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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Episodes
Home Improvement: The Long and Winding Road, Part 3 Home Improvement: Season 01 Home Improvement: Season 02 Home Improvement: Season 03 Home Improvement: Season 04 Home Improvement: Season 05 Home Improvement: Season 06 Home Improvement: Season 07 Home Improvement: Season 08 Home Improvement: A Battle of Wheels Home Improvement: A Hardware Habit to Break Home Improvement: Abandoned Family Home Improvement: Adios Home Improvement: Adventures in Fine Dining Home Improvement: Al's Fair in Love and War Home Improvement: Al's Fair Lady Home Improvement: All in the Family Home Improvement: Baby, It's Cold Outside Home Improvement: Bell Bottom Blues Home Improvement: Bewitched Home Improvement: Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor Home Improvement: Birth of a Hot Rod Home Improvement: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble Home Improvement: Bye Bye Birdie Home Improvement: Chop Shop 'til You Drop Home Improvement: Dances With Tools Home Improvement: Dead Weight Home Improvement: Ex Marks the Spot Home Improvement: Flying Sauces Home Improvement: For Whom the Belch Tolls Home Improvement: Forever Jung Home Improvement: Groin Pulls Home Improvement: Heavy Meddle Home Improvement: Home Alone Home Improvement: Home for the Holidays Home Improvement: Howard's End Home Improvement: I'm Scheming of a White Christmas Home Improvement: Jill's Birthday Home Improvement: Karate or Not, Here I Come Home Improvement: Knee Deep Home Improvement: Let's Did Lunch Home Improvement: Look Who's Not Talking Home Improvement: Loose Lips and Freudian Slips Home Improvement: Love Is a Many Splintered Thing Home Improvement: Love's Labor Lost: Part 1 Home Improvement: Love's Labor Lost: Part 2 Home Improvement: Luck Be a Taylor Tonight Home Improvement: Mark's Big Break Home Improvement: May The Best Man Win Home Improvement: Mow Better Blues Home Improvement: Mr. Likeable Home Improvement: Much Ado About Nana Home Improvement: Neighbors Home Improvement: Not-So-Great Scott Home Improvement: Nothing More Than Feelings Home Improvement: Off Sides Home Improvement: Overactive Glance Home Improvement: Pilot Home Improvement: Ploys for Tots Home Improvement: Reach Out and Teach Someone Home Improvement: Read My Hips Home Improvement: Rites and Wrongs of Passage Home Improvement: Roomie for Improvement Home Improvement: Satellite on a Hot Tim's Roof Home Improvement: Shooting Three to Make Tutu Home Improvement: Stereo-Typical Home Improvement: Taylor Got Game Home Improvement: Thanks, But No Thanks Home Improvement: The Great Race Home Improvement: The Haunting of Taylor House Home Improvement: The Long and Winding Road: Part 1 Home Improvement: The Long and Winding Road: Part 2 Home Improvement: Tim's First Car Home Improvement: To Build or Not to Build Home Improvement: Trouble-a-Bruin Home Improvement: Unchained Malady Home Improvement: Up Your Alley Home Improvement: What About Bob? Home Improvement: Where There's a Will, There's a Way Home Improvement: Whitewater Home Improvement: Wild Kingdom Home Improvement: You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts Home Improvement: Young at Heart Home Improvement: Yule Better Watch Out
