Hi...I´m kinda new here...I´m a big Roseanne and Cosby Show fan...and love sitcoms in general...well...I guess I wouldn´t be here if it wasn´t so....

So now my question....In the early 90s TV Programm Pro7 (Germany) showed a sitcom....I kinda enjoyed but don´t remember the name....since it was aired in Germany in the early 90s...it could have been taped in the late 80s....but I don´t know for sure.....

The plot was....a black men with his two sons married a white woman and her one daughter (or was it two)....I don´t remember it so much nomore...unfortunately that´s all I remember about it....I think the woman had a mother who wasn´t really happy about the marriage at first....but I´m not really sure about that no more....

it would be great if You could help me

thx in advance

True Colors. It ran from 1990-1992.

thank you....that was quick

thank you....that was quick
You're welcome. I used to watch that show too. I thought it was pretty good. :)

Welcome to Sitcoms Online, BTW. :wave:

thx...are there any infos on these forums? I´ve searched thru the 90s sitcoms...and it´s not there...

thx...are there any infos on these forums? I´ve searched thru the 90s sitcoms...and it´s not there...

It doesn't have a forum for it. I guess a lot of people just don't remember it that well. Here's a photo of the cast though.

yeah that´s true...thank You for the picture...I remember one episode very well....it was a dance in school...and white and black kids couldn´t agree on the music, the younger boy wanted hip hop....the girl wanted GunsNRoses, that should be played....they had two different dances over there then....but the mood in both parties is bad....a asian boy comes and goes into the white dance room....he goes out, because he doesn´t fit in...then he goes into the black danceroom....and the same happens....the younger boy and the girl are both outside, because they don´t like the parties.....after some time, the younger of the boys puts a tape or cd in the player and plays some rnb or hip hop and stars a kinda line-dance in the hip hop style, along with his step-sister....soon kids from both parties come out and dance along....that´s pretty much the only episode I remember very well! but i loved the show

It doesn't have a forum for it. I guess a lot of people just don't remember it that well. Here's a photo of the cast though.

LITTLE REPLACES FAISON IN FOX'S `TRUE COLORS' (https://greensboro.com/little-replaces-faison-in-foxs-true-colors/article_c6ba16ef-5e44-5b95-a9b1-3ed3f977ad48.html)

PATRICIA BRENNAN The Washington Post Dec 20, 1991 Updated Jan 25,

Recently fans of Fox (https://dominiquemag.com/one-season-wonders-shows-we-miss-that-networks-gave-up-on-p572-176.htm)'s ``True Colors (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031132758/http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/truecolors.htm)' tuned in to find husband-dad Ron Freeman back from the dental (https://web.archive.org/web/20210701030526/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1991-12-13-9102210632-story.html) convention and looking different, somehow. A bit thinner, perhaps? A little older? Hmmmm. In fact, Frankie Faison had left the series (https://www.avclub.com/frankie-faison-on-bonding-with-hannibal-lecter-and-stru-1833859430), and Cleavon Little had taken his place (https://www.deseret.com/1991/12/11/18956341/just-a-few-more-fascinating-vidbits-from-that-always-wacky-world-of-tv). Think Ellen Freeman (Stephanie Faracy) noticed? Or the kids in this racially blended (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-09-02-9008310351-story.html) family? As it turned out, not at all.

Little (https://books.google.com/books?id=v8IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=True+Colors+Cleavon+Little+fox&source=bl&ots=lC2bvvKidw&sig=ACfU3U1urYOqzjZv4c2EVUZR0S1EHLI1yw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjInNHVwN_8AhVPIkQIHXgjCJ44WhDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=True%20Colors%20Cleavon%20Little%20fox&f=false), an accomplished stage actor (https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=True+Colors+Frankie+Faison+fox&source=bl&ots=993NPvOFkq&sig=ACfU3U2H0p7HaXSagH8fmW1q7aPhjM2rbA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAl-yexN_8AhWhmmoFHQGmDGY4MhDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=True%20Colors%20Frankie%20Faison%20fox&f=false) who has both a Tony (for the Broadway show ``Purlie') and an Emmy (for a guest role on ``Dear John'), brings a talent for comedy that surfaced in 1974, when he played the new sheriff in town in Mel Brooks's movie comedy, ``Blazing Saddles.'

