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The ABC sitcom series ''Growing Pains'' aired from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992, with 166 episodes produced, spanning seven seasons. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1985–1986) Season 2 (1986–1987) Season 3 (1987–1988) Season 4 (1988–1989) Season 5 (1989–1990) Season 6 (1990–1991) Season 7 (1991–1992) TV films References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Growing Pains Lists of American sitcom episodes Episodes Episodes may refer to: * Episode An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or streaming consumption. The noun ''episode'' is derived from the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Dolenz
Ami Bluebell Dolenz (born January 8, 1969) is an American former actress. Early life Dolenz was born in Burbank, California, into a show business family. She is the daughter of Micky Dolenz of the 1960s group the Monkees, and British television presenter Samantha Juste. Her paternal grandparents were the film actors George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson. Career At age 15, Dolenz won a junior talent contest and decided to become an actress. She dropped out of high school and began appearing in roles on various television series. One of her first acting roles was in the television movie ''The Children of Times Square'', followed by a two-episode stint on ''Growing Pains''. In 1987, she had a small role in the comedy ''Can't Buy Me Love''. Later that year, she landed the role of Melissa McKee in the long-running soap opera '' General Hospital''; the role garnered critical attention for Dolenz and she earned two nominations (in 1988 and 1989, respectively) for a Young Artist Award. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim O'Donnell (director)
Tim O'Donnell is an American television director, producer and writer. He began his career as a writer, writing episodes of ''Gloria'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''Growing Pains'' and ''Just the Ten of Us''. He made his directorial debut with the television series '' Home Free'' starring Matthew Perry, a series he co-created with Richard Gurman. He has since directed episodes of ''Dave's World'', ''Clueless'', ''The Amanda Show'', ''Lizzie McGuire'', ''Phil of the Future'', ''Flight 29 Down'' and the internet series ''Woke Up Dead''. He also created ''Uncle Buck'', which lasted one season. In 1992, he signed up with a deal at Paramount Television The original incarnation of Paramount Television was the name of the television production division of the American film studio Paramount Pictures, that was responsible for the production of Viacom television programs, until it changed its name .... References External links * American television directors American television p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Boyer
Katy Boyer (Katherine McLeod Boyer) is an American actress. She played Tim Robbins' love interest in the cult comedy Tapeheads directed by Bill Fishman and parental figures in two science-fiction movies directed by Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Minority Report, billed as "Benjamin's Mom" and "Mother" respectively, as well as an alien named "Zero One" on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Filmography * '' Minority Report'' (2002) - Mother * '' Tripfall'' (2000) - Lonnie Campos * ''Three Secrets'' (1999) - Cassie (as Kate Boyer) * '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997) - Benjamin's Mom * '' A Nightmare Come True'' (1997) - Sarah * '' Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah'' (1996) - Danielle * '' See Jane Run'' (1995) - Paula Marinelli * ''White Dwarf'' (1995) - Lady X the Immortal Prisoner * '' Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story'' (1993) - Lujane * '' Trapped'' (1989) - Renni * ''Tapeheads'' (1988) - Belinda Mart * '' The Town B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Callahan (actor)
James Thomas Callahan (October 4, 1930 – August 3, 2007) was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 120 films and television programs between 1959 and 2007. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal from 1987 to 1990 of Walter Powell on the syndicated sitcom '' Charles in Charge'', starring Scott Baio. Early years One of three children, Callahan was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to William and Elenora Callahan on October 4, 1930. After his service in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953, he worked for the United States Postal Service. While attending school in the Midwest, he discovered acting and on the advice of a teacher, he enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle He studied drama and graduated in the late 1950s. Career Callahan played a doomed soldier/journalist in the ''M*A*S*H'' episode " Sometimes You Hear the Bullet". He also had recurring roles in three 1960s series, as Danny Adams in ABC's '' Wendy and Me'', with a cast i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilligan's Island
''Gilligan's Island'' is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967. The series follows the comic adventures of seven castaways as they try to survive on an island where they are shipwrecked. Most episodes revolve around the dissimilar castaways' conflicts and their unsuccessful attempts to escape their plight, with Gilligan usually being responsible for the failures. ''Gilligan's Island'' ran for 98 episodes. All 36 episodes of the first season were filmed in black and white and were later colorized for syndication. The show's second and third seasons (62 episodes) and the three television film sequels (aired between 1978 and 1982) were filmed in color. The show received solid ratings during its original run, then grew in popularit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Brush
