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In another TV-movie event in September 1979, two of the children (David and Susan) were married off in a special double wedding extravaganza.

They were married in one of Eight Is Enough's special TV-movie broadcasts in November 1977. Tom fell in love with Sandra Sue "Abby" Abbott (Betty Buckley), a schoolteacher who came to the house to tutor Tommy. Hyland died only 12 days after the first episode aired, and the second season began in the fall of 1977 with the revelation that Tom had become a widower. Hyland was only in four episodes before falling ill she was written out for the remainder of the first season. His wife Joan (Diana Hyland) took care of the children. The father Tom Bradford (Dick Van Patten) was a newspaper columnist for the fictional Sacramento Register. The show is centered around a Sacramento, California family with eight children (from oldest to youngest: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas). The series was rare in that it was one of the few hour-long television series to use a laugh track. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life father with eight children, who wrote a book with the same name. This zippy, funny mystery series - a sort of Columbo with the polar opposite of Columbo - garnered critical acclaimed… and lived a too-short life.Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from Mauntil August 29, 1981. The Polish-American Banacek often spouted supposed proverbs from his homeland like, "When a wolf is chasing your sleigh, throw him a raisin cookie, but don't stop to bake a cake." Sure, they were entirely made up by the screenwriters, but that didn't make them any less charming. His loyal chauffeur, Jay Drury (Ralph Manza), took a 10% cut of that 10% cut. He also earned a sweet 10% cut of the insurance money upon recovering the hot goods. When a tough-to-solve theft would arise, Banacek got the call. The descriptions all fit Hannibal Smith of The A-Team, but actor George Peppard perfected these character traits a decade earlier as the cool and clever Thomas Banacek.Īiring from 1972-74, Banacek chronicled the cases of a sophisticated Boston insurance inspector. Always rides in a cool vehicle with a quirky driver. Fond of long turtlenecks and even longer cigars.