Tim Allen's Tim «The Toolman» Taylor had his wife, Jill, played with a pitch-perfect exasperated-but-loving eye roll by Patricia Richardson."[The network said] we need to have someone that challenges him and is as much a feminist as he is a masculinist," Richardson recently recalled of her character, who was often the sane and balanced counterpart to Tim's hare-brained schemes. «There has to be an equal struggle.»The actress looked back at her time on the mega-popular sitcom — which ran from 1991-1999 on ABC — as part of ET's week, which also features interviews with Melissa Joan Hart, Tisha Campbell, Suzanne Somers and Jane Seymour.
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