Ed (television program)

Ed was an NBC television program produced by Worldwide Pants Incorporated from 2000-2004. It starred Tom Cavanagh as the protagonist, Julie Bowen as his love interest Carol, Josh Randall as his friend Mike, Jana Marie Hupp as Mike's wife Nancy, Lesley Boone as their friend Molly, Justin Long as awkward high-school student Warren Cheswick, and Michael Ian Black, Mike Starr, Rachel Cronin, and (later) Daryl Mitchell as employees of Stuckeybowl, Ed's bowling alley. The show was created by executive producers Jon Beckerman and Rob Burnett.

Premise

The show revolved around Cavanagh's Ed Stevens, a hot shot New York lawyer who on the same day is both fired from his job and discovers that his wife is sleeping with the mailman.

Related Topics:
New York - Lawyer

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Deciding to pack up and go back to his home town of Stuckeyville, he is reunited with friends that he has missed as well as Carol Vessey, a woman he had a crush on in high school. Determined to win Carol's heart, he decides to stay, buying a run down bowling alley and setting up a new law firm in the process.

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It is interesting to note that the pilot, which featured the events that lead to Ed moving to Stuckeyville was not aired as part of the series. A summary using footage from the pilot however did appear at the beginning of the first regular episode.

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