If they'd known for sure when the last episode was going to be, what do you think it would have been about? Would each of the Nelsons have come out and given a little speech and said goodbye? It was sort a sad, unsatifying end without any chance to say goodbye to the family we'd all (or some of us had) known for 14 years.

Maybe Ozzie and Harriet would have become grandparents.

Originally posted by hawaii five-o
Maybe Ozzie and Harriet would have become grandparents.

Um.. ..they did- both in reality and on the show itself! Baby Tracey was seen on a few occasions!

Originally posted by PracTz
Um.. ..they did- both in reality and on the show itself! Baby Tracey was seen on a few occasions!

Are you sure? I don't remember Tracy ever being mentioned or seen on the show. In fact, I was surprised to learn years later (when Tracy did appear in her first series "Square Pegs") that Tracy had been born in 1964, two years before the show ended in 1966 because Rick and Kris did not have a baby on the show. It would have made for some good plots and would also have been consistant with using David and Rick's real life wives to include their children as well.

I also heard that part of the reason Tracy didn't appear was that Ozzie was upset that she was conceived before wedlock (remember this was the early 60's, before the "sexual revolution"). Whatever the reason, I am quite certain that if you saw baby Tracy it was part of real life news clips and not part of the Nelson family as characters on the show.

Yes, Tracy was on the show. She and Danny, Dave's son, were on a Christmas show at the end when Rick sang the "Christmas Carol" (1965). She was born Oct 23, 1963, not 1964. Kris and Rick were married on April 20, 1963. They didn't use Tracy in the show earlier because the story was set up that Rick and Kris were college students and Rick worked in Dave's law office, so they didn't have kids as far as the show was concerned at that time.

Interesting. Mcguirefan. You telling us about tracy's birth and why the story was the way it was. Tracy is 40 now wow. time zips by. I remember her on Father Dowlings Mysteries. I know she was married to William Moses, (he was on Falcon Crest) and they divorced. They had a child and she had a child by a boyfriend, I haven't heard much about her in a number of years.

Originally posted by mcgwirefan
Yes, Tracy was on the show. She and Danny, Dave's son, were on a Christmas show at the end when Rick sang the "Christmas Carol" (1965). She was born Oct 23, 1963, not 1964. Kris and Rick were married on April 20, 1963. They didn't use Tracy in the show earlier because the story was set up that Rick and Kris were college students and Rick worked in Dave's law office, so they didn't have kids as far as the show was concerned at that time.

I don't recall that episode but my explanation regarding this would be that when Rick sang at the end of the show (not to make this confusing) he is appearing as himself, Rick Nelson, famous rock star and one of stars of the TV series, and not as Rick Nelson, his TV character (with the same name, just like Jerry Seinfeld in his show) and as a struggling law clerk.

The real life Rick Nelson was a father of course at that time, with Tracy. The TV character Rick Nelson did not have kids yet.

Do you remember any episodes of the show where Kris or June were pregnant, or any episodes where their kids figured in plot situations? Of course not. Although Dave and Rick's real life wives were indeed also married to them on the show, their kids did not exist yet in the context of the series. I was unhappy with this, I felt it would have made same great plots toward the end of the series run to see Ozzie and Harriet became grandparents on the show (as they already had in real life) and may have even extended the show's run, but the fact remains as far as the Nelson family (as TV characters, not in real life) existed at the end of the series, there were still no grandkids.