Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
American comedy with a larger-than-life teacher and his housemates.
Cast:Mark Curry , Holly Robinson Peete , Sandra Quarterman , Marquise Wilson , Raven-Symoné , Omar Gooding , Nell Carter , Dawnn Lewis , Christopher Carter , George Lemore , Roger E. Mosley , Steve White , Lewis Dix Jr. , Dominic Hoffman , Kristoff St. John , Luis Avalos , Ron Canada , Karen Malina White
S1.E1 ∙ The Presentation
Mark is hired as a substitute teacher, but his roommate Robin must teach him how to control his students. Alan Thicke guest stars.
S1.E2 ∙ Hangin' with Michelle
Michelle Tanner takes care of Mr. Cooper when he hurts himself while substituting for her class.
S1.E3 ∙ On the Rebound
An old flame returns to pick up where she left off with Mark - until Vanessa and Robin learn her real intentions.
S1.E4 ∙ Please Pass the Jock
Mark helps a student basketball player (CHRISTOPHER CARTER) pass an important algebra test. Chris Tucker guest stars.
S1.E5 ∙ Cheers
When Mark coaches a girl's cheerleading team, he desperately asks Vanessa to help him train the untalented cheerleaders.
S1.E6 ∙ Warriors: Part 1
After Mark finally gets a permanent teaching job as a basketball coach, he's offered a contract to play for the Warriors, a professional basketball team.
S1.E7 ∙ Warriors: Part 2
Mark is given a temporary contract to play professional basketball with his favorite team, the Warriors. Unfortunately, Mark must play guard against basketball star Charles Barkley (HIMSELF).
S1.E8 ∙ Torn Between Two Teachers
Mark and Robin try to make Andre choose between his interests in basketball and music.
S1.E9 ∙ My Dinner with Mark
When Vanessa's boss is stranded at an airport, she convinces Mark to impersonate him for an important meeting with an influential businesswoman.
S1.E10 ∙ Miracle in Oaktown
While portraying Santa Claus, Mark helps to make a little boy's Christmas wish come true.
S1.E11 ∙ Unforgettable
Mark helps settle a family fight between Robin and her father, Chip.
S1.E12 ∙ In Vanessa We Trust
After their landlord dies, Mark, Vanessa and Robin try to buy their house for themselves.
S1.E13 ∙ Forbidden Fruit
Mark eagerly dates Teresa (ROXANNE BECKFORD), an attractive schoolteacher, until he learns that her father is Coach Ricketts.
S1.E14 ∙ How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
When Mark takes a temporary job in an office mail room, he is quickly promoted to an executive position. MARCUS ALLEN guest stars as himself.
S1.E15 ∙ Valentine's Day Massacre
Robin and Vanessa win dates with handsome bachelors on a television game show while Mark spends Valentine's Day at home.
S1.E16 ∙ Boyz in the Woodz
Mark, Vanessa and Robin take several high school students on a camping trip.
S1.E17 ∙ Boys Don't Leave
Tyler is jealous of his parents' new baby and asks to move in with Mark, Vanessa and Robin.
S1.E18 ∙ The Unteachables
When Mark teaches a history class for lazy students, Coach Ricketts wagers that he can't get them to study.
S1.E19 ∙ Piano Lesson
Robin begins to feel neglected as Mark and Vanessa develop a close friendship.
S1.E20 ∙ PMS: Post Moving in Syndrome
Mark and his roommates Robin and Vanessa learn how to share the responsibilities of living together. Shawn Wayans guest stars.
S1.E21 ∙ A Moving Experience
Mark accepts Trey's (REGGIE McFADDEN) offer to be his roommate in an apartment building filled with beautiful women and wild parties.
S1.E22 ∙ Livin' a Large Lie
When Mark's grandmother (MONTROSE HAGINS) visits him, he wants to impress her with his success and asks Robin and Vanessa to pose as his servants.
S2.E1 ∙ Baby Love
Mark has to make a tough decision when his cousins Geneva and Nichole pay a visit.
S2.E2 ∙ Slumber Party
Mark becomes a not-so-willing host of a birthday party for Nichole after Geneva and Vanessa experience car trouble.
