Primetime television in the 1970s introduced viewers to a number of series that focused on large families, mining both humor and drama from their interactions with each other and whatever they ...

In March 1977, Eight Is Enough made its debut on ABC. The comedy-drama series, based on the family life of syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, starred Dick Van Patten as patriarch Tom Bradford, ...

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a ...

(Reuters) - Dick Van Patten, who grew from a busy child actor on Broadway to be a mainstay on U.S. television as the amiable patriarch on the family show "Eight Is Enough," died on Tuesday at age 86, ...