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Family Matters

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A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

Created by:
Michael Warren, William Bickley
Cast:
Reginald VelJohnson, Darius McCrary, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Jaleel White
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
ABC, CBS

Episode guide

Seasons

9 available

Season 3

Episodes

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Episode 1

★ 10.0

Boom!

1991-09-20 · 24m

Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.

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Episode 2

★ 5.2

Brain over Brawn

1991-09-27 · 24m

Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.

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Episode 3

★ 6.5

The Show Must Go On

1991-10-04 · 24m

In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.

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Episode 4

★ 10.0

Words Hurt

1991-10-11 · 24m

Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.

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Episode 5

★ 10.0

Daddy's Little Girl

1991-10-18 · 24m

Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.

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Episode 6

★ 10.0

Citizen's Court

1991-10-25 · 24m

Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.

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Episode 7

★ 10.0

Robo-Nerd

1991-11-01 · 24m

Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.

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Episode 8

Making the Team

1991-11-08 · 24m

When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.

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Episode 9

Born to be Mild

1991-11-15 · 24m

A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.

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Episode 10

The Love God

1991-11-22 · 24m

Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.

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Episode 11

Old and Alone

1991-11-29 · 24m

Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.

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Episode 12

A Pair of Ladies

1991-12-06 · 24m

Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.

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Episode 13

Choir Trouble

1991-12-20 · 24m

Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.

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Episode 14

A Test of Friendship

1992-01-10 · 24m

The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.

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Episode 15

Jailhouse Blues

1992-01-17 · 24m

Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.

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Episode 16

Brown Bombshell

1992-01-31 · 24m

Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.

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Episode 17

Food, Lies and Videotape

1992-02-07 · 24m

Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.

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Episode 18

My Broken-Hearted Valentine

1992-02-14 · 24m

Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but trouble. Laura believes Urkel is meddling in her love life and tells him to go away.

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Episode 19

Woman of the People

1992-02-21 · 24m

When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.

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Episode 20

Love and Kisses

1992-02-28 · 24m

Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.

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Episode 21

Stop, in the Name of Love

1992-03-13 · 24m

Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.

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Episode 22

The Urkel Who Came to Dinner

1992-04-03 · 24m

Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.

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Episode 23

Robo-Nerd II

1992-04-24 · 24m

It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.

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Episode 24

Dudes

1992-05-01 · 24m

Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.

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Episode 25

Farewell, My Laura

1992-05-08 · 24m

Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.

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Cast

Reginald VelJohnson

Reginald VelJohnson

Carl Winslow

Darius McCrary

Darius McCrary

Eddie Winslow

Kellie Shanygne Williams

Kellie Shanygne Williams

Laura Winslow

Jaleel White

Jaleel White

Steve Urkel

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