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The following is an episode list for the ABC [[Comedy-drama|dramedy series]] ''[[The Wonder Years]]''. The series premiered on [[15 March]] [[1988]] and ran for a total of '''115''' episodes spanning 6 seasons, until [[12 May]] [[1993]]
{{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Glass Bead Game
| title_orig = Das Glasperlenspiel
| translator = Richard and Clara Winston
| image =
| author = [[Hermann Hesse]]
| cover_artist =
| country = [[Switzerland]]
| language = [[German language|German]]
| series =
| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[Holt, Rinehart and Winston]]
| release_date = [[1943]] (Eng. trans. [[1969]])
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 558 pp
| isbn = NA <!-- published before ISBN system -->
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}


Currently, none of the seasons are available on DVD as official season [[box sets]] due to the cost of securing the [[music rights]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4033777 |title=Pricey nostalgia |last=Lieber |first=Scott |date=July 10, 2006 |work=The Denver Post }}</ref> (See ''[[The Wonder Years#DVD releases|The Wonder Years]]'' article for more detailed information)
'''''The Glass Bead Game''''' ([[German language|German]]: '''''Das Glasperlenspiel''''') is the last work and [[magnum opus]] of the German author [[Hermann Hesse]]. Begun in [[1931]] and published in [[Switzerland]] in [[1943]], the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature.


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"Glass Bead Game" is a literal translation of the German title. The title has also been translated as '''''Magister Ludi'''''. "Magister Ludi," [[Latin]] for "master of the game," is the name of an honorific title awarded to the book's central character. ''Magister Ludi'' can also be seen as a [[pun]]: ''lud'' is a Latin stem meaning both "game" and "school."
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! colspan="2"|Season !! Number of Episodes !! Originally aired
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| '''[[#Season 1 (1988)|1]]'''
| 6
| [[1988 in television|1988]]
|-
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| '''[[#Season 2 (1988 &ndash; 1989)|2]]'''
| 17
| [[1988 in television|1988]] &ndash; [[1989 in television|1989]]
|-
|bgcolor="#BFFF00"|
| '''[[#Season 3 (1989 &ndash; 1990)|3]]'''
| 23
| [[1989 in television|1989]] &ndash; [[1990 in television|1990]]
|-
|bgcolor="#FF00CA"|
| '''[[#Season 4 (1990 &ndash; 1991)|4]]'''
| 23
| [[1990 in television|1990]] &ndash; [[1991 in television|1991]]
|-
|bgcolor="#00BCFF"|
| '''[[#Season 5 (1991 &ndash; 1992)|5]]'''
| 24
| [[1991 in television|1991]] &ndash; [[1992 in television|1992]]
|-
|bgcolor="#FDFF00"|
| '''[[#Season 6 (1992 &ndash; 1993)|6]]'''
| 22
| [[1992 in television|1992]] &ndash; [[1993 in television|1993]]
|}
|}


==Plot summary==
==Season 1 (1988)==
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''The Glass Bead Game'' takes place during the 23rd century. The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Hesse mentions the political violence of the 20th century in passing, but his main critique of that century is encapsulated by his dismissive name for it: the Age of the [[Feuilleton]], an intellectually superficial and decadent period, when [[middle brow]] journalism replaced serious reading and reflection.
! width="40"|# !! Title !! Writer<ref name="peter">Writers and Directors taken from [http://www.peter-reynders.de/WY/wy-frame.htm Peter's Wonder Years Gide]</ref> !! Director<ref name="peter"/> !! width="125"|Original airdate
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|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=Pilot
|OriginalAirDate=[[15 March]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=1
|Aux1=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=We are introduced to Kevin and his friends during their last summer as boys. They are getting ready to enter Robert F. Kennedy Junior High School. Kevin and Winnie share their first kiss at Harpers Woods as Winnie mourns the loss of her brother Brian, who is killed in Vietnam.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=Swingers
|OriginalAirDate=[[22 March]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=2
|Aux1=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|Aux2=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|ShortSummary=Even at Brian's funeral, all Kevin can think about is Winnie. At school the boys' PE class begins the much anticipated sex education, but Kevin and Paul are bored with it — they want to learn more, so they decide to steal Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask."
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=My Father's Office
|OriginalAirDate=[[29 March]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=3
|Aux1=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|Aux2=[[Jeffrey Brown]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin learns more about his dad by spending a day at his office. He learns the reason why he returns home in a grumpy mood every day and that even Jack has to quietly take orders and abuse from his boss.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=Angel
|OriginalAirDate=[[5 April]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=4
|Aux1=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|Aux2=[[Art Wolff]]
|ShortSummary=Karen is now a hippie who doesn't communicate with her parents much anymore. The tension is worsened when she brings home her new boyfriend Louis. Kevin takes an immediate dislike to Louis, a hippie who angers Jack with his anti-war sentiments.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=The Phone Call
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 April]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=5
|Aux1=[[A. Scott Frank]]
|Aux2=[[Jeffrey Brown]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin tries to get up the courage to call Lisa Berlini. Paul tries to find out if Lisa likes Kevin by consulting the junior high grapevine.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=6666ff
|Title=Dance With Me
|OriginalAirDate=[[19 April]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=6
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Arlene Sanford]]
|ShortSummary=After talking to Lisa Berlini for a whole four minutes last night, Kevin asks her to the Spring Dance. She says okay, but soon thereafter, when Brad Gaines asks her, decides to go with him. While eating lunch with Winnie, Kevin feels himself falling back in love with Winnie, but she is going to the dance with Kirk McCray. Kevin tries to make Winnie jealous at the dance, but fails.
}}
|}


