A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.
Show Details:
Start date: Sep 1985
End date: May 1990
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): NBC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 116 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: May 1990
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): NBC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 116 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
- Marla Gibbs as Mary Jenkins
- Hal Williams as Lester Jenkins
- Alaina Reed Hall as Rose Lee Holloway
- Jackée Harry as Sandra Clark
- Regina King as Brenda Jenkins
- Helen Martin as Pearl Shay
- Curtis Baldwin as Calvin Dobbs
- Kia Goodwin as Tiffany Halloway [ 1 ]
- Countess Vaughn as Alexandria DeWitt [ 4 ]
- Toukie Smith as Eva Rawley [ 5 ]
- Paul Winfield as Julian C. Barlow [ 5 ]
- Stoney Jackson as Travis Filmore [ 5 ]
- Barry Sobel as Dylan McMillian [ 5 ]
- Kevin Peter Hall as Warren Merriwether [ 5 ]
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 14 Sep 85 | Honesty |
| 2. | 1-2 | 21 Sep 85 | Mary's Brother |
| 3. | 1-3 | 28 Sep 85 | Family Hero |
| 4. | 1-4 | 05 Oct 85 | The Refrigerator |
| 5. | 1-5 | 19 Oct 85 | Do You Love Me? |
| 6. | 1-6 | 26 Oct 85 | Pilot |
| 7. | 1-7 | 02 Nov 85 | The Sidewalk Sale |
| 8. | 1-8 | 09 Nov 85 | A Letter to the President |
| 9. | 1-9 | 16 Nov 85 | Pity the Poor Working Girl |
| 10. | 1-10 | 23 Nov 85 | Football Widow |
| 11. | 1-11 | 30 Nov 85 | A Daughter is a Precious Thing |
| 12. | 1-12 | 07 Dec 85 | The Big Piano Play-Off |
| 13. | 1-13 | 14 Dec 85 | Mary's Christmas |
| 14. | 1-14 | 04 Jan 86 | The Bed of Rose's |
| 15. | 1-15 | 11 Jan 86 | Brenda's Last Date |
| 16. | 1-16 | 18 Jan 86 | A Young Man's Fancy |
| 17. | 1-17 | 01 Feb 86 | We the People |
| 18. | 1-18 | 08 Feb 86 | Redecorating Blues |
| 19. | 1-19 | 15 Feb 86 | Fifty Big Ones |
| 20. | 1-20 | 22 Feb 86 | Slam Dunked |
| 21. | 1-21 | 08 Mar 86 | Pick Six |
| 22. | 1-22 | 03 May 86 | Young Man with a Job |
| Season 2 | |||
| 23. | 2-1 | 04 Oct 86 | The Wheel of Misfortune |
| 24. | 2-2 | 11 Oct 86 | Mary Nightingale |
| 25. | 2-3 | 01 Nov 86 | Washington Affair |
| 26. | 2-4 | 08 Nov 86 | The Great Manhunt |
| 27. | 2-5 | 15 Nov 86 | Temptations |
| 28. | 2-6 | 22 Nov 86 | Pillow Talk |
| 29. | 2-7 | 29 Nov 86 | Come Into My Parlor |
| 30. | 2-8 | 06 Dec 86 | Father's Day |
| 31. | 2-9 | 13 Dec 86 | Author, Author |
| 32. | 2-10 | 03 Jan 87 | Matchmakers |
| 33. | 2-11 | 10 Jan 87 | The Handwriting on the Wall |
| 34. | 2-12 | 17 Jan 87 | A Matter of Choice |
| 35. | 2-13 | 24 Jan 87 | Got a Job |
| 36. | 2-14 | 07 Feb 87 | Far from the Tree |
| 37. | 2-15 | 14 Feb 87 | Toyland |
| 38. | 2-16 | 21 Feb 87 | The Audit |
| 39. | 2-17 | 28 Feb 87 | A Good Citizen |
| 40. | 2-18 | 07 Mar 87 | Happy Twentieth |
| 41. | 2-19 | 21 Mar 87 | The Fourth Time Around |
| 42. | 2-20 | 11 Apr 87 | Rich Kid |
| 43. | 2-21 | 23 May 87 | The Working Game |
| 44. | 2-22 | 06 Jun 87 | Check Snub |
| Season 3 | |||
| 45. | 3-1 | 26 Sep 87 | Men's Club |
| 46. | 3-2 | 03 Oct 87 | Low Noon |
| 47. | 3-3 | 17 Oct 87 | There Goes the Building |
| 48. | 3-4 | 24 Oct 87 | And Baby Makes Three |
| 49. | 3-5 | 31 Oct 87 | Bull's Eye (a.k.a.) Mistaken Identity |
| 50. | 3-6 | 07 Nov 87 | Teach Me Tonight (1) |
