Despite the title, Fudge centred not on the imp of the Hatcher family, played by Luke Tarsitano, but on his 9-year-old brother Peter (Jake Richardson).
Peter talked directly to the camera while relating the weekly woes caused by those he saw as conspiring against him, including his parents Ann (Eve Plumb) and Warren (Forrest Witt) – who he thought favoured Fudge – and his dreaded playmate Sheila Tubman (Nassira Nicola), “the queen of cooties.”
The series actually debuted as an ABC nighttime two-hour TV movie titled Fudge-A-Mania on 7 January 1995, where the in-joke for older viewers was that actress Florence Henderson, playing Ann’s mother, had acted a similar role 25 years earlier when Eve Plumb was Jan to Florence’s Carol on The Brady Bunch.
Another note for fans of 1970s trivia was that Anson Williams, who played Potsie on Happy Days, directed 11 episodes.
The series, a production of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, was based on a series of bestselling Fudge books by Judy Blume.
Peter Hatcher
Jake Richardson Ann Hatcher
Eve Plumb Warren Hatcher
Forrest Witt Fudge
Luke Tarsitano Sheila Tubman
Nassira Nicola Jimmy
Alex Burrall Henry
Rob Monroe Arnold
Grant Hoover Mr Bogner
Chuck Marra
The series actually debuted as an ABC nighttime two-hour TV movie titled Fudge-A-Mania on 7 January 1995, where the in-joke for older viewers was that actress Florence Henderson, playing Ann’s mother, had acted a similar role 25 years earlier when Eve Plumb was Jan to Florence’s Carol on The Brady Bunch.