==Season 2 (1988 &ndash; 1989)==
Castalia is home to a [[monastic]] order of [[intellectual]]s with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys (the novel is thus a detailed exploration of education and the life of the mind), and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game (see below).
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|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=The Heart of Darkness
|OriginalAirDate=[[30 November]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=7
|Aux1=[[Neal Marlens|Marlens]] & [[Carol Black|Black]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin attemts to act cool after Winnie starts dating Kirk McCray ([[Michael Landes]]) and hangkin out with all the cool kids. Kevin and Paul go camping with Gary ([[Breckin Meyer]]), where they drink beer and smoke cigarettes.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Our Miss White
|OriginalAirDate=[[7 December]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=8
|Aux1=[[Michael J. Weithorn]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin develops a crush on Miss White ([[Wendel Meldrum]]), his English teacher. She persuades him to play Robert Kennedy, the lead role, in a school play that she has written.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Christmas
|OriginalAirDate=[[14 December]] [[1988]]
|EpisodeNumber=9
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and his brother try to convince their father to buy a color television for Christmas. Kevin tries to find a present for Winnie after he unexpectedly receives one from her.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Steady as She Goes
|OriginalAirDate=[[11 January]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=10
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Rumors spread that Winnie and Kirk are going to break up, but later Kevin sees Kirk holding up a sign — "I am sorry, Winnie." He gets frustrated with being alone, and ends up asking Becky Slater ([[Crystal McKellar]]) out in order to make Winnie jealous.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title= Just Between You and Me ... and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky
|OriginalAirDate=[[18 January]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=11
|Aux1=[[Daniel Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
|ShortSummary=Kirk asks Kevin to find outh whether or not Winnie likes him anymore. While speaking to her, she tells him that she will break up with Kirk soon. Later, Kevin sees Kirk and Winnie kissing. Becky knocks out Kevin when she finds out he doesn't really like her. Kevin still wants to find out if Winnie likes him, but she is confused and is not sure.
}}
{{Episode list
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|Title=Pottery Will Get You Nowhere
|OriginalAirDate=[[1 February]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=12
|Aux1=[[Beth Hillshaferk]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Norma and Jack never argue in front of the kids, until they fight about Norma's pottery class and Jack's favorite cup.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Coda
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 February]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=13
|Aux1=[[Todd W. Langen]]
|Aux2=[[Beth Hillshafer]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin dislikes his piano lessons, until Mrs. Carples ([[Maxine Stuart]]) tells Norma that Kevin has talent. He continues taking lessons, and improves his playing. That is, until Ronald Hirschmuller ([[Joseph Dammann]]) decides to play the same piece as him for the recital. Kevin messes up at the rehersal, and decides to quit and not go to the recital. A decision he seems to regret later in life.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Hiroshima, Mon Frere
|OriginalAirDate=[[15 February]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=14
|Aux1=[[Matthew Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Wayne puts Kevin and Paul's hamter experiment for science class in jeopardy.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Loosiers
|OriginalAirDate=[[28 February]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=15
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Paul likes to play basketball, but he's not very good at it. Kevin attempts to reorganize PE class so that Paul is not always picked last, and Coach Cutlip puts him as captain. Kevin chooses all the bad players for his team.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Walkout
|OriginalAirDate=[[7 March]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=16
|Aux1=[[Matthew Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and other students on the student council try to organize a walk out to protest America's involvement in Vietnam. Mr. Diperna threatens to mark it down on their permanent records if they do it.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Nemesis
|OriginalAirDate=[[14 March]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=17
|Aux1=[[Matthew Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin learns a lesson about talking behind someones back and how "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when Becky Slater returns and tells everyone what Kevin said behind their back.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Fate
|OriginalAirDate=[[28 March]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=18
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie is still angry with Kevin for talking about her behind her back. When Kevin stands up for her honor against school bully Eddie Pinetti, he is shocked to find that Winnie and Eddie are dating. In the end, his loyalty wins back the friendship of Winnie.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Birthday Boy
|OriginalAirDate=[[11 April]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=19
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Steve Miner]]
|ShortSummary=When Kevin's birthday party is scheduled for the same day as Paul's Bar Mitzvah, Kevin feels put out, but also becomes interested in family traditions.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Brightwing
|OriginalAirDate=[[18 April]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=20
|Aux1=[[Matthew Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin becomes his sister's confidant when he discovers she is skipping school to go to "the rock."
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Square Dance
|OriginalAirDate=[[2 May]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=21
|Aux1=[[Todd W. Langen]]
|Aux2=[[Tom Moore]]
|ShortSummary=When Kevin is partnered with class weirdo, Margaret Farquhar ([[Lindsay Fisher]]), he tries to keep away from her - especially when she tries to become his friend.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=Whose Woods These Are
|OriginalAirDate=[[9 May]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=22
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Horton]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin, Winnie and Paul try to stop the destruction of Harper's Woods. They don't want it destroyed because it was the place where Winnie and Kevin kissed for the first time and a place they all played together when they were younger.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FFAA45
|Title=How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation
|OriginalAirDate=[[16 May]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=23
|Aux1=[[Jane Anderson]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=It's the end of seventh grade for Kevin and a summer full of changes in his life. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are breaking up and Miss White announces she is going to get married.
}}
|}


==Season 3 (1989 &ndash; 1990)==
The novel chronicles the life of a distinguished member of the order, Joseph Knecht (the surname translates as "servant" or "farm hand"), as narrated by a fictional historian of the order. Hence the novel is an example of a [[Bildungsroman]]. At any given time, the member of the order deemed the best Game player is honored with the title ''Magister Ludi''.
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|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Summer Song
|OriginalAirDate=[[3 October]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=24
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=The Family takes a trip to the beach. Kevin meets a girl named Teri ([[Holly Sampson]]) and they go on a date to the fair. They kiss under a pier and then she tells Kevin that she is going home to Albuquerque.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Math Class
|OriginalAirDate=[[10 October]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=25
|Aux1=[[Tom Gammill|Gammill]] & [[Max Pross|Pross]]
|Aux2=[[Andy Tennant]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin has trouble understanding Math, and gets a little help.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Wayne on Wheels
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 October]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=26
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Beth Hillshafer]]
|ShortSummary=Wayne gets his driver's license and reluctantly chauffeurs Kevin around.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Mom Wars
|OriginalAirDate=[[31 October]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=27
|Aux1=[[Todd W. Langen]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Against his mothers wishes, Kevin decides to play contact football. His mother tries taking him clothes shopping to detract from his football games.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=On The Spot
|OriginalAirDate=[[7 November]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=28
|Aux1=[[Peter Baldwin ]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin ]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie stars in the school play [[Our Town]], and Kevin runs the stage lights. The moving performance from Winnie leads her dad to move back in with her and her mother.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Odd Man Out
|OriginalAirDate=[[14 November]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=29
|Aux1=[[Peter Baldwin ]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and Paul select new best friends after an argument and go their separate ways only to make up in the end.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=The Family Car
|OriginalAirDate=[[21 November]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=30
|Aux1=[[Debra Frank|Frank]] & [[Jack Weinstein|Weinstein]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin's family decides to get a new car, but Jack has trouble letting go of the old one as well as wanting to spend his money on a new one.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=The Pimple
|OriginalAirDate=[[28 November]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=31
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]] & [[Todd W. Langen|Langen]]
|Aux2=[[Matia Karrell]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin gets his first pimple just when family friends with a beautiful daughter come for a visit.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Math Class Squared
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 December]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=32
|Aux1=[[Matthew Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin cheats in his Math class to keep up his grades. As a result his grades rise to near perfect and he is put in advanced math. After being unable to keep up, he reverts to regular math classes.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Rock 'n' Roll
|OriginalAirDate=[[2 January]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=33
|Aux1=[[Bob Stevens]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin forms a Rock 'n' Roll band with a guy called Lary Beamen
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Don't You Know Anything About Women?
|OriginalAirDate=[[16 January]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=34
|Aux1=[[Tammy Ader]]
|Aux2=[[Jeff Brown]]
|ShortSummary=Linda suggests that she and Kevin go to the dance "as friends," and he agrees. At the dance, Kevin hopes to dance with Susan and she asks Kevin to save a dance for her. Kevin pays so much attention to Susan that he hurts Linda's feelings. After a short time apart, Paul and Carla get back together which makes Kevin feel left out.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=The Powers That Be
|OriginalAirDate=[[23 January]] [[1989]]
|EpisodeNumber=35
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin's Grandfather visits the Arnolds, and brings Kevin a surprise gift — Buster the dog, a responsibility Jack doesn't think Kevin can handle.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=She, My Friend, and I
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 February]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=36
|Aux1=[[Kerry Ehrin]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin ]]
|ShortSummary=Paul gets dumped by Carla, and Kevin convinces Winnie to ask him out, but things take a nasty turn as Paul starts liking Winnie making Kevin jealous.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=St. Valentine's Day Massacre
|OriginalAirDate=[[13 February]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=37
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Matia Karrell]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin's love life keeps getting more and more difficult to resolve until finally light shines at the end.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=The Tree House
|OriginalAirDate=[[20 February]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=38
|Aux1=[[David M. Stern]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Norma suggests to Jack that he and Kevin build a tree house together.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Glee Club
|OriginalAirDate=[[27 February]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=39
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush|Brush]] & [[Todd W. Langen|Langen]]
|Aux2=[[Jim McBride]]
|ShortSummary=A new student teacher takes over the 8th grade glee club.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Night Out
|OriginalAirDate=[[13 March]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=40
|Aux1=[[Tammy Ader]]
|Aux2=[[Dan Lauria]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and Winnie go to a make out party, and things don't happen as naturally as they expected.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Faith
|OriginalAirDate=[[27 March]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=41
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush|Brush]] & [[Matthew Carlson|Carlson]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Norma loses the tax receipts, and the whole Arnold household awaits impending doom when Jack finds out.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=The Unnatural
|OriginalAirDate=[[17 April]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=42
|Aux1=[[Ian Gurvitz]]
|Aux2=[[Mick Marck]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin tries out for the baseball team, but is disillusioned when he keeps making the cut even though his performance is bad.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Goodbye
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 April]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=43
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Mr. Collins, a math teacher and role model to Kevin, tutors him to help raise his grade. He passes away suddenly, leaving Kevin to learn on his own.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Cocoa and Sympathy
|OriginalAirDate=[[1 May]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=44
|Aux1=[[Winnie Holzman]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
|ShortSummary=Paul develops a crush on Kevin's mom, but Norma handles it well.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Daddy's Little Girl
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 May]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=45
|Aux1=[[Todd W. Langen|Langen]] & [[Mark B. Perry|Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Jim McBride]]
|ShortSummary=Karen's 18th birthday approaches, and tension arises with Jack when she tells him that she wants to enroll in a liberal college.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=BFFF00
|Title=Moving
|OriginalAirDate=[[16 May]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=46
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush|Brush]] & [[Jill Gordon|Gordon]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie and her parents move away to a house 4 miles from Kevin's.
}}
|}


