J.J. is teaching art classes and one of his students, Emily, has great promise and skill with her paintings. It seems that J.J.'s painting is selected for a contest, and J.J. makes this mistake of asking Bookman to take it downtown for him but he takes Emily's painting to the contest by mistake! J.J. wins first prize for the painting and soon must decide whether or not to take credit for something he didn't do.

Sweet Daddy Williams sends his hoods to snatch J.J. from his home and bring him to the hospital. His reasons: J.J. is the only person they could find that matches Sweet Daddy's blood type and Sweet Daddy is in dire need of a blood transfusion.

A `D' on a freshman English paper sends Theo into a tailspin of self-doubt, while a late night argument between Rudy and her sleep-over friend threatens Cliff's sleep - and his sanity.

After a disastrous dinner at Elvin and Sondra's, Cliff and Clair implore them to move to a better apartment for their new baby's sake.

Cliff and Clair become grandparents for the first (and second) time, when Sondra delivers twins! Theo gets the cold shoulder from his girlfriend when he ogles a curvaceous fellow student once too often. (Part 1 of 2)

Cliff and Clair become grandparents for the first (and second) time, when Sondra delivers twins! Theo gets the cold shoulder from his girlfriend when he ogles a curvaceous fellow student once too often. (Part 2 of 2.)

After Overton and Synclaire bring a pile of classic '60s records home from a garage sale, everyone (including Russell) annoys Khadijah by playing loud music and dancing while she is trying to work. She retreats into the hallway and falls asleep on the stairs. She dreams that she is Flo, a member of a pop group called the Flavorettes. The other members are Maxy (Max), the brassy lead singer and founder; Cynthia (Synclaire) a militant woman with ties to the Black Panthers; and Regina (Regine) a woman who cares little for glamour and is hopelessly devoted to their manager Rupert (Russell, no accent). At Flo's urging, they take a gig at a club run by her boyfriend Sonny (Tripp). When Maxy trips over a microphone cord during the performance, Flo takes over the lead. Suave producer O.W. Jones (Overton) is very impressed, and takes the group under his wing--with Flo as lead singer. The others are angry that Flo is being groomed for stardom, but agree to perform at the Apollo. Flo is momentarily stung by her friends' resentment and the loss of Sonny to Maxy, but decides her new fame is worth it. When Khadijah wakes up, she is in the mood to dance after all.

Overton receives tickets to the Ohio State-Michigan football game, as his uncle Smoke Eye's son is the Buckeyes' quarterback. Synclaire refuses to go, and Khadijah is unable to come along because Regine needs her to help break the news to her mother that she is moving in with Dexter. Overton decides to take Tripp. When Regine rejects Russell's desperate marriage proposal, he asks to come along to take his mind off his troubles. He drives the guys in a run-down van. They pick up a beautiful hitchhiker, only to learn from the radio that she is a robbery suspect. While she is sleeping, the guys pull over and step outside to discuss what to do. The woman steals the van. By the time the guys make it to the police station, the hitchhiker has been caught. A policeman drives Overton and Tripp to the end of the game. Tripp has the Michigan shirt ripped off his back, and Overton's cousin leads OSU to a comeback victory. Laverne is surprisingly calm upon learning Regine's news, but fears Dexter will never agree to marriage. While they are in the kitchen, Dexter slips into the living room and plays the piano. He proposes to Regine, who accepts before Laverne faints.

Khadijah dreams of kissing Scooter in a hot tub. Max forces her to join her at a New Age retreat, where she hopes to find the purpose of her existence. Synclaire tags along. Khadijah is bewildered when the hot tub at the facility resembles the one in her dream, and is shocked to find Scooter at the retreat. When she tells him about her dream, he becomes distant. He later joins her in the hot tub and explains that his girlfriend dumped him because his heart wasn't in the relationship. He is still hung up on Khadijah, but cannot stand to just be friends. Khadijah admits she loves Scooter, but isn't sure this is enough. They agree that work is no longer their top priority, and decide to build a new relationship. Max discovers that she was a man in all of her past lives. She resolves that she must have a child, leading to much mockery from Khadijah and Synclaire. Overton and Synclaire lease Kyle's apartment to Roni De Santos, a local DJ. Tripp confesses that he once slept with Roni after winning a date with her in a contest, only to be rejected. Overton forces the two to spend time together. Roni tells Tripp that she pushed him away because she was afraid of being fired. However, she is now dating someone else.

