227

- Season 4

(1988)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A wealthy, older man proposes to Sandra.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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