Season 1
23 episodes
21 min. per episode
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A devoted mother battles societal norms while navigating the chaos of raising eight spirited sons in 1970s America.
Episodes
Lawrence returns home and announces he's quitting the seminary to go off and "save the world." Times are changing and this family will never be the same.
Timmy decides to enter a poetry contest to win the money he needs to repair his ventriloquist dummy; Lawrence complains that there are no fresh vegetables in the family's diet.
After Mike proudly introduces a new microwave to the Cleary household, Peggy immediately rejects it. Meanwhile, eager to see "everything" exposed for the first time, Joey and Timmy go to extremes to see Barbara Eden's wardrobe malfunction on a Bob Hope TV special. Elsewhere, Lawrence attempts to apply lessons from a psych class at school to psychoanalyze Mike and Peggy.
After Eddie breaks a bottle of booze in his room, his girlfriend, Wendi, tries to distract Peggy by insisting she takes the day off. Peggy accepts but insists Wendi accompany her, hoping to teach her a lesson.
Timmy must choose between his dad's dreams for him and his own dreams of showbiz glory; feeling rusty after being at the seminary for so long, Lawrence asks Eddie to help prepare him for a date by taking him on a practice date.
Working-class Irish-Catholic parents raise their eight sons during the early 1970s.