Two years later, Fonda would win an Academy Award for playing a similar character in "On Golden Pond". "Family" was widely acclaimed, with many critics calling it a bright spot of quality in ABC's primetime schedule, which contained Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and The Love Boat during the show's original run. "Family" was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, in 1977, 1978, and 1980. Three of its stars won acting Emmy Awards: Sada Thompson, Gary Frank, and Kristy McNichol. James Broderick and Meredith Baxter Birney were nominated. In the fourth season, critics quibbled with the show's direction. In February 1979, Noel Holston of The Orlando Sentinel called "Family" "ABC's most prestigious program" but claimed "the producers' crisis-of-the-week approach is starting to strain the series' credibility." Some critics complained that "Family", like many TV shows of the period, had become too reliant on sex-related plots. At the same time, ABC shifted the show's time slot to Friday at 8pm, and its previously solid ratings dropped to near the bottom of the chart. As a result, "Family" was renewed for a final season of only 13 episodes that began at midseason. Despite its occasionally adult themes, the series was consistently praised by the National Parent-Teacher Association. In February 1979, the PTA said "Family" contained "good parenting lessons" and "slightly controversial" but "excellent" content, recommending it for viewing by teens and older. After the fourth season, the series' original showrunners departed and were replaced by Edward Zwick, who would go on to produce the acclaimed TV series thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and Once and Again. Seven years after the series' cancellation, it was widely reported that a "Family Reunion" TV movie was planned for the 1987–88 season. At least one report indicated that if its ratings were strong enough, the series would be revived for the then-current ABC schedule. The plot was to involve the Lawrence children gathering for Kate's remarriage. (James Broderick had died of cancer in 1982.) But the writers' strike that year halted production, and the project was abandoned. In the original spring 1976 miniseries run of "Family", the theme music is a dramatic-sounding, yet low-key piano solo with minor orchestral contingents, composed by cast member John Rubinstein (son of classical musician Arthur Rubinstein).