It starred Mayim Bialik as a carefree New York-native preteen girl, whose life is turned upside down when her mother dies and her divorced father moves her to Los Angeles to live with his new wife and step-children.
She is wary of Paul's second wife of three years, Lynn Walker (Pamela Brull), a vivacious, savvy mother who is too hip for the machinations of her children, self-absorbed teen Courtney (Jennifer Aniston, in her first TV role) and young Jason (Luke Edwards).
Paul and Lynn mediate when called for, and at times, Jason serves as an ally to Molloy in her competition with Courtney (mostly he keeps to himself, inside the ever-present headphone set he wears at the kitchen table).
Her co-stars on Wonderland are a mixed group of child and adult actors, including portly veteran performer Simon (I.M.
Hobson), who appears in character as a squirrel, ditsy teenager Sara (Ashley Maw), and hip Louis Duncan Jackson (Bumper Robinson), who fancies himself with the special moniker "D'Uncann" and feels he is ready to hit primetime.
[2] During the 1989-90 TV season, Bialik committed to two pilots; that of Molloy and for NBC, Blossom, from Witt/Thomas Productions and creator Don Reo.