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This jumped day one. The hype from the pilot episode was something like "From the producers of the Waltons...". That was enough to make me gag. The only episode I recall having actually watched was when the girlfriend wanted to jump the kids bones, but he had to save himself. Yeah right, that's gonna happen in the 70s.

This was basically 'The Waltons:TNG' and it suffered from being in a period when this was considerd too twee for words.

Admittedly, the actors tried, but there are not too many things you can do in this genre that @the Waltons' had not covered that are not so contreversial that you cannot do them without some pressure group screaming blue murder.

Never jumped. I used to think this show was awful and I have changed my mind. Even though he got upset about some of the dumbest things, lol, it was better than what's on tv today.

What I remember was how much of a hothead Apple was- always protesting for the sake of getting everyone else mad! One time he got a job in a department store- and protested because management didn't want him to. . . have perfume samples on his forearm while he ran the cash register in the ladies' department! Who cared if he couldn't have perfume samples?!

Garbage.

I used to love this show. I loved the Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Fitzpatricks and any close knit family show of that era. I remember Patti Cahoon as "Gloria Hickey" on the Partridge Family. I am a child of 70's television. If only life could be like it was back then.

I rember this distinctly as a blatant attempt to cash in on the success of The Waltons. Cancelled quickly and deservedly so I might add.

I just heard the theme song from Deliverence and remembered Ronnie Cox played the guitar in the movie and on Apple's Way

Apple's Way was one of the best family dramas ever to air on CBS. I can still remember the water wheel turning as the show's instrumental theme song played. The actress who portrayed Mrs. Apple, Lee McCain, was hysterical ten years later as Marty McFly's grandmother in "Back to the Future"!

I remember the show because they filmed the high school scenes at my high school, Van Nuys High. We all got to get out of class to be in the stands for the "football game" so it was fun. Vince Van Patten went there afterwards for awhile.

Apple's way never jumped. Lots of TV critics were down on this show, but I thought it was great. It was promoted at the time as a modern day Waltons which is a good description. It starred Ronny Cox, Lee McCain, Vince Van Patten, Franny Michael, Patti Cahoon, & Eric Olsen (who was a busy child actor at the time-I remember seeing him everywhere). One of the girls got replaced by Kristy McNichol (first time I heard of her). It was wholesome entertainment on a Sunday night.

I barely remember this show. I do remember it seemed like the father was always yelling at his kids and criticizing them for being lazy and once he went outside and yelled loudly at his oldest son (Vince van Patten) for 'having nothing better to do than throw a frisbee around all afternoon' or something like that. How dumb! Maybe he'd have prefered it if they'd been on drugs or out committing crimes.

When the boy Stephen was hit by a car, he was put into a coma. After several days, he wakes up and is fully oriented as if he had just woke up from a nap. A rare occurrence, I know. Moreover, after his mom asks how does he feel, and he replies "Hungry," the doctor, without so much as shining a light into his eyes, let alone checking his vital signs, tells the nurse (who is she, a maid??)to go down to the cafeteria and bring the boy some chocolate ice cream!!! How cliche and misinforming is that?? I was about eight at the time and figured that all children in hospitals were given nothing but ice cream, as seen in all of the tonsilectomy books we were compelled to read in school at that time. And like many people watching, I "learned" that after a coma, if you were hungry, you could just eat and go home afterward without any brain scans, blood work, cognitive tests, physical coordination tests, or additional observation. I don't want to sound negative, but it would have been interesting and even inspirational if the viewers had watched Stephen, possibly via two-part episode (back then they didn't spread things gradually thru multiple episodes as they do today), regain any lost functions.

Hey, are there ANY votes for the episode where younger brother Steven, after visiting a sheep-farm with Dad, does the WORST HISTRIONICS imaginable, bursting into tears when finding the little lamb who seemed so affectionate to him WOULD EVENTUALLY BE TAKEN TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE TO BE MADE INTO LAMBCHOPS?......so the kid steals the animal? All ends happily, with Dad buying the lamb for Steven's pet, with good ol' Ronny Cox strumming his gee-tar & singing "City Of New Orleans"? (Hey, anyone wanna vote "Singing: Ronny Cox"???) UGGGGH.

I think the one that did it was the one where George Apple saw a UFO. He got interviewed by a TV station and they tried to poke holes in his story and make him look like a nut. Sad way to sink this show.