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There’s no place like home especially if it’s one smack in the middle of the 80’s.

- The series was adapted from a stage play about women in a predominantly Black urban apartment building. Marla Gibbs starred in the play.

227 Minisode

Rating: TV-PG Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

There’s no place like home, as the theme song goes. For housekeeper Mary, her husband Lester and daughter Brenda, home was apartment building 227… located smack in the middle of the 1980s. Come on in.

Starring:

Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Regina King, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin, Curtis Baldwin, Jackée Harry

Letter To The President

(4:59)

By: The Minisode Network Released: 7/10/2009 Genre: Comedy

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Guest star alert. Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!) plays a U.S. Secret Service agent who informs Mary that the President himself is going to pay a visit. Why? Mary wrote a letter complaining about pot holes in the street. Hey, it could happen.