Show
Type: Drama
First
Telecast: March 9, 1988
Last
Telecast: May 25, 1988
Broadcast History:
March 1988-May 1988, Wednesdays
8:00-9:00 on NBC
Cast
Aaron
Miller..... Merlin Olsen
Sarah
Miller..... Belinda Montgomery
Roseanne Miller
(age 15)..... Samantha Mathis
Martha
Miller (age 12)..... Erin Chase
Frank
Miller (age 11)..... Scott Curtis
Susannah
Lo Verde..... Kathleen York
Connie
Lo Verde..... Jessica Walter
Mickey
Lo Verde (age 16)..... Christopher Gartin
Mr.
Benvenuto..... Pierrino Mascarino
SYNOPSIS
Merlin Olsen, best known
for his roles in such "warm and wonderful" dramas as
Little
House on the Prairie
and Father Murphy,
starred in another one in 1988. Aaron
Miller was a strict, bearded Amish patriarch who uprooted his tight-knit family
from their cloistered environment in Pennsylvania and moved to California when his
eldest son died there. Noah Miller had forsaken Amish ways and, when he
perished in a surfing accident, he left behind a pregnant girlfriend (Susannah)
with a vineyard she couldn't maintain alone. So, unbidden, the Millers moved in to help.
Stories
revolved around the Millers' culture shock as they adjusted to modern California
ways, while trying to retain their deep-rooted moral values and peculiar style
of dress. Conservative Aaron always seemed to clash with free-spirited Susannah
and her sharp-tongued mother, Connie, who ran the local beauty salon. Underneath, of course, there
was a lot of love. Susannah's
teenaged brother Mickey had his own plan for bridging the culture gap, with eyes for Aaron's daughter, Roseanne.
