A New Kind of Family

TV Series
1979–1980
30m

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Rob Lowe, Eileen Brennan, Gwynne Gilford, Connie Ann Hearn, Lauri Hendler, and David Hollander in A New Kind of Family (1979)

Two single mothers rent the same house, sight unseen, from an unscrupulous real estate agent. With their money gone and nowhere else to go, they decide to move in together with their total o... Read allTwo single mothers rent the same house, sight unseen, from an unscrupulous real estate agent. With their money gone and nowhere else to go, they decide to move in together with their total of four children.Two single mothers rent the same house, sight unseen, from an unscrupulous real estate agent. With their money gone and nowhere else to go, they decide to move in together with their total of four children.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total

Episodes11

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Rob Lowe

Tony Flanagan

Eileen Brennan

Kit Flanagan

Lauri Hendler

Hillary Flanagan

David Hollander

Andy Flanagan

Gwynne Gilford

Abby Stone

Connie Ann Hearn

Jill Stone

Janet Jackson

Jojo Ashton

Telma Hopkins

Jess Ashton

Helen Page Camp

Aunt Mazie

Chuck McCann

Harold Zimmerman

Jenna McMahon

Lynette Zimmerman

Eric Stoltz

Burt

Melissa Sue Anderson

Lisa

Ken Lerner

Todd Susman

Robber

Phil Leeds

Principal 'Apple Plop' Aplanap

John Lawlor

Luis Avalos

Cab Driver

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In his appearance on Joe Rogan's #1522 podcast, Rob Lowe described how he learned that there were precisely 62 television programs on the air: A New Kind of Family was dead last in the Nielsen ratings (number 62 of all the shows on TV at the time).

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Each Day is What You Make It
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Written by Dan Foliart and Howard Pearl

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Why A New Kind Of Family Was Cancelled

In 1979 I was a then young 22 year old Hollywood short actor. I was hired on with A New Kind Of Family to work as a stand-in for the child regulars (i.e., Lowe and Hollander).

Aside from the fact that the show was not that great to begin with (good idea; badly executed), the star of the series, Eileen Brennan, was being courted to co-star in the movie version of "Private Benjamin". The only thing standing in her way was this series that was not too good.

Not knowing that Ms Brennan had this conflict, I had jotted down some thoughts to Dick Clair, one of the show's producers, on how to maybe make it better. It was all rather amusing when Ms Brennan sent her personal assistant out to the sound stage, demanding that I be forcefully removed and banned from the set. Clearly, Ms Brennan had no desire to want to see or hear of any ideas that might have helped the show.

Christian Seaborn