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Dr. Stanfield Weston is a minor character in the 1988 NBC sitcom Empty Nest. He is the father of Harry Weston and the grandfather of the Weston girls.
Stanfield appeared in "Man of the Year". He was portrayed by the late veteran actor Harold Gould.
Personality and Characteristics[]
Stanfield is extremely sexually active, especially at his age, to the point where he went to see one of his colleagues and take a blood test to see why he got tired after sex. He appears to have a thing for women whose names begin with the letter "E", as all of his ex-wives had names starting with "E" and he took an interest in a woman at the Man of the Year ceremony whose name also started with "E".
Biography[]
Background[]
Stanfield was born in 1907. In the 1930s, Stanfield had a relationship with a woman named Ellen and conceived a son, Harry, out of wedlock. The couple supposedly married to legitimize Harry, but Stanfield didn't have a good relationship with his son.
In the 1950s, Stanfield pushed Harry to get into medical school and become a doctor like he did, and pushed him to improve his grades so he could get into Stanfield's alma mater, Bedford Medical School. However, Stanfield had such little faith in Harry's ability that he recommended that the Bedford admissions department deny Harry's application. While he was golfing with his friend Royce Garrison, Stanfield told him to do Bedford a favor and not let Harry into the school.[1]
Eventually, Stanfield and Ellen divorced, and he met another woman named Erica. On the day Harry got into Bedford, he excitedly called Stanfield and told him, believing that his father had sent a good word in for him to the admissions board. Rather than hurt his son by revealing the truth, Stanfield took credit for Harry getting into Bedford and congratulated him, saying that was what fathers were for. He then told him he was marrying Erica on Tuesday.[1]
Harry and Stanfield's relationship continued to be strained for the next several decades. Stanfield didn't attend Harry's graduation from Bedford, and he didn't attend Harry's wedding to his wife Libby. There was no love lost in Stanfield's love life, however, as he later divorced Erica and went on to marry and divorce three more women -- Edna, Ella, and Emma. He also seemed to have a good relationship with his granddaughters, particularly his eldest granddaughter Carol.[1]
Eighteen months before the events of "Man of the Year", Stanfield stopped by the Westons' home for three days on his way to the Bahamas and he and Harry fought the entire time. Some time later, Stanfield became concerned that he was getting tired after a single round of sex, and he went to his colleague, Dr. Royce Garrison, for a physical and a blood test to see if there was anything concerning about his health.[1]
Man of the Year[]
In 1988, Harry was picked for Bedford's Man of the Year award, causing Stanfield to reevaluate how he'd been thinking about his son for his entire life. He flew down to Miami unannounced to see Harry for the ceremony, and convinced the awards committee to let him give a speech introducing Harry at the ceremony.[1]
At the party before the ceremony, Stanfield took Royce into the kitchen to discuss the results of his tests, not knowing that Carol was in the kitchen as well. Upon realizing she was there, Stanfield quickly left the kitchen. Carol later saw him take some Tic-Tacs, and began to worry that Stanfield was very sick.[1]
After his speech, Stanfield made the acquaintance of the woman sitting next to him, Dr. Elna Powell, and began eating a chocolate bar as Harry gave his acceptance speech.[1]
Legacy[]
Stanfield was relegated to an unseen character after "Man of the Year".
