The Wonder Years - Award-Winning Drama Comedy TV Series

The story that depicts the real life; happiness, changes, traumas, problems and enjoyment that everybody experienced. The series goes as Kevin reminisce and narrates his teenager junior high school life who encounters puberty, deal with ups and downs, take adventure and hanging out with his girlfriend Winnie and geeky but cool best friend Paul. Old Kevin narrates how their friendship goes up and down, face many problems such as health issues, break ups, confusion and misunderstanding but they always keep trust for all things they share and honesty to the one they love.

In the final episode, Kevin and Winnie got deep argue about as their relationship got worst due to third parties. The elders who help on that day drop them off the heavy rain for them realize what's happening and discuss how things change and remember the things they've used to share. In the final epilogue, Paul went to Harvard for college while Winnie ends up studying Art History in Paris & writing up with Kevin for the next eight years. Old Kevin narrates when he greet Winnie as she comes back to US, accompanied by his wife and his infant son and tells:

" Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of other houses, a yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back, with wonder."

The Dramedy story of The Wonder Years was created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens and won multiple awards from Emmy, Golden Globe, Humanitaz Prize and many more. Run six seasons with total 115 episodes aired from 1988 to 1993, a perfect example real life adventure.

Characters:

• Kevin Arnold - An average American teenager student, growing up in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
  
• Gwendolyne "Winnie" Cooper - Kevin's main love interest.
  
• Paul Pfeiffer - Kevin's lifelong best friend, intelligent and an excellent student.
  
• Jack Arnold - Kevin's father.
• Norma Arnold - Kevin's mother.
• Karen Arnold - Kevin's older sister.
  
• Wayne Arnold - Kevin's older brother

Multi-Award Award Winning Dramedy TV Series The Wonder Years

Spenser: For Hire

Spenser: For Hire Mystery Series DVD

Casts:

• Robert Urich as Spenser
• Barbara Stock as Susan
• Avery Brooks as Hawk
• Carolyn McCormick as Rita Fiore
• Richard Jaeckel as Lt. Martin Quirk
• Ron McLarty as Frank Belson
• Jeffrey DeMunn as Jacob Zelesky
  

The suspense detective series Spenser: For Hire created by Robert P. Parker and John Wilder was based on Parker's novel entitled “Spenser”, about a private investigator named Spenser, man with distinct natural talents in observation and reasoning in every mystery leaving cleaned and solved.

Honorable Detective Spenser living in Boston, have been on years of experiences and professionally unveiling many crime mysteries. He's with his psychiatrist girlfriend Susan Silverman and also a professional investigator Hawk who was once on his devil side but become moralistic when worked with Spenser, they take every step, looking in every angle and successfully crack down every cases they handle.

ABC broadcast 66 episodes and 4 TV movies of Spenser: For Hire series from September 1985 to May 1988 in total of 3 seasons.

8 Simple Rules Dramedy

8 Simple Rules TV Series

8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter was a drama sitcom created by Tracy Gamble, a series about couple living in Detroit Michigan raising their three children with the rules:

1. Use your hands on my daughter and you'll lose them after.

2. You make her cry, I make you cry.

3. Safe sex is a myth. Anything you try will be hazardous to your health.

4. Bring her home late, there's no next date.

5. Only delivery men honk. Dates ring the doorbell. Once.

6. No complaining while you're waiting for her. If you're bored, change my oil.

7. If your pants hang off your hips, I'll gladly secure them with my staple gun.

8. Dates must be in crowded public place. You want romance? Read a book.

Paul Hennessy with his wife Cate and their two daughters Bridget and Kerry and son Rory simple living a simple family life implementing 8 simple rules, not only good for dating but also for family relationship. One morning Paul went to grocery store to get milk, he suffered a massive heart attack. Cate now find herself in precarious position raising their three teenagers while holding her full time nurse job in nearby hospital. Her father Jim separated from his wife was there spending days for home improvement and giving little relief, guidance and comfort for his grandchildren while Cate's wayward nephew C.J. moves in sharing trouble humors and questionable advice to the kids.

8 Simple Rules completed 76 with 22-minute running time episodes in total of 3 seasons aired from September 2002 to April 2005 on ABC.