==Season 4 (1990 &ndash; 1991)==
Polarities lie at the heart of the work, as is commonly the case in Hesse's novels. Two relationships are of particular interest, that of Knecht with his teacher, the learned monk Father Jacobus, and with his best friend at the boarding school run by the order, Plinio Designori, the scion of a rich family. At the end of their school days, Knecht, representing [[aestheticism]] and the Life of the Mind, joins the order, while Designori returns to the world. He embodies a failed reconciliation between mind and world.
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|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=Growing Up
|OriginalAirDate=[[19 September]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=47
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=Ninth Grade Man
|OriginalAirDate=[[26 September]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=48
|Aux1=[[Jill Gordon]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin makes adjustments to being in ninth grade.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=The Journey
|OriginalAirDate=[[3 October]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=49
|Aux1=[[Jeff Stepakoff]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Werner]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=The Cost of Living
|OriginalAirDate=[[10 October]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=50
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 October]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=51
|Aux1=[[Eric Gilliland|Gilliland]] & [[Jeffrey Stepakoff|Stepakoff]]
|Aux2=[[Rob Thompson]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=Little Debbie
|OriginalAirDate=[[7 November]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=52
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Paul's little sister Debbie develops a crush on Kevin and as a result Kevin is stuck taking her to a school dance.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=The Ties that Bind
|OriginalAirDate=[[14 November]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=53
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=The Sixth Man
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 November]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=54
|Aux1=[[David Chambers]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=A Very Cutlip Christmas
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 December]] [[1990]]
|EpisodeNumber=55
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin discovers that Coach Cutlip is moonlighting as Santa Claus at the Shopping Mall.
}}
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|Title=The Candidate
|OriginalAirDate=[[9 January]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=56
|Aux1=[[David Chambers|Chambers]] & [[Eric Gilliland|Gilliland]]
|Aux2=[[Neal Israel]]
}}
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|Title=Heartbreak
|OriginalAirDate=[[23 January]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=57
|Aux1=[[David Chambers]]
|Aux2=[[Andy Tennant]]
}}
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|Title=Denial
|OriginalAirDate=[[30 January]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=58
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin|Levin]] & [[David Chambers|Chambers]]
|Aux2=[[Richard Masur]]
}}
{{Episode list
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|Title=Who's Aunt Rose?
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 February]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=59
|Aux1=[[Jill Gordon]]
|Aux2=[[Rob Thompson]]
|ShortSummary=Grandpa Arnold comes for a surprise visit in order to take the family to a funeral of a relatve they never knew.
}}
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|Title=Courage
|OriginalAirDate=[[13 February]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=60
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
}}
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|Title=Buster
|OriginalAirDate=[[27 February]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=61
|Aux1=[[Jeff Stepakoff]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
|ShortSummary=Grandpa Arnold gives the family a dog named Buster and Kevin is in charge of taking care of him.
}}
{{Episode list
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|Title=Road Trip
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 March]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=62
|Aux1=[[David Chambers]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
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|Title=When Worlds Collide
|OriginalAirDate=[[20 March]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=63
|Aux1=[[Eric Gilliland]]
|Aux2=[[Lyndall Hobbs]]
}}
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|Title=Separate Rooms
|OriginalAirDate=[[3 April]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=64
|Aux1=[[Jill Gordon|Gordon]] & [[Bob Brush|Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Now that Karen has moved out, Kevin and Wayne now have seperate bedrooms.
}}
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|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=The Yearbook
|OriginalAirDate=[[10 April]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=65
|Aux1=[[David Chambers]]
|Aux2=[[Neal Israel]]
|ShortSummary=The most popular students in school recruit Kevin to help with writing the Yearbook and set him up to put derogatory quotes in about an unpopular overweight classmate.
}}
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|Title=The Accident
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 April]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=66
|Aux1=[[Jill Gordon|Gordon]] & [[Bob Brush|Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Richard Masur]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie is emotionally unstable and is hanging out with older kids. She gets into a car accident and breaks her leg. Kevin comes to visit her, but her parents tell him that she doesn't want to see him right now. He sneaks back to see her later that night, and they say "I love you" to each other through her window.
}}
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|Title=The House That Jack Built
|OriginalAirDate=[[1 May]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=67
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry|Perry]] & [[Mark Levin|Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
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|LineColor=FF00CA
|Title=Graduation
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 May]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=68
|Aux1=[[Bob Brush]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Graduation from Junior High School approaches and Kevin is unhappy about changes affecting him and Paul causing Kevin to get angry at Paul. The last day of school instruction results in an explosion in the science lab. Later when Mrs Hymer (one of Kevin's favorite at the school) comes to visit him, she suddenly is ready to have her baby, leaving Kevin to drive her to the hospital (unlicensed). He helps Mrs Hymer deliver her son and then makes the Graduation just in time to get his diploma as we watch the recurring characters get their diplomas as well. Kevin and Paul indeed patch up their friendship.
}}
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|Title=The Wonder Years (Clip Show)
|OriginalAirDate=[[15 May]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=69
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry|Perry]] & [[Mark Levin|Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
|ShortSummary=A collection of clips from past episodes.
}}
|}


==Season 5 (1991 &ndash; 1992)==
In his introduction to ''[[Demian]]'', [[Thomas Mann]] likened his relation with Hesse to that of Knecht and Jacobus, adding that their knowledge of each other was not possible without much ceremony. Mann extrapolates on Hesse's observance of Oriental customs in the novel. The ''Glass Bead Game'' manifests Hesse's enduring dream of combining East with West. For example, the discipline of the imaginary monastic community includes breathing and [[meditation]] techniques of clear Oriental inspiration.
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Castalia is an [[Ivory Tower]], an ethereal protected community within a larger nation, devoted to pure intellectual pursuits, and oblivious to the problems posed by life outside its boundaries. Knecht gradually comes to doubt whether the intellectually gifted have a right to withdraw from life's big problems. He eventually concludes that they do not, and that conclusion precipitates a sort of midlife crisis. Accordingly, he does the unthinkable: he resigns as Magister Ludi and asks to leave the order, ostensibly to become of value and service, in some way, to the larger culture. A few days later, he drowns in a mountain lake, while attempting a swim for which he was not fit. Tragically, living in Castalia made Knecht unfit for life in the world. Hesse also makes an [[existentialist]] point: faced with a dilemma, Knecht opts for the world and not the ivory tower.
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Many characters in the novel have names that are allusive word games. For example, Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi was Thomas van der Trave, a veiled reference to [[Thomas Mann]] who was born in [[Lübeck]], situated on the Trave River. Father Jacobus is based on the novelist [[Jakob Wassermann]]. The character of Carlo Ferromonte is a punning reference to Hesse's nephew Karl Isenberg.
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==Central characters==
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*Joseph Knecht: The central character of the book. The Magister Ludi for most of the book.
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*The Music Master: Knecht's spiritual mentor who when Knecht is a child examines him for entrance into the elite schools of Castalia.
|Title=The Lake
* Plinio Designori: Knecht's antithesis in the world outside.
|OriginalAirDate=[[2 October]] [[1991]]
*Father Jacobus: Knecht's antithesis in faith.
|EpisodeNumber=70
*Elder Brother: A former Castalian and student of Chinese.
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
*Thomas van der Trave: Joseph Knecht's predecessor as Magister Ludi.
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
*Fritz Tegularius: A friend of Knecht's but a portent of what Castalians might become if they remain insular.
|ShortSummary=During a summer trip to the lake, Kevin meets a local girl, Cara, and romance ensues. She is the only one who really understands him. They are both sad that he will soon have to leave, and make out at the drive-in. At the same time Paul now has contact lenses as he prepares to enter private school.