In "Roots", Harry goes to England to accept the Sword of Weston on Stanfield's behalf.[2]
Family[]
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Career[]
Stanfield was a doctor for the vast majority of his life and was exceptional in his field, to the point where he was Chief of Surgery at Boston Community Hospital at eighty-two years old.[1]
Appearances[]
Empty Nest (1988-1992)[]
| Season 1 | |||||
| 1. "Pilot": | Absent | 12. "Full Nest": | Absent | ||
| 2. "The Check Isn't in The Mail": | Absent | 13. "Here's A Howdy-Do": | Absent | ||
| 3. "Barbara Gets A Shot": | Absent | 14."Strange Bedfellows": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Fatal Attraction": | Absent | 15. "Tears of a Clown": | Absent | ||
| 5. "Father of the Bride": | Absent | 16. "Blame It on the Moon": | Absent | ||
| 6. "Harry's Vacation": | Absent | 17. "Dumped": | Absent | ||
| 7. "Tinker to Evers to Tucson": | Absent | 18. "The More Things Change": | Absent | ||
| 8. "What's a Father to Do?": | Absent | 19. "Man of the Year": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Harry's Friend": | Absent | 20. "Cyrano de Weston": | Absent | ||
| 10. "Libby's Gift": | Absent | 21. "My Sister, My Friend": | Absent | ||
| 11. "The First Time, Again": | Absent | 22. "A Life in the Day": | Absent | ||
| Season 2 | |||||
| 1. "Settling": | Absent | 13. "Harry's Choice": | Absent | ||
| 2. "Harry Snubs Laverne": | Mentioned | 14. "Complainin' in the Rain": | Absent | ||
| 3. "On The Interpretation of Dreams": | Absent | 15."M.D., P.O.V.": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Between a Cop and a Hard Place": | Absent | 16. "Everything But Love": | Absent | ||
| 5. "Just You And My Kid": | Absent | 17. "Timing": | Absent | ||
| 6. "Rambo of Neiman Marcus": | Absent | 18. "It Happened Two Nights, Four Costume Changes": | Absent | ||
| 7. "You Are 16 Going on 17 and I'm Not": | Absent | 19. "Love Is Blind": | Absent | ||
| 8. "The R.N. Who Came to Dinner": | Absent | 20. "Goodbye, Mr. Dietz": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Green Eggs and Harry": | Absent | 21. "Lessons": | Absent | ||
| 10. "Overdue for a Job": | Absent | 22. "Take My Mom, Please": | Absent | ||
| 11. "A Christmas Story": | Absent | 23. "Did You Ever See a Dream Dying?": | Absent | ||
| 12. "Change of Heart": | Absent | 24. "Still Growing After All These Years": | Absent | ||
| Season 4 | |||||
| 1. "50 Million Men and a Baby": | Absent | 13. "The Son of a Preacherman": | Absent | ||
| 2. "Almost Like Being in Love": | Absent | 14. "Ex-Appeal": | Absent | ||
| 3. "Her Cheatin' Heart": | Absent | 15. "The Great Escape": | Absent | ||
| 4. "Food for Thought": | Absent | 16."The Mismatchmaker": | Absent | ||
| 5. "Harry's Got a Gun": | Absent | 17. "The Return of Aunt Susan": | Absent | ||
| 6. "The Dreyfuss Affair": | Absent | 18. "The Unimportance of Being Charley": | Absent | ||
| 7. "Country Weston": | Absent | 19. "Sayonara": | Absent | ||
| 8. "Windy": | Absent | 20. "Dr. Weston and Mr. Hyde": | Absent | ||
| 9. "Talk, Talk, Talk": | Absent | 21. "Charley for President": | Absent | ||
| 10. "Lonely Are the Brave]]": | Absent | 22. "Good Neighbor Harry": | Absent | ||
| 11. "If You Knew Andy Like I Know...": | Absent | 23. "Final Analysis": | Absent | ||
| 12. "My Nurse Is Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble...: | Absent | 24. "Roots": | Mentioned | ||
Trivia[]
- Stanfield was portrayed by Harold Gould, who portrayed Miles Webber and Arnie Peterson on Empty Nest's parent series, The Golden Girls.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Empty Nest, Season 1, Episode 19, “Man of the Year”. Julian, Mady (writer) & Cooper, Hal (director) (March 4th, 1989)
- ↑ Empty Nest, Season 4, Episode 24, “Roots”. Garrett, Roger and Richardson, David (writers) & Zuckerman, Steve (May 2nd, 1992)