Kirk | |
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Genre | Family sitcom |
Created by | Ross Brown |
Directed by |
Scott Baio William Bickley Richard Correll James Hampton Steve Muscarella Joel Zwick |
Starring |
Kirk Cameron Chelsea Noble Will Estes Louis Vanaria Taylor Fry Courtland Mead Debra Mooney |
Theme music composer | Steven Chesne |
Composer(s) | Gary Boren Steven Chesne |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 32 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | William Bickley Michael Warren Charlotte Brown Ross Brown Susan Fales-Hill |
Producer(s) | Brenda Hanes-Berg Karen K. Miller |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 22–24 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Bickley-Warren Productions Jeff Franklin Productions Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television Disturbion |
Release | |
Original network | The WB |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | August 23, 1995 | – January 12, 1997
Kirk is an American family sitcom which aired on The WB from August 23, 1995 to January 12, 1997. The series was created by Ross Brown, and produced by Bickley-Warren Productions and Jeff Franklin Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Kirk was the follow-up starring vehicle for Kirk Cameron after his seven-year role as Mike Seaver on the popular ABC sitcom Growing Pains.
The show revolves around Kirk Hartman (Cameron), an aspiring illustrator and recent college graduate living in Greenwich Village. After his aunt decides to move to Florida to get married, Kirk is left in charge of his younger brothers and sister. It also stars Chelsea Noble, Will Estes, Courtland Mead, Louis Vanaria, and Debra Mooney.
Kirk was one of only two series produced by Bickley-Warren Productions and Jeff Franklin Productions that was not produced by Miller-Boyett Productions (the other being Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, which William Bickley and Michael Warren served as showrunners/executive producers during that series' final three seasons).
During the development stage, the series originally went under the working title Life Happens, and was originally conceived as a series for ABC (who had broadcast other series produced by Bickley and Warren, and their production partners Tom L. Miller and Robert Boyett) before the network's decision to move away from family sitcoms, just prior to the network's 1995 purchase by The Walt Disney Company.