HOME IMPROVEMENT 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

[Music] an american network television staple for a good part of the 1990s home improvement which premiered 29 years ago on the 17th of september 1991 was a sitcom documenting the work and home life of team the tillman taylor stand-up comedian tim allen's interpretation of a man and justifiably secure in his knowledge of power tools and in his ability to communicate with his wife and sons through grunting as always how they changed brings you some facts about the show that don't obscure themselves behind a big cat fans tim allen turned down starring in tv versions of turn and hooch and dead poets society to get his own sitcom allen told the los angeles times that it seemed like the disney executives who pitched him those potential shows were already preparing for failure when he passed disney searched for a producer to develop a sitcom based on allen's stand-up character instead which became home improvement matt williams the creator of rosanne was eventually hired for the job [Music] francis fisher played jill in the pilot the original idea for the show came from alan and was titled hammer time francis fisher who is better known for her dramatic work on the stage and in films like unforgiven and titanic was originally cast as tim's wife jill she shot the pilot episode but didn't test well with audiences say she was replaced by patricia richardson and the pilot was re-shot for abc stephen tabalovsky was the original l tobolovsky was cast as tim taylor's two-time partner then while home improvements actors and crew waited to find out when abc would give them the go ahead and begin in production tobolovsky wanted to be able to seek movie roles to keep his growing family financially secure the actor decided to drop out of the project and while he missed out on a steady paycheck for nine years he got to appear in movies like groundhog day it turned out to be very good choice for me said tobolovsky [Music] richard khan got the part because of a moving violation the actor got ticketed for rolling through a stop sign after a macbeth rehearsal in los angeles he was sent to traffic school as a result where he met an agent who told him about home improvement khan discovered he knew enough people involved with the show to secure an audition ashley judd was too talented to play the two-time girl matt williams loved jared at her audition but felt that she was too talented for the tiny part of the two-time girl which originally went to pamela anderson i called her agent and told him that she was so good we would find a way to incorporate her into the serious period williams came up with the idea of creating a sister for tim allen's character a few days later judd's agent told williams that the actress was not ready to go into television right now she thinks she has a feature career [Music] randy was actually older than brad on the show brad taylor zachary ty bryan is the older brother to randy jonathan taylor thomas and mark taran noah smith but thomas was actually the oldest of the three he was born on the 8th of september 1981 one month earlier than brian the two-time audience was part of the home improvement studio audience along with the perk of possibly appearing on an episode people wanted to go to home improvement tapings because ellen was known to use some off-color language and improvise [Music] allen's clothes came from colleges and universities in michigan even though a rule was put in place that only schools from allen's home state of michigan would get the three advertising the custom department supervisor was accidentally allowed to give the go ahead to put alan in a wolford college sweatshirt in the 1996 episode al's video wofford college is in spartanburg south carolina a lot of work went into the bob villa episodes in the hot rod race in the great race too a burbank airport runway was shut down entirely to shoot the climactic scene wilson's full name was wilson w wilson he was played by earl hindman who died of lung cancer in 2003 at 61 years old in the serious finale curtain call his full face was revealed to audiences [Music] the white house seriously considered getting hillary clinton to appear on the show a 1995 memo released to the public last year showed that hillary clinton's press secretary lisa caputo reached out to chief of staff maggie williams about the wild idea of having the then first lady appear on the most popular television show on the year the show's producers were willing to do a show on women children and family issues or a show on whatever issues hillary would like clearly it wasn't meant to be [Music] the show had its own video game in 1994 super nintendo released home improvement power tool pursuit the premise when a line of power tools that the bin for two company named after team taylor went missing team traveled from soundstage to soundstage fighting actors dressed as dinosaurs and other creatures to get the tools back using only the tools he currently has on him such as the always convenient grappling hook jonathan taylor thomas left the show during the final season thomas left the show to focus on school when he came back to guest star in the final season's holiday episode allen told thomas he was confused about his reasons for leaving the show after walking away from the role of randy taylor to further his education thomas had agreed to appear in some movies though thomas did not appear in the series's finale in 2013 he guest starred in team allen's new show last man standing [Music] alan and richardson turned down a lot of money to make a ninth season richardson was offered 25 million dollars to do a ninth season allen was offered double that the two declined and home improvement ended after eight seasons and 203 episodes team allen was a stand-up comedian before he was a sitcom star tim allen was a stand-up comedian his act provided the material that would eventually become the basis for home improvement allen first performed at the comedy castle in his home state of michigan allen walked on stage a month after the now famous venue first opened in 1979. allen caught the attention of disney executives michael eisner and jeffrey katzenberg after the two saw him perform at the comedy store in los angeles they loved his act which led to a career-long collaboration with disney allen's disney projects include home improvement and hit film franchises like the santa claus and toy story the show was initially called hammer time the original title of the show was hammertime it was a reference to both teams home improvement public access show and to m.c hammer who was an enormously popular artist at the time the show's title was eventually changed after several brainstorming sessions to home improvement the creators and ellen came up with a new title which they felt worked better it referenced both team taylor's show and the work you do as a husband and father keeping your family together it was also a nod to keeping the house repaired which team usually managed to mess up in some way [Music] and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care [Music]

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 22 2020