227: Season 1
With your family around you, you're never alone.
It's a hilarious look at family life in a Washington, DC, apartment building. 227, one of the most popular Saturday night sitcoms of the '80s, revolves around housewife Mary Jenkins and her close-knit circle of friends and neighbors, dishing about life, family and each other in this first season collection of twenty-two hysterical episodes.
Starring Marla Gibbs as Mary, Hal Williams as her hard-working husband Lester, Regina King as their teenage daughter Brenda, Alaina Reed as Mary's best friend Rose, Helen martin as crotchety busybody Pearl, and Emmy Award®-winner Jackée Harry as they sexy, "man-wise" Sandra Clark. Also appearing in the first season's 22 sidesplitting episodes are such familiar faces as Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Haysbert, Whiteman Mayo and Fran Drescher. 227 ran for five hysterical seasons, proving that when it comes to comedy and laughter, there's no place like home.
Member Reviews
Flamboyant Jackée will draw you in. - hshire
I haven't seen this program since I was child, and even then I was viewing reruns. I found myself smiling from the moment the familiar music played. Pearl, the elderly snide woman who always has a wisecrack ready, and Sandra (played by the fabulous Jackee) are the duo who make this show. As sitcoms go, this show is superseded by the Golden Girls as well as Will&Grace but it still makes the list of being a solid sitcom. Though this show was not as risque as other shows for its era, it demonstrates how much norms have changed from a mere twenty years ago. It was a nice trip down memory lane.Funnier than I remember it. - JayA
I never really loved the show when it was on TV, so I found it a pleasant surprise when I revisited the characters all these years later and found them to be funnier than I remembered. Not a great sitcom, but it certainly had some laughs and real heart.
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Flamboyant Jackée will draw you in. - hshire
I haven't seen this program since I was child, and even then I was viewing reruns. I found myself smiling from the moment the familiar music played. Pearl, the elderly snide woman who always has a wisecrack ready, and Sandra (played by the fabulous Jackee) ...Funnier than I remember it. - JayA
I never really loved the show when it was on TV, so I found it a pleasant surprise when I revisited the characters all these years later and found them to be funnier than I remembered. Not a great sitcom, but it certainly had some laughs and real heart.