DHARMA & GREG

I suppose my favorite television series had to have been Dharma & Greg (1997 to 2002). I watched it, then I watched the reruns until they finally took it off TV completely. I was really disappointed when that happened! I liked that the show centered around a married couple instead of a man and woman who just lived together. I liked that this couple, though each person was a unique individual, gained their strength from each other and accepted each others' quirks completely.

Dharma (Jenna Elfman) was raised by hippie parents and homeschooled. She has a free thinking outlook on the universe and tends to be unashamed to say what's on her mind, but she's a loving and kind person to all. Her father and mother are charming, old hippies. Mother Abby (Mimi Kennedy) is a centered and free thinking woman with simple needs. Father Larry (Alan Rachins) has at some point in the past fried his short term memory with drug use and probably needed drug rehab, but he's likable and loves his family.

Greg (Thomas Gibson) comes from a wealthy family and is a US attorney, a very unlikely match for Dharma at first glance. But, she brings out the best in him and helps him to not be the "stuffed shirt" his parents are and have raised him to be. His father Edward (Mitchell Ryan) is a third generation rich guy (not sure what the business is) who goes through life barely paying attention to what's going on around him. Little things surprise him frequently and his reactions are hilarious. Mother Kitty (Susan Sullivan) was raised wealthy, married rich, and is many times shallow and pretentious but because she loves her son, does try to accept Dharma and her ways as best she can, though at times she tries to make Dharma fit the "rich" way of behaving.

I've got the entire first season on DVD, at last! 23 episodes I can watch over and over again!