''Yes, Dear'' is an American television

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created by

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and Gregory Garcia, that aired on CBS from October 2, 2000, to February 15, 2006, with the total of six seasons and 122 episodes. It starred Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly,

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, and

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. Critically panned and expected to be one of the first new series to be canceled during its first season, ''Yes, Dear'' ended up being a

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for CBS. In March 2006, CBS cancelled the series after 6 seasons, after star Anthony Clark was hired to host

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's ''

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''.

Premise

Greg Warner, a successful businessman in the film industry, and Kim, his level-headed stay-at-home wife, do their best to be the perfect parents to their young son, Sammy (and later daughter, Emily). Things become difficult when Kim's sister Christine and her husband Jimmy Hughes move into the Warners' guest house with their two rambunctious boys, Dominic and Logan.

Episodes

Cast

Main Cast

* Anthony Clark as Gregory "Greg" Warner * Jean Louisa Kelly as Kimberly "Kim" Warner (née Ludke) *

as James "Jimmy" Hughes Jr. *

as Christine Hughes (née Ludke)

Recurring

Children

* Joel Homan as Dominic Hughes (Episodes 3–122) (credited as Main Cast) *Anthony and Michael Bain as Sammy Warner *Madison and Marissa Poer as Emily Warner (Seasons 4-6) *Christopher and Nicholas Berry as Logan Hughes (Seasons 1-2) *Alexander and Shawn Shapiro as Logan Hughes (Season 3 Ep 2-9) *Brendon Baerg as Logan Hughes (Seasons 3-6) ** A running gag in the later seasons involves Jimmy being confused when reflecting on Logan's childhood, by showing short scenes of each of Logan's various actors (i.e. Logan constantly being a different child and hence his appearance always changing)

Grandparents

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as Tom Warner (Greg's father) * Vicki Lawrence as Natalie Warner (Greg's mother) * Jerry Van Dyke as James "Big Jimmy" Hughes Sr. (Jimmy's father) * Beth Grant as Kitty Hughes (Jimmy's mother) *

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as Don Ludke (Kim and Christine's father) * Alley Mills as Jenny Ludke (Kim and Christine's mother)

Co-Workers

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as Billy Colivita *

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as Roy Barr *

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as Mr. George Savitsky

Cancellation

CBS had announced the cancellation of ''Yes, Dear'' in early 2004, but later ordered 13 mid-season episodes, after the show cut its license fee to secure the renewal. After canceling '' Center of the Universe'', CBS debuted the fifth season of ''Yes, Dear'' on Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 9:30 p.m. Eastern. CBS ordered a fifth season over 22 episodes from 2005 to 2006, but that order was then reduced to 13 episodes - however two episodes were prevented from airing due to breaking news events and were pushed to season six.

Transmission

For the fall of 2004, TBS picked up the syndication rights of the show, airing it at 1:00 p.m, before switching to a 3:00 p.m. airtime in January. In the fall of 2006, 20th Television, the 20th Century Fox distribution subsidiary, took back show in the form of bartering syndication from TBS and replaced it with '' Still Standing''. In 2012, it began airing at 10:00 pm. Monday through Friday on

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. On August 1, 2012, CMT began showing re-runs of the series during the week from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The program was also aired on Nick Jr. from February 3, 2013 to May 2, 2015, as part of the short lived NickMom block. The series airs on

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and

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until it’s move to VH1 and CMT on January 1, 2021.

Connection with ''Raising Hope''

In 2010, Garcia premiered a new show, titled ''

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'' from Fox. In the third season, in episode sixteen,

is shown as an executive of the Hollywood studio, a reference to his role as Mr. Savitsky. The next episode, Mike O'Malley and Liza Snyder reprise the characters of Jimmy and Christine Hughes and are prominently featured as characters who have made a habit of watching a sex video made by the characters in the new series, Virginia and Burt Chance. Dominic, Logan, and the guest house are also referred to in the conversation. Jimmy makes another appearance in the fourth season, in episode 19 (a different actress portrays Christine and is renamed Christy).

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0247144 2000s American sitcoms 2000 American television series debuts 2006 American television series endings CBS original programming English-language television shows Television series about families Television series about sisters Television series by CBS Studios Television series by 20th Century Fox Television Television shows set in Los Angeles