Dharma & Greg
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Dharma & Greg was an American television situation comedy broadcast between 1997 and 2002 on ABC.
The premise of the show was a relationship between two characters regarded as cultural opposites. Dharma (full name Dharma Freedom Finklestein Montgomery, played by Jenna Elfman) was raised by hippie parents, a practicer of yoga and an adherent of Eastern spiritualities. Greg (full name Gregory Clifford Montgomery, played by Thomas Gibson) was an attorney from an upper class, old money family. On the first date, they married.
The show focused on the characters' marriage and the compromise of their different values. However, both Dharma and Greg were more moderate than their parents, often caricatures, in personality and viewpoints. Most of the episodes take place in San Francisco, as that is where all the main characters live.
At the end of each episode, a message appeared on the screen for a brief moment, so that it is readable only to those who record the program (using a VCR, for example) and pause it. These "vanity cards" were written by producer and show co-creator Chuck Lorre, and express his personal views on a variety of subjects.
The series was cancelled along with Spin City and Once and Again in 2002 due to low ratings during the 2001-2002 season and a change in target demographics.
Main characters
- Dharma (Jenna Elfman) - Greg's wife, encourages him to seek happiness, rather than fret about money and such
- Greg (Thomas Gibson) - Dharma's husband, an upright, decent, though sometimes surprisingly open-minded, man
- Kitty (Susan Sullivan) - Greg's snobbish mother, who highly disapproves of Dharma and successfully makes her feel guilty often
- Edward (Mitch Ryan) - Greg's father, whose philosophy for dealing with women involves remaining as uninvolved as possible. Head of Montgomery Industries and at odds with Dharma's father
- Abby (Mimi Kennedy) - Dharma's caring mother, who encourages her daughter and son-in-law to produce children; "Feel free to have sex anywhere."
- Larry (Alan Rachins) - Dharma's father, who is suspicous of the government and Greg and seems to be lacking in short term memory
- Jane (Shae D'Lyn) - Dharma's friend, considers all men evil (more or less)
- Pete (Joel Murray) - Greg's fellow lawyer, a particularly bad, lazy one, who ends up marrying Jane
Other characters
- Celia (Lillian Hurst) - Kitty and Edward's Hispanic maid (appears in 16 episodes)
External links
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- Vanity card archive (http://www.chucklorre.com/)
- The Dharma & Greg TV Show (http://www.crazyabouttv.com/dharmaandgreg.html) page at Crazy About TV provides trivia, a description, cast information, and an episodes list for the series.fr:Dharma & Greg