Felicity
Genre	Teen drama
Running time	60 minutes
Creator(s)	J.J. Abrams Matt Reeves
Starring	Keri Russell Scott Speedman Tangi Miller Scott Foley Amanda Foreman Greg Grunberg Amy Jo Johnson
Country of origin	United States
Original network/channel	The WB
Original run	September 21, 1998–May 22, 2002
No. of episodes	84

For other uses, see Felicity (disambiguation).

Felicity was an American television series that revolved around the fictional college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter (played by Keri Russell), as she attended the University of New York in New York City across the country from her home of Palo Alto, California. The series ran for four seasons from 1998 to 2002, with each season roughly corresponding to the traditional freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years students attend at universities. The series was created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves with the assistance of many writers, and was directed and produced by many people, including Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. It originally ran on the WB Network. Image File history File links Felicitylogo. ... A teen drama is a television drama series that centers on teenage characters. ... Jeffrey J. Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J.J. Abrams) (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. ... Keri Russell as Felicity in 1999 Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe Award winning American actress and dancer, most known for playing the title role on the television series Felicity. ... Actor Scott Speedman in Underworld: Evolution Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is an English-born Canadian actor. ... Scott Kellerman Foley (born July 15, 1972 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an actor, best known for roles on Felicity, A.U.S.A., and Scream 3 (for which he was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Film - Choice Sleazebag). ... Amanda Foreman (Born: July 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Greg Grunberg as Eric Weiss on Alias Greg Grunberg (born July 11, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is a television actor. ... Amy Jo Johnson Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an actress and entertainer. ... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Keri Russell as Felicity in 1999 Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe Award winning American actress and dancer, most known for playing the title role on the television series Felicity. ... The University of New York was a fictional university in New York City from the television series Felicity, that aired from 1998 to 2002. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Students attending a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, meaning to direct ones zeal at; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... J. J. Abrams speaking at a San Francisco comics convention in February 2006. ... Brian Grazer (born July 12, 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is a Jewish-American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...

Some episodes of the show began with stark camera shots of Felicity sitting in a dorm room or apartment holding a tape recorder, recalling events in order to make a cassette tape to send to an old friend named Sally Reardon (voiced by Janeane Garofalo). This occasionally provided a method for Felicity to narrate an entire episode. At the end of episodes like this, Felicity would often be shown listening to a tape Sally sent in reply. This was a staple of early episodes, but became less frequent as the series went on. TV Show Reference Episode is the word usually used to refer to a part of a serial television or radio program. ... A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound recording, such as with video cameras. ... A typical American college dorm room A dormitory or dorm is a place to sleep. ... An apartment estate in Singapore, which makes up the majority of public housing in Singapore. ... In general, a tape recorder, tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is any device that records and plays back, fluctuating signal by moving a strip of magnetic tape across a tape head. ... Typical 60-minute Compact Cassette. ... Janeane Garofalo Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, and radio host on Air America Radio. ... It has been suggested that Third person limited omniscient be merged into this article or section. ...

The show had 84 episodes play on-air, plus one unaired pilot. A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ...

Plots

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The story of the series began at Felicity's high school graduation where she asked Ben Covington (played by Scott Speedman), a classmate whom she had a crush on, to sign her yearbook. Moved by a comment he wrote, she decided to completely change her education plans, deciding to follow Ben to New York rather than attend Stanford University to prepare for the study of medicine. Image File history File links Screenshot of the opening sequence to Felicity. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of the opening sequence to Felicity. ... High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Academic procession during the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony. ... Actor Scott Speedman in Underworld: Evolution Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is an English-born Canadian actor. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: crush Crush may mean: A short-lived and unrequited love, infatuation, or limerence, especially prevalent among young people but not unheard of for people of any age, as in I have a crush on so-and-so. ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually as a report or summary of statistics or facts. ... Stanford redirects here. ... This article is about the field of medical practice and health care. ...

Upon arriving in New York, Felicity discovered that her ideas were rather misguided. Ben had a girlfriend and apparently did not actually have strong feelings for Felicity (he has difficulty remembering her name when they first see each other). While Felicity worked to sort out her emotions, she continued the basic motions of student life and moved into her dorm. There, she met the resident advisor Noel Crane (Scott Foley). Eventually, romantic involvements ensued, and the relationships between Felicity, Ben, and Noel form the basic dramatic conflicts in the show and continue until the end of the series. Advisor is the title of the British colonial head of administration in the Unfederated Malay States of Johor, Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Kedah. ... Scott Kellerman Foley (born July 15, 1972 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an actor, best known for roles on Felicity, A.U.S.A., and Scream 3 (for which he was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Film - Choice Sleazebag). ... Conflict is a state of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterized by physical violence. ...

