SG C. Everett Koop had announced his goal was to have a smoke free country by the year 2000.
Just not in rooms that were providing oxygen to patients. I remember ashtrays outside each elevator. I also remember ashtrays at the end of the isles in supermarkets.
@@RebeccaStropoli with grey hair and a deepened voice What happened to her soft voice ? It’s changed these years Did she dye her hair or is she aging now?
@@allysanchez5630 She is pushing 70 years old. So, yes, she is aging, of course. When we age, we get grey hair, we get wrinkles, our voices change. How could you possibly expect her to look and sound the same as she did 40 years ago?? Aging is inevitable (unless you die young). Don't worry, it'll happen to you, too, if you live long enough! ;)
@@allysanchez5630 But again, she is an absolutely beautiful woman of nearly 70. And I like natural gray hair on women that age. She has a great silver mane, and it softens her face (it would look harsher if she dyed her hair a dark color or something like that -- at a certain point, going with gray can be the best choice).
This is the first time I have seen the actress Annie Potts way before she did Pretty in Pink and Designing Women!! First time I saw Annie was in the movie pretty in pink, I own and like the movie pretty in pink😀🇮🇳😀🇮🇳 and the future Mrs. Edna Garret before The Facts of Life (I only own the 1st two seasons The Facts of Life) 🇮🇳😀🇮🇳😀
i didn't buy the caddy wilde character. i don't believe for a second that she was friends with morrison...lol...he would have tormented her for being pathetic and she would have loathed him for it...but the teacher in 'whispers' knew morrison in actuality.
@@apollozero Buddy was flipping through the channels one day and started watching battle of the network stars. She was like damn that Kristy Mcnichol chick looks a lot like me
@@ddivincenzo1194 I don't know if you saw the movie last action hero but in it Arnold Schwarzenegger plays himself and also a character that he is playing. It's a movie within a movie. I'd like to see an episode of Family where some kid has a magic ticket, transports himself into the TV set and takes Buddy with him and shows her the real world 😆 and she learns she's just a TV character and she runs into Kristy mcnichol 🤣
@@XxowendanxX That would be funny and I also remember that episode of "Battle of the Network Stars". That is how old I am. My favorite was when Ed Asner's team lost a tug of war and ended up in the mud, I think.
Not crazy about this episode. First of all, that’s the quietest hospital ever, even for a tv show. And the hospital staff crowded at the sunroom door watching Kate and Catty is a funny sight. Just too much hysteria by Annie Potts. The B story’s is blah. JMO
I would agree with you except for one thing - Sada's performance, in particular her wise words to the young woman about having a spark and it being a gift that could ignite others. To me that few minutes elevated the whole episode.
@@sueyardley7489 Sada always gave a wonderful performance, no matter the story. I hadn't seen these shows since their original run -- I so much more appreciate the series now. Totally bummed that I've finished seeing all the ones available online.
From what I know Kristy was a hot commodity in 1978. The network & show were concerned she would jump ship, so, they brought in Quinn fresh off her Goodbye Girl movie & reviews. Mike Nichols approved. Kristy ended up honoring her contract, even after winning two Emmy’s.
Could the character of Kate be any more stodgy and self-centered? She whines about how tired she is, consistently one way or another, physically, mentally etc., If here family was so important, than why is she continually griping? Besides, I just can't imagine someone being a "caring" person and react to the bunny like she did. But, that's just me.
It's very very tiring to be a mother, especially one with four kids. And to have a child bring a pet into the house without even asking permission is definitely a no go. Kate has tons of responsibility and I totally believe she was very very tired a lot of the time. The kids and Doug don't show much consideration for her and what she might need at any given time. It's all about them.
Probably checking her heart im guessing .. And they do a treadmill test and check her heart rate and function again shes there becausr they are monitoring her
Yes smoking was allowed back then. These days you can't even smoke anywhere on a hospitals property-including outside, you have to go off the property.
