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On a sunny day in the loveliest of suburbs, in a town called Fairview, housewife Mary Alice Young killed herself. Now she takes us into the lives of her family and neighbors. Her girlfriends are Susan, a known klutz who recently remarried the love of her life, Lynette who struggles with her family and career, Bree the owner of a catering business and the ex-model turned housewife Gabrielle...

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08x23 Finishing the Hat (2) Aired: May. 13, 2012

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Desperate Housewives is Completed/Ended
The show had 8 seasons and 186 episodes air between 2004 and 2012.

Series Info

Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Oct. 03, 2004
Status:
Completed/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
Aired:
2004 - 2012
To-Date:
8 Seasons
186 Episodes
Network
ABC TV Network
AKA:
Housewives (USA Short Title)
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  • Season 4 episodes that have Stephen Sondheim song titles or lyric references as their show titles (Except where denoted): - 4.1 Now You Know (Song Title From Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.2…
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    Season 4 episodes that have Stephen Sondheim song titles or lyric references as their show titles (Except where denoted): - 4.1 Now You Know (Song Title From Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.2 Smiles of a Summer Night (The Ingmar Bergman film that A Little Night Music is based on.) - 4.3 The Game (Could be a reference to a musical section from Putting It Together) - 4.4 If There's Anything I Can't Stand (Song title from By George) - 4.5 Art Isn't Easy (Lyric line from Putting It Together from Sunday In The Park) - 4.6 Now I Know, Don't Be Scared (Lyric quote from I Know Things Now from Into the Woods) - 4.7 You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover (Lyric quote from Simple from Anyone Can Whistle) - 4.8 Distant Past (Instrumental from Stavisky) - 4.9 Something's Coming (Song title from West Side Story. Music by Leonard Bernstein) - 4.10 Welcome To Kanagawa (Song title from Pacific Overtures) - 4.11 Sunday (Song title from Sunday In the Park With George) - 4.12 In Buddy's Eyes (Song title from Follies) - 4.13 Hello Little Girl (Song title from Into the Woods) - 4.14 Opening Doors (Song title from Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.15 Mother Said (Could be first two lyrics from I Know Things Now from Into the Woods. See also 4.6 Now I Know, Don't Be Scared, or lyrics from Into the Woods Act I Prologue) - 4.16 The Gun Song (Song title from Assassins) - 4.17 Free (Song title from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum)
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  • At first, the show was pitched as a female driven comedy. All the networks turned it down. It was then slightly rewritten and pitched as a nighttime soap opera and it sold.
  • Bree is based on Marc Cherry's own mother. Dana Delany was the original actress considered for the part, declining it three times.