Robert Brush is an American writer-producer and composer, best known for his work as executive producer, writer and show runner of ABC's ''The Wonder Years''. For ''The Wonder Years'' he received an Emmy for individual writing, the Peabody Award, and multiple Humanitas Awards. He wrote, developed and produced the CBS hit series ''Early Edition,'' and ABC's ''Karen Sisco'', as well as adapting for television the novels ''The Prince of Tides'' and ''Scruples'' (miniseries). Career Brush began his career as a musical composer following his graduation from Yale, where he was Pitchpipe of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. In the 1970s he worked at ''Sesame Street'' and ''Captain Kangaroo'', writing scripts and composing songs, among them the Good Morning Captain theme song. In 1981 he composed the score for the Broadway musical ''The First'', about baseball immortal Jackie Robinson, which ran for 70 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre. In 1986 he teamed with writer/producer Jay Tarses on ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Jump
Alexander Gordon Jump (April 1, 1932 – September 22, 2003) was an American actor best known as the clueless, yet occasionally wise, radio station manager Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson in the TV series ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' and the incompetent Chief of Police Tinkler in the sitcom ''Soap''. Jump guest starred on a two-part episode of the 1980s sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes'', in which he portrayed a pedophile who tries to molest main characters Arnold and his friend, Dudley. He also played the "Maytag Repairman" in commercials for Maytag brand appliances, from 1989 until his retirement from the role in July 2003. Early life Born Alexander Gordon Jump, Jump was raised in Centerville, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. Jump graduated from Centerville High School and enrolled in Otterbein College. After his first year, Jump transferred to Kansas State University, where he studied broadcasting and communications and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Jump got his first job in the broadcasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sanders (actor)
Richard Kinard Sanders (born August 23, 1940) is a retired American actor and screenwriter. He played quirky news anchorman Les Nessman on the CBS sitcom ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' (1978–1982). Early life and education Sanders was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Thelma S. and Henry Irvine Sanders. After graduating from Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, Kansas, he was enrolled in the Fine Arts Department at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) as an acting major. There, he was a classmate of René Auberjonois and Aubrey Wilson, among others. Career After graduating from college, Sanders studied Shakespearean theatre in England on a Fulbright Scholarship, and served a stint with the Peace Corps in the states of Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Sanders joined Gordon Jump and Frank Bonner in reprising his original ''WKRP'' role on ''The New WKRP in Cincinnati'' in the early 1990s. He has guest-appeared on other tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Funicello
Annette Joanne Funicello (October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013) was an American actress and singer. Funicello began her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve. She was one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original ''Mickey Mouse Club''. In her teenage years, she recorded under the name Annette, and had a successful career as a pop singer. Her most notable singles are "O Dio Mio", "First Name Initial", "Tall Paul", and "Pineapple Princess". During the mid-1960s, she established herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon. In 1992, Funicello announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987. She died of complications from the disease on April 8, 2013. Early life Annette Joanne Funicello was born in Utica, New York, to Italian Americans Virginia Jeanne (née Albano) and Joseph Edward Funicello. Her family moved to Southern California when she was four years old. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Lauria
Daniel Joseph Lauria (born April 12, 1947) is an American actor, known for playing the role of Jack Arnold in ''The Wonder Years'' (1988–1993), Jack Sullivan on '' Sullivan and Son'' (2012–2014), and Al Luongo on '' Pitch'' (2016–2017). Early life Lauria, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carmela (née Luongo) and Joseph J. Lauria. He also lived in Lindenhurst, New York. He graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School in 1965 as a varsity football player, and he briefly taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School. A Vietnam War veteran, Lauria served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps; he served at the same point in his life that Jack Arnold, his character in ''The Wonder Years'', did during the Korean War. In Vietnam, he served as a platoon commander at An Loc near the Cambodian border. He got his start in acting while attending Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut, on a football scholarship. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Lerman
April Lerman (born February 6, 1969) is an American former actress, singer, and counselor who played the role of Kate, an orphan in the 1982 film of the musical ''Annie''. She also was a regular cast member on the first season of ''Charles in Charge'' (1984), where she played the character of Lila Pembroke. Early life and career Lerman was born in Chicago, Illinois. She began acting as a young child, appearing in the first National Tour of ''Annie'' where she played Tessie, and making her first professional screen performance in the 1982 film of the show, where she played a different character named Kate. April was then cast as Lila in the first season of ''Charles in Charge'' (1984), but the show underwent a major revamp in 1986 after being canceled in 1985 and most of the cast, including Lerman, were replaced by other actors. She spent the next few years working as an actress, appearing as a guest star in TV shows, such as ''Kate & Allie'', ''Growing Pains'', and ''Parker Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