Possibly a jump-the-shark episode. Annie Potts' horrid performance makes it so. Just awful, and her slow slow speech is so annoying. Bad writing throughout too. Disappointing.
I would write this Hospital up on a thousand violations, close it down/open it up and close it once more for good measure. On the plus side though it was in a good location.
The surprising thing about this episode is they didnt write into the script Willie falling in love with Annie Potts at the hospital and taking her out of there to his dads cottage in the backyard to bone down
That's just what I used to think when I was watching this as a kid back in the day! In other episodes, we find out that Doug was brought up in a wealthy family, so maybe he was just cheap!
I've enjoyed the 50+ episodes I've watched......but this one is absolutely awful. LOL It doesn't even seem like it belongs to this show. This the first script Channing Gibson ever had produced. He went on to write for St Elsewhere, LA Law, etc. I'm sure he improved after this lol
Wow!!! One of the best family episodes... well acted and well written.
Such sensitive subject to write about with tact and empathy.
Thompson and Potts are remarkable...
I'm in tears..
Yes flames are a dime a dozen but true sparks are indeed rare.
Yes, this was always one of my favorite episodes.
My brother ended his life februari 21 our lives have been devastated but there was a part of this spoke to me through the character of the mother
I’m so sorry for your loss.
No one *ever* gets rest in the hospital. Nurses, doctors, CNA's, med students constantly in and out of the room day and night. UGH!!!
Tell me about it!
There is nothing like a lab technition walking in at 6am turning on the lamp and stcking a needle in your arm for a blood sample then having the bold faced cheek to tell me to relax and go back to sleep!
Wanting to give bed baths at 4 a.m then blood tests, temperature,blood pressure etc. No peace ! Then it carries on all day... I was exhausted from lack of sleep 💤
I was only in the hospital overnight a few times in my life. The last time I went in for bronchial asthma. When they gave me oxygen it helped a lot. I hadn't slept for lack of breathing for 2 nights and now I could sleep but they kept coming in - separately! every hour or so to take vitals, give me one of their useless breathing treatments that hadn't helped (the oxygen did) and now all I wanted to do was sleep. I asked one of the sleep interrupters if they could at least coordinate their interruptions so I was only woken up once instead of over and over and she laughed at me. And said "Sorry, you won't get much sleep here." I said "Why put me in a bed then? Might as well put me in a chair since you won't let me sleep!"
Visitors and other people's visitors.
Mrs.Lawrence, Mrs.Garrett and Mary Jo all in one room. Cool 😎
all heavy smokers irl I believeI
Annie Potts had been in a near fatal car accident in these years, as she was starting her TV career and was in chronic pain
Just discovered this show last month- a fantastic watch! Also- biannual hospital stay for routine tests?! My HMO would never, LOL
These days they kick you out 24 hours after major surgery...
And don't forget smoking in a hospital ! 😂
I watched this show every week when I was a teenager. I've begun watching it again and some of the things that are no longer done are interesting to see now -
Answering services
Weekend-long hospital stay for a basic check up
Paper shopping bags (no handles) at the supermarket
Basic magic tricks
I never forgot about this episode, glad I found it here. I realized years later this was Annie Potts. She was really good in this!
I love Kate! She was one of the best television moms ever.
...A little of Annie Potts goes a VERY long way.
HA!
Wow
I love Annie Potts, she might rub some people the wrong way, but tough
Yes
I haven’t seen this one. It brought back memories with groceries in bags instead of plastic!!
In the late 1970's it was only paper bags with NO handles. You always had to hold the bags underneath. By the mid to late 1980's the cashier in the supermarket would say: Paper or plastic?
I was born in 1978 and remember the big paper grocery bags growing up. I wish they still used them instead of these plastic things we have to use where everything rolls around in before you can get it home. Markets also had trading stamps and you could get things like popcorn poppers, electric blankets etc...
