Party of Five: Season 1

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Party Of Five: Season 3

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FOX | Season Premiere Date: September 12, 1994

Starring: Scott Grimes, Lacey Chabert, Scott Wolf

Summary: Nothing could be worse than the sudden death of parents. One day Nick and Diana Salinger were killed in a terrible car crash, and left their five children all alone. Charlie (Matthew Fox), the oldest, will have to step in and take care of the family, serving both as father and brother. Bailey (Scott Wolf), the middle brother, tries to keepNothing could be worse than the sudden death of parents. One day Nick and Diana Salinger were killed in a terrible car crash, and left their five children all alone. Charlie (Matthew Fox), the oldest, will have to step in and take care of the family, serving both as father and brother. Bailey (Scott Wolf), the middle brother, tries to keep everything under control but undergoes an alcoholism problem when he realizes he can't do it all. Julia (Neve Campbell), a young girl who keeps jumping from one bad relationship to another. Claudia (Lacey Chabert), the youngest girl that plays the violin, who has to enter adolescence without any help of parents, and little baby Owen, who was only 6 months old when his parents died and thus will never know how it feels like to have a mother and a father. Together, they go through all sorts of problems, from handling their parents restaurant and trying to keep it running to disastrous relationships and school problems. Soon they realize that in order to survive, no one can be selfish and they all have to help each other. They're a family and have to stick together.

Winner of the 1996 Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Series, this one hour show from Columbia Pictures Television empathizes the way a family uses creativity, humor and love taught by their parents to handle the conflicts and necessities of everyday life. The show ran for 6 seasons on Fox, when producers, actors and network decided to finish the show.

The Opening Theme Song:
"Closer to Free" performed by the BoDeans

Awards and Nominations:
• 2000 - Won! - ALMA Award for best emerging actor in a Drama Series - Wilson Cruz
• 2000 - Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Individual Episode (for episode "I'll Show You Mine")
• 2000 - Nominated - YoungStar Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 2000 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Guest Starring Young Actress - Ashley Edner)
• 1999 - Nominated - YoungStar Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1999 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1999 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Jacob Smith)
• 1998 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Guest Starring Young Actress - Allison Bertolino)
• 1998 - Won! - YoungStar Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1998 - Nominated - YoungStar Award (Andrew and Steven Cavarno)
• 1997 - Won! - YoungStar Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1997 - Nominated - YoungStar Award (Jennifer Love Hewitt)
• 1997 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1997 - Nominated - for the Writers Guild of America Awards for best dramatic episode ("Falsies")
• 1997 - Nominated - for The Golden Globe of Best TV Series Drama
• 1996 - Won! - The Golden Globe for Best TV Series Drama
• 1996 - Nominated - EMMY for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series (in episode "The Wedding")
• 1996 - Won! - Turner Prize
• 1996 - Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Television Series
• 1996 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1995 - Nominated - Young Artist Award (Lacey Chabert)
• 1995 - Nominated - by the Casting Society of America for Best Casting for TV (Pilot)
• 1995 - Won! - the Humanitas Prize… Expand

Creator: Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E22. The Ides of March
Air Date: March 15, 1995
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S1:E21. All-Nighters
Air Date: March 8, 1995
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S1:E20. The Trouble with Charlie
Air Date: March 1, 1995

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100

Robert P. Laurence

Jan 8, 2020

Viewers are not accustomed to finding programs of this caliber on Fox, and they certainly will not expect it right after the tawdry "Melrose Place." But make the effort. You'll be glad you did. [11 Sept 1994, p.TV-17]

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Marvin Kitman

Jul 12, 2013

A socially responsible, heartwarming, beautifully made, written and acted series. [8 Sep 1994]

Emily VanDerWerff

Jan 8, 2020

For one thing, the cast was stellar. To play the four oldest siblings, Keyser and Lippman found Matthew Fox, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, and Lacey Chabert, all of whom would go on to have significant careers elsewhere and all of whom almost immediately started acting like a semi-functioning family unit. Read full review

Tom Shales

Jan 8, 2020

Party of Five takes a serious and absorbing approach. Read full review

Hal Boedeker

Jan 8, 2020

Party of Five is easily Fox's best new series this season...The young actors, especially Wolf, give heartfelt performances, and when they talk about their departed parents, the pain comes through. There are some Fox touches -- the knockout new nanny, for one -- but Party of Five is far from being a life-without-parents fantasy. [12 Sept 1994, p.C1]

Manuel Mendoza

Jan 8, 2020

Critics keep saying that this doesn't look like a Fox show, and they mean that as a compliment. Sure, the cast is attractive enough to guest star on Beverly Hills, 90210, but with a subject ripe for overwrought treatment, Party of Five holds back just enough. [11 Sept 1994, p.11C]

Miles Beller

Jan 8, 2020

This new Fox drama is all about the cloyingly sensitive, a treatment of innocence and loss that is over-the-top contrite. Indeed, a pinch of corrosive cynicism might have rescued the total undertaking from the terminally coy. Instead, we get ever more labored business. [12 Sept 1994]

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MattJacks2003

Mar 9, 2019

Neve Campbell is the sexist TV star since Patrick Duffy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Seasons & Episodes

79

Series Overview
Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: October 5, 1999
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 16, 1998
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 17, 1997
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: August 21, 1996
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 27, 1995
Season 1

79
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 12, 1994
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  S1:E22. The Ides of March
  Air Date: March 15, 1995
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  S1:E21. All-Nighters
  Air Date: March 8, 1995
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  S1:E20. The Trouble with Charlie
  Air Date: March 1, 1995
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  S1:E19. Brother's Keeper
  Air Date: February 22, 1995
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  S1:E18. Who Cares?
  Air Date: February 15, 1995
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  S1:E17. In Loco Parentis
  Air Date: February 1, 1995
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  S1:E16. Aftershocks
  Air Date: January 18, 1995
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  S1:E15. It's Not Easy Being Green
  Air Date: January 11, 1995
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  S1:E14. Not Fade Away
  Air Date: January 4, 1995
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  S1:E13. Grownups
  Air Date: December 12, 1994
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  S1:E12. Games People Play
  Air Date: November 28, 1994
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  S1:E11. Private Lives
  Air Date: November 21, 1994
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  S1:E10. Thanksgiving
  Air Date: November 14, 1994
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  S1:E9. Something Out of Nothing
  Air Date: November 7, 1994
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  S1:E8. Kiss Me Kate
  Air Date: November 2, 1994
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  S1:E7. Much Ado
  Air Date: October 24, 1994
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  S1:E6. Fathers and Sons
  Air Date: October 17, 1994
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  S1:E5. All's Fair
  Air Date: October 10, 1994
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  S1:E4. Worth Waiting For
  Air Date: October 3, 1994
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  S1:E3. Good Sports
  Air Date: September 26, 1994
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  S1:E2. Homework
  Air Date: September 19, 1994
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: September 12, 1994