Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~30 min/episode
- Length
- 8 seasons · 189 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
- family relationships
- wealthy
- orphan
- class differences
- widower
- manhattan
- new york city
- interracial adoption
- adopted child
- sitcom
- child care
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Mary Jo Catlett
- Danny Cooksey
- Dixie Carter
- Charlotte Rae
- Mary Ann Mobley
- Dorothy Hamill
- Jayne Kennedy
- Jack Riley
- Ellen Travolta
- Terry Kiser
- David Hasselhoff
- Directed
- Gerren Keith, Jeremiah Morris, Lee Shallat Chemel, Glenn Padnick, Barbara Schultz, Mel Ferber & 2 more
- Created
- Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris
- Written
- Donald Ross, Alan Rosen, Ed Jurist, Martin Ragaway, Seaman Jacobs, M. Martez Thomas & 15 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 297 ratings
- Network & studio
- ABC, NBC, Norman Lear/Tandem Productions, Embassy Television, Embassy Pictures Corporation, Tandem Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
