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Harry And The Hendersons ran from January 1991 until June 1993 in syndication.

Lots of families have pets, but this was ridiculous. The Hendersons had been driving on vacation in ths forests of the Pacific Northwest when they accidentally hit a 7 foot-tall creature that ran in front of their car. They took the creature, a Sasquatch ( also known as Bigfoot), home to Seattle to nurse it back to heath. Their young son Ernie ( Zachary Bostrom), quickly became attached to the bright ,gentle, but clumsy sasquatch whom he named Harry. Despite the misgivings of his parents, George and Nancy ( Bruce Davison, Molly Cheek), Ernie convinced them to keep Harry, which presented all sorts of problems since they couldn't let everyone know that a sasquatch was living with them. The only others who did know were Walter ( David Coburn), a young biologist working for the department of animal control, and their next-door neighbor, Samantha ( Gigi Rice), a divorced tv reporter with a young daughter Tiffany ( Cassie Cole).Both of them were sworn to secrecy to protect Harry from being taken by the authorities.

In the fall of 1991 Walter and Samantha were dropped from the cast and Nancy's younger brother Bret ( Noah Blake), who moved in with the Hendersons , and obnoxious little Darcy ( Courtney Peldon), who was infatuated with a disinterested Ernie were added. Later that season George quit his job with a sporting goods company to start The Better Life , a magazine dealing with ecological issues. Bret, who had helped finance the magazine , worked on it with George.

In the fall of 1992 all of Seattle found out about Harry's existance when he was in the Mercer Island Animal Control Center. He became a local celebrity and Bret was forever looking for ways to capitalize on Harry's fame. Hilton ( Mark Dakota Robinson), who's father was the local police chief, was a neighborhood kid who had become Ernie's good friend.

Adapted from the 1987 movie of the same name, with Kevin Peter Hall reprising his role as Harry , the huge hairy, ape-like star of the show. When Hall passed away from Aids in the spring of 1991, the role of Harry was taken over by Dawan Scott. Brian Steele, who had doubledfor Harry earlier in 1992, took over the role at the start of the 1992-1993 season.

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