Family — Season 3

Aired 13 September 1977

While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a physics student named Lizzy -- who, as he soon finds out, has radiation sickness.

Aired 20 September 1977

Lizzy dies, but not before Willie convinces her to marry him first.

Aired 27 September 1977

Kate unhappily contemplates her 49th birthday; T.J. asks Buddy to go steady with him, but she's not sure.

Aired 4 October 1977

Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.

Aired 25 October 1977

Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.

Aired 1 November 1977

Buddy's English teacher gets outed; Willie suspects Nancy of being a home-wrecker.

Aired 8 November 1977

Willie fails to understand a black thing; Buddy develops an interest in genealogy.

Aired 15 November 1977

Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and -- guess what? -- she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorced father, is apprehensive about seeing his kids again.

Aired 22 November 1977

Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater; Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Thanksgiving spirit.

Aired 29 November 1977

Buddy, upset by a lack of attention from T.J., tries to make him jealous by hanging out with a geek; Willie catches the eye of his cute über-boss.

Aired 13 December 1977

Aired 3 January 1978

Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things get awkward when he pans Willie's script.

Aired 10 January 1978

Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo -- and gets trapped overnight, along with a very pregnant younger woman; Buddy has the bright idea of dyeing her hair blonde.

Aired 17 January 1978

Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her parents are splitting up, and angry that Doug is representing her mother in the divorce.

Aired 24 January 1978

Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on installing Timmy's new bed; Buddy leaves for a week-end of skiing with T.J. and his parents.

Aired 31 January 1978

Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide, to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up her; Buddy baby-sits a whiny kid.

Aired 7 February 1978

Nancy and Jeff aren't sure whether to get back together; Buddy is disgusted that Audrey has fallen for the cheap ploys of the school Casanova.

Aired 14 February 1978

Willie has an appointment with a big-shot film producer, on the eve of his 21st birthday; then, he and Doug make friends with a stripper.

Aired 21 February 1978

Medical crises abound in the family when James reveals to Doug that he must soon undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy begins to miscarry Jeff's baby.

Aired 28 February 1978

A somewhat unscrupulous former friend of Willie's drops by; Buddy needs driving lessons; Kate and Doug consider taking separate vacations.

Aired 2 May 1978

Kate has a recurring nightmare about running over a little boy; Buddy gets a pet raccoon.

Aired 9 May 1978

Everyone at school dislikes Buddy's bohemian friend; Kate gives Doug a plaid jacket he doesn't much care for.

Aired 16 May 1978

Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug contemplates early retirement after his tennis partner has a heart attack.