The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an American comedy-drama television series which aired for six seasons on ABC, from January 1988 to May 1993. The storyline focuses on the teenage years of main character Kevin Arnold, during the years 1968-1973, with each TV episode being set twenty years before it aired.

The Wonder Years was considered innovative for its storytelling style of having Kevin's adult self (voiced by Daniel Stern) providing a narration of the events of his childhood from an adult perspective. The show was ranked in the top thirty of the for its first four seasons and is generally considered one of the best shows of the 1980s. It was cancelled in 1993 due to increasing production costs and declining ratings. Also, the producers found themselves in a bind due to Kevin's increasing age (turning 16, and later 17) calling for more mature storylines which the network executives felt would be inappropriate for the show's 8 p.m. time slot and out of character with the tone established in the show's earlier seasons.

The Wonder Years has been referred to in several television episodes of The Simpsons.

Crew
{{Table| {{TH|Picture|width=100px}} {{TH|Name}} {{TH|Role in The Wonder Years}} {{TH|Role on The Simpsons}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|David Chambers}} {{TB|Producer for the fourth season of the show.}} {{TB|Co-wrote the Season 14 episode "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", along with Julie Chambers.}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Lanei Chapman}} {{TB|Guest-starred as Miss Shaw in one episode, "Kodachrome".}} {{TB|Served as part of the ADR loop group for The Simpsons Movie (credited as Lanai Chapman).}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Robert Cohen}} {{TB|Wrote one episode, "The Lost Weekend".}} {{TB|Served as assistant to the producers in Seasons 1 through 3; also wrote the Season 3 episode "Flaming Moe's".}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Claudia De La Roca}} {{TB|Assistant to producers for 63 episodes, in the fourth through sixth seasons.}} {{TB|Assistant to Matt Groening in Seasons 7 through 10.}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Tom Gammill}} {{TB|Co-wrote one episode, "Math Class", with Max Pross.}} {{TB|Consulting producer: Seasons 10 and 11 Producer: Season 12 to present Co-writer (with Max Pross): "Hardly Kirk-ing" {Season 24) "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Season 28) Comic story co-writer: There's No Business Like Shoe Business and Donut Disturb with Henry Gammill Dolls Well That Ends Well with Alice Gammill}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Seth Green}} {{TB|Guest-starred as Jimmy Donnelly, one of Kevin's schoolmates, in two episodes.}} {{TB|Served as executive producer for both of the {{w|Robot Chicken}} couch gags: the first in the Season 24 episode "The Fabulous Faker Boy", and the second in the Season 28 episode "The Cad and the Hat". Also voiced the Nerd in the second Robot Chicken couch gag.}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|Max Pross}} {{TB|Co-wrote one episode, "Math Class", with Tom Gammill.}} {{TB|Consulting producer: Seasons 10 and 11 Producer: Season 12 to present Co-writer (with Tom Gammill): "Hardly Kirk-ing" {Season 24) "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Season 28)}} {{TBT|}} {{TB|David M. Stern}} {{TB|Credited as story editor for sixteen episodes, executive story consultant for eight episodes, executive story editor for two episodes, and writer (or "story by") for eight episodes.}} {{TB|Creative consultant for 39 episodes, writer for nine episodes, and producer for twelve episodes. Almost all of these credits are in Seasons 2-4 and 8-11, except for writing the Season 28 episode "Kamp Krustier".}} }}