Home_improvement

For other uses, see Home Improvement (disambiguation).

Home Improvement
The Home Improvement cast
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Matt Williams Carmen Finestra David MacFadzean
Starring	Tim Allen Patricia Richardson Zachery Ty Bryan Jonathan Taylor Thomas did the sitcom from (1991-1998) Taran Noah Smith Earl Hindman Richard Karn Debbe Dunning (1993-1999) Pamela Anderson (1991-1993)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	204 (List of episodes)
Production
Location(s)	Detroit, Michigan
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 17, 1991 – May 25, 1999
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Home Improvement is a Golden Globe Award-Winning American television sitcom starring actor/comedian Tim Allen, which ran from 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra (who both produced The Cosby Show) and David MacFadzean. The show\'s title is a double entendre, because it is about both physical improvement of houses, as well as improving life with family, friends, work, and school.

Contents 1 Plot details and storylines 1.1 Early seasons 1.2 Jonathan Taylor Thomas\'s departure 1.3 Tool Time the show 1.3.1 The relationship between Tim and Al 1.3.2 Special guests and cameos 1.4 Character honors 2 Running gags 3 Show background 4 Characters 4.1 The Taylor Family 4.2 Friends of the family 5 Series finale 6 Awards and Nominations 7 Related products 8 DVD Releases 8.1 DVD notes 9 UK Broadcasting 10 Trivia/Goofs 11 Nielsen Ratings 12 See also 13 References 14 External links

Plot details and storylines

The series centered on the antics of the Taylor family, including Tim (Tim Allen), his wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and their three sons. The oldest is the popular and athletic Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan); a year younger is comedic and intellectual Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas); and finally the socially awkward youngest son, Mark (Taran Noah Smith). The show is set in Royal Oak, Michigan, as evidenced by the many references to the area in the show (especially Michigan colleges, whose shirts are worn by Tim in the show).

Early seasons

In the first four seasons, sons Brad and Randy would torment their youngest brother Mark (and each other) in ways that consistently presented a challenge to Tim and Jill. Mark always believed what his siblings told him (for example, that the whole family but Mark were aliens and that Mark was not Tim and Jill\'s natural son), until Jill straightened things out.

Mark was initially presented as slightly naive and in constant admiration of his father, he was also the son who shared the closest relationship with their mother Jill. Brad was presented as a character who often engaged before thinking, a tendency which regularly landed him in trouble. Randy was the comedian of the pack-- the quick-thinking, sarcastic son who had more common sense than Brad but wasn\'t immune to trouble.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas\'s departure

As the series progressed, however, Mark grew into a teenage outcast who dressed in dark clothing, while Brad became interested in cars like his father and took up soccer. Randy joined the school newspaper, before leaving for Costa Rica in the eighth season episode "Adios." This was done since Jonathan Taylor Thomas wanted to take time off to focus on academics. He attended Harvard University. His last appearance on Home Improvement was the 1998 Christmas episode, with Thomas unwilling to return to the show for the series finale.

Tool Time the show

Focus was also given to Tim\'s job as a television personality on his own home improvement show, called Tool Time. Tim was the host of this "meta-program," or show-within-a-show, originally called Hammer Time. The show\'s name was changed to Tool Time because Tim and the producers felt that name would be confused with MC Hammer (TVography: Home Improvement). Tim was joined by his friend and mild-mannered assistant Al Borland (Richard Karn), and a "Tool Time girl" — first Lisa (Pamela Anderson) and later Heidi (Debbe Dunning) — who\'s main duty was to introduce the pair at the beginning of the show with the line "Does everybody know what time it is?" They would also assist them (Tim and Al) during the show by bringing them tools. Although an excellent salesman and TV personality, Tim was spectacularly accident-prone as a handyman, often causing hilarious disasters on and off the set to the consternation of his co-workers and family. Many of Tim\'s accidents were caused by his devices designed in application of his mantra, "More power!"

