Home Improvement is an American sitcom television series starring Tim Allen originally aired on ABC from September 17, , to May 25, , with a total of half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams , Carmen Finestra , and David McFadzean , and, despite not being a favorite with critics, it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the United States during the s, winning many awards.
Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen , Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, , [ 3 ] and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade.
It went to No. Beginning in season 2, Home Improvement began each episode with a cold open , which features the show's logo during the teaser. From season 4 until the end of the series in , an anthropomorphic version of the logo was used in different types of animation. Each episode includes Tim's own Binford-sponsored home improvement show, called Tool Time , a show-within-a-show. In hosting this show, Tim is joined by his friend and mild-mannered co-host Al Borland Richard Karn , and a "Tool Time girl"—first Lisa Pamela Anderson and later Heidi Debbe Dunning —whose main duty is to introduce the pair at the beginning of the show with the line "Does everybody know what time it is?
The series ended after eight seasons in The two declined the offer and the series came to an end as a result. Throughout the show, Tim Taylor would often wear sweatshirts or T-shirts from various Michigan-based colleges and universities. These were usually sent by the schools to the show for him to wear during an episode. In the United States, Home Improvement began airing in broadcast syndication in September , distributed via Buena Vista Television now Disney—ABC Domestic Television and continued to be syndicated until , in a manner similar to Seinfeld and The Simpsons after they began airing in broadcast syndication.
Episodes of Home Improvement were not aired in order of their production code number or original airdate. The lawsuit was settled in Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The disc collection features all episodes of the series as well as all special features contained on the previously released season sets; it is encased in special collectible packaging, a Home Improvement toolbox with a Binford "All-In-One Tool" tape measure. The series will be available to streaming on Netflix on February 1, On August 3, , in Pacific Palisades, California , the surviving main cast members reunited for Entertainment Weekly magazine, including Jonathan Taylor Thomas , whom the cast had not seen since On May 5, , Hollywood Life reported that Allen and Karn had admitted talking about getting back together as a cast for a Home Improvement reboot or reunion show.
