The Wonder Years
The Yearbook
TV Flash files “The Yearbook” as hour 65 of 115 in the TV Flash guide — The Wonder Years (1988–1993) on ABC, season 4, episode 19, aired 1991-04-10, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E19: listed hour 65 of 115 in the The Wonder Years guide, hour 19 of 23 in season 4. It aired 1991-04-10 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Separate Rooms” (S04E18). Next is “The Accident” (S04E20).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kevin is recruited to be on the yearbook staff and make up quotes about people. Kevin has second thoughts when he gets to know one of the students.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Yearbook sit in the The Wonder Years guide?
S04E19 is listed hour 65 of 115 — hour 19 of 23 in season 4, season 4 episode 19.
When did The Wonder Years S04E19 air?
The Yearbook aired 1991-04-10 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
The Super Bowl premiere is a complete short story. Then My Father’s Office, so you meet the show’s real subject. If those two hours land, the rest of season one is a short, clean run.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the narration as form: a Super Bowl premiere that asked the living room to be quiet, then six seasons of suburbia, war-on-TV kitchens, and a crush the culture still names. Memory as weekly chapters, not as a greeting card.
The camera finds a suburban street and a boy who does not yet know he is being remembered. January 1988, after Super Bowl XXII, ABC drops a comedy-drama into the loudest possible living room and then asks that living room to be quiet. The Wonder Years is a voice first: Daniel Stern as adult Kevin, narrating late-sixties and early-seventies adolescence with a novelist’s patience and a sitcom’s timing. Fred Savage has to play the present tense of that memory without winking at the future tense. That is the craft.…
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