Picket Fences
Cast of Picket Fences
Genre	Drama, Comedy
Created by	David E. Kelley
Starring	Tom Skerritt Kathy Baker Costas Mandylor Lauren Holly Holly Marie Combs Justin Shenkarow Adam Wylie Fyvush Finkel Ray Walston Kelly Connell Don Cheadle
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	88
Production
Executive producer(s)	David E. Kelley, Alice West
Running time	42 minutes (60 with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 18, 1992 – June 26, 1996
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Picket Fences is a 60-minute drama which initially ran from September 18, 1992 to June 26, 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. This show was created by Emmy-award winning producer David E. Kelley. The show sometimes struggled to maintain a stable prime-time audience, and had wildly fluctuating ratings. In its first season on the air, it only placed 80th in the primetime Nielsen ratings, and in its second season it moved just slightly to 66th. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... This article is about the American television and film producer. ... Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ... This article is about the actress. ... Costas Mandylor (born on 3 September 1965 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actor of Greek descent. ... Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American actress. ... Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973 in San Diego, California, USA) is an American actress who has worked in movies and television series. ... Justin Shenkarow (born October 17, 1980 in Torrance, California) is an actor who played Matthew Brock on Picket Fences in 1992 and voiced Harold Berman on Hey Arnold! in 1996. ... Adam Wylie, born 23 May 1984, in San Dimas, California, is a television and motion picture actor, as well as a Broadway musical performer, and a former Crayola spokesman. ... Fyvush Finkel (born October 9, 1923) is an American actor. ... Ray Walston (December 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was a stage, television and feature film character actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences. ... Don Cheadle (born November 29, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the American television and film producer. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... An Emmy Award. ... This article is about the American television and film producer. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ...

Series Overview

The series follows the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happen, including cows giving birth to human babies, transgender teachers, and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. Struggling to maintain order in this odd community is Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt). He is married to the town doctor, Jill (Kathy Baker), his second wife. They attempt to bring up their three children, Kimberly (Holly Marie Combs) (from Jimmy's first marriage), Matthew (Justin Shenkarow) and Zachary (Adam Wylie), normally. Lauren Holly and Costas Mandylor played impulsive and immature sheriff's deputies Max and Kenny. Bombastic lawyer Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel), who usually irritated Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston), whose rulings seemed to be directed more by his own moral compass than by point of law. After several prosecutors came and went, Don Cheadle joined the cast as John Littleton. Kelly Connell played medical examiner Carter Pike, an incel, and Zelda Rubenstein portrayed police dispatcher Ginny Weedon. Other well-known actors who were in the cast included Marlee Matlin, Richard Masur, and Dabbs Greer. Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. ... This article is about the actress. ... Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973 in San Diego, California, USA) is an American actress who has worked in movies and television series. ... Justin Shenkarow (born October 17, 1980 in Torrance, California) is an actor who played Matthew Brock on Picket Fences in 1992 and voiced Harold Berman on Hey Arnold! in 1996. ... Adam Wylie, born 23 May 1984, in San Dimas, California, is a television and motion picture actor, as well as a Broadway musical performer, and a former Crayola spokesman. ... Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American actress. ... Costas Mandylor (born on 3 September 1965 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actor of Greek descent. ... Fyvush Finkel (born October 9, 1923) is an American actor. ... Ray Walston (December 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was a stage, television and feature film character actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences. ... Don Cheadle (born November 29, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... Involuntary celibacy is the failure to establish an intimate relationship or engage in sexual intercourse for reasons other than voluntary celibacy or sexual abstinence. ... Squeaky-voice actress who appeared in Poltergeist (1982) Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and Poltergeist III (1988). ... Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an Academy Award-winning American actress who is almost completely deaf. ... Richard Masur (born 20 November 1948, New York, New York) is an actor who has starred in over 80 movies during his career. ... William Dabbs Greer (April 2, 1917 — April 28, 2007) [1]) was an American character actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for about 50 years. ...

Picket Fences frequently deals with difficult subject matter, including abortion, homosexuality (and homosexual adoption), transsexuality, belief in God, medical ethics, polygamy, polyamory, adolescent sexuality, cryonics, the Holocaust, shoe fetishism, masturbation, spontaneous human combustion and constitutional rights. Illustrative of the subject matter is that the regular cast included a judge, two lawyers, and a coroner. Religious issues were frequently discussed, and the characters of the town's Catholic priest and Anglican priest were frequently recurring roles. Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Legal status of gay adoption in Europe (). Gay adoption refers to the adoption of children by homosexuals or same-sex couples. ... Look up Transsexuality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Faith has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually; To Trust: Believing a certain variable will act a specific way despite the potential influence of known or unknown change. ... Medical ethics is the discipline of evaluating the merits, risks, and social concerns of activities in the field of medicine. ... The term polygamy (many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology, sociobiology, and sociology. ... Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ... Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a pseudo-scientific hypothesis that suggests that burning of a persons body may occur without an external source of flammable ignition. ... A constitutional right is a right granted by a governments constitution (on the national or sub-national level), and cannot be legally denied by that government. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...