Well here in Massachusetts there are supermarkets that only use paper or you can bring your own bags. And plastic straws are being replaced with paper. Plastic now is a major pollutant and never disintegrates. So long after we're gone, the plastic we use will still be here....... forever.
No plastic here on Hawaii... only paper bags at stores.
I was thinking the same exact thing when I saw that scene
Yup,people used to go to hospitals to rest ,it was code for nervous breakdown
And in the 70s-80s people smoked in hospitals, my pcp,smoked cigars,blue haze in the office,waiting room,teachers smoked,in teachers lounge
How the heck could Kate have a nervous breakdown, she didn't do s all day
I smoked in the hospital with my oldest son. It was right before they stopped it. Lol
In 1985 I spent 7 whole days in the hospital for a partial hysterectomy. Husband had to stay home with 3 babies. Best sleep I ever had !
Sada Thompson and Charlotte Rae were both in the TV version of "Our Town" the year before this episode aired.
The title for this episode of this excellent dramatic series could not have been more appropriate. It's simply due to the fact that Kate 's comforting and wise words to Caddy at the ledge about the dangers of drug abuse and self-harm keep me spellbound, leaving me thinking about the young musical talents that suffered the same consequences that came with fame. Thanks so much for posting it:)
Charlotte Rae a nurse. I loved her. She passed at 92. A good long life. She was so talented and lovely and funny.❤. A very young Annie Potts. Nice
Annie Potts is so Beautiful. She always will be. Great actress too. Sada is wonderful too.
Watching this years later as an adult, Kate seems so matronly for her age.
She does!I think Seda Thompson was only about 49 at the time.
No she was matronly then.
Did she ever wear slacks?
@@amandaletendre601 I don't think Sada ever wore slacks. I looked it up and Meredith Baxter stated that she was conscious about her body shape.
I was in my 20s when this show first aired and one day I wore a dress to work that I didn't particularly like. My best friend told me I looked like Kate Lawrence. I never wore that dress again.
Mrs. Garret busting that party. Girls! Girls! No drinking in here, lol.
I never knew she was a nurse before becoming a maid for the Drummonds!
What’s funny is that in the first season Facts of Life episode where she’s teaching a sex education class, she says she’s a registered nurse!
Thanks so much for this. I love this show, and this video made me very happy during this miserable time.
Another episode where Kate is confined with a lost soul needing her sage advice. Remember the pregnant lady in the condo?
Yes, there's also the episode "See-Saw" that comes to mind. I'm sure there are others!
Of course I remember the episode, and I remember the real Star of that show: that wonderful, hilarity-provoking, highly illegal plot device, the door that locks from the outside. cf The Office's "Launch Party"
there were a lot of stories in the news and fiction then about young people in distress, suicides, unwed mothers etc
LOVED THIS SHOW
@Greg Man Me too 🙂
I did to. I remember talking about it at work the next day because my co workers watched it.
I was 2 years younger than Buddy and even I had heard of Janis Joplin. If she is 16 here, she would have at least heard about her.
My husband was older than i, he loved Janis joplin, I didn't really know of her until i met him. I was from a big family, lived in the country. We only had three channels. We were told by my mothers husband that music like hers was druggie music. Was told bad things about Rod stewart and Elton John based on rumours my parents had heard you could say we lead a sheltered life.
I am the same age - I certainly knew Janis but it depended on what kind of crowd you hung with - Buddy -is a (good girl) she would not be exposed to that type of music/ culture at that time she would have likely been into disco - roller skating that was popular in California at that time
Judging by the terrible fake instrumental disco music they always have Buddy listening to it's not surprising she didn't know who Janis Joplin was. @@pjpredhomme7699
Yes! And she’s from LA? No way Buddy wouldn’t know who Janis was.
Kate’s not matronly - she has class
thank you Xanthas for this its one of my favorite FAMILY episodes,and i think it is annie potts best acting performance of her career
I love Annie Potts in everything! At this same time she was also in a movie, Corvette Summer.
What do you drink, motor oil?