S2.E3 ∙ School's a Drag
Mark gets in an accident with the school's drivers' education car and fears the tough, new principal, P.J. Moore, may discharge him. Sherman Hemsley and Don Cheadle guest star.
S2.E4 ∙ Limpin' Lizards
Nicole gets the part as the new crocodile kid on the "Lester the Lizard and Crocodile Kids" show. When Mark complains about being assigned as the Driver's Education teacher, PJ reassigns him to the Home Economics teacher position. He quickly discovers that this position is even more dangerous than the previous one when his eyebrows get burned off.
S2.E5 ∙ Free at Last
When Vanessa is not given the promotion she was promised, she takes Mark's advice to demand her rights and is promptly discharged from her job.
S2.E6 ∙ Father Fairest
Earvin and his father are reunited by Mark. A school carnival is thrown.
S2.E8 ∙ Seoul Shake
Dante Basco guest stars as a Korean-American student who wishes to join Mark's basketball team.
S2.E9 ∙ Prince of Soul
Guest star Don Cheadle plays an reputed African prince whom Vanessa plans to marry. Mark offers his opinions.
S2.E10 ∙ Air Cooper
When an advertising executive selects Mark to star in a commercial for athletic shoes, Mark misunderstands the part he is to play.
S2.E11 ∙ Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
Mark and Geneva are saddened when Nicole stops believing in Santa. Then a mysterious cousin visits, who knows how to make her happy.
S2.E12 ∙ Private School
Mark is assigned to teach Black history at an expensive private school for one week. When the principal offers him a job at a much higher salary, Mark has a big decision to make.
S2.E13 ∙ For Whom the Heck the Bell Tolls
Not wanting to admit that he can't remember a recently deceased basketball coach, Mark agrees to give the eulogy at his funeral.
S2.E14 ∙ It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
It is almost Mark's 30th birthday, Tyler discovers a lump on Mark. After a misunderstanding between he and his doctor, Mark thinks that he is dying so he goes skydiving and gives away his stuff.
S2.E15 ∙ The Courtship of Mark Cooper
Mark is in the midst of defending himself in court when he realizes the plaintiff's lawyer is an ex-girlfriend he dumped brutally.
S2.E16 ∙ Wedding Bell Blues
When Mark's demanding employer, P.J., tells him she is going to marry her old boyfriend and quit her job, Mark has to decide if he should tell her a secret that could make her cancel the wedding. Queen Latifah guest stars and sings "Just Another Day."
S2.E17 ∙ Truth or Consequences
Mark and Vanessa make a bet on who can go the longest without telling a lie.
S2.E18 ∙ Trading Places
When Vanessa applies for a job at a conservative Christian radio station, she tells the manager that Mark is her husband and Geneva is her wild cousin.
S2.E19 ∙ Pros and Convicts
When Vanessa shows Geneva how to have a good time, Geneva hits on a police officer who mistakes them both as prostitutes. They both are arrested, and Mark is arrested while trying to bail them out of jail.
S2.E20 ∙ Double Cheeseburger, Hold the Diploma
P.J. threatens to discharge Mark when his student, Earvin, quits school. Geneva can't afford to buy a new bicycle for her daughter, Nicole.
S2.E21 ∙ Groom and Doom
Mark introduces Geneva to a college teacher who asks her to marry him.
S2.E22 ∙ Hangin' with Mrs. Cooper
Mark plots to reunite his parents after his mother, Dorothy (Ja'net DuBois), leaves her husband of 35 years and moves in with Mark. Richard Roundtree guest stars.
S3.E1 ∙ Call Me Irresponsible
Mark avoids P.J.'s phone calls and learns, too late, that she had good news. Geneva plays a trick on Vanessa to teach Nicole a lesson.
S3.E2 ∙ My Bodyguard
Mark teaches Tyler how to be a tough guy so that he can protect Nicole against a bully at school. When Tyler's approach doesn't work, Geneva goes up to the school and makes a big scene, scaring the bully away. Vanessa takes care of her boss' prized orchid.
