Coach is an American sitcom that aired for nine seasons on ABC from February 28, 1989 to May 14, 1997, for a total of 200 half-hour episodes. The series stars Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, head of the Division I-A fiction division football team at Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles. Over the past two seasons, Coach Fox and supporting characters trained Orlando Breakers, the fictional National Football League expansion team. The program also stars Jerry Van Dyke as Luther Van Dam and Bill Fagerbakke as Michael "Dauber" Dybinski, assistant coach under Fox. The role of girlfriend Hayden (and later wife) Christine Armstrong, television newscaster, played by Shelley Fabares.
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Plot
Early in the season, Coach Fox kept coming to overcome the girlhood that emerged from her "little girl", Kelly, now a college student played by Clare Carey, who, after growing up mostly by her mother, enrolled in the Minnesota State primarily because she wanted to be on near his father. Kelly dated (and finally got married in the second season) the theater mime Stuart Rosebrock (Kris Kamm), which Hayden could not bear. Their marriage ended in 1991 after Stuart, returning from the filming of his son's own TV show Buzzy the Beaver, told Kelly that she was meeting another woman. While openly supporting Kelly with heartbreak, Coach Fox quietly could not be happier to have "Stu" than both of their lives. After graduating from Minnesota State in 1993, Kelly was hired by a major advertising agency in New York. He is only seen in the guest spots occasionally afterwards.
Most of Hayden's coaching work, in addition to guiding his players, works with his defensive coordinator, Luther Van Dam (Jerry Van Dyke), a lifelong bachelor who often wrestles with confidence, and special team coach Michael "Dauber" Dybinski (Bill Fagerbakke) a former player at Minnesota State and a stereotypical "mute athlete" joking that he has not graduated from Minnesota State despite being enrolled for several years (he will graduate with three undergraduate degrees in physical education, business administration and forestry without realizing it until he gets transcripts for the semester), but what is often surprising is the intellectual assistance to the team, usually learning from the classes he attended or because he is a fan of Nova .
Female basketball coach Judy Watkins (Pam Stone) is often involved in a joke war with Hayden. His relationship with him is complicated by the fact that Dauber dated him until 1995, when he confessed to having an affair after returning from a coaching job in Romania. Also spotted along the run are Minnesota State athletics director Howard Burleigh (Kenneth Kimmins) and his wife, Shirley (Georgia Engel), who are close friends with Hayden and Christine.
At the end of season 7, Hayden was offered a job with a fictitious NFL expansion team called "Orlando Breakers". Hayden agrees and brings his coaching staff with him over the past two seasons. The Foxes adopted a baby boy named Timothy (played by twins Brennan and Brian Felker). Many episodes of 9 seasons focus on the happiness of newly discovered couples from parents, because they can not conceive a child together before they decide to adopt.
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Episode
"Viva Las Vegas"
The episode "Viva Las Ratings" is part of a crossover with Grace Under Fire , The Drew Carey Show , and Ellen in Las Vegas. It features Kathy Kinney as Mimi Bobeck, Drew Carey as Drew Carey, Joely Fisher as Paige Clark, and Jeremy Piven as Spence Kovak.
Development
The creator and producer of the show, Barry Kemp, an alumnus of Iowa University, paid tribute to his alma mater by naming the main character of the Trainer (Hayden Fox) after the old Iowa University soccer coach Hayden Fry. Many of the "Minnesota State" exterior shots are actually from the University of Iowa, usually students walking around the Iowa Memorial Union in downtown Iowa City. The screen shot when returning from a commercial break is the outside of Hillcrest hostel. There are also many pictures of Quadrangle Residence Hall and Field House, which used to function as a venue for University of Iowa basketball.
Cast
Starring
Recurring roles and guest stars
Family connection
- Nanette Fabray, Aunt Shelley Fabares, appears as Christine Armstrong's mother, Mildred, in four episodes.
- Mike Farrell, Shelley Fabares's husband, appears as Jeffrey in one episode. Noah Nelson, Craig T. Nelson's son, appears as Kevin, the baby biological father adopted by Hayden and Christine Fox, in two episodes. He also appeared as a Minnesota State footballer Cody Wilson in one episode and as a delivery boy on another episode.
- Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke's brother, appears as an unrecognized addition in one episode as one of Luther's distant relatives.
