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Family Matters (TV show)

29 Ratings: 1.8

American Sitcom

Family Matters is a sitcom about an African-American family in Chicago. The show aired for eight years from 1989-1997 and was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers. The sitcom follows Carl Winslow and his wife Harriette, and their children … see full wiki

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review by BaronSamedi3. May 07, 2012

posted in Pass The Remote!

The Greater Love of Family

TV Producers who get lots of hit shows onto the air tend to make hella lotta dough. TV producers Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett - Miller-Boyett Productions - struck a nerve with American families in the 80's and enjoyed a run of Family Lesson shows which included Happy Daus, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Step by Step, and several others. The problem with raking in cash from TV shows all the damn time, though, is that when you're trying to preach Lessons - as Miller and Boyett frequently were - … more

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Quick Tip by RabidChihuahua. April 30, 2012

posted in Pass The Remote!

A Quick Tip by RabidChihuahua

While this show went downhill pretty rapidly from 1994 until its end in 1998, the episodes from 1989-93 hold up pretty well. I always found it funny when Urkel would make Carl Winslow really mad, and this clip shows this really well. With the TGIF sitcoms from the late 80's and early 90's, Family Matters easily creams Full House.

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Quick Tip by kfontenot. August 15, 2011

A Quick Tip by kfontenot

A positive family comedy that drowned under the weight of Urkel. Mind you, I blame the TV execs and not the actors for running this show into the ground.

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