Home Improvement (1991)

Name: Home Improvement
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Earl Hindman, Richard Karn, Debbe Dunning

Comedy

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

IMDb rating: 7.3 (54,036 votes)
Episode average: 7.4 ↑ +0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Hulu · Disney+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1991)

7.49 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.8	744
2	Mow Better Blues	7.4	588
3	Off Sides	7.5	573
4	Satellite on a Hot Tim's Roof	7.0	515
5	Wild Kingdom	7.7	525
6	Adventures in Fine Dining	7.2	493
7	Nothing More Than Feelings	7.5	488
8	Flying Sauces	7.7	483
9	Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble	7.8	475
10	Reach Out and Teach Someone	7.5	442
11	Look Who's Not Talking	6.9	434
12	Yule Better Watch Out	7.7	470
13	Up Your Alley	7.6	444
14	For Whom the Belch Tolls	7.2	437
15	Forever Jung	7.4	418
16	Jill's Birthday	7.5	400
17	What About Bob?	7.9	423
18	Baby, It's Cold Outside	7.6	395
19	Unchained Malady	7.5	390
20	Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor	7.5	435
21	A Battle of Wheels	7.4	387
22	Luck Be a Taylor Tonight	7.3	391
23	Al's Fair in Love and War	7.5	388
24	Stereo-typical	7.6	399

Season 2 (1992)

7.50 avg 25 episodes 7.4 → 7.7 27 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Read My Hips	7.4	383
2	Rites and Wrongs of Passage	7.5	372
3	Overactive Glance	7.4	383
4	Groin Pains	7.7	368
5	Heavy Meddle	7.4	355
6	Haunting of Taylor House	7.8	423
7	Roomie for Improvement	7.7	352
8	May the Best Man Win	7.2	338
9	Where There's a Will, There's a Way	7.5	340
10	Let's Did Lunch	7.3	349
11	Abandoned Family	7.6	344
12	I'm Scheming of a White Christmas	7.7	380
13	Bell Bottom Blues	7.6	337
14	Howard's End	7.5	349
15	Love Is a Many Splintered Thing	7.3	338
16	Dances with Tools	7.6	351
17	You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts	7.4	342
18	Bye Bye Birdie	7.8	351
19	Karate or Not, Here I Come	7.3	349
20	Shooting Three to Make Tutu	7.5	336
21	Much Ado About Nana	7.5	356
22	Ex Marks the Spot	7.4	335
23	To Build or Not to Build	7.2	338
24	Birth of a Hot Rod	7.6	340
25	The Great Race	7.7	337

Season 3 (1993)

7.58 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 7.5 28 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Maybe, Baby	7.2	341
2	Aisle See You in My Dreams	7.6	344
3	This Joke's for You	7.5	339
4	A Sew, Sew Evening	7.3	339
5	Arrivederci, Binford	7.7	340
6	Crazy for You	8.1	412
7	Blow Up	7.8	346
8	Be True to Your Tool	7.7	330
9	Dollars and Sense	7.4	322
10	A Frozen Moment	7.8	333
11	Feud for Thought	7.5	330
12	'Twas the Blight Before Christmas	7.9	351
13	Slip Sleddin' Away	7.6	324
14	Dream On	7.5	322
15	Reel Men	7.7	330
16	The Colonel	7.1	327
17	Room for Change	7.4	325
18	The Eve of Construction	7.4	334
19	Too Many Cooks	7.6	327
20	It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims	7.7	333
21	Fifth Anniversary	7.8	337
22	Swing Time	7.6	324
23	What You See Is What You Get	7.3	310
24	Reality Bytes	7.8	334
25	The Great Race II	7.5	319

Season 4 (1994)

7.47 avg 26 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 29 min avg

Rebound

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Back in the Saddle Shoes Again	7.3	308
2	Don't Tell Momma	8.2	340
3	Death Begins at Forty	7.3	314
4	The Eyes Don't Have It	7.3	294
5	He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Irresponsible	7.3	294
6	Borland Ambition	7.5	306
7	Let's Go to the Videotape	7.6	297
8	Quibbling Siblings	7.8	297
9	My Dinner with Wilson	7.8	322
10	Ye Olde Shoppe Teacher	7.5	300
11	Some Like It Hot Rod	7.8	308
12	'Twas the Night Before Chaos	7.6	323
13	The Route of All Evil	7.4	291
14	Brother, Can You Spare a Hot Rod?	7.4	322
15	Super Bowl Fever	7.5	302
16	Bachelor of the Year	7.6	309
17	It's My Party	7.4	302
18	A House Divided	7.8	301
19	The Naked Truth	7.9	334
20	Talk to Me	7.3	316
21	No, No, Godot	7.8	303
22	Tool Time After Dark	6.2	311
23	Tool Time After Dark: Part 2	6.3	206
24	Sisters and Brothers	7.5	301
25	A Marked Man	7.6	290
26	Wilson's Girlfriend	7.6	292

