The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired from March 1, 1986 to July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett. The show was originally titled Valerie and starred Valerie Harper as a mother trying to juggle both her career and the raising of her three sons while her husband, an airline pilot, was seldom around. Harper was written out of the series after the second season because of a dispute with the show's producers. Sandy Duncan joined the cast as the children's aunt, who moved in and effectively became their surrogate mom. During the show's third season , the... series was known as Valerie's Family: The Hogans, and after this was known simply as The Hogan Family. The Hogan Family was televised in the United States on NBC from 1986 to 1990, and on CBS from 1990 to 1991. For its first and second seasons the show was known as Valerie, and its stories revolved around the show's star, Valerie Harper. Harper played the mother of the Hogan family, Valerie Hogan, who lived in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
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