Network: NBC
Episodes: 116 (half-hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: September 14, 1985 – May 6, 1990
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin, Regina King, Curtis Baldwin, Jackée Harry, Barry Sobel, Paul Winfield, Toukie Smith, Stoney Jackson, Reynaldo Rey, Countess Vaughn, Kia Goodwin, and Kevin Peter Hall.
TV show description: Marla Gibbs plays Mary Jenkins, a housewife living in Washington, D.C. She is known as a big gossip with a sardonic wit and lives in an apartment building with the address number of 227.
Mary is married to Lester (Hal Williams), a construction worker with a college degree. Their teenage daughter is Brenda (Regina King), a very studious and hard-working young lady. She develops a crush on schoolmate and neighbor Calvin Dobbs (Curtis Baldwin) and they later begin dating. Alexandra DeWitt (Countess Vaughn) is an 11-year-old child prodigy and college student and moves in with the Jenkins as their houseguest for one year.
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