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Family Affair Friday delayed until Sunday
I apologize, but I have to postpone this week’s installment of Family Affair Friday until Sunday. I’m going to be spending most of this weekend in a cabin in the woods with about 20 tween-age girls....
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Family Affair Friday: Season 1, Episode 24, “Everybody Needs Somebody,”...
Welcome to this delayed edition of Family Affair Friday! I’ve emerged from my camping adventure unscathed, if unrested, and ready for another installment of Davis family fun. Season 1, Episode 24,...
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Family Affair Friday: Season 1, Episode 25, “The Way It Was,” 3/20/1967
“The Way It Was,” 3/20/1967. Written by: George Tibbles. Directed by: William D. Russell. Welcome to another installment of Family Affair Friday! As our episode opens, Bill Davis is bringing a lot of...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 1, Episode 26, “All Nephews Are Created...
Sorry that this week’s installment of my Family Affair series is a bit late. Our episode this weeks concerns a cultural clash, with the cultures involved being...
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Technical Difficulties: Please Stand By
One reason I haven’t posted much in recent weeks is that my laptop has been slowly dying. It’s about ready for last rites now, which is forcing me to postpone this week’s Family Affair Friday entry. My...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 1, Episode 27, “The Prize,” 4/10/1967
Welcome to this delayed edition of Family Affair Friday. The delivery of my new laptop has been delayed indefinitely, so I’m writing this post under difficult conditions. I hope I don’t do a...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 1, Episode 28, “What Did You Do in the...
Welcome to Family Affair Friday–or, as I should probably call it, Family Affair at Whatever Point During the Weekend That I Have Time to Complete It. That’s a little unwieldy, though. I do promise...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 1, Episode 29, “The Award,” 5/2/1969
Welcome to this Easter weekend edition of Family Affair Friday! Best wishes to everyone who is celebrating the holiday. Written by: Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson. Directed by: William D. Russell....
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Family Affair Friday: Season 1, Episode 30, “The Butler Method,” May 15, 1967
With this episode, we reach the end of Family Affair‘s first season! Thanks to all of you who have followed along so far. The second season includes some of my favorite episodes, so I’m excited to get...
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Spin Again Sunday: What Shall I Be? (1972)
Spin Again Sunday is back! After a long hiatus–for which I apologize–I return with a game that explores the full gamut of careers available to women–ballerina, airline stewardess, teacher, model,...
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Family Affair Friday: Season 2, Episode 1, “Birds, Bees and Buffy,” 9/11/1967
Written by: Phil Davis. Directed by: Charles Barton. We’ve reached Season 2 of Family Affair! Let’s take a quick look around and see if anything has changed. Well, after 30 episodes with William D....
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No Family Affair Friday This Week
I apologize for the lack of a Family Affair Friday post this week. I thought I could get one done, but I’ve just been too swamped with my own family responsibilities. I promise that I will get back on...
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Family Affair Friday: Season 2, Episode 2, “First Love,” 9/18/1967
Welcome back to Family Affair Friday! In this week’s episode, Cissy tries to fix second-grader Buffy up with a boy in sixth grade, while Uncle Bill sexually harrasses a work associate. Yeah, this is a...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 2, Episode 3, “Go Home, Mr. French,” 9/25/1967
Written by: Fred S. Fox. and Seaman Davis. Directed by: Charles Barton. Synopsis As in last week’s episode, we open with romance in the air at Central Park. While on an outing with Buffy and Jody,...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 2, Episode 4, “Arthur the Invisible Bear,”...
Written by: John McGreevey. Directed by: Charles Barton. Synopsis Uh-oh! Jody’s delusional again! Uncle Bill returns from a one-night trip out of town to learn that Jody has acquired an invisible...
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V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
I will be away on vacation for the next two weeks, and during most of that time, I will not have internet access. (I’m not sure yet whether this will be bliss or torture.) Family Affair Friday will...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 2, Episode 5, “The Other Cheek,” 10/9/1967
Written by: Elroy Schwartz. Directed by: Charles Barton. I’m ba-a-a-a-ck! I had a great vacation but I must have missed the Davis family–Brian Keith has appeared in my dreams the past two nights (and...
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Spin Again Sunday: The All in the Family Game (1972)
Honesty, I have mixed feelings about the TV series All in the Family, probably because my family let me watch it at much too young an age. On a regular basis, the show assaulted my sensibilities with...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 2, Episode 6, “The Candy Striper,” 10/16/1967
Written by: John McGreevey and Jerry Devine. Story by: Jerry Devine. Directed by: William D. Russell. And now we come to the episode that made such a big impression on me when I was little. It begins...
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Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 2, Episode 7, “Fat, Fat, The Water Rat,”...
Written by: Phil Davis. Directed by: Charles Barton. My favorite episode! This one is a perfect mix of the silliness and sweetness that is Family Affair. As we look in on the Davis family, Buffy is...
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