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Former NBA player Mark Cooper becomes a dedicated teacher and basketball coach in Oakland after his playing career ends. When he's not dealing with his students and players, Mark spends time with his gorgeous female

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    Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 9 - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

    S4:E9

    Geneva becomes exasperated with everyone in the house treating like a servant. So, she moves out with Nicole. Mark invites his inconsiderate friends Steve and Lydell to move in, causing Vanessa to move out.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 11 - Christmas '95
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Christmas '95

    S4:E11

    Disgusted by the commercialization of Christmas, Mark persuades everyone to accompany him to a nostalgic Christmas tree farm. The adventure is ruined when they discover that the farm is just a booth with scrawny little trees. Then Mark's car becomes disabled on a deserted road. When the group finally reaches a place to stay for the night, the North Star Inn, they witness the birth of a child and remember the true meaning of Christmas.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 14 - Coach Counselor
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Coach Counselor

    S4:E14

    Mark becomes a student guidance counselor and advises an egotistical football player.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 1 Episode 8 - Torn Between Two Teachers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Torn Between Two Teachers

    S1:E8

    Andre can't choose between his music and basket-ball. Robin wants him to go for his piano-playing but Mark wants him to go for BasketBall.

    Director:Jeff Melman
    Writers:Mike Sikowitz, Jeff Astrof

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  5. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 1 Episode 10 - Miracle in Oaktown
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Miracle in Oaktown

    S1:E10

    It's Christmas time in Oakland! Vanessa finds out that she won't be able to go to her family for Christmas because she is working. Robin and Mark agrees that Vanessa will have her Christmas at their house and Vanessa can celebrate the Christmas her way, ""The Russel Family Way"". Mark agrees to be Santa Claus at the school fair that Robin is running. Robin finds out that the son (Noel) of the Guidance Counselor does not believe in Santa Claus. Mark convinces Noel that Santa will be there that night. Vanessa is Mrs. Claus and Earvin is a Rudolph. The principal is a snowman and the students are elves. Also, coach Rickets is running a military booth (!). ""Santa"" has some problems and the worst one of all is that Noel wants his dad to come home for Christmas. One problem, Noel's dad is stuck in the Navy and can not come home for Christmas. Mark tries to get the father home by using numerous ways. Still, it does not work. Mark tries everything from asking coach Rickets, to asking the kids

    Director:Jeff Melman
    Writer:Yvette Lee Bowser

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  6. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 1 Episode 19 - Piano Lesson
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Piano Lesson

    S1:E19

    Tyler comes over asking for food and sees Mark's fireworks. Mark hides the fireworks. Robin's boyfriend, Jason, gives Robin a necklace. Robin assumes that she will go to Hawaii that weekend. Robin cannot go with Mark to play pool that night so Robin makes Vanessa go with Mark to the pool house. When Vanessa was young, she went to the Senate Rec. Center with her father, where she learnt to play pool. Vanessa still does not fit in with the crowd. Vanessa also gets Mark into a fight with a professional pool player and Vanessa also challenges him to a pool game. When they get back home, they tell Robin they had a great time at the pool house and that they won the game. Mark and Vanessa goes to a Jazz Concert. Also, Robin's boyfriend tells Robin that he has to go to Hawaii for meetings and can not bring her along. Robin wants to go to the Jazz Concert with Vanessa and Mark but they only have two tickets. Robin is stuck at home when Tyler comes over and sneaks to Mark's toolbox and get

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 1 Episode 20 - P.M.S.: Post Moving-in Syndrome
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - P.M.S.: Post Moving-in Syndrome

