Last Man Standing is an American sitcom that premiered on ABC on October 11, 2011.[1] Created by Jack Burditt, the series stars Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, previously a widely travelled outdoorsman but now a director of marketing at an outdoor sporting goods store in Colorado, whose home life is dominated by women: his wife Vanessa (Nancy Travis) and their three daughters Eve (Kaitlyn Dever), Mandy (Molly Ephraim) for seasons 1–6 and (Molly McCook) for seasons 7–9, and Kristin (Alexandra Krosney) for season 1 and (Amanda Fuller) for seasons 2–9. Héctor Elizondo also stars as Ed Alzate, Mike's boss at his sporting goods store "Outdoor Man", while Christoph Sanders appears as Kyle Anderson, a young employee of Outdoor Man and Mandy's boyfriend and later husband. In 2018, Fox picked up the series for a seventh season.[2] In April 2019, Fox renewed the series for an eighth season.[3] In May 2020, Fox renewed the series for a ninth and final season which premiered on January 3, 2021.[4][5][6]
During the course of the series, 194 episodes of Last Man Standing aired over nine seasons, between October 11, 2011, and May 20, 2021.