gerryu21220
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Except it's not "new". It was mentioned in the original 1970's Peoplemover script.
And yes as someone else mentioned "the" American family does not mean a single American family. It's a general term.
It's always been just one family showing the audience how life was in different decades, and how technology has progressed. It's not a continuous story from beginning to end, but merely glimpes of how life was in each era.
They use the same names and faces throughout the show. The only one that changed names was the dog, and that was in the original version. (Can't remember if that continued in the later versions. I don't listen to those because the original was the best.)