“The Wonder Years” turns 30.

Yeah, like when you see a plane flying overhead or someone wearing a watch in a western.

 

I used to find this soothing:

 

This series was shown on Channel 4 in Britain and was reasonably popular.

I watched a few episodes and, though the central character's experiences were not mine, I was impressed with some of the period detail. But I found it all a bit sudsy and soft focus and the crackerbarrel philosophy that bookended the episodes began to grate very quickly.

 

I couldn’t get into thirty something. I thought the first few seasons of Wonder Years were top notch

 

One of the few new shows from the 80s that my dad and I watched pretty religiously. Kind of funny, because I was 19 and my dad in his late 60s. Yet somehow it connected with us.

 

I mean, it's no "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog", but yeah I guess it's okay.

 

This scene, though. For context, Wart was a friend of Wayne’s who had just returned from Vietnam.

 

This show fit my demographic perfectly, and if I had had a TV when it aired I probably would have been hooked.

As it happens, it was on in reruns several years later, right when I was getting home from work and needing some chill-out time. Superb piece of period americana.

 

Alley Mills, who played Kevin's mother, thinks the show was canceled due to a harassment lawsuit.

'Wonder Years' mom Alley Mills: Show canceled due to 'ridiculous' Fred Savage harassment lawsuit

 

I highly doubt that's the reason it was canceled.

The show had run for 6 seasons and 115 episodes which is a very good and lengthy run. I suppose they could have kept the show going, but the show's focus was on Kevin growing up and maturing and I think by the time it reached that last season they had run out of stories to tell because he was growing quickly and they'd already done a lot of the most interesting story arcs they could do.

 

She makes it out to seem like ratings were still strong, good enough for a seventh season. No, they weren't.

 

They pulled the plug at the right time, and went out on a high note before going off the rails

 

Loved the show.

Can't believe it was 30 years ago.

 

Obligatory Beatles content.

 

It felt like one of the first "Modern"
Shows on tv. A "new kind of drama" if you will.