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  D'Abo, Olivia
  McKellar, Danica
  Stern, Daniel


A Question Years was the television show created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It run 6 seasons in ABC, from 1988 to 1993.

A Question Years tackled a social issues & historic cases of the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of main character Kevin Arnold, world health organization likewise deals by using teenaged social issues (principally sustaining his right friend Paul, & his top love interest, Winnie Cooper), personal condition & more issues. When a stories unfold, a story is by an older, wiser Kevin describing what is happening & what he has learned from either his lives. This popular system was late reproduced in the short-fugacious sitcoms State of Grace and Oliver Beene. A system was too parodied inside an episode of Personal Guy & The Simpsons. Likewise a a collage system that is utilized within a title scene by using the theme song swimming in the back, was utilized in an episode of 'A Simpsons' using a equivalent theme song existence played.

A indicate's theme tune was Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends". This song was featured among others on the soundtrack for the program.

Major characters

Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) - An average junior high (& late high school) student growing higher in the late 1960s/early Seventies.

Gwendolyne "Winnie" Cooper (Danica McKellar) - Kevin's main love interest. Their number 1 kiss & her older brother's demise inside Vietnam play an crucial a share of the pilot episode.

Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano) - Kevin's lifelong right friend. He is supersensitised to all about.

Jack Arnold (Dan Lauria) - Kevin's father, a Korean War veteran. Originally, he worked at NORCOM, the generic big corporation, around the middle management position he hated. Late, he began his have business building & marketing handcrafted article of furniture.

Norma Arnold (Alley Mills) - Kevin's stay-at-home mother. She met Jack as a college freshmen. Whilst he graduated, she moved nationwide by having him & didn't finish college.

Karen Arnold (Olivia d'Abo) - Kevin's older hippie sister. She in time marry & moves to Alaska. Her merely appearance in the previous year is in the survive episode.

Wayne Arnold (Jason Hervey) - Kevin's older brother who enjoys physically tormenting Kevin & Paul.

Other characters
Coach Cutlip (Robert Picardo) Miss White, late Mrs. Heimer (Wendel Meldrum) Mr. Cantwell (Ben Stein) Becky Woodlouse (Crystal McKellar) Chuck Coleman (Andy Berman) Delores (Juliette Lewis) Bonnie Douglas (Paula Marshall) Jeff Charge (Giovanni Ribisi) Alice Pedermeir (Lindsay Sloane) Joey (Dustin Diamond) Eric Antonio (Don Jeffcoat) Young Kevin (Eric Lloyd) Voice of Adult Kevin (Daniel Stern)

Final episode
Reflecting in how else everya single finally grows higher you bet childhood comes to an prevent, Kevin & Winnie own one survive passionate day together prior to running their separate ways conclusively. Winnie attend Europe to survey art, when Kevin stays in the States, get hitched with, & has the boy. Them write to both more for eight years. Kevin's father dies of a heart attack, & his brother requires on top the personal business. A fates of several supporting characters come resolved, & a teller (fully grown Kevin) tells the states: "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."

Trivia
In the episode A Little Women Kevins SAT score is revealed when 650 verbal 590 maths (1240 combined), & Winnies when 725 verbal 757 mathematics (1482 combined).

The Wonder Years
Interesting facts and a history of the show, polls, favorite quotes & scenes, and links to other sites.

The Wonder Years as an American Narrative
A project studying the show and the culture surrounding it.

The All-New Wonder Years Website
Includes a episode guide, quotes, pictures, and links.

The Wonder Years
Character guide and news.

The Wonder Years
Episode guide and information about music from the show. Also information about series-related book.

ClassicTVHits.com: The Wonder Years
Includes episode guides, photo galleries, sound galleries, and links.

IMDb - Wonder Years, The
Includes plot and cast information.






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