Although the show stopped airing in the UK due to ABC1 ceasing transmission on September 26, 2007, then on July 28, 2008, it restarted from the pilot episode on Virgin 1. However, it was announced that Virgin 1 would close on January 31, 2011, and no announcement was made regarding its broadcast future in the UK. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. The theme music for Home Improvement entitled “Iron John’s Rock”, was composed by Dan Foliart.
The theme song is unique for its sampling of power tool sounds as well as Allen’s grunting which became his signature. The track also includes instruments such as flute and organ. From Season 7 until the end of the series, a remixed version of the theme song was used. Richardson was offered $25 million to do a ninth season; Allen was offered $50 million. The two declined the offer and the series came to an end as a result. In the first two years of the show, Pamela Anderson played the part of Tim’s Tool Girl, Lisa, on Tool Time, but left the show to focus on her role on the syndicated series Baywatch.
Her last episode as a series regular was “The Great Race”, which aired on May 19, 1993. Tim’s new assistant, Heidi, played by Debbe Dunning, replaced Anderson as the Tool Time Girl for the following third season, starting with “Maybe Baby”, which aired on September 15, 1993. Anderson did reprise the role of Lisa on the sixth-season finale episode “The Kiss and the Kiss-Off”, which aired on May 20, 1997. Stephen Tobolowsky was tapped to play the Tool Time co-host, Glen. However, he was still busy with a movie that was in the middle of production at the time the first pilot was to be shot. Therefore, the producers set out to cast an alternate character that would stand in as Tim’s co-host for the pilot, or for however many episodes were required until Tobolowsky was available.
Beginning in season 2, Home Improvement began each episode with a cold open, which features the show’s logo during the teaser. From season 4 until the end of the series in 1999, an anthropomorphic version of the logo was used in different types of animation.
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Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade. It went to No. 1 in the ratings during the 1993–1994 season, the same year Allen had the No. 1 book (Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man) and film . Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999 with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra, and David McFadzean.
The two declined, and Home Improvement ended after eight seasons and 203 episodes. On Metacritic, the first season holds a score of 64 out of 100, based on 18 critics and the second season holds a score of 75 out of 100, based on 5 critics, both indicating “generally favorable reviews”. Seasons 5 and 6 accidentally contain some slightly edited episodes, most likely due to using syndication prints. And the episode “The Feminine Mistake” from season 6, doesn’t contain the 3D version of the episode as originally aired on ABC, instead using the 2D version as seen in syndication.
