Does everybody know what time it is?
It’s time to check up on the cast of the 1991 sitcom “Home Improvement.”
The ABC show aired from September 1991 to May 1999 and featured Tim Allen as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, a dad who hosted a home-improvement show called “Tool Time.”
The half-hour comedy also featured Tim’s best friend Al Borland (Richard Karn), wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and their three sons: Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and Mark (Taran Noah Smith).
Along with launching Allen’s career, the eight-season series won seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
Thomas, now 44, left the show during the last season to attend school.
The show was so popular that Allen, 72, and Richardson, 74, were allegedly offered $50 million and $25 million, respectively, to continue the show for a ninth season, but turned it down.
In 2020, Allen revealed he “always thinks about” doing a reunion of some kind.
“I like the idea of doing it as a one-off, like a one-hour movie. I like the idea of finding out where the boys are now,” the comedian told TVLine.
Allen continued, “Tool Time would be in today’s world. I just think it’s a marvelous idea, and all the actors think it’s a great idea.”
Now, Richardson, Karn, 69, and Debbe Dunning, 59, who played Heidi the “Tool Time” girl, are all reuniting with Allen on the Oct. 1 Season 2 premiere of his show “Shifting Gears.”
Keep scrolling to see where all of the “Home Improvement” cast is today.
Tim Allen
The star went on to voice Buzz Lightyear in all four “Toy Story” movies, including in the upcoming “Toy Story 5.”
Allen also starred as Santa in the family comedy movies “The Santa Clause” (1994), “The Santa Clause 2” (2002) and “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” (2006).
In 2022, Allen and the cast picked back up for “The Santa Clauses” television series on Disney+.
Allen returned to the sitcom world in 2011 with “Last Man Standing.” The comedy ran for nine seasons until 2021. In January 2025, “Shifting Gears” aired on ABC. Season 2, episode 1 airs on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Allen’s private life includes two marriages.
He was married to Laura Deibel from 1984 to 2003. The exes share one daughter, Katherine, 36. He tied the knot with Jane Hajduk in 2006, and they are parents to daughter Elizabeth, 16.
Patricia Richardson
After “Home Improvement,” Richardson starred on “Strong Medicine” from 2002 to 2005 before moving to “The West Wing” for a year from 2005 to 2006.
She also made two cameos on Allen’s “Last Man Standing,” one in 2015 and another in 2016.
Some of her other TV appearances include “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Blacklist,” “NCIS,” “County Line,” and “Blindspot.”
Richardson did stage work, too, starring in the Off-Broadway production of “Cruel Intentions: The Musical” in 2017.
She was married to actor Ray Baker from 1982 to 1995, and the exes have three children: Henry, 40, and twins Roxanne and Joseph, 34.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
The actor rose to fame in the ’90s before leaving “Home Improvement” during Season 8.
Thomas’ last episode, “Home for the Holidays” aired on December 8, 1998. In 2000, he graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in California before going on to study philosophy and history at Harvard University.
In 2010, he graduated from Columbia University School of General Studies.
The former child star didn’t completely give up acting after the ’90s sitcom, though. He also appeared on “Ally McBeal,” “8 Simple Rules,” “Smallville,” “Veronica Mars” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
Thomas landed his last acting role in 2015, starring alongside his former TV parents in Allen’s “Last Man Standing.”
A year later, he directed an episode of the series.
Thomas has lived a private life since leaving the spotlight. In 2023, the former actor was photographed for the first time in two years outside a California convenience store.
In January 2025, Allen’s “Shifting Gears” co-star, Kat Dennings, 39, revealed Thomas came to visit the set of their show.
“So he came to set to visit and I was losing my mind, but I was trying to act cool and I think I succeeded until now, because now he can see that I was not playing it cool at all,” she shared while on “The View.”
Dennings added it was “really sweet” to see Allen and Thomas reuniting all those years later.
Richard Karn
Karn went on to host “Family Feud” from 2002 to 2006. He also co-hosted “Bingo America” in 2008.
The funnyman also has a long resume of movie and television roles, including “That ’70s Show” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
Karn married actress Tudi Roche in 1985, and the pair shares one son, Cooper, 33.
Zachery Ty Bryan
Bryan continued to act in both television and movies, including “Boston Public,” “Family Law” and “Veronica Mars.”
He also landed a part in 2006’s “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”
In 2007, he and Carly Matros tied the knot. They share four children: twin daughters, Taylor and Gemma, born in 2014, daughter Jordana, born in 2016, and son Pierce, born in 2019, and divorced in 2020.
Bryan has been involved in legal troubles, too. He was arrested in 2020 and entered a guilty plea stemming from an altercation with his then-girlfriend, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, where he allegedly tried to strangle her at their apartment in Eugene, Oregon.
In 2023, Bryan pled guilty to felony assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence following a physical domestic dispute with an unnamed woman.
The actor has three additional kids with Cartwright.
Taran Noah Smith
Smith played Mark Taylor from the age of 6 to 16 years old. He left the industry and briefly ran a vegan restaurant called PlayFood. He also volunteered in the Philippines for the nonprofit organization Communitere.
Smith was married for six years to vegan chef Heidi van Pelt from 2001 to 2007. Their romance was controversial, as he was 17 and she was 33 at the time of their union.
In March, Smith explained why his “Home Improvement” character later randomly turned goth.
“So, it wasn’t mine,” he said of the idea while on “The Best Show With Tom Scharpling” podcast. “The whole storyline of the older brothers beating up on me or teasing me didn’t really work anymore because now I was taller than both of them.”
“I found out later the head writer on the show, he had a son that was right around my age,” Smith explained, “and after about halfway through the season, I’m in wardrobe, black fingernails, and dog collar and all the stuff on, and I went backstage and came face to face with his son, who was not in wardrobe, but looked just like me, and we had this very awkward moment of like, ‘Oh, I’m your dad’s way of kind of dealing with you, sorry.’”
Earl Hindman
Hindman famously played the Taylor family’s helpful neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr., from the pilot to the series finale. After “Home Improvement,” the actor starred in an episode of “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
Hindman wed actress Molly McGreevy in 1976, whom he stayed married to until his death in Dec. 2003.
He passed away from lung cancer at age 61, just four years after the family sitcom went off air.
Debbe Dunning
Dunning portrayed Heidi on the series from 1993 to 1999, before going on to star in a series of other comedies.
In 2017, she hosted the travel show, “Debbe Dunning’s Dude Ranch Round-Up,” on DirecTV’s The Cowboy Channel.
Dunning married professional volleyball player Steve Timmons in 1997. They are parents to daughter Spencer, 28, and son Stoney, 25, and Sysco, 17.
The exes divorced in 2018.