    S1:E20

    In the beginning of the episode, Mark is fixing Tyler's bike. Tyler asks to have dinner with them but Mark says no. Tyler asks Vanessa and Robin and they say yes. They are celebrating their eight month anniversary of living together and being roomates. We go back in time when they moved in together. Mark and his friends are playing basketball outside and Vanessa and Robin takes their basketball. Mark gets a Spanish class at the high school. Mark tries to use the bathroom so he could get their earlier but Vanessa is doing her hair. Mark gets into the bathroom through another door. Robin, Mark, and Vanessa are having a hard time using the only bathroom. Mark goes to class late and meets the principal. The principal remembers Mark and gets a headache. Mark tries to read the lesson plan but he can't because it's in Spanish. Robin asks Mark to get home and sign for the new chairs arriving at home. Mark gets locked out of the class by Earvin. At home, Mark tries to get used to the new fu

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Yvette Lee Bowser

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  8. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 1 Episode 21 - A Moving Experience
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - A Moving Experience

    S1:E21

    Mark, Robin, and there friends are playing dominos. Vanessa and Tyler want to play. Earvin has to ask Mark a question. The coach wins the game and breaks the table. Earvin has trouble in maths and if he does not pass he will have to repeat the grade. Mark decides to help him. The next day, Mark tries to teach Earvin but both of them get distracted. Mark finds out that his friend needs a new roomate at his new apartment. Mark tells Vanessa and Robin and they wonder what to do with Mark's room. Mark moves into the new apartment. Mark tries to tutor Earvin but does not have time because of the new parties around the building. One night, Earvin comes over and Mark tries to tutor but Mark gets distracted because of another party going on at their apartment. Earvin feels left out and also feels that he will flunk the math class. That night at home, Vanessa and Robin miss Mark. Mark comes back home to visit and do his laundry. Robin also notices at school and at home that he is falling

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 2 Episode 11 - Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Santa's Got a Brand New Bag

    S2:E11

    Mark works as Santa in a mall.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 2 Episode 12 - Private School
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Private School

    S2:E12

    Mark is assigned to a private school by P.J. to teach American history. The school is nothing like what Mark is used to. Everyone is properly uniformed, preppy, and all white! He ends up teaching them all about black history ""from slavery to Soul Train"".

    Director:Jim Drake
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 2 Episode 14 - It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To

    S2:E14

    Mark is turning 30. Vanessa and Geneva decides to arrange an over-the-hill party. Tyler discovers a strange lump on Mark. Mark goes to the doctor to have it tested. A misunderstanding leads to Mark thinking that he's going to die because of the lump. He goes sky-diving and gives away his stuff. He even gives most of his money to Thaddeus to name a park after him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Dan Cross, David Hoge

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  12. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 2 Episode 15 - The Courtship of Mark Cooper
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Courtship of Mark Cooper

    S2:E15

    Mark is dating an attorney named Denise (Lela Rochon). And when Mark tells her how he really feels about coming over to the house unannounced, she then breaks up with him. Meanwhile, the student hold a car wash to raise money for a school dance. Mark receives a court supbeona stating he damaged Thaddeus White's car on the driveway where the students held the car wash. Mark and Denise battle it out. Mark finds out why Denise wants him to meet her parents - it's not because she wants to get married, they're just big NBA fans.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 2 Episode 19 - Pros and Convicts
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Pros and Convicts

    S2:E19

    Vanessa wants to show Geneva how to have a good time. Geneva tries to hit on a man who turns out to be a police officer. He mistakes her for being a prostitute and arrests both her and Vanessa.

    Director:Shelley Jensen
    Writer:David Hoge

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  14. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 1 - Call Me Irresponsible
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Call Me Irresponsible

    S3:E1

    During the summer, P.J. (the principal) has been calling Mark's house and leaving messages. Geneva thinks he should call him back, but Mark refuses - he doesn't want to call his boss during the summer. When he comes to school, he tries to avoid P.J., but he fails. P.J. tells him that she had been calling him to offer him the job as head coach. Mark gets very happy and excited, until P.J. tells him that since he didn't return her phone calls, she had to offer the job to someone else. If he suck up to the new head coach, maybe he can become assistant coach. After Mark's history class, coach Corley comes into the classroom and asks him for advice and offers him the job as assistant coach, but Mark declines. Later coach Corley comes by the house and he and Mark decides that Mark is just going to come by the gym on Monday.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Jeffrey Duteil