The relationship between Tim and Al

Though ultimately good friends, there was a tense relationship between Tim and Al. Al was portrayed as a slightly geeky character, usually having more knowledge, skill, and audience popularity than Tim. His catchphrase, as an opposition to Tim\'s ill-advised ideas or jokes, was "I don\'t think so, Tim." He also came up with many puns and would giggle and snort when a joke was made at Tim\'s expense. The cautious, insecure, brighter Al always bore the brunt of Tim\'s jokes and constant put-downs. Al is frequently taunted by Tim because of his beard, in Tim\'s eye bland personality, poor sense of humor and his preference of flannel shirts (and often other flannel items such as an oversized pair of flannel briefs in the episode "Room Without A View"). Tim typically uses his television show to vent about various problems he is having in his personal life, Al is usually very annoyed by this. A running joke for Tim was commenting on Al\'s overweight mother, who was often referred to but was never fully seen throughout the series (in the penultimate episode of the series, "Dead Weight", she died, and the characters were shown paying their respects at her extra-wide coffin which showed her body but not her face. In another episode, she can be seen in a picture on the Tool Time set, but only from the back side).

Special guests and cameos

Many "special guests" made "cameo" appearances on Tool Time. These guests included race car drivers Johnny Rutherford, Robby Gordon, Mario and Michael Andretti, Al Unser, Sr./Jr./III, actress and model Jenny McCarthy, country artist Alan Jackson, golfer Payne Stewart, comedian Drew Carey and The Beach Boys. Numerous NASA astronauts appeared on the series, the most notable being Ken Bowersox, who made three separate appearances. Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway, then Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill (the season 7 episode "Believe It or Not"), former boxers Evander Holyfield (the season 3 episode "Eve of Construction") and George Foreman (the season 1 episode "Unchained Malady"), and former President Jimmy Carter all appeared on the series. Carter made an appearance during an episode which focused on Habitat for Humanity, which was the season three episode "Eve of Construction." Jay Leno appears with his car collection in the fourth season episode "Brother, Can You Spare a Hot Rod?" He plays a mechanic who is cleaning Papa Mia\'s (the Detroit pizza magnate) cars. Bob Vila also appeared on several episodes, with Tim seeing him as a rival (he appears in Season One\'s "What About Bob?" Season Two\'s "The Great Race," and Season 3\'s "The Great Race II".) He also appears in the one-hour season 4 episode "Tool Time After Dark," but that appearance was just recycled Tool Time footage from earlier episodes.

A then-unknown Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer guest-starred in the Season 4 episode, "Talk to Me", as the two men Tim gives advice to and almost destroying their relationships with their respective girlfriends.

Other famous guests include Drake Bell in episode "Swing Time", Ron Eli, Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, the latter who appeared in the first season episode "Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor."

Robert Picardo, best known as "The Doctor" on Star Trek: Voyager, made two appearances on the show as Tim\'s neighbor, Joe "The Meat Man" Morton.

Character honors

Starting in Season 4, Jill studied to become a psychologist. In "Is There a Doctor in the House?" an episode from the fifth season, Tim also received an honorary Ph.D. from his alma mater, Western Michigan University. Tim also received an award for "Safety" in season 2\'s "Dances with Tools" despite his accident record on Tool Time. (The reason was that the people giving the award mistakenly believed that he staged all his accidents and Tim, to keep his reputation, let them.) Also, in the season 6 episode "Insult to Injury", Tim gets an award for most appearances on a tool show.

Running gags

• Scene Transitions - During scene changes, clever transitions were used to comically remove the current image from the screen. For example, the current scene could shatter like glass, fall over like a piece of wood, or deflate like a balloon. These transitions usually (though not always) included something shown or mentioned in the scene before (e.g. heart-shaped balloons inflate and pop to transition from a scene talking about a possible secret admirer in "A Funny Valentine").

• Basement Pipe - Tim banged his head on a large metal pipe every time he was walking down the basement steps. This gag is first seen in Season 1, Episode 5, "Wild Kingdom." This never happened to any other character. In one episode, he banged his head on a pipe while walking down the steps of an aircraft carrier, and also banged his head walking down the basement steps in Benny\'s aunt\'s house.

• Binford 6100 - From Season 3 onwards, every new power tool introduced by Tim on Tool Time was called the Binford 6100. Prior to this, each tool had a unique model number.

• Address Card - In the show\'s early years, Tim would often make remarks (usually involving women) that would cause offense to certain sections of the Tool Time viewership. Al would hold up the address card for viewers to write in and complain, always beginning by saying "That\'s Tim Taylor, care of Tool Time....". Sometimes Tim would ask Al to destroy the card, but he would always have more. This was first seen in Season 1, on the episode, "Reach Out And Teach Someone". This gag was phased out in the later seasons but seen in the season 7 episode "Believe It or Not".

