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The Fitzpatricks (1977)

The Fitzpatricks poster
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A blue-collar Irish-American family living in Detroit navigates everyday challenges and relationships in the late 1970s. The show centers on the parents and their four children as they deal with work, school, and family dynamics.

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What happens

The Fitzpatricks is an American drama series which ran on CBS during the 1977–78 season. The series premiered on September 5, 1977; it lasted thirteen episodes, and was cancelled on January 10, 1978, failing in the faces of established ABC competitors Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, which both aired in the show's time-slot of 8:00-9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific on Tuesday nights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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