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- Coach 's funny and sometimes touching storylines benefit from strong writing, talented acting, and great on-screen chemistry. Most of the dilemmas Hayden faces are family-friendly fare; the show shouldn't raise too many eyebrows for parents of tweens and older kids.
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Reviews Hayden Fox is a football coach, the head coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles for much of the series' run. He has to contend with a team that has seen better days, a ...
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- Minnesota State University Was Actually The University of Iowa.
- Iowa State University’s Marching Band Played The Show’S Theme Song.
- Two Real-Life Minnesota State Universities Popped Up After The Show began.
- Craig T. Nelson Thought ABC Hated him.
- Jerry Van Dyke and Nelson Had to Work on Their Chemistry.
- It Was Jerry Van Dyke’s First Successful TV Show, at The Age of 57.
- Dick Van Dyke Made An Uncredited Appearance on The Show.
- Christine Armstrong Was A Regular in Elvis Presley Movies.
- Christine Armstrong Also Sang A Number One Song.
- Dauber’s First Name Was Michael.
Even though the first seven seasons of Coach were set at the fictitious Minnesota State University, series creator Barry Kemp graduated from the University of Iowa's Department of Theatre Arts, and paid homage to his alma mater by giving his main character a similar name as legendary Iowa football coach Hayden Fry. The exterior shots of the show we...
John Morris composed the opening number for Coach, which doubled as Minnesota State’s theme song. Iowa State University’s football marching band won a 1995 college marching band contest to have their version of the theme songplay on the show, which ran during the opening credits until the end of the series.
When Coach premiered on February 28, 1989, Minnesota State University was a fictitious college. In 1998, Mankato State University became Minnesota State University, Mankato. On July 1, 2000, Moorhead State University became Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Craig T. Nelson was persuaded by Barry Kemp to audition for the network. The actor was so convinced that ABC wasn’t enjoying his effortsin their initial meeting that he left early. To his surprise, they offered him the part the very next day.
In an interview with Popdose, Jerry Van Dyke, who played defensive coordinator Luther Van Dam, said that he and Nelson had to work on finding their chemistry when the show began. Though he says that they've remained friends and talk all the time, Van Dyke admitted that Nelson was "not easy to get along with" and that "he's pretty much a loner."
Van Dyke had previously—and infamously—starred on the one-season sitcom My Mother the Car in 1965, which TV Guide ranked as the second worst television show of all-time in 2002. Kemp specifically wrote the part of Luther Van Dam for the actor because of his “everyman quality.”
It had to happen sooner or later. In 1993, during the show's sixth season, Jerry Van Dyke's brother, Dick, appeared on the show as a partygoer who walks across the screen when Luther insists that he can’t be related to anyone at his family reunionin “Christmas of the Van Damned.”
Actress Shelley Fabares, who played Hayden Fox’s girlfriend-turned-wife on the series, co-starred with The King in Girl Happy, Spinout, and Clambake.
Fabares sang “Johnny Angel,” which was the number one song for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1962.
Coach's Michael Daubinksy was usually only referred to by his nickname, "Dauber." In one episode, even Hayden didn’t know who Michael Daubinsky’s girlfriend was speaking of when she referred to him by his given name.
- Jessica Walter. Jessica Walter is in five episodes of the seventh season of Coach, playing ambitious agent Susan Miller. She pushes Coach Fox to act against his better judgment, to the point of injuring his players.
- Katherine Helmond. Katherine Helmond starred in 24 episodes of Coach's final two seasons as Doris Sherman, an eccentric billionaire who buys an NFL expansion football team and offers Coach Fox the job of coaching it.
- Pam Stone. 6'1" Pam Stone played Judy Watkins, Minnesota State University's women's basketball coach. She and Hayden Fox frequently engage in prank wars, which are heightened by the fact that she dates Dauber for much of the show's run.
- Kris Kamm. Kris Kamm portrayed Stuart Rosebrock, an eccentric mime, in 48 episodes of Coach. Rosebrock becomes Kelly Fox's boyfriend, and eventually her husband.
41 Metascore. 1989 -2021. 9 Seasons. ABC. Comedy. TVPG. Watchlist. A sturdy sitcom about brash football coach Hayden Fox, who began with the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles when the series...
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Reviews Hayden Fox is a football coach, the head coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles for much of the series' run. He has to contend with a team that has seen better days, a ...