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Casts:

• John Ritter as Paul Hennessy
• Katey Sagal as Cate Hennessy
• Kaley Cuoco as Bridget Hennessy
• Amy Davidson as Kerry Hennessy
• Martin Spanjers as Rory Hennessy
• Billy Aaron Brown as Kyle
• James Garner as Jim Egan
• David Spade as C.J. Barnes
  

Savannah Drama Series

Savannah TV Series

Savannah drama series produced by Spelling Production and created by Constance Burge, was a soap opera about three female best friends Reese Burton, Peyton Richards and Lane McKenize bonded together since high school in all happy times, bad times, conflicts, revenges but they kept their friendships alive, they grew up in Savannah, Georgia.

Aspiring newspaper writer Lane become a successful journalist in New York, she returned to Savannah on her best friend and a stereotype millionaire-daughter Reese with Travis Peterson, but he was having affair with Peyton. Lucille Richard, Peyton's mom has few secrets with Reese's father Ed Burton while Tom Massick planning his revenge over Ed who he think responsible on his father's death. The three girl's loyal friendship was rocked by adultery, fraud, conspiracy, infidelity, revenge and murder but always find ways to make it through.

Savannah soap opera lasted only two seasons ended in cliffhanger soap-style after 32 episodes ran from January 1996 to February 1997.

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Felicity TV Series

Felicity tv series created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, a story about college life experiences of shy and beautiful Felicity Porter making it through in a rough and difficult four years in University of New York just to follow her since high school crush Ben Covington.

Felicity's plan were always dictated by her doctor parents, to take up medicine in Stanford University, she suddenly changes her mind after reading the comment by her long time crush Ben signed on her high school yearbook, she decided to follow him and take a course at UNY. Felicity find it how hard shifting to education course she have to face for the next four years, and with regard to Ben, they quickly swept into a romantic triangle that brings discovery and heartaches. With her new friends Noel Crane, Julie Emrick and Elena Tyler, they are always there to comfort and help her to learn stick up for herself, adapt life changes even not achieve her dream romance, Felicity find herself rewarded with ultimate journey towards her adulthood maturity.

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Felicity Casts:

• Keri Russell as Felicity Porter
• Scott Foley as Noel Crane
• Scott Speedman as Ben Covington
• Tangi Miller as Elena Tyler
• Greg Grunberg as Sean Blumberg
• manda Foreman as Meghan Rotundi
• Amy Jo Johnson as Julie Emrick
• Ian Gomez as Javier Clemente Quintata

The Untouchables

The Untouchables TV Series

The Untouchables crime drama tv series was based from real life effort and experience of US Justice Department Agent Eliot Ness as he enforce prohibition in Chicago in 1930s. A show about the elite group of law enforcement officers headed by tough and incorruptible Special Agent Eliot Ness, they are called “The Untouchables”, they engaged themselves in a battle against big organized crime groups and gang lords around Chicago, Illinois.

Ness' special team agents fight crimes, corruptions, alcoholism and dirty game of sex by known Mafia big bosses like Al Capone, Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti, Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, Joe "the Teacher" Kulak and others. The series centered mainly on Ness' attempt to bust up mobster Al Capone who rule around Chicago with absolute power and business supplying poor quality of liquor at high prices with a back up hired gunners terrorizing stores who refuse to buy his alcohol, but Ness' small dedicated team swore to bring them down. The series completed four seasons aired from October 1959 to May 1963 with total of 118 sixty-minute episodes.

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The Untouchables Casts:

• Robert Stack as Eliot Ness
• Walter Winchell as Narrator
• Nicholas Georgiade as Agent Enrico Rossi
• Abel Fernández as Agent William Youngfellow
• Paul Picerni as Agent Lee Hobson
• Steve London as Agent Jack Rossman

Roseanne Family Sitcom

Roseanne Comedy Series

Roseanne was one of the most successful high rating and award-winning sitcom series of the late '80s and the '90s. Won awards from Emmy, Golden Globe and American Comedy and enjoy top 5 from Nielsen ratings for most of it's seasons (first 6) by incredibly tackling poverty, alcoholism, narcotics, sex, obesity, feminism, domestic violence, homosexuality, etc. in a different honest way unlike other shows. Roseanne Barr's breakthrough performance as an overweight, dominant yet smart woman with her stand-up comedic and very encouraging persona make reference for women to speak their minds, while her working class family was considered the closest to reality, showing life don't have to be rich, blond, thin or whatever to be funny and make people laugh.

