Harry and the Hendersons

The Hendersons, an upwardly mobile Seattle family, bring home what they believe to be a dead Bigfoot. But he has only been wounded by a hunter, and the Hendersons offer the creature who they come to call Harry a temporary home until a recovers his health.

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family,

Actor:

Creator: Lin Oliver,

Country: United States of America,

Type: tv

Season: 3

Episode: N/A

Duration: 22 minutes

Release: 1991-01-13

Rating: 5.7

Season 1 - Harry and the Hendersons
1991-01-13
The Henderson family returning from vacation accidentally hits an eight foot Bigfoot and brings it home. They decide to nurse him, and end up letting him stay with them.
1991-01-20
Harry's need for attention takes its toll on the Hendersons, especially George, who bigfoot-sits while preparing a work assignment.
1991-01-27
Harry feels uncomfortable in the Henderson home so he decides to run away.
1991-02-03
The family takes Harry back to the woods, only to discover that his home territory has been clearcut. Meanwhile, Ernie doesn't want Harry to go away. (Part 1 of 2)
1991-02-10
A local congressman's (Steve Landesberg) aid is sought when Harry's (Kevin Peter Hall) habitat is found destroyed. The clan petitions to save the forest. (Part 2 of 2)
1991-02-17
George's and Ernie's attitudes differ over a father-son baseball game. George recruits Ken Griffey Jr. in a plan to spark Ernie's interest in baseball. Guest Stars: Ken Griffey Sr., Ken Griffey Jr.
1991-02-24
A British explorer, the son of a famous hunter, wants to outshine his father. In order to do that, he plans to bag Harry.
1991-03-03
The Hendersons try to close down an animal research lab by protesting after finding an escapee, a scruffy dog, on their doorstep.
1991-03-10
Harry and an American Indian medicine man try to cure George's knee but he is reckless.
1991-03-17
The only doctor who can help a dying Harry is an elderly embittered anthropologist whose theories about Bigfoot were stamped out.
1991-03-24
A bully (Aeryk Egan) steals Ernie's special pair of sneakers needed by George for a presentation. Ernie uses Harry's formidable size and strength in a plan to retrieve them.
1991-04-07
Harry befriends a homeless intruder who reveals that he built the Hendersons' house. Meanwhile, the Hendersons are celebrating a birthday.
1991-04-21
A football legend visits the Hendersons' house along with his wife who is wearing a fur. Harry thinks that the fur is a dead person and decides to bury it.
1991-04-28
When Harry hides Nancy's diamond ring, the Hendersons ask a pet psychic (Michael Winslow) to read Harry's mind.
1991-05-05
A monster-movie director (Pat Morita) wants permission from the Hendersons to use Harry in one of his films.
1991-05-12
Harry becomes a wrestler to help Sarah raise money to save an injured sea lion. George asks wrestler 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan to judge a benefit match featuring the debut of reluctant wrestler 'Bigfoot Man'.
1991-05-19
When Tiffany brings Harry home, George and Nancy tell Samantha the truth, whetting her appetite for a good news story. Samantha decides to break the story of Harry on her news program.
1991-05-26
When three Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders come to town on a mascot search, Ernie dreams that he loses his pal Harry to stardom. Ernie fears Harry may become the new mascot for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

Season 2 - Harry and the Hendersons
1991-09-29
While the Hendersons prepare for Harry's first birthday party, they recall some of their memorable moments since his arrival.
1991-10-06
While on a camping trip with his son and his co-worker, George is nervous because his co-worker keeps on playing pranks and later mistakes Harry for a monster.
1991-10-13
Sarah is chosen to sing at the school dance with a new student but hesitates when she learns that he's blind.
1991-10-20
Nancy welcomes the arrival of her pregnant sister, Emily, unaware that another arrival is soon to follow.
1991-10-27
Harry is home alone and left to the fate of two burglars who think a Bigfoot might draw a big reward.
1991-11-03
It's Halloween and Harry finally has a chance to get out. However, the Hendersons' neighbour, who is allergic to animal hair, becomes suspicious of Harry's "costume."
1991-11-10
While George competes with an obnoxious co-worker for a promotion, Nancy's brother Brett moves in at home and is forced to contend with Harry.
1991-11-17
George examines his life after he's trapped in a steam room and, in a heat-induced delirium, sees God. He decides to quit his job.
1991-11-24
George's decision to quit his job and launch a magazine with Brett rockets the rest of the Hendersons into the job market.
1992-01-12
Brett thinks a primitive mask can cure his ailing love life by casting a spell on Darcy's Swedish au pair Uma, and it seems to work; but his date with her is spoiled by Harry, who is strangely obsessed with the mask as well.
1992-01-19
When Harry sets Ernie's pet parrot free, George and Nancy go shopping for a quick replacement.
1992-01-26
Angered at the foul attitude of Ernie's baseball coach, Nancy meets his challenge and strikes out on her own as a coach.
1992-02-02
The Hendersons suspect that all that glistens is not gold but their missing silver when Brett suddenly comes into a large sum of money.
1992-02-09
Harry scores high on Ernie's IQ test, which changes the way everyone relates to Ernie especially when his teacher Ms. Hall comes to visit and encounters Harry.
1992-02-16
The Hendersons are shaken when Harry, fearing impending danger, traps them and a menagerie of forest friends inside their home.
1992-02-23
In a case of mistaken identity, a baby is left on the doorstep with a note claiming that Brett is the father.
1992-03-01
Sarah tells her boyfriend about Harry and jeopardizes the Hendersons' secret, and her love life, when she invites him to dinner.
1992-03-22
Nancy moonlights as an aid to a foreign official and suspects his possession of a chimpanzee is on the dark side of the law.
1992-03-29
Harry's friendship with Brett, and George's interview with a beautiful author, set off a wave of jealousy in the Henderson household.
1992-04-05
George tries to help his cousin, who broke the law trying to save a polluted lake and its fish population.
1992-04-26
A businessman offers to buy George's magazine but the buyer's vision of yellow journalism makes George see red.
1992-05-03
Darcy discovers the Hendersons' secret and her parents, who doubt her story, send for a psychiatrist.
1992-05-10
A tabloid prints stories about a dangerous Bigfoot and turns the Hendersons' public life into a nightmare.
1992-05-17
Nancy takes a seat as vice principal at Sarah's school, which doesn't sit well with Sarah and Lorraine.

