Thanks, everybody for tuning in here.

We are coming up to an exciting conclusion of a place where we left off in an episode

from season four called Jan the only child. Now, if that's not exciting enough, we have Jan

here with us. Eve Plum is joining us to complete this episode, which has gone through, well,

a very, very intensive first act in our treatment

of our midsister.

Everything is very well laid out, every moment.

Dying to know whether or not Jan stays with the family.

Well, you know, she's sort of been through the ringer there, you know.

First, she gets ignored, and then she gets treated overly nice in a fake way.

So now she's going to be back to being ignored, which seems to be what she wants.

It's kind of hard to say.

Well, we're going to find out.

That's for sure.

And just so we can recap for people joining us now, Chris, run down the numbers for us. Season 4. First aired November

10th, 1972. This is Jan, the only child from season 4, 80th episode in total. Created by Sherwood

Schwartz, produced by Howard Leeds, written by Al Schwartz and Ralph Goodman, and directed by

Roger DeCounty. So this has been quite a first act.

I have a question for you, because Chris and I have done these podcasts, and we go back and we watch the episodes, some of which we've never seen, some of which we haven't seen really in fifth.

Well, I've seen a little more recently because I wrote the book and had to look at every episode.

But let's just say it quite a while.

And finally, we are coming to a perspective we've decided where there's enough distance, where we can actually sit back as audience, take ourselves out of it, and watch the show as it was presented.

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