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  • 1988
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 1988
  • TV-14
  • ABC

Summary "The Wonder Years" was a hit comedy series starring Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold the main character, a boy facing rites of passage on his way to adulthood. Kevin lives with his brother Wayne (Jason Hervey), his sister Karen (Olivia d'Abo), his father Jack (Dan Lauria), and his mother Norma (Alley Mills). Kevin grows up with his on-and-off...

Created By: Carol Black, Neal Marlens

  • 1988
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 1988
  • TV-14
  • ABC

The Wonder Years

6 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 31, 1988
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
82
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 67 User Ratings
8.7
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Summary "The Wonder Years" was a hit comedy series starring Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold the main character, a boy facing rites of passage on his way to adulthood. Kevin lives with his brother Wayne (Jason Hervey), his sister Karen (Olivia d'Abo), his father Jack (Dan Lauria), and his mother Norma (Alley Mills). Kevin grows up with his on-and-off...

Created By: Carol Black, Neal Marlens

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
82
78% Positive
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
82
78% Positive
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Feb 14, 2014
The Wonder Years is full of wonderment -- and grace, and charm, and wit, and insight, and poignancy and humor. The Wonder Years, in a word, is wonderful. [15 March 1988, p.1]
By Steve Sonsky FULL REVIEW
100
Jul 12, 2013
The most wonderful show this year. ... The writing is only one of the miracles taking place in "The Wonder Years." What is so great about the show, and so different, is the conception of the kid and the acting by Fred Savage. [25 Dec 1988]
By Marvin Kitman FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 30, 2013
The Wonder Years is at least off to an unusually winning start.
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90
Apr 30, 2013
The cast is fine and Steve Miner directs with sensitivity. There's real poignancy in the last scene between Savage and McKellar. It's a refreshingly gutsy half-hour, a look back at how things were -- and weren't. [31 Jan 1988, p.C-13]
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80
Apr 30, 2013
Viewers are in for a pleasant surprise. Narrator Kevin Arnold looks back at his seventh-grade adventures with a nice combination of rosy-hued tenderness and contemporary perspective. His adventures with the class bullies, the lunchroom proctor, and his first love are familiar bits of literary nostalgia, done with a certain amount of halting charm and psychological authenticity. The jarring, but valid, note is the intrusion of the Vietnam war into the lives of the youngsters. [29 Jan 1988, p.22]
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60
Apr 30, 2013
It is beguiling and original, yet awkwardly executed. [28 Jan 1988, p.D-6]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 30, 2013
A pleasant but routine sitcom that uses that decade of significant social change as a hook...The Wonder Years handles its period details - clothing, hairstyles - well. The look of the '60s is rendered with an authentic, evocative feel. Like virtually every sitcom, it has its banal moments, and here and there the gags fizzle. [30 Jan 1988, p.11]
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Universal Acclaim Based on 67 User Ratings
8.7
91% Positive
61 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
6% Negative
4 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 67 User Ratings
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91% Positive
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3% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Production Company:
  • New World Television
  • The Black/Marlens Company
Initial Release Date: Jan 31, 1988
Number of seasons: 6 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 4 Wins & 28 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 4 Wins & 19 Nominations

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