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Go ahead, say it. You told me I wasn't old enough to take care of myself and I wouldn't listen. So, look what happened.

Well, he doesn't have to, because none of it was my fault. I didn't do a thing.

According to the police, that's not altogether true.

Daddy, Julie was doing all the driving. Now, how was I supposed to know that a twenty-one year old would be so irresponsible?

No good. First, you meant to be treated as a grown-up, then you blame an older girl for being irresponsible. In any case, you will be held accountable for your actions!

Just ground me for the rest of my life! I don't care!

Does that mean you don't want to be trusted?

I think she's asking to be left alone. I don't think you could punish her anymore than she's punishing herself.

Well, she's in one piece, if that's what you mean. I think she's a long way from all right.

Sada Thompson

James Broderick

Gary Frank

Edward Zwick

Buddy develops a secret social life by sneaking into a disco. Annie dates an attractive but boring football player.

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The nighttime drama series &quot;Family&quot; had quite a pedigree: created by acclaimed screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, executive produced by the team of Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling with Mike Nichols, and featuring James Broderick and Sada Thompson as the ever-suffering heads of the Lawrence household of Pasadena, the show received Emmy nominations or wins for nearly every one of the four-and-a-half seasons that it ran on ABC. But life lessons didn&apos;t come lightly for &quot;Family&quot;&apos;s stable of writers, including Edward Zwick who penned this finger-wagging episode in which Kristy McNichol&apos;s &quot;Buddy&quot; falls under the influence of a bragging female disco dancer who takes the 16-year-old to her first nightclub. Brought home in a squad car, grounded Buddy has to learn to accept responsibility for her own actions--but asks her father for an hour&apos;s freedom the following day: &quot;The only way I&apos;m going to get your respect is by earning it.&quot; McNichol excels in serious scenes like this--she always seemed older than her years, anyway--yet I never quite bought the sibling bond between she and older brother Gary Frank (nor older sister Meredith Baxter Birney, who is MIA in this episode). Quinn Cummings was a weak addition in the fourth season as little orphaned Annie, and one quickly tires of Thompson&apos;s waxworks-like smile and subdued manner, but the show has an almost compulsively watchable tidiness.

The nighttime drama series "Family" had quite a pedigree: created by acclaimed screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, executive produced by the team of Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling with Mike Nichols, and featuring James Broderick and Sada Thompson as the ever-suffering heads of the Lawrence household of Pasadena, the show received Emmy nominations or wins for nearly every one of the four-and-a-half seasons that it ran on ABC. But life lessons didn't come lightly for "Family"'s stable of writers, including Edward Zwick who penned this finger-wagging episode in which Kristy McNichol's "Buddy" falls under the influence of a bragging female disco dancer who takes the 16-year-old to her first nightclub. Brought home in a squad car, grounded Buddy has to learn to accept responsibility for her own actions--but asks her father for an hour's freedom the following day: "The only way I'm going to get your respect is by earning it." McNichol excels in serious scenes like this--she always seemed older than her years, anyway--yet I never quite bought the sibling bond between she and older brother Gary Frank (nor older sister Meredith Baxter Birney, who is MIA in this episode). Quinn Cummings was a weak addition in the fourth season as little orphaned Annie, and one quickly tires of Thompson's waxworks-like smile and subdued manner, but the show has an almost compulsively watchable tidiness.

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