She's also in Pretty in Pink
Right hand drive❤️❤️
Great flick with Mark Hamill.
@@kerriethompson2073 As well as Designing Women and Young Sheldon.
Yeah I remember people use to smoke in movie theaters and even on buses going back to 79 and the early eighties.
Nurse/Mrs.Garret just violated hipaa big time!
No way would I put up with a smoking roommate. Kate didn't have to be there for illness or anything. I'd have walked out and come back another time. I have to say that they must have had some kind of fabulous insurance plan to pay for hospitalization for a check up and tests.
Yeah, all that is pretty weird. I’m about Buddy’s age and had a lot of pretty wealthy family friends (though we weren’t, my dad was an artist with patrons) and I do not recall smoking in hospital rooms nor inpatient checkup weekends.
Oh I very well remember when people smoked in the hospitals! Patients smoked in their rooms and visitors smoked in the waiting rooms. Expectant fathers weren’t in with their wives; they were chain smoking in the maternity waiting rooms. No lie!
What’s wilder now listening to this is the nurse yakking on and disclosing another patient’s information; now there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen nowadays!
@@Crymeariver227I had my daughter in 81 my roommate smoked in our room IN MATERNITY ward.
I was a young nurse during this time. Yes, indeed, patients smoked in the rooms! And doctors smoked walking in the halls, and at the nurse's stations!
Annie Potts and Mrs. Garrett!! Omg -
Annie Potts is talented. It's hard to believe that this character is played by the same actor as Meemaw.
the delightful Texas twang is always there
I guess for many famous artist when the lights go out. Then that's when depression sets in.
Depression sets in when you have to listen to her irritating voice
@@XxowendanxX what a drip
Smoking in the hospital. Lol 😂
Yes, up until the late 90s
13:19 when she’s on the phone I almost expect her to say ‘yeah Ghostbusters’😅😅😅😅
This episode really touched my heart ❤. I was so scared that the girl was going to jump. Thank goodness that Kate was able to talk her out of it. I had a cousin who commented suicide. It hurt me really bad. To have a loved one who doesn't care about their life. Life is so precious and I am so happy 😊 that I can live it one day at a time. The end was really funny 😂 the rabbit was eating the flowers. Good episode.
This is the first time seeing annie in anything before she was bo peep in toy story and janine from Ghostbusters thanks for sharing
Charlotte Rae! ❤️
Mrs Garrett knows nothing about HIPPA. Annie Potts is almost Annie Rexic
HIPAA was not around in tbe seventies. Did not become a law until 1996.
I think she was joking…
Now Annie Potts is Meemaw on Young Sheldon. She is pretty at any age.
Annie Potts has always been an exceptional actress.
Beer and cig's in the Hospital... those were the days.
Kate didn't work, her kids were grown, she even had a housekeeper; rest from what exactly?
...She was a schoolteacher in hospital for full bi-yearly diagnostic tests, as indicated at the beginning of the episode. As for rest, good luck with that wacko Cattie character for a roommate.
@LoveEverton John Oh, I have been trying SO hard to not be disrespectful... but you said it perfectly.
She does seem to be on the go a lot - her families' functions and activities, college classes and events related to her industry (operas, etc) and running all types of errands like nonprofit tasks (drop off / pick up, baking, etc), dry cleaning drop off & pick up, choosing and working with catering companies for events, event planning and management at her house....not to mention all the cooking and running to the market for all types of ingredients.
I remember not hardly ever doing fast food back then. All meals were home made, and no microwave, either, nor dishwasher.
@@dianabarnum359 Exactly. And her husband was a lawyer so there many expectations that would not be interesting enough to show in most episodes. Mom was the backbone of the family then and the one who kept everybody on schedule and on time. My mom died when she was 49 and it was very obvious who was the glue that kept everyone together.
Rest in the hospital? You got to be kidding me - and just to have tests ? That’s nuts even if it was the 70’s. I do remember when smoking was allowed at patients beds !
