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My Two Dads
Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan & Staci Keanan
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Danielle Alexandra Michael Jacobs
Starring	Paul Reiser Greg Evigan Staci Keanan Chad Allen Giovanni Ribisi Florence Stanley Dick Butkus
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	60
Production
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	September 20, 1987 – April 30, 1990
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

My Two Dads is a sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions in association with TriStar Television and distributed by TeleVentures.

The show begins when Marcy Bradford, the mother of Keanan's character, dies. The two men who had competed for the woman's affections (played by Reiser and Evigan) before her daughter Nicole was born had been awarded joint custody. The mix-ups of two single straight men raising a teenaged daughter provided the story each week. Due to the parents' differences in personality and behavior, the show could also be labeled as The Odd Couple with a daughter.

The series regularly featured Giovanni Ribisi and Chad Allen as two boys who competed for Nicole's affections as her two dads had done for her mother's. Florence Stanley appeared as Judge Margaret Wilbur, who was responsible for assigning Nicole's custody, and who regularly looked over the family; she was also their landlady, being the resident owner of the apartment building where the family lived. The cast was rounded by former football player Dick Butkus, who managed the cafe in the building's first floor. The cafe (Klawicki's) was the second spot in the show where the plot usually revolved; the first being the family's apartment.

Nicole's actual paternity was never revealed on the show. However, in one episode, Nicole had a DNA test run to determine which of her two dads was her biological father. She destroyed the results before opening them after realizing that she was happier not knowing who the father was. Margaret would later look at the results, but threw them away afterwards and didn't reveal the results. However, many speculated that neither Michael nor Joey was Nicole's father.

My Two Dads was an offshoot of another NBC show, Night Court. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur, played by Florence Stanley, was the same character on both shows, as the hard nosed, no-nonsense judge that awards Nicole into the custody of Michael and Joey.

In turn, Richard Moll guest starred as his Night Court character Bull in an episode of My Two Dads, protecting Judge Wilbur from a recently released criminal that she had sent to prison years before.

• Paul Reiser - Michael Taylor
  
• Greg Evigan - Joey Harris
  
• Staci Keanan - Nicole Bradford
  
• Florence Stanley - Judge Margaret W. Wilbur
  
• Giovanni Ribisi - Cory Kupkus (credited as Vonni Ribisi)
  
• Chad Allen - Zach Nichols (1989-1990)
  
• Dick Butkus - Ed Klawicki (1987-1989)
  
• Amy Hathaway - Shelby Haskell (1989-1990)
  
• Don Yesso - Julian (1989-1990)

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The sofa in the living room was based on the front end of a Cord 810/812, which was a very distinctive 1930s luxury car.
• The show is often wrongly credited as being the first true "gay" sitcom.

• The Heroes cast has made numerous references to My Two Dads, likening it to the co-guardian relationship between the characters Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh over the young Molly Walker.