Best Friends Whenever
| Best Friends Whenever | |
|---|---|
 Partners in Time. | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas |
| Starring |
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| Opening theme | "Whenever" by Forever in Your Mind |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scott Thomas, Jed Elinoff and Michael Kaplan |
| Producer | Julie Tsutsui |
| Camera setup | multi-camera |
| Running time | 23–30 minutes[1] |
| Production companies | Dipthong Productions Entertainment Force It's a Laugh Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Disney Channel |
| Release | June 26, 2015 – present |
Best Friends Whenever is an American multi-camera sitcom developed for Disney Channel, created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas and executive produced by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas and Michael Kaplan. The series stars Landry Bender as Cyd and Lauren Taylor as Shelby. [2] It premiered on June 26, 2015.
Cast and characters
- Lauren Taylor as Shelby
- Landry Bender as Cyd
- Gus Kamp as Barry
- Ricky Garcia as Naldo
- Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet
- Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code[3] |
U.S. viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Time to Travel"[3] | Shelley Jensen | Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas | June 26, 2015 | 101 | 3.54[4] |
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This is the pilot episode where two best friends Shelby (Lauren Taylor) and Cyd (Landry Bender) mess around in their classmate Barry's lab and end up getting powers to time travel. They use the ability by thinking about what time they want to go to, and they go there. The problem is that the two of them have to do it together. | ||||||
| 2 | "A Time to Cheat"[5] | Unknown | Unknown | July 12, 2015[5] | 102 | N/A |
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Shelby and Cyd try to avoid studying by time traveling to the day of the test because of the theory that if they time travel there they'll already know the stuff. Unfortunately, they don't know and try to go back but get stuck in the time period without knowing what to do on the test. | ||||||
| 3 | "A Time to Say Thank You"[5] | Unknown | Unknown | July 19, 2015[5] | 103 | N/A |
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When Cyd tries to plan a special thank you for the Shelby's family, Shelby steps in to help with hulu dancers, a rock band and jugglers and everything somehow leads to a big misunderstanding and a huge kitchen disaster. | ||||||
| 4 | "A Time to Jump and Jam"[5] | Unknown | Unknown | July 26, 2015[5] | 104 | N/A |
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Shelby and Cyd travel back to relive one of their favorite memories from middle school, but the moment winds up being totally different than what they both remembered. Now, they begin to question everything that happened on that particular day. | ||||||
Critical Reception
Brian Lowry, writing for Variety, thought the show's pilot episode was formulaic and did not take full advantages of the time travel premise. In particular, the show "appears more content to focus on the humdrum details of Shelby and Cyd’s frantic lives than, say, sending them back to meet Abraham Lincoln or ahead to a time of flying cars." [6]
References
- ^ Episodes 1-6 have listed runtimes of 23 to 30 minutes on Amazon.com
- ^ "'Teen Beach and New ShowBest Friends Whenever' Premieres Friday, June 26 on Disney Channel". Variety.com. May 6, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ^ a b "Best Friends Whenever". Disneyabcpress.com. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch (June 29, 2015). "Top 100 Friday Cable Originals: 6.26.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tv/best-friends-whenever/episode-guide/EP02182253?aid=tvschedule
- ^ Lowry, Brian (June 25, 2015). "Disney Channel's 'Best Friends Whenever". Variety. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
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