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by Donna Dayrit, Don

The wonder years invaded the television screen for five long years (1988-1993). It is a mixture of drama, family and comedy genre. It has six memorable seasons that touched the hearts of the viewers. Created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens, The wonder years deal with the social issues and historic events of the 1960’s and early 1970’s.It has achieved a spot in Nielsen Top Ten awards for two of its seasons. It also won an Emmy for the best comedy series in 1988 after airing six episodes. In addition to this, the series was also awarded a George Foster Peabody award in 1989. The show’s main sound track is Joe Crocker’s “With the help of my friends" song. The main characters are as follows, Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, Danica Mckellar as Gwendolyne Cooper, Josh Saviano as Paul Pfeiffer, Dan Lauria as Jack Arnold, Alley Millis as Norma Arnold, Olivia D’Abo as Karen Arnold and Jason Hervey as Wayne Arnold. Adult Kevin Arnold reminisces and narrates his past experiences, specifically his teenage years how he deals with his problems and how he learn for his own experiences in life. As he goes from adolescence to adulthood, he experiences, along with his best friend Paul and sometimes-girlfriend Winnie, the full range of trials and traumas that come in just about everyone's life.The main character Kevin also deals with middle and high school problems, encounters puberty, has ups and downs with childhood sweetheart Winnie, deals with older brother Wayne, and hangs out with geeky-but-lovable Paul.“The wonder years" is a perfect example of what a real life is. It includes the problems, ups and downs and all the things an ordinary teenager deals with. http://www.tvdvdplanet.com/movie/drama/The_Wonder_Years.html

The award winning TV series The Wonder Years (1998-1993) was one of the highly acclaimed TV series of the 80's. It is not only because it tackles the social issue of the teenagers but also it tackles the historic events of the 60's to the 70's on a teenager's point of view. The Wonder Years is a TV series about Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) as he reminisce his teenage years where he face the troubles and trials of High school life. Along with his geeky best friend Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano) who is always on Kevin's side, and Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar) Kevin's top love interest.

It's been 13 years since the end of the hit TV series. Where are the cast of the award winning TV series? What are their careers?

Fred Savage who plays the role of Kevin Arnold made a number of TV shows and movies since the end of the Wonder Years TV series. He starred numerous TV series like the comedy TV series “Working” where he played the role of a hardworking employee Matthew 'Matt' Peyser on a multinational company with bizarre employees. He also appears on Austin Powers the Goldmember(2002) movie where he played the role of Number 3 one of the minion of Dr. Evil. Fred Savage produced the Disney channel TV series “Phil of the Future” and directed Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh.

Josh Saviano in the other hand did not continue his acting career. After the series finale of The Wonder Years, Josh continue his studies in Yale University major in Political Science (1998) and worked at a Manhattan Law firm as an associate attorney. He earned his Law degree in Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar on the year 2004. He is now a corporate Lawyer.

Danica McKellar who played Winnie Cooper continued her career after graduating summa cum laude in Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles. She appeared on several TV series and Movies such as Justice for Annie, Babylon 5, King of the Hill, The West Wing and she is also the voice of Jubilee in the video game X-men Legends. She will also be the voice of Brittany on the up coming cartoon movie Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm.

The Wonder Years is truly a past that will never be forgotten.

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