5.4/1014 votesLoading...#1 - Looking Back
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1988
When Mary throws pictures of Sandra, Rose and Pearl away, they each find them and reminisce over the past 3 227 seasons.
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Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1025 votesLoading...
#2 - A Yen for Lester
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1988
Lester and Raymond decide to buy a Jaoanese Restaurant together. Pearl and Rose each put in $500 and receive a stock of the restaurant. When the deal is sealed, the kitchen staff all quit, right before a Japanese tour group arrive to eat. They all hustle to try to serve them but it is a disaster, as Pearl cannot cook (or understand) Japanese food and the ladies are horrible waitresses. The chef returns and decides to buy the restaurant from Lester and Raymond at the same price they bought it for.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1015 votesLoading...
#3 - There Go the Clowns
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1989
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: N/A
- 6.4/1036 votesLoading...
#4 - Do You Love Me?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1985
News of the breakup of her neighbors' marriage has Mary worried that the same thing could happen to her and Lester. Mary plans an evening of romance for her and Lester. Lester buys flowers (at Mary's suggestion) and they try to force romance by going out to eat, dimming the lights, and playing romantic music. But they realize that they only think that works is by letting it happen naturally and reminiscing about the past. Meanwhile, Sandra has to babysit her 6-year-old niece Susie while her sister Harriet and her husband visits his sick mother. She solicits Mary's advice on what to feed her and how to get her to fall asleep.
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Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1025 votesLoading...
#5 - Rapture
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1987
Calvin and his friend Eddie are in danger of failing history, so the Jenkins, Rose, and Pearl try to tutor them. After failing the test the first time, they get a second chance to take the test. After Brenda returns from a rap concert, Mary gets the idea that maybe they should study in rap form, since they seem to know so many rap lyrics. They do and they pass the test a second time.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1026 votesLoading...
#6 - The Night They Arrested Santa Claus
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1988
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: N/A
- 6.4/1021 votesLoading...
#7 - Where Do We Go From Here?
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1990
Lester falls asleep during church and dreams that he and Mary visit both Heaven and Hell. While in both places, they return to earth to see what has happened to their family and friends. While in Heaven: Brenda inherits Lester's construction company and is a success when Calvin, her husband takes over. Pearl has moved in with them. Rose still hasn't come to terms with Mary's death. While in hell: Calvin becomes a failure and sells the business to Julian for $500. Brenda is pregnant and the family is in poverty. Rose has married Julian and they have raised the rent of the building big time.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1024 votesLoading...
#8 - Brenda's Last Date
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1986
Pearl asks Mary if Lester would have a man-to-man talk with Calvin about sex and Brenda asks her parents if she could go to the dance Friday night. They believe that she is too young to date (14). From Mary's persuading, Lester talks to Calvin and ends his talk with, ""If you mess around with my daughter, I'll rip your head off."" Scared, Calvin breaks the date anyway. But Brenda still wants to go and comes up with a plan. Brenda tells her parents that she will go to the library Friday night, while Calvin tells his grandmom that he is going to see Haley's Comet. When Mary finds out, she goes to the dance and takes Brenda home. At home she and Brenda have a heart-to-heart talk, where Mary says she and Lester will relax the rules a little.
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Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1027 votesLoading...
#9 - The Great Manhunt
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1986
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
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
- 6.6/1027 votesLoading...
#10 - The Honeymoon's Over
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1987
When Lester's cousin and his wife come to visit the Jenkins, Mary brags about how they are the perfect couple who never argue and still begave like Honeymooners after five years of marriage. When they arrive, Sherry reveals to Mary that Ed is stiffling her and is too overprotective and she says that she is going to leave him that night. Once Ed finds out that she left, he becomes depressed and there is nothing that the Jenkins or residents of 227 can do to cheer him up. Sherry decides to come back and Mary coaches Ed on what to say, and tells him that he should change; he should be less overprotective. Sherry takes him back (or rather they take each other back).
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1021 votesLoading...
#11 - Tenants, Anyone?
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1989
Mary and the gang try to draw a bead on new landlord Julian Barlow, who's been ducking them, while Dylan hunts for a new roommate.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1020 votesLoading...
#12 - Flying Down to Leo's
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1989
En route to Lester's birthday party, Mary and Sandra run into gang members who want them as their biker chicks. (TVguide.com)
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1043 votesLoading...
#13 - Family Hero
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1985
For an assignment that requires her to write about her "Most Interesting Relative", Brenda asks her parents for help. Lester suggests his aunt Lucy who was a woman brakeman. After Mary hears about Sandra's supposed relative who was a Moroccan prince, she searches through an old trunk to find information about an interesting relative of hers. What she finds is that she had an uncle, Corporal Mortecai Hurley, who was in the Civil War's 54th Infantry. She persuades Brenda to re-write her paper on Mortecai.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
- 6.7/1039 votesLoading...
#14 - A Daughter is a Precious Thing
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1985
Brenda desperately tries to get Calvin to notice her. When Mary doesn't seem to help Brenda out, she seeks romantic advice from Sandra. This ultimately upsets Mary when she finds out that Sandra alters Brenda's appearance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1022 votesLoading...
