TOGETHER WE STAND (1986-1987) – With the new attention being paid to Ke Huy Quan/ Short Round in recent years, I decided to take a look at the sitcom he co-starred in with Elliott Gould, Dee Wallace Stone and others.
Gould and Stone played David and Lori Randall, who went the adoption route only to have Lori get pregnant after all, resulting in a houseful of kids, Ke Huy Quan among them.
Co-creator Sherwood Schwarz explained that this sitcom was a revival of a failed 1974 attempt at a spinoff from the Brady Bunch titled Kelly’s Kids.
The first episode unrealistically dealt with a social worker leaning on the Randalls to adopt two more children, Sam (Quan) and an African American girl named Sally (Natasha Bobo). But hey, My Mother the Car and The Flying Nun proved long ago that realism isn’t necessary.
Elliott Gould took part in filming 10 episodes, but only 6 of those aired. His character David died offscreen in a car accident, his 4 unaired episodes were ignored and the rest of the cast carried on under the new title Nothing is Easy.
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