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Inasmuch as Home Improvement had closed out its first season as the nation's fifth highest-rated TV program, neither its producers nor the ABC network saw the need to make anything but superficial changes for the series' second season on the air. ABC moved the program from its Tuesday night slot to an even better Wednesday-night berth, while one of the recurring characters, long-suffering "Tool Time" assistant Al Borland (Richard Karn), was promoted to "series regular" status. Otherwise, things remained pretty much the same as they'd been during Season 1. Protagonist Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) was still a fount of wisdom and expertise on his Detroit-based "do it yourself" cable TV series, "Tool Time" but a momument to ineptitude and insensitivity in his own home. Tim's wife, Jill (Patricia Richardson), now employed at a Detroit magazine, continued in her efforts to force culture and class upon her husband, all the while struggling to prevent him from "repairing" the household appliances. The Taylors' three sons -- eleven-year-old Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), ten-year-old Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and seven-year-old Mark (Taran Noah Smith) -- persisted in causing trouble for themselves and their parents, though it was clear that there was a lot of love and mutual respect in the family's household. Of the remaining characters, ubiquitous neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman) continued to dispense advice and philosophy to Tim and his brood -- and also continued to remain a somewhat shadowy figure, never showing his face to anyone. Buxom "tool girl" Lisa (Pamela Anderson) was still a fixture of Tim's TV series, seldom saying much but certainly making a big impression whenever she wriggled into camera range. And in a new development, Maureen Binford (Vicki Lewis), ditzy daughter of "Tool Time"'s primary sponsor, became the series' producer, saddling Tim with all manners of idiotic format changes to boost his ratings. Moving from fifth to third place in the real-life ratings, Home Improvement was the second most popular sitcom of 1992-1993, beaten out only by another ABC offering, Roseanne. And for the second year in a row, an Emmy Award was bestowed upon the series' director of photography, Donald A. Morgan. Hal Erickson

Product Details

• UPC: 786936255928
• Source: ABC STUDIOS
• Region Code: 1
• Time: 9:48:00
• Sales Rank: 885

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Home Improvement: Read My Hips
• Home Improvement: Rites and Wrongs of Passage
• Home Improvement: Overactive Glance
• Home Improvement: Groin Pulls
• Home Improvement: Heavy Meddle
• Home Improvement: The Haunting of Taylor House
• Home Improvement: Roomie for Improvement
• Home Improvement: May The Best Man Win
• Home Improvement: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
• Home Improvement: Let's Did Lunch
• Home Improvement: Abandoned Family
• Home Improvement: I'm Scheming of a White Christmas
• Home Improvement: Bell Bottom Blues
• Home Improvement: Howard's End
• Home Improvement: Love Is a Many Splintered Thing
• Home Improvement: Dances With Tools
• Home Improvement: You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts
• Home Improvement: Bye Bye Birdie
• Home Improvement: Karate or Not, Here I Come
• Home Improvement: Shooting Three to Make Tutu
• Home Improvement: Much Ado About Nana
• Home Improvement: Ex Marks the Spot
• Home Improvement: To Build or Not to Build
• Home Improvement: Birth of a Hot Rod
• Home Improvement: The Great Race

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