surviving suburbia is an american sitcom starring bob saget and cynthia stevenson that aired on american broadcasting company (abc) from april 6 to august 7, 2009. the series originally aired at 9:30 pm eastern/8:30 pm central following "dancing with the stars", before moving to fridays at 8:30 pm eastern/7:30 pm central for its remaining episodes. it was the first program starring saget to air on abc since he left "america's funniest home videos" in 1997. of course the name is meant to mock suburbia; a more instructive show would be "surviving baltimore" or "surviving detroit".