Home Improvement

Comedy about the host of a small do-it-yourself TV show, his independent wife and their trio of growing boys. The series is based on the stand-up comedy routines of star Tim Allen., Favorite about the host of a small do-it-yourself cable show, his independent wife and their trio of growing boys. It was a solid Top 10 fixture on the ABC schedule for eight years, gently poking fun at manly men through patriarch Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor, whose grunts for ‘more power’ were typically followed with calls to the local Detroit fire department. The series is based on comedy routines of star Tim Allen., Light television comedy about family man Tim Taylor. The show’s humor often revolves around cars, toys, tools, hardware shops, garages, fix-it-up projects, and similar themes., Tim Allen stars in this hit sit-com as Tim Taylor, part-time loving husband and father, part-time chauvinistic host of Tool Time, a local home improvement cable show., Favorite about the host of a small do-it-yourself cable show, his independent wife and their trio of growing boys. It was a solid Top 10 fixture on the ABC schedule for eight years, gently poking fun at manly men through patriarch Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor, whose grunts for ‘more power’ were typically followed with calls to the local Detroit fire department. The series is based on the stand-up comedy routines of star Tim Allen., Home Improvement drew heavily upon the standup comedy routines of series co-creator Tim Allen, herein cast as Tim Taylor, star of the Detroit cable-TV series “Tool Time” — sort of a low-rent version of Bob Vila’s do-it-yourself opus This Old House . Allen’s humor relied upon barbed but affectionate digs at his wife and kids, and his ever-increasing ineptitude in dealing with the follies and foibles of everyday life. In Home Improvement, Tim Taylor was affirmatively master of his domain on “Tool Time” — even though he relied a bit too extensively on his all-purpose solution to any mechanical problem, “More Power! More Power!” — but at home he was all thumbs with the household appliances, and a stumbler-bumbler supreme when dealing with his wife, Jill (Patricia Richardson), and three sons, Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and Mark (Taran Noah Smith). The Taylor youngsters were typically mischievous and sometimes irksome but basically good kids, though youngest son Mark (age 6) tended to be victimized by the prankery of ten-year-old Brad and nine-year-old Randy. Also in the cast was Earl Hindman as the Taylors’ philosophical, advice-dispensing neighbor Wilson, whose face was never clearly seen behind the backyard fence that separated the two neighbors’ houses. Showing up on a recurring basis was Tim’s long-suffering “Tool Time” assistant, Al Borland (Richard Karn), and the show’s pulchritudinous “tool girl” Lisa (Pamela Anderson). Likewise making sporadic “Tool Time” appearances were Rock (Casey Sander), Peter (Mickey Jones), and Dwayne (Gary McGurk), the guys from K&B Construction. Initially telecast on ABC’s Tuesday evening schedule, Home Improvement ended its first season as the nation’s fifth highest-rated program., Tim Allen stars in this award-winning series as Tim Taylor, part-time loving husband and father, part-time know-it-all chauvinistic host of Tool Time, a local home improvement cable show. Fun and fireworks ensue when the different parts of Tim’s life clash, and the effect on both family and viewers is hilarious., Comedy tale of Tim a family man and the show revolves about fix-it-up missions, hardware garages and similarly.