Teen Angel is an American fantasy

Fantasy television

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired during ABC's

American Broadcasting Company

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 TGIF

TGIF (ABC)

TGIF was the name of an American family-friendly prime time television programming block on the ABC network. The name comes from the initials of the popular phrase "Thank God It's Friday"...

 Friday night lineup from 1997 to 1998. The series was created by Simpsons writers/producers Al Jean

Al Jean

Al Jean is an award-winning American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. He was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Harvard University in 1981. Jean began his writing career in the 1980s with fellow Harvard alum Mike Reiss...

 and Mike Reiss

Mike Reiss

Michael "Mike" Reiss is an American television comedy writer. He served as a show-runner, writer and producer for the animated series The Simpsons and co-created the animated series The Critic...

.

Synopsis

Teen Angel follows a high school

High school

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 boy, Steve Beauchamp (Corbin Allred

Corbin Allred

Corbin Michael Allred is an American actor, most notably as starring in the 2003 award-winning motion picture Saints and Soldiers, and the 1997–1998 television series Teen Angel....

), and his recently-deceased best friend, Marty DePolo, (Mike Damus) who, after dying from eating a six-month-old hamburger

Hamburger

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 from under Steve's bed on a dare, hangs around as a kind of dimwitted guardian angel

Guardian angel (spirit)

A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...

 to Allred's character. Ron Glass

Ron Glass

Ronald E. "Ron" Glass is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller , and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity.-Early life:Glass was...

 played God

God

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's cousin, Rod. Maureen McCormick

Maureen McCormick

Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, celebrity and recording artist. She is most widely known as a child actress who played Marcia Brady in the television series The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974.- Early life and career :...

, who played Steve's mother, Judy, left the series halfway through its run.

Marty, as a supernatural being

Spirit

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, would frequently break the fourth wall

Fourth wall

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; for instance, prior to the opening credits of the episode "Grumpy Young Men", Marty explained the absence of Steve's mother and the return of his father to the viewers.

Reception and cancellation

The series was created and placed in the TGIF lineup by ABC in an attempt to capitalize on the success on another ABC supernatural series, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV series)

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name.The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, a teenager with magical powers, who lives with her aunts Hilda and Zelda , and their magical talking cat Salem...

. The series, however, failed to gain an audience and was canceled by ABC after 17 episodes.

Cast

• Mike Damus
  Mike Damus
  Michael "Mike" Paul Damus is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Marty DePolo is short-lived ABC sitcom Teen Angel and co-starring in the film Lost in Yonkers. In addition, Damus also co-starred in Men, Women & Dogs and the TNT series Trust Me.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
  .....Marty DePolo
• Corbin Allred
  Corbin Allred
  Corbin Michael Allred is an American actor, most notably as starring in the 2003 award-winning motion picture Saints and Soldiers, and the 1997–1998 television series Teen Angel....
  
  .....Steve Beauchamp
• Ron Glass
  Ron Glass
  Ronald E. "Ron" Glass is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller , and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity.-Early life:Glass was...
  
  .....Rod, God's Cousin
• Maureen McCormick
  Maureen McCormick
  Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, celebrity and recording artist. She is most widely known as a child actress who played Marcia Brady in the television series The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974.- Early life and career :...
  
  .....Judy Beauchamp
• Tommy Hinkley
  Tommy Hinkley
  -Life and career:Hinkley's on-screen career now spans more than 20 years, and since the beginning it has been supplemented by a heavy dose of television guest roles, and periodic regular turns on TV series, including the short-lived Showtime series Hard Knocks, that also featured Bill Maher...
  
  .....Casey Beauchamp
• Katie Volding
  Katie Volding
  Katie Louise Volding is an American actress. In 2000 she was nominated for a Young Artist Award in the category "Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot" for her performance in the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House....
  
  .....Katie Beauchamp
• Jordan Brower
  Jordan Brower
  Jordan Brower is an American actor.- Biography :Jordan was born in Lompoc, California but moved to Texas at an early age. It is there where he got his first break into acting when a film crew from The Big Green notified his soccer coach of auditions. After his soccer coach persuaded him to...
  
  .....Jorden Lubell
• Conchata Ferrell
  Conchata Ferrell
  Conchata Galen Ferrell is an American actress. She is best known for playing Berta the housekeeper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which she received two Emmy Award nominations in 2005 and 2007.-Personal life:...
  
  .....Aunt Pam
• Jerry Van Dyke
  Jerry Van Dyke
  Jerry Van Dyke is an American comedian and actor. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, and made his acting debut on The Dick Van Dyke Show with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacey...
  
  .....Grandpa Jerry Beauchamp

Episodes

#		|Directed by		|Original air date
Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
1998	Young Artist Award Young Artist Award The Young Artist Award is an accolade bestowed by the Young Artist Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to recognize and award excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.The Young Artist...	Nominated	Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Performer	Mike Damus
			Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Performer	Corbin Allred
			Best Family TV Comedy Series	–