Season 3 - Harry and the Hendersons
1992-09-18
Nancy's friend visits with her nephew, a boy who gives mischief a bad name.
1992-09-25
When George's friend is bullied from a political race, George finds a write-in candidate: a Bigfoot with a pristine past.
1992-10-02
Darcy's scheme to have her Albanian housekeeper deported goes awry when the woman finds herself a husband: Brett.
1992-10-30
The Hendersons plan a weekend of laid-back happenings for Nancy and Brett's visiting mother, only to find she would rather party.
1992-11-06
Harry brings home an old bigfoot, so the family consults Dr. Arnesen, who concludes he is preparing to die; Darcy introduces Brad to gorgeous Kate, but tells him she only likes brainy boys.
1992-11-13
The media and an animal control officer discover Harry, so the family turn to sleazy talk show host Tony Lane for help.
1992-11-20
With Harry's existence made public, the neighborhood is flooded with tourists, prompting angry residents to legally force Harry out.
1993-01-01
When George's cousin Melvin breaks up with his fiancee, he goes to the Hendersons for some advice and comfort.
1993-01-22
Family ties unravel when George's brother visits and turns the Henderson home into a New Age shrine for Harry.
1993-01-29
Nancy finds stardom when she's asked to be in a commercial. In her absence, the family finds out how much they need her.
1993-02-05
Hoping to join the "cool" contingent at school, Ernie arranges for Harry to be school mascot for Madison Junior High.
1993-02-12
Everyone is skeptical when Brett's long-lost wife shows up after leaving him to pursue a movie career.
1993-02-19
A French linguist studying Harry's speech speaks the language of romance to Sara and that translates into trouble.
1993-02-26
George and Harry become hospital roommates when Harry visits George and drops a television set on his foot.
1993-03-05
When Harry frightens shoppers, Brett sets out to change Harry's public image; but the documentary on Harry he produces demeans the family.
1993-03-12
The Hendersons' lives are put in danger when Harry sees a philanthropist commit murder. (Part 1 of 2)
1993-03-19
Murder-witness Harry becomes a target; but Nancy devises a daring plan to stop the murderer. (Part 2 of 2)
1993-03-26
Nancy's fear of a mouse prompts George to hire an exterminator while Harry tries to protect his fellow creature.
1993-04-02
When Sara's stage production of "Beauty and the Beast" lacks an actor to play the Beast, George gets an idea and Harry becomes Sara's co-star.
1993-04-09
George is challenged by his church when he writes an article about Harry suggesting he is the missing link between apes and humans which leads to a boycott of "A Better Life."
1993-04-16
George learns that shore waters are being polluted by a construction company owned by his friend and biggest advertiser.
1993-04-23
When Sara considers enrolling at an arts college 200 miles away, an overprotective George has trouble letting go.
1993-04-30
When George makes the "archaeological discovery of the century," he sees a chance to spend time with his dad, an amateur geologist with the emotions of a rock.
1993-05-07
Ernie and Harry find a book of sorcery and cast a spell on Brett that makes him assume others' personalities.
1993-05-14
Ernie explains his moussed hair and missed classes as follows: "I'm a man now. I've got my own trail to blaze." However, in the path of every pubescent pioneer is a protective mother.
1993-05-21
George's Great-Uncle Mac from Scotland arrives to settle his affairs and die, which he does, but his ghost has some unsettled business.
1993-05-28
Brett can't seem to choose between a witty waitress who wants a commitment and a more voluptuous cosmetician who doesn't demand commitment because, as Nancy says, "it has three syllables."
1993-06-04
A publisher rejects George's book about Harry. In a retrospective, we get another look at the past.
1993-06-11
Tefta pines for Brett, who loves Mary. Meanwhile, Yetta, a female bigfoot from China, and Harry pine for one another but they need to avoid a customs agent. (Part 1 of 2)
1993-06-18
In the series finale, the Henderson family decides to help Harry and his dear Yetta marry and move to a cave in the woods. Tefta pines for Brett, who loves Mary. (Part 2 of 2)