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This Old House

This Old House is a television program on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.

Started in 1979 as a one-time, 13-part series on the Boston PBS station, it has grown into one of the most popular programs on the network. It has produces spin-offs (notably New Yankee Workshop hosted by Norm Abram), a magazine and for-profit web sites. It was even able to survive a rift with the original host, Bob Vila, who left in 1989 following a dispute about doing commercials and created a similar show.

This Old House was the inspiration for the American television sitcom Home Improvement, in which Tim Allen played a Villa-like character.

Table of contents

1 Cast (as of 2004) 2 Former hosts 3 External link

Cast (as of 2004)

• Tom Silva
• Kevin O'Connor
• Richard Tretheway
• Roger Cook
• Norm Abram

Former hosts

• Bob Vila
• Steve Thomas

External link

• The IMDb entry on the series

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