My Two Dads

My Two Dads
Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan & Staci Keanan
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Danielle Alexandra Michael Jacobs
Starring	Paul Reiser Greg Evigan Staci Keanan Chad Allen Giovanni Ribisi Florence Stanley Dick Butkus
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	60 (List of My Two Dads episodes)
Production
Running time	22 mins. (approx)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 20, 1987 – April 30, 1990

My Two Dads is an American sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions in association with TriStar Television (later Columbia Pictures Television) and distributed by TeleVentures.

Show synopsis

The show begins when Marcy Bradford, played by Emma Samms in flashbacks, the mother of Nicole Bradford (Keanan), dies. The two men who had competed for the woman's affections--Michael Taylor (Reiser) and Joey Harris (Evigan)--before Nicole was born had been awarded joint custody. The mix-ups of two single straight men raising a teen-aged daughter provided the story each week.

Nicole's actual paternity was never revealed on the show. However, in one episode, Nicole had a DNA test run to determine which of her two dads was her biological father. She destroyed the results before opening them after realizing that she was happier not knowing who the father was. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur (Stanley) would later look at the results, but threw them away afterward and never revealed them.

Main cast

• Paul Reiser - Michael Taylor
• Greg Evigan - Joey Harris
• Staci Keanan - Nicole Bradford
• Florence Stanley - Judge Margaret W. Wilbur
• Giovanni Ribisi - Cory Kupkus (credited as Vonni Ribisi)
• Chad Allen - Zach Nichols (1989-1990)
• Dick Butkus - Ed Klawicki (1987-1989)
• Amy Hathaway - Shelby Haskell (1989-1990)
• Don Yesso - Julian (1989-1990)
• Peter Brost - Young Michael Taylor (1987-1990)

Supporting characters

The series regularly featured Giovanni Ribisi and Chad Allen as two boys who competed for Nicole's affections as her two dads had done for her mother's. Florence Stanley appeared as Judge Margaret Wilbur, who was responsible for assigning Nicole's custody, and who regularly looked over the family; she was also their landlady, being the resident owner of the apartment building where the family lived. The cast was rounded by former football player Dick Butkus, who managed the cafe in the building's first floor. The cafe (Klawicki's) was the second spot in the show where the plot usually revolved; the first being the family's apartment. In the third season, when Dick Butkus left the series, the diner was then run by cook Van Hammersly (Matt Landry), but there was no explanation as to what happened to Ed Klawicki, or if he acted as absentee owner of the joint at this point.

Night Court connection

My Two Dads had a crossover with another NBC show, Night Court. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur, played by Florence Stanley, guest starred on Night Court, as the hard nosed, no-nonsense judge that awards Nicole into the custody of Michael and Joey.

In turn, Richard Moll guest starred as his Night Court character Bull in an episode of My Two Dads, protecting Judge Wilbur from a recently released criminal that she had sent to prison years before.

Episodes

List of My Two Dads episodes

Syndication & DVD release

Reruns of the show aired on the USA Network through the 1990s and again in the early 2000s. The show has not aired since. Minisodes of several episodes from the first season can be streamed for free online on Crackle.

Shout! Factory (under license from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) released the complete first season of My Two Dads on DVD in Region 1 on March 3, 2009.^[1] Beginning with Season Two, My Two Dads will only be avaiable for purchase through Shout! Factory's retail website. Season Two is scheduled for a release on February 16, 2010. ^[2]

Awards

References

External links

• My Two Dads at the Internet Movie Database
• My Two Dads at TV.com
• My Two Dads at EpGuides.com