Complete series cast summary: | |||
Roseanne Barr | ... | Roseanne Conner / ... 230 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
John Goodman | ... | Dan Conner / ... 230 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
Laurie Metcalf | ... | Jackie Harris / ... 230 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
Michael Fishman | ... | D.J. Conner / ... 229 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
Sara Gilbert | ... | Darlene Conner / ... 230 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
Alicia Goranson | ... | Becky Conner / ... 156 episodes, 1988-2018 | |
Johnny Galecki | ... | David Healy / ... 93 episodes, 1992-2018 | |
"Roseanne" is the story of a working-class family struggling with life's essential problems - marriage, children, money, and parents-in-law. A now-classic sitcom, the story circles around the Connor family, a family of five that includes the parents, Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) and Dan (John Goodman), and the children, Becky (Alicia Goranson), Darlene (Sara Gilbert), and D.J. (Michael Fishman). Roseanne is helped in her challenge to keep the family moving along by her single sister, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), and various friends. Written by Bossy Bessie
"Roseanne" is a milestone in TV sitcoms. It shows a lower class family realistically and the problems and issues they face. It dealt with (for the time) risky issues that you didn't see on TV often. I still remember quite a stir when two separate episodes dealt with one of the girls "becoming" a woman and the son of the family discovering how to "pleasure" himself. Also it had episodes dealing with abortion, gay characters, alcoholism, drug abuse, premarital sex, workplace and sexual harassment, how to deal with elderly parents... None of the characters were squeaky clean or perfect...they all had huge flaws and faults. But all of this was done with realism, great acting and a strong (if sometimes caustic) sense of humor. You saw the characters grow and change over the course of the 9 years it was on the air. It totally fell apart during the last season (egos were going out of control on the set) and ended horribly but the previous eight seasons were just fantastic. And the Halloween episodes were among the funniest ever done for a TV series. Just great all around. If you've never seen it, catch an episode or two--it's worth the effort.