"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."
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A Life in the Day is the twenty-second episode of the first season of Empty Nest and the twenty-second episode overall. Directed by Hal Cooper and written by David Tyron King, Rob LaZebnik, and David Sacks it premiered on NBC-TV on April 1st, 1989.
Harry sees six patients: a week-old baby, a five-year-old whose father denies the boy's onset diabetes; a seven-year-old curious about sex; an eleven-year-old having the cast removed from his arm; a belligerent fourteen-year-old who uses drugs; and an eighteen-year-old picking up his medical records before going away to college.
Debra Engle, who plays Mrs. Sexton, played Blanche's daughter Rebecca in several episodes of The Golden Girls.
This episode includes a very young Stephen Dorff and Matthew Perry, both playing different ages of the main guest character.
Cultural references[]
The episode's title is a reference to the Beatles song "A Day in the Life", which was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About • Mrs. Clinton Comes to Town • Just for Laughs • The Woman Who Came to Dither • Carol Gets a Raise • The Courtship of Carol's Father • The Tinker Grant • Would You Believe... • Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Pain • Single White Male • Dear Aunt Martha • Goodbye, Charley • Family Practice • Grandma, What Big Eyes You Have • Feelings, Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feelings • And Kevin Makes Three • Harry Weston: Man's Best Friend • The Ex-Files • Stand By Your Man • Life Goes On, Part 1 • Life Goes On, Part 2 • My Pal Valy-Val • Remembrance of Clips Past
References[]
↑Empty Nest, Season 1, Episode 22, “A Life in the Day”. King, David Tyron and LaZebnik, Rob and Sacks, David (writers) & Cooper, Hal (April 1st, 1989)