1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 1 (USA)
13 x 30 minute episodes
Based on the popular feature film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, this half-hour NBC situation comedy followed the high school adventures of 16-year-old Ferris and his friends, with Charlie Schlatter picking up the title role which had been played by Matthew Broderick in the movie.
Future Friends star Jennifer Aniston featured as Bueller’s 17-year-old sister, Jeannie. Christine Rose played their mother, Barbara.
Bueller’s colourful scams and schemes at Ocean Park High School in Santa Monica, California, were mostly self-centred and often seemed designed to humiliate and punish.
A lot depended on high-tech gadgetry: his portable computer that could patch into the school system and alter course assignments, his portable phone for impersonating authorities, his remote control for setting off little disasters at school assemblies . . .
No one could outsmart Ferris – not pompous Principal Rooney (Richard Riehle), his assistant Grace (Judith Kahan), or Ferris’s fuming sister, who despised how he got away with things.
Cameron (Brandon Douglas) was his dim-witted best friend, and beautiful Sloan (Ami Dolenz) was the object of his affections – and the one person he couldn’t bamboozle.
Ferris Bueller
Charlie Schlatter
Jeannie Bueller
Jennifer Aniston
Bill Bueller
Sam Freed
Barbara Bueller
Cristine Rose
Cameron Frye
Brandon Douglas
Principal Ed Rooney
Richard Riehle
Grace
Judith Kahan
Sloan Peterson
Ami Dolenz
Arthur Petrelli
Jeff Maynard