Mayors

One of the oddest aspects of the series is the revolving door of town mayors who never seemed to last very long. Holding one of the most risky positions in TV history, these are Rome’s mayors (and their portrayers), with their fates on the series:

• Mayor Bill Pugen (Michael Keenen): spontaneous combustion after murder conviction
• Mayor Rachel Harris (Leigh Taylor-Young): hounded from office for starring in an adult film
• Acting Mayor Jill Brock (Kathy Baker): jailed, lost bid for re-election
• Mayor Ed Lawson (Richard Masur): entombed in a freezer by his wife, then decapitated
• Acting Mayor Howard Buss (Robert Cornthwaite): suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, fatally shot by his son
• Acting Mayor Maxine Stewart (Lauren Holly): shot and wounded by a shock jock’s fan
• Mayor Laurie “The Dancing Bandit” Bey (Marlee Matlin): mayor at series end, despite bank robbery convictions. She was offered the job as part of her 3000 hours community service sentencing.

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Main Cast

• Tom Skeritt as Sheriff Jimmy Brock
• Kathy Baker as Dr Jill Brock
• Costas Mandylor as Kenny Lacos
• Lauren Holly as Maxine Stewart
• Holly Marie Combs as Kimberly Brock
• Justin Shenkarow as Matthew Brock
• Adam Wylie as Zack Brock
• Fyvush Finkel as Douglas Wambaugh
• Ray Walston as Judge Henry Bone
• Kelly Connell as Carter Pike
• Don Cheadle as D.A. John Littleton

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Episodes

Main article: List of Picket Fences episodes

Picket Fences had a Total of 88 episodes and Four seasons. This is a list of Picket Fences episodes, in the order that they originally aired on CBS. Picket Fences- The Complete First Season This film, television, or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ...

Crossovers

The series had two crossover episodes with another David E. Kelley series, Chicago Hope. One occurring on Picket Fences and one occurring on Chicago Hope. In the first crossover episode Dr Jill Brock accompanies Douglas Wambaugh to Chicago Hope Hospital over concerns of his heart. In the Second crossover episode Wambaugh is back at Chicago Hope Hospital causing trouble for the doctors. Chicago Hope was a popular CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 4, 2000. ...

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DVD Release

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Awards

It won fourteen Emmy Awards (including "Best Dramatic Series" twice) and one Golden Globe in its four-year run. A substantial following for the show persists to today, and it's popular as reruns in western Europe, especially in France, Germany, and Denmark. It is currently being rerun in French in Canada on Radio-Canada under the title Bienvenue a Rome, USA, it is currently airing in the UK on The Hallmark Channel. An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Rerun van Pelt is the name of Linus and Lucys younger brother in the comic strip Peanuts. ... CBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. ... The Hallmark Channel is a cable television network that broadcasts in over 100 countries. ...

Trivia

• There are two actual towns called Rome in Wisconsin, one 75 miles north of Madison and the other 45 miles west of Milwaukee. A long-running story arc about busing black children in from Green Bay, Wisconsin suggests neither of the real Romes is the location for the fictional Rome. A map on a TV news report (within Picket Fences) during this storyline showed Rome east of Green Bay, rather near Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

• Exteriors for the show were mostly shot in Monrovia, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Generally these were simple exteriors of buildings such as City Hall (side entrance to Monrovia City Hall), the Logan County Courthouse (the United Methodist Church of Monrovia) and Dr. Jill Brock's Office (a Red Cross office at the time, now an Annex to Monrovia City Hall) shot by the second unit. Over the period of 1992-1996 several extensive and large scenes were also filmed in town, including two parades where many citizens and organizations within Monrovia participated in the filming.

• Both Tom Skerritt and Justin Shenkarow are the only two actors to appear in all 88 episodes of the series.

• Kathy Baker was the runner-up actress in terms of a number of episodes an actor appeared in. She appeared in almost every episode of the series, between 1992-1996, missing only 1 episode in the final season, for a total of 87 of the 88 episodes produced.

• Holly Marie Combs was the third place actress in terms of a number of episodes an actor appeared in. She appeared in almost every episode of the series, between 1992-1996, missing 4 episodes in the final season, for a total of 84 of the 88 episodes produced. After the series was cancelled, Combs later gained fame on Charmed.

• In the first season, Ray Walston had a recurring role, but since his character proved to be so popular, he was offered a starring role beginning with the 1993 season. At that time, after he joined the cast, he didn't miss a single episode of the show.

• In the sixth episode of the first season, "Remembering Rosemary", Kimberly states that she is going to a party at Jimmy Berluti's house, the name of a main character from "The Practice".

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See Also

• Chicago Hope
• The Practice
• Ally McBeal
• Boston Legal

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