<P> The show achieved a spot in the Nielsen Top 30 for four of its six seasons . TV Guide named the show one of the 20 best of the 1980s . After only six episodes aired, The Wonder Years won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1988 . In addition, at age 13, Fred Savage became the youngest actor ever nominated as Outstanding Lead Actor for a Comedy Series . The show was also awarded a Peabody Award in 1989, for "pushing the boundaries of the sitcom format and using new modes of storytelling". In total, the series won 22 awards and was nominated for 54 more . In 1997, "My Father's Office" was ranked #29 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, and in the 2009 revised list the pilot episode was ranked #43 . In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked The Wonder Years #63 on its list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time . In 2017, James Charisma of Paste ranked the show's opening sequence #14 on a list of The 75 Best TV Title Sequences of All Time . </P> <P> The series was conceived by writers Neal Marlens and Carol Black . They set out to create a family show that would appeal to the baby - boomer generation by setting the series in the late' 60s, a time of radical change in America's history . They also wanted the series to tie this setting in to the life of a normal boy growing up during the period . After writing the script for the pilot episode, Marlens and Black began shopping the series to television networks . None of them were interested, except for ABC, with whom Marlens and Black reached an agreement . </P> <P> Marlens had originally wanted the setting to be his native Huntington, Long Island, where he grew up . Elements were also taken from Black's childhood from the White Oak section of Silver Spring, Maryland . ABC, however, insisted that the location remain nonspecific (the colloquial "Anytown, USA"). </P> <P> However, several strong indicators throughout the series lean towards a Southern California setting . In Season 3, Episode 3 Wayne on Wheels, his motor vehicle registration and licensing letter was addressed to a 90230 zip code, Culver City, California (where the interior sets for the show were filmed at Sony Pictures Studios). California license plates appear on various cars and school busses, as well as the Los Angeles, California City Seal in Season 5, Episode 11 Road Test on the door of the Department of Motor Vehicles where Kevin takes his driver's license test . A snowy winter is never seen in Kevin's home town . And, as all the series exteriors were shot in suburban Los Angeles, the setting naturally bore a strong resemblance to the Burbank, California filming location (notably the Arnold's home). </P>

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