Who stars in the new ABC Family sitcom “Ruby & the Rockits”?”
The Family Man was another of TV’s endless stream of series about single-parent households. Southern California fire captain Jack Taylor ( Gregory Harrison), had lost his wife in an automobile accident and now had the added responsibilities of being both father and mother to his 4 children. It was chaos in the kitchen. Jack’s handsome children were Jeff ( John Buchanan), very concerned with his image at school; Steve ( Scott Weinger), still trying to develop a possitive self-image; Brian ( Matthew Brooks), who was having the hardest time accepting the loss of his mother; and Allison ( Ashleigh Blair Sterling), the stereotypically wise-beyond-her-years little girl. Helping out around the house was Jack’s bumbling but good-hearted father-in-law Joe ( Al Molinaro), who gave up his home in New York to move in with them and help raise his grandchildren. Patrick ( Josh Byrne), the little boy living next door with his divorced mother Hilary( Gail Patrick), was Allison’s best friend, and Buss,
David Cassidy and half-brother Patrick Cassidy camping around in fake MTV videos looking like Duran Duran and singing a fake synthesizer-heavy song called “Chunnel of Love’’? Discuss COMMENTS (1) RUBY & THE ROCKITS Starring: David Cassidy, Alexa Vega, Patrick Cassidy, Katie Amanda Keane, Austin Butler, Kurt Doss On: ABC Family Time: Premieres tonight, 8:30-9 No, you’re not in the grip of an ugly postmodern flashback, with the 1970s and 1980s merging into some kind of spandex nightmare. You’re on a new ABC Family sitcom called “Ruby & the Rockits’’ that has no right to be as likable as it is. The show, which premieres tonight at 8:30, seems like its going to be a “Hannah Montana’’-type thing, with Alexa Vega (“Spy Kids’’) as the musical Ruby and David Cassidy as her single father. But “Ruby & the Rockits’’ turns out to be a warm intergenerational comedy that never pushes life lessons in your face. The scripts are made of familiar parent-child ribbing and hugging, but they’re given a nic
