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The Middle

2009–2018 · Ended · 9 seasons

Family Comedy

First aired: Sep 30, 2009
Last aired: May 22, 2018
IMDb rating: 7.7 / 10 59,280 votes
Recall rating: 7.0 / 10 1 rating

Overview

Frankie Heck and her husband Mike have lived in Orson, Indiana, their whole lives. A man of few words (every one a zinger), Mike is a manager at the town quarry and Frankie is the third-best used car salesman (out of the three) at the local dealership. She may not be a high-powered career woman, but when it comes to her family, she'll go to just about any length. And with kids like these, she had better. There's Axl, her semi-nudist teenage son conceived while under the influence of Guns N' Roses; Sue, the awkward teenage daughter who fails at everything... but with the utmost of gusto; and their seven-year-old son Brick, whose best friend is his backpack. Sometimes it seems like everyone is trying to get to the top, or struggling not to hit bottom, but we think Frankie and her family will find a lot of love, and a lot of laughs, somewhere in "The Middle".

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 14 wins & 37 nominations total

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Episodes

Specials · 1 episode

E1 Unaired Pilot

Apr 27, 2007 23 min

There was a original pilot for The Middle filmed around 2007 with some changes in the cast: Ricki Lake playing the role of Frankie Heck before Patricia Heaton, Brick is portrayed the same, Sue was played by a different actress, Axl was named Elvis and a different person was playing the Mike Heck role. The show was originally going to take place in Jasper, Indiana, though the setting was changed to the fictional Orson, Indiana, on the advice of attorneys.