Despite of being bossy, loud and dominant, Roseanne Harris-Conner was a wise-cracking, loving and hardworking mother for their three kids and lovable wife to her tough husband Dan Conner and living in Lanford, Illinois. Raising the oldest rebellious boys lover but bright Rebecca, middle tomboy child in her sarcastic wit Darlene and the youngest adventurous David Jacob, Roseanne balanced enough her time for everything especially for her family and even dealing with hardships of poverty and troubles, they face it with humors. Roseanne's underachiever but warm intelligent sister Jackie join their family, the series ends Becky and Darlene married and having babies while Roseanne and Dan have their baby in their forties, named Jerry.

Roseanne Comedy Show original run from October 18, 1988 – May 20, 1997 for total of 222 episodes in it's 9 seasons, now available on DVD.

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Roseanne Comedy Series Casts:

• Lecy Goranson ....... as Rebecca "Becky" Conner-Healy
• Michael Fishman ....... as David Jacob "D.J." Conner
• Sarah Chalke ....... as Rebecca "Becky" Conner Healy
• Roseanne Barr ....... as Roseanne Harris-Conner
• Laurie Metcalf ....... as Jackie Harris
• John Goodman ....... as Dan Conner
• Sara Gilbert ....... as Darlene Conner Healy

"Jake and the Fatman" - 80's TV Series

- Jake and the Fatman -

Jake and The Fatman was 80's television crime drama mixed with action, humor and chemistry of main characters and a tv series which seems everybody in the show was solving the crime. Although the show in just typical (which was first set in Los Angeles), later attract viewers when the setting moved to Honolulu, Hawaii.

The story line about an overweight with rumbling voice Los Angeles District Attorney Jason Lochinvar “Fatman” McCabe (played by William Conrad, well-known as Marchall Matt Dillon of 'Gunsmoke'), a former HPD officer turned as prosecutor (the character based on aging prosecutor in two-part episode entitled “The Don” of TV show Matlock). Fatty was partnered with a young handsome, happy-go-lucky and hunky energetic special investigator Jake Styles (played by Joe Penny) in finding evidence, witnesses, provide footworks and of course, sort of romantic interests, and also with District Attorney assistant Derek Mitchnell, together they find everything Fatty needs to solve and prosecute his cases. In shows most cases, they usually get help from the people around or those initially involved in crime, to provide they are innocent they became also crime solver (doctors, lawyers, shoe salesmen, etc.). Considered the best years of the show was when the locale was switched from L.A. To Honolulu (after the demise of TV Show Magnum P.I.), this seemed something added to the shows and boost it's rating.

The crime drama comedy adventures of Jake and the Fatman, broadcast by CBS from September 1987 to May 1992, completed 5 seasons with 106 episodes, now availabe on DVD.

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"Due South" - Adventurous Dramedy

Due South TV police dramedy created by Paul Haggins, was a Canadian-made series (also award-winning in Canada), succeed with high rating series both in US, UK and Canada, one of a kind show being canceled too early (only 3 seasons in US and 4 seasons in Canada).

Due South is a story line of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Mountie) Benton Fraser moved to Chicago to investigate and solve the murder of his father. Fraser was accompanied by a white deaf Inuit half wolf named Deifenbaker, who lost his hearing when icy water burst his eardrum but have ability to read lips, and Fraser adopted him after saving his life. Fraser after solving his father's case, he uncovered a plot of a company who builds dam but slowly killing the environment and soon the company was shut down. Fraser decided to stay in Chicago, worked for Canadian consulate, made friends local police and partnered with a tough, streetwise and cynical cop, Detective Ray Vecchio, together they fight crimes but entirely confused on each other's way of doing things. Fraser with his supernormal detective abilities, being a polite country boy, morally centered,trusting introvert characteristics confused Vecchio's extrovert, sharp dresser, street-wise and city boy attitude, but the two got along famously; they've derive comedy in outrageous plots and their incredible on-screen chemistry.

Due South was premiered on September 1994 and it's last episode on season 2 aired May 1996 titled "Flashback" where Fraser lost his memory on his after being thrown from the speeding van of diamond thieves. Ray race to get Fraser's memory back and to solve the case (Fraser to remember the van's license plate), Ray recounting to Fraser the times and friendships they have together.

