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  Family Matters (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Family Matters was a sitcom based on a middle class African-American family living in Chicago that ran from 1989 to 1998 on ABC and later on CBS.
The show, which was a spinoff of Perfect Strangers, originally focused on the character of Harriet Winslow and her family: husband Carl Winslow, a police officer; rebel son Eddie Winslow; smart daughter Laura Winslow; and youngest child Judy Winslow.
Family Matters ranks as one of the longest running African American sitcoms along with The Jeffersons and The Cosby Show.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_Matters_(television)   (871 words)

  
 Family Matters - Television Review
Some episodes tackle racism, sexism, family dysfunction, school bullying, and gun violence, but these issues are never glorified; instead, characters find healthy ways to deal with the problems of modern life.
FAMILY MATTERS is something all too rare -- a real, and really funny, family comedy.
And that might just be the heart of Family Matters: Despite how often he gets on their nerves, the Winslows always come to appreciate Urkel's good intentions, his company, and his inner strength.
www.commonsensemedia.org /tv-reviews/Family-Matters.html   (842 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Chuck Cunningham syndrome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chuck Cunningham syndrome is a term that refers to a television series in which a main character or a character otherwise important to the show's plot is removed without explanation.
Family Matters: Judy Winslow and Aunt Rachael disappeared from the series without explanation, with Aunt Rachael even abandoning her son (the real reason was that Telma Hopkins was given her own sitcom, Getting By, at the time).
Jump to: navigation, search Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade.
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 Encyclopedia: Family Matters (television)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Family Matters was a sitcom based on a middle class fl family living in Chicago that ran from 1989 to 1998 on ABC and CBS.
Steve Urkel, played by Jaleel White, was the most famous character on the show, an intelligent, awkward nerd who often inappropriately interjected himself into Winslow family affairs.
Introduced in 1989, he was intended as a sporadic character, but was received so enthusiastically that he became a regular.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Family-Matters-(television)   (409 words)

  
 Family Matters TV Show - Family Matters Television Show - TV.com
A perfect spin-off from Perfect Strangers: Family Matters focused on Harriet Winslow (the elevator operator from the Chronicle) and her family of sorts.
But, nevertheless, Family Matters had a great successful run and is one of the longest running African-American comedies ever, next to The Jeffersons and The Cosby Show.
Episodes: 215 Color Episodes', 'A perfect spin-off from Perfect Strangers: Family Matters focused on Harriet Winslow (the elevator operator from the Chronicle) and her family of sorts.
www.tv.com /family-matters/show/474/summary.html   (1091 words)

  
 Family Matters -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Through one family, Mistry conveys everything from the dilemmas among India's Parsis, Persian-descended (Follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism) Zoroastrians, to the wider concerns of corruption and (Loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole) communalism.
Some of the action takes place in Chateau Facility, a flat inhabited by a 79-year old, (British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)) Parkinson's-stricken Nariman, who is the decaying patriarch and a widower with a small, discordant family consisting of his two middle-aged step children: Coomy (bitter and domineering) and Jal (mild-mannered and subservient).
In the (A short passage added at the end of a literary work) epilogue, the youngest of all characters, Jehangir, becomes the narrator, describing the metamorphosis that religion, age, death, and wealth bring to his family.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/family_matters.htm   (504 words)

  
 Dover Community News Family Matters: How to handle television taking over your lives
Television can be an entertainer and an educator, a stress-relieving diversion and a path to the thoughts of my sometimes reticent preteens, and Matthew can be relied upon to watch at least half of “Sesame Street” every morning — 30 minutes in which I assure you I get a lot accomplished.
Television shouldn’t be the activity of choice because it’s easy — in fact, we should be more wary of it because it’s so easy and so often counterproductive.
We never eat dinner in front of the television, because Tom and I feel we need that time to connect eye to eye with the kids and each other, and homework is never done in front of the television in our home and it never will be.
www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/dover/d9_24fam.htm   (1172 words)

  
 Family_Matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Family Matters is the third book by the critically acclaimed Indian-born author Rohinton Mistry.
It is set in the city of Bombay, where Mistry was born and grew up, and tells the story of a middle-class Parsi family living through a domestic crisis.
Through one family, Mistry conveys everything from the dilemmas among India's Parsis, Persian-descended Zoroastrians, to the wider concerns of corruption and communalism.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Family_Matters   (479 words)

  
 Family Matters - The beginning of the show
Spin-offs are usually inferior to their source material, but Family Matters soon proved it had one of the best acting ensembles in TV comedy.
All of these characters interact with speed and snappiness- Family Matters is directed with the slamming-door precision of a good Broadway farce-and the writing is sharp.
Family Matters offers a picture of fl family life that takes its middle- class ordinariness for granted, which is unusual for TV.
www.kellie-williams.com /begin.htm   (1651 words)

