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The Family Man

Episode Number: 87    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Friday April 25, 1975    Prod Code: 424
Grady decides it's time for a change and moves out of Watts and into fashionable Westwood to live with his daughter, Ellie, her husband Hal, and their two children, Laurie and Haywood. As a housewarming gift, Grady purchases an oil painting to hang over their fireplace. However, the painting he chooses proves to be quite distasteful.

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Writer: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein
Director: Bud Yorkin
Recurring Role: Whitman Mayo (Grady Wilson),  Fritzi Burr (Mrs. Bradley)
Guest Star: John Kirby (Herb),  Michael Talbot (Pete),  Dennis Kort (Roger),  Howard Hesseman (Professor Stoneham),  Rod Colbin (Coach Bradley),  Haywood Nelson (Haywood Marshall),  Rosanne Katon (Laurie Marshall),  Carol Cole (Ellie Marshall),  Joe Morton (Hal Marshall),  Julie Payne (Terestia)

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This was the pilot episode for the spinoff series Grady which was cancelled after only a few episodes. (edit)
This was the only episode that "Based on Steptoe and Son created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson" wasn't cited in the closing credits. (edit)
The director's name is credited in the opening tiles instead of the end of the episode. (edit)
Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson do not appear in this episode. (edit)
Howard Hesseman is better known for his roles on WKRP in Cincinnati and Head of the Class. (edit)

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Grady: I'm just take, take, taking not giving, giving, giving. That's why I'm leaving, leaving, leaving! (edit)

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