}}
==Hesse's Glass Bead Game==
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At the center of the monastic order lies the (fictitious) glass bead [[game]], whose exact nature remains elusive. The precise rules of the game are only alluded to, and are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Suffice it to say that playing the Game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. Essentially the game is an abstract [[synthesis]] of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics. For example, a [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] [[concerto]] may be related to a mathematical [[formula]]. One [http://www.sfhreview.com/workingpapers/?p=1 description] says:
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|Title=Day One
''“Theoretically,” writes the Narrator Archivist, “this instrument is capable of producing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe. The manuals, pedal, and stops are now fixed. Changes in their number and order and attempts at perfecting them, are actually no longer feasible except in theory.” And with this statement, he reveals the limitations of the game: its elitism, its hubris, its stagnation, and its sterility.In its infancy, the Game was played with delicate glass beads, which have since been discarded as too . . . real? They connected the Game with the spiritual beads played by religious believers worldwide, as the robes, and secret language, and ceremonial trappings of the game form a mock religious experience in the time of the Narrator Archivist. Without them, the game flies into the ether without a tether to reality. In our world, prayer beads and the repetition of simple phrases serve as keys to transcendence. In Castalia, they are discarded and the key is lost. The Narrator Archivist makes no reference to the ecstatic states that might be achieved by Glass Bead Game players. The games as he describes them in Knecht’s time (the twenty-second century) and his own (the twenty-fourth century) apparently fall short of what seems the obvious goal.''
|OriginalAirDate=[[9 October]] [[1991]]

|EpisodeNumber=71
The Game derives its name from the fact that it was originally played with tokens, perhaps analogous to those of an [[abacus]] or the game [[go (board game)|Go]]. At the time that the novel takes place, such props had become obsolete and the game is played only with abstract, spoken formulas. The audience's appreciation of a good game draws on its appreciation of both [[music]] and mathematical [[elegance]].
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]

|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
The Glass Bead Game also brings to mind [[Leibniz]]'s notion of a universal [[calculus]] and his dream of a [[Mathesis universalis]]. [[Douglas Hofstadter]]'s ''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'', even though it does not mention Hesse's novel, is an intellectual exercise very much in the spirit of the Game.
|ShortSummary=Kevin's first day of 10th grade, at McKinley High School. Distraught to be without his best friend Paul, and feeling alone, it does not go as planned. One of Kevin's teachers has a vendetta against him based on the teacher's experience with Wayne a couple of years back.

}}
However rather as being seen as a purely intellectual or rational notion it is more likely the glass bead game includes more [[Existential]] elements. As Hesse's other works (such as Steppenwolf for example) draw strongly on [[Existential]] themes it is likely that the glass bead game refers to the way in which people construct their realities. That is to say that the glass bead game is in fact life or existence and it illustrates the ways that people position not just themselves material but how they construct their entire perception of reality. As one needs to understand reality before one can deliberately allocate it this is the reference to the years of study.
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==Allusions/references from other works==
|Title=The Hardware Store
* The [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] band [[Igra Staklenih Perli]], and their [[eponym|eponymous]] record, was named after the book.[http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=1614]
|OriginalAirDate=[[16 October]] [[1991]]

|EpisodeNumber=72
== See also ==
|Aux1=[[Craig Hoffman]]
*[[Hermann Hesse]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
* [[Existentialism]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin doesn't enjoy his job at Old Man Harris' ([[Al Ruscio]]) Hardware Store. After quitting to go work at a food take-out place in the mall, Kevin feels guilty because of all the things that Old Man Harris had taught him.
* [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
}}
* [[Epistemology]]
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* [[Noosphere]]
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* [[Ontology]]
|Title=Frank and Denise
* [[Polysemy]]
|OriginalAirDate=[[23 October]] [[1991]]
* [[Rithmomachy]]
|EpisodeNumber=73
* [[Syncretism]]
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
* [[Efforts to Create A Glass Bead Game]]
|Aux2=[[David Greenwalt]]

