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The musical Cowsills - Barbara Cowsill and six of her singing youngsters - star in "A Family Thing," half-hour musical special on NBC-TV and Channel 4 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Pre-empted for the occasion is "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
Buddy Ebsen guest-stars on the show, introducing the family in a home setting, chatting with father-founder Bud Cowsill and joining the youngest of the clan 9-year-old Susan, in a song-and-dance rendition of "The Old Soft Shoe."
Also starring are the rest of the talented clan: Bill, 20; Bob, 19; Barry, 14, and Johnny,12. The only member of the family not seen on the show is Bob's twin brother, Dick, who is in the Army.
Musical highlights include "What the World Needs Now," "Consider Yourself," "A Doodlin' Song" and one of the family's best selling records "We Can Fly."
The Cowsills also sing and play "Indian Lake" while Barbara, who admits she was "drafted" weighs the pros and cons of being a performing mother instead of staying home with the ironing.
Barry, John and Susan trio to trill "Happiness" and the five Cowsill boys present a barbershop medley including "Sweet Adeline," "You Are My Sunshine," "Zip a Dee Doo Dah," "Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" and a novelty number, "Leonard Nimoy," sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques."
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