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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
![Darryl Henriques](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/745/160745141_0d3531.jpg)
Darryl Henriques
Best series:
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) (series)
Desperate Housewives (2004) (series)
Malcolm in the Middle (2000) (series)
![Philip Sterling](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/877/160877614_6f132f.jpg)
Philip Sterling
USA
Best series:
M*A*S*H (1972) (series)
The Wonder Years (1988) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
![Lisa Waltz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/025/161025466_51e58b.jpg)
Lisa Waltz
USA
Best series:
Northern Exposure (1990) (series)
My So-Called Life (1994) (series)
The X-Files (1993) (series)
Richard Murphy
USA
Best series:
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
Ron Feinberg
USA
Best series:
Centurions (1986) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
TaleSpin (1990) (series)
![Cassie Yates](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/366/161366547_dc4d81.jpg)
Cassie Yates
USA
Best series:
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
Disneyland (1954) (series)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972) (series)
Helen Page Camp
USA
Best series:
The Wonder Years (1988) (series)
Cheers (1982) (series)
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
![Scott Marlowe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/442/161442701_406f89.jpg)
Scott Marlowe
USA
Best series:
The Fall Guy (1981) (series)
Rawhide (1959) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
Patricia Gaul
USA
Best series:
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
Vengeance Unlimited (1998) (series)
ER (1994) (series)
![Shirley Prestia](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/491/161491544_3150c7.jpg)
Shirley Prestia
USA
Best series:
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Frasier (1993) (series)
The War at Home (2005) (series)
![Barbara Rhoades](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/562/161562495_40f977.jpg)
Barbara Rhoades
USA
Best series:
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) (series)
Bewitched (1964) (series)
![Jo Anderson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/566/161566583_0a41c9.gif)
Jo Anderson
USA
Best series:
From the Earth to the Moon (1998) (series)
High Incident (1996) (series)
Northern Exposure (1990) (series)
Phyllis Newman
USA
Best series:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) (series)
thirtysomething (1987) (series)
One Life to Live (1968) (series)
Norma Maldonado
USA
Best series:
Breaking Bad (2008) (series)
The Newsroom (2012) (series)
Mad Men (2007) (series)
Deborah Offner
USA
Best series:
Six Feet Under (2001) (series)
Horace and Pete (2016) (series)
Orange Is the New Black (2013) (series)
Julie Ariola
Best series:
House M.D. (2004) (series)
Shameless (2011) (series)
Six Feet Under (2001) (series)
Roberta Bassin
Best series:
Shameless (2011) (series)
Presumed Innocent (2024) (series)
How to Get Away with Murder (2014) (series)
![Phyllis Applegate](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/220/163220640_6f6a56.jpg)
Phyllis Applegate
USA
Best series:
Better Call Saul (2015) (series)
In Living Color (1990) (series)
Scrubs (2001) (series)
![Stanley DeSantis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/866/161866112_66bc15.gif)
Stanley DeSantis
USA
Best series:
Six Feet Under (2001) (series)
My So-Called Life (1994) (series)
Entourage (2004) (series)
Darrell Fetty
USA
Best series:
Hatfields & McCoys (2012) (series)
E/R (1984) (series)
Centennial (1978) (series)