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Harry and the Hendersons
1991 - 1993 5.7 (33 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy Family
Networks
Syndication
Created By
Lin Oliver

Harry and the Hendersons

Overview

The Hendersons, an upwardly mobile Seattle family, bring home what they believe to be a dead Bigfoot. But he has only been wounded by a hunter, and the Hendersons offer the creature who they come to call Harry a temporary home until a recovers his health.

Key Crew

Producer: Jill Danton, Alan Moskowitz

Top Cast

Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison

George Henderson

Molly Cheek
Molly Cheek

Nancy Henderson

Carol-Ann Merrill
Carol-Ann Merrill

Sara Henderson

Zachary Bostrom
Zachary Bostrom

Ernie Henderson

Noah Blake
Noah Blake

Brett Douglas

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1991)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Arrival
1991-01-13

The Henderson family returning from vacation accidentally hits an eight foot Bigfoot and brings it home. They decide to nurse him, and end up letting him stay with them.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: The Day After
1991-01-20

Harry's need for attention takes its toll on the Hendersons, especially George, who bigfoot-sits while preparing a work assignment.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Cool
1991-01-27

Harry feels uncomfortable in the Henderson home so he decides to run away.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Harry Goes Home (1)
1991-02-03

The family takes Harry back to the woods, only to discover that his home territory has been clearcut. Meanwhile, Ernie doesn't want Harry to go away. (Part 1 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Whose Forest Is It Anyway? (2)
1991-02-10

A local congressman's (Steve Landesberg) aid is sought when Harry's (Kevin Peter Hall) habitat is found destroyed. The clan petitions to save the forest. (Part 2 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: The Father-Son Game
1991-02-17

George's and Ernie's attitudes differ over a father-son baseball game. George recruits Ken Griffey Jr. in a plan to spark Ernie's interest in baseball. Guest Stars: Ken Griffey Sr., Ken Griffey Jr.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Baggin' the Big One
1991-02-24

A British explorer, the son of a famous hunter, wants to outshine his father. In order to do that, he plans to bag Harry.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Harry the Hero
1991-03-03

The Hendersons try to close down an animal research lab by protesting after finding an escapee, a scruffy dog, on their doorstep.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Roots, the Herb
1991-03-10

Harry and an American Indian medicine man try to cure George's knee but he is reckless.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: The Mentor
1991-03-17

The only doctor who can help a dying Harry is an elderly embittered anthropologist whose theories about Bigfoot were stamped out.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: The Bodyguard
1991-03-24

A bully (Aeryk Egan) steals Ernie's special pair of sneakers needed by George for a presentation. Ernie uses Harry's formidable size and strength in a plan to retrieve them.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Harry and the Homeless Man
1991-04-07

Harry befriends a homeless intruder who reveals that he built the Hendersons' house. Meanwhile, the Hendersons are celebrating a birthday.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Harry Goes Ape
1991-04-21

A football legend visits the Hendersons' house along with his wife who is wearing a fur. Harry thinks that the fur is a dead person and decides to bury it.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Pet Psychic
1991-04-28

When Harry hides Nancy's diamond ring, the Hendersons ask a pet psychic (Michael Winslow) to read Harry's mind.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: The Bigfoot That Ate Seattle
1991-05-05

A monster-movie director (Pat Morita) wants permission from the Hendersons to use Harry in one of his films.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: Harry and the Masked Wrestler
1991-05-12

Harry becomes a wrestler to help Sarah raise money to save an injured sea lion. George asks wrestler 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan to judge a benefit match featuring the debut of reluctant wrestler 'Bigfoot Man'.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: When Harry Met Sammy
1991-05-19

When Tiffany brings Harry home, George and Nancy tell Samantha the truth, whetting her appetite for a good news story. Samantha decides to break the story of Harry on her news program.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 18: Harry and the Cheerleaders
1991-05-26

When three Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders come to town on a mascot search, Ernie dreams that he loses his pal Harry to stardom. Ernie fears Harry may become the new mascot for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1991)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Retrospective
1991-09-29

While the Hendersons prepare for Harry's first birthday party, they recall some of their memorable moments since his arrival.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: The Terror of the Trees
1991-10-06