• We\'ll Be Right Back... - When something would go wrong on Tool Time (such as in the episode Forever Jung), Tim will say, "We\'ll be right back after these messages from Binford Tools!".

• Salute to... - From the outset of Season 2, Tim and Al would make a theme of a particular home improvement project or item on Tool Time by hosting a week long "salute" to it. This would usually be evident with a banner that said "Salute to ____" or Tim or Al would say "...a salute" followed by a hand salute, thrusting the hand forward, having a sound effect that resembled the particular item being saluted (e.g., if it was a salute to lawn care, the sound effect would be of a mower), finishing with Tim and/or Al saying the particular item being saluted. The sound was often comical, for example, during the salute to engines, the sound sounded like someone passing gas. (Richard Karn would recycle this salute as his sign-off during his tenure as host of Family Feud.)

• The Man\'s... - Similar to the salutes, "Tool Time" Occasionally featured "The Man\'s ____ (Bathroom, Kitchen, etc.)." These skits are the embodiment of Manliness according to Tim.

• Wilson\'s Advice - The character Wilson (Earl Hindman), the Taylor family\'s sage advice-giving neighbor with many historical, philosophical, and literary works to quote. Tim always confusingly misquoted and re-worded Wilson\'s advice when speaking to Jill or his sons, often prompting them to say, "Please don\'t explain" or "I don\'t want to know". Initially only Tim talked about his problems to Wilson, but as the series progressed, Jill and the boys would also talk with Wilson about their own matters.

• Wilson\'s Face - Perhaps the show\'s best-known gimmick. Since Wilson was partly inspired by a neighbor that Tim Allen had when he was very little and was too short to see over his neighbor\'s fence (and therefore unable to see his neighbor), the bottom half of Wilson\'s face was almost never seen on the show, unless he was dressed up for halloween. Instead, it was almost constantly hidden and sometimes blocked by various props, such as fences, grills, masks, plants, or scarfs. In one episode, Mark was papier-macheing his face leaving the bottom half of his face revealed. Also on one Halloween episode, Wilson was seen at a costume party dressed as the Phantom of the Opera, the mask covering the top half of his face and leaving his mouth revealed. On one occasion his entire face was visible, although hidden behind Halloween makeup.) On another occasion his face was covered with clown makeup. On yet another occasion his face was covered with a beard. His face was fully shown following the series finale episode while taking his final bow. During the show, Wilson is usually working on an unusual project of some sort in his backyard. One of his projects included a self portrait, and when Tim asked to see it, Wilson showed it to him, but only the upper half of Wilson\'s face was completed. The joke was referenced in "The Karate Kid Returns" as he said, "Some of them have never seen my face". In the season 7 episode "Room at the Top", Tim is growing a beard and asks Wilson thinks of it. Wilson replies, "I don\'t know, I just never understood why a man would want to hide his face." Someone else was supposed to play the character \'Wilson\'. When he found out that his whole face would never be shown, he refused to do it. The creators of the show held auditions again, and Earl Hindman got the role of Wilson. Once, Wilson\'s mother visited him, and because she was shorter than Wilson, the only thing of her the audience ever got to see was her right hand.

• Jill\'s Childhood Stories - Jill often told stories about an experience she had when she was a little girl. Tim and the boys always hated those stories and would beg her not to tell them, walk away in the middle of the story, or both. Jill would often try to disguise these stories either by launching straight into it when the boys were off-guard (or willing to listen), or convert them from "when I was a little girl" stories to "when I was a little person" stories. Many times, though, the boys saw straight through this as they matured. One of the most notable examples was when while Jill tried to explain to Randy that older siblings (in Randy\'s case, Brad) get to do more things earlier, she lamented about how growing up her older sister got to wear a bra while Jill had to wear a "dorky undershirt". Randy replied by saying he understood, and asked Jill "When do you think I get to wear a bra, mom?"

• Al is the Star - Tool Time viewers often had the misconception that Al was the star of the show, probably due to him being more skillful and intelligent than Tim. Tim usually takes these comments with barely restrained annoyance and reminds the viewers that Al is his assistant and not the reverse. He often says "Al is my assistant. He assists me." putting emphasis on the last three words. (Wilson also says this line when playing a mad scientist in the Seventh Season episode, A Night to Dismember.) A related running gag is a fan of the show telling Tim "I\'m a big fan of Tool Time. I love Al", to which Tim would always reply with a sarcastic, "We all love Al.". In later seasons, when Tim introduces Al to the Tool Time crowd, he would get an applause from the audience.

