Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby, Hi-fi Stereo
More than just one of the most popular TV sitcoms of the '80s, 227 is the Washington, DC apartment building where housewife Mary Jenkins and her close-knit circle of friends and neighbors gather on the front stoop to dish about life, family and especially each other in this first season collection of twenty-two hilarious episodes. Starring Marla Gibbs as Mary, Hal Williams as her hardworking 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 Jackee Harry as the sexy, "man-wise" Sandra Clark. Also appearing in the first season's 22 side-splitting episodes are such familiar faces as Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Haysbert, Whitman 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.
Editor's Note
The 80s classic starring Marla Gibbs, who first gained a following by playing Florence on the Jeffersons, is back with the complete first season, including the series pilot! Gibbs stars as the witty, wisecracking housewife Mary, whose husband, Lester, is a contractor; they have a fourteen year old daughter named Brenda, and together this small household go through the trials and tribulations of Anyfamily, USA. Mary becomes enmeshed in the lives not only of her own family, but of her best friend Rose Lee Holloway, with whom she often sits on the stoop of their building and discusses the matters of the day. Frequently, these include the activities of the feisty upstairs neighbor, Sandra, played by Jackee, and the lovable but gossipy next door neighbor, Pearl. This DVD also includes previously unavailable interviews with the actors.
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