Empty Nest

Empty Nest Cast

Series Description

The Empty Nest TV show was a 30 minute comedy series on NBC about a widowed doctor with two grown daughters who move back in with him after their marriages failed.

Empty Nest Cast

Richard Mulligan .... Doctor Harry Weston
Kristy McNichol .... Barbara Weston (1988-1993 and final episode)
Dinah Manoff .... Carol Weston
Park Overall .... Laverne Higby Todd Kane
David Leisure .... Charley Dietz
Estelle Getty .... Sophia Petrillo-Weinstock (1993-1995 and 2 earlier crossovers)
Marsha Warfield .... Dr. Maxine Douglas (1993-1995)
Paul Provenza .... Patrick Arcola (1992-1993)
Lisa Rieffel .... Emily Weston (1993)
Bear the Dog .... Dreyfuss (1989-1991)

Empty Nest Theme Song

Title: "Life Goes On"

By: "John Bettis and George Tipton"

Life goes on, and so do we,
Just how we do it is no mystery.
One by one ... one by one, we fill the days,
We find a thousand different ways.
Sometimes the answer can be hard to find ... hard to find,
That's something I will never be.
I'm always here, for anything you need ... anything you need.
Rain or shine, I'll be the one,
to share it all as life goes on.
We share it all, as life goes on.

Empty Nest Trivia

Empty Nest was a "spin-off series" of the show, "The Golden Girls" but only in the very loosest sense. The final episode of the second season of that series was titled, "Empty Nests" and David Leisure played an annoying next door neighbor on both that episode and the Empty Nest series. The episode was about a woman who felt useless because her children were all off on their own and her husband barely payed her any notice at all. The house on that episode was the same as the one used on the series. Otherwise, the other actors were all replaced and the entire storyline was revamped.

Kristy McNichol left Empty Nest after the fifth season ended but she did come back for the final episode. She said that she was sick and tired of acting and wanted to go to school and learn to be a hair stylist! She said that she just wanted to be a "normal" person. A few years later she took a job as a drama teacher at a High School in Los Angeles, California.

The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, and Nurses (1991) all aired on NBC on Saturday nights. They were all created by Susan Harris and they were all set in Miami, Florida. This created a natural opportunity for crossovers where the characters appeared on each other's series. When another Golden Girls spinoff, "The Golden Palace" was canceled it also created an opportunity for Estelle Getty's character to join the cast of Empty Nest as Sophia Petrillo for its final two seasons and somewhat fill the gap left by Kristy McNichols departure!