• Whenever Tim made a joke like, "You think they\'d call it...", or advanced an ill-advised plan, Al would say, "I don\'t think so Tim".

• Whenever Tim introduces Al on Tool Time, he added a sarcastic middle name like Al "This land is" Borland.

• Al\'s Mother - Tim frequently cracks jokes about Al\'s mother, usually about her weight. She was an unseen character in the series in an episode, she can be seen in a picture on the Tool Time set, but only from the back side in the final season, when she passes away she can be partially viewed in the funeral scene. Previously, Tim teased his mother-in-law under the same topic, but when it was revealed that Tim\'s jokes helped her to lose weight and she appeared quite slim, Tim\'s jokes about his mother-in-law was quietly dropped and never heard of again.

• Power - Tim saying something needed "More power", which was then followed by his trademark "Simian Grunt" Later, characters would suggest that Tim make "the power [blank]" when he expressed dissatisfaction with something\'s capabilities.

• Jill\'s cooking - Tim and the boys\' never-ending wisecracks about Jill\'s notoriously bad cooking.

• Let\'s pick on Mark! - the two older boys, Brad and Randy would often pick on their youngest brother Mark, conning him into pranks and false stories. sometimes there would be a reversal of roles, such as Mark effortlessly beating the other boys at chess or Game-boy.

• The Grunt - Tim would usually grunt while doing something manly to exert his manliness.

• Al\'s "lack of style" - Tim would constantly make jokes about Al\'s plaid flannel shirt.

• Al\'s datelessness - Some jokes would play off of how Al was not involved in any relationships, such as how Al was good at detecting wood by its scent and Tim sarcastically commenting "Can you believe it ladies, this man is single?". Tim stopped these jokes when he realized Al was seriously troubled by his lack of a woman, and the problem was solved in later episodes when he started dating.

• "Hey! I don\'t go in for that kind of thing!" - An extra uses this line, once when Tim jokingly asked him to join him and his sister-in-law dancing, once when Al crashed through a wall and ended up on his bed, and a couple other times throughout the series.

• Actors other movies- Reference was made to the actors\' roles in other films such as Johnathan Taylor Thomas\' role in The Lion King. During a Halloween special, Randy(Thomas) gave more candy to the kid dressed as Simba than the other kid. Reference was also made to Allen\'s role as Buzz Lightyear.

Show background

Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade (It even went up to #1 during the 1993-1994 season; that year, Allen also had the #1 book ("Don\'t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man") and movie (The Santa Clause))"Tim Allen". Inside the Actors Studio. 2006-05-28. No. 15, season 12. Midway throughout the show\'s run, it was also competed against another highly-rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings, however, it remained a top 10 show. The final episode aired on May 25, 1999 with a 90-minute, three-part episode entitled "The Long and Winding Road," which was the fourth highest rated comedy series finale of the 1990s, behind Cheers, The Cosby Show and Seinfeld. Since 1995, due to its popularity, reruns began airing on The Disney Channel and Channel 4 and ABC1 in the UK. At the present time, old episodes are currently on national syndication and on cable television network such as TBS in the U.S., the Seven Network and FOX Classics in Australia, and is currently not airing in the UK due to ABC1 ceasing transmissions as of 26th September. In America, it has began airing on Nick at Nite in 2007 http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=117588. In Canada, it has began airing on CMT. In Germany, Home Improvement was shown on ARD, RTL, VOX, and reruns are currently shown on the private channels RTL 2 and Super RTL. It was also shown on M-Net on South African television, and reruns are showing throughout 2007 on the M-Net Series channel, available to DStv users. In 2007, with the DVD release of Tim Allen\'s two stand-up specials, he said that Home Improvement was supposed to be a parody of This Old House, where the host does almost nothing and the co-host (Al in this case, Norm on This Old House) does all the work.

