City Guys

- Season 1

(1997)

The series opens with the arrival of Jamal Grant and Chris Anderson at Manny High School. Both make different entrances with Jamal paying guys to walk him to school as his posse and Chris driving his dad's car. El-Train warns Jamal that he's dead meat if he even thinks about painting over his graffiti. Chris learns about it and proceeds to paint over it.

When Chris' mother learns Manhattan High does not have a Music Department because of lack of money, she vows to throw a fundraiser at the Anderson home when she had already promised Chris that they would go to a concert on the same evening. This makes Chris feel hurt and angry.

Shakespeare in the Park is playing at the same time as Chris' Knicks and Lakers game. Chris and Jamal are expected to tape the play, but they get Dawn to do so instead. Meanwhile, Cassidy, Jamal and Chris go to the game but are caught when Ms. Noble sees them on the TV. Chris and Jamal let Cassidy take the blame until they decide to admit the truth.

Alberto is delivering drugs for a drug dealer and doesn't know it so the boys devise a plan to blackmail the dealer into leaving Alberto alone.

The Spring Dance returns to Manny High. Chris tries to get Cassidy to go to the dance with him. She rejects him and Chris encounters Jamal's sister. He asks her to the dance without Jamal knowing about it. El-Train wants to go to the dance with Cassidy and works up the nerve to ask her.

After getting into a fight with his father, Chris moves in with Jamal and his father. Chris soon realizes that not every father and son relationship is like his. Dawn and Cassidy ask Al if he has any "connections" on how to get tickets for an upcoming Jim Carrey film.

Jamal convinces Chris to have a party and drive his father's car after Chris reveals that his parents forgot his birthday. However, it is the complete opposite when they return home with a birthday celebration on their mind.

Dawn and Cassidy both run for Student Council President with Jamal and Chris as their individual advisers. Dirty politics arise and even Alberto and El-Train get tired of it. Things get even more complicated when El-Train decides to run at the last minute.

Jamal and Chris decide to make a film using the school's video camera. Things gets hairy when Ms. Noble wants to see their progress on the yearbook video.

Jamal reconsiders the value of spending time studying after his new friend Charlie, a straight-A Manhattan High student, is killed by a drunk driver. With the PSATs coming up in a few days, everyone tries to cope with the loss.

Chris uses Jamal's skills at guessing the results of games and gets them both into trouble.

Chris falls for an older woman. Afraid that she'll dump him, Chris tells her that he's an undercover cop, only to discover that she's his new student teacher.

Karen goes to the hospital as a patient. While she is staying there, Jamal remembers his mother's death and how Karen reminds him so much of her.

Jamal's friend Mike Bottoms finally gets out of Juvenile Hall and returns. He soon returns to his life of crime. Meanwhile, Chris is trying to finish the video yearbook.