Dharma & Greg was an American television situation comedy broadcast between 1997 and 2002 on ABC.

the assumption of the indicate was a relationship between deuce characters look upon ethnic opposites. Dharma (Jenna Elfman) was raised by hippie parents, a practicer of yoga and an adherent of Eastern spiritualities. Greg (Thomas Gibson) was an attorney from an upper class, old money family. It married both more in their 1st date.

A indicate focused on the characters' marriage & a compromise of their different values. Notwithstanding, each Dharma & Greg were further moderate than their parents, typically caricatures, in personality & viewpoints. Virtually all of the episodes choose place within San Francisco, as that is in which all the independent characters survive.

At the prevent of both episode, the message appeared on the screen for a brief moment, then that these are clear lone to victims world health organization record the program (utilizing a VCR, for example) & pause it. These "vanity cards" were written by producer & indicate co-developer Chuck Lorre, & express his home views in the kind of cases.

A series was cancelled along by having Spin City and Once and Again within 2002 due to low ratings in the period of the 2001-2002 year & a vary in target demographics.

Main characters
Dharma
Dharma Freedom Montgomery, née Finklestein (Jenna Elfman) is Greg's wife & the flower child. She is highly bouncing & ditzy, however she besides seems to become extra sympathize with & absolvitory than virtually all humans. Dharma encourages Greg to search happiness, rather than fret just about practical issues like money. Referable existence homeschooled by Abby & Larry, she has the limited understanding of Western culture and seems to be super credulous whenever it comes to trustful unknown. She is suitably known as fallowing dharma.

Based on data from Chuck Lorre's eleventh vanity card, he and Dottie Dartland orginally conceived Dharma & Greg as "a series revolving around a woman whose personality is not a neurotic product of societal and parental conditioning, but of her own free-flowing, compassionate mind."

Greg
Gregory "Greg" Clifford Montgomery (Thomas Gibson) is Dharma's husband. He is an upright, properly, though every now and again amazingly open-minded, human. Greg's life was hopelessly hackneyed prior to he met Dharma & married her in their foremost date. Since so, he has played straight man to the antics of his nonconcentric married woman. Though his & Dharma's relationship has been jolty at days, Greg has never been shown to regret their marriage.

Kitty
Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery (Susan Sullivan) is Greg's snobbish mother. She extremely disapproves of Dharma & is typically successful inside making her sense guilty. A title "Kitty" is probably the information to her cattish personality. Edward
Edward Montgomery (Mitch Ryan) is Greg's father. His philosophy for treating by using women involves remaining when detached when conceivable. Head of Montgomery Industries (though he merely keeps running to function because he may watch little tug out a window) & conflicting by using Dharma's father, world health organization calls him "Ed" & whom he calls "Finklestein."

Abby
'''Abigail "Abby" Kathleen O'Neil''' (Mimi Kennedy) is Dharma's caring mother, world health organization encourages her girl & boy-within-law to make tykes; "Feel free to have sex anywhere." Despite openly having the grown girl, she & Larry are non married. Larry
Myron Lawrence "Larry" Finkelstein (Alan Rachins) is Dharma's father, who is suspicous of the government and Greg and seems to become lacking in short term memory. Jane
Jane Deaux (briefly Jane Cavanaugh) (Shae D'Lyn) is Dharma's friend. She considers whole men evil (about); on top a course of the indicate, her hair went from either black, to red, to blonde. Five hundred'Lyn left at a prevent of the quaternary year, though she experienced a single "guest appearance" within year 5. Pete
Peter "Pete" James Cavanaugh (Joel Murray) is fellow lawyer of Greg. He's the particularly bad, sleeping one and was married to Jane for the instance.

Other characters
Celia (Lillian Hurst) - Kitty and Edward's Hispanic maid (appears in Xvi episodes) Marci (Helen Greenberg) - one Dharma's friends; nausy-voiced receptionist, whose vocabulary primarily consists of the words "I'm sorry" (appears around Xvii episodes; Greenberg as well played the different character in the episode "Drop Dead Gorgeous") Marlene (Yeardley Smith) - Greg's secretary who was fired then re-hired by Greg. (Xiii episodes) George (Floyd Westerman) - an elderly U.s. Indian, world health organization come to swallow Dharma & Greg in the episode "Indian Summer"; he died at a prevent of the episode, however his ghost every now and againside appears to Dharma to offer her advice (appears in Iv episodes)

Notes

The yin and yang symbol is used when a indicate's emblem. Dharmthe & Greg sleep in a different flat in the earliest episodes. It moved in the episode "It Takes a Village."

Internal links
List of Dharma & Greg episodes