thirtysomething - Season 3 Episode 9 New Parents
CAPSULE: Gary's decision to quit teaching and stay at home with his new baby causes a conflict between him and his mother.
Gary and Susannah's new baby Emma cries for twelve hours and they can't figure out why. In the morning Susannah is reluctant to go to work, but Gary insists. She finds out there that the nearby homeless shelter might be closed to make way for condos, which gets her fighting spirit up. Gary's mother Eileen comes by while Hope is there and mistakenly thinks she is Susannah. After Susannah comes home late and the baby is put to bed, Gary tells his mother he's not going back to teaching; rather, he's going to be a househusband. His mother's reaction is simply, ""Oh.""
During the next day or two, however, Eileen makes it clear that she's not thrilled with Gary's decision to quit teaching. They argue about his deceased father, who wanted badly for him to go to law school. Eileen tells Gary that he's avoided every big decision he ever had to make and should concentrate on g
Year: 1991
Genre: Drama
Country:
Studio: ABC
Director: Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Melanie Mayron
Crew: Lindsley Parsons III (Producer), Ann Lewis Hamilton (Producer), Paul Haggis (Producer), Edward Zwick (Executive Producer), Marshall Herskovitz (Executive Producer), Ellen S. Pressman (Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 29, 1987
Last Air date: May 28, 1991
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 85 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.30/10 by 23.00 users
Popularity: 110.075
Language: English
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