Name: Mother's Rule
Released: 1979-01-10

To encourage the remaining Bradfords to stay put, Tom decides to lift all curfews, but Abby questions if that’s a smart move. Tom demonstrates that sometimes, too much freedom can backfire. Meanwhile, the girls discover that living in their own apartment isn’t as wonderful as they had imagined. Nicholas struggles to adapt to the reality of having his own room, finding it more challenging than he anticipated.

Show Eight Is Enough

Episode S03E17

Air Date Jan 10, 1979

Season 3 Episodes

S03E01 Who's Crazy Here? S03E02 Nine Is Too Much S03E03 Here We Go Again S03E04 Cinderella's Understudy S03E05 Milk and Sympathy S03E06 The Flunked and the Funked S03E07 Cops and Toddlers S03E08 The Hipbone's Connected to the Thighbone S03E09 Fast and Loose S03E10 War Between the Bradfords S03E11 All The Vice President's Men S03E12 You Won't Have Nicholas to Kick Around Anymore (1) S03E13 You Won't Have Nicholas to Kick Around Anymore (2) S03E14 Alone At Last S03E15 The Yearning Point S03E16 Moving Out S03E17 Mother's Rule S03E18 Inlaws and Outlaws S03E19 Horror Story S03E20 Just the Ten of Us S03E21 Best of Friends S03E22 The Kid Who Came to Dinner S03E23 The Better Part of Valour S03E24 Dads, Daughters, Different Drummers S03E25 The Final Days S03E26 Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy (1) S03E27 Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy (2) S03E28 The Graduates

Mother's Rule (S03E17)

Season 3 Episodes