Kirk aired from August 1995 until November 1996 on The WB.
Kirk ( Kirk Cameron), was a graphic illustrator just returned to New York City after graduating from college to take a job with a company that painted billboards, and to chase girls, and have a good time. But when his 75 year old Aunt Zelda, who had raised the Hartman kids since the death of their parents five years earlier, decided to move to Florida and get married, she dropped his 3 younger siblings at his Greenwhich Villiage apartment and took off. Corey ( Will Estes), the oldest and dumbest, was a free spirit who wanted more independence than his now surrogant father was willing to give him; Phoebe ( Taylor Fry), the intellectual, was the best student; and Russell ( Courtland Mead), was the young troublemaker. Their pressence put a serious crimp in Kirk's social life. His loopy college buddy Eddie ( Louis Vanaria), who almost always entered their 1st floor apartment by climbing in through the living room window, wanted to party and have fun, but Kirk tried to be a responsible " father." He was smitten with sexy Elizabeth ( Chelsea Noble), an intern at St. Brennan's Hospital who lived across the hall, and by mid-season had convinced her to go out with him. Sally ( Debra Mooney), their cynical landlady, offered occasional advice and sometimes helped Kirk out with the kids.
In the fall 1996 premiere Kirk went with Elizabeth to a medical conference in Paris and, under the influence of the " City Of Love" proposed to her. They were married before they returned to NY. Elizabeth moved in with them and Phoebe got accepted to exclusive Blakemore Accademy, where Elizabeth had gone, but tuition was $8,000 a year and Kirk needed more money to pay for it. He got a job with Shotz Comics, where he revived the classic Mercury Man comic that had orginally been drawn by his boss Mr. Shotz.
The series was abruptly canceled two months into its second season, before Elizabeth's adjustment to instant " motherhood" and Kirk's new job had much time to develop.
Elizabeth was played by Kirk Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble. They had met on Cameron's Previous hit series Growing Pains.
A Review from The New York Daily News
WARNER'S 'KIRK' DOESN'T WORK
By DAVID BIANCULLI Daily News TV Critic
Wednesday, August 23th 1995, 3:92AM
WITH "Kirk," the Warner Bros. Network sitcom that premieres tonight at 8:30, former teen TV idol Kirk Cameron goes from "Growing Pains" to Grown Pains.
Instead of the coltish youth Mike Seaver, who ambled through life flirting with almost every young woman in sight, Cameron now plays Kirk Hartman who, at the start of "Kirk," is ambling through life flirting with almost every young woman in sight. This time, though, he's a 23-year-old bachelor with his own typically oversize New York apartment.
But then comes the news: Kirk is saddled with the sudden responsibility of caring for his three younger siblings: 7-year-old Russell (Courtland Mead), 13-year-old Phoebe (Taylor Fry) and 15-year-old Corey (Will Estes). Needless to say, this seriously cramps his already tenuous attempts to get closer to the beauteous Elizabeth, who lives down the hall.
Elizabeth, it should be noted, is played by Chelsea Noble, one of Cameron's romantic interests on "Growing Pains," and his real-life romantic interest: Off-screen, Cameron and Noble are married.
On-screen, in "Kirk," he's less lucky in love, and a frazzled authority figure with his siblings, especially in the grocery store. (Russell throws a tantrum there that, with its fruit-throwing and leg-kicking, few parents would want their children to imitate.)
Consider "Kirk" a sort of "Party of Four," sitcom-style. Except that there's not much style here. Creator Ross Brown (whose credits include "Step by Step") has loaded "Kirk" with familiar sitcom components Louis Vanaria as the pushy best friend, Debra Mooney as the gruff landlord but nothing original.
And nothing particularly accurate in its depiction of New York, either. During the opening credits, when Kirk talks of "the excitement of Broadway," the image we see is of Radio City Music Hall. Missed it by that much . . . as in a few long city blocks.
Unless you're a big Cameron fan (and I'm aware he has them among the younger set), don't bother watching "Kirk." The jokes are so bad, and the situations so predictable, they'll give you Groan Pains.
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