Synclaire's embittered colleague Marco steals her act and uses it in his one-man show. Synclaire is furious, but agrees to back off after learning that he needs money to pay his child support. Phil, the head of the Gotham Players, informs Synclaire that Marco has no children; and collects substantial alimony payments from his ex-wife, Joyce DeWitt of TV's Three's Company. Synclaire and Overton bring Joyce to one of Marco's performances, where she rips up their alimony agreement because he failed to report income. When Marco begins to bomb, Synclaire takes the stage to help him out. She catches the eye of Tony Jonas, president of Warner Brothers Television, who offers her the chance to audition for the role of a renegade nun in a new series. Max reveals that she has become pregnant through a sperm donor. Khadijah chastises her for behaving so impulsively, but agrees to support her. She remarks that the child might force Max to grow up. Roni and Tripp flirt shamelessly during a game of Monopoly, and while walking Max's new--and uncontrollable--dog

Stacey Jones was a single mom who finally found someone to settle down with. But as the new couple prepares to welcome a baby together, Stacey is gunned down. Was this a devastating hate crime or will detectives discover a shocking motive for murder?

When a loving mother is murdered in her own apartment, police suspect her ex-boyfriend. The case becomes complicated when detectives uncover a potential new suspect, and it will take a high-speed chase through the city to bring the killer to justice.

A successful woman with a bright future falls under the spell of a charming but dangerous man. And what begins as infatuation, quickly spirals into a dangerous loyalty, leading her to partake in a violent plot to silence a key witness against him.

April Coger wanted love. Kenneth Chaney offered danger. Drawn into his world of crime, her devotion leads to a violent spree, a fatal end, and a reckoning she never saw coming

When a bright young woman with career aspirations falls for a sweet-talking bad boy, he takes her for a walk on the wild side. He lands them both in hot water and she must choose between the future she thought she wanted, and a future with her man.

Kim convinces Freddie to attend a party that Dwayne and Ron have organized in order to give her a break from her creative writing assignment. Mr Gaines tries to teach Walter to cook for his date with Jaleesa.

Clair Huxtable holds a seminar on business etiquette at the Hillman job fair and brings daughter Vanessa along hoping that she will want to attend Hillman. Clair speaks to a friend who works for Kinishewa on Dwayne's behalf.

Dwayne proposes to Suzanne and is turned down, so he turns to Whitley for advice. Jaleesa pulls a prank on Walter, which backfires.

Whitley's mother thinks she should focus on finding a man rather than academics. Freddie implements a recycling program on campus.

A `D' on a freshman English paper sends Theo into a tailspin of self-doubt, while a late night argument between Rudy and her sleep-over friend threatens Cliff's sleep - and his sanity.

After a disastrous dinner at Elvin and Sondra's, Cliff and Clair implore them to move to a better apartment for their new baby's sake.

Cliff and Clair become grandparents for the first (and second) time, when Sondra delivers twins! Theo gets the cold shoulder from his girlfriend when he ogles a curvaceous fellow student once too often. (Part 1 of 2)

Cliff and Clair become grandparents for the first (and second) time, when Sondra delivers twins! Theo gets the cold shoulder from his girlfriend when he ogles a curvaceous fellow student once too often. (Part 2 of 2.)

Lionel breaks the news that he is planning on getting is own apartment in the village and plans to move out of George and Louise's apartment. Both George and Louise don't want him to go but when they find out that Jenny is planning on moving in with him, they don't want him to go even more.

