CAST PRODUCERS AND CREATORS Edward Zwick, Marshall Herkovitz PROGRAMMING HISTORY 85 Episodes ABC
September 1987-September 1988, Tuesday 10:00-11:00 December 1988-May 1991,Tuesday l0:00-11:00 July 1991- September 1991 Tuesday 10:00-11:00 LIFETIME - 1991-1997, 1998. BRAVO - July 2001-February 2002 Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) Born June 12, 1957, Lansing Michigan,. Best known as our Elliot, he has also recently been see on The West Wing on NBC, and ED. Before that, he was on the short-lived 1996 ABC show Champs with Kevin Nealon. He has been in several films including Field of Dreams, Sneakers, and National security. See his bio at http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-5205/ David Clennon (Miles Drentell) He's been in another Herskovitz/Zwick production Once And Again. Fortunately he played Miles Drentell, not another person, so we all now can be facinated in our dislike and love of Miles Drentell. In the last episodes of Once And Again last season, Miles said that he was on his death bed (not to mention the fact that he said this while actually on a bed), so maybe we'll never see him again. Then again, it could all be a scam to avoid prison time. Of course, now he's on The Agency on CBS, a show about the CIA. \Before O&A, he was co-starring in the CBS half-hour comedy Almost Perfect. He played a TV script writer who always wore black. The show aired Wednesdays at 8:30pm Eastern, and stared Nancy Travis. I loved this show, both because David Clennon has some great one-liners, and because Nancy Travis is just TOO cute. This show was the only new CBS show from that season to survive, but it was cancelled during its second season in mid-November, after airing only 3 or 4 episodes. More recently, he was in Mad City, a movie with John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda and--catch this--Larry King Polly Draper (Ellyn Warren) Born June 15, 1956, Palo Alto, California. She has starred in several movies including Heartbeat, Home Song, and her own personal endeavor The Tic Code. She has also been on broadway. Mel Harris (Hope Steadman) Born July 12, 1956, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was starring in a half-hour comedy series on NBC called Something So Right. Three teenaged children were involved in this show that featured Harris as Carly Davis, a thrice-married woman just beginning her most recent marriage. This show was on NBC Tuesdays, 8:30pm Eastern, during the 1996-1997 season. NBC decided not to pick it up for a second season, so then the show moved to ABC. Turns 45 on 12 July 2002. She's in a new show that's just been picked up on NBC I believe, I'll check into that some more later. Peter Horton (Gary Shepherd) Born August 20, 1953, Bellevue, Washington. Directed the movie "The Cure" and more recently, he played a documentary director on the Tom Hanks/HBO mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon." He had the misfortune to appear on an hour-long drama on FOX, which means it was cancelled after one season. The show was named Brimstone, and had two other misfortunes as well: some of the episodes were shown out of order (VERY confusing), and you actually had to pay attention to the show to follow it. Patricia Kalember (Susannah Hart) Born December 30, 1957, Schenectady, New York. Sisters has finished its run on NBC, so she's free to do whatever she wants to. I saw her on a commercial for some sort of pain reliever, and she played quite the nasty person on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit recently. Strangely enough, the woman Elliott had an affair with on thirtysomething ended up playing Kalember's half-sister Dr. Charlotte Bennett during the last season of Sisters. Remember: every TV show ever made has some connection to thirtysomething. Or Sisters. Melanie Mayron (Melissa Steadman) Born October 20, 1952, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. Directed an episode or two of the Fox hour-long detective show New York Undercover before moving on to be in the Wesley Snipes film Drop Zone. Ken Olin (Michael Steadman) Had the misfortune to appear on an hour-long drama on CBS, which means it was cancelled after one season. The drama was named L.A. Docs, and Ken Olin was "a doctor who opens a practice in Southern California," 10 P.M. eastern. In the last few episodes of the show he brought in his real-life wife, Patricia Wettig. Previously, he also appeared on CBS in the short-lived show "EZ Streets" as a one of a pair of "fiercely independent men living parallel lives on opposite sides of the law. Detective Cameron Quinn (Olin) is determined to prove that his dead partner wasn't corrupt." This was a very dark but good show, and was cancelled early in the season. Olin was also a co-producer of the failed pilot "Kansas," which starred his wife Patricia Wetting, who was also a co-producer of the show. The interior of the house on Kansas was the same set used on thirtysomething, with a few changes here and there. Wednesdays, 10pm Eastern, 1996-1997 season. He now directs the show Alias. Patricia Wettig (Nancy Weston) Born December 4, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio.See the information above about her husband and about Kansas. She starred as Presiding Judge Justine Parkes on the short-lived CBS program "Courthouse." She decided to leave the show after the fourth episode, and it was cancelled immediately thereafter.
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