Dwelling Enchancment (1991-1999) was an American television sitcom series, airing on ABC, about an accident prone host of a Detroit, Michigan tv program about instruments, who raises his dysfunctional family. They tried to fix the inconsistent number of Tim’s siblings later in the series, for an episode where Brad and Randy are having a spat, and Tim tries to explain to them that this could potentially trigger a nasty rift between the 2, then mentions that several of his siblings had dangerous fights and arguments previously resulting in them not speaking, or really acknowledging one another.

Bob Vila also appeared on a number of episodes, with Tim seeing him as a rival (he appears in Season One’s “What About Bob?” Season Two’s “The Great Race,” Season Three’s “The Nice Race II,” Season Four’s “Instrument Time After Dark,” with recycled Device Time footage from earlier episodes, and Season Six’s “Insult to Damage” in a dream sequence about Vila winning the consecutive house renovation present appearance record; Vila wasn’t performed by himself, and as a substitute played by a stunt-double for a one-shot cameo).

An American community tv staple for a great part of the 1990s, Dwelling Improvement—which premiered 25 years ago, on September 17, 1991—was a sitcom documenting the work and residential life of Tim The Toolman” Taylor, slapstick comedian Tim Allen’s interpretation of a man unjustifiably secure in his data of power instruments and in his capability to speak along with his wife and sons through grunting.

Every episode consists of Tim’s own Binford-sponsored dwelling enchancment present, referred to as Software Time, a “meta-program,” or present-within-a-show In hosting this show, Tim is joined by his pal and gentle-mannered assistant Al Borland ( Richard Karn ), and a “Device Time woman” — first Lisa ( Pamela Anderson ) and later Heidi ( Debbe Dunning ) — whose major responsibility is to introduce the pair firstly of the show with the road “Does everyone know what time it is?” The Tool Time girl also assists Tim and Al through the present by bringing them tools.

Software Woman Heidi, at first solely used to introduce Tim and Al and provide Fanservice (the explanation Pam Anderson, who played authentic Software Woman Lisa, left the present for a full-time gig on Baywatch ), eventually got a much bigger role on Software Time and a few storylines herself (about her pregnancy and her husband cheating on her, for example), in addition to a Promotion to Opening Titles in season 7.