It’s the same thing we looked for and discovered in Josh Saviano and Danica McKellar.” 5. It sounds funny, but it’s a rare thing to find in a child actor. “Knowing nothing about him, we arranged to screen some unedited footage of a film he was making at the time, Vice Versa … a marvelous actor with a natural quality, which essentially means he has no quality at all except being a kid. “By the time we actually settled on a casting director, we had already resolved that we should see Fred,” Marlens told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1988. All five of them suggested Fred Savage, who at that point was best known for his role in The Princess Bride. To help them in finding their lead actor, Marlens and Black interviewed five casting directors for recommendations. Fred Savage was the obvious choice to play The Wonder Years’s Kevin Arnold.Ĭasting kids is never an easy task. “ The Wonder Years that it’s OK to create a show like that-to take out the laugh track, to try different camera styles-to take a risk,” Josh Saviano, who played Paul Pfeiffer, told Salon in 2013. The Wonder Years set itself apart from other shows of its time, production-wise, with its single camera setup, use of a narrator, and complete lack of laugh track. The Wonder Years’s lack of laugh track and single camera setup were revolutionary. Peter “Ralphie” Billingsley even appeared in the series's final two episodes as one of Kevin’s roommates. The Wonder Years was inspired by A Christmas Story.įrom the coming-of-age theme to the use of narration, A Christmas Story inspired the spirit of The Wonder Years.
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And you can go inside their head and expose what they’re really thinking when they’re saying something different … And then we just sort of jumped from there to thinking that effect is accentuated when you have an adult narrator looking back on childhood.” Black created the series with her husband, Neal Marlens the couple had previously worked on Growing Pains. “We just started to think that there was a lot of potential fun in that ‘cause you can really play with the contrast between the narrator’s point of view and what the characters are doing. “We played around with writing a screenplay that used narration as a device,” series co-creator Carol Black told New York magazine in 1989. The basic concept for The Wonder Years began as a film script. Here are some things you might not have known about the award-winning-and much-beloved-1960s-set coming-of-age tale, which made its debut on January 31, 1988.
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