Characters

Main article: List of Home Improvement characters

The Taylor Family

• Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (Tim Allen) - Jill\'s husband, Brad, Randy and Mark\'s father, the host of "Tool Time"
• Jillian "Jill" Patterson Taylor (Patricia Richardson) — Tim\'s wife and Brad, Randy and Mark\'s mother.
• Bradley Michael "Brad" Taylor (Zachery Ty Bryan) — Randy and Mark\'s older brother.
• Randall William "Randy" Taylor (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) — Brad\'s younger brother and Mark\'s older brother.
• Marcus Jason "Mark" Taylor (Taran Noah Smith) — Brad and Randy\'s younger brother.
• Martin "Marty" Taylor (William O\'Leary) — Tim\'s younger brother.
• Geoffrey "Geoff" Taylor (Thom Sharp) — Tim\'s older brother.
• Lucille Taylor (Bonnie Bartlett) --- Tim, Marty and Geoff\'s mother; Brad, Randy and Mark\'s paternal grandmother; Jill\'s mother-in-law.

Friends of the family

• Al Borland (Richard Karn) — The co-host of "Tool Time", Tim\'s assistant, and best friend
• Wilson W. Wilson Jr. (Earl Hindman) - Tim\'s neighbor and confidant
• Lisa (Pamela Anderson) — Binford\'s first "Tool Girl"; Ashley Judd auditioned for and won the role of Lisa the Tool Girl. However, her agent urged her to pursue movies instead of a television career, and she pulled out days before the original pilot was to be taped, resulting in the casting of Pamela Anderson. The last-minute change necessitated alterations to the original script, in which Lisa was a major character; she was a college student majoring in psychology who acted as a stand-in on the Tool Time set.
• Heidi Keppert (Debbe Dunning) — The second "Tool Girl"; Tim delivered her first baby at a gas station, with Jill assisting and Wilson giving instructions over the phone when he convinced her to come to an awards show. During the final episode, Heidi announced that she was pregnant again.
• Harry Turner (Blake Clark) — Owner of "Harry\'s Hardware" and one of Tim\'s buddies
• Benny Beroni (Jim Labriola) - One of Tim\'s buddies who hangs out at the hardware store

Series finale

The series ended in a three-part episode with Tim being displeased at how Tool Time had been changed into something resembling a corporate-sponsored Jerry Springer-like show, and Jill getting a new job offer with Jill worried about pay when Tim quit the show. The personal conflict revolved around the job being in Bloomington, Indiana, a change that Tim strongly resisted initially.

Of course, after talking to Wilson, he agreed to leave Detroit. Tim ended his Tool Time appearances with a final show that garnered huge ratings. Then, Tim tore down the fence to make room for his former co-host Al\'s wedding. However, Jill realized that they would be moving out of the house the family grew up in. The conclusion was somewhat ambiguous, although Jill seemed adamant about them not moving. The last shot was Tim imagining (a thought balloon was used for emphasis) putting the whole house on a flatbed truck and then on a tugboat, leaving the viewer to decide if they moved or stayed in Detroit.

The three-part series finale was taped twice, once with Wilson\'s face revealed and another with it hidden. ABC was to decide which version would air in May 1999. Ultimately, they aired the version with Wilson\'s face hidden, as in the other 200 episodes. This version was released later that fall on VHS, titled Home Improvement: The Series Finale. The finale brought in 35.5 million viewers (34% of all Americans watching TV at that time.)

Awards and Nominations

Home Improvement received numerous awards and nominations in its 8 season run. Notable awards and nominations include:

Golden Globe Awards

• 1993
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Tim Allen)
• 1994
  • Nominated- Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Patricia Richardson)
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Tim Allen)
• 1995
  • Nominated- Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Patricia Richardson)
  • Win- Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Tim Allen)
• 1996
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Tim Allen)
• 1997
  • Nominated- Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy (Tim Allen)

Primetime Emmy Awards

• 1993
  • Nominated- Outstanding Comedy Series
  • Nominated- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Tim Allen)
• 1994
  • Nominated- Outstanding Comedy Series
  • Nominated- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Patricia Richardson)
• 1996
  • Nominated- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Patricia Richardson)
• 1997
  • Nominated- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Patricia Richardson)
• 1998
  • Nominated- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Patricia Richardson)

Related products

• A Super NES game of the same name was based on the series. It had no manual; its splash screen explained, “Real men don’t need instructions.” The game didn\'t sell in large numbers, and is hard to find today.

• After the season 5 episode "Games, Flames, and Automobiles" aired in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game, which can still be ordered online.

• Ryobi released a line of tools titled "Tim Allen Signature Tools", which were available for a limited time.

