History Series / PartyOfFive

** Season 6 promotes Jennifer Aspen (Daphne) and reinserts Scott Grimes.

* RapunzelHair: The mother Diana is said to have had long hair down her back which her husband wouldn't let her cut.

* TheAlcoholic: Bailey

* BrainyBrunette: Julia and Sarah.

* ControlFreak: Bailey, in spades, and apparently Julia before the death of her parents, by way of InformedAttribute.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: Julia's.

* FiveManBand: TheHero: Charlie
** TheLancer: Bailey
** TheChick: Julia.
** TheHeart: Claudia
** TagalongKid: Owen

* GenerationXerox: Claudia is a prodigy on the violin like her mother.
* TheGhost: Nina gets demoted to this in Season 2, only being referenced offscreen.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Subverted with Julia, who intends to get an abortion but ends up having a [[ConvenientMiscarriage miscarriage]].
* HalloweenEpisode: In the third season.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bailey and Will.

* HandHidingSleeves: Sarah Reeves from wears the "cute" variation of this trope, and even helped popularize them in America.

* NotSoDifferent: Charlie points this out about Kirsten and her mother. She is not amused.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Subverted with Julia, who intends to get an abortion but ends up having a [[ConvenientMiscarriage miscarriage]]

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: [[spoiler: The finale has each of the siblings going their separate ways. Julia takes a job in DC, moving in with Justin. Bailey goes to business school in Boston, relinquishing custody of Owen to Charlie. Claudia decides to go to Juilliard in New York. Charlie meanwhile sells the house to pay for all of this. With Will moving back out to the East Coast and Sarah in New York searching for her father, the series effectively ends with most of the main cast scattered around the world]].

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: It's revealed that their mother Diana may have had an affair with a fellow musician Avery. It's later revealed that their father was an alcoholic around this time, so she's treated sympathetically. Of course since the character is dead, we never hear her defend herself and it's mostly the children trying to work it out. However the parents did ultimately stay together.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Closer to Free" by the BoDeans

It generated the unsuccessful SpinOff ''Time of Your Life''. In 2018, a [[Series/PartyOfFive2020 reboot of the series]] was ordered, with the first season set to air in January 2020. In this series the children's parents are not dead, but [[SettingUpdate have]] [[RippedFromTheHeadlines been]] [[TheIllegal deported]].

The main plot focuses on the five kids of the Salinger family who have been orphaned after their parents are killed in a car accident. Charlie (Creator/MatthewFox), an irresponsible 24-year-old worker of odd jobs has to step up and be the new man of the house. The second oldest is Bailey (Scott Wolf), a 16-year-old responsible team mom (at least for the first few seasons). 15-year old Julia (Creator/NeveCampbell) is sensitive, and 11-year-old Claudia (Creator/LaceyChabert) is a child prodigy. The fifth is Owen, barely a year old. During the series, they deal with issues like alcoholism, cancer, abuse, and death.

It generated the unsuccessful SpinOff ''Time of Your Life''. In 2018, a {{reboot}} of the series was ordered, with the first season set to air in January 2020. In this series the children's parents are not dead, but [[SettingUpdate have]] [[RippedFromTheHeadlines been]] [[TheIllegal deported]].

It was UnCancelled after having a poor run with audiences and a favorable reception with critics the first season due to a small pool of loyal fans protesting cancellation. The series produced another breakout star in Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt, who played Bailey's sometime girlfriend Sarah.

It generated the unsuccessful SpinOff ''Time of Your Life''.

** Julia, after getting some good news from her writers workshop professor, Perry, in Season 5, haphazardly kisses Perry, not aware that Perry is a lesbian. While promos during sweeps played this up as a potential new love interest, the arc actually ends up being about how Perry ''really'' doesn't like her sexual orientation being used as a way for Julia to work through her relationship and identity issues - even unintentionally.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Julia's defining character trait, and she's one of the first to notice it as the series progresses. She frequently points out that, being in such a hurry to do what she wants, she's been left with a lot of regrets that could have been avoided, from not going to college, to getting married, to frequently rushing from relationship to relationship. By the final season, she's developing a more understanding perspective towards her life experiences, but prior to that, she spends a lot of time feeling lousy for making mistakes that her family previously tried to talk her out of, often at length

* BrokenAesop: After Ned hits Julia, she's actually initially fully and appropriately aware of how unacceptable his actions were and is looking to distance herself from him. Meanwhile, Charlie and Bailey are going through their own struggles: Charlie's anger is building due to Daphne's abandonment of her future parental duties, and Bailey wants to own a firearm for protection after Sarah is mugged. While her input helps the two of them moving forward, she sees the frustration in the two of them and, blinded by her BigBrotherWorship of them, ignores the fact that they aren't directing their aggression at the ones they love, and merely sees in Charlie and Bailey a simple and misplaced lesson of 'sometimes love makes you angry'.

The main plot focuses on the five kids of the Salinger family who have been orphaned after their parents are killed in a car accident. Charlie (Creator/MatthewFox), an irresponsible 24-year-old worker of odd jobs has to step up and be the new man of the house. The second oldest is Bailey (Scott Wolf), a 16-year-old responsible team mom (at least for the first few seasons), despite not being the oldest. 15-year old Julia (Creator/NeveCampbell) is sensitive, and 11-year-old Claudia (Creator/LaceyChabert) is a child prodigy. The fifth is Owen, barely a year old. During the series, they deal with issues like alcoholism, cancer, abuse, and death.

The main plot focuses on the five kids of the Salinger family who have been orphaned after their parents are killed in a car accident. Charlie (Creator/MatthewFox), an irresponsible 24-year-old worker of odd jobs has to step up and be the new man of the house. The second oldest is Bailey (Scott Wolf), a 16-year-old responsible team mom (at least for the first few seasons), despite not being the oldest...or a woman. 15-year old Julia (Creator/NeveCampbell) is sensitive, and 11-year-old Claudia (Creator/LaceyChabert) is a child prodigy. The fifth is Owen, barely a year old. During the series, they deal with issues like alcoholism, cancer, abuse, and death.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Played with. Sarah's mother says she's considering attending Brown but she decides not to. Likewise since the show is set in San Francisco, there are a couple of episodes involving characters considering going there. However Julia's college is not named and she later transfers to a fictional writing school. When Claudia applies for colleges, we don't hear the names. She does get accepted to Juilliard but since she's presented as a ChildProdigy, that's at least believable. Holly is also attempting to get a degree at Stanford.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Charlie and Bailey, though in Bailey's case the Jerk part usually cancels out the Heart of Gold part.