The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is a television series, created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. The series ran for 6 seasons (from 1988 to 1993) in primetime broadcast by the American channel ABC. In the early 1990s the series was also broadcast in Flanders by the integral public broadcaster VRT and in the Netherlands by VPRO.

The Wonder Years covered the social and historical events in the late 1960s and early 1970s years seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, who in addition to the usual adolescent ailments, mainly took care about all kinds of Teen-Social Affairs. His best friend Paul and the neighbour girl Winnie Cooper were his permanent companions.

Each episode is told to each other by a now adult Kevin Arnold thinking about his childhood years and so that its deepest soul stirrings of his "wonder years" shares with the Viewer. This popular story technique is later reused in other sitcoms How I Met Your Mother, State of Grace and Oliver Beene .

The title song was Joe Cockers version of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends".



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 * Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage)-a typical American teenager, who went to junior high (and later high school) and grows up in the late 1960s, early 1970s.
 * Wendell "Winnie" Cooper (Danica McKellar): Kevin's neighbour girl and also his sweetheart. Their first kiss and the death of her older brother in Viet Nam play an important role in the pilot.
 * Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano): Kevin's best friend. He is a very intelligent boy and a perfect student. In the last episode he leaves for Harvard. He is allergic to everything.
 * Jack Arnold (Dan Lauria): Kevin's father, a veteran from the Korean war. In the beginning he works at NORCOM, a large company, in a middle management position, where he hates it. Later he begins a private company and sells handmade furniture.
 * Norma Arnold (Alley Mills): Kevin's mother.
 * Karen Arnold (Olivia d'Abo): Kevin's older hippie sister. She eventually marries and moves to Alaska. In the last season they only comes in the last episode.
 * Wayne Arnold (Jason Hervey): Kevin's older brother, who loves to bully to Kevin and Paul. He takes the matter of his father, after it has died.
 * Coach Cutlip (Robert Picardo): Kevin's junior-high-school gym teacher
 * Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) (later Mrs. Heimer) (Wendel Meldrum): Kevin's junior-high-school teacher. Her name changes at her wedding in Mrs. Heimer.
 * Mr. Cantwell (Ben Stein): Kevin's junior-high-school teacher
 * Becky Slater (Crystal McKellar): Kevin's junior high classmate
 * Chuck Coleman (Andy Berman)-one of Kevin's high school friends
 * Delores (Juliette Lewis)-Waynes girlfriend in high school
 * Bonnie Douglas (Paula Marshall)
 * Jeff Billings (Giovanni Ribisi)
 * Alice Pedermeir (Lindsay Sloane)-one of Kevin's classmates in high school
 * Joey (Dustin Diamond)
 * Eric Antonio (Don Jeffcoat)
 * Young Kevin (Eric Lloyd)
 * Michael (David Schwimmer)
 * Voice of Adult Kevin (Daniel Stern)-the narrator of the series
 * See: list of episodes of The Wonder Years