This is a great family series. Still watch these in re-runs when I can (thanks to the Hallmark channel) and I'm slowly trying to build the complete dvd set for my mom. This is the show the two of us would watch together when I was little and it would usually be on her day off or before she'd have to go in for work. It went off the air in 1983, I was born in 79, so I think WGN aired the re-runs of the show. Read and fell in love with the books too.