|ShortSummary=Meet Frank "the Stank" and Denise "the Grease", two older kids in Kevin's high school. Their romance is on the rocks, and when Kevin begins helping Denise in English class, Frank becomes jealous.
== References ==
}}
* Hermann Hesse. ''The Glass Bead Game''. Vintage Classics. ISBN 0-09-928362-X
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{{Hermann Hesse}}
|Title=Full Moon Rising
|OriginalAirDate=[[30 October]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=74
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Triangle
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 November]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=75
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Soccer
|OriginalAirDate=[[20 November]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=76
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin joins the schools soccer team in an attempt to become involved in school sports, but becomes very frustrated with the teams lack luster preformance, and an extremly apathetic coach.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Dinner Out
|OriginalAirDate=[[4 December]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=77
|Aux1=[[Gina Goldman]]
|Aux2=[[Bryan Gordon]]
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Christmas Party
|OriginalAirDate=[[11 December]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=78
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Jim McBride]]
|ShortSummary=The Arnold family prepares for their annual neighborhood Christmas party which will be their last.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Pfeiffer's Choice
|OriginalAirDate=[[18 December]] [[1991]]
|EpisodeNumber=79
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Road Test
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 January]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=80
|ShortSummary=Kevin gets his driver's license.
|Aux1=[[Craig Hoffman]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Grandpa's Car
|OriginalAirDate=[[15 January]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=81
|ShortSummary=Grandpa Arnold gives Kevin his car after he concludes with alot of arm-twisting that he is no longer able to drive.
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Kodachrome
|OriginalAirDate=[[29 January]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=82
|Aux1=[[Gina Goldman]]
|Aux2=[[David Greenwalt]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Private Butthead
|OriginalAirDate=[[5 February]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=83
|ShortSummary=Wayne attempts to join the army and is rejected while his friend Wart is accepted, joins, and is eventually sent to Vietnam.
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Of Mastodons and Men
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 February]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=84
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Double Double Date
|OriginalAirDate=[[26 February]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=85
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen|Rosen]] & [[Mark B. Perry|Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Hero
|OriginalAirDate=[[11 March]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=86
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
|Aux2=[[Stephen Cragg]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Lunch Stories
|OriginalAirDate=[[18 March]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=87
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Carnal Knowledge
|OriginalAirDate=[[25 March]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=88
|ShortSummary=Paul's parents' friends come to visit along with the couple's college age daughter. Paul gets more than he bargained for on this visit while Kevin and his friends sneak into a theatre to see a movie called "Carnal Knowledge".
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
|Aux2=[[Nancy Cooperstein]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=The Lost Weekend
|OriginalAirDate=[[8 April]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=89
|Aux1=[[Rob Cohen]]
|Aux2=[[Arthur Albert]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Stormy Weather
|OriginalAirDate=[[22 April]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=90
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|ShortSummary=Karen and her boyfriend have a huge fight and Karen moves out and back to the Arnolds' house. They end up making up and setting a wedding date in the end.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=The Wedding
|OriginalAirDate=[[29 April]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=91
|ShortSummary=After a Karen and her live-in boyfriend make up from a breakup, they finally get married.
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Back to the Lake
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 May]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=92
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Broken Hearts and Burgers
|OriginalAirDate=[[13 May]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=93
|Aux1=[[Craig Hoffman]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
}}
|}
==Season 5 (1992 &ndash; 1993)==
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Homecoming
|OriginalAirDate=[[23 September]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=94
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin tries to steal the rival school's owl for homecoming, and Wayne's buddy, David "Wart" Wartshafter returns home from a tour in Vietnam, branded a murderer by several local protesters, but he is really a hero, and a changed man. First episode appearance of Jeff Billings ([[Giovanni Ribisi]]) the first kid Kevin ever knew who had divorced parents.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Fishing
|OriginalAirDate=[[30 September]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=95
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and Wayne are dragged by Jack to a secluded fishing hole for some male bonding. Kevin is angry that Jack and Wayne still treat him like the youngest, refusing him beer and ignoring him. Jack realizes his dream of building a cabin by the fishing hole is never going to happen.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Scenes from a Wedding
|OriginalAirDate=[[7 October]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=96
|Aux1=[[Craig Hoffman]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|ShortSummary=When Jack's boss's daughter gets married, the whole family is invited to the wedding.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Sex and Economics
|OriginalAirDate=[[14 October]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=97
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
|Aux2=[[David Greenwalt]]
|ShortSummary=.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Politics as Usual
|OriginalAirDate=[[21 October]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=98
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie convinces Kevin to work with her on the George McGovern campaign. Kevin is convinced that the man in charge has a romantic interest in Winnie.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=White Lies
|OriginalAirDate=[[28 October]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=99
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen]]
|Aux2=[[Daniel Stern]]
|Short Summary=
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Wayne And Bonnie
|OriginalAirDate=[[11 November]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=100
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
|ShortSummary=Wayne begins dating a much older woman he met at work. The fact that this woman was divorced with a baby made the family feel uneasy.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Kevin Delivers
|OriginalAirDate=[[25 November]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=101
|Aux1=[[Gina Goldman]]
|Aux2=[[Bryan Gordon]]
|Short Summary=Kevin gets a job delivering Chinese food. He makes decent tips, but loses them all when his car is towed while he calls Winnie. At the end of a long and fruitless night, he makes one last delivery -- as it turns out, to Winnie, so they can have a late-night date.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=The Test
|OriginalAirDate=[[9 December]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=102
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Jim McBride]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin deals with the stress of the SATs, and Paul and friends blow the test out of proportion. Meanwhile, Jack gets a middling review at NORCOM and decides to leave. He buys a furniture factory with another ex-NORCOM co-worker. Empowered by Jack's bravery, Kevin takes the SATs and decides his life will not be dictated by the results.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Let Nothing You Dismay
|OriginalAirDate=[[16 December]] [[1992]]
|EpisodeNumber=103
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|ShortSummary=The fourth Christmas episode of the Wonder Years. This Christmas, Jack had resigned from Norcom and with help from a co-worker was getting a loan for a furniture factory. But his friend backs out last minute. Even after that, Jack managed to get the bank loan afterall.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=New Years
|OriginalAirDate=[[6 January]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=104
|Aux1=[[Craig Hoffman]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
|ShortSummary=Wayne and Bonnie are seeming to grow closer together this New Years and plan to get brother Kevin and their parents together on new Years Eve to celebrate. Wayne, though, is very worried that Bonnie may eventually leave him to return to her ex-husband who is the father of her baby. This actually happens New Years Eve night suddenly.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Alice In Autoland
|OriginalAirDate=[[13 January]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=105
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Michael Dinner]]
|Short Summary=Kevin's friend's girlfriend sets up a deal for Kevin to get a car at a low price which turns out to be a lemon.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Ladies and Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones
|OriginalAirDate=[[20 January]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=106
|Aux1=[[Gina Goldman]]
|Aux2=[[David Greenwalt]]
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Unpacking
|OriginalAirDate=[[3 February]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=107
|ShortSummary=Kevin takes a friend whose parents recently divorced back to his hometown for closure.
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen]]
|Aux2=[[Nick Marck]]
}}
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|Title=Hulk Arnold
|OriginalAirDate=[[10 February]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=108
|Aux1=[[Mark Levin]]
|Aux2=[[Thomas Schlamme]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin is drafted to the wrestling team and loses matches even after trying his best.
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Nose
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 February]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=109
|Aux1=[[Sy Rosen|Rosen]] & [[Mark B. Perry|Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
}}
{{Episode list
|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Eclipse
|OriginalAirDate=[[17 March]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=110
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
|Aux2=[[Stephen Cragg]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin and Winnie argue throughout a field trip to a planetarium to see an eclipse. Ricky, meanwhile, is locked in a rest area bathroom, managing to escape and hitchhike to the planetarium.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Poker
|OriginalAirDate=[[24 March]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=111
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|Short Summary=Kevin and his friends pass the time away playing poker. Paul at this time discovers that Kevin and his other friends have a secret ski trip planned that excludes him.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Little Women
|OriginalAirDate=[[31 March]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=112
|Aux1=[[David Greenwalt]]
|Aux2=[[Nancy Cooperstein]]
|ShortSummary=Norma get her college degree finally.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Reunion
|OriginalAirDate=[[28 April]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=113
|Aux1=[[Rob Cohen]]
|Aux2=[[Arthur Albert]]
|ShortSummary=At Norma's high school reunion, Jack gets jealous after meeting an old flame of Norma's who turned out to be a medical doctor.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Summer
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 May]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=114
|Aux1=[[Sy Dukane|Dukane]] & [[Denise Moss|Moss]]
|Aux2=[[Ken Topolsky]]
|ShortSummary=Winnie gets a summer job at a resort where she will live there as well. Kevin meanwhile plans a cross country trip with his friends that his father put a stop to. Kevin then quits his job at his dad's factory and gets a job at the resort Winnie works at. Kevin then is disappointed that he and Winnie are so busy they have no time for each other. Meanwhile, Kevin spends his life savings playing poker with some pros and wins big which cheers him up until he then catches Winnie kissing a co-worker.
}}
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|LineColor=00BCFF
|Title=Independence Day
|OriginalAirDate=[[12 May]] [[1993]]
|EpisodeNumber=115
|Aux1=[[Mark B. Perry]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Baldwin]]
|ShortSummary=Kevin is furious with Winnie and plays another poker game. Yhis time he loses all his money and his car. He then punches the guy Winnie kissed in the face and quits the job (that he was about to be fired from anyway). Winnie, meanwhile, is fired because of this was well. Winnie hitches a ride back home. Kevin also hicthes a ride and happens to be picked up by the same couple that picked up Winnie moments sooner. Winnie then tells Kevin what happened and they both get into an argument and are both dropped off the side of the road in hot humid weather. Soon after a thunderstorm occurs and lasts till dark. The two find refuge in an old barn where they talk things out. The next day they get back home. A year later the Independence Day parade happens in their town and Kevin tells what becomees of him, his family and friends as this is the final Wonder Years episode.
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== External links ==


==Notes==
* [http://www.ludism.org/gbgwiki/ Glass Bead Game Wiki.] Links to efforts at developing a Glass Bead Game.
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* [http://www.erpmusic.com/Glasperlenspiel.htm Glasperlenspiel Festival.]
* [http://glassplategame.org/ Details] of Dunbar Aitkens' "conversation in the trappings of a board game."
* [http://www.beadgaming.com/pageindex.html On the hipbone metaphor.]
* [http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/GBG/index.html The most complex of the attempts to create a real-life Glass Bead Game.]
* http://www.joshuafost.com/glassbeadgame/ A Semantic Web instantiation with examples from symbolism in Pulp Fiction.
* http://kennexions.ludism.org/ A link to Ron Hale-Evans' Kennexions game.
* http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/%7Etas3/wtc/ii21.html Timothy A. Smith's Shockwave movie analyzing a Bach fugue with visual symbols.
* http://log24.com/theory/kal/ Kaleidoscope Puzzle with symbols like those in Smith's movie.
* http://www.spookybug.com/bgirls/pif.html The Gospel of Pif: A playable variation on the glass bead game
* http://www.island.org/ive/1/leary1.html Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society