A number of other characters appear throughout the series. Felicity's college roommate for the first two years was Meghan Rotundi (Amanda Foreman), a goth Wiccan who occasionally cast spells on her for good or evil. Julie Emrick (Amy Jo Johnson) was one of Felicity's best friends for three seasons and Elena Tyler (Tangi Miller), who often took classes with Felicity. She had male friends including Sean Blumberg (Greg Grunberg), who was always trying to produce new off-kilter inventions, and Javier Quintata (Ian Gomez), who operated the coffee house Dean & DeLuca where Felicity worked for most of the time she was at college. The late John Ritter also guest starred on the show as Ben's Father. Amanda Foreman (born July 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress who became a regular on the college drama series Felicity (1998). ... NYC goth band The Naked and the Dead (1985). ... The pentagram within a circle; a symbol of faith used by many Wiccans. ... Amy Jo Johnson Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an actress and entertainer. ... Greg Grunberg as Eric Weiss on Alias Greg Grunberg (born July 11, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is a television actor. ... An invention is an object, process, or technique which displays an element of novelty. ... Ian Gomez is an american actor with notable roles on The Drew Carey Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. ... A Street Cafe, Jerusalem, Henry Fenn (1838- ): steel engraving in Picturesque Palestine, ca 1875 A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or caf shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... Dean & DeLuca is a chain of grocery stores. ... John Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper in the sitcom Threes Company. ...

Ratings controversy

The show's ratings declined in the 1999–2000 season. Executives at the WB blamed this partly on a new hairstyle by the show's star. Known for long and curly locks, Russell snipped her hair short early on in the second year after her character had a rough breakup with Ben. The network was bombarded with letters and e-mails from fans, who stated that they hated the haircut and they didn't recognize the title character anymore. Street haircut in Harbin, China For humans, a haircut, hairstyle or hairdo normally describes cutting or styling head hair, rather than other body hair such as facial, underarm hair, or pubic. ...

WB network executive Susanne Daniels said in early 2000, "Nobody is cutting their hair again on this network." In reality, the network didn't become that strict, but new policies were enacted requiring hairstyle changes to be approved by management.

Russell herself was surprised at the reaction, later stating, "People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'"

The ratings drop also coincided with the show's move to Sunday night, so it is unclear exactly how much effect the hairstyle change actually had.

DVD's

The DVDs were released over a period of four years. They have been criticized for a few reasons, most notably because the soundtrack includes different music than the TV version. Some of the songs were changed, reportedly because high licensing costs would bring up the price of the box sets. On a technical level, some episodes did not have proper telecine encoding, so viewers using HDTVs could sometimes see interlacing artifacts (though this problem can be mitigated in a few ways). The yearly sets are listed below with their American release dates. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ... Music is a form of expression in the medium of time using the structures of tones and silence. ... Telecine (pronounced tele-Sin-ee or tele-Sin-a as cine is the same root as in cinema) is the process of transferring motion picture film into electronic form, or the machine used in this process. ... Projection screen in a home theater, displaying a high-definition television image. ... Interlacing is a method of displaying images on a raster-scanned display device, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT). ...

• Freshman Year Collection – November 5, 2002
• Sophomore Year Collection – July 22, 2003
• Junior Year Collection – September 21, 2004
• Senior Year Collection – March 8, 2005

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Release Dates

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

season 4

References

• Julie Keller (January 18, 2000). Hairy Situation for Felicity. E! Online.

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International

• In Australia, the show was shown on The Seven Network.
• In France, the show was shown on TF1.
• In Italy, the show was shown on Rai Due.
• In Ireland, the show was shown on RTÉ Two.
• In Spain, the show was shown on Telecinco.
• In Estonia, the show was shown on TV3 Estonia.
• In Poland, the show was on TVP2 and currently on TVP3

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External links

• TV.com: Felicity – includes full episode guide
• Felicity at the Internet Movie Database
• FelicityPage.com – fan site
• NoelCrane.com – site that was referenced several times in the show; it was updated during the show's run as if Noel Crane were a real person