Picket Fences

Picket Fences
Created by	David E. Kelley
Starring	Tom Skerritt Kathy Baker Costas Mandylor Lauren Holly Holly Marie Combs Zelda Rubinstein Adam Wylie Fyvush Finkel Ray Walston Kelly Connell Don Cheadle Lisa Chess Justin Shenkarow
Opening theme	"Picket Fences" by Stewart Levin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	88 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David E. Kelley Alice West
Running time	42 minutes
Production company(s)	David E. Kelley Productions 20th Television (1992-1995) 20th Century Fox Television (1995-1996)
Distributor	20th Television
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 18, 1992 – June 26, 1996

Picket Fences is an American television drama about the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin, created and produced by David E. Kelley. The show initially ran from September 18, 1992, to June 26, 1996, on the CBS television network in the United States. It sometimes struggled to maintain a stable prime-time audience and had fluctuating ratings, due in part to its Friday night time slot. In its first season on the air it placed 80th in the prime-time Nielsen ratings and in its second season it moved to 66th. The show's exteriors were shot in the L.A. suburb of Monrovia, California, with many of the townspeople appearing in the background of episodes.

The series follows the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happen, including cows' udders exploding and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. Struggling to maintain order in the community is Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt). Sheriff Brock is married to the town doctor, Jill (Kathy Baker), his second wife. They attempt to raise their three children, Kimberly (Holly Marie Combs) (from Jimmy's first marriage to Lydia), Matthew (Justin Shenkarow) and Zachary (Adam Wylie). Max (Lauren Holly) and Kenny (Costas Mandylor) are impulsive and somewhat immature sheriff's deputies.

Bombastic lawyer Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel) usually irritated Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston). Wambaugh refused to hear any confessions of guilt from his clients as he feared that it would only stand in the way of adequately defending them in court and Bone's rulings seemed to be directed more by his own moral compass than by point of law. After several prosecutors came and went, Don Cheadle joined the cast as John Littleton. Kelly Connell played medical examiner Carter Pike (who was regularly begging to be deputized) and Zelda Rubenstein portrayed police dispatcher Ginny Weedon. Other actors who were in the cast included Marlee Matlin, Richard Masur, and Dabbs Greer.

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