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Don Reo

Mayim Bialik

Joseph Lawrence

Jenna von Oÿ

Ted Wass

Michael Stoyanov

Barnard Hughes

David Lascher

Portia Dawson

Finola Hughes

Samaria Graham

Courtney Chase

United States

Don Reo | Paul Junger Witt | Tony Thomas | Gene Reynolds | David Amico | Judith D. Allison (seasons 4–5) | Rob LaZebnik (season 4) | Allan Katz (season 5)

Zane Buzby | Bill Bixby | Ted Wass | Gil Junger | Peter Baldwin | John Whitesell | Joe Bergen

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July 5, 1990 – May 11, 1995

"My Opinionation" performed by Dr. John

Phyllis Diller | Tori Spelling | David Schwimmer | Neil Patrick Harris | Brittany Murphy | Little Richard | Tobey Maguire | Danny Nucci | Will Smith

BMI Film & TV Awards

1993 Won BMI TV Music Award Mike Post Stephen Geyer Frank Denson

Emmy Awards

1993 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Comedy Series Alan Keath Walker (lighting designer) For episode "Ruby".

Humanitas Prize

1995 Nominated Humanitas Prize 30 Minute Category Allan Katz For episode "The Date".

TV Land Awards

2007 Nominated TV Land Award The "When Bad Teens Go Good" Award Michael Stoyanov

Young Artist Awards

1995 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Performance by an Actress Under Ten in a TV Series Courtney Chase

1994 Won Young Artist Award Best Youth Comedienne Jenna von Oÿ

1993 Won Young Artist Award Best Young Actress Co-starring in a Television Series Jenna von Oÿ

1993 Won Young Artist Award Outstanding Young Comedian in a Television Series Joseph Lawrence

1993 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series David Lascher

1993 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Television Series Chris Demetral

1993 Nominated Young Artist Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series Mayim Bialik

1992 Nominated Young Artist Award Best New Family Television Series

1992 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Guest Starring or Recurring Role in a TV Series Justin Whalin

1992 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Series Joseph Lawrence

1992 Nominated Young Artist Award Best Young Actress Co-starring in a Television Series Jenna von Oÿ

1992 Nominated Young Artist Best Young Actress Starring in a New Television Series Mayim Bialik

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Life as seen through the eyes of a sassy and adventuresome 13-year-old, ‘90s style. Though the youngest of the three Russo children, Blossom (Mayim Bialik) was mature beyond her years. Her family was distressingly modern: dad was divorced, eldest brother Anthony (Michael Stoyanov), a recovering substance abuser and Joey (Joey Lawrence), a teenage Lothario. In an early episode Nick (Ted Wass), her studio musician dad, was served with final divorce papers which the kids tried to keep from him – hardly the sort of comic situation viewers would have seen in the 1960s! Joining the family in the fall of 1991 was Grandpa Buzz Richman (Barnard Hughes), a free-wheeling oldster undergoing a delayed midlife crisis.

Blossom herself was not the prettiest girl on the block. She dealt with life and the fracturing of her family partly through spunk and partly through fantasies in which she got hilarious advice from celebrities including Phil Donahue, Little Richard, Sonny Bono and ALF. Her thoughts were related each day to her video diary. Six LeMuere (Jenna Von Oy) was her best friend (so-named because she was the sixth child in her family) and Vinnie Bonitardi (David Lascher), her hip, streetwise boyfriend. Rhonda Jo Applegate (Portia Dawson) was Anthony’s girlfriend for a season.

During the 1993 – 1994 season Anthony, who worked as a paramedic, began dating Shelly Russo (Samaria Graham). They were eventually married and had a baby, Nash, during the November 1994 ratings period (of course!). For a time they lived in a garage apartment, but in March 1995 they moved back east. Close on the heels of the marriage of his oldest son, Nick began seeing a worldly British woman named Carol (Finola Hughes). They were married in the fall of 1994, whereupon the household gained a new youngster in Carol’s six-year-old daughter, Kennedy (Courtney Chase). Joey, whose cheerfulness was exceeded by his incredible denseness, somehow graduated from high school and went on the road with a minor-league baseball team, while becoming engaged to girlfriend Melanie.

In the May 1995 series finale, dumb Joey abruptly proposed to Melanie, who said yes. Carol announced that she was pregnant and Nick arranged to sell the house so that he and Carol could move into a place of their own. Blossom, seeing the family as she knew it coming to an end, at first tried to sabotage the deal, but finally realized that it was all about moving on.

The show was first seen in a single pilot telecast on July 5, 1990.

The series was created by Don Reo.

Joey Russo: Whoa!