Matt Shakman has recently been in the public eye, as he has directed two of Marvel's more famous film universe projects in recent years. Shakman used all nine episodes of The minisers in 2021 "Vandas", and had a hit with The film in 2025 "Fantastic Four: First Steps". His 2002 career directed episodes of more hit TV shows, from "Judge Amy" to "Six Feet Under" to "Psycho" to House. He directed four episodes of "Revenge" and six episodes of "Good Wife". Even after "Vandasza", Shakmann worked on shows as "consultant" and "monarch: inheritance of monsters".

However, before his directing career, Shakman was a children's actor who raised the public eye, playing young Runior Lubok, Runior in the 1985 hit, "Growing Pain". As a child, he rotated through many, very omnia of the era, including "Diphenrent Stroke", "The Facts of Life", "Webster" and "Night Court". He appeared in a truly bizarre feature film in 1989, called "Meet Hollowheads", a dark, dystopian comedy in the Reagan era, set up in a world that combines the suburbs of the 1950s with sewer mutants. Shakmann has been a veteran of show business from an early age and stuck with acting for many years. He will eventually find a theater troupe in Los Angeles.

The "growing pain" were Shakmann's highest work profile, though, as that series lasted 166 episodes during its seven seasons. "Growing pain" was a very typical suburban sitcom for a working psychiatrist (Alan Tik) who lives with his wife and children in Long Island. Shakman appeared only in two episodes of "growing pain", but the family of his character - "Lubok" - were striking enough to get their own slope. "Only Ten of Us" debuted in 1988, and Shakman appeared in all 47 episodes.

"Only Ten of Us" followed the family adventures of the Lubok family, supervised by the size coach, Graham Lubok, played by Bill Kirchenbauer. Coach Lubok was semi -replaced by "growing pain", appearing in eight episodes. The pilot episode for "Only Ten of Us" was actually an episode of the "Growing Pain" season where Lubok was revealed that he was supposed to lose his job, which was unfortunate, as he soon expected his eighth child (!). The new series that caused that episode saw Lubok moving his family to Eureka, California, to take a job in St. Augustine, a Catholic school for all boys.

The series's turnaround was that Lubok's four teenage daughters received special permission to attend St. Augustine with the male population, causing much of the astonishment for everyone. The four daughters were the leading characters, and they were Played by the Starvers "Nightmare on Elm Street", Heather LangenkampIei Luner, Brooke Teis and Annoan Willet. Luner and Teis played twins. Younger children were usually seen playing at home. Shakman played Runior, only 11 years old. The ship's matriarch, Elizabeth, was played by Deborah Harmon.

The first season of "Ten Us" was a thing of an experiment, lasting only four episodes in April and May 1988. When those four episodes received a good rating, the ABC ordered a full series, and the second and third season of the show ran for more traditional 20 to 23 episodes. Runior was not an ordinary background figure, and sometimes he was given stories of his own. In "Pubertej Blues" (April 14, 1989), he develops a crush of a girlfriend. Skateboard (December 8, 1989) saw Jrunior trying to build, well, skateboard. In "Ratboy Lives" (March 16, 1990), JR denotes Wallid in the school with a titular epithet.

"Only Ten of Us" missed in 1990, only when they got modest ratings. It is now a footnote in the history of Sitkom. Thanks to Shakmann's fertile and targeted career, directed, however, we now have a reason to talk about it again. Unfortunately, the play is not streaming.