• Various pictures, posters, and calendars were released

• The DVDs of the complete seasons are made available, including bonus features.

• In 1996, Mattel\'s Hot Wheels brand released a two-car pack entitled Home Improvement based on the show which featured Tim\'s 1933 Ford Convertible & the Dixie Chopper racing mower (with a mini-figure Tim as the rider) as well as a mini-figure of Al and a Binford tool box.

DVD Releases

Cover Art	Ep #	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
The Complete First Season (1991-1992)	24	November 23 2004	June 27 2005	June 28 2005
The Complete Second Season (1992-1993)	25	June 7 2005	August 1 2005	July 20 2005
The Complete Third Season (1993-1994)	25	November 23, 2005	January 9 2006	January 16 2006
The Complete Fourth Season (1994-1995)	26	June 6, 2006	December 6 2007 (Germany)	December 5 2007
The Complete Fifth Season (1995-1996)	26	November 14, 2006	March 62008 (Germany) http://www.amazon.de/H%C3%B6r-mal-wer-h%C3%A4mmert-Staffel/dp/B000XFDU9A/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1198873856&sr=1-5	April 2 2008http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/797855
The Complete Sixth Season (1996-1997)	25	May 15, 2007	N/A	N/A
The Complete Seventh Season (1997-1998)	25	August 7, 2007	N/A	N/A
The Complete Eighth and Final Season (1998-1999)	28	TBA	N/A	N/A

DVD notes

The Region 1 DVDs are on three discs, where as the Region 2 DVDs are presented across four discs. The Region 2 packaging and programme menus for Season 1 vary compared to the Region 1 releases. The Season 3 menus in Region 1 are in widescreen, but 4:3 in Region 2. The Region 1 releases of Seasons 2 and 3 consist of (deliberate) "holes" in the outer packaging - these do not exist in the Region 2 releases; in fact, the Season 3 outer packaging is physically printed where the hole would be in the Region 1 packaging.

It has been mentioned on review sites about the lack of episode commentaries and bonus features on the DVDs. In an interview on about.comhttp://movies.about.com/od/skippingchristmas/a/kranksta111904_4.htm, Tim said that it was a done deal that the DVDs would not contain interviews or episode commentaries. Whether this was before or after somebody at Disney ordered the three commentaries available on the Season 1 DVDs is unknown.

UK Broadcasting

Originally, Channel 4 Home Improvement was aired on Disney Channel UK, however, in 2005 it began broadcasting on abc1. As of 26th September 2007, abc1 has ceased transmissions. No official announcements have been made as to what channel will be broadcasting abc1\'s previous programming. Rumours speculate that they may be broadcast on The Disney Channel, while others show they may be broadcast on a new television channel.

Trivia/Goofs

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• In the episode "Let\'s Go to the Videotape" at the hardware store, Tim says Jill\'s speech was "so boring". But later, when Jill was watching the videotape of Tim making fun of her, he says Jill\'s speech was "so dull".

• Al\'s age is always stated to be at or right before 37, throughout the entire series. Also, Ilene mentions that she\'s 36 in her debut episode and in the episode where Al proposes to her she claims she\'s coming up on her 34th birthday.

• In the series finale, Tim introduces Al as going to be doing infomercials for a living. Coincidentally, Richard Karn is well known for a broad range of infomercials he has starred in.

• In Episode 3 of Season 1, title "Off Sides", a boom mic is visible at the 5 minute mark at the top of the screen.

• When the show was about to be sold into syndication, the producers decided to kick off the syndicated run with a brand new episode not shown on prime time. This was a first for a network series. Much of that episode was filmed in 1995 aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. The episode, titled "Tanks for the Memories," has Tim and Jill racing tanks across the desert base, with Tim\'s tank causing much havoc, of course.

Nielsen Ratings

1991-1992 Season: #5 TV.com: Home Improvement

1992-1993 Season: #3

1993-1994 Season: #1

1994-1995 Season: #3

1995-1996 Season: #7

1996-1997 Season: #9

1997-1998 Season: #10

1998-1999 Season: #10

See also

• List of Home Improvement episodes
• Recurring Characters on Home Improvement

References

External links

• Official Homepage of Home Improvement
• Home Improvement at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com
• The Home Improvement Archive
• UltimateDisney.com - Seasons 1-7 DVD Reviews
• News for Home Improvement

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