Eight Is Enough - Season 4

Eight Is Enough - Season 4

Season 4

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Episodes27
DatesSep 5, 1979 - Apr 30, 1980
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Episodes

Merle the Pearl
Season 4Episode 145 min

Merle the Pearl

Nicholas and Susan meet Merle the Pearl, a local minor league baseball player. Nicholas is upset that his young girlfriend is moving out of town and wants to introduce her to Merle the Pearl to impress her before she leaves. Frustrated by the gas shortage, Tom agrees to buy a new, fuel-efficient car. Merle falls for Susan and Nicholas gets his first kiss
Sep 5, 1979
The Cupid Crisis
Season 4Episode 245 min

The Cupid Crisis

David returns and is determined to win Janet back from her new boyfriend. Merle confides to Nicholas that he wants to propose to Susan but Susan is upset when the entire Bradford family knows about before she does. Nicholas acts as the go-between for everyone
Sep 12, 1979
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Season 4Episode 345 min

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

David and Janet set a wedding date but it turns out to be the same day Merle and Susan decided to move up the wedding day to accomodate Merle's ballplaying career move. Nancy gets a job delivering singing telegrams and is hired to deliver one at the double wedding for David and Janet and Merle and Susan.
Sep 19, 1979
Ten Ships in the Night
Season 4Episode 445 min

Ten Ships in the Night

Chaos hits the Bradford house when everyone's activities go around the clock. In order to get her Ph.D. more quickly, Abby attends school full-time and has little time for the family. Tom is upset when no one is home when Nicholas gets home from school. Tired of getting dead-end jobs because of her looks, Nancy gets a job at a brokerage firm. All this drives Tom bananas and he finally calls a family meeting at 3 a.m. by playing loud music to rearrange the goings on.
Sep 26, 1979
The Devil and the Mr. Bradford
Season 4Episode 545 min

The Devil and the Mr. Bradford

Joannie gets a job in the research department of a TV station. Mary finds a hidden home pregnancy test and tries to find the owner. Joannie ""scoops"" Tom on a story on a porno theater for her new job at a television station. The problem is that the theater is owned by a public corporation and Tom is a stockholder. Tom is upset that a porno theater has opened in his neighborhood but then discovers that he is part owner of it.
Oct 3, 1979
Big Shoes, Little Feet
Season 4Episode 645 min

Big Shoes, Little Feet

Tom needs a partner for the father/son golf tournament but David, Tommy, and Merle are all busy. Nicholas's substitute teacher compares him to his older brothers and sisters so Nicholas and Abby discuss how it feels to be compared to someone else. Nancy tries to help David's construction business by dating a local businessman.
Oct 24, 1979
Fathers and Other Strangers (1)
Season 4Episode 745 min

Fathers and Other Strangers (1)

Tom thinks that Tommy is spending too much time with his band and is neglecting his school work. Tom's sister, Vivian, also known as Auntie V, arrives and offers to take the entire family to Hawaii for a vacation. The real reason is that she has found out that Tom's long-lost father is living there.
Oct 31, 1979
Fathers and Other Strangers (2)
Season 4Episode 845 min

Fathers and Other Strangers (2)

Tom's sister Vivian sweeps into town with an offer to take the entire family on vacation to Hawaii, where she secretly plans to reunite Tom with their estranged father.
Nov 7, 1979
Letter to One Bradford
Season 4Episode 945 min

Letter to One Bradford

Nov 14, 1979
Separate Ways
Season 4Episode 1045 min

Separate Ways

Nov 21, 1979
Arrivals
Season 4Episode 1145 min

Arrivals

Nov 28, 1979
The Night They Raided Bradfords
Season 4Episode 1245 min

The Night They Raided Bradfords

Dec 3, 1979
Brotherhood, Sisterhood
Season 4Episode 1345 min

Brotherhood, Sisterhood

Tom talks David into hiring Tommy as a construction worker but Tommy has to prove himself to his fellow workers by standing up to them on his own. Nicholas needs to write a speech about Tom and follows him around for a day at the office to get material. Elizabeth is looking for advice on how to meet men in college.
Dec 5, 1979
Mary, He's Married
Season 4Episode 1445 min

Mary, He's Married

Joannie tries to convince her boss that she is ready for more responsibility at work. Joannie wants to do a documentary on her family. Mary learns that being an adult can be painful when she falls for a resident at the hospital who is unavailable. Eager to earn extra money, Nicholas sells guaca dew, a wrinkle remover, door to door.
Dec 12, 1979
My Son, the Prom Queen
Season 4Episode 1545 min

