Family Affair Friday: Season 3, Episode 20, “Lost in Spain, Part 2,” 2/17/1969
Written by: John McGreevey. Directed by: Charles Barton. We start this episode with a brief review of previous events, which culminate with Buffy and Jody alone on a bus in Spain. Yikes. Mr. French is...
View ArticleFamily Affair Friday(ish): Season 3, Episode 21, “Lost in Spain: Part 3,”...
Written by: John McGreevey. Directed by: Charles Barton. Happy holidays, everyone! This week we come to the end of Family Affair‘s classic three-parter, “Lost in Spain.” It’s not a Christmas episode,...
View ArticleFamily Affair Friday: Season 3, Episode 22, “A Diller, a Dollar,” 3/3/1969
Written by: Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson. Directed by: Charles Barton. Welcome to a new year, Family Affair fans. In the real world, the weather may be brutal and the news may be grim, but we can...
View ArticleFamily Affair Friday: Season 3, Episode 23, “The Young Man from Bolivia,”...
Written by: Austin and Irma Kalish. Directed by: Charles Barton. French has just retrieved the Davis family mail and found a letter for Jody. It’s from Bolivia, so Jody assumes it’s from Uncle Bill....
View ArticleFamily Affair Friday(ish): Season 3, Episode 24, “Speak for Yourself, Mr....
Written by: Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson. Directed by: Charles Barton. Before we dive into this week’s episode, I wanted to alert Family Affair fans that Kathy Garver has written a memoir called...
View ArticleFamily Affair Friday(ish): Season 3, Episode 25, “The Flip Side,” March 25, 1969
Written by: Roy Kammerman. Directed by: Charles Barton. We open with a TV show within a TV show. We’re watching a guy sing a song with lyrics that include, “I never shave or comb my hair, but I do...
View ArticleFamily Affair Flashback: Season 3, Episode 26, “The Matter of Dignity,”...
I apologize for the unplanned hiatus from my Family Affair series. Health issues and a hectic day job put blogging on a back burner for a while. To increase the frequency of these posts, I am trying to...
View ArticleFamily Affair Flashback: Season 3, Episode 27, “Flower Power,” 4/7/1969
Attention Family Affair fans–make sure you check out Rick’s great interview with Kathy Garver on The Classic Film and TV Cafe. And don’t forget: You can pre-order Kathy’s autobiography through Amazon...
View ArticleFamily Affair Flashback: Season 3, Episode 28, “My Man the Star,” 4/14/1969
Good news, Family Affair fans! Kathy Garver’s book Surviving Cissy is now in stock at Amazon and B&N.com. My copy has already arrived, but I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. After I do, I’ll be...
View ArticleSpin Again Sunday: Family Affair Game (1968)
Readers of my Family Affair series should enjoy this Spin Again Sunday entry. I have already blogged about the relatively common Whitman Family Affair board game from 1971. Today, I’ll show you a much...
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