  
 Family Matters TV Show - Family Matters Television Show - TV.com
Family Matters focused on Harriet Winslow (the elevator operator from the Chronicle) and her family of sorts.
Carl Winslow, her husband, was a dutiful cop, and a gruff and lovable father to three kids: Eddie Winslow, the rebel son; Laura Winslow, the smart-alec daughter; and cute little Judy Winslow.
Family Ties first aired in September of 1982 on NBC and was one of the first of a wave of family comedies that emerged in the 1980's.
www.tvtome.com /tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-474   (472 words)

  
 RAISIN-Family Matters
With family issues - and education in particular - ranking highest among those Americans take into account when casting a vote, the positions of the two parties will be closely scrutinized as the nation prepares to choose its 43rd president.
But in the process, he gave parents entertainment for their youngsters that was enchanting and inspirational, putting technology to the use of telling the children's stories that have lasted for generations.
Johnson's determination revealed that the girl she delivered was being raised in another part of Virginia and - in a tragic twist that further complicated the problem - by three sets of grandparents, because the parents had died in a car accident on July 4th.
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 Family Matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Family matters was stupid to begin with and when they went to college it was even stupider.
I think Family Matters really jumped the shark around Season 7 when Urkel moved in although there were things in season 5 and 6 that annoyed me like Judy's disapperance, and it was like she never even existed, Stefan Urquelle, and Carl becoming an Urkel but it was still watchable then.
Family Matters was a pretty crappy show from the get-go but it really JTS when it became the Urkel show.
www.jumptheshark.com /f/familymatters.htm   (20605 words)

  
 Actor Jaleel White--Steve Urkel on TV--is dead-Fiction!
Michael Warren, the Executive Producer of Family Matters told TruthOrFiction.com that the Steve Urkel character was originally written into just one episode in the first season.
White's performance was such a hit with the live audience, however, and eventually with the television audience, that he became a regular from the second season to the end of the show.
Following the cancellation of "Family Matters" in 1997, friends claim White became obsessed with the character, and grew despondent, despite further successes as star and producer of the UPN sitcom "Grownups", and as a writer for NBA.com
www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/j/jaleelwhite.htm   (512 words)

  
 Jet: 'Family Matters.' TV's longest-running Black show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
And the hit TV series, "Family Matters" has been providing such wholesome entertainment for eight seasons and currently is TV's longest-running Black show.
The Harriette Winslow character came into existence two years earlier with Payton Noble as the tart-tongued elevator operator of the former series, "Perfect Strangers." Harriette became such a hit with viewers that the producers created "Family Matters" as a spinoff for her to star and cast VelJohnson as her husband, Chicago police officer Carl Winslow.
VelJohnson believes "Family Matters," which will air on CBS in the fall, has lasted so long because it appeals to Blacks and Whites.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n2_v92/ai_19487249   (844 words)

  
 'Lift Off' for Children's Television - Family Matters - Journal article - Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
It has become obvious from our analyses of family support, youth homelessness, child abuse, and divorce outcomes that parenting skills are central to both family stability and positive child development.
I have argued repeatedly (see Director's Reports in Family Matters) that support for those who take on the task of raising children is a key concern of family policy.
I have suggested that families should be 're-surrounded', the generations re-linked (Family Matters, No.25, December 1989), so that the whole community has a stake in the growth to full potential of every child.
www.aifs.gov.au /institute/pubs/fm1/fm27/de1.html   (1338 words)

  
 Family Matters (television)
The show was an spinoff of Perfect Strangers focused on the character of Harriet Winslow and her family which included her husband Carl Winslow who was a police officer, her rebel son Edward "Eddie" Winslow, her smart daughter Laura Winslow and her youngest child Judy Winslow.
One day an nerd named Steve Urkel came by and barged into the family and caused some trouble towards the family and had an major crush on Laura.
During the final season the show has moved to CBS and in December 1997 the original actress Jo Marie Payton who played Harriet has left and actress Judyann Elder had took over.
www.ukpedia.com /f/family-matters-television-.html   (241 words)

  
 Family Matters - Home of the Winslows and Steve Urkel
Now under one bulging roof, this extended family of seven redefines the word "togetherness" as their home splits at the seams with chaos, confusion and laughter.
Like many dads, he is beleaguered, put-upon and taken for granted, and charged with putting bread on the table, doing household repairs and suffering the traditional "slings and arrows" of fatherhood, such as tax return preparation, hormonal teenagers, and the annoying and inventively irritating suitor of his daughter, Steve Urkel (White).
As for Carl, no matter how hard he tries to avoid Urkel, he is often the victim of the young man's string of mishaps and accidents.
www.kellie.de /familymatters.htm   (692 words)

