227

This series 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 plotline.

Genre: Comedy

Cast:Helen Martin , Marla Gibbs , Hal Williams , Alaina Reed-Hall , Regina King , Curtis Baldwin , JackÃ©e Harry , Barry Sobel , Toukie Smith , Paul Winfield , Stoney Jackson , Kia Goodwin , Reynaldo Rey , Countess Vaughn , Kevin Peter Hall , Eve Smith , Lynn Hamilton , Frieda Rentie

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Honesty

Sat, Sep 14, 1985

Mary regrets her offer to pay for the damage to a car she dented.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Mary's Brother

Sat, Sep 21, 1985

Mary's attempt to fix her brother up with Rose falls through when he falls for Sandra.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Family Hero

Sat, Sep 28, 1985

While helping Brenda find an interesting ancestor for an essay assignment, she discovers a Civil War corporal -- and his claim to fame.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Refrigerator

Sat, Oct 5, 1985

Mary agrees to let Sandra use her apartment for a party if Sandra can talk the landlord into getting Mary a new refrigerator.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Do You Love Me?

Sat, Oct 19, 1985

When Mary learns that her neighbors' marriage has ended, she thinks the same thing may happen to her and Lester.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Pilot

Sat, Oct 26, 1985

The landlord of Mary's apartment building dies, leaving it in the care of a "tenant".

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Sidewalk Sale

Sat, Nov 2, 1985

Rose inherits the building. But after a building inspector drops by, he notes so many violations that it's going to take a lot of money to repair them. So the guys decide to have a sidewalk sale. After nearly reaching their goal, Mary gives the money to Lester to hide. He hides it. Mary sells something that Lester told her not to. They learn it's where Lester kept the money.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Letter to the President

Sat, Nov 9, 1985

Mary receives praise for complaining to the president about a pothole, then the Secret Service shows up.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Pity the Poor Working Girl

Sat, Nov 16, 1985

Mary is concerned when Sandra is fired from her old job and begins a new one at Lester's construction firm.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Football Widow

Sat, Nov 23, 1985

Tired of being a lonely widow, Mary tries to buy tickets to a Redskins game for herself and Lester.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ A Daughter Is a Precious Thing

Sat, Nov 30, 1985

Brenda ignores her mother's advice and listens to Sandra's about impressing a boy who's into "older women".

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Big Piano Play-Off

Sat, Dec 7, 1985

Mary and Sandra compete to see who's learned more from Rose about playing the piano in three weeks.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Mary's Christmas

Sat, Dec 14, 1985

Sandra, upon learning the Church is being asked to move out of the land they're on, volunteers Lester to help move it to it's new location. It's also Christmas time and the annual pageant will help commemorate the Church on it's new location. But the Church doesn't arrive there and they're wondering what they'll do for the pageant.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Bed of Rose's

Sat, Jan 4, 1986

Rose connects with the man Sandra found "boring", then panics when he suggests they spend a weekend in New York.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Brenda's Last Date

Sat, Jan 11, 1986

At Pearl's request, Lester has a man-to-man talk with Calvin about sex, which leads to Calvin asking out Brenda.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ A Young Man's Fancy

Sat, Jan 18, 1986

Calvin misunderstands Sandra's neighborliness and falls in love with her.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ We the People

Sat, Feb 1, 1986

Lester's mentor shows up and Rose gives him the job of apartment manager. Later he invites some friends to stay with him. Later they learn that they're all homeless including Lester's boss. But when Rose hears of this, she feels she has no choice but to throw them out. Until she hears their woes.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Redecorating Blues

Sat, Feb 8, 1986

Lester considers spending his bonus from work on a sports car, but his apartment is burglarized.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Fifty Big Ones

Sat, Feb 15, 1986

Mary plans a party for her parents' 50th anniversary, but they aren't speaking to each other.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Slam Dunked

Sat, Feb 22, 1986

Sandra dates a basketball player whose style proves to be a bad influence on Calvin.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Pick Six

Sat, Mar 8, 1986

Mary gives Pearl and Rose a lecture on the evils of gambling, but her lottery entry happens to have the same numbers her friends picked.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Young Man With a Job

Sat, May 3, 1986

Lester gets Calvin a part-time job in construction, but Calvin proves to be inept at it.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Wheel of Misfortune

Sat, Oct 4, 1986

Mary & Sandra play against each other on "Wheel of Fortune".

