''Raising Dad'' is an American television

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that aired on

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from October 5, 2001, to May 10, 2002. The series stars

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, Beau Wirick and

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, and was produced by Albion Productions in association with Paramount Television.

Premise

Matt Stewart (Saget) is a widower trying to raise his two daughters, Sarah (Dennings) and Emily (Larson), with the help of his live-in father, Sam (Jerry Adler), a former baseball player for the

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. Further complicating matters, Matt works as an English teacher at Sarah's high school. Matt struggles to keep his nose out of his daughter's social life while attempting to find his own.

Cast

Main

as Matt Stewart *

as Sarah Stewart *

as Emily Stewart * Meagan Good as Katie *

Andy Kindler Andy Kindler (born October 16, 1956) is an American comedian and actor from Queens, New York. He played the character "Andy", a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', w ...

as Mr. Travers *

as Sam Stewart * Ben Indra as Josh (from episode 12; recurring previously)

Recurring

* Fred Stoller as Bert *

as Jared Ashby * Beau Wirick as Evan *

Camille Guaty Camille Guaty (born June 28, 1976) is an American film and television actress. She is known for several roles: as Daisy in '' Gotta Kick It Up!'' (2002), for playing Maricruz Delgado, Sucre's girlfriend, in ''Prison Break'' (2005–2007), and a ...

as Olivia *

Tembi Locke Tembekile "Tembi" Locke is an American actress who has appeared in television shows and film. She is best known as Dr. Grace Monroe on Syfy's series ''Eureka'' and as Dr. Diana Davis in '' Sliders''. Locke is also the author of the bestselling me ...

as Vice Principal Liz Taylor

Episodes

Reception

Carole Horst of ''

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'' reviewed the first episode of ''Raising Dad'' and wrote: "a family trying to cope with the death of the mother... isn’t funny, but it is touching at times", and added that the cast "is fine, and "Dad" shows some promise. It probably will keep ''Reba''s audience tuned in to end a nice family night of TV."

References

External links

* {{The WB 2000s American sitcoms 2001 American television series debuts 2002 American television series endings English-language television shows Television series about families Television series by CBS Studios Television shows filmed in Massachusetts Television shows filmed in Los Angeles Television shows set in Massachusetts The WB original programming