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Punky Brewster (TV Series 1984–1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Punky Is A Real person.
- Vicki The Robot Auditioned For The role.
- Herman Munster Was Up For The Henry Part.
- The Show Was Kind of Grim.
- Columbia Pictures Sued Soleil Moon Frye For $80 Million.
- The Infamous Fridge Episode Was Thought Up by A Kid.
- Some Episodes Were only 15 Minutes Long.
- T.K. Carter (a.k.a. “Mike Fulton”) Was Arrested For Stealing A Car.
- Punky Returned as A Web comic.
- It Addressed The Challenger Explosion.
Though she probably didn’t dress like a rainbow vomited on her. In the mid-1980s, the Federal Communications Commission insisted that networks use the 7 and 7:30 p.m. slots on Sunday for news or children’s programming. Instead of competing against CBS’s 60 Minutes with more topical content, NBC President Brandon Tartikoff decided to counter-program...
When NBC’s casting call went out for Punky, more than 3000 adorable, elfin actors campaigned for the role. Among them was Tiffany Brissette, who later appeared as the monotone Vicki in the kid-robot series Small Wonder; Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa Explains It All) was also a contender. But producers knewthe relatives of Soleil Moon Frye, a 7-year-o...
Before actor George Gaynes (Police Academy, Tootsie) was awarded the role of Punky’s adoptive father, Henry, producers were fielding another possibility: Fred Gwynne, best known as Herman Munster on The Munsters. Gwynne was said to be eager to distance himself from Munster and agreed to audition with Frye. But when the actress askedif he was Herman...
When Tartikoff had the idea for a kid show, he passed it along to writer David Duclon, a producer on the network’s hit series Silver Spoons. Duclon told TV Guide in 1986 that he researched topical issues and found an alarming number of girls were victims of abandonment. It was decided Punky’s parents would be deadbeats; future episodes threatened t...
Being precocious apparently isn’t enough to keep a battalion of lawyers from trying to devour you. Accordingto the Associated Press, Columbia Pictures (which took over production of the show when it went into syndication for its third season) sued Soleil Moon Frye for $80 million in 1986. The reason? Frye failed to report to work. Her attorney, Den...
To help stir up publicity for the series, NBC ran a contest in 1985 that solicited story ideas from kids. The winner was Jeremy Reams, who submitted a premise that involved Punky having to perform CPR on her friend, Cherie, who had gotten trapped inside an abandoned refrigerator. While this was an actual danger for older appliances with latches tha...
While Punky usually occupied the normal 30-minute sitcom slot, the fall arrival of football on NBC prompted some format changes. Because games airing in the afternoon often run late, NBC decided to avoid joining a program in progress by scheduling 15-minute mini-Punky episodes to follow NFL broadcasts; it also guaranteed their hit Knight Riderwould...
Fans may remember actor Thomas Kent Carter as Punky's “cool” teacher Mike Fulton. According to the Associated Press, Carter behaved in a very uncool manner when he approached a woman in December of 1991 and demanded her car. She refused; he allegedly punched her in the stomach before speeding away. Carter was arrested after a high-speed chase and h...
Punky Power could not be suffocated for long: In 2014, publisher Lion Forge obtained the license to a number of 1980s series (Miami Vice, Airwolf) and began churning out a line of digital comics. The prequel sees Punky homeless in Chicago after being abandoned by her mother, “sleeping in empty apartments and mattress stores.” Eight issueshave been ...
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986—killing all seven people on board—it left a lot of people shaken. The producers ofPunky Brewster quickly packaged an episode with the help of psychologists that depicted Punky watching the telecast with her classmates and then struggling to cope with her feelings over the tragedy. Buzz Aldrin appea...
This crossover episode marked the debut of Mike Fulton; T. K. Carter was the intended star of the Fenster Hall spin-off. Mike's history as a longtime resident of Fenster was explained, since he had been an orphan from birth and had been shuffled around to many foster homes before permanently staying at Fenster from the time he was seven.
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- 88 (list of episodes)
- September 16, 1984 –, May 27, 1988
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T. K. Carter is an actor who starred in Punky Brewster. He played Mike Fulton starting with the season finale of Season 1 to the season finale of Season 2. Thomas Kent Carter (born December 18, 1956) is an American comedian and actor. In films, he is mostly known for his many comedic...
On TV, he is known for playing Michael "Mike" Fulton, an elementary schoolteacher, on the NBC series Punky Brewster and Mylo Williams on the Disney Channel series Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
YearTitleRole2020Russ2020Lataurus Price2018The Bobby Brown StoryHerbert Brown2016Thelonious HarknessPunky Brewster: Created by David W. Duclon. With George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Sandy, Shanin Lonsway. Young Punky Brewster is abandoned with her dog, Brandon, in a supermarket. When she befriends Henry Warnimont, her new family life begins.
Punky Brewster: Created by Jim Armogida, Steve Armogida, David W. Duclon. With Soleil Moon Frye, Cherie Johnson, Quinn Copeland, Noah Cottrell. A follow-up series to the 1980s sitcom about a young foster child named Punky. Now she's grown up with kids of her own.
