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Description: Here's the opening moments of an installment of Donahue on WGN Channel 9 which examined adult kids living at home (this was some twelve years before Jerry Springer's look at "adult babies"). Includes:

Station ID bumper slide with drawing of sun and moon sitting down watching TV and message "Open for Business 24 Hours a Day" (set in Lubalin Graph Bold - a serif version of ITC's famed Avant Garde font), dissolving into late 1970s video animation - all the time with familiar "Last Farewell" music in background (voiceover by Bob Bell)

Phil Donahue starts off by asking how many people, after getting married, asked their old folks for money; this is followed by huge applause. He then asks how many were embarrassed to do so, and the applause this time is not so great. He goes to an old lady (the only girl in her family; the other five were boys) who says she lived with her folks for 17 years.

Nine people (young adults and their parents) are in the interview chair, and Donahue explains how previous generations, after a certain age, went out their own way into the world and the generation after them lived better - and goes on to this generation. His first interview is with 24-year-old Sue Hobson, who after getting out of school went to two different jobs, living at home the entire time; her mother then says three of her other children have already left home and says of Sue, "It isn't her time yet, I guess." Phil then goes on to Arlene and Christie (sp?) Carbenos (sp?), the latter of whom is 22, and he is about to speak with them when the tape cuts out.

Look for RCA TK-45A cameras in some shots; this was the camera in use at WGN studios (where Donahue was taped at this point) as of 1980.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980 at 11am.