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Coach (1989)

Coach poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United States
Length
9 seasons, 200 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The series follows Hayden Fox, a college football coach, and his relationships with his assistant coaches and his news anchor girlfriend. It focuses on his professional and personal life with a comedic tone.

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What happens

Coach is an American television sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on ABC from February 28, 1989, to May 14, 1997, with a total of 200 half-hour episodes. The series, created by Barry Kemp, stars Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, head coach of the fictional NCAA Division I-A Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles football team. For the last two seasons, Coach Fox and the supporting characters coached the Orlando Breakers, a fictional National Football League expansion team. The program also starred Jerry Van Dyke as Luther Van Dam and Bill Fagerbakke as Michael "Dauber" Dybinski, assistant coaches under Fox. The role of Hayden's girlfriend (and later wife) Christine Armstrong, a television news anchor, was played by Shelley Fabares. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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