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Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)

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Harry and the Hendersons is a comedy television series based on the film of the same name that was based on a children's book by Joyce Thompson, produced by Amblin Entertainment for Universal Television, and aired from 1991 to 1993 with over 72 half-hour episodes produced. The series is about a family who adopt a Bigfoot called Harry.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The Henderson family, on their way home from a camping trip, accidentally run over an unknown creature. Not knowing what to do, they decide to strap it to the roof of their car and take it home. At their house, the creature goes wild and rampages through the house. Slowly, they come to realize that the creature is Bigfoot and that it is actually very gentle. It is also given the name "Harry." Harry escapes and runs through the city. Sightings of him strikes fear into the city's citizens. The Hendersons have to hide Harry from city authorities and a Frenchman who wants him dead. They come to realize that the best thing for Harry is to let him go back into the wild, which they do at the end of the movie.

Credits contain an artistic representation of key scenes from the film.

The film was subsequently expanded into a half-hour TV sitcom, also called Harry and the Hendersons; however, the artistic representations were lost. This lasted for three seasons and 72 episodes. Bruce Davison and Molly Cheek played the parents with Carol-Ann Plante and Zachary Bostrom as the children. Kevin Peter Hall played the role of Harry in both the film and TV series, until his death late in the production of series one. He was replaced first by Dawan Scott and then by Brian Steele in series three.

Episode list

Season one

  1. The Arrival
  2. The Day After
  3. Cool
  4. Hary Goes Home
  5. Whose Forest Is It Anyway
  6. The Father and Son Game
  7. Baggin' the Big One
  8. Harry the Hero
  9. Roots, the Herb
  10. The Mentor
  11. The Bodyguard
  12. Harry and the Homeless Man
  13. Harry Goes Ape
  14. Pet Psychic
  15. The Bigfoot That Ate Seattle
  16. Harry and the Masked Wrestler
  17. When Harry Met Sammy
  18. Harry and the Cheerleaders

Season two

  1. Retrospective
  2. The Terror of The Trees
  3. Sarah Sings the Blues
  4. Mom
  5. The Ransom of Bigfoot
  6. Halloween
  7. Brett Hits Home
  8. George's White Light
  9. Working Stiffs
  10. Love Mask
  11. Blue Parrot
  12. Winning
  13. 'Til Theft Do Us Part
  14. The Genius
  15. Wild Things
  16. Fatherhood
  17. Sara Spills, the Bigfoot Beans
  18. Moonlighting
  19. The Green-Eyed Bigfoot
  20. The Itchologist
  21. Selling Out
  22. The Girl Who Cried Bigfoot
  23. The Busybody
  24. I Got Your Birthday Right Here

Season three

  1. Yo Richie!
  2. The Candidate
  3. The Bride and the Gloom
  4. Born Again
  5. The Old Bigfoot
  6. The Outing
  7. Hary Henderson, National Treasure
  8. Retrospective Two
  9. Blood is Thicker Than...
  10. Pitch, Pitch, Pitch
  11. Harry the Mascot
  12. The Big Kiss-Off
  13. The Frenchman
  14. Laid Up
  15. Harrywood Babylon
  16. Witness
  17. Harry the Hostage
  18. Exterminator
  19. Beauty and the Beast
  20. Big Feet, Small Minds
  21. Surf's Down
  22. Follow Your Art
  23. Them Bones
  24. The Three Facts of Brett
  25. Ernie Confidential
  26. Uncle Mack Comes Back
  27. Skin Deep
  28. Retrospective Three
  29. The Long Goodbyes - Part 1
  30. The Long Goodbyes - Part 2

Trivia

  • Before the car hits Harry in the first episode, it already had a dent in it.

See Also

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