Back to School
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1996
A very successful musician Steve Hightower who had a successful music group and becomes an inner-city music teacher, and soon discovers someone from his past is also at the school.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1996
A very successful musician Steve Hightower who had a successful music group and becomes an inner-city music teacher, and soon discovers someone from his past is also at the school.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1996
Bullethead is at the end of his rope when his dog gets impounded and he doesn't have the cash to bail him out. Meanwhile, Cedric gets the boot from his mama's apartment and looks to Steve for a place to live.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1996
As he and Cedric struggle to work out their differences as roommates, Steve bets Regina he can put together a school band in fewer than five days.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1996
Rumors of an on-going affair sweep the school when Sara and Romeo are caught hiding in a closet while trying to avoid Principal Grier. Meanwhile, Cedric goes way overboard vying for "Teacher of the Month" honors.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1996
Romeo paints himself into a corner by falsely taking credit for the winning entry in a poster contest, for artwork that was actually done by Sophia. Meanwhile, Cedric receives a platinum card and goes on a spending spree and is happy... until he gets his bill.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1996
The homecoming dance is approaching, and no one, including chaperone Steve, is happy with their dates. Romeo and Bullethead turn to Steve for help with the homecoming dance, while Cedric joins a video-dating service.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1996
Romeo's old-school father enrolls him in vocational-training classes, much to Romeo's dislike. Meanwhile, Steve and Cedric try to catch a mouse running loose in their apartment.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1997
Sophia wins the role of Juliet in the school's production of "Romeo and Juliet," but Romeo is not chosen to play opposite her as his own namesake. Now Romeo must deal with watching another man play Romeo to Sophia's Juliet.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1996
Cedric volunteers to be a "big brother" to a fatherless teenage boy and tries to get Steve involved in the organization.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1996
Steve reunites with his old singing group, "The Hi-Tops," to perform on an awards show. But when a band member gets injured, Cedric is the only available substitute.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1996
Steve gets Regina to help trick his visiting mother into believing that they are a couple. Meanwhile, Romeo makes two dates for the same night & decides to see them both at the same restaurant at the same time.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1996
Bullethead and Romeo hope to pocket some cash hustling pool, but the tables are turned on them and they wind up holding the short end of the stick.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1997
When Steve scores hard-to-get tickets to a concert, Regina agrees to go out with him. Meanwhile, Sara reluctantly agrees to go out on a date with Bullethead.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1997
On his way to play the piano at Regina's church, Steve gets arrested and thrown in jail with Cedric.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1997
The Hi-Tops' ex-manager gets engaged and the group gathers for a bachelor party at Steve's apartment and Angela takes a compatibility test from a magazine, and the results show that her and Steve are not compatible. In revenge, Steve creates a test that intentionally shows that Regina is not the woman for him. Meanwhile, the students are assigned the task of creating a short film for a contest and Don volunteers to perform a ventriloquism act for Booker T's annual high school talent show, but he discovers that it's harder than it looks.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1997
A 19-year-old woman steals into Steve's life claiming to be his daughter, the outcome of a long-ago romantic liaison. Meanwhile, Bullethead is suddenly popular when everyone learns that he has a pair of floor seat tickets to a Chicago Bulls game.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1997
Snoop Doggy Dogg and Sean "Puffy" Combs visit the school to talk to Steve's class about the rumored rivlary between East and West Coast rappers.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1997
Since Regina's sorority sister is visiting from out of town, Regina decides to impress her by lying about having a wealthy handsome boyfriend, and enlists Steve to help her out with her deceit.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: May 4, 1997
Steve tries to put some "sparks" into Regina's dull party -- and proceeds to set the roof on fire. Then, he offers to let her stay at his place.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: May 11, 1997
A smooth-talking bank officer shows an interest in Regina and for Mother's Day, Steve decides that each of the boys will build something for Angela. Mike and Don succeed in making jewelry and recipe boxes; however, the more unskilled laborer Don does not want to build anything, since he is not interested in chalkboarding. Also, Romeo and his mother tries to consult Sara, Bullethead and Sophia parrot-nap a rival school's mascot about what to do with Don.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 18, 1997
Steve gives a birthday gift to Regina on her birthday, to show her he cares. But Regina also gets a gift from another admirer, an expensive gift, and believes the expensive gift is from Steve.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1997