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Mary Nightingale

Sat, Oct 11, 1986

Mary returns from a shopping trip to discover that Lester has acute appendicitis.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Washington Affair

Sat, Nov 1, 1986

Mary has a party and Sandra brings her latest beau, a Congressman. But when she invites Brenda's stunning teacher, Sandra sees she has some competition because the woman and the Congressman have a lot to talk about. So she agrees to attend a benefit for something she knows nothing about. And she drags Mary along whom she says is a Prime Minister.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Great Manhunt

Sat, Nov 8, 1986

Sandra looks for a man to be a husband and father, then decides to settle for just the latter.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Temptations

Sat, Nov 15, 1986

Mary enlists the Temptations to perform at the church's charity show.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Pillow Talk

Sat, Nov 22, 1986

Mary and Sandra go into the pillow business, but their partnership is jeopardized by their differing positions.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Come Into My Parlor

Sat, Nov 29, 1986

Taking a cue from Sandra's book, Brenda "mistakenly" invites an attractive man to a party on the wrong night.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Father's Day

Sat, Dec 6, 1986

Calvin decides to live with his pilot father, even it means moving to Iceland.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Author, Author

Sat, Dec 13, 1986

Sandra's novel inspired by the residents of 227 could hurt Mary's chance to become president of the Ladies' Auxiliary.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Matchmakers

Sat, Jan 3, 1987

Rose is feeling frustrated that all the men she's been dating dumps her for younger girls. So to help her, Sandra suggests she joins a video dating service but Sandra suggests she adopt more exotic persona, so she transforms herself to Raquel. And when s guy expresses interest in her, she finds it hard to maintain the Raquel persona.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Handwriting on the Wall

Sat, Jan 10, 1987

When Mary and Rose catch a young man spray painting the building, they try to stop him but in the end they turn his spray can on him and he gets away. Later he files a suit against them for assault. They hope that Sondra who was in her date's car at the time can corroborate their version of the events. But all she saw was when Mary and Rose grabbed the boy and spray painted him.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ A Matter of Choice

Sat, Jan 17, 1987

Lester has a chance to do a big project and give a friend who's out of work a job. But things change when he learns that the company whom he'll be working for sponsors apartheid. So he has to choose which is more important.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Got a Job

Sat, Jan 24, 1987

Brenda gets a job at a burger joint and when she's so exhausted and her school work starts to drop, Mary tells her that she should quit but Brenda likes earning money.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Far From the Tree

Sat, Feb 7, 1987

Sandra receives a letter from her mother, who is coming to visit. This upsets her because she feels that her mother never really loved her. Mary tries to placate her, but Sandra accidentally invites a gentleman friend, Mop, over for the same weekend her mother is visiting. Mary helps Sandra prevent her mother and Mop from meeting.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Toyland

Sat, Feb 14, 1987

Mary, Rose, and Pearl are fund-raising for a toy drive for children sick in the hospital. Sandra donates a teddy bear and asks Mary for a ride to the mall. Mary and Lester go to the toy store only to find it closed, but Mary spots someone she believes to be an employee of the store. He lets her in, and she and Lester realize he's trying to rob the store.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Audit

Sat, Feb 21, 1987

Lester has to go to the IRS for an audit and he is nervous. Mary who goes with him tells him that everything will be OK. They go to a coffee shop before going to the audit. Lester thinks he forgot some records that they need so he leaves Mary in the shop. Later a guy comes in and starts making some chauvinistic comments that Mary takes exception to, and they both go at it. Later when Mary and Lester go to the audit, she discovers that the IRS man is the one she had the heated exchange with.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ A Good Citizen

Sat, Feb 28, 1987

Mary and Lester's romantic evening is interrupted by a police stakeout of Sandra's boyfriend.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Happy Twentieth

Sat, Mar 7, 1987

Mary and Lester's 20th anniversary is made complicated by conflicting plans and in-laws.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Fourth Time Around

Sat, Mar 21, 1987

Pearl gets engaged to a man she meets at a club where Mary and the ladies have a girls' night out.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Rich Kid

Sat, Apr 11, 1987

The residents of 227 are concerned when Calvin's new friend makes him a suspicious offer for 50 dollars.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Working Game

Sat, May 23, 1987

Mary takes a job at a travel agency, where her boss finds her so important that he wants her to come with him on a trip.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Check Snub

Sat, Jun 6, 1987

Pearl, Mary and Rose end up in jail when they protest the Social Security office's claim that Pearl is dead.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Men's Club

Sat, Sep 26, 1987

Lester's Uncle's men's club is honoring him. Mary wants to be there with him but his Uncle says that no women are allowed. Mary then decides to dress up like a man and go to the award ceremony as does Sandra.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Low Noon

