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The Wonder Years Tv Show Episodes & Cast
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Series Description:
The Wonder Years was a family comedy tv show about the life of a 12-year-old boy growing up in the 1960s United States. There was regular narrative from a "grown-up" Kevin which provided insight into what he was thinking when he was 12 and what he thought about the same situation years later.
Wonder Years Cast:
Fred Savage .......... Kevin Arnold
Danica McKellar ...... Winnie Cooper
Jason Harvey ......... Wayne Arnold
Alley Mills .......... Norma Arnold
Dan Lauria ........... Jack Arnold
Olivia d'abo .......... Karen Arnold
Josh Saviano ......... Paul Pfeiffer
Daniel Stern ......... Kevin as Adult (Voice)
Wonder Years Trivia:
The tv show was on the air from 1988 through 1993. The show's stories took place twenty years earlier from 1968 through 1973.
Poor Jason Harvey's character (Wayne Arnold) was so hated that one time in a bar a guy came up to him and said, "I had a brother just like you" and then punched him in the face! Fans generally didn't like him and obviously couldn't separate him in real life from his character on the Wonder Years!
Probably the two biggest goofs made in filming Wonder Years both concerned school and space flight. On episode #5, "The Phone Call" Kevin fakes being ill so he can stay home from school. He states that later in the evening Apollo 8 will be going into orbit around the moon. That actually happened on Christmas Eve in 1968. There's no school on that day. Then in episode #41, "Faith", Kevin comes home from school to watch Apollo 13 lift off. That happened on Saturday, April 11, 1970. There is no school on Saturday.
Fred Savage began his acting career at age 4 in the movie, "Dinosaur (1980)". He directed an episode of "Boy Meets World (1993)" in 1998. His younger brother Ben Savage stars in that series. Fred graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English in 1999.
Kevin's dog was named "Buster". His grandfather gave him the dog.
You might think of Danica McKellar as the cute little girl "Winnie" on the tv show. In real life, she went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in mathematics. She also co-wrote a paper in 1998 that was published in Britain's "Journal of Physics" which mathematically proved a theorem of magnetism in two dimensions (Whatever that means)! She also speaks fluent French!
The influence of the Vietnam war was often felt on the tv show. Winnie found out her older brother Brian had been killed there in the very first episode. Dan Lauria (Jack Arnold) actually served a tour in Vietnam in real life as a Marine Corps Captain!
Karen got married in 1992. Her husband Michael was played by David Schwimmer. A couple of years later, he would get the part of Ross Geller on "Friends (1994)".
Kevin once dated a girl named Becky Slater. After they stopped seeing each other, she decided to become Kevin's worst nightmare! Becky was portrayed by Crystal McKellar, Danica McKellar's (Winnie) real-life sister!
Wonder Years, like all shows, had some mistakes that "got past" the editors. In Episode #19, "Birthday Boy", Paul's bar mitzvah celebration is said to be on Saturday, March 18, 1969. That day actually fell on a Tuesday. In episode #34, "Don't You Know Anything About Women?", Kevin walks into the lunchroom and looks at Susan Fisher. When the shot changes from him to Susan, it's obvious that he is at the table behind her (you can't see his face but his body shape and the same shirt he's wearing in other scenes is unmistakeable). Then, in the next scene, he's back at the entryway leading to the lunch room again (and it's clear he hasn't entered yet).
On the final episode of the Wonder Years, the viewers got a look at what would be happening to the Arnold family and their friends in the future. Kevin and his father had a "falling-out" but reconciled before Jack Arnold died (Only 2 years after the events at the end of the series). Wayne took over the family business. Karen gave birth to a baby boy. Paul Pfeiffer went to Harvard and got a law degree. Winnie travelled to Paris to study art. Kevin married (no, not Winnie) and had a son.
