Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn and Debbe Dunning were announced as “Home Improvement” 35th-anniversary reunion guests for 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut — a convention that has since been rescheduled to October 16–18, 2026 after its original March dates were postponed.

Key Points

• Patricia Richardson (Jill Taylor), Richard Karn (Al Borland) and Debbe Dunning (Heidi Keppert) were announced as reunion guests for 90s Con’s original March 2026 dates, according to a Yahoo Entertainment exclusive syndicated on AOL.
• The ABC sitcom premiered in 1991 and ran eight seasons through 1999, earning three Emmy nominations for outstanding comedy series, per the same report.
• 90s Con’s original March 13–15, 2026 dates were postponed after several booked guests withdrew; organizers cited “new acting obligations, being invited to the Oscars, and other unforeseen changes of plan,” according to Yahoo Entertainment’s postponement coverage.
• The convention has been rebooked for October 16–18, 2026 at the same Hartford venue, confirmed by Connecticut TV station WTNH.
• Tickets, including cast meet-and-greet packages, are being sold through Showclix for the rebooked weekend.

The reunion lands at a natural inflection point for the franchise. “Home Improvement” first aired in 1991, meaning its 35th anniversary falls squarely in 2026, and the timing lines up with a wave of renewed attention on the cast: Richardson, Karn and Dunning recently made guest appearances on Tim Allen’s current sitcom “Shifting Gears,” while all 204 episodes of the original series became available to stream on Netflix earlier this year, according to the AOL-syndicated report.

The convention itself has had a bumpier road than the anniversary it’s now built around. 90s Con was originally slated for mid-March 2026, but organizers pushed the event back roughly seven months after a cluster of previously booked celebrity guests dropped out close to their contract deadlines — leaving organizers, according to Yahoo Entertainment’s postponement coverage, “able to book only half of a show.” The rescheduled October dates keep the same Hartford venue and, per organizer statements relayed by Connecticut Visitor Guide, gave the team “more time to secure a stronger lineup while maintaining event quality for attendees.”

Other names confirmed for the rebooked October weekend include Backstreet Boys members Nick Carter and AJ McLean, “She’s All That” co-stars Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr., and “Perfect Strangers” duo Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker, per Connecticut Visitor Guide’s reporting — a lineup that puts “Home Improvement’s” 35th anniversary in good company on a convention floor built almost entirely out of 90s network-TV nostalgia.

For a show built entirely around home repair gone comically wrong, it’s fitting that even its own anniversary celebration needed a reschedule before the tools came back out.