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Cory Matthews' suburban coming-of-age journey was guided by the constant, unexpected presence of Mr. Feeny—the teacher who somehow followed him through every school. Boy Meets World captured adolescence, first love, and the unshakeable found family of Friday nights.
The Henson sitcom in full-body animatronic dinosaur suits — and quietly one of the darkest shows ABC ever aired. Baby Sinclair's "Not the mama!" and "I'm the baby, gotta love me!" were everywhere in the early 90s, right up until the finale ended the series with an actual ice-age extinction.
A Chicago cop's family became Friday-night must-watch TV: the Winslows, anchored by Reginald VelJohnson fresh off Die Hard — and the nerdy next-door neighbor who was only supposed to appear once. Steve Urkel's snorting laugh, suspender-snapping chaos, and "Did I do that?" turned a guest spot into the gravitational center of eight seasons on ABC.
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The Tanner family's San Francisco home was always full of hugs, life lessons, and sappy catchphrases. Bob Saget, John Stamos, and Dave Coulier anchored this audience-beloved sitcom that critics despised, while the Olsen twins charmed viewers as Michelle.
Mark Curry as an ex-NBA player turned substitute teacher in Oakland, first as a roommate comedy and then, on TGIF, as a family show with Nell Carter running the school and a young Raven-Symoné in the house. The Friday-night sitcom that was a love letter to its star's hometown.
Cousin Larry, Balki from the island of Mypos, and the Dance of Joy. It started in 1986, but for a generation of kids it was the show that anchored the original TGIF lineup on Friday nights, and the one Family Matters spun out of.
Melissa Joan Hart pointing a finger to zap her problems away, with a wisecracking talking cat named Salem and two witch aunts. A staple of ABC's TGIF block, Sabrina turned a teenage witch's coming-of-age into must-watch Friday-night TV.
Identical twins separated at birth, reunited as teenagers, and determined never to be split up again. Sister, Sister made real-life twins Tia and Tamera Mowry Friday-night royalty — first on ABC, then on The WB — and gave television one of its great unanimous verdicts: "Go home, Roger!"
ABC's TGIF sitcom about a blended family: Patrick Duffy's contractor and Suzanne Somers's salon owner marry on a Jamaica vacation after a whirlwind courtship, then have to blend six kids who resent one another. Critics called it a Brady Bunch knockoff. It ran seven seasons anyway.