Settings
Minnesota University
In 1963, several drafts before Minnesota State Legislature were developed to create a research university at Mankato University. Mike McGuire's representative from Montgomery, Minnesota filed an amendment that would change the institute's name to Minnesota State University. This happened almost 26 years before the first episode of Trainers .
During the running series, there was no school officially named Minnesota State University. Separately, in 1998 a Minnesota legislative act was renamed Mankato State University to Minnesota State University, Mankato because of its growing size and to provide better recognition throughout the Midwest. In reaction to this and at the insistence of the College's Board of Trustees and the University of Minnesota two years later, in 2000, Moorhead State University was renamed Minnesota State University Moorhead to try to give parity to other regions about the impact of the Mankato name change. The Commonwealth nickname has traditionally been referring to Minnesota State University, Mankato since this historical period. The athletics program in Mankato is widely referred to in the media as "Minnesota State", without city identifiers, although its sports team is named Mavericks instead of Screaming Eagles.
There are some similarities between Minnesota State University fictitious and Minnesota State Mankato in the real world. The colors of the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles purple and gold schools are also the colors for Minnesota State Mankato and Minnesota Vikings. The location for Minnesota State University fiction was never established, however, in some episodes it was mentioned that the campus is located about an hour from the Twin Cities. The distance from Minneapolis to Mankato is about an hour's drive away. The coach is shown to live in a cottage near the lake, as are some faculty in fact living in a cabin near Lake Washington. The establishment of a fictitious university was shown in 1867 in the opening credits and the real university at that time was also referred to established in 1867. Subsequent decisions by the school administration placed an official date established in 1868.
During the show, Minnesota State was never mentioned to be part of any college football conference. Elang Scream is mentioned for playing big-name schools like Michigan State and Tennessee, but other fictitious schools, such as Western Colorado, are also mentioned. This could imply that the State of Minnesota acts as an independent in college football. In the show intro, did it show that Hayden started his training at Chattanooga University, a fictional version of the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga (who branded his athletic program as "Chattanooga"). The outdoor photos from the campus and the stadium were filmed at Kinnick Stadium at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, where creator Barry Kemp went to college. In several episodes, Hayden Fox refers to visiting Christine in the Twin Cities, and proves that he maintains long-distance relationships.
In the early '90s, show producers held a contest to have a college band marching band that actually recorded the theme song for the show. The contest was won by Iowa State University's Cyclone Football 'Varsity' Marching Band, and their recording was used as the theme until the series ended. Iowa's Cyclone Football University's Cyclone Football Marching Band is also featured in the opening sequence of the show.
In the 1993-1994 television season, Hayden Fox led the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles to victory at the Pioneer Bowl, held in San Antonio, winning the national championship. In real life, Florida State won the national championship that season. Alamodome opened in May 1993, in time for the 1993 football season. However, the first game of the Alamo Bowl and Pioneer Bowl has yet to be played. In addition, the real-life Pioneer Bowl is not even an NCAA Division game; it's a postseason game played between the champions of two Second Division conferences whose members are all black history schools. Records from the 1993 edition of the Wisconsin vs Minnesota competition competition played at Metrodome are used for actual games to represent the fictitious Minnesota State and West Texas University (not to be confused with the original West Texas A & amp; M University or West Texas College, now known as UTEP). Al-ABC sports broadcaster Al Michaels commented during the match.
Orlando Breaker
In the 1995 season, Hayden Fox got a chance to fulfill his ultimate dream and become the NFL team's head coach. He accepted the position of head coach with the expansion team (fictitious) Orlando Breakers, owned by the recent widow Doris Sherman (played by Katherine Helmond). Sherman, however, is more interested in making money from teams and tricks (like asking if Hayden wants to coach a basketball team he thinks he will buy after selling Breakers and selling their first draft draft for a pair of shipping tickets) instead of letting Fox Coach guide the Offenders to success on the soccer field. Almost the entire crew from Minnesota State followed Fox to Orlando, including Luther and Dauber, who remained his assistant coach. In the last season, Hayden was able to train Breakers into the wild card in the NFL Playoffs but lost to Buffalo Bills in a playoff game in Buffalo.