Cedric falls in love with Regina's new 'round-the-way' secretary Lovita Alizé Jenkins after Sara and Sophia left to go to college. As Steve's insensitivity upsets Regina, Sara and Sophia's departure turns into a disaster and Romeo and Bullethead square off over a new beautiful classmate. Romeo weighs his feelings for his once-heavy platonic friend Aisha who spent her summer at a weight-loss farm and now is lovely, fit and sexy.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1997
Steve and Cedric argue over Lovita making herself too much at home in the apartment, so Ced storms out and spends the night at Regina's.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1997
School tough Coretta "The Ox" Cox takes a liking to Romeo and scares off his regular honeys.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1997
Steve convinces Romeo to join the predominantly female choir and discovers that he can't sing a note.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1997
For a fund-raiser, Steve tries to reunite the Hi-Tops, but learns they've formed a new band without him. So he decides to make some beautiful new music with Regina. Meanwhile, Bullethead decides to quit school to work full time at his new job in the mall.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1997
Steve's audition with Teddy Riley hits a sour note when his saxophone is pawned by Romeo, who uses the money to buy a suit.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1997
It's Halloween, and Steve, as usual is up to his old tricks and puts together a band and auditions at a local club, where the competition is his former group, the Hi-Tops, formed their own group.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1997
Steve blows off a banquet with the teenager he's mentoring so that he can prepare a romantic meal for Regina. Meanwhile, Romeo gets a hand from his classmates after injuring his arm in a skateboard accident. Later, they found out that Romeo faked his injury the whole time.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1997
Steve thinks his manhood is in question after Regina, a.k.a. "Xena, the Warrior Principal," beats the stuffing out of a too-fresh chicken mascot at a basketball game. Also, Romeo and Bullethead enroll in a dance class.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1997
Steve has competition for Regina's affections when her college beau comes back to town to take a job as a sportscaster and to renew their relationship. Also Bullethead meets a new transfer student name Kim Jennifer Lyons, who got a big backside.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1997
With Regina dating a new guy, Steve tries to get something cooking with a caterer who's working for his party. Regina won't be able to attend because she's celebrating her birthday with wealthy, boyfriend Warrington Steele. Bullhead and Romeo sign up their rap act for the school's talent contest. Cedric tries to avoid wearing a sweatshirt bearing Lovita's picture.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1998
Warrington buys Regina a luxury car in honour of their first month together, and then gets upset when she doesn't drive it.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1998
Regina and Cedric (Wendy Raquel Robinson, Cedric ``The Entertainer'') battle Lovita and Steve (Terri J. Vaughn, Steve Harvey) in a dance competition; Romeo (Merlin Santana) tries to get good grades.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1998
Steve (Steve Harvey) is recruited to help raise the spirits of Regina's (Wendy Raquel Robinson) newly separated friend Tiffany (guest star Jackie Mari Roberts).
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1998
Steve's father shows up with his young fiancee, and Steve thinks she's trying to kill the old man for a half-million dollar insurance policy.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1998
Steve and Romeo both make a play for an attractive playwright whose latest work is being staged at the school.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1998
Steve and Cedric think their housekeeping prayers are answered when they hire an elderly cleaning lady from Lovita's church.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1998
On their way to a conference, Steve and Regina get stuck in a snowstorm while traveling the back roads. Meanwhile, Lovita's country cousin puts the moves on Ced.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1998
When Deidre can't quit her job for a week, she asks Cedric to fill in so Steve and two of his former singing partners must find a fourth voice before their group performs at an oldies show. Meanwhile, the students get a lesson in parenting and asks Steve to be their assistant. Steve has a hard time not being the center of attention, but when Angela and Regina shows him that he can assist her, he decides to help Cedric. Don finds it hard to talk to a girl in Steve's classroom named Evangeline.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1998
Steve and Cedric are up for membership in a men's club, where they'll be "rubbing elbows with Chicago's business elite". Romeo and Bullethead use a new camera to meet girls.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 6, 1998
Lovita is upset when Cedric wins a pair of tickets to a Chicago Bulls playoff game and decides to take Steve. Regina is upset when a shipment of cafeteria food is not delivered.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 13, 1998
Rumors of a big announcement from Warrington has everyone thinking he's going to propose to Regina. Romeo and Bullethead send a strict teacher anonymous love letters hoping to help their grades.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1998
Steve and Regina go on a cruise where he hopes to "define" his unconsummated relationship with Regina.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1998
Bullethead and Romeo get the OK to take driver's education which is now being taught by Steve.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1998
Steve, Cedric and Regina attend a mandatory computer course being taught by Lovita. Meanwhile, Romeo decides to run for class president.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1998
Steve, Cedric, Lovita and Regina attend a seminar on faculty relationships. Meanwhile, Romeo becomes jealous of all the attention that Bullethead is getting with his wooden puppet.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1998
