Series · Prime Video · 1977
Eight Is Enough
A full house before the phrase was a brand. The number of children is not treated as a mistake.
Television later decided a large family was either a reality-show spectacle or a joke. This one thinks eight children and a working father is a life. It is soapy. The soap is about the right people. Worth having in the memory of what a house can be.
The eight
Industry
5/10
He writes for a living. The children have school and parts.
Household
8/10
Eight children and a father who stays. Later a stepmother who has to join a going concern.
Piety
4/10
Domestic decency, of the period.
Courage
4/10
The dramas are the size of a family that large.
Republic
4/10
A Sacramento household as a whole society.
Temperance
6/10
Earnest.
Truth
5/10
The problems are the ones a family actually has: money, a sibling, a marriage.
Stewardship
7/10
The children are the point, not the obstacle to the adults' plot.
Live historicallyCount the people you are actually raising, and give one of them an uninterrupted half hour.