Remember WENN | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Developed by | Rupert Holmes |
Starring | Tom Beckett Carolee Carmello George Hall Margaret Hall John Bedford Lloyd Melinda Mullins Christopher Murney Amanda Naughton Hugh O'Gorman Kevin O'Rourke Dina Spybey Mary Stout |
Composer | Rupert Holmes |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 56 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Paula Connelly Skorka |
Producers | Frank Doelger Howard Meltzer |
Cinematography | David Sperling |
Production companies | Entertainment Group Turtleback Productions |
Original release | |
Network | American Movie Classics |
Release | January 31, 1996 September 11, 1998 | –
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Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics, as the network's first scripted original series. Created and written by Rupert Holmes (with music also by Holmes) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the late 1930s and early 1940s, it depicted events (both dramatic and comic) in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II and the Golden Age of Radio. It is not related to the real radio station in Alabama known with the WENN callsign from 1959 to 1983 and again since 2009. The series title is a play on the phrase "remember when".
The show ran for four seasons totalling 56 episodes, including an hour-long Christmas episode. The series was slated for a fifth season, but was cancelled when new management took over AMC. Holmes says that it was his favorite writing experience of his career.[1] After decades of being unavailable to audiences, all four seasons of the series are currently streaming on AMC+ and PLEX TV.