Barry Watson as Matt Camden

Matt Camden, the eldest child of the family, was the heartthrob of the show, a fact that didn’t escape his costars. “Any female of any age got an immediate crush on him. I was playing his mother, and I was just staring at him in scenes,” laughs Hicks. “And he’s just so nice. All the young girls were in love with him—Jessie and Bev. And we’d have gatherings at my house and he’d dance with my little girl. She taught him all the Britney Spears moves.”