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 (53,789 votes)
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Netflix · Disney+ · Hulu · Wonder Project Amazon Channel
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1991)

7.48 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.8	739
2	Mow Better Blues	7.4	585
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	492
7	Nothing More Than Feelings	7.5	487
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	7.5	443
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	389
20	Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor	7.5	433
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	381
2	Rites and Wrongs of Passage	7.5	370
3	Overactive Glance	7.4	382
4	Groin Pains	7.7	367
5	Heavy Meddle	7.4	352
6	Haunting of Taylor House	7.8	420
7	Roomie for Improvement	7.7	350
8	May the Best Man Win	7.2	336
9	Where There's a Will, There's a Way	7.5	338
10	Let's Did Lunch	7.3	348
11	Abandoned Family	7.6	343
12	I'm Scheming of a White Christmas	7.7	379
13	Bell Bottom Blues	7.6	336
14	Howard's End	7.5	348
15	Love Is a Many Splintered Thing	7.3	337
16	Dances with Tools	7.6	350
17	You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts	7.4	340
18	Bye Bye Birdie	7.8	349
19	Karate or Not, Here I Come	7.3	347
20	Shooting Three to Make Tutu	7.5	335
21	Much Ado About Nana	7.5	354
22	Ex Marks the Spot	7.4	332
23	To Build or Not to Build	7.2	336
24	Birth of a Hot Rod	7.6	337
25	The Great Race	7.7	334

Season 3 (1993)

7.58 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 28 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Maybe, Baby	7.2	339
2	Aisle See You in My Dreams	7.6	342
3	This Joke's for You	7.5	337
4	A Sew, Sew Evening	7.3	337
5	Arrivederci, Binford	7.7	339
6	Crazy for You	8.1	410
7	Blow Up	7.8	345
8	Be True to Your Tool	7.7	329
9	Dollars and Sense	7.4	321
10	A Frozen Moment	7.8	332
11	Feud for Thought	7.5	329
12	'Twas the Blight Before Christmas	7.9	349
13	Slip Sleddin' Away	7.6	323
14	Dream On	7.5	321
15	Reel Men	7.7	329
16	The Colonel	7.1	325
17	Room for Change	7.4	323
18	The Eve of Construction	7.4	332
19	Too Many Cooks	7.6	325
20	It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims	7.7	331
21	Fifth Anniversary	7.8	335
22	Swing Time	7.6	322
23	What You See Is What You Get	7.3	308
24	Reality Bytes	7.8	331
25	The Great Race II	7.6	316

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	306
2	Don't Tell Momma	8.2	337
3	Death Begins at Forty	7.3	313
4	The Eyes Don't Have It	7.3	293
5	He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Irresponsible	7.3	293
6	Borland Ambition	7.5	304
7	Let's Go to the Videotape	7.6	296
8	Quibbling Siblings	7.8	296
9	My Dinner with Wilson	7.8	321
10	Ye Olde Shoppe Teacher	7.5	298
11	Some Like It Hot Rod	7.8	307
12	'Twas the Night Before Chaos	7.6	320
13	The Route of All Evil	7.4	290
14	Brother, Can You Spare a Hot Rod?	7.4	321
15	Super Bowl Fever	7.5	301
16	Bachelor of the Year	7.6	307
17	It's My Party	7.4	301
18	A House Divided	7.8	300
19	The Naked Truth	7.9	333
20	Talk to Me	7.3	315
21	No, No, Godot	7.8	302
22	Tool Time After Dark	6.2	310
23	Tool Time After Dark: Part 2	6.3	205
24	Sisters and Brothers	7.5	300
25	A Marked Man	7.6	289
26	Wilson's Girlfriend	7.6	291

Season 5 (1995)

7.62 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 7.9 26 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Taylor Runs Through It	7.8	308
2	The First Temptation of Tim	7.7	290
3	Her Cheatin' Mind	7.5	295
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	288
15	Tanks for the Memories	7.4	294
16	The Vasectomy One	7.7	297
17	Fear of Flying	7.2	282
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	270
22	The Longest Day	8.3	403
23	Mr. Wilson's Opus	7.3	287
24	Shopping Around	7.3	278
25	Alarmed by Burglars	7.9	295
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	290
2	Future Shock	7.1	274
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	272
9	The Tool Man Delivers	7.9	287
10	The Wood, the Bad and the Hungry	7.5	281
11	Workin' Man Blues	7.7	282
12	No Place Like Home	7.5	281
13	The Flirting Game	7.1	272
14	The Karate Kid Returns	7.6	276
15	Totally Tool Time	7.0	282
16	A Funny Valentine	6.9	274
17	Wilson's World	7.3	263
18	Something Old, Something Blue	7.0	269
19	Communication Breakdown	7.2	268
20	My Son, the Driver	7.5	273
21	Insult to Injury	7.5	267
22	Family Un-Ties	7.3	257
23	The Feminine Mistake	6.9	282
24	Taps	7.8	282
25	The Kiss & the Kiss-Off	7.5	274

Season 7 (1997)

7.27 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 6.9 26 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Quest for Fire	7.3	262
2	Clash of the Taylors	7.1	261
3	Room at the Top	7.0	248
4	Pump You Up	7.2	259
5	A Night to Dismember	7.8	289
6	The Niece	6.9	264
7	Jill's Passion	7.1	283
8	Losing My Religion	7.2	276
9	Thanksgiving	7.7	290
10	The Dating Game	7.3	265
11	Bright Christmas	7.5	271
12	The Old College Try	7.0	260
13	An Older Woman	7.3	270
14	Tim 'The Landlord' Taylor	7.5	250
15	Say Goodnight, Gracie	7.4	262
16	What a Drag	7.5	270
17	Taking Jill for Granite	7.2	261
18	Futile Attraction	7.5	244
19	Desperately Seeking Willow	6.8	255
20	The Write Stuff	7.4	245
21	The Son Also Mooches	6.9	246
22	Believe It or Not	7.4	252
23	Rebel Without Night Driving Privileges	7.6	249
24	Tool-Thousand-One: A Space Odyssey	7.3	237
25	From Top to Bottom	6.9	244

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	265
2	Adios	7.5	278
3	All in the Family	6.7	246
4	Taylor Got Game	6.9	257
5	Al's Fair Lady	6.9	249
6	Bewitched	7.7	289
7	Not-So-Great Scott	6.9	255
8	Tim's First Car	7.2	247
9	Mr. Likeable	6.9	253
10	Thanks, But No Thanks	7.1	250
11	Home for the Holidays	7.5	271
12	Ploys for Tots	6.9	252
13	Chop Shop 'til You Drop	7.4	256
14	Home Alone	6.2	261
15	Knee Deep	7.0	242
16	Mark's Big Break	7.3	267
17	Young at Heart	7.2	264
18	Love's Labor Lost: Part 1	7.5	261
19	Love's Labor Lost: Part 2	7.3	265
20	Neighbors	7.2	250
21	A Hardware Habit to Break	7.1	241
22	Loose Lips and Freudian Slips	7.3	250
23	Trouble-a-Bruin	6.8	248
24	Dead Weight	7.3	246
25	The Long and Winding Road: Part 1	7.6	272
26	The Long and Winding Road: Part 2	7.2	274
27	The Long and Winding Road: Part 3	7.9	338