The name Orlando Breakers is a salute to the dead USFL and Boston/New Orleans/Portland Breakers. The Breakers themselves are a parody of the Florida-based Jacksonville Jaguars, who, like the Breakers, joined the NFL in 1995 as an expansion team and made their second playoff season as a wild card team and, like the Breakers, played Bills in the first playoff game they. (Unlike the Breakers, The Jaguars won, 30-27, eventually losing to the New England Patriots 20-6 in the AFC Championship Game.) Another tie-in between Breakers and the Jaguars is the first game ever played in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game 1995 (against their expansion sisters Carolina Panthers), aired on ABC, the same network as Coach .
Final serial
The final episode of the sitcom, titled "Leaving Orlando", was aired on ABC on May 14, 1997. The last scene in the final episode featured all the players thanked the audience during the nine-year show, with cast member Jerry Van Dyke denying the series over, keep going. But the players and the director finally told Van Dyke that the show was really over, with Van Dyke still denying the end of the show: When the lights went out, Van Dyke murmured, "I do not care what you say, I came to work Monday. "
The final episode also includes an epilogue showing that Hayden retired from training and moved back to his shack in Minnesota to raise his son, with Christine being a wife working at a local station. Luther also retired and continued his relationship with Doris, building a Graceland-style house in honor of his idol, Elvis Presley. Howard and Shirley sell their rare Barbie doll collection, using the capital to acquire and manage a successful dinner theater in Florida. The successful polisher Hayden as head coach of the Breakers, won the back-to-back Super Bowl championship and went on to join the team announcing Monday Night Football after retiring from football. The final scene shows the 10-year-old Tim has two friends who have a striking resemblance to the Dauber and Luther children's version.
Syndication
In the United States, reruns are currently broadcast on ReelzChannel as well as in local syndication in selected cities and in Deja View and Comedy Gold in Canada. The Exchange program handles syndication and usually offers events to stations to run short-term barter. Previous impressions are live on WGN America, USA Network and TBS.
Netflix stops Coach on September 15, 2015.
TV antennas began airing the marathon series on January 1, 2018.
Appreciation
- Emmy Award:
- 1992: Emmy Primetime Award for Best Actor - Comedy Series (Craig T. Nelson)
- 1996: Emmy Primetime Award for Extraordinary Guest Actors - Comedy Serial (Tim Conway)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards:
- 1992: Top TV Series
- 1993: Top TV Series
- 1994: Top TV Series
- 1995: Top TV Series
- 1996: Top TV Series
Scheduling conflict with Monday Night Football
For season seven, ABC aired the original episode of Coach on Monday night, before Monday Night Football , as part of a soccer-themed night. It works on the east coast of the United States, where the MNF game is broadcast from 9:00 to 12:30 am, local time. However, on the west coast, MNF games aired from 6:00 to 9:30 pm (with the possibility of overtime), leaving some network programming Monday without time slots. During this interval, the show aired on an unusual hour on the west coast. For example, the Seattle ABC KOMO affiliate broadcast a new episode of Coach on Saturday afternoon (incidentally, ABC also aired college football games almost every Saturday afternoon). Some fans mentioned the displacement of this time slot on the west coast as a reason for low ratings in season seven. Trainers moved to Tuesday night the following season resulting in a downgrade, returning Coach to the top 20).
DVD release
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the first four seasons of Coach on DVD in Region 1. Two different versions were released in the first season: regular and limited edition editions featuring special packaging (guidelines).
On July 1, 2016, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had obtained rights to the series in Region 1; they then re-released the first two seasons on DVD on September 6, 2016.
On September 12, 2017, Mill Creek released the Coach - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. The 18-disc set contains all 9 seasons of the series, the first episode after season 4 is available on DVD.
Universal Pictures UK released season 1 on DVD in Region 2 on August 7, 2006.
Attempting experiment
On March 26, 2015, NBC ordered 13 episodes of the sequel series for Coach , set to focus on the son of Hayden Fox, who recently took up a training job at a small college. Most of the original series' stars are set to repeat their roles, except Shelley Fabares who is battling autoimmune hepatitis. Her role as Christine, Hayden's wife, should be abolished after dying with Hayden who was written as a widower recently. On August 31, 2015, TVLine reported that the series had been canceled because the pilot had "mixed results".
References
External links
- Official website
- Episode guides
- Trainers on IMDb
- Coach on TV.com
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