Hi Honey, I'm Home!
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.jpg) Title screen for Hi Honey, I'm Home! |
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| Genre | Sitcom, Satire |
| Created by | Rick Mitz Penny Stallings Barry Secunda |
| Starring | Charlotte Booker Stephen C. Bradbury Julie Benz Peter Benson Susan Cella |
| Theme music composer | Rupert Holmes |
| Opening theme | "Hi Honey, I'm Home!" performed by Rupert Holmes |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 14 (1 unaired) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Rick Mitz |
| Producer(s) | Penny Stallings |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | RiPe Productions, in association with Nick at Nite (MTV Networks) |
| Distributor | Viacom |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC (Season 1) Nick at Nite (Season 1 & 2) |
| Original run | July 19, 1991 – July 12, 1992 |
Hi Honey, I'm Home! is an American television sitcom that ran from July 19, 1991, to July 12, 1992 for 13 episodes. The series was television's first "instant" rerun. Each week, a new episode of the series aired on ABC as part of its Friday night TGIF lineup. The same episode would re-air Sunday night on Nickelodeon as part of the channel's Nick at Nite lineup. ABC stopped airing the series after the sixth episode of the first season. The show's second season only aired on Nick at Nite before being cancelled in July 1992.[1] The series was taped before a live audience in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Florida.
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[edit] Premise
The Nielsens (named after the Nielsen ratings) are a family of fictional characters from a 1950s sitcom that has been canceled; they have been relocated to the real world, which is different from the world they know. They use a device called a Turnerizer (named after Ted Turner) to switch between color and black-and-white within their home. Mike Duff, the teenage son of the family next door, is the only real-world person who knows their secret.
In most episodes, there are guest appearances by actors from classic TV shows, playing their characters; e.g., Gale Gordon appears in episode 1 as Theodore J. Mooney (from The Lucy Show).
[edit] Cast and characters
- Honey Nielsen (Charlotte Booker) — An archetypal 1950s sitcom housewife and mom.
- Lloyd Nielsen (Stephen C. Bradbury) — The bumbling, somewhat clueless dad.
- Babs Nielsen (Julie Benz) — The Nielsen's pretty, popular, and well endowed teenage daughter. Target of a crush by Mike Duff.
- Chucky Nielsen (Danny Gura) — The Nielsen's chubby and naive younger son.
- Elaine Duff (Susan Cella) — Sarcastic next door neighbor to the Nielsens and single mom to two sons.
- Mike Duff (Peter Benson) — Elaine Duff's couch potato teenage son who knows the real identities of the Nielsens. Has a crush on Babs.
- Sidney "Skunk" Duff (Eric Kushnick) — Elaine's youngest, trouble making son.
In the original unaired pilot, two different actors were initially cast in two roles and were later recast for subsequent episodes. Actress Dee Hoty was originally cast as Elaine Duff, but replaced by Susan Cella. Future Backstreet Boy A. J. McLean was originally cast as Sidney "Skunk" Duff and was replaced by Eric Kushnick. The pilot was then re-shot with the different actors and aired.
The original pilot eventually aired during Nickelodeon's "Nick Knew Them When" anniversary marathon on June 27, 1999.
[edit] Episodes
- Ep = Episode number by season
- № = Overall episode number
[edit] Season 1: 1991
| Ep | № | Title | Original air date |
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| 0 | 0 | "Pilot" | Unaired * |
| 1 | 1 | "Meet the Neilsens" | 19 July 1991 |
| Guest star: Gale Gordon as Theodore J. Mooney from The Lucy Show. | |||
| 2 | 2 | "Make My Bed" | 26 July 1991 |
| Guest star: Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver. | |||
| 3 | 3 | "Fur Flies" | 2 August 1991 |
| Guest stars: Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph as Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton from The Honeymooners. | |||
| 4 | 4 | "Hi Mom, I'm Not Home" | 9 August 1991 |
| Guest star: Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle from The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. | |||
| 5 | 5 | "Grey Skies" | 16 August 1991 |
| Guest star: Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster from The Munsters. | |||
| 6 | 6 | "SRP" | 23 August 1991 |
| Guest star: Ann B. Davis as Alice Nelson from The Brady Bunch. | |||
* Aired in 1999 on Nickelodeon.
[edit] Season 2: 1992
| Ep | № | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | 7 | "That Kind of Girl" | 6 June 1992 |
| 2 | 8 | "Honey's First Job" | 7 June 1992 |
| Guest star: Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas from Green Acres. | |||
| 3 | 9 | "Take My Son Please" | 14 June 1992 |
| Guest star: Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver. | |||
| 4 | 10 | "Elaine Takes a Wife" | 21 June 1992 |
| Guest star: Georgia Engel as Georgette Franklin Baxter from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. | |||
| 5 | 11 | "Date from Heck" | 28 June 1992 |
| 6 | 12 | "Honey Gets Busted" | 5 July 1992 |
| Guest star: Doug Llewelyn from The People's Court. | |||
| 7 | 13 | "The Many Loves of Mike Duff" | 12 July 1992 |
| Guest star: Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. | |||
[edit] References
- ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007-10-17). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (9 ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 609. ISBN 0-345-49773-2.
[edit] External links
- Hi Honey, I'm Home! at the Internet Movie Database
- Hi Honey, I'm Home! at TV.com
- Hi Honey, I'm Home! at epguides.com
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- TGIF (ABC)
- 1991 television series debuts
- 1992 television series endings
- 1990s American television series
- 1990s Nickelodeon shows
- American Broadcasting Company network shows
- American television sitcoms
- English-language television series
- Nickelodeon shows
- Television series by CBS Paramount Television
- Television series about television
- Television shows set in New Jersey
