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Seasons(4) / Episodes(85)
Plots(1)
THIRTYSOMETHING chronicles a circle of baby boomers as they cope with life in the 1980s. The "me" decade brings fresh challenges to the young professionals: Hope (Mel Harris) learns to balance her feminist ideals with her role as a stay-at-home mother, while her husband, Michael (Ken Olin), attempts to make it in the advertising business. His partner, Elliot (Timothy Busfield), struggles in the confines of his own marriage to Nancy (Patricia Wettig), a restless homemaker who eventually stares down ovarian cancer. Together with artist friend Melissa (Melanie Mayron), free spirit Ellyn (Polly Draper), and English prof. Gary Shepherd (Peter Horton), the couples pull together and fall apart under a variety of pressures and tragedies. (ABC TV Network)
(more)Cast
![Paul Dooley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272889_979352.jpg)
Paul Dooley
USA
Best series:
Shameless (2011) (series)
The Wonder Years (1988) (series)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992) (series)
![Alan King](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273366_2e9c0f.jpg)
Alan King
USA
Best series:
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Family Guy (1999) (series)
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
![Lauren Tom](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274107_9491a0.jpg)
Lauren Tom
USA
Best series:
The Simpsons (1989) (series)
Rick and Morty (2013) (series)
Friends (1994) (series) - actor, a.f.
John Ingle
USA
Best series:
Parks and Recreation (2009) (series)
The Office (2005) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
![Renée Taylor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273572_c39add.jpg)
Renée Taylor
USA
Best series:
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (series)
Upload (2020) (series)
2 Broke Girls (2011) (series)
![Heidi Swedberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/425/158425444_d2759c.jpg)
Heidi Swedberg
USA
Best series:
Bones (2005) (series)
Oliver Beene (2003) (series)
Gilmore Girls (2000) (series)
Joseph Brutsman
USA
Best series:
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
Hardcastle and McCormick (1983) (series)
![Mary Kay Place](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271848_f9840e.jpg)
Mary Kay Place
USA
Best series:
Shameless (2011) (series)
M*A*S*H (1972) (series)
Californication (2007) (series)
![Eileen Brennan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271190_946f58.jpg)
Eileen Brennan
USA
Best series:
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) (series)
ER (1994) (series)
Tales from the Crypt (1989) (series)
![Chris Mulkey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/263/164263439_879dcd.jpg)
Chris Mulkey
USA
Best series:
Better Call Saul (2015) (series)
Boardwalk Empire (2010) (series)
Twin Peaks (1990) (series)
![Lois Smith](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/325/325352_d60f98.jpg)
Lois Smith
USA
Best series:
Ray Donovan (2013) (series)
The Americans (2013) (series)
Grace and Frankie (2015) (series)
![L. Scott Caldwell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/463/164463755_bfd719.jpg)
L. Scott Caldwell
USA
Best series:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013) (series)
Tour of Duty (1987) (series)
The Good Doctor (2017) (series)
![Shawn Weatherly](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/113/164113361_4c100a.jpg)
Shawn Weatherly
USA
Best series:
Cold Case (2003) (series)
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
The A-Team (1983) (series)
![Brooke Adams](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886567_38cc19.jpg)
Brooke Adams
USA
![Colleen Camp](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/130/164130326_62606d.jpg)
Colleen Camp
USA
Best series:
House M.D. (2004) (series)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
Mob City (2013) (series)
D. David Morin
USA
Best series:
Dexter (2006) (series)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) (series)
Northern Exposure (1990) (series)
Brooke Fontaine
Best series:
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
Laurie Lathem
Best series:
High Incident (1996) (series)
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997) (series)
The Visitor (1997) (series)
Christy Botkin
Best series:
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) (series)
Cynthia Bond
USA
Best series:
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
In the Heat of the Night (1988) (series)
Father Dowling Mysteries (1989) (series)