Felicity Television Series
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2009
by Rick Brady
The Felicity television series was a drama television series about a girl who followed her high school crush (Ben Covington) from their home in California to New York where he would be going to university and almost immediately found out that he didn't feel as much for Felicity as she felt for him. After a brief period of mourning and despite the fact that her mom and dad traveled to New York in order to try to talk her into coming home, she decided that she would stay in New York and go to college there and make her own way in life.
The University that Felicity attended was the fictitious University of New York which was modeled after the real life New York University. Before Felicity decided to follow her crush to New York, she had planned to go to Stanford University to study pre-med.
When Felicity moved into a college dormitory, she fell for the dorm's resident advisor (Noel Crane) and they became somewhat serious. Many of the television series's most intense moments were when Felicity, Ben, and Noel would all three come into contact!
Many of the cast members on the Felicity television series stuck around for the majority of its four year run! Keri Russell, Scott Speedman, and Scott Foley were the only ones who were in every single episode of the series. Tangi Miller appeared in all four seasons but only on sixty-five of the eighty-four episodes. Greg Grunberg and Amanda Foreman played major recurring roles during the 1st and then became regular cast members in the 2nd season. They each appeared in sixty-one episodes. Amy Jo Johnson appeared in a total of fifty episodes. She had a death in her family that affected her so intensely that she left Felicity's cast half way through the third season. She did come back as her character, Julie Emrick, for the series's final two episodes though! Ian Gomez was the last actor to land a regular role on Felicity. He had played another recurring character during season one but did not come back to the series as a regular until the last half of the series. He appeared in a total of thirty-nine episodes.
In the second season, the writers had Felicity Porter cut her curly hair. The ratings dropped and WB network executives held the hair cut responsible. It's more likely that the execs caused the problem themselves when they moved Felicity to a new time slot, but there was a lot of fuss made about actors and actresses needing to get the network's ok before making anything more than minor changes in the way they looked. On episode #51 of the television series "30 Rock" titled, "The Bubble", you may have heard Jenna say, "But if I make the wrong choice, I could end up like Keri Russell, Felicity season 2"!
On many of the episodes, Felicity would be shown recording a tape about what had just happened to her. She made the tapes for a gal pal back in Palo Alto. Frequently, while Felicity was making the tape, there would be a "flashback" to see what Felicity was talking about as it occurred. At the end of the episode, they often let the viewers note how Felicity's friend had responded to those events on the tape that she had made for Felicity!
The Felicity television series won 2 significant awards in 1999. Robert Primes got an Emmy win for "Outstanding Cinematography for a Series" for episode #14, "Todd Mulcahy - Part 2" and the amazing Keri Russell got a Golden Globe win for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama television Series".
All 4 seasons of Felicity are available on dvd. The costs of royalties for the music on the series nearly kept it from ever being released on home video! The makers of the dvds had to find royalty free music that they felt worked in order to fit their production budget. Sadly, many other series are not available because the music rights are ridiculously expensive compared to the likely profit from the dvds.
Learn more at my Felicity TV Show Page or share your thoughts about Felicity with others at my Felicity Forum.
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