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"Murder, She Wrote" - A Myrstery TV Series

Murder, She Wrote was a series about the former English teacher Jessica Fletcher, widowed in her fifties with no child, achieved success as professional murder-mystery writer and novelist. Each episode, Jessica become involved in murder investigation by carefully and methodically piercing the clues together, gently but firmly asking questions that no one else had asked and come out to being one person able to make sense of the case and trap the guilty party. Jessica became fame with her very popular novels, but still maintain her links with friends and found new friends in many police departments across US. It seemingly ridiculous how murders follow her around the country and endless collection of nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws who always needed her help.

The "Murder, She Wrote" was the longest-running TV mystery series for almost 12 years gracing the small screen. It was premiered on September 1984 and lasted until May 1996, completing the total of 12 seasons, about 264 episodes and 5 Tele-Movies (including the September 1984 pilot movie). The main character Jessica Fletcher starred by Angela Lansbury and few major characters flow the series with appearance of special guest stars casts the entire series.

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"My So Called Life" ::.

A hanged up tv series lasted only for one season but everybody love it and it was a show that many could relate to. A story about 15 years old girl sophomore Angela Chase living in not usually mentioned but realistic family in mid-nineties, with all trials and difficulties being a teenager dealing with parents, friends guys and school. The show brought out issues like child abuse, homophobia, teenage alcoholism, homelessness, adultery, kinky sex, school violence, censorship, and drug use, among many others as these are introduced in the beginning of each episode and how they are resolved in the end. Most plot of the show revolves Angela's daydreaming about Jordan Catalano, life, friends and experiences as a high school student.

My So Called Life was canceled due to low ratings and inline in air time with some shows like Mad About You, Friends and many others but the network didn't see as audience love it as it was too good for TV .Viewer's comment on My So Called Life have great potential and very interesting especially for who remember these days and in the same age range with Angela.

My So Called Life runs only in one season with total of 19 episodes now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv

.:: The "Centennial TV Miniseries" - 1978 ::.

Marked as on of the longest and most ambitious television project at that time with huge budget ($25 Million) most complicated (employed four directors, five cinematographers, five producers with almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras and spanning 26 & 1/2 hours of television viewing.

Centennial was based on the best-selling novel with the same title by James A. Michener, a story history of a fictional town of Centennial, Colorado under settling of American West from late 18th century to the present (1970). People came to Centennial for gold, freedom and crime for many generations among memorable frontiersmen, trappers, Indians, ranchers, cowboys, and farmers from long ago and took a 100 years for murder cases to be solved. Packed with various adventures, affairs, opportunists, tragedy, violence, dubious Western progress and racial injustice just for the name of destiny.

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Judging Amy TV Series

A story about three generation women living together as they confront the personal and professional dilemmas in their changing, challenging lives. A real-life story about single mother Amy Madison Gray raising her young daughter Lauren, be a Family Court judge and live with Amy's opinionated mother Maxine in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy have to re-establish & balance her new life with her relatives and new friends and also her love life. Judge Amy make name for herself by her unusual methods, sentences and stubbornness but sometimes get her in trouble. Last episodes Amy quits judiciary and run for U.S. senate and try to prevent passing laws ending the juvenile justice system.

Main Characters:

• Amy Madison Gray, played by Amy Brenneman - After divorcing her husband, Amy Gray returns to her childhood home with her daughter and becomes a judge on Hartford's family court, trying to go on with her life. Balancing her new job, her family and trying to rebuild her love life isn't easy, but she keeps trying.

• Maxine McCarty Gray, played by Tyne Daly - Amy's widowed mother. A social worker for DCF (the Department of Children and Families), she retired once but returns to the job at the start of the series, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to help the children in her care, even bending the law. She's an opinionated, strong willed woman, very set in her ways and capable of holding long grudges (she hasn't spoken to her brother in over 12 years) but loving to her family.
  

• Vincent Gray played by Dan Futterman - Amy's younger brother, with whom she has always been closest.
  

• Kyle McCarty played by Kevin Rahm - Amy's cousin, the son of Maxine's estranged brother Richard. A former medical student who was expelled because of problems related to his addiction to drugs.
  

• Peter Gray, played by Marcus Giamatti - Amy's older brother. He inherited the family business from his father and he's good at it, even if it wasn't his first choice in life. He's a good but grey man who sometimes surprises people with some outbursts.
  