While on a camping trip with his son and his co-worker, George is nervous because his co-worker keeps on playing pranks and later mistakes Harry for a monster.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Sarah Sings the Blues
1991-10-13

Sarah is chosen to sing at the school dance with a new student but hesitates when she learns that he's blind.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Mom
1991-10-20

Nancy welcomes the arrival of her pregnant sister, Emily, unaware that another arrival is soon to follow.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: The Ransom of Bigfoot
1991-10-27

Harry is home alone and left to the fate of two burglars who think a Bigfoot might draw a big reward.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Halloween
1991-11-03

It's Halloween and Harry finally has a chance to get out. However, the Hendersons' neighbour, who is allergic to animal hair, becomes suspicious of Harry's "costume."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Brett Hits Home
1991-11-10

While George competes with an obnoxious co-worker for a promotion, Nancy's brother Brett moves in at home and is forced to contend with Harry.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: George's White Light
1991-11-17

George examines his life after he's trapped in a steam room and, in a heat-induced delirium, sees God. He decides to quit his job.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Working Stiffs
1991-11-24

George's decision to quit his job and launch a magazine with Brett rockets the rest of the Hendersons into the job market.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Love Mask
1992-01-12

Brett thinks a primitive mask can cure his ailing love life by casting a spell on Darcy's Swedish au pair Uma, and it seems to work; but his date with her is spoiled by Harry, who is strangely obsessed with the mask as well.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Blue Parrot
1992-01-19

When Harry sets Ernie's pet parrot free, George and Nancy go shopping for a quick replacement.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Winning
1992-01-26

Angered at the foul attitude of Ernie's baseball coach, Nancy meets his challenge and strikes out on her own as a coach.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Til Theft Do Us Part
1992-02-02

The Hendersons suspect that all that glistens is not gold but their missing silver when Brett suddenly comes into a large sum of money.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: The Genius
1992-02-09

Harry scores high on Ernie's IQ test, which changes the way everyone relates to Ernie especially when his teacher Ms. Hall comes to visit and encounters Harry.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: Wild Things
1992-02-16

The Hendersons are shaken when Harry, fearing impending danger, traps them and a menagerie of forest friends inside their home.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: Fatherhood
1992-02-23

In a case of mistaken identity, a baby is left on the doorstep with a note claiming that Brett is the father.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: Sara Spills the Bigfoot Beans
1992-03-01

Sarah tells her boyfriend about Harry and jeopardizes the Hendersons' secret, and her love life, when she invites him to dinner.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 18: Moonlighting
1992-03-22

Nancy moonlights as an aid to a foreign official and suspects his possession of a chimpanzee is on the dark side of the law.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 19: The Green-Eyed Bigfoot
1992-03-29

Harry's friendship with Brett, and George's interview with a beautiful author, set off a wave of jealousy in the Henderson household.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 20: The Ichthyologist
1992-04-05

George tries to help his cousin, who broke the law trying to save a polluted lake and its fish population.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 21: Selling Out
1992-04-26

A businessman offers to buy George's magazine but the buyer's vision of yellow journalism makes George see red.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 22: The Girl Who Cried Bigfoot
1992-05-03

Darcy discovers the Hendersons' secret and her parents, who doubt her story, send for a psychiatrist.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 23: The Busybody
1992-05-10

A tabloid prints stories about a dangerous Bigfoot and turns the Hendersons' public life into a nightmare.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 24: I Got Your Birthday Right Here
1992-05-17

Nancy takes a seat as vice principal at Sarah's school, which doesn't sit well with Sarah and Lorraine.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1992)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Yo Richie!
1992-09-18

Nancy's friend visits with her nephew, a boy who gives mischief a bad name.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: The Candidate
1992-09-25

When George's friend is bullied from a political race, George finds a write-in candidate: a Bigfoot with a pristine past.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: The Bride and the Gloom
1992-10-02

Darcy's scheme to have her Albanian housekeeper deported goes awry when the woman finds herself a husband: Brett.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Born Again
1992-10-30

The Hendersons plan a weekend of laid-back happenings for Nancy and Brett's visiting mother, only to find she would rather party.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: The Old Bigfoot
1992-11-06

