Apple's Way

I was a small child, only four and five years old, when this was on TV. I remember it so vividly and I never forgot the name. My love for this show was right up there with the Waltons and Little House on the Prarie. I was so surprised when I looked it up to find out it had only been on such a short time. It made a much bigger impact on my childhood than that. I remember crying when my mom said it wasn't going to be on any more. Kristy McNichol was wonderful as Patricia! She was such a gifted child. I would love to be able to share this show with my children. If it was ever made available on tape or DVD I would buy it in an instant.

I remember this show too. I was only 8 when it was on, but at the time I enjoyed it. It would probably give me cavities now.

Now I see it was really jumping on the bandwagon started by "The Waltons" two seasons earlier. "Little House on the Prairie" followed the same trend.

One of the episodes I remember involved the father sitting in a tree to protest its removal. Eventually everyone in town came to join him and sing-along as he played his guitar ("Down by the old mill stream...").

I did find the cantankerous grandfather with a heart of gold a little annoying. And I never really adjusted to the actress change for one of the daughters.

i watched this show a couple of times when i was 7 years old. The only scene that sticks in my mind that i remember is i believe it was the Tornado episode where i keep thinking there's a scene where George and the Grandfather were in the station wagon car (i think it was) and somehow , George was driving the car in the storm and somehow it flipped over and landed on its roof and then it went into a commercial.

When this show was out, i remember hanging out with this kid i knew and the song "The Night Chicago Died" was always on the radio. And at that time , my favorite TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" was in its 1st season. I had memories as a kid. Apples Way was kind of a memory but not as big as some of the big shows that were out in the 1974-75 season.

My sister HAD to watch the show every week, and it a misery. I'm so glad my dad could see it the way you did. He riffed the show and made it hilarious.

It was just a terrible, dry, Sears Roebuck attired saltine cracker of a show.

There was nothing redeemable about about any of the characters. Even today, when we come across bland unappealing 'acceptable' in a social way families my brother and I nudge each other and mutter, "Apple's Way People".

I remember this as a warm and friendly family show. It was a family who had moved back from the big city to the Dad's rural hometown. It had perhaps a little reminiscence of the Walton's although it was set in current times, not long in the past and not narrated that way. The Apples, too, were a family that had a strong family relationship and strong religious beliefs.

In fact, it may have been done by the same producer as the Waltons but I'm not positive. I was young and it's been so many years since it went off the air, but I remember my family being very disappointed when it wasn't renewed after the second year.