"Grace Under Fire" (1993) TV series 1993-1998

Creator:

Chuck Lorre

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Release Date:

29 September 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Grace is a recovering alcoholic, now divorced from an abusive marriage, struggling to bring up 2.4 children on her own.

Plot Keywords:

Pharmacist | Oil Refinery | Male Female Relationship | Multiple Actors For One Character | Divorcee

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Brett Butler	...	Grace Kelly (112 episodes, 1993-1998)
Casey Sander	...	Wade / ... (112 episodes, 1993-1998)
Kaitlin Cullum	...	Libby Kelly / ... (112 episodes, 1993-1998)
Dylan Sprouse	...	Patrick Kelly (112 episodes, 1993-1998)
Cole Sprouse	...	Patrick Kelly (112 episodes, 1993-1998)
Dave Thomas	...	Russell Norton (111 episodes, 1993-1998)
Julie White	...	Nadine Swoboda (97 episodes, 1993-1997)
Jon Paul Steuer	...	Quentin Kelly #1 (73 episodes, 1993-1996)
Peggy Rea	...	Jean Kelly / ... (51 episodes, 1993-1998)
Walter Olkewicz	...	Dougie Boudreau / ... (48 episodes, 1993-1996)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Elgin, Illinois, USA

Company:

Carsey-Werner Company

Trivia:

In some episodes, cans of President's Choice Cola can bee seen. This brand of Cola is produced for Loblaw's food stores (mostly its subsidiary stores Real Canadian Superstore, Real Canadian Wholesale club and Extra foods) throughout Canada. The show was filmed in Los Angeles.

Quotes:

[Sitting at Grace's kitchen table, discussing Jimmy's first month living in the garage]
Grace Kelly: He's two days late with the rent.
Jean Kelly: What?
Grace Kelly: I told him '$550, in cash, on the 1st of every month, under the ta... ble'
[hesitating - reaches underneath table]
Grace Kelly: .
Jean Kelly: It's times like these that make it hard to defend him.
Grace Kelly: Next month I'm gonna tell him 'On the house', to see if he puts the money on the roof.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995) (TV)

Grace is my co-pilot.

I don't understand these complaints about "cliched strong women" and "yet another brassy know-it-all female"-- all TV ever gives us is bimbos as role-models, and you complain about a rare jewel like Grace? Just goes to show how fragile men and their little egos can be. This show was the best of the best. I'm sad the Big Recession had to end and all these Strong Women shows are over, and the Man Shows are back... because we NEED more brassy know-it-all women like Grace. We need an alternative to show our daughters on TV, to keep them from developing bulimia and learning phrases like "Math is hard! Let's go shopping!"

If you had a hideous screeching racist mother-in-law, delinquent kids, a retarded deadbeat ex-husband, and a bunch of goober co-workers at the oil refinery, what would stop YOU from getting loaded? The fact that Grace stays sober under all this is as perfect a role model as you could wish for. The character doesn't (because she's a TV character), and I frankly don't care what the actress does. Grace is brilliant, incisive, witty, vulnerable, and after all, human.

Where else can you hear lines like: "When we're married, we treat our men like vegetables; when we're divorced, we treat our vegetables like men"? All hail.