Little said executive producer (https://tulsaworld.com/archive/whatever-happened-to-richard-jaeckel/article_933415b6-b5f7-5abc-9758-16889d82884f.html) Michael J. Weithorn was initially interested in casting him for the role (https://books.google.com/books?id=d7kDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=True+Colors+Cleavon+Little+fox&source=bl&ots=i2HH2Rmngc&sig=ACfU3U1xIODnN8gw1KMaGfBlqadswCYENA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixu4T_v9_8AhWdCTQIHYlqBOo4MhDoAXoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q=True%20Colors%20Cleavon%20Little%20fox&f=false) of Ron Freeman, but Little said he had other obligations. Faison was not happy in the series (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1991-08-22-9108220260-story.html), Little said, and looked toward theatrical movies. (He turned up in a small role in ``The Silence of the Lambs.')

Now, after the audience is used to his presence, Little said, he plans to encourage the show's writers to address the racial issues they've tended to skirt.

``The major effort is to get my character established,' he said. ``I think my own brand of charm, or charisma, could be a factor that works for the piece. The Fox people seem to be happy about it. Because of the nature of what the show's about, because of the controversial element, we could write in more of those issues hopefully next year.'

But making his fifth episode, he said the story lines are pretty much the same as they have been, focusing on family (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-04-tv-127-story.html) comedy (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/04/arts/review-television-black-sitcoms-steeped-in-concept.html) and less on issues.

But by his own admission, Little hasn't ``done much at this level' - a series lead - on television. He's done a lot of guest spots, including appearing on NBC's ``Dear John' as Tony, a lonely gay man who becomes entranced with John Lacey (Judd Hirsch). The performance, which included a long on-the-mouth kiss between the two men, won Little an Emmy.

In fact, Hirsch and Little have been friends since 1968, he said, when the two appeared in an off-Broadway production, ``Scuba Duba.' In 1986 the two starred in ``I'm Not Rappoport,' playing octogenarians. Little won praise for his role, but Hirsch won the Tony. Hirsch called Little onstage when he accepted the award, and together they took the show on the road for a year.

``I told him, 'I earned you a Tony, you earned me an Emmy,' ' Little said.

This time his friend on ``True Colors (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1991/07/28/true-colors/b8a70de2-39f0-4752-9f2e-793199579a73/)' is the actress who plays his wife, Stephanie Faracy, with whom he made a movie called ``Scavenger Hunt' in 1979. The movie had a formidable cast that also included Cloris Leachman, Richard Benjamin, Scatman Crothers, Ruth Gordon, Robert Morley, Richard Mulligan, Tony Randall and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, but was critically panned. Nevertheless, Little made friends he's kept.

``Stephanie and I and Roddy McDowell and Jimmy Coco, God rest his merry soul, we sort of hung out with each other. So it was a pleasure, the thought of coming to her series. I've enjoyed doing it.'

LITTLE REPLACES FAISON IN FOX'S `TRUE COLORS' (https://greensboro.com/little-replaces-faison-in-foxs-true-colors/article_c6ba16ef-5e44-5b95-a9b1-3ed3f977ad48.html)

Faison didn’t like that the kids were getting all of the storylines so he left. ‘Lester’(Adam Jeffries) became the ‘breakout character’ with his brother ‘Terry’(Claude Brooks) his main straight man. When Little came on board there were episodes about issues. One episode in particular may have led to this show’s cancellation. There was an episode where ‘Lester’ and ‘Terry’ were falsely accused of stealing from a hardware store. This episode really made the fox executive’s mad. The ratings for the second season were higher than the first, but Fox decided to stop showing True Colors for about three weeks during the month of February. They cut the season and when the show came back the ratings dropped. They showed 21 episodes and then cancelled it.

