Seven Full House actors shared one stage on Sunday, October 18, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, where 90s Con closed its three-day run. John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Lori Loughlin and Scott Weinger sat together for a panel on the ABC sitcom, and for two of them it was new ground: the convention had billed Stamos and Loughlin as first-time guests.
Stamos opened by thanking the room, telling fans “we’re so grateful that you all showed up to see us,” and recalling that he and Bure had wondered the day before how a family comedy left them signing autographs decades later. Loughlin said the appeal for her was simple: “I like hearing people’s stories.”
Bob Saget was the panel’s main subject
Much of the panel circled back to the actor who was not there. Bob Saget, who played widowed father Danny Tanner, died in January 2022. Stamos said the cast keeps telling stories about him “because it keeps him alive,” though he added that they avoid repeating his notoriously colorful material in public. Sweetin put it more lightly: “Bob just loves to know that he’s still the main topic of conversation.”
The other absences were expected. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who shared the role of youngest daughter Michelle for all eight seasons, stepped back from acting and founded the fashion label The Row in 2005; they also skipped the Netflix sequel’s first season.
How the reunions have stacked up
Hartford was the latest stop in a reunion habit that began two years after the show ended:
- May 9, 1997: six cast alumni turn up on America’s Funniest Home Videos, the episode before Saget’s last as its host.
- 2012: eight cast members meet in Los Angeles for the show’s 25th anniversary.
- February 2016 to June 2020: Fuller House runs five seasons on Netflix, with most of the original cast back in character.
- 2022 onward: 90s Con launches, and Coulier, Sweetin, Barber and Bure become regulars on its panels.
- August 8, 2026: Coulier, Stamos, Sweetin, Loughlin and Barber share a stage at Nostalgia Con in Orlando.
- October 18, 2026: Hartford, with Bure and Weinger, who played D.J.’s boyfriend Steve, added to that Orlando group.
Run the dates and the scale is striking. The finale aired on May 23, 1995, so Sunday’s panel came 31 years later, while the show itself lasted eight seasons. The cast has now been alumni for nearly four times as long as it spent making the 192 episodes (31 divided by 8 is about 3.9).
Why a 1987 sitcom still fills a convention hall
Full House was a slow starter. It ranked 71st in its first season, then climbed once ABC slotted it straight after Perfect Strangers, a hit from the same producers, Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett. It reached the top 10 in seasons five and six and was still in the top 25 when ABC ended it in 1995, citing episode costs that had reached $1.3 million.
Reruns kept it alive for the next generation, through syndication, cable channels and streaming. The Hartford guest list doubled as a reminder of that ABC lineup: Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker of Perfect Strangers were booked for the same weekend, alongside casts from Step by Step, another Miller-Boyett family comedy.
For viewers who want the source material, Full House is streaming on Hulu and Disney+ in the US.
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