James is all excited because he's sure he's going to get a high paying job. However, at the intervi...

J.J.'s painting of a Black Jesus, becomes the family's good luck charm after a string of success hit...

With an eviction notice over their heads, the Evans family scrambles to come up with $74 dollars nee...

An old friend of James, who is now a shady televangilist, stops by the Evans apartment and offers Ja...

Michael comes home from school early one day with the announcement that he has been suspended. This...

Florida finds what she believes to be a dirty story called, ""Sexual Behavior in the Ghetto"". Assu...

J.J. is sure he's bound to make it big when he gets a patron in Leroy Jackson, who begins providing...

Florida and James are worried that J.J. won't pass into the 12th grade but when he gets his report c...

Michael submits a angry letter about the conditions in the Evans' apartment to a newspaper and gets...

Florida is running in a cleanest apartment competition and is sure she will win. However, her chanc...

Florida comes home from the supermarket with great news, she's been offered a role in a TV commercia...

Florida and the kids become concerned about James's health after reading an article in a magazine ab...

A popular girl wants J.J. to paint her portrait and J.J. mistakenly assumes that they will become mo...

Florida's strange behavior has the family and Willona wondering what's wrong with her. Michael thin...

J.J.'s 18th birthday has James and Florida in a fit when they find out they won't be able to give J....

J.J. is taken down to the police station for questioning in the liquor store robbery. The family ga...

Michael has the chance to be bused to a better school in a white neighborhood but he is determined t...

Michael must write an essay on the person whom he most admires. He first picks Florida for her stre...

Thelma's been seeing the same man for two months and hasn't introduced him to the family yet. Howev...

Michael, one of the brightest boys in his class, comes home with the news that he scored the lowest...

An encyclopedia salesman is the last person James wants to see when he comes home from work. Howeve...

J.J. secretly has become a member of the Satan's Knights, a gang who are in the midst of a gang war...

J.J. is recovering after being shot by Mad Dog, which only turned out to be a flesh wound. Meanwhil...

A wedding has Florida realizing that Willona is the only friend of hers left that isn't married. So...

James finds a bag of robbery loot adding up to $27,000. After some coaxing from Florida, James deci...

Cousin Naomi is visiting the Evans' for the Christmas season. However, her visit is not a happy one...

James is sure he's going to get a sales position at a department store but when he brings Florida al...

Florida is going to night school hoping to achieve a High School Equivalency diploma, but her workin...

A woman aks J.J. to paint a nude portrait of her as a birthday gift for her husband. However, Flori...

Realizing his mechanical skills, Florida suggests that James open a fix-it shop but when they go to...

J.J. is enchanted with his new girlfriend, Clarissa, and is all set to take her to a ritzy debutante...

An elderly resident of the projects appears to be living on pet food after Michael takes out her gar...

A childhood friend of James' arrives for a visit and quickly his gambling problem becomes an Evans f...

The Evans family's joy at finally getting to meet J.J.'s girl Henrietta is shrouded by J.J.'s declar...

The Evans' family is hit with a double dose of unemployment blues after both James and J.J. lose the...

Thelma has a chance at winning a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school in Michigan. However,...

A bully has been stealing Michael's lunches which prompts James to give him some tips on how to hand...

After taking some courses at a trade school, James has a chance of getting a good paying job. Howev...

James brings a gun home to protect his family.

Florida has had a pain in her side for the last two weeks but doesn't want to see a doctor out of fe...

Thelma has great news, she's engaged. However, her opinion of great news differs greatly with her p...

Florida plans on borrowing money from her cousin to help pay some unexpected bills. James's pride s...

A friend of James' gives him permission to use his cabin to celebrate his and Florida's 20th wedding...

Florida and the kids throw a baby shower for a friend, Loretta. However, the joyous occasion is dam...

When James is out of town, Florida and her brother Wilbert are left to deal with a troubled Michael....

A feud erupts in the Evans' household when James and J.J. take the side of Alderman Fred Davis durin...

