Our House (1986 TV series)
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Our House was a family-oriented drama which ran early on Sunday evening on NBC from 1986 to 1988. It starred Wilford Brimley as Gus Witherspoon, a retired widower who allows his daughter-in-law Jessica (played by Deidre Hall) and her children to move in with him after Gus's son died. Upon its 1986 premiere, the Associated Press called the series "a family show suitable for framing."
Gus became a new father figure to Jessica's children, Kris (Shannen Doherty), David (Chad Allen), and Molly (Keri Houlihan). This show was intended for family viewing, and as such, had a moral lesson for the family to learn each week. In one episode, the family shunned modern appliances for one weekend, only for David and Kris to break their vows by watching impending news of nuclear war with the Soviet Union from a television shop window.
A unique quality Our House possessed was that each segment of the episode culminated in one freeze frame moment, which would then occupy one of the rooms in the "house" on the screen just before the commercial break. When the episode's dilemma was resolved, all the pieces of the puzzle would fit together, and the house would be "full" of the drama the family went through that particular week.
[edit] External links
- Our House at the Internet Movie Database
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