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  15. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 2 - My Bodyguard
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - My Bodyguard

    S3:E2

    Mark discovers that Nicole is up in the middle of the night doing another kid's homework. His name is Scott Farcus. Nicole says that she should just say no to him. Nicole promises - she doesn't want Mark to tell her mother because she would just become like crazy aunt Eunetta. It didn't work very well. Nicole tells Mark that he took her lunch and sold it back to her. Therefore, Mark invites Tyler over. He tells Tyler about Scott Farcus and asks Tyler to stand up to Scott and tell him to leave Nicole alone. Tyler tries to get away, but Mark catches him. He shows Tyler how behave like a tough guy and give him his sun-glasses so he can be really tough. Tyler says he will do it. The next day, Tyler is rather angry with Mark. Scott broke the glasses and got Tyler to do his spelling homework. Nicole tell her mother about what Scott's been doing to her. In school, Geneva makes a big scene when she's angry with Mark because he didn't tell Nicole to come to her. She says she's going down to t

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 3 - Between Friends
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Between Friends

    S3:E3

    Geneva has bought a desk for Nicole, which Mark is supposed to put together. But Mark's old friend from college, Steve, comes by to visit him. He's a sports columnist fot the Tribune. They go to Dirty Burgers to eat and talk about old memories. They both start to hit on the waitress. They are to go to the Warriors game that night, but when the waitress, Charlene, calls, they start to fight about old girlsfriends and Steve decides to going to the game with Charlene instead of Mark. But Mark phones and cancels Steve's tickets. Geneva tells Mark to call Steve and try to work things out. After some trouble and misunderstandings between Mark and Vanessa, Steve comes over to get his cellular phone, which he had forgot at Mark's. They appologize to each other. In this episode, Vanessa tried to get a job in a number of different ways. At last, she manages to get one, answering the phones, at a doctor's office. The desk was put together. Geneva lost her bet to Nicole that Mark wouldn't manage t

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 7 - Instant Replay
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Instant Replay

    S3:E7

    Mark finds out that his former basketball rival will be back in town to play at his high school's upcoming alumni basketball game. Fearing a repeat of an old high school humiliation with Reggie, who is now a NBA star, Mark fakes an injury.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writers:Gigi McCreery, Perry Rein

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  18. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 9 - My Achy Breaky Back
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - My Achy Breaky Back

    S3:E9

    Mark finally gets a job interview with the head coach at San Francisco State, but he hurts his back before the interview.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writers:Dan Cross, David Hoge

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  19. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 15 - True Lies
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - True Lies

    S3:E15

    Instead of keeping his promise to Nicole to bring her to the circus, Mark lies to her so he can go out with his girlfriend Denise.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 3 Episode 22 - High Hopes
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - High Hopes

    S3:E22

    It looks like roommates Mark, Geneva and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Barry O'Brien

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  21. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 1 - Together Again
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Together Again

    S4:E1

    Everyone's plans to leave Oakland, California go awry and they all come back.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Barry O'Brien

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  22. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 2 - It's a Matter of Principal
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - It's a Matter of Principal

    S4:E2

    Rehired as basketball coach, Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as principal.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:David Chambers

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  23. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 4 - E.R.
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - E.R.

    S4:E4

    Vanessa saves Mark's life after he falls and gets a concussion.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 6 - Ghost in the Machine
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Ghost in the Machine

    S4:E6

    Nicole breaks Mark's prized mug and lets Vanessa take the blame. Later, while playing a fantasy computer game, Nicole falls asleep and has a dream that teaches her the importance of honesty.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Season 4 Episode 7 - Waterworld
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Waterworld

    S4:E7

    When the ancient plumbing system breaks down in the house, Vanessa and Geneva hire a plumber. But Mark chases away the plumber and insists on fixing the problem himself.

    Director:Mark Linn-Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"R.E.S.P.E.C.T." is the best rated episode of "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Mark Linn-Baker and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/1/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Christmas '95".