• Gillian Gray, played by Jessica Tuck - Peter's wife. A controlling woman with a good heart who completely loves her husband. She is usually well-meaning, but also often obsessive and nerve-wracking.

• Lauren Cassidy, played by Karle Warren - Amy's daughter, 6 years-old at the start of the series. A mostly well-adjusted girl going through the pains of childhood and pre-adolescence with divorced parents but a loving family. As a young girl, she struggles over her father's relationship with Leisha, whom she likes at first.
  

• Bruce van Exel, played by Richard T. Jones - Amy's Court Services Officer, who eventually becomes her friend. The series addresses a number of issues of their cross-racial friendship and how each feels differently about it.

• Donna Kozlowski, played by Jillian Armenante - Amy's clerk. An eccentric woman from a wealthy family, from whom she's estranged. Donna is intellectually a genius (she finishes her law degree in one and a half years) but socially awkward.

A worth watching tv series Judging Amy DVD completed 6 seasons and total of 138 episodes aired from 1999 to 2005, now on dvd available at DVDAvenue.tv

.::What I Like About You::.

A comedy story about two sisters, Holly and Valerie live in New York City. When their father took a job in Japan, the two sister lived in New York and Valerie lucks with good career in public relations, owned an apartment with loving boyfriend on Upper West Side. Holly enters and become part of Val's blessed life and their relationship even become stronger.

Aired from 2002 to 2006 starred by Holly Tyler (Amanda Bynes) and Valerie (Jennie Garth), a TV comedy sitcom hit series.

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"Married With Children" - 10 Years Drama Comedy TV Series

10 year comedy tv series about not so typical mid-class American family of Al Bundy, a dysfunctional chaotic white trash family. Al from being glorious high school football star turned into hard-luck shoe salesman married with uneducated housewife Peggy with two children Kelly, a very attractive, promiscuous but dim-witted daughter and Bud, an intelligent but girl-crazy son. Even the family live in failures, falseness and being losers, Bundys are not quitters, they still stays together as family.
Major Characters:

• Al Bundy - Father Bundy Family, his proudest moment in life was running for four touchdowns in a single game, grant a college schorlarship but he got his girlfriend pregnant, married her, broke his leg, and ended up a shoe salesman. Al's hard-luck is practically doomed to fail in everything he does because of the 'Bundy curse' yet he continue to pursue his family.
• Peggy - Al's wife, a high-school drop out, tartish, uneducated housewife known for her large red bouffant hairdo, 1960's clothes. She loves to watch talk shows and shopping.
• Kelly - Bundy's the oldest child, Al often calls her, is a promiscuous bimbo and stereotypical dumb witted but attractive girl.
• Bud - Bundy's second child, a very intelligent and unpopular guy, he is girl-crazy but generally fails in his attempts to get with women.

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"Matlock" - 80s Classic TV Series

A drama series about a lawyer who uses his country charm and savvy to tackle headline-making murder trials. An Action/Drama TV Series aired from 1986 to 1992 on NBC and from 1992 to 1995 on ABC. Matlock still aired and re-ran in around US.

The story about criminal defense attorney Benjamin Matlock who charges very expensive $100,000 fee but worths every cent by winning the case and finding the real killer. Andy Griffith plays Ben Matlock with finicky fasion trademark gray suits, as renowned, folsky yet cantankerous defense attorney who secured an acquittal in trial and with humors in solving every mystery of the series. Matlock has a daughter played by three different woman and has four fellow investigators and many notably guest stars appeared in different seasons.

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"Nash Bridges" - 1990s Action Hit TV Series

A story about smart-alecky top notch San Francisco Police Inspector/Investigator Nash Bridges starred by Don Johnson. Lieutenant Bridges is acting head and boss of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) . SIU cases range widely from burglary to murder, with members going undercover frequently.

Together with his partner and best friend Joe Dominguez taking down plaques of the city from powerful with immense wealth right on down to scum at the bottom of the ladder. The core team of the SIU are Nash Bridges as the Head, Joe Dominguez as second rank officer, Harvey Leek computer and surveillance expert, and Evan Cortez a young and ambitious policemen emulate to be younger Nash.

But Nash's lifelong and great achievements in his profession, he's a divorced single father of his 16-year old girl Cassidy, lack of his attention and care because of his career.

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