Episodes List With Original Airdates
Wonder Years - The First Season
1... The Wonder Years (3/15/1988)
2... Swingers (3/22/1988)
3... My Father's Office (3/29/1988)
4... Angel (4/5/1988)
5... The Phone Call (4/12/1988)
6... Dance With Me (4/19/1988)
Wonder Years Tv Show - The Second Season
7... The Heart Of Darkness (11/30/1988)
8... Our Miss White (12/7/1988)
9... Christmas (12/14/1988)
10... Steady As She Goes (1/11/1989)
11... Just Between You And Me (1/18/1989)
12... Pottery Will Get You Nowhere (2/1/1989)
13... Coda (2/8/1989)
14... Hiroshima, Mon Frere (2/15/1989)
15... Loosiers (2/28/1989)
16... The Walk Out (3/7/1989)
17... Nemesis (3/14/1989)
18... Fate (3/28/1989)
19... Birthday Boy (4/11/1989)
20... Brightwing (4/18/1989)
21... Square Dance (5/2/1989)
22... Whose Woods Are These? (5/9/1989)
23... How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation (5/16/1989)
Wonder Years - The Third Season
24... Summer Song (10/3/1989)
25... Math Class (10/10/1989)
26... Wayne On Wheels (10/24/1989)
27... Mom Wars (10/31/1989)
28... On The Spot (11/7/1989)
29... Odd Man Out (11/14/1989)
30... The Family Car (11/21/1989)
31... The Pimple (11/28/1989)
32... Math Class Squared (12/12/1989)
33... Rock 'N Roll (1/2/1990)
34... Don't You Know Anything About Women? (1/16/1990)
35... The Powers That Be (1/23/1990)
36... She, My Friend, And I (2/6/1990)
37... The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (2/13/1990)
38... The Tree House (2/20/1990)
39... The Glee Club (2/27/1990)
40... Night Out (3/13/1990)
41... Faith (3/27/1990)
42... The Unnatural (4/17/1990)
43... Good-Bye (4/24/1990)
44... Cocoa And Sympathy (5/1/1990)
45... Daddy's Little Girl (5/8/1990)
46... Moving (5/16/1990)
Wonder Years Tv Show - The Fourth Season
47... Growing Up (9/19/1990)
48... Ninth Grade Man (9/26/1990)
49... The Journey (10/3/1990)
50... The Cost Of Living (10/10/1990)
51... It's A Mad, Mad, Madeline World (10/24/1990)
52... Little Debbie (11/7/1990)
53... The Ties That Bind (11/14/1990)
54... The Sixth Man (11/28/1990)
55... A Very Cutlip Christmas (12/12/1990)
56... The Candidate (1/9/1991)
57... Heartbreak (1/23/1991)
58... Denial (1/30/1991)
59... Who's Aunt Rose? (2/6/1991)
60... Courage (2/13/1991)
61... Buster (2/27/1991)
62... Road Trip (3/6/1991)
63... When Worlds Collide (3/20/1991)
64... Separate Rooms (4/3/1991)
65... The Yearbook (4/10/1991)
66... The Accident (4/24/1991)
67... The House That Jack Built (5/1/1991)
68... Graduation (5/8/1991)
69... Wonder Years (5/15/1991)
Wonder Years - The Fifth Season
70... The Lake (10/2/1991)
71... Day One (10/9/1991)
72... The Hardware Store (10/16/1991)
73... Frank And Denise (10/23/1991)
74... Full Moon Rising (10/30/1991)
75... Triangle (11/6/1991)
76... Soccer (11/20/1991)
77... Dinner Out (12/4/1991)
78... Christmas Party (12/11/1991)
79... Pfeiffers' Choice (12/18/1991)
80... Road Test (1/8/1992)
81... Grandpa's Car (1/15/1992)
82... Kodachrome (1/29/1992)
83... Private Butthead (2/5/1992)
84... Of Mastodons And Men (2/12/1992)
85... Double Double Date (2/26/1992)
86... Hero (3/11/1992)
87... Lunch Stories (3/18/1992)
88... Carnal Knowledge (3/25/1992)
89... The Lost Weekend (4/8/1992)
90... Stormy Weather (4/22/1992)
91... The Wedding (4/29/1992)
92... Back To The Lake (5/6/1992)
93... Broken Hearts And Burgers (5/13/1992)
Wonder Years Tv Show - The Sixth Season
94... Homecoming (9/23/1992)
95... Fishing (9/30/1992)
96... Scenes From A Wedding (10/7/1992)
97... Sex And Economics (10/14/1992)
98... Politics As Usual (10/21/1992)
99... White Lies (10/28/1992)
100. Wayne And Bonnie (11/11/1992)
101. Kevin Delivers (11/25/1992)
102. The Test (12/2/1992)
103. Let Nothing You Dismay (12/16/1992)
104. New Year (1/6/1993)
105. Alice In Autoland (1/13/1993)
106. Ladies And Gentlemen .... The Rolling Stones (1/27/1993)
107. Unpacking (2/3/1993)
108. Hulk Arnold (2/10/1993)
109. Nose (2/24/1993)
110. Eclipse (3/30/1993)
111. Poker (3/24/1993)
112. The Little Women (3/31/1993)
113. Reunion (4/28/1993)
114. Summer/Independence Day (5/12/1993) - Kevin & his father have a big fight and Kevin takes
off mad to visit Winnie who is away working at a resort for the summer! Winnie & Kevin nearly
break up after Kevin catches her kissing a life guard! It seems like everything is going wrong, but
in the end, all relationships are healed! The best thing about this 2-part finale is the ending where
we find out what happens to all of the cast charachters in the future!
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