227 1985
Created by Michael G. Moye
- Comedy, Family
- 30 min episodes
- 5 seasons
- 116 episodes
- Ended
- TV-PG
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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Comic, classical in form, warm and effortless.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Marla GibbsMary Jenkins
- Hal WilliamsLester Jenkins
- Alaina Reed HallRose Lee Holloway
- Jackée HarrySandra Clark
- Regina KingBrenda Jenkins
- Helen MartinPearl Shay
- Curtis BaldwinCalvin Dobbs
- Barry SobelDylan McMillan
- Countess VaughnAlexandria DeWitt
- Paul WinfieldJulian C. Barlow
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- Michael G. MoyeCreator
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Seasons
- Season 122 eps · 1985
- Season 222 eps · 1986
- Season 324 eps · 1987
- Season 424 eps · 1988
- Season 524 eps · 1989
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