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

Season 1

  1. Pilot Episode (10/8/1988)
  2. The Check Isn't in the Mail (10/15/1988)
  3. Barbara Gets Shot (10/22/1988)
  4. Fatal Attraction (11/5/1988)
  5. Father of the Bride (11/12/1988)
  6. Harry's Vacation (11/12/1988)
  7. Tinker to Evers to Tucson (11/18/1988)
  8. What's a Father to Do? (11/26/1988)
  9. Harry's Friend (12/3/1988)
  10. Libby's Gift (12/17/1988)
  11. The First Time - Again (12/24/1988)
  12. Full Nest (1/14/1989)
  13. Tears of a Clown (1/21/1989)
  14. Here's a Howdy-Do (1/28/1989)
  15. Strange Bedfellows (2/4/1989)
  16. Blame it on the Moon (2/11/1989)
  17. Dumped (2/18/1989)
  18. The More Things Change (2/25/1989)
  19. Man of the Year (3/4/1989)
  20. My Sister, My Friend (3/11/1989)
  21. A Life in the Day (3/18/1989)
  22. Cyrano de Weston (3/18/1989)
Season 2
  1. Settling (9/2/1989)
  2. On the Interpretation of Dreams (9/2/1989)
  3. Just You and My Kid (9/16/1989)
  4. Rambo of Neiman Marcus (9/23/1989)
  5. Harry Snubs Laverne (9/30/1989)
  6. Between a Cop and a Hard Place (10/17/1989)
  7. You Are 16 Going On 17 and I'm Not (10/21/1989)
  8. The R.N. who Came to Dinner (11/6/1989)
  9. Green Eggs and Harry (11/18/1989)
  10. Overdue For a Job (12/2/1989)
  11. A Christmas Story (12/16/1989)
  12. Timing (12/16/1989)
  13. MD, P.O.V (12/23/1989)
  14. Change of Heart (12/23/1989)
  15. Harry's Choice (1/6/1990)
  16. Complainin' in the Rain (1/20/1990)
  17. Everything But Love (1/27/1990)
  18. It Happened Two Nights, Four Costume Changes (2/3/1990)
  19. Love is Blind (2/17/1990)
  20. Goodbye, Mr. Dietz (2/24/1990)
  21. Lessons (3/3/1990)
  22. Take My Man, Please (3/24/1990)
  23. Did You Ever See a Dream Dying? (3/31/1990)
  24. Still Growing After All These Years (4/28/1990)
Season 3
  1. A Flaw is Born (9/22/1990)
  2. Harry's Excellent Adventure (9/29/1990)
  3. There's No Accounting (10/6/1990)
  4. Barbara the Mom (10/13/1990)
  5. The Tortoise & the Harry (10/20/1990)
  6. Mad About the Boy (10/27/1990)
  7. Honey, I Shrunk Laverne (11/3/1990)
  8. The Boy Next Door (11/10/1990)
  9. A Family Affair (11/17/1990)
  10. Someone to Watch Over Me (11/24/1990)
  11. Harry Knows Best (12/8/1990)
  12. Whenever I Feel Afraid (12/15/1990)
  13. A Shot in the Dark (1/5/1991)
  14. Sucking Up is Hard to Do (1/19/1991)
  15. The Man That Got Away 1(/26/1991)
  16. The Mentor (2/2/1991)
  17. The Dog Who Knew Too Much (2/9/1991)
  18. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (2/16/1991)
  19. All About Harry (3/9/1991)
  20. Drive, He Said (3/16/1991)
  21. The Last Temptation of Laverne (3/23/1991)
  22. What's Eating You? (4/13/1991)
  23. The Cruise (5/4/1991)
  24. The Way We Are (5/11/1991)
Season 4
  1. 50 Million Men and a Baby (9/21/1991)
  2. Almost Like Being in Love (9/28/1991)
  3. Her Cheatin' Heart (10/5/1991)
  4. Food For Thought (10/12/1991)
  5. Harry's Got a Gun (10/19/1991)
  6. A Dreyfus Affair (10/26/1991)
  7. Country Weston (11/2/1991)
  8. Windy (11/9/1991)
  9. Talk, Talk, Talk (11/16/1991)
  10. Lonely Are the Brave (11/23/1991)
  11. If You Knew Andy Like I Know ... (12/7/1991)
  12. My Nurse is Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble ... (12/14/1991)
  13. The Son of a Preacherman (1/4/1992)
  14. Ex-appeal (1/11/1992)
  15. The Great Escape (1/18/1992)
  16. The Mismatchmaker (2/1/1992)
  17. The Return of Aunt Susan (2/8/1992)
  18. The Unimportance of Being Charley (2/15/1992)
  19. Sayonara (2/22/1992)
  20. Dr. Weston and Mr. Hyde (2/29/1992)
  21. Charley for President (3/14/1992)
  22. Good Neighbor Harry (3/28/1992)
  23. Final Analysis (4/25/1992)
  24. Roots (5/2/1992)
Season 5
  1. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (9/19/1992)
  2. Take My Garage, Please (9/26/1992)
  3. R.N. On the Rebound (10/3/1992)
  4. ... Or Forever Hold Your Peace (10/10/1992)
  5. The Boomerang Affair (10/17/1992)
  6. Cruel and Unusual Punishment (10/24/1992)
  7. It's Not Easy Being Green (10/31/1992)
  8. Dirty Harry (11/7/1992)
  9. Timing is Everything (11/14/1992)
  10. Thanksgiving at the Westons' (11/21/1992)
  11. The Body Beautiful (12/5/1992)
  12. Overboard (12/12/1992)
  13. Emily (1/2/1993)
  14. The Sting (1/9/1993)
  15. The Fracas in Vegas (1/23/1993)
  16. Pardon My Flashback (1/30/1993)
  17. Dog Day Afternoon (2/6/1993)
  18. More to Love (2/13/1993)
  19. My Dad, My Doctor (2/20/1993)
  20. Love and Marriage (2/27/1993)
  21. The All-American Boy - Not! (3/20/1993)
  22. Two For the Road (4/10/1993)
  23. Aunt Verne Knows Best (5/1/1993)
  24. My Mother, My Self (5/8/1993)
  25. Charley to the Rescue (5/15/1993)
  26. Surprise! Surprise! (5/22/1993)
Season 6
  1. When the Rooster Dies (9/25/1993)
  2. Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello - Part 1 (10/2/1993)
  3. Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello - Part 2 (10/9/1993)
  4. Mama Todd, the Sequel (10/16/1993)
  5. Mom's the Word (10/23/1993)
  6. Diary of a Mad Housewife (10/30/1993)
  7. Mother Dearest (11/6/1993)
  8. No Volunteers, Please (11/13/1993)
  9. Das Boob (11/20/1993)
  10. The Girl Who Cried Baby (11/27/1993)
  11. Superbaby (12/11/1993)
  12. Read All About It (12/18/1993)
  13. Love a la Mode (1/8/1994)
  14. What's A Mother To Do? (1/15/1994)
  15. Gesundeit (1/22/1994)
  16. Under the Gun (1/29/1994)
  17. Brotherly Shove (2/5/1994)
  18. The Ballad of Shady Pines (2/12/1994)
  19. Hog Heaven (3/5/1994)
  20. Charley's Millions (3/8/1994)
  21. Half That Jazz (4/5/1994)
  22. The Devil and Dr. Weston (4/9/1994)
  23. A Foreign Affair (4/16/1994)
  24. Lordy, Lordy, Landlordy (4/23/1994)
  25. Best Friends (5/21/1994)
  26. Absence Makes the Nurse Grow Weirder (5/21/1994)
Season 7
  1. Let's Give Them Something to Talk About - Part 1 (9/24/1994)
  2. Mrs. Clinton Comes to Town - Part 2 (9/24/1994)
  3. Just For Laughs (10/1/1994)
  4. A Chip Off the Old Charley (10/8/1994)
  5. The Woman Who Came to Dither (10/15/1994)
  6. Carol Gets A Raise (10/22/1994)
  7. The Courtship of Carol's Father (12/3/1994)
  8. The Tinker Grant (12/3/1994)
  9. Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Pain (12/17/1994)
  10. Would You Believe... (12/17/1994)
  11. Single White Male (1/7/1995)
  12. Dear Aunt Martha (1/14/1995)
  13. Goodbye Charley (1/21/1995)
  14. Family Practice (1/28/1995)
  15. Grandma, What Big Eyes You Have (2/4/1995)
  16. Feelings, Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feelings (2/25/1995)
  17. And Kevin Makes Three (3/4/1995)
  18. Harry Weston: Man's Best Friend (3/18/1995)
  19. The Ex-Files (3/18/1995)
  20. Stand By Your Man (3/25/1995)
  21. Life Goes On (2 Part Special) (4/26/1995)
  22. My Pal Valy-Val (6/10/1995)
  23. Remembrance of Clips Past (6/17/1995)

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