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The Wonder Years - the American
comedy drama series
The most popular comedy drama TV series
that achieved huge number of popularity and got the love and praise
of thousand of comedy lovers is The Wonder Years show which can now
be yours on DVD as a complete collection with all episodes in a box
set. It was created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. Not only the
adults but also the older people enjoyed the program. It was started
on ABC Television network in 1988. The pilot series was shown on the
ABC in January 31, 1988 after the coverage of Super Bowl XXII. It
completed six seasons from 1988 to 1993. The total numbers of seasons
were six and it contained 115 episodes.
The show was
syndicated to rerun from September 1992 and September 1997. Then from
October 13, 1997 it started to rerun on Nick at Nite and continued
till February 3, 2001. From 2001 to 2004 it was also reran on ABC
family. Ion Television broadcasted it from April 2 to October 4,
2007. Recently the show has totally stopped telecasting in America
and Canada but in Australia it ran on 111 Hits.
The show is a
trademark for today’s TV shows because it got numerous numbers of
nominations and awards in the shortest possible time. It achieved the
spot in Nielsen Top Ten for the two seasons out of six seasons. It
was named as one of the20 best comedy series of 1980s series. The
series got the Emmy award for best comedy series in 1988 just after
completing six episodes. Fred Savage for his outstanding performance
as the lead actor for the comedy series was very much praised. And he
got the honor of the best youngest actor at the age of 13. The show
also got the Peabody Award in 1989. By adding the awards the total
number became 20 and the numbers of nominatios were more than 50. The
people said that the timing of the show was perfect, the baby boomers
were grown up and they wanted to see themselves on TV.
The
theme song was given by Joe Cocker. It was from The Beatles' song
"With a Little Help from My Friends”. The title of the show
was adopted from Wonder Bread.
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