When J.J. brings home Walter, a man from his art class, he hits it off with Willona. Despite the fa...

Florida and James become outraged when the kids get a touch of food poisoning after eating meat from...

J.J. is commissioned by a bank to paint a mural and in return will receive $250 needed for Thelma's...

Thelma brings home a friend of hers and instantly J.J. is smitten. However, when she rejects him he...

A bank robbery in Atlanta has the FBI showing up at the Evans' apartment to question Florida since h...

Thelma researches her family tree for a school project and discovers James's father is very much ali...

An elderly man that Michael befriended stops by the Evans' apartment just prior to the New Years cel...

J.J. and his girlfriend, Diana, are getting serious and the topic of marriage comes up, something wh...

On the night of her senior prom, Diana decides to run off to Indiana and elope with J.J. Meanwhile,...

J.J. has been commissioned by a number's runner, Sweet Daddy Williams, to paint the portrait of his...

The family is being investigated by the FBI because they are suspected to be security risks due to M...

When the children are left at home for the weekend, J.J. receives bad news that he has given VD to a...

After a morning of being take granted for by her children and her husband, Florida decides to take h...

Thelma's fiancee's idea of romance is taking her to a basketball game but that is the least of her w...

The Evans family decides to hold a rent party to help out a neighbor in the building whose electrici...

The family is getting ready to move to Mississippi which is where James has gotten a promising new j...

The death of James has J.J., Thelma and Michael overcome with grief and also leaves them wondering w...

Thelma invites her favorite teacher to the apartment and while she is there she is fascinated with J...

Widespread violence has been running rampant in the neighborhood and a large part of it is due to th...

Michael is in love with Yvonne but every time he's around her he freezes. When Yvonne meets J.J. sh...

Alderman Davis makes a visit to the Evans' household wanting J.J. to speak at his re-election campai...

After loosing his job, J.J. tries his best to find a job. However, when Bookman serves the Evans' f...

J.J. is in the money, now that he has a new job working with two friends in a gambling operation. H...

Florida and the children are excitedly anticipating the arrival of Grandpa Evans. However, he arrive...

Some good luck strikes the family when J.J. wins a lottery. However, the luck doesn't last long, th...

The kids feel Florida has been spending too much time alone and they decide to cancel their plans an...

J.J. is managing Michael's singing group and gets them a gig at a local tavern. While there, J.J. c...

J.J. borrows money from a loan shark to back his talented new comedian. However, within days, two t...

Florida's bad mood prompts the kids to go into the underwear selling business in order to raise enou...

The cafeteria at Thelma's college is in disrepair. Thelma and her friends picket the college. She me...

Florida hits the roof when Thelma announces her plans of moving in with Ibe. However, things begin...

Willona gets a surprise for her birthday, a visit from her womanizing ex-husband, Ray. Ray does his...

When Florida's away for the weekend, J.J., Thelma and Michael throw a wild party. However, it gets e...

Florida is horrified to learn that Michael is harboring atheist attitudes planted by his boss. This...

A reluctant Florida agrees to go on a date with Carl. However, once at the restaurant, she gets int...

J.J. is all excited about taking Michael to a father-son dinner but when Michael breaks the news tha...

JJ has another money-making idea. He starts a greeting card business and has the whole family involv...

Florida and Carl's relationship has gotten quite serious and Carl breaks the news to J.J., Thelma an...

A furious J.J. confronts Carl, who makes up an excuse that a war injury in the groin is the reason w...

When a young girl, Penny Gordon follows J.J. home, she quickly insinuates herself into the Evans hou...

Willona and the Evans children are convinced that Penny is being abused, but when Willona takes Penn...

Willona and the Evans kids are stunned to discover that Penny and her mother have moved. They are e...

Willona worries over whether or not she will be able to adopt Penny. Meanwhile, a well meaning, Boo...

Fed up with having no privacy and being burdened by two brothers, Thelma decides to move out and int...

