The recent negative stories about Fred Savage

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This is pretty much, a simple enough of a question, has The Wonder Years been somewhat tainted due to all of the controversies in his personal life in recent times.

Keep in mind that according to Alley Mills, the real reason why The Wonder Years was abruptly cancelled in 1993 was due to a sexual misconduct lawsuit that was leveled against not only Fred but Jason Hervey.

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Originally Posted by TMC

This is pretty much, a simple enough of a question, has The Wonder Years been somewhat tainted due to all of the controversies in his personal life in recent times.

Keep in mind that according to Alley Mills, the real reason why The Wonder Years was abruptly cancelled in 1993 was due to a sexual misconduct lawsuit that was leveled against not only Fred but Jason Hervey.

The allegations (most likely true) against Fred Savage likely contributed to the series cancellation, but we ahve to keep in mind that ratings suffered from an ABC decision to sanitise the show, once Kevin hit puberty, and the series never went with episodes that would have touched on what real teenagers faced. This probably had a very negative effect on the series.

The accuser it turns out wasn't the incompetent, lazy, and disgruntled ex-employee that the network portrayed her as. It turns out once she left the series, she went on to do work on bigger and better assignments, and established an excellent reputation in Hollywood.

Savage, of course, has now been accused of numerous women of harassment. I can't believe he got away with it. I feel bad he was not exposed as a predator 30 years ago. ABC should be ashamed of themselves.