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Episodes: All (146)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6
Year: 1987  |  1988  |  1989  |  1990  |  1991  |  1992  |  1993  |  unknown

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Reconcilable Differences

Original Air Date—24 September 1987
Its the first day at Hilmen, and Denise needs to settle with a roommate.

Season 1, Episode 2: Pilot

Original Air Date—1 October 1987
Denise finds out that her dorm payment check bounced and that her checking account is overdrawn.

Season 1, Episode 3: Porky de Bergerac

Original Air Date—15 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 4: Those Who Can't... Tutor

Original Air Date—22 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 5: War of the Words

Original Air Date—29 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 6: Rudy and the Snow Queen

Original Air Date—5 November 1987
Denise's little sister Rudy visits Hillman and makes Whitley her new role model.

Season 1, Episode 7: Sometimes You Get the Bear, Sometimes the Bear Gets You

Original Air Date—19 November 1987

Season 1, Episode 8: If Chosen, I May Not Run

Original Air Date—3 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 9: Romancing Mr. Stone

Original Air Date—10 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 10: The Gift of the Magi

Original Air Date—17 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 11: Does He or Doesn't He?

Original Air Date—7 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 12: Advise and Descent

Original Air Date—14 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 13: The Prime of Miss Lettie Bostic

Original Air Date—21 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 14: Wild Child

Original Air Date—4 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 15: Dr. Cupid

Original Air Date—11 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 16: The Show Must Go On

Original Air Date—18 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 17: Mr. Hillman

Original Air Date—25 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 18: Speech Therapy

Original Air Date—10 March 1988

Season 1, Episode 19: Clair's Last Stand

Original Air Date—24 March 1988

Season 1, Episode 20: If Only for One Night

Original Air Date—28 April 1988

Season 1, Episode 21: Come Back, Little Eggby

Original Air Date—5 May 1988

Season 1, Episode 22: My Dinner with Theo

Original Air Date—7 July 1988

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Dr. War Is Hell

Original Air Date—6 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 2: Two Gentlemen of Hillman

Original Air Date—13 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 3: Some Enchanted Late Afternoon

Original Air Date—27 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 4: Dream Lover

Original Air Date—3 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 5: Three Girls Three

Original Air Date—10 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 6: If You Like Pilgrim Coladas

Original Air Date—17 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 7: A Stepping Stone

Original Air Date—1 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 8: Life with Father

Original Air Date—8 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 9: All's Fair

Original Air Date—15 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 10: Radio Free Hillman

Original Air Date—5 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 11: It Happened One Night

Original Air Date—12 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 12: I've Got the Muse in Me

Original Air Date—26 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 13: Risky Business

Original Air Date—2 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 14: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Original Air Date—9 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 15: For She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Original Air Date—23 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 16: It's Greek to Me

Original Air Date—2 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 17: The Thing About Women

Original Air Date—9 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 18: High Anxiety

Original Air Date—16 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 19: Take This Job and Love It

Original Air Date—23 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 20: No Means No

Original Air Date—30 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 21: Citizen Wayne

Original Air Date—27 April 1989

Season 2, Episode 22: There's No Place Like Home

Original Air Date—4 May 1989

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Strangers on a Plane

Original Air Date—21 September 1989
Dwayne and Whitley get to know one another better on an eventful plane ride back to campus while everyone else adapts to the now co-ed dorms.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Heat Is On

Original Air Date—12 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 3: The Hat Makes the Man

Original Air Date—19 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 4: To Have and Have Not

Original Air Date—26 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 5: Forever Hold Your Peace

Original Air Date—2 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 6: Delusions of Daddyhood

Original Air Date—9 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 7: Wedding Bells from Hell

Original Air Date—16 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 8: Great Expectations

Original Air Date—30 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 9: Answered Prayers

Original Air Date—7 December 1989

Season 3, Episode 10: For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls

Original Air Date—21 December 1989

Season 3, Episode 11: Under One Roof

Original Air Date—4 January 1990

Season 3, Episode 12: Here's to Old Friends

Original Air Date—11 January 1990

Season 3, Episode 13: The Power of the Pen

Original Air Date—18 February 1990

Season 3, Episode 14: Pride and Prejudice

Original Air Date—25 January 1990
While shopping for her father's birthday present, a jewelry store clerk discriminates against Whitley. Civilians Dwayne and Walter go on a ROTC weekend trip with Col. Taylor and Cadet Sgt. Ron.

Season 3, Episode 15: Success, Lies and Videotape

Original Air Date—8 February 1990

Season 3, Episode 16: A World Alike

Original Air Date—15 February 1990
Freddie and transfer student Julian's plans to protest South African apartheid cause Kim to reconsider accepting a need scholarship.

Season 3, Episode 17: That's the Trouble with You All

Original Air Date—22 February 1990

Season 3, Episode 18: A Camp Fire Story

Original Air Date—1 March 1990

Season 3, Episode 19: Hillman Isn't Through with You Yet

Original Air Date—8 March 1990

Season 3, Episode 20: 21 Candles

Original Air Date—15 November 1990

Season 3, Episode 21: Sweet Charity

Original Air Date—29 March 1990

Season 3, Episode 22: Soldier Boy

Original Air Date—5 April 1990

Season 3, Episode 23: Getaway: Part 1

Original Air Date—19 April 1990

Season 3, Episode 24: Getaway: Part 2

Original Air Date—26 April 1990

Season 3, Episode 25: Perhaps Love

Original Air Date—5 May 1990
Dwayne's mom visits when Dwayne is inducted into an honors society. Julian asks Whitley to spend summer with him in DC.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Everything Must Change

