The Wonder Years
Let Nothing You Dismay
TV Flash files “Let Nothing You Dismay” as hour 103 of 115 in the TV Flash guide — The Wonder Years (1988–1993) on ABC, season 6, episode 10, aired 1992-12-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E10: listed hour 103 of 115 in the The Wonder Years guide, hour 10 of 22 in season 6. It aired 1992-12-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Test” (S06E09). Next is “New Years” (S06E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jack is left scrambling when his partner backs out of the loan; Kevin struggles to make enough money to pay Winnie a Christmas gift.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Let Nothing You Dismay sit in the The Wonder Years guide?
S06E10 is listed hour 103 of 115 — hour 10 of 22 in season 6, season 6 episode 10.
When did The Wonder Years S06E10 air?
Let Nothing You Dismay aired 1992-12-16 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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