==External links==
[[Category:1943 novels|Glass Bead Game]]
* [http://www.tv.com/the-wonder-years/show/208/episode.html TV.com Episode Guide]
[[Category:German novels|Glass Bead Game]]
* [http://mytwyyearbook.tripod.com/epinfo.html Episode information]
[[Category:Fictional games|Glass Bead Game]]


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Revision as of 12:27, 25 June 2007

The following is an episode list for the ABC dramedy series The Wonder Years. The series premiered on 15 March 1988 and ran for a total of 115 episodes spanning 6 seasons, until 12 May 1993

Currently, none of the seasons are available on DVD as official season box sets due to the cost of securing the music rights.[1] (See The Wonder Years article for more detailed information)

Season Number of Episodes Originally aired
1 6 1988
2 17 1988 – 1989
3 23 1989 – 1990
4 23 1990 – 1991
5 24 1991 – 1992
6 22 1992 – 1993

Season 1 (1988)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
1"Pilot"Marlens & BlackSteve Miner15 March 1988
We are introduced to Kevin and his friends during their last summer as boys. They are getting ready to enter Robert F. Kennedy Junior High School. Kevin and Winnie share their first kiss at Harpers Woods as Winnie mourns the loss of her brother Brian, who is killed in Vietnam.
2"Swingers"Marlens & BlackMarlens & Black22 March 1988
Even at Brian's funeral, all Kevin can think about is Winnie. At school the boys' PE class begins the much anticipated sex education, but Kevin and Paul are bored with it — they want to learn more, so they decide to steal Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Sex But Were Afraid to Ask."
3"My Father's Office"Marlens & BlackJeffrey Brown29 March 1988
Kevin learns more about his dad by spending a day at his office. He learns the reason why he returns home in a grumpy mood every day and that even Jack has to quietly take orders and abuse from his boss.
4"Angel"Marlens & BlackArt Wolff5 April 1988
Karen is now a hippie who doesn't communicate with her parents much anymore. The tension is worsened when she brings home her new boyfriend Louis. Kevin takes an immediate dislike to Louis, a hippie who angers Jack with his anti-war sentiments.
5"The Phone Call"A. Scott FrankJeffrey Brown12 April 1988
Kevin tries to get up the courage to call Lisa Berlini. Paul tries to find out if Lisa likes Kevin by consulting the junior high grapevine.
6"Dance With Me"David M. SternArlene Sanford19 April 1988
After talking to Lisa Berlini for a whole four minutes last night, Kevin asks her to the Spring Dance. She says okay, but soon thereafter, when Brad Gaines asks her, decides to go with him. While eating lunch with Winnie, Kevin feels himself falling back in love with Winnie, but she is going to the dance with Kirk McCray. Kevin tries to make Winnie jealous at the dance, but fails.

Season 2 (1988 – 1989)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
7"The Heart of Darkness"Marlens & BlackSteve Miner30 November 1988
Kevin attemts to act cool after Winnie starts dating Kirk McCray (Michael Landes) and hangkin out with all the cool kids. Kevin and Paul go camping with Gary (Breckin Meyer), where they drink beer and smoke cigarettes.
8"Our Miss White"Michael J. WeithornPeter Baldwin7 December 1988
Kevin develops a crush on Miss White (Wendel Meldrum), his English teacher. She persuades him to play Robert Kennedy, the lead role, in a school play that she has written.
9"Christmas"Bob BrushSteve Miner14 December 1988
Kevin and his brother try to convince their father to buy a color television for Christmas. Kevin tries to find a present for Winnie after he unexpectedly receives one from her.
10"Steady as She Goes"David M. SternSteve Miner11 January 1989
Rumors spread that Winnie and Kirk are going to break up, but later Kevin sees Kirk holding up a sign — "I am sorry, Winnie." He gets frustrated with being alone, and ends up asking Becky Slater (Crystal McKellar) out in order to make Winnie jealous.
11"Just Between You and Me ... and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky"Daniel SternPeter Baldwin18 January 1989
Kirk asks Kevin to find outh whether or not Winnie likes him anymore. While speaking to her, she tells him that she will break up with Kirk soon. Later, Kevin sees Kirk and Winnie kissing. Becky knocks out Kevin when she finds out he doesn't really like her. Kevin still wants to find out if Winnie likes him, but she is confused and is not sure.
12"Pottery Will Get You Nowhere"Beth HillshaferkDaniel Stern1 February 1989
Norma and Jack never argue in front of the kids, until they fight about Norma's pottery class and Jack's favorite cup.
13"Coda"Todd W. LangenBeth Hillshafer8 February 1989
Kevin dislikes his piano lessons, until Mrs. Carples (Maxine Stuart) tells Norma that Kevin has talent. He continues taking lessons, and improves his playing. That is, until Ronald Hirschmuller (Joseph Dammann) decides to play the same piece as him for the recital. Kevin messes up at the rehersal, and decides to quit and not go to the recital. A decision he seems to regret later in life.
14"Hiroshima, Mon Frere"Matthew CarlsonSteve Miner15 February 1989
Wayne puts Kevin and Paul's hamter experiment for science class in jeopardy.
15"Loosiers"David M. SternSteve Miner28 February 1989
Paul likes to play basketball, but he's not very good at it. Kevin attempts to reorganize PE class so that Paul is not always picked last, and Coach Cutlip puts him as captain. Kevin chooses all the bad players for his team.
16"Walkout"Matthew CarlsonSteve Miner7 March 1989
Kevin and other students on the student council try to organize a walk out to protest America's involvement in Vietnam. Mr. Diperna threatens to mark it down on their permanent records if they do it.
17"Nemesis"Matthew CarlsonDaniel Stern14 March 1989
Kevin learns a lesson about talking behind someones back and how "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" when Becky Slater returns and tells everyone what Kevin said behind their back.
18"Fate"Bob BrushSteve Miner28 March 1989
Winnie is still angry with Kevin for talking about her behind her back. When Kevin stands up for her honor against school bully Eddie Pinetti, he is shocked to find that Winnie and Eddie are dating. In the end, his loyalty wins back the friendship of Winnie.
19"Birthday Boy"David M. SternSteve Miner11 April 1989
When Kevin's birthday party is scheduled for the same day as Paul's Bar Mitzvah, Kevin feels put out, but also becomes interested in family traditions.
20"Brightwing"Matthew CarlsonDaniel Stern18 April 1989
Kevin becomes his sister's confidant when he discovers she is skipping school to go to "the rock."
21"Square Dance"Todd W. LangenTom Moore2 May 1989
When Kevin is partnered with class weirdo, Margaret Farquhar (Lindsay Fisher), he tries to keep away from her - especially when she tries to become his friend.
22"Whose Woods These Are"Bob BrushPeter Horton9 May 1989
Kevin, Winnie and Paul try to stop the destruction of Harper's Woods. They don't want it destroyed because it was the place where Winnie and Kevin kissed for the first time and a place they all played together when they were younger.
23"How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation"Jane AndersonMichael Dinner16 May 1989
It's the end of seventh grade for Kevin and a summer full of changes in his life. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are breaking up and Miss White announces she is going to get married.

