At this point, it is revealed that the Old Man is Sam's father.

He was a contemporary of Tacoma boomer Leonard Howarth and became wealthy in his activities with the same companies as Howarth — the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. and the Wilkeson Coal & Coke Co. That company mined coking coal in the town of Wilkeson, the town near Enumclaw that was named to honor Frank's and Sam's father.

Sam's father decided farming did not generate enough income on which to raise a family, so he decided to go back to a previous profession of a mortgage man.

The owner of the shop next door refused 6 times, and Walton gave up on Bentonville when his father in law, without Sam's knowledge, paid the shop owner a final visit, and $ 20, 000 to secure the lease.

* Doug Dullard ( David Weaver ): Sam's estranged father who works in the corporate industry.

* Debbie Anders ( Susan Greenhill ) – Sam's estranged mother who is rather unconventional ( She is often on the road with a traveling women's Roller Derby team ) and separated from his father.

It has been suggested that Sam's father was a watchman in Jingo and he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice " Old Stoneface " Vimes, the Watch Commander who instigated the rebellion against, and subsequently beheaded, Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of the city ; a sadistic torturer described as " very fond of children.

He hides who he is because of his father and Shelby, but with help from Sam, he finds the courage to stand up for what he wants and becomes Sam's boyfriend.

* Whip Hubley as Harold " Hal " Montgomery, Sam's father.

Wade, a notoriously corrupt and violent man, had disappeared after a public confrontation with Buddy Deeds ( Matthew McConaughey ), Sam's late father and one of Wade's deputies.

It was on the strength of Buddy's reputation that Sam later became sheriff, although it is clear that Sam's relationship with his father was a tense one.

Sam's was started by Sniderman's father, Sam Sniderman, as a sideline selling records in his brother's radio store in the 1930s.

The next night, however, Sam's father is killed trying to break up a neighborhood fight.

In the American remake of the television show Life on Mars, in a twist, Gene Hunt in 1973 turns out to be astronaut ' Major Tom ' Tyler – Sam's father – in the conclusion.

His father considers him a grave disappointment and forces him to join the Night's Watch to allow Sam's younger brother to inherit Horn Hill.

* Joe Cheung as Sam's father

Their respective groups are forced to socialize when Brooke's father and Sam's mother get engaged and the two girls have to share a house.

Sam's father died when she was fourteen.

* George Karras – Sam's adoptive father

In the VHS release, when Paul comes to conceal the body, the scene is edited to briefly show Paul pulling Sam's father out of the boiler, without showing much of his charred body.

In the same earlier version, in the scene where Paul is dreaming about Sam's father coming up out of his bed, Sam's father comes completely out of the bed and lunges for Paul.

By this time, they have fallen in love and get married before going to Sam's bolt-hole in the Adirondack Mountains.

As discovered in " Sam's Women " ( 1982 ), he was once married to Debra ( Donna McKechnie ), but his marriage did not last.

When Sam's son Jerry came home, Jerry married Bernice.

Tolkien called Sam the " chief hero " of the saga in one of his letters: he places special emphasis on Sam's " rustic love " for Rosie, a union that serves to establish a family in which allusions to Elvish wonders ( embodied in Sam's daughter Elanor ) are combined with the best qualities of traditional Shire-life.

Contrary to prior reports, Christine was not Sam's biological daughter.

In time, the volumes are left in the care of Sam's eldest daughter, Elanor Fairbairn, and her descendants ( the Fairbairns of the Towers or Wardens of Westmarch ).

Her daughter Maisy played Rosie and Sam's baby.

Sam's other romantic relationships include a " highly priced call girl " named Laurie, played by Lisa Edelstein ( whom he slept with without knowledge of her profession ), and Leo McGarry's daughter, Mallory O ' Brien, a fourth-grade teacher — a relationship Leo jokingly tries to sabotage, telling Sam, " I don't mind you dating my ONLY daughter, but you can't expect me not to have some fun along the way.

Meanwhile, Ivy's younger son, Fox, slept with Sam's older daughter, Kay, during the tsunami, and they began to date.

She disappeared for a while a that had a big effect on Dina and Sam's relationship as mother and daughter but once Dina comes back into Sam's life, the relationship begins to heal.

* Will Malloy: Craig's best friend, Sam's secret admirer, and the father of Sam's secret daughter Amy.

However, " the best guess was that particular time that it was going to be Sam's daughter ", whom she gave up for adoption early in the series.

* In the Sam & Max comic book, Bad Day on the Moon, Max spends a brief time as disembodied spirit in possession of Sam's hand, taking on the appearance of a Johnny-type puppet, except with bunny ears, and saying the " S ' awright " line.

In a panic, Sam runs to his room and calls Lucy, who is on a date with Max, but the phone call is interupted when Michael suddenly develops the ability to fly, and appears outside Sam's window, frightening him.

Despite Michael trying to tell Lucy that everything is alright, Sam's screams are enough to make her run out on her date with Max, and rush home.

they are also probably ungrateful for Uncle's Sam's bounty.

Sam next lassos a rope around one of the battlements of the castle, but as he is climbing up, Bugs whacks a mallet on Sam's helmet, causing Sam to side down the rope outside of his armor.

It was also around this time that Sam's sister, Paige, was revealed to have mutant powers.

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon the Autobots, now consisting of Bumblebee ( no longer Sam's guardian for an unspecified reason ), Que / Wheeljack, Sideswipe, Dino / Mirage, Ironhide, Optimus, Ratchet and the Wreckers investigate alien activity around the world and have set up Energon Detectors in all the major cities in order to detect Decepticon activity.

Holcomb admitted that he was anticipating Sam's loss and trying to smooth the way for a less divisive candidate the next time around, prompting Bartlet to ( unofficially ) fire him and get Toby to take over the campaign for the final weeks.

While tension clearly exists between them, Josh often comes to Hoynes ' defense ( though he also gives tacit support to an abortive plan to cut Hoynes from the 2002 ticket in favor of Admiral Fitzwallace, and it's shown that Hoynes ' top defender amongst the senior staffers is Sam, which is possibly due to Sam's staunch idealism and strict loyalty to those around him ).

The game features some moderate graphical improvements, as well as minor gameplay changes such as the fact that health kits are no longer an inventory item, and the addition of a laser sight to Sam's pistol that allows the player to know exactly where the rounds will strike, even when moving around.

In front of a crowd of around 400, Indonesia's Mighty Badgers defeated Sam's Club from Singapore in the final.

While still featuring one-shot gag comics, the volume introduces longer storylines revolving around Sam's romantic relationship with Alexa and how it affects his friendship with Fuzzy.