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7.2/10 TV Theme song Soul Man | 6/10 IMDb Opening theme "Soul Man" Predecessor Home Improvement | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Carmen Finestra
David McFadzean
Matt Williams Written by Sarit Catz
Pat Dougherty
Karin Kelly
Gloria Ketterer
Tom Leopard
David MacFadzean
Steve Paymer
Jon Pollack
David Richardson
Elliot Shoenman
Marley Sims
Danny Smith
Mary Pat Walsh
Matt Williams Directed by Peter Bonerz
Gil Junger
John Pasquin
Will Mackenzie
Don Scardino
Andrew Tsao
Ted Wass Starring Dan Aykroyd
Anthony Clark
Kevin Sheridan
Brendon Ryan Barrett
Spencer Breslin
Courtney Chase
Dakin Matthews
Anne Lambton Theme music composer Isaac Hayes and David Porter Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Dan Aykroyd, Spencer Breslin, John Goodman, Dakin Matthews, Anthony Clark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Soul Man is an American sitcom starring Dan Aykroyd that aired on ABC from April 15, 1997 to May 26, 1998. A total of 25 half-hour episodes were produced over two seasons.
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The series premiered on April 15, 1997, and was picked up for a second season of 22 half-hour episodes after only three episodes aired for the first season. Despite ranking 29th in its 2nd and final season, it ended on May 26, 1998, with 25 half-hour episodes produced in total. A four-year-old Spencer Breslin made his TV debut and was a series regular for the three-episode-long 1997 first season, in which he played the youngest child of Aykroyd.
The theme song was "Soul Man" written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Aykroyd was closely associated with the song, having released a hit single of it in 1979 with his band The Blues Brothers.
Premise
Mike Weber (played by Aykroyd) is a widowed Episcopal priest who must deal with his four children, his quirky parishioners in Royal Oak, Michigan, and a wet-behind-the-ears curate who happens to be the nephew of his bishop.
Home Improvement connection
Mike Weber appeared on Home Improvement as the priest of Richard Karn's character, Al Borland. He was hired to put in a new stand for a holy water basin in the season seven episode "Losing My Religion". Tim Taylor ended up cutting the hole too big, causing the basin to fall through the floor.
In the Season 1 finale episode "Cinderella and the Funeral", Al Borland appeared in order to fix the church's furnace. Reference was made to Tim and the holy water basin falling through the hole he cut.
Zachary Ty Bryan appeared in the episode "Public Embarrassment and Todd's First Sermon" playing Brad Taylor.