Madame X
01-17-2010, 01:30 AM
A lot of sitcoms showed homes that weren't in the traditional Leave it to Beaver style (mom, dad & kids). Here are some; add to the list:
Who's the Boss
Golden Girls
Diff'rent Strokes
Chico & the Man
Full House
Sanford & Son
Will & Grace
Benson
Alice
Marvo301
01-17-2010, 01:48 AM
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Julia
What's Happening
Petticoat Junction
The Lucy Show
Here's Lucy
Family Affair
The Partridge Family
factsoflife
01-17-2010, 03:24 AM
Blossom
Kate & Allie
Thunder Alley
Good Times
Camp Wilder
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
Zoneboy
01-17-2010, 03:31 AM
The Andy Griffith Show
Bachelor Father
My Little Margie
Hello Larry
Mayberry RFD
browneyes106
01-17-2010, 12:03 PM
Grace Under Fire
The Torklensons
Almost Home
megamanj2004
01-17-2010, 09:30 PM
My Two Dads
Perfect Strangers
Punky Brewster
Silver Spoons
Webster
jimpickens
01-17-2010, 10:28 PM
My three sons
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Rifleman
Bonanza
Schmoopie
01-18-2010, 05:15 AM
This is a great topic! Very original! I'll try to think of some more to add, but it looks like you guys have quite a list going!
factsoflife
01-18-2010, 02:09 PM
Desinging Women; they were presented as having built a family unit together as friends and co-workers.
Rosslover
06-12-2010, 10:54 PM
Sex and the City
Friends
M*A*S*H*
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Night court
Benson
The Love Boat
Three Company
Cheers
Seinfeld
How I Met Your Mother
30 Rock
Third Rock from the Son
WKRP in Cincinnati
browneyes106
06-13-2010, 05:16 PM
On Glee a few of the characters come from non-traditional homes
McGillicuddy
06-13-2010, 05:37 PM
I guess the only thing that classifies as a traditional family home is one with a father, mother and children (who are born biologically) and maybe a grandparent.
Amazingly, Married with Children and Roseanne, though dysfunctional families, would be considered traditional, here.
McGillicuddy
06-13-2010, 05:43 PM
The Brady Bunch (blended family)
Step by Step
True Colors
Jude The Obscure
06-13-2010, 08:01 PM
Wait--are we talking about the family unit itself or THE HOUSE the show was set in?
factsoflife
06-14-2010, 12:29 AM
Wait--are we talking about the family unit itself or THE HOUSE the show was set in?
family unit.
andress_jade
04-12-2016, 12:03 AM
I think the only traditional family on Friends was Jack and Judy Geller. They were married and had Ross and Monica and they stayed married. Rachel's parents divorced when she was an adult. Chandler's parents divorced when he was a kid and Phoebe had the most dysfunctional family life. She was raised by her adoptive mother and stepfather, he went to jail, she met her mother and birth father once, she didn't get along with her twin sister and she met her half brother when she was an adult.
Even though Ross had the most normal family life, it was still dysfunctional because of how his parents favored him over Monica. That made him very insecure as an adult, even more so when his wife left him for another woman. It kept him from the love of his life Rachel, for 10 years before finally getting her only to lose her again after a year. Despite that, he still had a baby with her without actually being in a relationship with her while having his son Ben, that he had with Carol only part time. Because of that he himself had a non traditional family. He had kids with two different women, two women that he loved but couldn't hold onto because of his own insecurities.
In the end though, he was able to overcome them and get Rachel back and raise his daughter the right way and allowed Ben and Emma to be real brother and sister.
Traditional families on TV are a rarity nowadays. I wasn't raised in a traditional family and I came out okay. :)