Talk:Family Affair

message: I can't find the episode where it says Buffy's real name is Elizabeth as noted in the article. Is that so? 
2602:306:CE96:AD70:D902:A224:EAA5:5BEE (talk) 22:19, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Buffy's "real" name

message: Other article (Grayson) mentions it - truth or fiction?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.128.14 (talk) 23:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  revival? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Family Affair (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 01:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Based on the Requested move discussion topic above this one, it looks like there is support for splitting out the section on the 2002 WBN revival/reboot series into its own article at Family Affair (2002 TV series). I will carry out such a split in the near future, unless someone offers up a policy-based objection to such a split. But the 2002 TV show meets the notability criteria for WP:TVSHOW, and seems to justify its own separate article. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good effort, because the current article includes templates, categories, and incoming/out-going links related to that 2002 series which adds to confusion and affects the page view stats that might inform us as to the concern raised in the move discussion. Its a full-fledged series reboot (and not a continuation with a new cast) and so its appropriate to be split out. The proposed name is good.  I'd leave a hatnote on this page pointing to the 2002 series once complete. -- Netoholic @  05:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:Split]] out proposed 

message: As of December, 2019, the two surviving principal cast members, Kathy Garver ("Cissy") and her TV brother Johnny Whitaker ("Jody") share a birthday (December 13), 14 years apart.Maccb (talk) 04:04, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shared birthday. 

message: There seems to be some cross-pollination of the details for the children's names between the original 1966-71 series, the 2002 revival series, and perhaps some other unknown source that created a more detailed back-story after the fact. The children in the original series were named "Buffy," "Jody," and "Cissy." As far as I can tell, their "formal" character names referenced in this article were never mentioned in the original series. Further, their last name was always Davis, not Patterson. They were the children of Bill Davis' brother, who was also presumably named Davis. The backstory provided is that the children lived in Terra Haute (referred to as "Terra Hut"), Indiana, and that there had been an "accident" in which the children's parents had presumably died. After this accident, the children spent approximately a year in the care of separate relatives before being reunited in New York, which is the premise of the pilot. In that episode, Buffy tells Uncle Bill that "you look just like my daddy did," affirming that his brother was their father. It appears that the name "Patterson" was introduced in a season 4 episode when the children reconnect with their maternal grandfather. 
As such, it would seem accurate to say that Anissa Jones portrayed Buffy Davis, not Ava Elizabeth Patterson-Davis. Johnnie Whitaker portrayed Jody Davis, not Jonathan Patterson-Davis. Kathy Garver portrayed Cissy Davis, not Catherine Patterson-Davis. The IMDB details to which the formal names are attributed and cited for the 1966-71 series appear to be incorrect. If I am mistaken, I will gladly concede, but then the references should be updated to cite the specific 1966-71 episode(s) where they are identified as Ava Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Catherine (or as having used their mother's maiden name), rather than citing IMDB. Wnceditor (talk) 03:10, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children's names in 1966-71 series