Season 5 (1995)

7.61 avg 26 episodes 7.7 → 7.9 26 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Taylor Runs Through It	7.7	310
2	The First Temptation of Tim	7.7	290
3	Her Cheatin' Mind	7.4	296
4	Jill's Surprise Party	7.6	293
5	Advise and Repent	7.2	284
6	Let Them Eat Cake	7.7	315
7	The Look	8.1	337
8	Room Without a View	7.9	292
9	Chicago Hope	7.6	303
10	Doctor in the House	7.7	288
11	That's My Momma	7.3	279
12	'Twas the Flight Before Christmas	8.2	340
13	Oh, Brother	7.2	281
14	High School Confidential	7.9	289
15	Tanks for the Memories	7.4	294
16	The Vasectomy One	7.7	297
17	Fear of Flying	7.3	283
18	When Harry Kept Dolores	7.5	273
19	Eye on Tim	7.4	277
20	The Bud Bowl	7.1	272
21	Engine and a Haircut, Two Fights	7.6	271
22	The Longest Day	8.3	404
23	Mr. Wilson's Opus	7.3	288
24	Shopping Around	7.3	278
25	Alarmed by Burglars	7.8	296
26	Games, Flames & Automobiles	7.9	286

Season 6 (1996)

7.38 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 7.5 26 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	At Sea	7.2	292
2	Future Shock	7.1	276
3	Workshop 'Til You Drop	7.4	271
4	Burnin' Love	7.4	273
5	Al's Video	7.2	266
6	Whose Car Is It Anyway?	7.6	284
7	I Was a Teenage Taylor	8.2	305
8	Jill and Her Sisters	7.3	273
9	The Tool Man Delivers	7.9	288
10	The Wood, the Bad and the Hungry	7.5	282
11	Workin' Man Blues	7.7	283
12	No Place Like Home	7.5	283
13	The Flirting Game	7.1	273
14	The Karate Kid Returns	7.6	276
15	Totally Tool Time	7.0	282
16	A Funny Valentine	6.9	275
17	Wilson's World	7.3	264
18	Something Old, Something Blue	7.0	269
19	Communication Breakdown	7.2	269
20	My Son, the Driver	7.5	274
21	Insult to Injury	7.5	268
22	Family Un-Ties	7.3	258
23	The Feminine Mistake	6.9	284
24	Taps	7.8	283
25	The Kiss & the Kiss-Off	7.5	275

Season 7 (1997)

7.28 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 6.9 26 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Quest for Fire	7.3	263
2	Clash of the Taylors	7.1	262
3	Room at the Top	7.0	249
4	Pump You Up	7.2	260
5	A Night to Dismember	7.8	290
6	The Niece	6.9	265
7	Jill's Passion	7.1	285
8	Losing My Religion	7.2	279
9	Thanksgiving	7.7	291
10	The Dating Game	7.3	266
11	Bright Christmas	7.6	274
12	The Old College Try	7.0	261
13	An Older Woman	7.3	272
14	Tim 'The Landlord' Taylor	7.5	251
15	Say Goodnight, Gracie	7.4	264
16	What a Drag	7.5	271
17	Taking Jill for Granite	7.2	262
18	Futile Attraction	7.5	246
19	Desperately Seeking Willow	6.8	257
20	The Write Stuff	7.4	247
21	The Son Also Mooches	6.9	249
22	Believe It or Not	7.4	253
23	Rebel Without Night Driving Privileges	7.6	250
24	Tool-Thousand-One: A Space Odyssey	7.3	239
25	From Top to Bottom	6.9	246

Season 8 (1998)

7.16 avg 27 episodes 6.8 → 7.9 25 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Whitewater	6.8	266
2	Adios	7.5	279
3	All in the Family	6.8	247
4	Taylor Got Game	6.9	258
5	Al's Fair Lady	6.9	250
6	Bewitched	7.7	291
7	Not-So-Great Scott	6.9	256
8	Tim's First Car	7.2	248
9	Mr. Likeable	6.9	254
10	Thanks, But No Thanks	7.1	251
11	Home for the Holidays	7.5	272
12	Ploys for Tots	6.9	253
13	Chop Shop 'til You Drop	7.4	257
14	Home Alone	6.2	263
15	Knee Deep	6.9	244
16	Mark's Big Break	7.3	269
17	Young at Heart	7.2	265
18	Love's Labor Lost: Part 1	7.5	262
19	Love's Labor Lost: Part 2	7.3	268
20	Neighbors	7.2	251
21	A Hardware Habit to Break	7.1	243
22	Loose Lips and Freudian Slips	7.3	251
23	Trouble-a-Bruin	6.8	251
24	Dead Weight	7.3	248
25	The Long and Winding Road: Part 1	7.6	274
26	The Long and Winding Road: Part 2	7.2	276
27	The Long and Winding Road: Part 3	7.9	339