#15 - Father's Day
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1986
Calvin's dad comes to visit D.C. He and Calvin have fun going to basketball games and going to see the Blue Angels fly. Because he and his grandma have been arguing a lot lately, Calvin makes the decision to live with his dad in Iceland, thinking it would be more fun than living in D.C. Pearl is sad about it but doesn't want to show it too much. Mary throws Calvin a going away party, and after he hears what nice things every one has to say about him, he realizes that he has more ""family"" than he thought and decides to stay in D.C.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1025 votesLoading...
#16 - And Baby Makes Three
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1987
When Mary is concerned at Calvin and Brenda's nonchalance about teenage pregnancy, she designs an experiment with their sex education class where the kids must take care of an animal. Brenda and Calvin "adopt" a piglet named Alberta and she is a handful. All of the kids in the class realize how hard it is to take care of animals, let alone a baby.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1023 votesLoading...
#17 - Trial and Error
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/1/1989
Both Mary and Sandra get commissioned to the same murder trial. There are 11 votes guilty and 1 vote not-guilty, Sandra choosing not-guilty. After hours, she still has not changed her vote and Mary is annoyed because her anniversary is that night. They vote one last time, and this time the 1 not-guilty vote is from Mary. The judge sequesters them for the evening in a hotel and Mary is going to miss her anniversary dinner with Lester. Lester sneaks into the hotel room and brings Mary caviar and champagne. The next day, Mary presents her theory of what actually happened (pertaining to the ""murder"" on the boat) and the jury agrees and they all vote not-guilty. Their verdict was the right one, because later the ""murdered victim"" was found on the French Riviera with her husband's best friend, which was stated in a voice-over.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1019 votesLoading...
#18 - Reunion Blues
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1989
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: N/A
- 6.9/1034 votesLoading...
#19 - Football Widow
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1985
Mary is upset that whenever Lester watches the football game, she doesn't get any attention. So she gets two tickets from Sandra for her and Lester to go to the game, with the hopes that he can teach her about the game and she'll get some attention. At the game, Mary insults the other fans and cheers for the wrong team. She and Lester end up having to leave early to avoid a fight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1033 votesLoading...
#20 - The Wheel of Misfortune
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1986
Mary and Sandra become contestants on ""Wheel of Fortune"" and wind up competing against each other.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble
- 6.9/1034 votesLoading...
#21 - Mary Nightingale
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1986
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: N/A
- 6.9/1025 votesLoading...
#22 - The Working Game
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/23/1987
Upset when Brenda comes home from University Day wanting to attend Northwestern, Mary anticipates an empty nest by demanding that Lester give her a job at the construction site --and gets fired on her first day. Mary takes a job at a travel agency (with Sandra), where her boss finds her so invaluable that he wants her to accompany him on a trip. The boss comes on to Sandra, who then quits and tells Mary not to go on the trip. She goes anyway, and Sandra then tells Lester about their boss. He surprises Mary in Philadelphia and jumps to the worng conclusions when he finds a man's suit and bathrobe in Mary's closet. He finds out that Mary bought them for him as a surprise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Al Gordon
- 6.9/1025 votesLoading...
#23 - The New Neighbors
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1988
When Rose is looking for a live-in superintendent, Manny suggests his father, knowing that the Super's family will live with a 50% decrease in rent. When his family moves in, they later find out that he is also the Superintendent, but Alfonso has no skills in that area. Instead, he would rather play concert violin in a symphony. When a try-out conflicts with his job as Super, he decides to complete his job as Super, but Rose allows him one more day to complete his job so he can try out for the Orchestra. He doesn't make it, but vows to put his all into being the Super.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1025 votesLoading...
#24 - Hide the Star
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1988
Lester's business partner is Marvelous Marvin Hagler, but it must remain a secret. When Rose and Pearl see Mary acting so suspicious, ther decide to find out what is going on. They discover that Marvin is staying with the Jenkins and then the word gets out around town. Visitors swarm the Jenkins' apt for an autograph and eventually Marvin decides to leave, but there are no hard feelings between him and Lester.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1024 votesLoading...
#25 - For Richer, For Poorer
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1989
Sandra's new boyfriend keeps showering her with gifts. When everyone meets him, they are surprised-- he is Pearl's age! He asks Sandra to marry him and gives her a day to think about it. She tells him no, and he has a heart attack. In the hospital, Mary and Sandra pose as doctor and nurse because the rude desk nurse will not let them see him. Sandra decides to tell him that she will marry him, since she thinks that he is on his death bed and it would make him happy. The next day when they return to the hospital, Abner has made a recovery. It turns out that his ""heart attack"" was gas, and he says he is ready to get married to the nurse that raised his spirits. He thinks that nurse was the rude desk RN, nurse Grubb, and Sandra doesn't object. Meanwhile, Brenda, Calvin and Alexandria are trying to raise ticket money for a Prince concert.
Director: Gerren Keith
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of 227
Every episode of 227 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of 227!
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...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Looking Back" is the worst rated episode of "227". It scored 5.4/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/3/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Yen for Lester".