Still Standing | |
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Created by |
Diane Burroughs Joey Gutierrez |
Starring |
Mark Addy Jami Gertz Jennifer Irwin Taylor Ball Renee Olstead Soleil Borda Joel Murray (Seasons 3–4) |
Opening theme | "You Make Me Happy" written by Holly Knight (performed by Will Hoge) |
Composer(s) | Dennis C. Brown |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 88 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 21 minutes |
Production company(s) | Tea Gal and Java Boy Productions CBS Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Original release | September 30, 2002 | – March 8, 2006
External links | |
Website |
Still Standing is an American sitcom that ran on CBS from September 30, 2002, to March 8, 2006. It starred Mark Addy and Jami Gertz as Bill and Judy Miller, a working-class couple living in Chicago. Taylor Ball, Renee Olstead, and Soleil Borda portrayed their children and Jennifer Irwin portrayed Judy's sister Linda.
A working-class couple in Chicago try to instill good values in their three kids, Brian (Taylor Ball), Lauren (Renee Olstead), and Tina (Soleil Borda), but their own past experiences often conflict with the lessons they try to teach their children. Judy Miller (Jami Gertz) is the attractive wife who was wooed by Bill (Mark Addy) when he duplicitously dated Judy's less attractive friend. Judy started dating Bill when she noticed him to be sensitive. Bill noticed Judy in front of the lockers located by the principal's office, wearing a tight red Aerosmith Shirt and pants with her right pocket ripped.
Judy and Bill were both popular in high school and they never outgrew that teenage mentality. Neither one has the level of maturity to teach their kids right from wrong, often causing a role reversal between the parents and the children. Judy's omnipresent sister Linda (Jennifer Irwin) continuously butts heads with Bill.
Each of the episode titles begins with the word "Still", with the exception of the pilot.
The show entered off-network syndication in 2006, and in the fall of that year 20th Television put it into barter-syndication. It aired on many affiliates most notably MyNetworkTV and The CW affiliates. Lifetime Television acquired the cable rights to air it from 2006-2009. ABC Family acquired the rights to rerun it in the Fall of 2010, but due to very-low ratings it was taken off the line-up. Only to be put back on the schedule from December 2013 to June 2014, it was then replaced by The Middle.