Having Babies (1976) + Having Babies II (1977) + Having Babies III (1978) DVD-R

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Having Babies (1976)

Desi Arnaz Jr., Adrienne Barbeau, Ronny Cox, Harry Guardino, Tom Kennedy
Directed by Robert Day

Print: Color
Runtime: 1h 40min
Genre: Drama
Language: English

Originally titled Giving Birth, Having Babies was the first of three pilot films for a TV series that eventually appeared under the title Julie Farr MD. In omnibus fashion, the film focuses in on four couples and their reactions to impending parenthood. Essentially, this is a feature-length "commercial" for the Lamaze method of natural childbirth. Adrienne Barbeau plays Lamaze-class supervisor Allie Duggin, while the mommies-to-be are portrayed by Karen Valentine (as tennis pro Beth Paterno), Jessica Walter (as middle-aged Sally McNamara), Linda Purl (as teenager Laura Gorman) and Vicki Lawrence (as unwed mother Grace Fontrell). Having Babies was originally telecast October 17, 1976.

Having Babies II (1977)

Tony Bill, Cliff Gorman, Carol Lynley, Lee Meriwether, Paula Prentiss
Directed by Richard Michaels

Print: Color
Runtime: 1h 40min
Genre: Drama
Language: English

The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them. Like its predecessor "Having Babies" (1976), this film focuses on several couples, the emotionai crises involving birth and adoption, and hospital personnel's participation in their lives. Susan Sullivan's character of Dr. Julie Farr became the pivotal role in this one which served as a pilot to a "

Having Babies III (1978)

Kathleen Beller, Patty Duke, Phil Foster, Jackie Cooper, Dennis Howard, Michael Lembeck
Directed by Jackie Cooper

Print: Color
Runtime: 1h 40min
Genre: Drama
Language: English

A series of three movie specials called Having Babies (II & III for the latter installments) aired on ABC from 1976 to 1978.[1] Following the airing of Having Babies III as the ABC Friday Night Movie on March 3, 1978, the storyline was continued as a six-episode "trial" one-hour series on Tuesday nights. The third pilot movie for the subsequent "Having Babies" series which quickly was retitled "Julie Farr, M.D.," and soon afterward disappeared, all during the last few weeks of the 1977-78 season. Patty Duke Astin won another of her various Emmy Award nominations for her performance.