The story of the drama surrounding a family's adult siblings.
Plot Synopsis:
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The series begins with Kitty Walker returning home from New York to California fro a job interview. After accepting the job, she decides to stay and live in California with her Mom. The story revolves around the lives of Kitty and her four siblings. You visit: divorce, embezzlement, affairs, childbirth, death and many more storylines. This tv show gives you both laughter and tears as you follow each of the siblings lives.
Sarah: Is the oldest. At the start of the series, you can clearly see that her marriage is on rocky grounds, she has two children, Paige and Cooper. She is the CEO of her late father's business, Ojai foods, along with her Brother Tommy.
Kitty: At the start of series, is engaged to a man named Johnathan who nobody really likes. She moves back in with her Mom when she accepts a job offer in California. She works in politics (Republican).
Tommy: He is a newly wed and is married to Julia and at the beginning, they're trying to conceive a child. He is very jealous of his older sister Sarah's place at the company.
Kevin: He is a gay lawyer who is very self conscious and finds it hard to commit in relationships.
Justin: Is the baby of the family, an ex-veteran who has just returned from the war. He has a terrible drug addiction.
Nora: The Mom of the family is very protective of her children and can often be very over the top, everyone loves Nora but at the beginning, her and Kitty aren't on the best of terms.
Tom Skerritt and Sally Field have played a married couple before, in Steel Magnolias (1989). They played Julia Roberts' parents.
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The Walker siblings' birth order is: Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), Kitty (Calista Flockhart), Tommy (Balthazar Getty), Kevin (Matthew Rhys), Justin (Dave Annable) and Ryan (Luke Grimes).
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Unusually for a show that turned out to be a critical and commercial hit, in the weeks before the first episode aired, this show went through several cast and crew changes. The Walker family matriarch, Iva, played by Betty Buckley in the original pilot, was re-cast with Sally Field, and renamed Nora. Walker brother Bryan, played by Jonathan LaPaglia, was re-cast with Matthew Rhys, renamed Kevin, and given a new backstory (instead of Bryan being an ex-husband and father, who was newly out of the closet, Kevin was a never-married lawyer, who was more comfortable with his homosexuality). Marti Noxon was replaced as the showrunner by Greg Berlanti, because of creative differences.
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While the producers were looking for an actor to play the role of Jason McCallister (Robert McCallister's brother and Kevin Walker's love interest), Rob Lowe, who plays Robert McCallister, recommended John Barrowman, who had co-starred with Lowe in "A Few Good Men" on the London stage. The producers offered the role to Barrowman, and he was interested in taking it, but was ultimately unable to work the shooting schedule around the schedule for his own show, Torchwood (2006).
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If the birth dates of the actors and actresses, who play the Walker siblings, were applied, the birth order of the Walker clan would be: Kitty, Sarah, Kevin, Tommy, Justin and Ryan.
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Sally Field and Matthew Rhys are the only actress and actor to appear in every episode of the series.
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Rachel Griffiths (Sarah) and Matthew Rhys (Kevin) previously appeared in Very Annie Mary (2001).
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Robert McCallister was the name of a character on a previous Greg Berlanti show, Jack & Bobby (2004), about a boy that grew up to be the President of the United States. As with Brothers & Sisters, he had a wife named Courtney, and a son called Jack.
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Tommy Walker and Nora Walker are the names of two of the main characters in The Who's rock opera "Tommy".
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Emily Vancamp departed the series early in season five, due to her decision not to renew her contract.
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Balthazar Getty and Sarah Jane Morris departed as series regulars at the end of season three, due to their contracts not being renewed. However, they made guest appearances in seasons four and five.
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Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig, and Balthazar Getty co-starred in Alias (2001).
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This show is the similar to Falcon Crest (1981).
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Jeff Bridges was asked to play the part of Sally Field's husband, but turned it down. Jeff's brother Beau was later cast as Sarah's biological father for the last five episodes of the series.
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Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe) dies in the show, because Lowe decided to leave the show.
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Ryan Lafferty (Luke Grimes) was originally introduced as the Walker's half youngest brother in season three. However, midway through the fourth season, his character was written out, due to the character not fitting into the dynamic of the show.
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