| 51. | 3-7 | 14 Nov 87 | Teach Me Tonight (2) |
| 52. | 3-8 | 21 Nov 87 | See You in Court (a.k.a.) They're Playing Our Song |
| 53. | 3-9 | 28 Nov 87 | The Honeymoon's Over (a.k.a.) The Most Happy Marriage |
| 54. | 3-10 | 05 Dec 87 | Rapture |
| 55. | 3-11 | 12 Dec 87 | The Facade (a.k.a.) Tangled Web |
| 56. | 3-12 | 02 Jan 88 | The Talk Show |
| 57. | 3-13 | 09 Jan 88 | Snowbound |
| 58. | 3-14 | 16 Jan 88 | Shall We Dance? |
| 59. | 3-15 | 23 Jan 88 | The Sing-Off |
| 60. | 3-16 | 30 Jan 88 | Sweet Sixteen |
| 61. | 3-17 | 06 Feb 88 | The Roommate |
| 62. | 3-18 | 13 Feb 88 | The Big Deal |
| 63. | 3-19 | 20 Feb 88 | The New Neighbors |
| 64. | 3-20 | 27 Feb 88 | Blues |
| 65. | 3-21 | 12 Mar 88 | The Butler Did It |
| 66. | 3-22 | 09 Apr 88 | My Aching Back |
| 67. | 3-23 | 30 Apr 88 | Country Cousins |
| 68. | 3-24 | 07 May 88 | Best Friends |
| Season 4 | |||
| 69. | 4-1 | 08 Oct 88 | The Whiz Kid |
| 70. | 4-2 | 22 Oct 88 | Hide the Star |
| 71. | 4-3 | 29 Oct 88 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pageant |
| 72. | 4-4 | 05 Nov 88 | Double Your Pleasure |
| 73. | 4-5 | 12 Nov 88 | Brother from a Sister City |
| 74. | 4-6 | 19 Nov 88 | And the Survey Says . . . |
| 75. | 4-7 | 26 Nov 88 | A Yen for Lester |
| 76. | 4-8 | 03 Dec 88 | Looking Back |
| 77. | 4-9 | 10 Dec 88 | The Night They Arrested Santa Claus |
| 78. | 4-10 | 07 Jan 89 | The Real Decoys |
| 79. | 4-11 | 14 Jan 89 | Play It Again, Stan |
| 80. | 4-12 | 28 Jan 89 | A Class Act |
| 81. | 4-13 | 04 Feb 89 | The Prince |
| 82. | 4-14 | 11 Feb 89 | Babes in the Woods |
| 83. | 4-15 | 18 Feb 89 | A Date to Remember |
| 84. | 4-16 | 25 Feb 89 | Mary's Cookies |
| 85. | 4-17 | 04 Mar 89 | For Richer, for Poorer |
| 86. | 4-18 | 18 Mar 89 | The Class of '89 |
| 87. | 4-19 | 01 Apr 89 | Trial and Error |
| 88. | 4-20 | 08 Apr 89 | The Bet |
| 89. | 4-21 | 15 Apr 89 | No, My Darling Daughter |
| 90. | 4-22 | 06 May 89 | House Number |
| 91. | 4-23 | 11 May 89 | Jackee |
| 92. | 4-24 | 13 May 89 | For Sale |
| Season 5 | |||
| 93. | 5-1 | 23 Sep 89 | Take My Diva . . . Please! |
| 94. | 5-2 | 30 Sep 89 | Tenants, Anyone? |
| 95. | 5-3 | 14 Oct 89 | A Pampered Tale |
| 96. | 5-4 | 21 Oct 89 | The Fight of the Century |
| 97. | 5-5 | 28 Oct 89 | How the West Was Fun (1) |
| 98. | 5-6 | 04 Nov 89 | How the West Was Fun (2) |
| 99. | 5-7 | 11 Nov 89 | Video Activity |
| 100. | 5-8 | 18 Nov 89 | Flying Down to Leo's |
| 101. | 5-9 | 25 Nov 89 | Reunion Blues |
| 102. | 5-10 | 02 Dec 89 | The Perfume Game |
| 103. | 5-11 | 09 Dec 89 | War is Heck |
| 104. | 5-12 | 16 Dec 89 | Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas |
| 105. | 5-13 | 23 Dec 89 | There Go the Clowns |
| 106. | 5-14 | 30 Dec 89 | Come the Revolution |
| 107. | 5-15 | 06 Jan 90 | Where Do We Go from Here? |
| 108. | 5-16 | 13 Jan 90 | Play Christy for Me |
| 109. | 5-17 | 27 Jan 90 | Knock It Off |
| 110. | 5-18 | 03 Feb 90 | Do Not Pass Go (1) |
| 111. | 5-19 | 10 Feb 90 | Do Not Pass Go (2) |
| 112. | 5-20 | 17 Feb 90 | You Gotta Have Art |
| 113. | 5-21 | 24 Feb 90 | Gone Fishing |
| 114. | 5-22 | 21 Apr 90 | Nightmare on 227 |
| 115. | 5-23 | 29 Apr 90 | The Class of '90 |
| 116. | 5-24 | 06 May 90 | No Place Like Home |
DVDs are available:
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Season 1 (3 discs) ![]() |
