The Hogan Family
The Hogan Family (originally titled Valerie and later Valerie's Family: The Hogans) is an American sitcom television series that began airing on NBC on March 1, 1986, and finished its run on CBS on July 20, 1991, for a total of six seasons. It was produced in association with Lorimar Productions (1986), Lorimar-Telepictures (1986–88), and Lorimar Television (1988–91).
The Hogan Family
Valerie (1986–1987)
Valerie's Family: The Hogans (1987–1988)
- Valerie Harper
- Sandy Duncan
- Jason Bateman
- Danny Ponce
- Jeremy Licht
- Josh Taylor
- Edie McClurg
- Steve Witting
- Tom Hodges
- Josie Bissett
- Angela Lee
- John Hillerman
- Judith Kahan
- Christine Ebersole
"Together Through the Years",
performed by Roberta Flack
Bruce Miller
United States
English
6
110 (list of episodes)
- Charlie Hauck (pilot episode)
- Thomas L. Miller
- Robert L. Boyett
- Tony Cacciotti (1986–1987)
- Irma Kalish (1990–1991)
- Ronny Hallin (1986, 1990–1991)
- Linda Marsh (1986)
- Margie Peters (1986)
- Richard Correll (1985–1988)
- Judy Pioli (1986–1990)
- Chip Keyes (1986–1990)
- Doug Keyes (1986–1990)
- Laura Schrock (1986–1987)
- Steven Pritzker (1986–1987)
- Deborah Oppenheimer (1988–1990)
- Bob Keyes (1988–1990)
- Shari Hearn (1990–1991)
- Michael Loman (1990–1991)
- Larry Spencer (1990–1991)
22–24 minutes
- Miller-Boyett Productions
- TAL Productions, Inc.
(1986–1987)
(seasons 1–2) - Lorimar Productions
(1986)
(season 1) - Lorimar-Telepictures
(1986–1988)
(seasons 2–3) - Lorimar Television
(1988–1991)
(seasons 4–6)
March 1, 1986 –
May 7, 1990
September 15, 1990 –
July 20, 1991
Under the title Valerie, the show centered around Valerie Harper in the title role as a mother trying to juggle her career as a buyer for an auction house and raising three teenage sons with an absent airline pilot husband (Josh Taylor). After the first two seasons, Harper was fired. Her character was killed off at the start of season three and Sandy Duncan joined the cast as Valerie's sister-in-law and the boys' aunt. The series was retitled Valerie's Family: The Hogans, and for the rest of the series, it was retitled The Hogan Family.
Production[edit]
Theme music and presentation[edit]
The theme song, "Together Through the Years", was performed by Roberta Flack and composed by Charles Fox. The lyrics were written by Stephen Geyer.
Syndication[edit]
The Hogan Family aired in U.S. syndication on local television stations, from September 1990 until Summer 1998. From August 1998 until August 1999, startup broadcast network PAX 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 (2005?) until October 27, 2006. It had discontinued running the show since then.
In Canada, the Crossroads Television System held the Canadian syndication rights and began airing the show 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 as Valerie or Valerie's Family. Also, the theme was shortened in the opening credits when the show was in syndication. During the Valerie seasons, the title sequence becomes slow motion at the scene where Mike and the boys begin to tackle Valerie in their football game. For the third-season episodes, the title shot from seasons four and five is used for reruns, where The Hogan Family is displayed over the Hogans carrying their picnic items through the park. This deleted the scene where Sandy runs out to the baseball diamond to try and get the bases unloaded. The latter was where the Valerie's Family title was shown on NBC airings, with The Hogans appearing over the park-walking scene.
Initially the only episode to retain the Valerie title in syndication was "Bad Timing" (February 8, 1987), which also kept the original parental advisory disclaimer from NBC. But by 2016 the first two seasons went back to their Valerie title. Season three however stayed as The Hogan Family but did not include the Jason Bateman Hockey sequence of season four.
In 2016, Antenna TV announced that they 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]
The series began airing on Rewind TV on September 1, 2021, after leaving Antenna TV.
In the United Kingdom, the series was shown on BBC1 from 1987 to 1992.[14]
In New Zealand, the series was shown on TVNZ.