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Ned, a New York magazine editor, tries to escape the responsibilities of his rocky marriage, the neediness of his two teen daughters and especially the agony of putting his autistic son into an institution by thinking back on his boyhood in Massachusetts. As he returns to that life as an adultwalking into scenes of the 1940s with his parents as an adulthe realizes that life always was a challenging proposition. The boomeranging back and forth in time presented Schaefer and Gene Hackman, in his most outstanding TV performance, with enormous demands.moreless
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The script for this episode was published in Great Television Plays, Volume Two (Dell, 1975).
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Bernard Green's score was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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