Ellen
Genre: Situation comedy, Comedy
Started: 29th March 1994
Ended: 22nd July 1998
Episodes: 109
Country: United States of America
Created by: Ellen DeGeneres, Neal Marlens, Carol Black
Starring: Joely Fisher, Jeremy Piven, Ellen DeGeneres, Arye Gross, David Anthony Higgins, Clea Lewis, Maggie Wheeler, Steven Gilborn, Lisa Darr, Patrick Bristow, Alice Hirson, Holly Fulger, Jeff Dunham, Kaley Cuoco, Cindy Crawford, Christine Taylor, Woody Harrelson, Janeane Garofalo, Anne Heche, Anne Heche, Julianna Margulies, Jorja Fox, Connie Stevens
Ellen (titled These Friends of Mine for season 1) is an American television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes.
The theme song, "So Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas. A running gag was that each episode had a distinct opening credits sequence, resulting from Ellen's ongoing search for the perfect opening credits.
The title role of Ellen Morgan, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres, was a neurotic bookstore owner in her thirties. The series centered on Ellen's dealing with her quirky friends, her family and the problems of daily life.
In 1997, Ellen made television history when the title character came out as a lesbian in the famous "Puppy Episode." (DeGeneres herself had come out earlier that year on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in TIME.) To ensure a memorable moment, the coming out scene was made into a gag where, at an airport, Ellen turns and tells Laura Dern "I'm gay!" – only to realize that she had turned right into the intercom microphone, announcing her sexuality to the entire terminal. Ellen DeGeneres's mother Betty can briefly be seen as one of the people in the terminal with a shocked reaction to the
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