Willona is offered a new job but her morals force her to refuse it. However, when Penny has her hea...

J.J. and his friends become partners in the ownership of car, a car that they foolishly bought from...

Michael passes himself off as J.J. while using a CB radio and quickly discovers he's not the only on...

The conditions in the building become to much for Willona, Penny and the Evans kids to bare so they...

Thelma begins dating a man named Lloyd Williams, however, suspicions run rampant between J.J., Willo...

Fishbone, a wino, complains that he has no friends and quickly discovers he has many when a vagrant...

After getting her wallet stolen, Penny steals a necklace from a department store in a desperate atte...

Michael's apathetic behavior towards household chores and homework leads J.J. to put his foot down a...

Willona's old boyfriend arrives back in town and asks Willona her hand in marraige. However, Willon...

J.J. is given a sexy assistant, one whom he makes a play for immediately. However, later when he le...

A hole has been burned into one of the couch cushions and J.J., Thelma and Michael each have their o...

J.J. wants a promotion at work but a co-worker convinces him that the promotion will only go to a wh...

To pick up extra money for the rent, J.J. decides to take in a boarder. However, little does he kno...

J.J.'s latest relationship with a woman, Barbara, who's currently married but plans on divorcing her...

Bookman's strange behavior leads his wife, Violet to become convinced that he's seeing another woman...

Grandpa Evans visits and has plans of becoming rich thanks to his new invention. Meanwhile, Lena, G...

Willona's boyfriend, Frank, continues his efforts to try to get her to marry him. Meanwhile, down a...

Thelma has written a full length play and is ecstatic when it is chosen to be produced as the local...

A child-care center in the neighborhood is scheduled to close due to lack of funds. To keep it open,...

The Evans children and Willona are pleasantly shocked to learn that Thelma has been dating the natio...

Florida arrives home after hearing the news of Thelma's engagement. However, Thelma's impending wed...

After losing his job, J.J. takes out a $1,000 loan from Sweet Daddy Williams, to pay for Thelma's we...

After a joyous wedding ceremony, things are anything but happy. Thelma and Keith cannot go on a hone...

Both Florida and J.J. are looking for work but neither are having any luck. One ad, in the newspape...

Willona adamently refuses to discuss the birds and the bees with Penny especially after Willona lear...

J.J.'s student has to deal with a violent father who ademently refuses to allow his son to take art...

The Evan's apartment feels crowded with Thelma and Keith still living there after their marriage. In...

JJ's former girlfriend Vanessa is back in town, and she still has expensive taste. JJ does not want...

J.J. could pay dearly for witnessing an auto accident.

A snowstorm hits Chicago and Florida gets stuck in it with her school bus. This leads her and the k...

When Keith's Scrooge-like boss at the taxi-cab company won't give him Christmas off, the Evans famil...

The Evans family has found the perfect home to move into and plan on taking out a loan to pay for it...

A student whom Florida drives to school on her bus, becomes the center of attention when Florida dis...

After a near fatal accident, Larry's mother finally realizes that Larry has a hearing problem. Unab...

Sweet Daddy Williams sends his hoods to snatch J.J. from his home and bring him to the hospital. Hi...

When Willona goes out of town, she leaves Penny in Florida's care. Shortly after, Penny comes down...

A tomboy who's been helping out Bookman, wants J.J. to ask her to a dance. However, J.J. thinks of...

Florida discovers she must take and pass a physical examination to keep her bus driving job. Howeve...

Willona's latest boyfriend, Jeffrey, has been showering her and Penny with extravagant gifts even th...

Keith's search for a job results in strange behavior that everyone plainly points out is not just fr...

With the art contest approaching, J.J. believes that he is shoo-in to win. However things don't go a...

Florida gets a surprise visit from her cousin, Raymond, who has hit it big and gives each member of...

This final episode brings all too good news for the Evans family. J.J. gets an offer to a comic comp...