Favorite Kristy McNichol Television Series

Creator: Jay Presson Allen
Starring: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Gary Frank, Kristy McNichol and Meredith Baxter

The joys and heartaches of the Lawrence family of Pasadena, California.

Episode: 'Little Girl Lost' (1976)
Creator: William Blinn
Director: Earl Bellamy
Starring: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser and Kristy McNichol

Molly "Pete" Edwards, a twelve-year-old baseball playing "tomboy"living with her alcoholic, ex-con father, finds herself suddenly orphaned just before Christmas. Will Starsky and Hutch be there to help her when her father's underworld partners come looking for her because she knows the whereabouts of $100,000 in stolen diamonds?

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Episode: 'The Hostages' (1976)
Creator: William Blinn
Director: George McCowan
Starring: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton, John Ritter, Linda Kelsey, Will Hare, Jean Hagen and Kristy McNichol

An armored car driver is forced to collect money for a band of robbers who are holding his pregnant wife hostage. Starsky and Hutch have only a few hours to locate his wife and rescue the driver, as this gang's m.o. is to leave no witnesses alive. Their only witness is Meg (Kristy McNichol), the young tomboy neighbour.

Episode: 'The Pinballs' (1977)
Based on the novel by Betsy Byars
Starring: starring Kristy McNichol, Johnny Doran, Sparky Marcus and Priscilla Morrill

Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.

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Episode: 'Fawn Story' (1975)
Director: Larry Elikann
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Poindexter Yothers, Med Flory, Karen Obediear and Gordon Jump

A brother and sister discover a wounded deer and proceed to nurse the animal back to health.

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Episode: 'Me and Dad's New Wife' (1976)
Director: Larry Elikann
Based on the novel 'A Smart Kid Like You' by Stella Pevsner
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Lance Kerwin and Melendy Britt

12-year-old girl finds it hard to accept her new step-mother.

Episode: 'The Ghosthunter' (1976)
Creator: Kenneth Johnson
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Starring: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Paul Shenar and Kristy McNichol

Jaime poses as a governess to Amanda Cory who seems to be haunted by her mother's ghost. The supernatural disruptions are prohibiting Amanda's father from completing his OSI funded experiments.

Creator: Earl Hamner Jr.
Starring: Ronny Cox, Frances Lee McCain, Eric Olson, Malcolm Atterbury and Kristy McNichol

The Apple family adjusts to life in a small Iowa town.

Episode: 'Witness' (1991)
Creator: Susan Harris
Director: Zane Buzby
Starring: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Kristy McNichol

Barbara (Kristy McNichol) stops by in her capacity as a police offer to follow up on Sophia's report of her missing glasses. She later returns with Sophia's glasses and helps nab the dreaded 'Cheese Man.'

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Episode: 'A Midwinter Night's Dream Continues' (1992)
Creator: Susan Harris
Director: Lex Passaris
Starring: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, Harold Gould, Dinah Manoff and Kristy McNichol

Barbara (Kristy McNichol) shows up to confront Sophia, who attempted to cause a fight between Barbara and her sister Carol to break a Sicilian curse.

Episode: 'Showdown in Saskatchewan' (1988)
Creator: Peter S. Fischer
Director: Vincent McEveety
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Kristy McNichol, Paul Le Mat and Larry Wilcox

Jessica's niece is smitten with a rodeo rider and refuses to believe he could have committed a murder.

Creator/Producer: Susan Harris
Starring: Richard Mulligan, Kristy McNichol, Dinah Manoff, David Leisure and Park Overall

The misadventures of a widowed pediatrician and his two adult daughters who have come back to live with him in Miami after failed marriages.

Directors: Stuart Margolin and Alan Rafkin
Episode: 'Graham and Kelly' (1977)
Starring: Bernie Kopell, Hermione Baddeley, Kristy McNichol and Scott Baio

The adventures of the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship. Senior citizen Kitty Pickerel boards the ship with her grandson Graham, who meets a confident interesting teen, Kelly, leaving him tongue tied and flustered. Will Dr. Bricker's advice to him melt the ice or place him on the rocks?

Director: Hy Averback
Episode: 'Pilot #2' (1977)
Starring: Quinn K. Redeker, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy, Diane Stillwell, Ken Berry, Bert Convy, Celeste Holm, Hope Lange, Robert Reed, Tracy Brooks Swope, Craig Stevens, Marcia Strassman, Lyle Waggoner and Kristy McNichol

The second pilot for the long-running American television series. The adventures of the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship.

Director: Daniel Haller
Episode: 'Grandpa's Girl' (1976)
Starring: Brenda Vacarro and Kristy McNichol

Sara Yarnell, a 19th-century school teacher, leaves a dreary and predictable existence in the east to become the teacher for the frontier town of Independence, Colorado.

Following the death of an old prospector, Sara discovers that he has left her half of his "gold" mine, and his feisty, 14-year-old granddaughter. Sara tries to convince her fiercely independent ward to give up her plan to continue working the mine, but finds that it takes much more than a reasonable argument to sway the strong-willed girl.

Director: Joseph M. Ellis
Episode 'Homecoming' (1974)
Starring: Paul Frees (narrator), Arch Whiting, Donald Briggs, Kristy McNichol, Albert Salmi, E.J. Peaker, Donnelly Rhodes and Maggie Thrett

Joe, a German Shepherd dog and a trained member of the military's K9-Corp., is falsely accused of attacking his master, Sergeant Corey. Joe manages to escape before being killed and a bounty is put on his head.

Joe falls asleep in a barn where Judy (Kristy McNichol), a little girl, finds him and nurses him back to health. But unfortunately her stepfather hates dogs and wants to get rid of him, so Judy runs away with Joe.