Tool Time was the fictitious hanyman show-within-a-show in the television situation comedy, Home Improvement. It was hosted by Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (played by Tim Allen) and Al Borland (played by Richard Karn). The sponsor of Tool Time was Binford Tools, a fictitious tool manufacturing company. The show was said to be played on channel 112. Tool Time was said to be the 4th most popular cable based tool show in all of Michigan. An episode of Home Improvement, entitled "Fifth Anniversary" (which aired in 1994) celebrated Tool Time's fifth anniversary, thus revealing that Tool Time debuted in 1989.