227 (1985)★ 6.8/10
- Comedy
Directed by: Gerren Keith, Arlando Smith, Tony Singletary, Ellen Gittelsohn, Oz Scott
Written by: Bill Boulware, Jack Elinson, Christine Houston, Michael G. Moye, Al Gordon
This story took place in an apartment building numbered 227. The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plot line.
- Original title
- 227
- Storyline
- In this sitcom based on Christine Houston's play about the lives of black women residing in an apartment building in 1950s Chicago, Illinois. Marla Gibbs, who first shot to stardom for playing Florence Johnston, the sarcastic housekeeper to Louise and George Jefferson on The Jeffersons (1975), got her own series. Gibbs starred as tart-tongued Mary Jenkins. Her husband Lester (Hal Williams) was a construction worker and they had a teenage daughter, Brenda (Regina King). Pearl Shay (Helen Martin) was an annoying but open-minded neighbor who gossiped with Mary, and Rose Lee Holloway (Alaina Reed-Hall) was Mary's best friend, who lived in the building with her daughter Tiffany (Kia Goodwin) and was sympathetic to the neighbors. The landlord died in the pilot episode and Rose took his place until season four. Attractive, sassy vamp Sandra Clark (Jackée Harry) showed up later in the show's run.
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 4,629
- Companies
- Embassy Television, Embassy Communications, ELP Communications, Columbia Pictures Television, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Amazon Prime Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Television, Mill Creek Entertainment, Nick at Nite, Rewind TV, Sony Pictures Television, TV Land, TV-One,, The Program Exchange [us]
- Release dates
- US September 14, 1985
- DE August 31, 1993
- CA September 28, 2004