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Danica McKellar played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years throughout the series’ run, from 1988 to 1993
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McKellar commemorated 32 years since the finale aired with special photos shared to Instagram
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The Wonder Years also starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, Dan Lauria as Jack Arnold, Alley Mills as Norma Arnold, Jason Hervey as Wayne Arnold and Josh Saviano as Paul Pfeiffer
Danica McKellar is looking back at a poignant moment in her life.
On Monday, May 12, The Wonder Years alumna shared some personal behind-the-scenes photos from the final day of filming the beloved series. The coming-of-age sitcom, which followed Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), his next-door neighbor and longtime crush Winnie Cooper (McKellar) and his best friend Paul Pfeiffer (Josh Saviano), premiered on Jan. 31, 1988, and ran until May 12, 1993.
Alongside the photos — first of the trio and later of the larger cast cutting a cake — McKellar wrote, “Thirty-two years ago today, the finale of The Wonder Years aired on ABC. 🤯 These are personal shots from the last day of filming… the end of an era!”
She continued, “I graduated from high school a couple months later and went to @ucla… oh the many adventures ahead for that teenager, and what an incredible show that would continue to bless her! Thank you, from myself and Winnie Cooper, to everyone who watched through the years. 🙏🙏”
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McKellar has spoken before about how the end of The Wonder Years and her pivot to school coincided with something of an identity crisis for her younger self.
“I had friends in the business whose parents were so overly impressed with everything that was going on with their kids that it puts too much pressure on the kid. It’s like, I dealt with enough of that when the show was over,” she said on Cheryl Burke’s podcast Sex, Lies and Spray Tans last year.
“When The Wonder Years was over, and I went to UCLA — it all happened around the same time — for me, it was like, ‘Oh my gosh. What would my value be if I didn’t have this show?’ “
The star had a luncheon with her former colleagues at the Fanboy Expo in Knoxville in 2024, the biggest cast reunion they’d enjoyed in 20 years, while fans asked for autographs.
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Josh Saviano, Fred Savage and Danica McKellar as Paul, Kevin and Winnie on ‘The Wonder Years’ in 1988
“So great to be with my Wonder Years family this weekend!,” she wrote at the time. “Sure, we’ve all seen each other through the years (just saw Dan & Josh last month, in fact!), but we realized this particular grouping hadn’t been together in well over 20 years…!”
Sitting by the table, costars Dan Lauria, Josh Saviano, Alley Mills and Jason Hervey were present for the occasion. Lauria, 78, played Jack Arnold, while Mills, 74, played his wife Norma. Hervey, 53, portrayed Wayne. Fred Savage, who played Kevin, was not present for the reunion.
The Wonder Years can be streamed in full on Hulu.
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