Series Description

The Roseanne TV show was a 30 minute comedy series that aired on ABC from 1988-1997 for 222 episodes and then again in 2018 for 9 more episodes. It was about a family of two parents and three children who keep on laughing while they struggle to make ends meet financially and deal with the day-to-day problems of raising kids, dealing with parents, accomodating friends and holding their family together through love because there was little else!

Roseanne Cast

Roseanne .... Roseanne Conner

John Goodman .... Dan Conner

Sara Gilbert .... Darlene Conner

Alicia "Lecy" Goranson .... Becky Conner

Sarah Chalke .... Becky Conner-Healy

Michael Fishman .... D.J. Conner

Laurie Metcalf .... Jackie Harris

Natalie West .... Crystal Anderson

Estelle Parsons .... Beverly Harris

Johnny Galecki .... David Healy

Glenn Quinn .... Mark Healy

Martin Mull .... Leon Carp

Roseanne Trivia

The "D.J." in D.J. Connor's name stands for "David Jacob".

At first, Roseanne Barr was going to name Johnny Galecki's character David but Johnny was already portraying a different character named David on a series titled, "Billy". In those days there was a broadcasting rule that did not allow an actor to portray more than one character on TV at a time with the same first or last name unless the actor was playing the same exact character on both series or unless it was the actor's real/stage name.

If you look at the cast list above, it appears as though there is a mistake because both Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke are listed for the role as Becky Conner. In actuality, they did both play that role during the eighth season when Lecy came back to the series but when she didn't return for a ninth season, Sarah came back to play Becky until the end of the series!

When Roseanne returned in 2018 it lasted a short 9 episodes because it was cancelled after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet that compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a monkey. The show was so popular though that ABC brought it back just 5 months later as "The Connors" and explained that the Roseanne character had died.

Roseanne Theme Song

Title: "Rosanne"

By: "John Popper"

If what doesn't kill us is making us stronger,
Were gonna last longer,
Than the greatest wall in China,
Or that rabbit with the drum

If there's one thing that I learned,
While waiting for my turn,
Is that in each life some rain falls,
But you also get some sun,

And we'll make out better than ok,
Hear what I say?
Yeah, any day