Sat, Oct 3, 1987

Mary dreams about a Western musical showdown when a friend of Sandra's intends to open a club in her neighborhood.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ There Goes the Building

Sat, Oct 17, 1987

Sandra is dating the IRS man who audited Mary. They later learn that the man is planning to buy the building. Later they learn he plans to tear down the building to make condos which everyone will be kicked out. They launch a protest to stop him and do. But later an inspector comes and when he cites so many violations, Rose has to sell. Mary suspects the guy is behind it.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ And Baby Makes Three

Sat, Oct 24, 1987

Brenda and Calvin take care of a pig for a class project designed to teach the seriousness of teenage pregnancy.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Bull's Eye

Sat, Oct 31, 1987

Mary is suspicious of her new neighbor just because he throws knives.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Teach Me Tonight: Part 1

Sat, Nov 7, 1987

Sandra falls for a schoolteacher, who's willing to give up his job for an executive position with a high salary.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Teach Me Tonight: Part 2

Sat, Nov 14, 1987

Sandra and Mitchell have doubts about their wedding.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ See You in Court

Sat, Nov 21, 1987

Mary, Rose, and Pearl are toying around with Brenda's new keyboard, and Mary sings a song she wrote in high school. Sandra stops by and Mary sings the song for her. Sandra helped her edit it, and Brenda gave the song to Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), who offered to publish the song. When Mary is offered $5000 for the song and refuses to share with Sandra, Sandra sues Mary.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Honeymoon's Over

Sat, Nov 28, 1987

Lester's cousin Ed and his wife Sherry are visiting Mary and Lester. Ed is absolutely devoted to Sherry and still treats her like they're still on a honeymoon after 5 years of marriage, but Sherry feels stifled by him. Sherry announces to Mary that she's leaving Ed, and surreptitiously leaves during dinner. A depressed Ed mopes around the apartment and it's up to Mary, Lester, Rose, Pearl, and Sandra to cheer him up.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Rapture

Sat, Dec 5, 1987

Calvin and his friend Eddie are about to fail history, so they have a tutor help them. When the tutor is an attractive young woman who inadvertently distracts them, Mary and Rose decide to help them. When both of their efforts fail, Lester decides to help out. Unfortunately, the boys still fail their final exam. Mary helps them get a second chance, but it is up to the Jenkins to get the boys back on track.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Facade

Sat, Dec 12, 1987

The ladies go to a self-help seminar and Mary meets a developer who has a 50 million dollar museum job. Rose recommends Lester for the job, but when Mary tells Lester about it, he says he can't manage the job because his company is too small. In spite of that, Mary agrees to meet with the developer and uses Sandra's boyfriend's penthouse to make her and Lester appear more affluent than they are.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Talk Show

Sat, Jan 2, 1988

Sandra gets a job as a weather girl at a cable-TV station following her appearance on a talk show.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Snowbound

Sat, Jan 9, 1988

The residents of 227 gather in Mary's apartment during a blizzard.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Shall We Dance?

Sat, Jan 16, 1988

Lester takes Rose to a dance where he sees his high-school sweetheart.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Sing-Off

Sat, Jan 23, 1988

Mary plays host to her ill-mannered competitor in a big choir contest.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Sweet Sixteen

Sat, Jan 30, 1988

Mary forbids Brenda from going on a date with Calvin before her 16th birthday.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Roommate

Sat, Feb 6, 1988

Sandra's roommate steals her boyfriend.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Big Deal

Sat, Feb 13, 1988

Mary deals with a corporate lawyer Lester is trying to impress.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The New Neighbors

Sat, Feb 20, 1988

When Rose needs a new handyman for the building. One of the kids' friends at school suggests his father, who is actuality a concert violinist. But he tries his best so that they could stay in the handyman's apartment.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Blues

Sat, Feb 27, 1988

Brenda accidentally destroys her grandfather's special recording of a classic blues song.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Butler Did It

Sat, Mar 12, 1988

Mary and Rose share the butler they won in a raffle.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ My Aching Back

Sat, Apr 9, 1988

A director and his assistant are preparing to shoot a scene for a movie in front of 227. When Sandra tries to insinuate herself into the movie by auditioning for a one-line speaking part, she is unable to deliver the line he way the director wants her to. When Mary tries to help her, the director chooses her for the part instead. Sandra becomes upset that Mary stole her part. However, out of nervousness, Mary throws out her back. Rose and Lester try various remedies to help her recover in time to deliver the line.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Country Cousins

