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Maybe This Time was a television sitcom which aired on ABC from September 1995 to February 1996. It starred Marie Osmond as a recent divorcee and mother running the family bakery with her mother (Betty White) while raising her 11-year old daughter (Ashley Johnson) . The show's supporting cast included Amy Hill and Craig Ferguson (in his first television series after moving to the United States). The series was created by veteran TV creator Michael Jacobs and his longtime colleague, Bob Young.

The series is notable today for being the first screen credits of a then-unknown Dane Cook, who joined the cast midway through its run.

The series revolved around two elements, the relationships between three generations of women and the bakery which the elder two owned and operated in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Thirtysomething Julia Wallace (Osmond), recovering from a divorce, puts her work running the bakery with her mother Shirley (White) and rasing her daughter Gracie (Johnson) over trying to find romance once again. Julia's take comes much to the objection to the man-obsessed Shirley (a variation of White's Sue Ann Nivens from Mary Tyler Moore) and the pre-adolescent Gracie who was waiting for her first kiss at the series outset. Outside of the opposite sex, the dynamics of the relationships between the three characters.

Julia and Shirley were helped at the bakery by Scottish émigré Logan McDonough (Ferguson) whose views complimented those of his bosses. The most frequently seen customer on the series was Kay Ohara (Hill), owner of the pawn shop down the street from the bakery. Assorted other townspeople also came in and out of the bakery as well.

Midway through the run, two other characters were added. Kyle (Cook), the quarterback of the football team at a unnamed local college, came in to help out at the bakery while Gracie gained an on-again, off-again boyfriend in the streetwise Nicky (Ross Malinger). The introduction of Nicky coincided with Julia dating his father, Nick Sr. (Robert Cicchini) though their date did not progress any further unlike their children.

Maybe This Time was set in the same fictional universe as co-creator Michael Jacobs' other ABC series, Boy Meets World and Ben Savage and Rider Strong appeared in one episode as their characters from that series which stopped by the bakery. That episode, aired as a special on TGIF as opposed to the series regular Saturday night timeslot, garnered a tie for the most watched episode of the series alongside the pilot which was also aired on TGIF.

• Maybe This Time at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com: Maybe This Time

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