Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: September 14, 1985
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 116
Networks: NBC
Genres: Comedy, Family

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227(1985)
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TMDB Rating: 6.7 (40 votes)

Overview

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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Season 1

22 episodes • 1985Avg: 6.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Honesty	Sep 14, 1985	6.5
2	Mary's Brother	Sep 21, 1985	0.0
3	Family Hero	Sep 28, 1985	0.0
4	The Refrigerator	Oct 5, 1985	0.0
5	Do You Love Me?	Oct 19, 1985	0.0
6	Pilot	Oct 26, 1985	0.0
7	The Sidewalk Sale	Nov 2, 1985	0.0
8	A Letter to the President	Nov 9, 1985	0.0
9	Pity the Poor Working Girl	Nov 16, 1985	0.0
10	Football Widow	Nov 23, 1985	0.0
11	A Daughter is a Precious Thing	Nov 30, 1985	0.0
12	The Big Piano Play-Off	Dec 7, 1985	0.0
13	Mary's Christmas	Dec 14, 1985	0.0
14	The Bed of Rose's	Jan 4, 1986	0.0
15	Brenda's Last Date	Jan 11, 1986	0.0
16	A Young Man's Fancy	Jan 18, 1986	0.0
17	We the People	Feb 1, 1986	0.0
18	Redecorating Blues	Feb 8, 1986	0.0
19	Fifty Big Ones	Feb 15, 1986	0.0
20	Slam Dunked	Feb 22, 1986	0.0
21	Pick Six	Mar 8, 1986	0.0
22	Young Man with a Job	May 3, 1986	0.0

Season 2

22 episodes • 1986Avg: 9.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Wheel of Misfortune	Oct 4, 1986	0.0
2	Mary Nightingale	Oct 11, 1986	0.0
3	Washington Affair	Nov 1, 1986	9.0
4	The Great Manhunt	Nov 8, 1986	0.0
5	The Temptations	Nov 15, 1986	0.0
6	Pillow Talk	Nov 22, 1986	0.0
7	Come Into My Parlor	Nov 29, 1986	0.0
8	Father's Day	Dec 6, 1986	0.0
9	Author, Author	Dec 13, 1986	0.0
10	Matchmakers	Jan 3, 1987	0.0
11	The Handwriting on the Wall	Jan 10, 1987	0.0
12	A Matter of Choice	Jan 17, 1987	0.0
13	Got a Job	Jan 24, 1987	0.0
14	Far From the Tree	Feb 7, 1987	0.0
15	Toyland	Feb 14, 1987	0.0
16	The Audit	Feb 21, 1987	0.0
17	A Good Citizen	Feb 28, 1987	0.0
18	Happy Twentieth	Mar 7, 1987	0.0
19	The Fourth Time Around	Mar 21, 1987	0.0
20	Rich Kid	Apr 11, 1987	0.0
21	The Working Game	May 23, 1987	0.0
22	Check Snub	Jun 6, 1987	0.0

Season 3

24 episodes • 1987

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Men's Club	Sep 26, 1987
2	Low Noon	Oct 3, 1987
3	There Goes the Building	Oct 17, 1987
4	And Baby Makes Three	Oct 24, 1987
5	Bull's Eye	Oct 31, 1987
6	Teach Me Tonight (1)	Nov 7, 1987
7	Teach Me Tonight (2)	Nov 14, 1987
8	See You in Court	Nov 21, 1987
9	The Honeymoon's Over	Nov 28, 1987
10	Rapture	Dec 5, 1987
11	The Facade	Dec 12, 1987
12	The Talk Show	Jan 2, 1988
13	Snowbound	Jan 9, 1988
14	Shall We Dance?	Jan 16, 1988
15	The Sing-Off	Jan 23, 1988
16	Sweet Sixteen	Jan 30, 1988
17	The Roommate	Feb 6, 1988
18	The Big Deal	Feb 13, 1988
19	The New Neighbors	Feb 20, 1988
20	Blues	Feb 27, 1988
21	The Butler Did It	Mar 12, 1988
22	My Aching Back	Apr 9, 1988
23	Country Cousins	Apr 30, 1988
24	Best Friends	May 7, 1988

Season 4

24 episodes • 1988

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Whiz Kid	Oct 8, 1988
2	Hide the Star	Oct 22, 1988
3	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pageant	Oct 29, 1988
4	Double Your Pleasure	Nov 5, 1988
5	Brother from a Sister City	Nov 12, 1988
6	And the Survey Says . . .	Nov 19, 1988
7	A Yen for Lester	Nov 26, 1988
8	Looking Back	Dec 3, 1988
9	The Night They Arrested Santa Claus	Dec 10, 1988
10	The Real Decoys	Jan 7, 1989
11	Play it Again, Stan	Jan 14, 1989
12	A Class Act	Jan 28, 1989
13	The Prince	Feb 4, 1989
14	Babes in the Woods	Feb 11, 1989
15	A Date to Remember	Feb 18, 1989
16	Mary's Cookies	Feb 25, 1989
17	For Richer, For Poorer	Mar 4, 1989
18	The Class of '89	Mar 18, 1989
19	Trial and Error	Apr 1, 1989
20	The Bet	Apr 8, 1989
21	No, My Darling Daughter	Apr 15, 1989
22	House Number	May 6, 1989
23	Jackee	May 11, 1989
24	For Sale	May 13, 1989

Season 5

24 episodes • 1989Avg: 9.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Take My Diva . . . Please!	Sep 23, 1989	0.0
2	Tenants, Anyone?	Sep 30, 1989	0.0
3	A Pampered Tale	Oct 14, 1989	0.0
4	The Fight of the Century	Oct 21, 1989	0.0
5	How the West Was Fun (1)	Oct 28, 1989	0.0
6	How the West Was Fun (2)	Nov 4, 1989	0.0
7	Video Activity	Nov 11, 1989	0.0
8	Flying Down to Leo's	Nov 18, 1989	0.0
9	Reunion Blues	Nov 25, 1989	0.0
10	The Perfume Game	Dec 2, 1989	0.0
11	War is Heck	Dec 9, 1989	0.0
12	Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas	Dec 16, 1989	0.0
13	There Go the Clowns	Dec 23, 1989	0.0
14	Come the Revolution	Dec 30, 1989	0.0
15	Where Do We Go From Here?	Jan 6, 1990	0.0
16	Play Christy for Me	Jan 13, 1990	0.0
17	Knock It Off	Jan 27, 1990	0.0
18	Do Not Pass Go (1)	Feb 3, 1990	9.0
19	Do Not Pass Go (2)	Feb 10, 1990	0.0
20	You Gotta Have Art	Feb 17, 1990	0.0
21	Gone Fishing	Feb 24, 1990	0.0
22	Nightmare on 227	Apr 21, 1990	0.0
23	The Class of '90	Apr 29, 1990	0.0
24	No Place Like Home	May 6, 1990	0.0

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