S3.E3 ∙ Between Friends
Mark and a former college buddy embark upon an all-out competition--first with wrestling, then with women. Vanessa finally manages to get a job answering phones at a doctor's office.
S3.E4 ∙ He Said, She Said
Geneva fights with the video store clerk who claims that she never returned the "Mrs. Doubtfire" tape. Just after mailing a letter to the senator concerning the tape, the kids find it. Mark dates a woman from Vanessa's carpool against Vanessa's wishes. When Mark breaks up with her, Vanessa is kicked out of the carpool.
S3.E5 ∙ Matinee
When he takes Nicole and her friends to the theater, Mark disrupts the movie. Geneva makes 300 penguins for the school's decoration committee.
S3.E6 ∙ Mo Money
Mark almost gets fired when he buys a vending machine for the school to profit off of the sales. The bus that Vanessa is riding gets hijacked.
S3.E7 ∙ Instant Replay
Mark reluctantly plays basketball with former classmate Reggie Wilson (played by Indiana Pacers superstar guard REGGIE MILLER), now an NBA star. Vanessa connives to go on a date with Reggie.
S3.E8 ∙ House Guest
P.J. has a fight with her mother and moves out of the home they share and into Mark's home.
S3.E9 ∙ My Achy Breaky Back
In order to go on an important coaching interview after he hurts his back, Mark undergoes some experimental treatment for the pain at the doctor's office where Vanessa works. Series director Mark Linn-Baker ("Perfect Strangers") guest stars.
S3.E10 ∙ True Romance
Vanessa finds out her new boyfriend is not as rich as he wants her to believe. Tyler asks Mark for advice on girls.
S3.E11 ∙ Clothes Make the Man
Vanessa rescues Steve and Mark when are tricked into buying new expensive clothes from a beatuiful saleswoman who tells them they are very attractive and wants them to model in a calendar. Geneva is convinced Nicole is a future chess champion.
S3.E12 ∙ Christmas Show
Mark's job as Santa at the mall and his Christmas plans at home both fail miserably, but the Christmas spirit triumphs.
S3.E13 ∙ Coach
Mark becomes the new head coach of the undefeated basketball team after Coach Corley quits. He starts to think that he doesn't have what it takes to be a winning coach when the team loses their very first game under his coaching.
S3.E14 ∙ One Is the Loneliest Number
After Mark and Denise's break-up, Mark discovers that he really does love her and jumps through hoops to get her back. Nicole and Tyler work together selling candy bars in an effort to win the prize for the most sold, a CD player.
S3.E15 ∙ True Lies
In order to be with his girlfriend, Mark lies to Nicole. Mark allows Nicole to punish him after she realizes that he lied. But soon he is tempted to lie to her again.
S3.E16 ∙ The Ringer
As the new coach of Nicole's floundering all-girl basketball team, Mark conspires to dress Tyler up as a girl to help the team. Baseball greats FRANK ROBINSON and ALBERT BELLE also come to help.
S3.E17 ∙ Down in the Dumps
Mark and Vanessa think that they won the lottery but can't find their winning ticket.
S3.E18 ∙ Hero
The truth about Mark's heroics comes out when the mayor presents him with an award.
S3.E19 ∙ Here Comes the Groom
Earvin misunderstands Mark's advice and decides to elope.
S3.E20 ∙ The Matchmaker
During a surprise visit, superstitious Aunt Eunetta reads the heads of Mark and Vanessa and decides that they share a future. Mark and Vanessa, who eventually would be engaged, share a kiss to dispel her prediction and discover that they enjoy kissing each other.
S3.E21 ∙ Guys' Night Out
Geneva's dull boyfriend tags along on Mark's birthday celebration; Nicole hides a kitten.
S3.E22 ∙ High Hopes
It looks like Mark, Geneva and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland forever due to some unexpected surprises--good and bad--in this season finale cliffhanger.
S4.E1 ∙ Together Again
Mark, Vanessa and Geneva return to Oakland after their plans go awry. Geneva gets promoted to high school principal and wonders if she should rehire Mark.
