1x01 Pilot - The Wonder Years Episode Guide

The Wonder Years

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: B88003
First Aired: Jan. 31, 1988

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot

Summary: It's the first day at Robert F. Kennedy Junior High for Kevin Arnold and his best friend, Paul Pfeiffer. Brian, Winnie's brother, is killed in Vietnam and Kevin and Winnie share their first kiss.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Locker Girl	played by Dah-ve Chodan
Mrs. Ritvo	played by Linda Hoy
Mr. Diperna	played by Raye Birk
Older Kevin Arnold	voiced by Arye Gross
Eric Antonio	played by Don Jeffcoat
Brian Cooper	played by Bentley Mitchum
Student	played by Dan Olivo
Coach Cutlip	played by Robert Picardo
Greaser	played by Sean Stanek

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot

Kevin Arnold - The Narrator: It was the first kiss for both of us. We never really talked about it afterwards. But I think about the events of that day again and again and somehow I know that Winnie does too, whenever some blowhard starts talking about the anonymity of the suburbs or the mindlessness of the tv generation. Because we know that inside each one of those identical boxes, with it's dodge parked out front and it's white bread on the table and it's tv set glowing blue in the falling dusk, there were people with stories. There were families bound together in the pain and the struggle of love. There were moments that made us cry with laughter. And there were moments, like that one, of sorrow and wonder.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot

Kevin Arnold - The Narrator: There's no easy way to say this... I grew up in the suburbs.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

DATE: Kevin chooses clothes for the first day of school (Fall 1968) while Tommy James and the Shondells' "Crystal Blue Persuasion" plays. This record wasn't released until the following spring (1969).
DATE: Kevin and Paul are seen reading Karen's feminist book, Our Bodies Ourselves. This book was not published until 1973 and this episode takes place in 1968.

TRIVIA

Arye Gross performed the narration for the pilot when it originally aired. However, Arye's narration was later removed and replaced with Daniel Stern (I)'s voice when the pilot aired in reruns.

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