My Son, the Prom Queen

Upset that an all girl band was chosen to play at prom, Tommy protests by running for prom queen. Joannie pushes her boss for some on-camera work.
Jan 9, 1980
The Courage to Be
Season 4Episode 1645 min

The Courage to Be

Tom is upset that everyone is neglecting their household duties so Abby and the kids pool their resources to hire a maid. Tommy tries to help his friend Ernie, who won't admit he has an alcoholic problem. They split-up over this and Bradford steps in to help. Nicholas and Marvin try to get into the Book of World Records.
Jan 16, 1980
Semi-Centennial Bradford
Season 4Episode 1745 min

Semi-Centennial Bradford

Abby tries to cheer Tom up on his 50th birthday. Tom feels the pressure of teh youth movement at work and believes that the Register wants to replace him with a younger columnist. Merle and Susan try to pick names for their baby. Nicholas is helping Merle come up with a name for the new baby.
Jan 23, 1980
The Commitment
Season 4Episode 1845 min

The Commitment

Tommy is upset when Jill's idea of a commitment is not the same as his and then misinterprets signals from Mary's friend, Kerry, and gets deeper into trouble. Tommy presents Jill with a class ring. Abby and the girls plan a surprise baby shower for Susan. Nicholas plays go-between for Marvin but ends up with the girl instead.
Jan 30, 1980
Seven More Days in February
Season 4Episode 1945 min

Seven More Days in February

It's winter break and Joannie, Nancy, and Mary meet strange men that drive Tom and Abby crazy. Tom fixes Tommy up with his boss's niece.
Feb 6, 1980
The Return of Joe Simons
Season 4Episode 2045 min

The Return of Joe Simons

Tom's new temporary secretary is overly attentive. Joe Simons, the con man who helped Nicholas return from San Diego, shows up pretending to have struck it rich in the Yukon and drives the family bonkers. He claims to have found a gold mine. Joannie offers to produce a TV commercial for David's construction company.
Feb 13, 1980
Bradford vs. Bradford
Season 4Episode 2145 min

Bradford vs. Bradford

Ernie misreads Elizabeth's friendly gestures. David is jealous that Janet is working long hours with a male colleague. Tom counsels David and Abby counsels Janet, and they end up happily together. Bored with his own house and family, Nicholas has more fun playing at a friend's house but his friend has more fun at Nicholas's house.
Feb 27, 1980
Memories
Season 4Episode 2245 min

Memories

Abby needs time to deal with memories of her late husband after a fellow prisoner of war shows up in Sacramento. She works out her feelings and returns to the family. Nicholas goes steady for the first time, and finds going steady is not all fun when the girl is more interested in the bracelet he gives her than in him. Nancy gets tired of loaning money to the other Bradford children.
Mar 5, 1980
Official Positions
Season 4Episode 2345 min

Official Positions

Merle recruits the girls for a charity basketball team. Tom is jealous when a publisher offers to publish Abby's thesis and Tom can't get his accepted. They pool their efforts, after competitive feelings are straightened out, to co-author his book. Nicholas gets his friend's mom a job helping with the book. Nicholas's friend is upset to learn that his mom works for Abby and not the other way around.
Mar 19, 1980
A Matter of Mentors
Season 4Episode 2445 min

A Matter of Mentors

Joannie gets an important assignment at work but Jeffrey believes that the boss will be expecting a favor in return. Joannie blows her chance at a big story. An experienced reporter makes her his partner and the result is an important scoop. Nicholas has a problem with a bully that he can't hit back. Fed up with the way that Tom divvies up the family's discretionary funds, Tommy takes over budgeting for it.
Mar 26, 1980
Roll Over Bradford
Season 4Episode 2545 min

Roll Over Bradford

Tom is upset that Tommy hasn't sent in any college applications but Tommy wants to be a musician and is not interested in college. Auntie V brings her new fiance to meet the Bradfords. Auntie V encourages Tommy to pursue his musical dreams. Tommy wants to be a professional musician rather than go to college. Though Tom disagrees, he still is able to encourage him, which brings them closer.
Apr 2, 1980
A Little Triangle
Season 4Episode 2645 min

A Little Triangle

Nicholas starts a dog-sitting service. Nancy falls in love with the 5-year-old daughter of the young widower she is dating, but doesn't fall in love with her father. Ernie can't find a date for the prom.
Apr 9, 1980
Finally Grad Night
Season 4Episode 2745 min

Finally Grad Night

Tom and Abby agree to let Tommy and a few friends have the house for a small party after graduation. Nicholas and Irving are working on a school project when Irving gets hurt and Tommy ends up spending grad night at the hospital. The party goes on without them as party crashers show up. Officers were called in to finally break up the party and Tom demands an explanation, thinking Tommy was being ignorant.
Apr 30, 1980

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