Season 3 (1989 – 1990)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
24"Summer Song"Mark B. PerryMichael Dinner3 October 1989
The Family takes a trip to the beach. Kevin meets a girl named Teri (Holly Sampson) and they go on a date to the fair. They kiss under a pier and then she tells Kevin that she is going home to Albuquerque.
25"Math Class"Gammill & ProssAndy Tennant10 October 1989
Kevin has trouble understanding Math, and gets a little help.
26"Wayne on Wheels"Mark B. PerryBeth Hillshafer24 October 1989
Wayne gets his driver's license and reluctantly chauffeurs Kevin around.
27"Mom Wars"Todd W. LangenDaniel Stern31 October 1989
Against his mothers wishes, Kevin decides to play contact football. His mother tries taking him clothes shopping to detract from his football games.
28"On The Spot"Peter Baldwin Peter Baldwin 7 November 1989
Winnie stars in the school play Our Town, and Kevin runs the stage lights. The moving performance from Winnie leads her dad to move back in with her and her mother.
29"Odd Man Out"Peter Baldwin Peter Baldwin14 November 1989
Kevin and Paul select new best friends after an argument and go their separate ways only to make up in the end.
30"The Family Car"Frank & WeinsteinMichael Dinner21 November 1989
Kevin's family decides to get a new car, but Jack has trouble letting go of the old one as well as wanting to spend his money on a new one.
31"The Pimple"David M. Stern & LangenMatia Karrell28 November 1989
Kevin gets his first pimple just when family friends with a beautiful daughter come for a visit.
32"Math Class Squared"Matthew CarlsonDaniel Stern12 December 1989
Kevin cheats in his Math class to keep up his grades. As a result his grades rise to near perfect and he is put in advanced math. After being unable to keep up, he reverts to regular math classes.
33"Rock 'n' Roll"Bob StevensMichael Dinner2 January 1989
Kevin forms a Rock 'n' Roll band with a guy called Lary Beamen
34"Don't You Know Anything About Women?"Tammy AderJeff Brown16 January 1989
Linda suggests that she and Kevin go to the dance "as friends," and he agrees. At the dance, Kevin hopes to dance with Susan and she asks Kevin to save a dance for her. Kevin pays so much attention to Susan that he hurts Linda's feelings. After a short time apart, Paul and Carla get back together which makes Kevin feel left out.
35"The Powers That Be"David M. SternDaniel Stern23 January 1989
Kevin's Grandfather visits the Arnolds, and brings Kevin a surprise gift — Buster the dog, a responsibility Jack doesn't think Kevin can handle.
36"She, My Friend, and I"Kerry EhrinPeter Baldwin 6 February 1990
Paul gets dumped by Carla, and Kevin convinces Winnie to ask him out, but things take a nasty turn as Paul starts liking Winnie making Kevin jealous.
37"St. Valentine's Day Massacre"Mark B. PerryMatia Karrell13 February 1990
Kevin's love life keeps getting more and more difficult to resolve until finally light shines at the end.
38"The Tree House"David M. SternMichael Dinner20 February 1990
Norma suggests to Jack that he and Kevin build a tree house together.
39"Glee Club"Brush & LangenJim McBride27 February 1990
A new student teacher takes over the 8th grade glee club.
40"Night Out"Tammy AderDan Lauria13 March 1990
Kevin and Winnie go to a make out party, and things don't happen as naturally as they expected.
41"Faith"Brush & CarlsonMichael Dinner27 March 1990
Norma loses the tax receipts, and the whole Arnold household awaits impending doom when Jack finds out.
42"The Unnatural"Ian GurvitzMick Marck17 April 1990
Kevin tries out for the baseball team, but is disillusioned when he keeps making the cut even though his performance is bad.
43"Goodbye"Bob BrushMichael Dinner24 April 1990
Mr. Collins, a math teacher and role model to Kevin, tutors him to help raise his grade. He passes away suddenly, leaving Kevin to learn on his own.
44"Cocoa and Sympathy"Winnie HolzmanPeter Baldwin1 May 1990
Paul develops a crush on Kevin's mom, but Norma handles it well.
45"Daddy's Little Girl"Langen & PerryJim McBride8 May 1990
Karen's 18th birthday approaches, and tension arises with Jack when she tells him that she wants to enroll in a liberal college.
46"Moving"Brush & GordonMichael Dinner16 May 1990
Winnie and her parents move away to a house 4 miles from Kevin's.

Season 4 (1990 – 1991)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
47"Growing Up"Bob BrushMichael Dinner19 September 1990
48"Ninth Grade Man"Jill GordonDaniel Stern26 September 1990
Kevin makes adjustments to being in ninth grade.
49"The Journey"Jeff StepakoffPeter Werner3 October 1990
50"The Cost of Living"Mark LevinNick Marck10 October 1990
51"It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World"Gilliland & StepakoffRob Thompson24 October 1990
52"Little Debbie"Mark B. PerryMichael Dinner7 November 1990
Paul's little sister Debbie develops a crush on Kevin and as a result Kevin is stuck taking her to a school dance.
53"The Ties that Bind"Mark B. PerryPeter Baldwin14 November 1990
54"The Sixth Man"David ChambersNick Marck8 November 1990
55"A Very Cutlip Christmas"Mark LevinMichael Dinner12 December 1990
Kevin discovers that Coach Cutlip is moonlighting as Santa Claus at the Shopping Mall.
56"The Candidate"Chambers & GillilandNeal Israel9 January 1991
57"Heartbreak"David ChambersAndy Tennant23 January 1991
58"Denial"Levin & ChambersRichard Masur30 January 1991
59"Who's Aunt Rose?"Jill GordonRob Thompson6 February 1991
Grandpa Arnold comes for a surprise visit in order to take the family to a funeral of a relatve they never knew.
60"Courage"Mark B. PerryDaniel Stern13 February 1991
61"Buster"Jeff StepakoffNick Marck27 February 1991
Grandpa Arnold gives the family a dog named Buster and Kevin is in charge of taking care of him.
62"Road Trip"David ChambersKen Topolsky6 March 1991
63"When Worlds Collide"Eric GillilandLyndall Hobbs20 March 1991
64"Separate Rooms"Gordon & BrushMichael Dinner3 April 1991
Now that Karen has moved out, Kevin and Wayne now have seperate bedrooms.
65"The Yearbook"David ChambersNeal Israel10 April 1991
The most popular students in school recruit Kevin to help with writing the Yearbook and set him up to put derogatory quotes in about an unpopular overweight classmate.
66"The Accident"Gordon & BrushRichard Masur24 April 1991
Winnie is emotionally unstable and is hanging out with older kids. She gets into a car accident and breaks her leg. Kevin comes to visit her, but her parents tell him that she doesn't want to see him right now. He sneaks back to see her later that night, and they say "I love you" to each other through her window.
67"The House That Jack Built"Perry & LevinKen Topolsky1 May 1991
68"Graduation"Bob BrushMichael Dinner8 May 1991
Graduation from Junior High School approaches and Kevin is unhappy about changes affecting him and Paul causing Kevin to get angry at Paul. The last day of school instruction results in an explosion in the science lab. Later when Mrs Hymer (one of Kevin's favorite at the school) comes to visit him, she suddenly is ready to have her baby, leaving Kevin to drive her to the hospital (unlicensed). He helps Mrs Hymer deliver her son and then makes the Graduation just in time to get his diploma as we watch the recurring characters get their diplomas as well. Kevin and Paul indeed patch up their friendship.
69"The Wonder Years (Clip Show)"Perry & LevinNick Marck15 May 1991
A collection of clips from past episodes.

