“My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.'…” — Tom Bosley

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.