Sat, Apr 30, 1988

Mary and Lester go to the reading of Lester's uncle's will. Lester discovers that he has white cousins, and they have to live under the same roof for a week to collect the $10,000 inheritance. Since the cousins live in Arkansas, Mary and Lester invite them to stay at 227. However, Mary is nervous when she feels that their presence could cost her the presidency of the Ladies Auxiliary Club.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Best Friends

Sat, May 7, 1988

Mary goes on a journey of self-analysis after receiving a visit from her best friend, now famous psychiatrist.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Whiz Kid

Sat, Oct 8, 1988

The new tenant is an 11-year-old college freshman who proves to be a handful for Mary and Lester.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Hide the Star

Sat, Oct 22, 1988

Mary and Lester try to keep the identity of their house guest - a star boxer - a secret.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pageant

Sat, Oct 29, 1988

Mary reluctantly allows Brenda to enter a beauty pageant, then finds out about the "bikini aerobics" competition.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Double Your Pleasure

Sat, Nov 5, 1988

A persistent suitor is flabbergasted by Sandra and her lookalike cousin Conchita.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Brother From a Sister City

Sat, Nov 12, 1988

When Brenda aspires to be a track star, Florence Griffith Joyner teaches her a valuable lesson about winning.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ And the Survey Says...

Sat, Nov 19, 1988

Everyone in the building gets to take part in an episode of Family Feud. Thing is not everyone in Mary's family are on the same team.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ A Yen for Lester

Sat, Nov 26, 1988

The tenants of 227 buy their favorite Japanese restaurant, but the chef quits just as a bus-load of tourists is on the way.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Looking Back

Sat, Dec 3, 1988

The residents of 227 look back at memorable times in their lives through Mary's collection of old photographs.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ The Night They Arrested Santa Claus

Sat, Dec 10, 1988

Christmas in 227 is nearly ruined by a Santa Claus who steals everyone's gifts.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ The Real Decoys

Sat, Jan 7, 1989

Mary and Rose pose as elderly women to catch a mugger with Sandra the meter maid as their back-up.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Play It Again, Stan

Sat, Jan 14, 1989

Mary bumps into Billy Dee Williams whom she once met. And she fantasizes a situation like in the movie Casablanca with Lester as Bogart's character and she is Ingrid Bergman's and Billy Dee Williams is Paul Henreid's.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ A Class Act

Sat, Jan 28, 1989

Brenda's history teacher seems more interested in being a stand-up comic, while Sandra tries to sell lingerie.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Prince

Sat, Feb 4, 1989

Rose's blind date turns out to be the prince of an island kingdom who intends to marry Brenda.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Babes in the Woods

Sat, Feb 11, 1989

Mary gets lost in the woods when she leads Alexandria's scouting group on a nature hike -- and an escaped killer is stalking them.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ A Date to Remember

Sat, Feb 18, 1989

After going on "Love Connection", Sandra endures a series of mishaps involving her date's ex-wife.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Mary's Cookies

Sat, Feb 25, 1989

A local bakery partners with Mary to sell cookies from a family recipe.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ For Richer, For Poorer

Sat, Mar 4, 1989

A wealthy, older man proposes to Sandra.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ The Class of '89

Sat, Mar 18, 1989

Mary tries to get Run DMC to play at the kids' prom.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Trial and Error

Sat, Apr 1, 1989

Sandra and Mary both sit on the same jury for a murder trial.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ The Bet

Sat, Apr 8, 1989

Mary and Rose bet they can swear off fattening foods longer than Sandra can swear off men.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ No, My Darling Daughter

Sat, Apr 15, 1989

Mary and Lester give a young man who has a criminal record a job. And at first they feel as if they're doing something good. And the young man even thinks of getting his GED. But when he makes a move on Brenda they don't approve and forbid it. And upon seeing they're reaction, he decides to forget getting the GED. Thinking that he's making a mistake they turn to educator Joe Clark for help.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ House Number

Sat, May 6, 1989

The ladies each remember how they came to 227 when they get locked in the basement.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ Jackée

Thu, May 11, 1989

Pilot for a possible series centering on the character of Sandra Clarke played by Jackee Harry. In it Sandra's latest beau offers her a job at his company so she moves to New York City but when she arrives she learns what kind of business he does. So she is left without a job. But her neighbor tells her there's a job opening at the health club where she works. While there Sandra learns that her neighbor's boyfriend is not the Prince Charming she thinks he is.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ For Sale

Sat, May 13, 1989

When Rose decides to sell 227, the building gets a new resident manager and a landlord intent on evicting everyone for renovations.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Take My Diva... Please!