When the television set Steve sold Lovita goes on a fritz, she sues him and they go before a judge he once courted -- and dumped. Regina gets an autograph Michael Jordan basketball, which Cedric wants to use to inspire his losing basketball team, much to Regina's dismay.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1998
Lovita and Regina take on Steve and Cedric in a pool tournament, and Romeo and Bullethead fake a Bubble-boy to win concert tickets.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1998
Junior and Vincent, the two kids that Steve and Cedric mentored as "big brothers", return, and Junior asks Regina if she would go out on a date with his older brother. Steve dates a young coffee shop waitress.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1998
Steve's girlfriend, who works for the IRS, learns that Cedric is committing tax fraud.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1998
Regina agrees to date the "man-boy" who services the office water cooler.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1998
Lovita and Regina give a makeover to Steve's wallflower of a niece, who blossoms into a looker who gets more than a second look from Romeo, Mr. Williams, Steve's high school shop teacher, comes to visit, but gets angry and leaves after Steve telling Mr. Williams what he can and can't do at Booker T's.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1998
A blizzard ruins Steve's, Regina's, Cedric's and Lovita's plans for the weekend. Lydia, Romeo, and Bullethead get trapped in Steve's classroom trying to retrieve what's most precious to them.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1999
Steve and Cedric plan to hire strippers for their friend's bachelor party. But when the strippers show up, the guys get a little more than they bargained for.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1999
After a fight with her Mama, Lovita moves in with Cedric. But when Regina sympathizes, Lovita moves in with her.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1999
To impress her visiting great-aunt, Lovita tells a few lies where she makes her great-aunt believe that she and Cedric are married, she's the principal and Steve runs errands for the newlyweds.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1999
Cedric believes there's a spirit haunting the apartment, so he talks Steve, Lovita and Regina into having a seance. Meanwhile, after Bullethead saves Coretta's life, she returns the favor by protecting him from bullies.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1999
Steve has trouble composing a song for a Black History month assembly, until some unknown "musical genius" finishes it for him. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead meet beautiful tenants Amber and Monique in Regina's apartment, and pretend it is their apartment.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1999
Cedric lets being named "Teacher of the Year" go to his head, angering fellow teachers, students and even Lovita.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1999
Cedric and Steve test out a "lie buster," but the device backfires for Cedric when Lovita catches him in a string of white lies. Meanwhile, Lydia gets her own TV show and asks Bullethead and Romeo to help. Also, Regina gets competitive with her new beau.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1999
Regina helps Steve's friend with the one thing that keeps coming between him and his wife: dancing. Meanwhile, Steve and Cedric try to compete with Romeo and Bullethead in a string of events.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: May 6, 1999
Steve wants to rekindle an old flame, but his former girlfriend has some news that might change his mind.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: May 13, 1999
Regina becomes obsessed with defeating an old high-school rival in a choir competition and finds her hope squashed when the soloist ends up with laryngitis right before the competition. She and Steve, by chance, find a new one in Lydia.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: May 20, 1999
A breakup leaves Steve broken, as does an injury he received while helping Regina move furniture. Meanwhile, Cedric tries to stamp out Lovita's petty jealousies.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1999
In the fourth-season opener, Steve applies for the vice-principal position at the school, much to the chagrin of Regina. Meanwhile, Cedric comes up with creative ways to propose to Lovita.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1999
Cedric and Lovita decide to live together before they get married; and Regina ignores Steve's school proposal to counsel at-risk students. Meanwhile, Bullethead and Lydia share a locker, and Romeo gets a mysterious lockermate.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1999
Steve and Regina clash when they share an office. Meanwhile, Cedric loses his sex drive after a computer program predicts that his and Lovita's child will be ugly. Romeo and his girlfriend Tessa decide to elope after getting advice from Steve.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1999
Steve pretends to be blind to impress a woman, and Bullethead enters the Miss Booker T. beauty pageant in the hopes of winning a new computer. Meanwhile, Lovita wants to know what's in a locked metal box she found in Cedric's closet.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1999
Regina stays at Steve's apartment while her place is being fumigated, and she immediately annoys her new roommates with her bubbly and bossy disposition. Meanwhile, Lydia prepares for her belated Bat Mitzvah, and Regina wants to accompany Steve to a celebrity fund-raiser.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1999
Steve acts a like fool while pursuing a woman, and his friends intervene to save his dignity. Regina warns Steve the woman stole her college boyfriend and then dumped him. Meanwhile, an electric shock gives Bullethead the power to pick winning stocks.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1999