Original Air Date—20 September 1990

Season 4, Episode 2: How Bittersweet It Is

Original Air Date—27 September 1990

Season 4, Episode 3: Blues for Nobody's Child

Original Air Date—4 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 4: Whitley's Last Supper

Original Air Date—11 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 5: The Goodwill Games

Original Air Date—18 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 6: Tales from the Exam Zone

Original Air Date—25 October 1990

Season 4, Episode 7: Good Help Is Hard to Fire

Original Air Date—8 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 8: Love Thy Neighbor

Original Air Date—15 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 9: Time Keeps on Slippin'

Original Air Date—29 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 10: The Apple Doesn't Fall

Original Air Date—6 December 1990

Season 4, Episode 11: I'm Dreaming of a Wayne Christmas

Original Air Date—13 December 1990

Season 4, Episode 12: War and Peace

Original Air Date—10 January 1991

Season 4, Episode 13: Ex-Communication

Original Air Date—13 January 1991

Season 4, Episode 14: Risk Around the Dollar

Original Air Date—7 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 15: Love, Hillman-Style

Original Air Date—14 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 16: Episode #4.16

Original Air Date—????

Season 4, Episode 17: A Word in Edgewise

Original Air Date—21 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 18: Ms. Understanding

Original Air Date—28 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 19: The Cash Isn't Always Greener

Original Air Date—7 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 20: How Great Thou Art

Original Air Date—14 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 21: It's Showtime at Hillman

Original Air Date—21 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 22: Sister to Sister, Sister

Original Air Date—28 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 23: Monet Is the Root of All Evil

Original Air Date—4 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 24: If I Should Die Before I Wake

Original Air Date—11 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 25: Never Can Say Goodbye

Original Air Date—25 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 26: To Be Continued

Original Air Date—2 May 1991

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: We've Only Just Begun

Original Air Date—19 September 1991

Season 5, Episode 2: The Dwayne Mutiny

Original Air Date—26 September 1991

Season 5, Episode 3: Home Is Where the Fire Is

Original Air Date—3 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 4: Almost Working Girl

Original Air Date—10 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 5: In the Eye of the Storm

Original Air Date—17 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 6: Rule Number One

Original Air Date—24 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 7: Baby, I'm a Star

Original Air Date—31 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 8: Liza Who-Little

Original Air Date—7 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 9: To Tell the Truth

Original Air Date—14 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 10: Do You Take This Woman?

Original Air Date—21 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 11: Mammy Dearest

Original Air Date—5 December 1991

Season 5, Episode 12: Twelve Steps of Christmas

Original Air Date—19 December 1991

Season 5, Episode 13: Just Another Four-Letter Word

Original Air Date—2 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 14: The Cat's in the Cradle

Original Air Date—16 January 1992
At a hotly contested Hillman-Virginia A&M game, Ron accepts a sucker bet from three white A&M students, then gets into a fight with them when one of them starts to spray a racial epithet on his car in revenge. In a cell, the men proceed to give very different accounts, mediated by a white officer who challenges both groups' assumptions.

Season 5, Episode 15: Prisoner of Love

Original Air Date—23 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 16: Bedroom at the Top

Original Air Date—30 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 17: May the Best Man Win

Original Air Date—13 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 18: Kiss You Back

Original Air Date—20 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 19: Conflict of Interest

Original Air Date—27 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 20: Sellmates

Original Air Date—12 March 1992

Season 5, Episode 21: Do the Write Thing

Original Air Date—2 April 1992

Season 5, Episode 22: Love Taps

Original Air Date—23 April 1992
Events take a tragic turn at the dorm when Lena suspects a rapper named Dion is abusing Gina.

Season 5, Episode 23: Special Delivery

Original Air Date—7 May 1992

Season 5, Episode 24: Save the Best for Last: Part 1

Original Air Date—14 May 1992

Season 5, Episode 25: Save the Best for Last: Part 2

Original Air Date—21 May 1992

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Honeymoon in L.A.: Part 1

Original Air Date—24 September 1992

Season 6, Episode 2: Honeymoon in L.A.: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 3: Interior Desecration

Original Air Date—8 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 4: Somebody Say Ho!

Original Air Date—15 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 5: Really Gross Anatomy

Original Air Date—22 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 6: Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're Axed

Original Air Date—29 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 7: The Little Mister

Original Air Date—29 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 8: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Original Air Date—5 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 9: Faith, Hope, and Charity: Part 1

Original Air Date—12 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 10: Faith, Hope, and Charity: Part 2

Original Air Date—12 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 11: Original Teacher

Original Air Date—19 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 12: Occupational Hazards

Original Air Date—3 December 1992

Season 6, Episode 13: White Christmas

Original Air Date—17 December 1992

Season 6, Episode 14: To Whit, with Love

Original Air Date—7 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 15: Happy Birthday to Moi

Original Air Date—14 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 16: Mind Your Own Business

Original Air Date—21 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 17: When One Door Closes...: Part 1

Original Air Date—8 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 18: When One Door Closes...: Part 2

Original Air Date—8 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 19: Episode #6.19

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 20: Lean on Me

Original Air Date—27 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 21: Dancing Machines

Original Air Date—3 June 1993

Season 6, Episode 22: Cabin in the Sky

Original Air Date—10 June 1993

Season 6, Episode 23: Great X-Pectations

Original Air Date—9 July 1993

Season 6, Episode 24: Homey, Don't Ya Know Me?

Original Air Date—1993

Season 6, Episode 25: A Rock, a River, a Lena

Original Air Date—1993

Season 6, Episode 26: College Kid

Original Air Date—1993

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