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It was the first season to air on Fox (whose partner studio of Disney's owned 20th Century Fox Television produces the show), after the series had been cancelled by ABC on May 10, 2017, and picked up by Fox for a seventh season on May 11, 2018. The season consisted of 22 episodes.
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Last Man Standing originally ran on ABC from 2011 to 2017...
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- List of Last Man Standing episodes
During the course of the series, 194 episodes of Last Man Standing aired over nine seasons, between October 11, 2011, and May 20, 2021.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleWritten By11"Pilot"22"Last Baby Proofing Standing"Linda Videtti Figueiredo33"Grandparents Day"Liz Astrof44"Last Halloween Standing"Marsh McCallS7.E10 ∙ Three for the Road. When Mike offers to take Boyd on a fishing trip, Ryan objects because the plans interfere with an existing trip he had made with his son. Boyd then insists the three take a trip together, forcing Mike and Ryan to get along. Meanwhile Mandy and Kyle play detectives.
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The series follows Mike Baxter, a senior executive and director of marketing for an outdoor sporting goods store chain based in Denver, Colorado. His home life is initially filled with his wife, three daughters, and a grandson, but later extends to the young men who are married to or dating his daughters.
Main
1. Tim Allenas Michael Martin "Mike" Baxter: Mike is a father of three daughters and the director of marketing for the Outdoor Man chain of sporting goods stores. Mike staunchly supports traditional, conservative values. 2. Nancy Travis as Vanessa Baxter (née Davidson), Mike's wife: Vanessa is a geologistworking in the energy industry. In season four, Vanessa becomes frustrated with her job and decides to become a high-school science teacher. After being laid off as a teacher due to budget cu...
Recurring
1. Kenton Dutyas Victor Blake (season 1), Eve's soccer teammate and brief "boyfriend". 2. Robert Forsteras Bud Baxter (seasons 1, 3–4, 7), Mike's widower father. He died some time before season 7. 3. Erika Alexander (seasons 2–6) and Tisha Campbell(season 7–9) as Carol Larabee, Chuck's wife and Mike and Vanessa's neighbor. 4. Carla Jimenezas Blanca Alvarez (seasons 2–4), the Baxters' Guatemalan-born housekeeper who also helps Mandy with her fashion business. 5. Sarah Gilmanas Cammy Harris (se...
Development and casting
Last Man Standing first appeared on ABC's development slate in late 2010 when writer Jack Burditt received a put pilot commitment from the network under the original title Man Up. In January 2011, ABC green-lighted production of a pilot episode under the title Last Days of Man. On February 18, Tim Allen, who had been attached to the potential series from the beginning, officially joined the project in the lead role. At the end of March, Nancy Travis joined the cast in the leading female role...
Shooting schedule
On May 13, 2011, ABC picked up the pilot for the 2011–2012 television season under the new title Last Man Standing. On May 17, 2011, ABC announced that the series would air on Tuesday nights at 8 Eastern/7 Central.It debuted on October 11, 2011, with the first two episodes airing in a one-hour premiere. On November 3, 2011, the series was picked up for a full season of twenty-two episodes.On January 12, 2012, the order was increased to twenty-four episodes. On May 11, 2012, ABC renewed the se...
Cancellation
On May 10, 2017, ABC canceled Last Man Standing after six seasons, despite the series being the second-most-watched ABC sitcom during the 2016–17 season (based on Live+7 figures), with ratings remaining mostly steady during its sixth season. A representative for 20th Century Fox Television said cancellation decisions are made by ABC. "This was a scheduling decision," wrote Jori Arancio, senior vice president of ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios. ABC and its production partner for the show, 20...
Critical response
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, season one holds an approval rating of 14% based on 37 reviews, and the average rating is 4.14/10. The same site's critical consensus for the season reads, "Last Man Standing is a thoroughly middling sitcom relying on jokes that feel alternately dated or hostile." On Metacritic, the season has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The Hollywood Reporter called the series "a pre...
Ratings
ABC's series premiere of Last Man Standing drew a 3.5 adults 18–49 rating. That was 9% better than the 3.2 adults 18–49 rating for the series premiere of No Ordinary Family in the same time-slot the previous year (which was two weeks earlier in the season). Season 2 of Last Man Standing premiered with a 2.0, down about 38% from its first-season premiere, but up about 18% from the previous season's finale. Ratings for the eighth season on Fox declined after the series moved to Thursday nights,...
Awards and nominations
Last Man Standing was nominated for a 2012 People's Choice Award for "Favorite New TV Comedy", but lost to CBS's 2 Broke Girls.
On September 3, 2015, it was announced that ABC Family (now Freeform) had obtained syndication rights to the series, which began airing episodes on September 28, 2015. As of 2018, Freeform no longer airs the series. On May 15, 2015, it was announced that Hallmark Channel had obtained the rights to the sitcom, and they aired the series from January ...
Last Man Standing aired on ABC in the U.S.; on Fox8,Network Ten, One and Eleven in Australia; City in Canada; and TV3in New Zealand. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it premiered on October 9, 2012 on Sky One, which aired the first three seasons before dropping it due to low ratings; the show was bought by E4, where it premiered on March 13, 2017...
Last Man Standing at IMDbThe following is a list of cast members and characters appearing on the ABC (seasons 1–6) and Fox (season 7–9) sitcom Last Man Standing.
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At Halloween the Baxter family is excited about their annual party, except for Mike, who's reluctantly tasked with choosing the theme. In hopes of turning everyone against the holiday, Mike decides that if the whole family has to dress up like one another they'll end up making fun of one another.