Lionel's company prints out a pamphlet welcoming all the new workers and the blurb under Lionel's name includes a section stating that George graduated from Harvard. Thinking that Lionel is ashamed of him not finishing high school, George sets out to get a diploma. Meanwhile, George does battle with Florence in a betting war.

George interferes in Lionel and Jenny's relationship by suggesting to Lionel that he have Jenny sign a pre-nuptial agreement. This leads Jenny and Lionel to get into an argument which ends in them calling off the wedding. Meanwhile, Louise makes a bet with George that Lionel will be furious by his suggestion, but George tries to hide Lionel's reaction from Louise.

George becomes indebted to Tom after he gives George the Heimlich Maneuver at Charlie's bar, when George begins to choke on some popcorn. However, George quickly finds a way to end the debt after everyone makes a fuss over Tom's good deed.

Jenny comes down with a case of premarital jitters and begins to doubt her feelings for Lionel. Meanwhile, Mr. Bentley has tickets for a football game but cannot use them, so he gives them to Tom who invites Lionel and George to the game. Later, Jenny's feelings are put to the test when George, Tom, and Lionel all appear to have been in a bus crash on their way to the football game.

One early morning, Louise and George are startled to discover a man in the kitchen, it isn't until after George threatens to beat him with a trophy, that he learns that Florence let him spend the night. This leads to a major argument resulting in Florence quitting her job.

Louise is reading a book to try to help her to remember things, but the one thing George doesn't want her to forget, she does. She forgets to call his broker to invest some money, after he gets a stock tip. Then she must tell him that she forgot when the stock goes sky high. Meanwhile, Florence takes a Judo class.

Everyone is in the Christmas spirit that is except Tom and George. Christmas Eve brings disharmony to the Jefferson household when George argues with Tom over the preparations for Lionel and Jenny's wedding. A group of carolers lead by a minister gives Louise a great idea to stop the feud between George and Tom.

George feels guilty for not staying in touch with the members of a childhood gang, after the death of one of the members. This leads George to hold a reunion at the apartment which also leads to a confrontation with the leader, JoJo, who has always dished out the orders and George has always willingly obeyed him, no matter what. Meanwhile, Florence fends off the advances of one of George's ex-gang members.

Harry is having problems with the person who parks his car next to him in the garage. Seeking advice, Harry goes to George. However, George's advice lands Harry in jail, after he punches out a police officer. Meanwhile, Louise is looking forward to a trip to San Francisco where George is scheduled to speak at a convention, but the Bentley debacle may stand in the way of them actually going.

Louise is fed up with George's workaholic attitude and urges him to get a hobby. However, the hobby he chooses has her worried sick, he's decided to take up flying. George goes right down to a small aircraft airport to learn how to, but he doesn't even make it onto a plane after he has second thoughts. Louise, however, has a change of heart and decides that she too would like to learn how to fly.

George's latest business deal is with a black man married to a white woman, so when he invites them over for dinner, he also has Tom and Helen come over, to make it look like he doesn't have racial prejudices. However, when Tom and Helen discover his plot, they storm out before the guests have arrived. This leads to George having Florence and Ralph impersonate Tom and Helen.

Lionel falls ill while visiting his parents and Louise goes all out to take care of him. When Jenny comes over, she wants to take care of her sick husband which leads to a battle between who gets to take care of him, Lionel's mother or Lionel's wife.

Louise is taking French lessons and makes a friend with one of her classmates. However, when George discovers that her friend is a man, he is furious and can't believe that a woman can be just good friends with a man. This leads to yet another argument which leaves George sleeping on the couch.

For five decades and counting Betty Wright has brought the “real” to R&B, with a powerful voice and sassy delivery that produced over ten top twenty hits. But those songs reflected aspects of a harder life, as label troubles and family tragedy threatened to silence her voice.

Dre and Bow struggle with identity politics.

Bow meets with one of Kyra's teachers.

Junior wants a job as Josh's assistant.

Kyra's estranged father shows up.