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The King of Queens
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #352
- IMDb #362
- Metacritic #228
- RatingGraph #266
- Metacritic Critics #329
- Metacritic Audience #51
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Metacritic users on 86. Critics average 55, everyone else 72.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →Deliveryman Doug Heffernan has a good life: He has a pretty wife (Carrie), a big television, and friends with which to watch it. Then Carrie's goofy, annoying father Arthur moves in with them.
Details
- Created by
- David Litt, Michael J. Weithorn
- Released
- 21 September 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Episodes
- 207 across 9 seasons
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Primetime Emmy Award 1998 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Kevin James | Winner |
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Full cast — The King of Queens
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Phil / Bill / Driver / Coach Prudente / Mookie / Mel / Factory Worker #2 / Coach Wallace / Ed / Heindrich / Doctor / Frank / Klaus / Masseur / Locksmith / Eugene Von Wimmel / Usher
Father McDaniel / Sports Announcer (voice) / Home Centre PA Announcer (voice) / Richard Nixon (voice) / Theatre Usher
Guiseppe / Man / Mario / Security Guard #1 / Fire Inspector / Milo / Kyle / Sam / Bald Woman
Cashier / Woman On Cell Phone / Virginia Heffernan / Sarah / Hotel Clerk (voice) / Strawberry Ice Cream Cone / Waitress
1 awards — The King of Queens
×| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Kevin James | Winner |