EIGHT IS ENOUGH (ABC 1977-1981) - THE COMPLETE SERIES + 2 REUNION MOVIES - EXCELLENT QUALITY! Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Grant Goodeve, Adam Rich, Connie Needham, Laurie Walters, Susan Richardson, Lani O'Grady, Willie Aames, Dianne Kay, Ralph Macchio

Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until May 23, 1981. The show was modeled on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a best-selling autobiography by the same title. Dick Van Patten starred in this often comical, but always touching family drama as Tom Bradford, a newspaper columnist for the fictional Sacramento Register.  Father of eight very independent and individual children. It wasn’t always easy staying sane while guiding Mary (Lani O’Grady), David (Grant Goodeve), Joanie (Laurie Walters), Nancy (Dianne Kay), Elizabeth (Connie Needham), Susan (Susan Richardson), Tommy (Willie Aames) and Nicholas (Adam Rich) through the hardships, joys, challenges and ups and downs of everyday life in a close-knit family. In the first season of this groundbreaking classic, consisting of only nine episodes, Tom is married to Joan (played by Diana Hyland), a homemaker who