Desperate Housewives
| Desperate Housewives | |
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| Genre |
Serial comedy-drama Mystery |
| Created by | Marc Cherry |
| Starring |
Teri Hatcher Felicity Huffman Marcia Cross Eva Longoria Nicollette Sheridan Brenda Strong James Denton Steven Culp Ricardo Antonio Chavira Mark Moses Andrea Bowen Jesse Metcalfe Cody Kasch Alfre Woodard Doug Savant Richard Burgi Kyle MacLachlan Dana Delany Neal McDonough Shawn Pyfrom Drea de Matteo Maiara Walsh Vanessa Williams Kathryn Joosten Kevin Rahm Tuc Watkins Jonathan Cake Charles Mesure Madison De La Garza |
| Narrated by | Brenda Strong (as Mary Alice Young) |
| Theme music composer | Danny Elfman |
| Composer(s) |
Steve Bartek Stewart Copeland Steve Jablonsky |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 180 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Marc Cherry Jeff Greenstein Tom Spezialy (season 1–2) Michael Edelstein (season 1–2) Joe Keenan (season 3) George W. Perkins (season 3–4) Bob Daily (season 4) John Pardee and Joey Murphy (season 4) Kevin Murphy (co-exec) Chris Black (co-exec, season 2) Larry Shaw (co-exec, season 3) David Grossman (co-exec, season 3) Matt Berry Sabrina Wind |
| Producer(s) | Charles Skouras III Stephanie Hagen Alexandra Cunningham Jamie Gorenberg Kevin Etten Tracey Stern Patty Lin Annie Weisman |
| Editor(s) | Karen Castañeda |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Cherry Alley Productions Cherry Productions Touchstone Television (2004–2007) ABC Studios (2007–2012) |
| Distributor |
Disney–ABC Domestic Television (as Buena Vista Television until 2007) DNA Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | 5.1-channel surround sound |
| Original release | October 3, 2004 – May 13, 2012 |
| Chronology | |
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Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC, from October 3, 2004 to May 13, 2012. Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw.
Set on Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State, Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their late friend and neighbor who committed suicide in the pilot episode. The storyline covers 13 years of the women's lives over eight seasons, set between the years 2004–2008, and later 2013–2017 (the story arc includes a five-year passage of time, as well as flashbacks ranging from the 1980s to the 2020s). They work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—on the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
The series features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences.
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