While Cedric is away at a coaches conference, his grandmother stays at Steve's apartment and torments Lovita. Meanwhile, Coretta uses Romeo, Lydia and Bullethead as models to show off her own style of fashion after Steve ensures her that she has the potential to become a fashion designer.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1999
Steve pretends to be a single parent to impress an attractive member of a support group --and pays Romeo to portray his son. Meanwhile, Regina conducts employee evaluations and Bullethead romances a Catholic school student.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1999
New Year's Eve plans go awry for both Steve and Regina, while Cedric frets over the new millennium hoopla. Meanwhile, Romeo is invited to a party under false pretenses.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2000
Regina attends a symposium on education and leaves Steve in charge. He later realizes that supervising the entire school is a greater challenge than he expected. Meanwhile, Cedric and Lovita argue about their wedding plans.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2000
Regina recruits Steve and Cedric to participate in a charity bachelor auction where another woman outbids Lovita for her fiancee. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead join Lydia in reading the school's morning announcements.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2000
Regina wants her new school program approved by the visiting district supervisor, who instead takes a shine to Steve's ideas. Meanwhile, Bullethead, Romeo and Lydia join the faculty-talent show committee and change the format of the event.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2000
Lovita enlists Steve to pose as her fiancé. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead form a singing group.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2000
Regina offers to throw Lovita's bridal shower, but her plans cause friction with Lovita's friends, who envision a much livelier party. Meanwhile, Cedric and Steve begin to feel old and decide to do something wild and crazy to break out of their rut.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2000
Retrieving a top hat for his wedding gets Cedric locked in a storage room with Steve -- just as the ceremony is about to begin.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2000
Steve gets tickets to Orlando, Florida and takes Regina as well as his class, but this turns into a huge conflict for Cedric.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Apr 14, 2000
Steve and Cedric enter a cooking contest in hopes of winning a new television, but they face tough competition from Regina and Lovita.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2000
To earn money to pay off their wedding bills, Lovita and Cedric set up a salon in Steve's apartment, which may get them all evicted. Meanwhile, Regina fawns over a novelist who has agreed to speak to her book club.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Apr 28, 2000
Romeo's girlfriend, Alicia, develops a huge crush on Steve after the music teacher speaks to the feminist group the teen belongs to. Meanwhile, Regina feels left out when Cedric and Lovita begin socializing with another couple who are hiding a secret life.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: May 5, 2000
Regina sets Steve up with his dream date, while Steve finds a man for Regina who's not what he appears to be. Meanwhile, Cedric follows a bizarre pregame ritual to keep his basketball team's winning streak alive.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: May 12, 2000
Steve arranges for a celebrity to speak at the school's Entrepreneur Day, and when he learns that the guest can't make it, he's reluctant to tell everyone. Elsewhere, Cedric and Lovita discover an extra $8,000 in their bank account.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: May 19, 2000
Booker T. Washington is chosen for instituting a uniform policy and Lydia is in charge. Meanwhile, Bullethead and Romeo are inspired by Steve's story to boycott these uniforms.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2000
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2000
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2000
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2000
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2000
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2000
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2000
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2000
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Dec 17, 2000
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2001
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2001
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2001
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2001
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2001
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2001
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2001
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Apr 1, 2001
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2001
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2001
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: May 6, 2001
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: May 13, 2001
Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: May 20, 2001
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2001
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2001
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2001
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2001
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2001
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2001
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2001
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2001
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2002
Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2002
Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2002
Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2002
Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2002