Harry brings home an old bigfoot, so the family consults Dr. Arnesen, who concludes he is preparing to die; Darcy introduces Brad to gorgeous Kate, but tells him she only likes brainy boys.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: The Outing
1992-11-13

The media and an animal control officer discover Harry, so the family turn to sleazy talk show host Tony Lane for help.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Harry Henderson National Treasure
1992-11-20

With Harry's existence made public, the neighborhood is flooded with tourists, prompting angry residents to legally force Harry out.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
1993-01-01

When George's cousin Melvin breaks up with his fiancee, he goes to the Hendersons for some advice and comfort.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Blood Is Thicker Than...
1993-01-22

Family ties unravel when George's brother visits and turns the Henderson home into a New Age shrine for Harry.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Pitch, Pitch, Pitch
1993-01-29

Nancy finds stardom when she's asked to be in a commercial. In her absence, the family finds out how much they need her.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Harry the Mascot
1993-02-05

Hoping to join the "cool" contingent at school, Ernie arranges for Harry to be school mascot for Madison Junior High.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: The Big Kiss Off
1993-02-12

Everyone is skeptical when Brett's long-lost wife shows up after leaving him to pursue a movie career.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: The Frenchman
1993-02-19

A French linguist studying Harry's speech speaks the language of romance to Sara and that translates into trouble.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Laid Up
1993-02-26

George and Harry become hospital roommates when Harry visits George and drops a television set on his foot.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: Harrywood Babylon
1993-03-05

When Harry frightens shoppers, Brett sets out to change Harry's public image; but the documentary on Harry he produces demeans the family.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: Witness (1)
1993-03-12

The Hendersons' lives are put in danger when Harry sees a philanthropist commit murder. (Part 1 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: Harry the Hostage (2)
1993-03-19

Murder-witness Harry becomes a target; but Nancy devises a daring plan to stop the murderer. (Part 2 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 18: The Ex-Terminator
1993-03-26

Nancy's fear of a mouse prompts George to hire an exterminator while Harry tries to protect his fellow creature.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 19: Beauty and the Beast
1993-04-02

When Sara's stage production of "Beauty and the Beast" lacks an actor to play the Beast, George gets an idea and Harry becomes Sara's co-star.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 20: Big Feet, Small Minds
1993-04-09

George is challenged by his church when he writes an article about Harry suggesting he is the missing link between apes and humans which leads to a boycott of "A Better Life."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 21: Surf's Down
1993-04-16

George learns that shore waters are being polluted by a construction company owned by his friend and biggest advertiser.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 22: Follow Your Art
1993-04-23

When Sara considers enrolling at an arts college 200 miles away, an overprotective George has trouble letting go.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 23: Them Bones
1993-04-30

When George makes the "archaeological discovery of the century," he sees a chance to spend time with his dad, an amateur geologist with the emotions of a rock.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 24: The Three Facts of Brett
1993-05-07

Ernie and Harry find a book of sorcery and cast a spell on Brett that makes him assume others' personalities.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 25: Ernie Confidential
1993-05-14

Ernie explains his moussed hair and missed classes as follows: "I'm a man now. I've got my own trail to blaze." However, in the path of every pubescent pioneer is a protective mother.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 26: Uncle Mack Comes Back
1993-05-21

George's Great-Uncle Mac from Scotland arrives to settle his affairs and die, which he does, but his ghost has some unsettled business.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 27: Skin Deep
1993-05-28

Brett can't seem to choose between a witty waitress who wants a commitment and a more voluptuous cosmetician who doesn't demand commitment because, as Nancy says, "it has three syllables."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 28: Retrospective Three
1993-06-04

A publisher rejects George's book about Harry. In a retrospective, we get another look at the past.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 29: The Long Goodbyes (1)
1993-06-11

Tefta pines for Brett, who loves Mary. Meanwhile, Yetta, a female bigfoot from China, and Harry pine for one another but they need to avoid a customs agent. (Part 1 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 30: The Long Goodbyes (2)
1993-06-18

In the series finale, the Henderson family decides to help Harry and his dear Yetta marry and move to a cave in the woods. Tefta pines for Brett, who loves Mary. (Part 2 of 2)

Runtime: 22 min

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