Many well off women did that. At least on tv.
As a nurse in the 90s, patients still smoked in the hospital.
Strange how the most nothing of details come back to you while watching a forty year plus old series: like taking home groceries in paper bags. We only knew paper bags until sometime in the late 80s when it was all plastic because we were cutting down too many trees.
Well here in Massachusetts there are supermarkets that only use paper or you can bring your own bags. And plastic straws are being replaced with paper. Plastic now is a major pollutant and never disintegrates. So long after we're gone, the plastic we use will still be here....... forever.
Some stores let you choose paper or plastic today.
@@EifertD I'm really glad we are finally waking up. There should never have been a change to plastic in the first place. Those bags are a menace in every single way.
@Blue Butterfly Oh I agree..I love the small details. Sitting down to a family meal, shopping in a grocery store. I find all that fascinating. And you are right..they barely pay attention to those details anymore.
And the paper bags have handles.
Is that nurse breaking the HIPPA law or what? Annie Potts was great in Designing Women, and Any Day Now
Smoking in a Hospital bed ...LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY!
The magic show at the end is so cute, Quinn in her cape and chignon
Smoking in a hospital? Wow
Wow is right.
People used to smoke at their desks at work!
The Surgeon General had declared that smoking was bad for your health in the early seventies. People continued to smoke everywhere, even in elevators and no one objected. It wasn't until the Surgeon General in the 80's said 2nd hand smoke exposes non smokers to cancer etc...Which personally I find hard to believe. I've known a lot of non smokers who lived with smokers and they never had a lung related illness. Exhaling causes smoke to dissipate in the air. I think the SG's motive was to have non smokers put pressure on smokers not to smoke. The SG C. Everett Koop had announced his goal was to have a smoke free country by the year 2000.
Yup. Smoking was EVERYWHERE, including where you worked!
Just not in rooms that were providing oxygen to patients. I remember ashtrays outside each elevator. I also remember ashtrays at the end of the isles in supermarkets.
Definitely pre-HIPPAA Act
I like the old commercials too👈🙌🤙
I had a huge child hood crush on Buddy aka Kristy Mc Nicholls so innocent she was. ..
I appreciate that the old commercials are included.
Those are NOT the original commercials from the 70s.
They are vintage 91 commercials but cool anyway
Annie has such a lovely pretty face and beautiful dark 👀 eyes too🤙
Wasn’t she in corvette summer with mark Hamill. Later starred in designing women with Dixie carter🎬🎬
She is still very beautiful as Meemaw on Young Sheldon.
@@RebeccaStropoli with grey hair and a deepened voice
What happened to her soft voice ? It’s changed these years
Did she dye her hair or is she aging now?
@@allysanchez5630 She is pushing 70 years old. So, yes, she is aging, of course. When we age, we get grey hair, we get wrinkles, our voices change. How could you possibly expect her to look and sound the same as she did 40 years ago?? Aging is inevitable (unless you die young). Don't worry, it'll happen to you, too, if you live long enough! ;)
@@allysanchez5630 But again, she is an absolutely beautiful woman of nearly 70. And I like natural gray hair on women that age. She has a great silver mane, and it softens her face (it would look harsher if she dyed her hair a dark color or something like that -- at a certain point, going with gray can be the best choice).
Singer Handy Stitch!
I would most definitely be friends with Kate Lawrence. Farhana.
She was a wonderful person and a good woman.
Oh, nertz!
I guess this was before hippa laws Mrs Garett...😳
It’s like Annie is doing one long monologue.
This is the first time I have seen the actress Annie Potts way before she did Pretty in Pink and Designing Women!! First time I saw Annie was in the movie pretty in pink, I own and like the movie pretty in pink😀🇮🇳😀🇮🇳 and the future Mrs. Edna Garret before The Facts of Life (I only own the 1st two seasons The Facts of Life) 🇮🇳😀🇮🇳😀
I saw her in Ghostbusters.
