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The Best Episodes of 227

Every episode of 227 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 227!

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A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.

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    227 Season 4 Episode 9 - The Night They Arrested Santa Claus
    10.0/10(32 votes)

    #1 - The Night They Arrested Santa Claus

    S4:E9

    Alexandria doesn't celebrate Christmas so everyone tries to get her to feel the spirit of the holiday. Sandra meets a Santa on the street and brings him upstairs to meet Alexandria. But when everyone leaves the room, he steals all of their presents. Mary, Lester, Sandra, Rose and Pearl each decide seperately to dress up as Santa and bring gifts to make Alexandria think that Santa had a change of heart. However, since the police is looking for Santa thieves, they all end up in jail as suspects. Brenda, Calvin and Alexandria come to the precinct to get them all out and the real Santa is caught. He still has their presents. And Alexandria realizes how far everyone went to get her into the holiday spirit and she appreciates it.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. 227 Season 4 Episode 21 - No, My Darling Daughter
    10.0/10(25 votes)

    #2 - No, My Darling Daughter

    S4:E21

    Lester hires a young ex-con from the persuasion on Mary. They both admit that he is doing a great job and are happy with him until he asks Brenda out. They object and eventually tell Mike that he is not allowed to see Brenda. He feels dejected and decides he may as well not take the GED test as planned, because people will always see him as an ex-con. The real Joe Clark of the ""Lean on Me"" fame comes and gives him words of encouragement and he decides to take the test. The Jenkins apologize for the way they treated him.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. 227 Season 5 Episode 11 - War is Heck
    10.0/10(21 votes)

    #3 - War is Heck

    S5:E11

    When Calvin wants to quit school and join the Army, Lester puts him through his paces at a mock boot camp.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. 227 Season 3 Episode 17 - The Roommate
    9.5/10(42 votes)

    #4 - The Roommate

    S3:E17

    When the daughter of Lester's friend comes to stay with the Jenkins until the dorms at Howard University open, she gets a taste of the big city first hand. Sandra is behind on rent for three months and she decides to get a roommate. Sweet, shy, quiet Donna becomes her roommate after the dorm overbooked. She takes a lesson from Sandra and begins dressing, walking, talking, and acting like her. She steals Sandra's boyfriend and when Mary talks to her about the new Donna, she gets upset and leaves. Then her parents show up to check on their ""baby."" Mary stalls until finally Donna comes back. They talk privately and Donna apologizes and admits that she was not ready for ""life in the fast lane.""

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. 227 Season 1 Episode 2 - Mary's Brother
    9.0/10(63 votes)

    #5 - Mary's Brother

    S1:E2

    When Mary's brother Lewis comes to town on business, she decides to set him up on a date with Rose. The next day when Rose won't give Mary any details about the date, they get in to an argument where Rose finally admits that she thinks Mary's brother is "self-centered" and "egotistical". They stop speaking. Meanwhile, Lewis asks Sandra out on a date, and Mary fears that Sandra may be her future sister-in-law.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. 227 Season 1 Episode 14 - The Bed of Rose's
    9.0/10(40 votes)

    #6 - The Bed of Rose's

    S1:E14

    Sandra starts dating a man who works with her and Lester, however she finds him boring. She leaves it up to the Jenkins to cancel their date. When he comes to the apartment, he meets Rose and she goes out on the date instead. The two hit it off very well. He asks Rose to go to New York with him and Mary and Sandra disagree on what Rose should do. Mary thinks she should not go, because they may end up sleeping together, which would be too soon for the time they were dating. Sandra thinks she should live life to the fullest. Rose finally decides to go and Mary apologizes for meddling into Rose's business. Rose has a great time but does not reveal if they went through it or not.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. 227 Season 1 Episode 19 - Fifty Big Ones
    9.0/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Fifty Big Ones

    S1:E19

    At their vows renewal ceremony, Mary's parents are in the middle of the argument and are not talking to each other. Lester talks to his father-in-law, and Mary talks to her mother to encourage them to make up and go through with the ceremony. Meanwhile, Sandra meets a man who turns out to be married, and Rose has a peculiar conversation with another man: it turns out that both her late husband and his late wife both used to vacation in Vermont for one week out of the year, to go "fishing" and "writing poetry," respectively.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. 227 Season 2 Episode 2 - Mary Nightingale
    9.0/10(44 votes)

