Married to the Kellys
| Married to the Kellys | |
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The main characters of Married to the Kellys, (from left to right) Mary, Josh, Bill, Sandy, Lewis, and Tom & Susan (in front).
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| Also known as | 'Back to Kansas' |
| Created by | Tom Hertz |
| Starring |
Breckin Meyer Kiele Sanchez Josh Braaten Emily Rutherfurd Derek Waters Sam Anderson Nancy Lenehan Richard Riehle |
| Theme music composer | Brian Adler |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Tom Hertz |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Brad Grey Television Game Six Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 3, 2003 – April 23, 2004 |
Married to the Kellys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 2003 to 2004 with a run of 22 episodes. Set in a suburb of Kansas City, the series stars Breckin Meyer and Kiele Sanchez. The show was a part of the TGIF Friday night line up, after Hope & Faith, airing at 9:30 EST. The show earned fair ratings enough to get picked up for a whole season, but it was cancelled at the end of the season.
The series followed the adventures of a single-child New Yorker adjusting to life with his wife's large, close-knit suburban family.
The show was originally to be titled Back to Kansas.
Producer Tom Hertz (Spin City, Less Than Perfect) loosely based this comedy on his life experiences. The sitcom centers on New York loner Tom (Breckin Meyer, Clueless) who was raised as an only child. After he marries Susan (Kiele Sanchez, That Was Then), a woman raised in the Midwest by a large family, they move to Kansas to be closer to them and he has to quickly adjust to life with a big, caring family.
When Tom married Susan he thought he was only getting a new wife. He never even considered that he would be getting a brand-new family as well. Included in this new family are mother Sandy, the rule-maker of the house, and father Bill, once an only child, who could be the person Tom can relate to the most. There's also Susan's competitive sister Mary and her husband Chris, who considers himself Bill and Sandy's favorite son-in-law and finds Tom as somewhat of a threat. And finally there's Susan's brother Lewis, a shy and awkward young man who has made a career of collecting bugs. Other family members who occasionally drop by include Uncle Dave, the big-shot of the family, and Lisa, the youngest daughter who wants to backpack around Europe and become an art major.
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