  
 Family Matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I have many favorite episodes of Family Matters and I hope that Michelle Thomas who played Myra rests in peace because she died in 1998 of ovarian cancer.
Welcome to Family Matters: Family Matters is a non-profit ministry whose goal is to equip families for every age and stage of life.
Welcome to Family Matters: Family Matters is a non-profit ministry whose goal is to see families transformed by God into instruments of restoration and reformation by equipping...
www.elipsiselectronics.com /B00005JO2V/Family_Matters.html   (809 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This is a family who like the Colfax family, made sure their children were NOT isolated, but were instead exposed to a variety of activities, be they cultural, political, academic and environmental.
It's been a while since I ready Guterson's "Family Matters," but it remains the single most important book I've read about homeschooling, even though we were already committed to and in the midst of homeschooling when I read it.
I do not agree with all of his opinions: my family's "unschooling" approach would probably be on the radical fringe in his eyes; also, I don't believe most homeschoolers trust the "system" enough to want to cooperate with it.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156300001?v=glance   (3557 words)

  
 STARTING POINT: Today's Image Culture and Why Media Literacy Matters
In the recent movie Avalon, Barry Levinson's sensitive film portrait of an immigrant family before and after World War II, the delivery of the family's first TV set is portrayed as a significant milestone.
Three generations of Krichinskys squeeze together in front of their tiny new television set and stare vacantly at a fl and white test pattern.
In each of these public events, the television camera is not just a neutral recorder but a major player providing the powerful images that shapes not only our perception of the events, but the events themselves.
www.medialit.org /reading_room/article100.html   (964 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Family matters
He argues, in a scientific journal published yesterday, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that chimpanzees should be included with humans in the same evolutionary grouping.
They are already grouped with humans as family (as opposed to genus).
Small knots of cooing visitors gathered round the gorilla, while the family of three chimps were largely ignored.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,960125,00.html   (2058 words)

  
 Family Matters - The Cast
On the Family Matters set, he "liked playing pranks like rigging the dressing rooms so people couldn't get out," says director John Tracy.
Family Matters "had been stagnating my creativity," she says.
LeNoire made her first television appearance in the 40s as part of a Revlon experiment in TV technology.
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 Family Matters TV Show - AOL Television
Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class, fl family living in Chicago.
Family Matters TV Show, TV.com is your reference guide to Family Matters Show.
Get Family Matters TV show listings, episode guide, Family Matters cast and crew, Family Matters recaps, video clips, Family Matters spoilers, Family Matters DVDs and more on AOL Television.
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 DarkWorlds - The ultimate portal for dark fantasy, science fiction and horror news, culture, art, collectibles, ...
The primary theme of the fourth season was "family." From the Thanksgiving dream-scene that gets the season rolling to the new family created for Connor in the finale, the subject continually surfaces, including the toast that is given in both scenes ("To family." — Wesley and Angel in DEEP DOWN, and Connor in HOME).
Cordelia uses her pregnancy to draw Connor into her plans, with the promise of a happy family unit touted as the reward.
Families are destroyed, including the Ra-Tet and that of the Svea Priestesses.
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 home matters television show & Everything For The Home
Home Matters is not currently airing on the Discovery Channel.
Matters was a sitcom based on an middle class fl family living in Chicago that ran from 1989 to 1998 on ABC and CBS.
Nanoo, Nanoo?" What show was Family Matters a spin-off...
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 Family Matters
They won't pay attention to media reports about the economy unless it affects them personally -- for example, if a parent or friend's family member loses their job, or if family finances affect what he is able to do or buy.
In these cases, honestly explain the situation in simple terms and reassure him that no one is going to end up in the "poor house." Explain how savings accounts, extended family, and government programs exist to ensure there will always be food and shelter for him.
If television news presents money matters in a way that's too advanced, confusing, or boring, try reading the newspaper together.
www.scholastic.com /familymatters/raisingkids/money.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Family Matters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families, where parents can go to work confident their children are supported by quality health coverage, a positive media environment, a good early education, and safe and enriching activities after school.
The characters they admire and the news stories they watch send both subtle and explicit signals about their values, their families and their race.
Children believe that television news media portrays races very differently, showing African-Americans and Latinos in a negative light more often than Asians and whites.
ces.ca.uky.edu /jefferson/fcs/fmoct02.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Family matters
"There were six kids in the family," she said.
Nelson has worked with younger couples just starting their lives together who do not have a lot.
Ten years later, they have a home and family, and she said it makes her feel good to have "really made a difference in their world."
www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2003/December_03/12023003_01.asp   (441 words)

  
 FAMILY MATTERS
Special thanks to Sobell on `Television Without Pity" — if it wasn't for the BoP recapÂ…I wouldn't have had a narrative leg to stand on.
Gil began shifting in his seat, his body language telegraphing the obvious fact that he was growing more and more uncomfortable with the discussion.
There was a situation that had to be fixed in the family.
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