    #8 - Mary Nightingale

    S2:E2

    Lester comes home from work sick, with the assumption that he has the flu. Using a bell that Sandra gives him, he drives Mary crazy with his demands for ""water"" and ""celery salt"" for his soup. She just assumes that he is being a big baby. Asking Brenda to watch Lester for a little while, Mary goes shopping and gets a pedicure and manicure (something she was not able to do earlier with Pearl and Rose). When she returns, Lester is being carried into an ambulance because he has appendicitis and needs to go to the hospital. Mary is worried to death because she can't see Lester in the operating room, so she sneaks in. The operation is OK.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. 227 Season 2 Episode 10 - Matchmakers
    9.0/10(40 votes)

    #9 - Matchmakers

    S2:E10

    Rose tries a video-dating service, but wonders if she can live up to the image Sandra creates for her.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Al Gordon

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  10. 227 Season 2 Episode 19 - The Fourth Time Around
    9.0/10(39 votes)

    #10 - The Fourth Time Around

    S2:E19

    When Lester goes to watch the game at a friend's house, Mary and the ladies decide to have a girl's night out. They go to a club/bar where Pearl meets man. They hit it off. When Pearl comes home, she tells Mary that she and Felix are engaged. Mary seems to be the only one concerned about it, while Rose and Sandra want to throw her a bridal shower. Mary thinks that he is after Pearl's money. Pearl doesn't care what Mary thinks, and she and Felix get married any way. When she returns from her honeymoon, Mary apoligizes, but Pearl has bad news. Felix passed away. She admits to Mary that they knew that he was dying. Because she loved him and didn't want him to be lonely, they married so soon.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  11. 227 Season 3 Episode 7 - Teach Me Tonight (2)
    9.0/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Teach Me Tonight (2)

    S3:E7

    Sandra overhears how Mitchell interacts with his students and she tells him that he needs to continue teaching because he needs the kids and much as they need him. Sandra and Mitchell confide in the Jenkins separately that they are not ready to get married. When the minister asks if anyone objects, they both raise their hands. They decide that they are not the that the other should marry and need more time to decide whether or not they are ready to get married. Meanwhile, the ladies try to teach Sandra how to cook.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Al Gordon

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  12. 227 Season 3 Episode 20 - Blues
    9.0/10(33 votes)

    #12 - Blues

    S3:E20

    Brenda's grandfather arrives with a Wailing Eddie record in tow. While letting Brenda listen to it, she accidentally scratches it and her grandfather is devastated. She doesn't understand what's so special about the blues anyway. Mary and Lester find another rare copy, and it too is ruined accidentally by Brenda. This episode is cut with scenes of Sandra and Rose singing the blues and narrated by Brenda. Towards the end of the episode, she finally understands what the blue is all about, because she has them. Her grandfather is upset with her and everyone is coming down hard on her about the broken record. She and her grandfather reconcile and Pearl gets Wailing Eddie to come to the Jenkins' and sing.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. 227 Season 5 Episode 1 - Take My Diva . . . Please!
    9.0/10(31 votes)

    #13 - Take My Diva . . . Please!

    S5:E1

    Mary's organized a charity benefit featuring Diva Beverly Morris. Now she's a prima donna and Mary's worried that if she finds out that Sandra's dating her former boyfriend, Armand she'll back out. So she tries to keep her from finding out but when they end up in the powder room together things get hairy.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. 227 Season 5 Episode 9 - Reunion Blues
    9.0/10(23 votes)

    #14 - Reunion Blues

    S5:E9

    Dylan's mother moves in with him after leaving his father, and starts stepping out with Julian (Paul Winfield). (tvguide.com)

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. 227 Season 5 Episode 13 - There Go the Clowns
    9.0/10(19 votes)

    #15 - There Go the Clowns

    S5:E13

    Mary dons clown garb to erase a nasty message she left on the answering machine of Lester's business contact, an eccentric novelties magnate.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. 227 Season 5 Episode 22 - Nightmare on 227
    9.0/10(21 votes)

    #16 - Nightmare on 227

    S5:E22

    Mary gets the part of a slasher in a movie, but has an unscheduled rehearsal with an NYU dean.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. 227 Season 5 Episode 23 - The Class of '90
    9.0/10(27 votes)

    #17 - The Class of '90

    S5:E23

    Just before Brenda gets ready to graduate high school, Mary is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis. Mary gets a lesson in plastic surgery from her roomie; and Lester gives low marks to his father's girlfriend.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. 227 Season 1 Episode 20 - Slam Dunked
    8.5/10(49 votes)

