This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Fantastic!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I have to admit I only remember little bits and pieces of the show, but they do stand out, and in reading the other comments about the show it is really coming back to mind. I remember that it came on right after "The Wonderful World of Disney" in our area and in those day (being raised by my grandparents) there was only the one TV in our house and you had to watch what everybody else was watching and I remember that show really hitting home. I can sort of remember the entry into the show was something with this house and there was this big huge tree in front of it and then it panned around to the house and the family running out the door out to a picnic table and sitting down to dig into a meal.I have tried to remember the name of the show for many years as that part of the show has stood out and I remembered it came on after Disney and no one I would ever talk to about it could/or did remember it. I have felt like I was the only one in the world that had ever seen it and then a couple months ago I was talking about it again with some new people at my work and one of them blurted out the name and she said that she loved the show because she was in love with the father in the show.I think that what initially started me search for the name the past couple of years is that there was this show a couple years back about this family that lived in Florida and they took care of this zoo and it seemed that it reminded me of "Apple's Way". Now, I can't remember the name of that show either, but I remember one of the teen characters was not wanting to participate in caring and taking care of the family zoo and he wanted to play guitar and sing in a band. He is a pretty well known actor - a girls heart-throb. I think his last name is Mathisen or something like that.Anyway, that show, for some odd reason started me thinking about "Apple's Way" again and now I really wish that I had known that it had played on TVLand. I do understand that a lot of shows from that era don't seem like they were when we originally watched them, but there must have been a reason that they touched our hearts then or we watched them (like a love interest), so we shouldn't be so quick to downplay them now. Example- one of my favorite all-time shows from when I was that age was Land of the Lost. I loved the Sleestacks, so I just recently ran across the first season on DVD and bought it and watching it now makes me wonder why I ever did as the graphics and special effects looks as if a 2 year old did it, and I almost turned it off, but then I kept watching it and I started getting into it again and pretty soon the bad filming wasn't being paid attention to, but rather the lives of the characters and them trying to save themselves and find their way back to the real world. I would love to have a chance to see "Apple's Way" again, and if anyone knows of a way that I can accomplish that, please get a hold of me at: gary2002@comcast.net. Thanks for listening....

I remember this thing. It was 'Waltons' related. Earl Hamner had a hand in this show some way or he endorsed it, and yes, it came on Sunday nights.I wanted to watch it then, but couldn't, but I have since seen it on TVland and it was truly dreadful. Endless liberalistic views that are even worse now than they were then. Episodes involved the family protesting the tree being cut down by climbing up into it, the father bought a zoo (about a half dozen animals, but he called it a zoo) and the youngest boy, Eric Olsen, learned a valuable lesson about selling candy.Young Olsen seemed to have the most difficult time looking interested and cute when he often looked bored. The opening credit would involve the family gathering round a picnic table and Vincent Van Patten turning the crank on the ice cream maker with a big smile on his face.I've operated many of those hand cranked ice cream makers, and me nor my brothers and sisters were smiling like that!I would watch one or two episodes and there would be a scene with the husband and wife talking over some issue then the wife would proceed with "I'll tickle you if you don't. I'll tickle you if you don't."I guess that was supposed to be a happy loving couple. The notion that life was simpler or easier or freer is ridiculous, which many of those hippy protesters and commune livers soon learned. Gardening and livestock involved work, like pure manual labor. Think that it is anything else, and you are in for a surprise. The grandfather would only be added because the family wasn't winning ratings, so granpa was brought in to try to give it some life.The daughter that was replaced went from a Velma Dinkle looking girl to Kristy McNicol. Because the school newspaper wouldnt publish knobby kneed McNIcol's report, she was hollering censorship. Any time the family felt turned on, it seemed that insensitive fat cigar businessmen were responsible. This was the show, however, that made me realize that what we saw outside was not necessarily what was inside, as a newspaper article would show what was behind that windmill and it was all boards. Where was the house? I was learning that the exterior shots were done who knows how far away from interior shots.

I remember this show too. I was only 8 when it was on, but at the time I enjoyed it. It would probably give me cavities now.Now I see it was really jumping on the bandwagon started by "The Waltons" two seasons earlier. "Little House on the Prairie" followed the same trend.One of the episodes I remember involved the father sitting in a tree to protest its removal. Eventually everyone in town came to join him and sing-along as he played his guitar ("Down by the old mill stream..."). I did find the cantankerous grandfather with a heart of gold a little annoying. And I never really adjusted to the actress change for one of the daughters.

Good heavens, I remember this show! Vividly. All too vividly ... (of the three times I saw it this piece of swill, one was a repeat of another, which hammered home the show's true awfulness) If at age 15 I found this show to be a clichéd, treacly waste of film, goodness knows what the average discriminating adult would think.In the interests of cinematic duty, though, I subsequently saw a couple of eps on TV Land -- alright, I plead insomnia. And what in the hell were they thinking? Look, any show that replaces a key character before a full season's been concluded is in big trouble, and the plots were of the sophomoric quality that plays on Nickelodeon, without Nick's usual production values.(Yes, that is saying something.)1/10.