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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.
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Episode 1 - Men's Club
Release Date: 1987-09-26When The Owls Men's Club is giving Lester an award, Mary is excited until she finds out that women are not allowed in the club. Mary decides to dress up like a man (and Sandra has the same idea) and g... more
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Episode 2 - Low Noon
Release Date: 1987-10-03When Sandra is dating a man who wants to open a sleazy night club down the street, Mary starts a petition to keep it from opening. Meanwhile, Brenda is working on an assignment about black cowboys. Wh... more
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Episode 3 - There Goes the Building
Release Date: 1987-10-17Sandra introduces her boyfriend to the ladies, the same man that audited the Jenkins. Mary still does not like him, however he charms everyone and eventually wins Mary over. Rose decides to sell 227 t... more
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Episode 4 - And Baby Makes Three
Release Date: 1987-10-24When Mary is concerned at Calvin and Brenda's nonchalance about teenage pregnancy, she designs an experiment with their sex education class where the kids must take care of an animal. Brenda and Calvi... more
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Episode 5 - Bull's Eye
Release Date: 1987-10-31A man with a knife rents an apartment.
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Episode 6 - Teach Me Tonight (1)
Release Date: 1987-11-07When Sandra meets Brenda's math teacher at the Jenkins' apt., they begin dating and he gets more serious than Sandra. Then, Sandra comes by the Jenkins' with her new rich date, while Mitchell is visit... more
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Episode 7 - Teach Me Tonight (2)
Release Date: 1987-11-14Sandra overhears how Mitchell interacts with his students and she tells him that he needs to continue teaching because he needs the kids and much as they need him. Sandra and Mitchell confide in the J... more
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Episode 8 - See You in Court
Release Date: 1987-11-21Mary and Sandra go to court over song royalties.
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Episode 9 - The Honeymoon's Over
Release Date: 1987-11-28When Lester's cousin and his wife come to visit the Jenkins, Mary brags about how they are the perfect couple who never argue and still begave like Honeymooners after five years of marriage. When they... more
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Episode 10 - Rapture
Release Date: 1987-12-05Calvin and his friend Eddie are in danger of failing history, so the Jenkins, Rose, and Pearl try to tutor them. After failing the test the first time, they get a second chance to take the test. Afte... more
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Episode 11 - The Facade
Release Date: 1987-12-12When Mary goes to a seminar about success, she meets a business man who wants to build a $50 million museum. She tells him that Lester is a big time contractor and sets up a meeting date. She uses Sa... more
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Episode 12 - The Talk Show
Release Date: 1988-01-02Sandra gets a job on a low budget television station, Channel 87. She tried out for the weathergirl, but bombed! So the station manager gives her another chance hosting her own talk show. Mary, Les... more
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Episode 13 - Snowbound
Release Date: 1988-01-09When Mary and Lester's flight to Hawaii is cancelled due to the blizzard, they go home only to find Rose, Pearl, Sandra and Calvin in their apt, which is one of two apts in 227 with working heat. They... more
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Episode 14 - Shall We Dance?
Release Date: 1988-01-16Mary catches Lester dancing with his old girlfriend.
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Episode 15 - The Sing-Off
Release Date: 1988-01-23For a choir sing-off, Mary has found housing for all of the competitors except one, and for good reason. He is rude, pushy and impatient. He winds up staying with the Jenkins. He tries everything he ... more
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Episode 16 - Sweet Sixteen
Release Date: 1988-01-30When Calvin asks Brenda to his basketball ball, she is not able to go because she is still one week away from being 16 years old. She sulks because she can't go. The next week, she has a sweet sixtee... more
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Episode 17 - The Roommate
Release Date: 1988-02-06When the daughter of Lester's friend comes to stay with the Jenkins until the dorms at Howard University open, she gets a taste of the big city first hand. Sandra is behind on rent for three months an... more
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Episode 18 - The Big Deal
Release Date: 1988-02-13Lester's construction company has the chance to be purchased by a multi-national company. The lawyer that is over the proposed merger sub leases the apt and next door, and he and Mary start off on the... more
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Episode 19 - The New Neighbors
Release Date: 1988-02-20When Rose is looking for a live-in superintendent, Manny suggests his father, knowing that the Super's family will live with a 50% decrease in rent. When his family moves in, they later find out that ... more
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Episode 20 - Blues
Release Date: 1988-02-27Brenda's grandfather arrives with a Wailing Eddie record in tow. While letting Brenda listen to it, she accidentally scratches it and her grandfather is devastated. She doesn't understand what's so sp... more
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Episode 21 - The Butler Did It
Release Date: 1988-03-12Mary and Rose win a raffle contest and their prize is a butler for a week. They both become quickly annoyed with his presence and ""loan"" him to Sandra. When it is time for him to go home, his boss c... more
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Episode 22 - My Aching Back
Release Date: 1988-04-09When a movie is being shot outside 227, Sandra asks the director if there is any role not yet filled. He gives her a line to say (""Officer, he went that way""), but she cannot say it as naturally as ... more
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Episode 23 - Country Cousins
Release Date: 1988-04-30Lester is informed that he has an inheritance coming to him. But before he can collect it, he has to live with some distant relatives and discovers that they are country folk and white.
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Episode 24 - Best Friends
Release Date: 1988-05-07When Mary's high school friend comes to visit, everyone is excited to meet her because she is a famous writer, psychologist, and romance adviser (like Dr. Ruth). Mary imagines what it would be like to... more