Eight Is Enough - Production

Production

The show was Developed by writer William Blinn and was a Lorimar production. It was originally distributed by Worldvision Enterprises. For the first two years the show filmed interior scenes at The Burbank Studios now known as the Warner Bros. Ranch. From the third season the show filmed interiors at MGM Studios across town in Culver City. The show's team of producers included Robert L. Jacks, Gary Adelson, Greg Strangis and Phil Fehrle. Executive Producers were Lee Rich and Philip Capice.

As a production of the Lorimar stable, who were concurrently producing CBS' The Waltons, writers were often contracted by the producers and were shared between both programs. Regular writers included Peter Lefcourt, the writing teams of Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov, Rod Peterson and Claire Whittaker, Bill Nuus and Dusty Kay, Nick Thiel and David Braff, J. Miyoko Hensley and Steven Hensley, Bruce Shelly, Sandra Kay Siegel, Gil Grant, Karen I. Hall and Hindi Brooks who soon became the show's long-time story editor. In-house directors included Philip Leacock, Harry Harris and Irving J. Moore. As in in-joke, the character name of one of Nicholas Bradford's best friends was Irving Julius Moore, a nod to the director of the same name whose middle name was in fact Joseph.