BLACK SITCOMS
of the 70s
of the 70s
Two African-American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman.
What is Different Strokes?
This show focuses on the lives of a Chicago family who is repeatedly harassed by their nerdy neighbor.
What is Family Matters?
A former funk star begins teaching as a high school music teacher in Chicago.
What is The Steve Harvey Show?
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
What is Black-ish?
A buddy cop action film about two detectives who protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.
Who is Bad Boys?
This was the first black animated tv show
What is Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
This ground breaking show focused on an upper class African American family living in a Brooklyn Brownstone.
What is the Cosby Show?
Twin girls are separated and adopted at birth and by chance meet in a shopping mall 14 years later
What is Sister Sister?
A young African American boy comes of age while struggling to deal with home life and fitting in at an all white school in this sitcom set in the 80's
What is Everybody Hates Chris?
An African Prince travels to the US in search of his queen.
What is Coming to America?
This memorable show about a successful dry cleaner and his wife "movin' on up" to a luxury Manhattan apartment
What is The Jeffersons?
This show follows the lives of the students and staff of a fictional HBCU inspired by Howard University staring.
What is A Different World?
On this show six black friends in their 20s share their lives and loves in a Brooklyn brownstone.
What is Living Single?
After two estranged half-sisters in their twenties find their lives suddenly entwined, they grow closer as they get to know more about each other.
What is Half & Half?
A mild-mannered man abandoned as a child tries to get out of his forced marriage with his glutton wife when his childhood sweetheart moves back to town.
What is Norbit?
This sitcom followed the daily lives of three working class teens coming of age in Watts
What is What's Happening?
A young black child, loses his parents in a car crash and gets taken in by his football-playing father's wealthy former teammate and his socialite wife.
What is Webster?
A young singer/songwriter moves to Los Angeles to help run his family's hotel while in search of his big break.
What is the Jamie Foxx Show?
A medical school student adjusts to life in the world of professional sports when her boyfriend becomes a pro football player.
What is The Game?
Navigating through careers, family and romance, four friends bond over the shortcomings in their love lives and the scarcity of good men.
What is Waiting to Exhale?
This show did an effective job of humanizing the struggles of an inner-city family in the Chicago projects
What s Good Times?
Jackee Harry and Marla Gibbs were stars of this show set in a predominately black DC neighborhood
What is 227?
Popular recurring sketches include Homey D. Clown, the Homeboy Shopping Network, Men on Film and Great Moments in Black History were featured on this sketch comedy series.
What is In Living Color?
A sportscaster must take on the responsibility of being a full-time dad when his teenage daughter moves in with him.
Wha is One on One?
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse.
What is The Color Purple?