Episodes
The Wonder Years: Independence Day (S1EP7 ABC Wed 3 Nov 2021)
Independence Day: As Kim’s campaign for a car coincides with the need to take Grandaddy Clisby’s keys away, Bill proposes a solution that is only pleasing to him: Kim can drive, so long as she takes her grandfather and Dean around town.
Later on at the mall, Dean is worried about seeming uncool when Clisby ends up chaperoning him and his friends, but Clisby has a few crowd-pleasing tricks up his sleeve.
Special guest star Richard Gant as Grandaddy Clisby.
“Independence Day” was written by Jacque Edmonds Cofer and directed by Robert Townsend.
Airdate: Wed 3 Nov 2021 at 20:30 on ABC
Season 1 Episode 7
A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections show how his family found their "wonder years" in a turbulent time.