This is the first time I've seen Ms Potts play a fragile character. I always remember her roles as women that can rule the world.
Wait- that’s Ferris Bueller’s dad- The father of Matthew Broderick...
Charolette Rae as the nurse
Mrs Garrett. And a couple years later Blair made an appearance trying to steal Buddy's man
8:04, HIPPA violation much?
There were no HIPAA laws back then, but I'm assuming that even back then most nurses wouldn't have been so gossipy with other patients!
This is at least the 3rd episode concerning suicide. Mare Winningham and Nancy’s friend that Willie has to save. Hmmmm
It's a very serious issue.
Annie Potts played a sad character in this episode. She was too young to be burned out.
i didn't buy the caddy wilde character. i don't believe for a second that she was friends with morrison...lol...he would have tormented her for being pathetic and she would have loathed him for it...but the teacher in 'whispers' knew morrison in actuality.
I always find it confusing when fictional TV shows or movies reference real people. In that world Kristy McNichol doesn't exist.
@@apollozero Buddy was flipping through the channels one day and started watching battle of the network stars. She was like damn that Kristy Mcnichol chick looks a lot like me
@@XxowendanxX 😂😂Competing against Melissa Gilbert, no doubt.
@@ddivincenzo1194 I don't know if you saw the movie last action hero but in it Arnold Schwarzenegger plays himself and also a character that he is playing. It's a movie within a movie. I'd like to see an episode of Family where some kid has a magic ticket, transports himself into the TV set and takes Buddy with him and shows her the real world 😆 and she learns she's just a TV character and she runs into Kristy mcnichol 🤣
@@XxowendanxX That would be funny and I also remember that episode of "Battle of the Network Stars". That is how old I am. My favorite was when Ed Asner's team lost a tug of war and ended up in the mud, I think.
41:06 Kate looks so beautiful!
I love this show, but I’ve been wondering why Willie always wears turtlenecks. Am I missing something?
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Bobbi Knicely issues with his body? He wears the tightest jeans but that was the 70s.
He’s artsy.
Turtlenecks improve your appetite
It makes him look more, sensitive and they were trying to change men from being their natural selves and into the feminized version we now have.
Why Mrs. Shively, smoking in the hospital bed????
The ads are a hoot! The BBC docu series is here on YT for anyone interested.
Quinn Cummings is so wholesome.
The whole cast is wonderful
She has a tik tok page and she won't talk about being a child actor.
@@lizbeeeeefulI don't blame her.
Hollywood hasn't been very good to children.
Who wasn't on family?
Mrs. Garett from the Facts of life.
smoking in a hospital! how gross we use to be!
Not crazy about this episode. First of all, that’s the quietest hospital ever, even for a tv show. And the hospital staff crowded at the sunroom door watching Kate and Catty is a funny sight. Just too much hysteria by Annie Potts. The B story’s is blah. JMO
I would agree with you except for one thing - Sada's performance, in particular her wise words to the young woman about having a spark and it being a gift that could ignite others. To me that few minutes elevated the whole episode.
@@sueyardley7489 Sada always gave a wonderful performance, no matter the story. I hadn't seen these shows since their original run -- I so much more appreciate the series now. Totally bummed that I've finished seeing all the ones available online.
I've started watching them on CTV's streaming service, if you're able to get that. They seem to have all of the 5 seasons available. @@trainer1158
I've seen anchovies with more meat on them than ANNIE POTTS in this role
who takes a vacation in a hospital anyway? not me.
They use to do that alot in those days.
@@spicey6646 yes, celebrities used to hide out in hospitals due to 'exhaustion"
Back when you could smoke at the hospital, LOL!
Buddy was enough why did they think they needed Annie
You sound nice.
From what I know Kristy was a hot commodity in 1978. The network & show were concerned she would jump ship, so, they brought in Quinn fresh off her Goodbye Girl movie & reviews. Mike Nichols approved. Kristy ended up honoring her contract, even after winning two Emmy’s.
