Eight is Enough season 2 intro (first version)

The first version of the opening theme for the second season, before Betty Buckley joined the regular cast. In syndication, this version is sometimes used for first season episodes in which Diana Hyland (Joan Bradford) does not appear. Hyland missed many season 1 episodes due to illness. When ABC reran the series in the summer of 1977, after her death, they only ran the episodes in which she did not appear, and attached this opening which does not include her - in order to get viewers used to life without Joan, apparently.