Sat, Sep 23, 1989

Mary's church opera benefit is jeopardized by a diva who blames her for losing her voice and Sandra for losing her boyfriend.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Tenants, Anyone?

Sat, Sep 30, 1989

The new landlord keeps avoiding the tenants of 227, while Dylan looks for a new roommate.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ A Pampered Tale

Sat, Oct 14, 1989

While Mary and the girls are getting pampered at a health spa, Lester and the boys are pampering an abandoned baby Travis found in his limo.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ The Fight of the Century

Sat, Oct 21, 1989

Mary and Lester have a fight that could end their marriage -- she made him miss a prizefight.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ How the West Was Fun: Part 1

Sat, Oct 28, 1989

The Jenkins, Sandra, Pearl, Rose, and Dylan vacation at a ranch in Arizona. Mary convinces Sandra and Rose to participate in a treasure hunt, and Dylan has his sights set on a ranch girl.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ How the West Was Fun: Part 2

Sat, Nov 4, 1989

When water rustlers take the women hostage, Lester creates a posse to find them.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Video Activity

Sat, Nov 11, 1989

Bobby Brown is shooting a video at Brenda's high school, so she plagiarizes an old essay of Mary's in order to be an extra.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Flying Down to Leo's

Sat, Nov 18, 1989

On their way to Lester's birthday party, Mary and Sandra encounter gang members trying to claim them as their biker chicks.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Reunion Blues

Sat, Nov 25, 1989

Dylan's mother moves in with him after she leaves his father and starts dating Julian.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ The Perfume Game

Sat, Dec 2, 1989

Sandra's boss at the ad agency steals her idea for a slogan promoting a new perfume.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ War Is Heck

Sat, Dec 9, 1989

Calvin wants to quit school and join the Army, so Lester puts him through a mock boot camp.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas

Sat, Dec 16, 1989

Mary decides to invite Julian to her Christmas Eve party in order to liven things up.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ There Go the Clowns

Sat, Dec 23, 1989

Mary dresses up as a clown to erase a nasty message she left on the answering machine of Lester's business partner -- an eccentric novelties magnate.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Come the Revolution

Sat, Dec 30, 1989

Brenda starts her own revolution when Mary and Lester force her to return a revealing dress.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Where Do We Go From Here?

Sat, Jan 6, 1990

As Lester sleeps in church, he dreams that he and Mary go to heaven, hell and a 227 where they wouldn't exist.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Play Christy for Me

Sat, Jan 13, 1990

Lester gets a temporary gig as a DJ and when a woman calls him and is clearly hitting on him. When he talks to Mary about she says that if it ever really happens he'll run like a scared rabbit. And he says no. Later an attractive shows up and hits on him and he tells her no but she keeps on coming. Later he learns what's going on and decides to have some fun.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Knock It Off

Sat, Jan 27, 1990

Dylan and Travis find some money and they want to keep it but Mary tells them to turn it in and after a certain period of time if no one claims it, it's theirs. And just as they are about to get the money, a guy shows up claiming the money is his. But they refuse to give it to him, but the guy turns out to be a mobster and he threatens them. And eventually everyone shows up and he holds them there. And it's on the day Mary and her family are suppose to go on vacation.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Do Not Pass Go: Part 1

Sat, Feb 3, 1990

On a trip to Atlantic City, Mary is on a hot streak and Rose thinks Warren may be the one.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ Do Not Pass Go: Part 2

Sat, Feb 10, 1990

Mary's luck runs out in Atlantic City, while Rose catches Warren with another woman and Travis blows a comedy contest.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ You Gotta Have Art

Sat, Feb 17, 1990

Mary unintentionally creates a pop-art sensation when she helps Eva straighten up the gallery and makes an appearance on "The Joan Rivers Show".

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ Gone Fishing

Sat, Feb 24, 1990

Julian is getting a divorce and he needs Mary to make sure his soon-to-be ex-wife doesn't get 227.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Nightmare on 227

Sat, Apr 21, 1990

Mary is cast as a slasher in a movie, but she has an unplanned rehearsal with a dean from NYU.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ The Class of '90

Sun, Apr 29, 1990

As Brenda prepares for graduation, Mary receives a lesson in plastic surgery from her hospital roommate, and Lester gives his father's girlfriend low points.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ No Place Like Home

Sun, May 6, 1990

Mary dreams about being homeless when she thinks a plea for help from a street person is a threat to her safety.