I keep seeing Rabbits lol when I walk,when I watch TV, it's odd.....
So interesting all the same actors used over and over and clues 🕵️♀️ given She’s the rock star ⭐️ after Janis!
So people were allowed to smoke in hospital rooms in the 70s? And you got admitted to the hospital for 2 days for routine tests?
And doctors and nurses smoked too!
Yes back in the 60s , a older cousin Rose would shop for a fimlesy nite top to wear to the hospital.She would get her hair done & wore make up!
Could the character of Kate be any more stodgy and self-centered? She whines about how tired she is, consistently one way or another, physically, mentally etc., If here family was so important, than why is she continually griping? Besides, I just can't imagine someone being a "caring" person and react to the bunny like she did. But, that's just me.
It's very very tiring to be a mother, especially one with four kids. And to have a child bring a pet into the house without even asking permission is definitely a no go. Kate has tons of responsibility and I totally believe she was very very tired a lot of the time. The kids and Doug don't show much consideration for her and what she might need at any given time. It's all about them.
Yeah, very uncaring about the rabbit
This plot is ridiculous. Who checks into.a hospital just for a periodic well check?
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Annie Potts from Corvette summer !
From Thank God it’s Friday, Carwash, and Thirtysomething!
Why do you check into a hospital for days to have tests run? Was this a thing?? Bi-annual hospital tests??
Probably checking her heart im guessing .. And they do a treadmill test and check her heart rate and function again shes there becausr they are monitoring her
@@capacola262743 actually i do troll why are u trolling
...That used to be a thing until it began costing hospitals money and rooms. Now everything is outpatient and maximized for profit.
Makes sense!
@@apollozero Yes, too bad the savings haven't been passed along to patients though.
Holly Crap. Mrs. Garrison is in this episode!!
Who's that?
3:16 bi-annual means twice a year not 3:21 every two years lol
Good point
Memaw and Mrs. Garrett
Always liked Annie Potts - but this was not one of her best performances & was smoking in hospitals really allowed?
Yes smoking was allowed back then. These days you can't even smoke anywhere on a hospitals property-including outside, you have to go off the property.
Possibly a jump-the-shark episode. Annie Potts' horrid performance makes it so. Just awful, and her slow slow speech is so annoying. Bad writing throughout too. Disappointing.
That's why they don't air this episode on TV anymore.
She was awful. Somebody get the hook
Much Cringe.
Many yawn.
@@Xanthas71 how much do you adore Annie Potts ? Did you see toy story 4? you watch young Sheldon ?
Annie Potts giving me Winona hair in this episode
Yes us regular folks had simi rooms.
Yeah she is
I would write this Hospital up on a thousand violations, close it down/open it up and close it once more for good measure. On the plus side though it was in a good location.
The surprising thing about this episode is they didnt write into the script Willie falling in love with Annie Potts at the hospital and taking her out of there to his dads cottage in the backyard to bone down
A patient smoking? That's a LONG time ago!
Doug must be a lousy lawyer if he's driving around in a Maverick and a Pinto.
That's just what I used to think when I was watching this as a kid back in the day! In other episodes, we find out that Doug was brought up in a wealthy family, so maybe he was just cheap!
Having a smoke in the hospital
I am not really sure why Kate is in the hospital.
I've enjoyed the 50+ episodes I've watched......but this one is absolutely awful. LOL It doesn't even seem like it belongs to this show.
This the first script Channing Gibson ever had produced. He went on to write for St Elsewhere, LA Law, etc. I'm sure he improved after this lol
I think that's why this episode doesn't air in syndication much anymore, and the only copy I could get is poor quality from an old video cassette.
@@Xanthas71 I'm glad you found it and posted it! Even though it is awful, I like knowing that I've see allll the Family episodes.
Annie Potts ruined it, she was annoying as hell but I liked sadas performance and the magic storyline with Doug and Annie.
There realy is such a thing as the straw that broke the camels back...