The Parent 'Hood

The Parent 'Hood was a WB network sitcom starring Robert Townsend (who also created the show along with Andrew Nicholls & Darren Vickers) which premiered on January 18, 1995.

The cast members throughout the run of the series consisted of Suzzanne Douglas, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Kenny Blank, Curtis Williams, Ashli Amari Adams, Tyrone Dorzell Burton, Bobby McGee, Carol Woods, Faizon Love and Kelly Perine.

In May of 1998, the show was slated to be cancelled by the WB network, but it gave it a last-minute 13 episode renewal for midseason. The final season of "The 'Parent Hood" was placed on hiatus and didn't air until May 23, 1999 (a year after the end of the show's fourth season aired).

On July 25, 1999, the series was cancelled after 5 seasons and 90 episodes.

Plot
Set in Harlem, New York, the show was about an upper middle-class African-American family the Petersons that consisted of college professor Robert & law student Jerri with their four children: Michael, Zaria, Nicholas and Cece.

Wendell was Michael's childhood friend who left the show during the 4th season.

At the beginning of the 1997-98 season, Michael was written out of the series with his absence explained as him going off to college. Robert allowed a troubled teenager named T.K. Anderson to live with the family.

In the final season, Michael's brother, Kelly appeared on the show.

Robert's love for his kids (combined with his vivid imagination (which prompted frequent fantasy sequences) and impulsive energy propels him to do extraordinary things on their behalf as he continually dreams up nontraditional solutions to traditional family problems.

Cast

 * Robert Townsend as Robert Peterson
 * Suzzanne Douglas as Jerri Peterson
 * Kenny Blank as Michael Peterson (seasons 1 through 3)
 * Reagan Gomez-Preston as Zaria Peterson
 * Curtis Williams as Nicholas Peterson
 * Ashli Amari Adams as Cece Peterson
 * Faizon Love as Wendell Wilcox (seasons 1 through 4)
 * Tyrone Dorzell Burton as T.K. Anderson (seasons 4 through 5)
 * Kelly Perine as Kelly Peterson (season 5 only)