Mary Jenkins, a housewife who lived with her contractor husband, Lester and their 14-year-old daughter Brenda. Mary's best friend was Rose Lee Holloway, who used to sit out with her on the stoop of the apartment building (#227) and discuss many things.
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05x24 No Place Like Home Aired: May. 06, 1990Mary dreams that she's homeless after misinterpreting a plea for help from a street person (homeless advocate Theodore Hayes) as a threat to … [continue reading]
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Directors
- Gerren Keith (87 episodes)
- Arlando Smith (7 episodes)
- Ellen Falcon (5 episodes)
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- Bill Boulware (20 episodes)
- Al Gordon (17 episodes)
- Dick Bensfield (12 episodes)
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- This television series used the same set as Sesame Street. The 227 apartment building steps are the ones which usually stand beside Oscar the Grouch's garbage can.
- Sandra Clark was never intended to be a regular character. She was added to the cast after testing positively with audiences.
- If Marla Gibbs was unavailable to star in 227, then, it would've debuted the season after 1985, if The Jeffersons would've been on the air. When the show was unexpectedly cancelled in 1985,
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