    #18 - Slam Dunked

    S1:E20

    Sandra begins dating a basketball player who rubs Mary the wrong way from their first meeting. He comes across as rude and arrogant. Calvin idolizes him and mimics his attitude. Brenda doesn't like hanging around the ""new"" Calvin. When Calvin hears how the Rocketman talks to Sandra in an argument, and hears the Rocketman call him ""some dumb kid,"" he changes his opinion of Rocketman and realizes that he was acting like a jerk.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  19. 227 Season 2 Episode 1 - The Wheel of Misfortune
    8.5/10(44 votes)

    #19 - The Wheel of Misfortune

    S2:E1

    Mary and Sandra become contestants on ""Wheel of Fortune"" and wind up competing against each other.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  20. 227 Season 1 Episode 8 - A Letter to the President
    8.0/10(44 votes)

    #20 - A Letter to the President

    S1:E8

    When Mary writes a letter to the President about the pothole that is on her street that no one has seemed to fill in 3 months, the secret service starts snooping around 227 and gets the residents nervous. Then they find out that the President was actually praising her for her consideration of her neighborhood. He makes plans to come to the street and refill the pothole with Lester. When the Jenkins' catch the city filling in the pothole, they stop them and tell them that the President and Lester will be doing that later. The President cancels his appearance because of an emergency meeting but calls and commends Mary and also flies over the street in his helicopter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. 227 Season 1 Episode 16 - A Young Man's Fancy
    8.0/10(39 votes)

    #21 - A Young Man's Fancy

    S1:E16

    Pearl goes to Baltimore to visit her sister and the Jenkins watch Calvin for her. When he tries out for the romantic lead for a school play and doesn't get it, he becomes depressed. Sandra boosts his confidence and makes him feel better, however, he mistakes her kindness for affection and begins to fall in love with Sandra. When Brenda hears how silly Calvin is acting over Sandra, she goes and talks to him and expresses to him that she cares for him more than Sandra would ever, and she tells him that he is her best friend. Calvin gets over his crush really fast after that.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. 227 Season 1 Episode 22 - Young Man with a Job
    8.0/10(39 votes)

    #22 - Young Man with a Job

    S1:E22

    When Calvin has a hard time finding a part-time job, Brenda and Pearl persuade Mary to convince Lester to offer Calvin a job working at the construction site. But when Calvin proves to be inept with his hands, he gets terminated. With some helpful advice from Mary, Calvin later lands five interviews.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. 227 Season 2 Episode 3 - Washington Affair
    8.0/10(62 votes)

    #23 - Washington Affair

    S2:E3

    Mary invites Sandra and her date, an eligible Congressman, to a dinner for Brenda's teacher who is attracted to the legislator.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. 227 Season 2 Episode 4 - The Great Manhunt
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #24 - The Great Manhunt

    S2:E4

    After Sandra sees her neighbors (a married couple) interact with each other and with their daughter, Sandra decides that she wants a husband and a child. She goes out on a series of dates which end in disaster becasue of Sandra's openness about wanting to be married and have a child. She finally decides that since she can't find a suitable husband that she'll just get artificially insiminated. Mary and Rose try talk her out of it. But nothing is more of a rude awakening than when Sandra witnesses Cathy going into labor and she sees how Jim was there for her every step of the way. Then Mary and Lester talk about the night Brenda was born and how they really needed each other then. Sandra changes her mind and decides that when she does have a baby she would like to be married so she can have a husband that loves her and loves their child.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  25. 227 Season 2 Episode 6 - Pillow Talk
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #25 - Pillow Talk

    S2:E6

    When Sandra sees a pillow that Mary is making for Brenda, she is impressed. She tells Mary that they could go into business and make lots of money. So Mary agrees to a 50/50 deal with Sandra. Eventually, things become too overwhelming for Mary as she is the one doing all the work and Sandra is the one eating expensive lunches and arranging buyers. Mary insists that she go on the next business lunch with Sandra, and the buer requests 10,000 pillows for his stores. Mary admits to him that they are a small company and they make a deal, with him as a third partner, to build a factory. He decides to build the factory in Taiwan, minus Sandra and Mary. In the end, Sandra ends up owing Mary money because she spent all of the profits.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Night They Arrested Santa Claus" is the best rated episode of "227". It scored 10/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Gerren Keith and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/10/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "No, My Darling Daughter".