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| The Hogan Family | |
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 Original cast from 1986–1987 | |
| Also known as | Valerie (1986–1987) Valerie's Family: The Hogans (1987–1988) |
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Charlie Hauck |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | |
| Opening theme | "Together Through the Years", performed byRoberta Flack |
| Composer | Bruce Miller |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 110(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
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| Camera setup | Film;Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | March 1, 1986 (1986-03-01) – May 7, 1990 (1990-05-07) |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 15, 1990 (1990-09-15) – July 20, 1991 (1991-07-20) |
The Hogan Family (originally titledValerie and laterValerie's Family: The Hogans) is an Americansitcom television series that aired onNBC from March 1, 1986, to May 7, 1990, and later aired onCBS from September 15, 1990, to July 20, 1991, for a total of six seasons. It was produced in association with Lorimar Productions (1986),Lorimar-Telepictures (1986–88), andLorimar Television (1988–91).
Under the titleValerie, the show centered onValerie Harper in thetitle role as a mother trying to juggle her career as a buyer for anauction house and raising three teenage sons with an absent airline pilot husband (Josh Taylor). After the first two seasons, due to a salary dispute involving future ancillary profits, Harper was fired from the show. Her character was killed off at the start of season three, andSandy Duncan joined the cast as Valerie's sister-in-law and the boys' aunt. The series was retitledValerie's Family: The Hogans, and for the rest of the series, it was retitledThe Hogan Family.
| Season | Title | Episodes | Originally released | Rank | Rating | |||
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| First released | Last released | Network | ||||||
| 1 | Valerie | 10 | March 1, 1986 (1986-03-01) | May 19, 1986 (1986-05-19) | NBC | #24 | 18.1 (tied withMoonlighting andFalcon Crest) | |
| 2 | 22 | September 28, 1986 (1986-09-28) | May 4, 1987 (1987-05-04) | #39 | 14.8 (tied withThe ABC Sunday Night Movie)[1] | |||
| 3 | Valerie's Family: The Hogans | 21 | September 21, 1987 (1987-09-21) | May 2, 1988 (1988-05-02) | #20 | 16.9 (tied withMy Two Dads) | ||
| 4 | The Hogan Family | 21 | October 3, 1988 (1988-10-03) | May 8, 1989 (1989-05-08) | #22 | 16.3 (tied withNBC Sunday Night Movie andThe Wonder Years) | ||
| 5 | 23 | September 18, 1989 (1989-09-18) | May 7, 1990 (1990-05-07) | #32 | 14.2[2] | |||
| 6 | 13 | September 15, 1990 (1990-09-15) | July 20, 1991 (1991-07-20) | CBS | #85 | 6.5 (tied withCop Rock)[3] | ||
Like most American sitcoms in the 1980s, the series sometimes dealt withmoral conflicts, but not in a heavy-handed fashion. In thevery special episode "Bad Timing", which first aired February 7, 1987, David and a former girlfriend debate whether tohave sex.[4][5] The episode featured the first use of the wordcondom on aprime time television program.[6]
After a modest start in the ratings that was countered by critical success,Valerie had begun to show growth in theNielsens by the end of the 1986–87 season. Its most significant ratings jump occurred after its moving to Mondays at 8:30/7:30c in March 1987, followingALF. NBC renewed the series for a third season in May. In light of the show's success, Harper and her husband, Tony Cacciotti, approached their producers and NBC about per-episode salary increases and a larger cut of future syndication revenue.[7] When all of the couple's requests were refused, Harper and Cacciotti walked out onValerie. Harper had history in this situation, as she staged a walkout in 1975 following the first season of her hit seriesRhoda (and its parent series,The Mary Tyler Moore Show) which successfully resulted in a pay increase.[7]
The couple continued to negotiate with Miller-Boyett Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and NBC during the next few months as the behind-the-scenes struggle became well publicized. NBC programming chiefBrandon Tartikoff, who was unhappy with the feud, publicly stated that he would replace Harper with another actress if the fighting did not cease. Tartikoff suggestedSandy Duncan as a replacement to Miller and Boyett, who both sided with the network chief in this possible casting decision. Duncan had recently signed a contract with NBC for a starring vehicle, and Tartikoff felt that this would be the best opportunity for her to make use of it.[7] Though the NBC case was dismissed, Harper and Cacciotti won their trial against Lorimar on September 16, 1988, and were awarded $1.82 million in damages; which they both later donated to variouscharities. Harper left the show and was replaced by Duncan as the female lead.[7][8]
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In 1990, after spending three of the last four years on Monday nights at 8:30/7:30 (having been on Sundays before that), NBC opted not to respond to an agreement made with Lorimar insisting that the network had to exercise renewal options on the series before April 1. Despite the series still sporting decentratings, NBC stated that it chose not to renewThe Hogan Family "because of the strength of our current development."[9] The show was then picked up byCBS for the sixth and final season.
The theme song, "Together Through the Years", was performed byRoberta Flack and composed byCharles Fox. The lyrics were written byStephen Geyer.
The Hogan Family aired in U.S.syndication on local television stations, from September 1990 until the summer of 1998. From August 1998 until August 1999, startup broadcast networkPAX TV aired reruns of the series weekdays at 4/3c.
ABC Family previously held the U.S. syndication rights to the program and had aired episodes twice daily for five weeks from September 25 to October 27, 2006. It has discontinued running the show since then.
InCanada, theCrossroads Television System held the Canadian syndication rights and began airing the show on Wednesday nights. It discontinued airing the show in 2011.
The Hogan Family title was used for syndicated showings of almost all episodes, including those broadcast asValerie orValerie's Family, along with a shortened theme.
In 2016,Antenna TV announced that it would air the series in 2017.[10][11] The Christmas episode was the first to air on the network on December 16, during a marathon of holiday-themed episodes from Antenna TV programs throughout the month,[12] before the show officially joined the lineup on January 2, 2018.[13]
On September 1, 2021, the series began airing on Antenna TV's new sister networkRewind TV, which features sitcoms from the 1980s through the 2000s until it was removed on September 27, 2025. It has since return 3 months later in December 2025.[14]
In theUnited Kingdom, the series was shown onBBC1 from 1986 to 1992.[15]