S4.E2 ∙ A Matter of Principal
Mark things he can do whatever he wants not the Geneva is the new principal of the high school.
S4.E3 ∙ R.O.T.C.
Mark becomes the faculty advisor for a student military program and learns that war games are no fun.
S4.E5 ∙ Halloween
Nicole dares Tyler to stay all night in a haunted house on Halloween.
S4.E6 ∙ Ghost in the Machine
Nicole feels guilty about lying and learns a lesson from a dream. Professional basketball player JULIUS "DR. J" ERVING guest stars as himself.
S4.E8 ∙ I Remember Grandpa
Mark has to go clean his grandfather's cabin, and he and Geneva realize they have different memories of the place. MARK CURRY plays a dual role as Mark and his grandfather.
S4.E9 ∙ R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Mark's college friend stops by for a visit and everything is great until they argue over a girl.
S4.E10 ∙ The Great Pretender
Mark pretends to be wounded to gain the attention and sympathy of an attractive neighbor. Also, Nichole wants to dress herself and to stop getting advise from Geneva.
S4.E11 ∙ Christmas '95
A trip to a nostalgic tree farm is ruined for Mark and his friends until they all learn the true meaning of Christmas.
S4.E12 ∙ Increase the Peace
Mark intervenes when a gun-toting gang member threatens Earvin at school threatens Earvin at school.
S4.E14 ∙ Coach Counselor
Mark's first challenge as a guidance counselor is a basketball player who has an inflated ego.
S4.E15 ∙ Talent Show
Mark's a hero when he gets a famous musical group to promise to perform at the school carnival--until they fail to show up. TYRESE guest stars as Darrell.
S4.E16 ∙ Globetrotters
THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (themselves) are playing in town, but Mark might have to miss them.
S4.E17 ∙ Rivals
Mark's competition with a rival coach escalates to a life-threatening degree. JAMIE FOXX guest stars.
S4.E18 ∙ The Curse
Mark doesn't believe the great car he just bought is haunted--until bad luck starts happening to him and everyone around him.
S4.E19 ∙ Grumpy Old Man
Mark plays matchmaker to an elderly couple so he can buy a classic car. Geneva worries that no one on the faculty likes her.
S4.E20 ∙ True Confessions
When Vanessa dates a successful, handsome man (Willie Gault), Mark has an unexpected reaction.
S4.E21 ∙ Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Mark and Vanessa discover their feelings for each other run very deep after they try to break up.
S4.E22 ∙ Will She or Won't She?
Mark plans a romantic way to proposing marriage to Vanessa.
S5.E1 ∙ The Ring
After convincing Vanessa to marry him, Mark must buy her an engagement ring.
S5.E2 ∙ Please Don't Go
As Mark and Vanessa plan their wedding, Geneva has an unexpected reaction.
S5.E3 ∙ The In-Laws
Mark attempts to make a favorable impression on Vanessa's parents so they'll pay the wedding expenses, but he embarrasses himself.
S5.E5 ∙ The Spa
Mark is jealous when Vanessa goes to a spa where the sexy male employees are eager to please.
S5.E7 ∙ One on One
Mark and Tyler learn lessons in respecting women. Former basketball player and Olympic medalist CHERYL MILLER guest stars.
S5.E8 ∙ The Swami
To help the school earn money for textbooks, Mark works at a carnival pretending to be a fortuneteller. To help Geneva secure a donation from baby food millionaire Mr Rosen, Mark pretends to be a real swami.
S5.E9 ∙ The Argument
Vanessa and Mark present opposing versions of an incident -- until Tyler reveals what really happened.
S5.E10 ∙ Lifesaver
Geneva's boyfriend wants to marry her--until Mark meddles in their relationship.
S5.E11 ∙ The Idol
Mark introduces Tyler to his favorite rap star, and Tyler learns a lesson about hero worship.
S5.E12 ∙ Party, Party
Mark and Vanessa spy on each other during their bachelor and bachelorette parties.
S5.E13 ∙ Getting Personal
After Mark refuses to take their upcoming nuptials seriously, Vanessa tries a new approach to grab his attention.