Season 5 (1991 – 1992)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
70"The Lake"Mark LevinMichael Dinner2 October 1991
During a summer trip to the lake, Kevin meets a local girl, Cara, and romance ensues. She is the only one who really understands him. They are both sad that he will soon have to leave, and make out at the drive-in. At the same time Paul now has contact lenses as he prepares to enter private school.
71"Day One"Dukane & MossDaniel Stern9 October 1991
Kevin's first day of 10th grade, at McKinley High School. Distraught to be without his best friend Paul, and feeling alone, it does not go as planned. One of Kevin's teachers has a vendetta against him based on the teacher's experience with Wayne a couple of years back.
72"The Hardware Store"Craig HoffmanKen Topolsky16 October 1991
Kevin doesn't enjoy his job at Old Man Harris' (Al Ruscio) Hardware Store. After quitting to go work at a food take-out place in the mall, Kevin feels guilty because of all the things that Old Man Harris had taught him.
73"Frank and Denise"David GreenwaltDavid Greenwalt23 October 1991
Meet Frank "the Stank" and Denise "the Grease", two older kids in Kevin's high school. Their romance is on the rocks, and when Kevin begins helping Denise in English class, Frank becomes jealous.
74"Full Moon Rising"Mark B. PerryKen Topolsky30 October 1991
75"Triangle"Sy RosenDaniel Stern6 November 1991
76"Soccer"Mark LevinThomas Schlamme20 November 1991
Kevin joins the schools soccer team in an attempt to become involved in school sports, but becomes very frustrated with the teams lack luster preformance, and an extremly apathetic coach.
77"Dinner Out"Gina GoldmanBryan Gordon4 December 1991
78"Christmas Party"Dukane & MossJim McBride11 December 1991
The Arnold family prepares for their annual neighborhood Christmas party which will be their last.
79"Pfeiffer's Choice"Mark B. PerryKen Topolsky18 December 1991
80"Road Test"Craig HoffmanThomas Schlamme8 January 1992
Kevin gets his driver's license.
81"Grandpa's Car"Mark LevinMichael Dinner15 January 1992
Grandpa Arnold gives Kevin his car after he concludes with alot of arm-twisting that he is no longer able to drive.
82"Kodachrome"Gina GoldmanDavid Greenwalt29 January 1992
83"Private Butthead"Sy RosenNick Marck5 February 1992
Wayne attempts to join the army and is rejected while his friend Wart is accepted, joins, and is eventually sent to Vietnam.
84"Of Mastodons and Men"Mark LevinThomas Schlamme12 February 1992
85"Double Double Date"Rosen & PerryPeter Baldwin26 February 1992
86"Hero"David GreenwaltStephen Cragg11 March 1992
87"Lunch Stories"Dukane & MossKen Topolsky18 March 1992
88"Carnal Knowledge"David GreenwaltNancy Cooperstein25 March 1992
Paul's parents' friends come to visit along with the couple's college age daughter. Paul gets more than he bargained for on this visit while Kevin and his friends sneak into a theatre to see a movie called "Carnal Knowledge".
89"The Lost Weekend"Rob CohenArthur Albert8 April 1992
90"Stormy Weather"Dukane & MossKen Topolsky22 April 1992
Karen and her boyfriend have a huge fight and Karen moves out and back to the Arnolds' house. They end up making up and setting a wedding date in the end.
91"The Wedding"Mark B. PerryPeter Baldwin29 April 1992
After a Karen and her live-in boyfriend make up from a breakup, they finally get married.
92"Back to the Lake"Mark LevinMichael Dinner6 May 1992
93"Broken Hearts and Burgers"Craig HoffmanKen Topolsky13 May 1992

Season 5 (1992 – 1993)

# Title Writer[2] Director[2] Original airdate
94"Homecoming"Mark LevinMichael Dinner23 September 1992
Kevin tries to steal the rival school's owl for homecoming, and Wayne's buddy, David "Wart" Wartshafter returns home from a tour in Vietnam, branded a murderer by several local protesters, but he is really a hero, and a changed man. First episode appearance of Jeff Billings (Giovanni Ribisi) the first kid Kevin ever knew who had divorced parents.
95"Fishing"Dukane & MossDaniel Stern30 September 1992
Kevin and Wayne are dragged by Jack to a secluded fishing hole for some male bonding. Kevin is angry that Jack and Wayne still treat him like the youngest, refusing him beer and ignoring him. Jack realizes his dream of building a cabin by the fishing hole is never going to happen.
96"Scenes from a Wedding"Craig HoffmanKen Topolsky7 October 1992
When Jack's boss's daughter gets married, the whole family is invited to the wedding.
97"Sex and Economics"David GreenwaltDavid Greenwalt14 October 1992
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98"Politics as Usual"Mark B. PerryKen Topolsky21 October 1992
Winnie convinces Kevin to work with her on the George McGovern campaign. Kevin is convinced that the man in charge has a romantic interest in Winnie.
99"White Lies"Sy RosenDaniel Stern28 October 1992
100"Wayne And Bonnie"Mark LevinThomas Schlamme11 November 1992
Wayne begins dating a much older woman he met at work. The fact that this woman was divorced with a baby made the family feel uneasy.
101"Kevin Delivers"Gina GoldmanBryan Gordon25 November 1992
102"The Test"Dukane & MossJim McBride9 December 1992
Kevin deals with the stress of the SATs, and Paul and friends blow the test out of proportion. Meanwhile, Jack gets a middling review at NORCOM and decides to leave. He buys a furniture factory with another ex-NORCOM co-worker. Empowered by Jack's bravery, Kevin takes the SATs and decides his life will not be dictated by the results.
103"Let Nothing You Dismay"Mark B. PerryKen Topolsky16 December 1992
The fourth Christmas episode of the Wonder Years. This Christmas, Jack had resigned from Norcom and with help from a co-worker was getting a loan for a furniture factory. But his friend backs out last minute. Even after that, Jack managed to get the bank loan afterall.
104"New Years"Craig HoffmanThomas Schlamme6 January 1993
Wayne and Bonnie are seeming to grow closer together this New Years and plan to get brother Kevin and their parents together on new Years Eve to celebrate. Wayne, though, is very worried that Bonnie may eventually leave him to return to her ex-husband who is the father of her baby. This actually happens New Years Eve night suddenly.
105"Alice In Autoland"Mark LevinMichael Dinner13 January 1993
106"Ladies and Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones"Gina GoldmanDavid Greenwalt20 January 1993
107"Unpacking"Sy RosenNick Marck3 February 1993
Kevin takes a friend whose parents recently divorced back to his hometown for closure.
108"Hulk Arnold"Mark LevinThomas Schlamme10 February 1993
Kevin is drafted to the wrestling team and loses matches even after trying his best.
109"Nose"Rosen & PerryPeter Baldwin24 February 1993
110"Eclipse"David GreenwaltStephen Cragg17 March 1993
Kevin and Winnie argue throughout a field trip to a planetarium to see an eclipse. Ricky, meanwhile, is locked in a rest area bathroom, managing to escape and hitchhike to the planetarium.
111"Poker"Dukane & MossKen Topolsky24 March 1993
112"Little Women"David GreenwaltNancy Cooperstein31 March 1993
Norma get her college degree finally.
113"Reunion"Rob CohenArthur Albert28 April 1993
At Norma's high school reunion, Jack gets jealous after meeting an old flame of Norma's who turned out to be a medical doctor.
114"Summer"Dukane & MossKen Topolsky12 May 1993
Winnie gets a summer job at a resort where she will live there as well. Kevin meanwhile plans a cross country trip with his friends that his father put a stop to. Kevin then quits his job at his dad's factory and gets a job at the resort Winnie works at. Kevin then is disappointed that he and Winnie are so busy they have no time for each other. Meanwhile, Kevin spends his life savings playing poker with some pros and wins big which cheers him up until he then catches Winnie kissing a co-worker.
115"Independence Day"Mark B. PerryPeter Baldwin12 May 1993
Kevin is furious with Winnie and plays another poker game. Yhis time he loses all his money and his car. He then punches the guy Winnie kissed in the face and quits the job (that he was about to be fired from anyway). Winnie, meanwhile, is fired because of this was well. Winnie hitches a ride back home. Kevin also hicthes a ride and happens to be picked up by the same couple that picked up Winnie moments sooner. Winnie then tells Kevin what happened and they both get into an argument and are both dropped off the side of the road in hot humid weather. Soon after a thunderstorm occurs and lasts till dark. The two find refuge in an old barn where they talk things out. The next day they get back home. A year later the Independence Day parade happens in their town and Kevin tells what becomees of him, his family and friends as this is the final Wonder Years episode.


Notes

  1. ^ Lieber, Scott (July 10, 2006). "Pricey nostalgia". The Denver Post.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Writers and Directors taken from Peter's Wonder Years Gide
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