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Family: The Complete First and Second Seasons

Cast: Meredith Baxter, Kristie McNichol, James Broderick, Sada Thompson, Gary Frank

(ABC, 1976-1977)

US release date: 5 September 2006 (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

by Kelley Schei

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Though Family deserves credit for pioneering risky subject matter on network television, its legacy is found in clichéd after school specials, the very-special-episodes of '80s TV shows, and prime time teen melodramas.

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