LITTLE REPLACES FAISON IN FOX'S `TRUE COLORS' (https://greensboro.com/little-replaces-faison-in-foxs-true-colors/article_c6ba16ef-5e44-5b95-a9b1-3ed3f977ad48.html)

I wonder why Cleavon Little (https://historicimages.com/cdn/shop/products/adx743.jpeg?v=1497057009) was hired to headline a sitcom (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/h0QAAOSwzkpnlIiA/s-l500.jpg) in the first place given his ill health (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098933/) at the time (https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Cleavon-Little-go-on-to-make-many-more-feature-films-after-Blazing-Saddles/answer/Jon-Mixon-1).

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The final new episode of True Colors aired on April 12, 1992 (https://www.tvtango.com/listings/1992/04/12). Cleavon Little would (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/obituaries/cleavon-little-award-winning-actor-dies-at-53.html) succumb (https://findadeath.com/cleavon-little/) to colon cancer (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5795901/cleavon-little) on October 22, 1992 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/22/Actor-Cleavon-Little-dead-of-cancer/4599719726400/).

LITTLE REPLACES FAISON IN FOX'S `TRUE COLORS' (https://greensboro.com/little-replaces-faison-in-foxs-true-colors/article_c6ba16ef-5e44-5b95-a9b1-3ed3f977ad48.html)

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Promoting the December 15, 1991 (https://www.tvtango.com/listings/1991/12/15/true_colors) airing of S2 Ep11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXUSL0qgbqs) "Broken Home: Part 1" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1603212/).


Profile Cleavon Little Assumes Lead In True Colors. - Page 18 (https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSdKAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=1315,2363194&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ6AF6BAgJEAM)

Lifestyle - Page 15 (https://books.google.com/books?id=L5ccAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=4666,2030835&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ6AF6BAgHEAM)

Cleavon Little Jumps Rignt In As True Colors Gets New Dad. ... - Page 8 (https://books.google.com/books?id=FnxGAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=3294,6364057&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ6AF6BAgFEAM)

Celebrity Mailbag. - Page 14 (https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgxAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=6012,6983078&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ6AF6BAgLEAM)

Hume Cronyn Stars In Cbs Yule Movie. By Jon Burlingame. - Page 23 (https://www.google.com/search?q=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&sca_esv=ba24c2d2484ecd3d&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s&sxsrf=AE3TifOKGCgv9lLYpOtAcOtTqlE-U4hhiQ:1756333600520&ei=IIavaLDJH6fgwN4P3ObDuAs&start=10&sa=N&sstk=Ac65TH4wU5DwbC9xWgu2hQlEB-UEvMNHXXk12wWR2UgVWLpeyJonmiDs4kjliSn7KtGriYa4CNnved1F18KnqBVn50plqYbTH6qe_A&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ8tMDegQIAhAE&biw=1600&bih=773&dpr=1)

Pooh And Fred Headline Holiday Treats. - Page 10 (https://books.google.com/books?id=O0NTAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=6919,6288667&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi80-nThayPAxXN4skDHfieC5c4ChDoAXoECAoQAw)

'Home.. Tube Notes. - Page 40 (https://www.google.com/search?q=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&sca_esv=ba24c2d2484ecd3d&udm=36&tbs=bkt:s&sxsrf=AE3TifOKGCgv9lLYpOtAcOtTqlE-U4hhiQ:1756333600520&ei=IIavaLDJH6fgwN4P3ObDuAs&start=10&sa=N&sstk=Ac65TH4wU5DwbC9xWgu2hQlEB-UEvMNHXXk12wWR2UgVWLpeyJonmiDs4kjliSn7KtGriYa4CNnved1F18KnqBVn50plqYbTH6qe_A&ved=2ahUKEwiw2fbChKyPAxUnMNAFHVzzELcQ8tMDegQIAhAE&biw=1600&bih=773&dpr=1)

Jason And Jeremy London: Twins Loaded With Talent. - Page 34 (https://books.google.com/books?id=4dhYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=6964,3818529&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAnOerhqyPAxVPG9AFHTO6EEg4FBDoAXoECAUQAw)

The Deseret News - Page 13 (https://books.google.com/books?id=OENTAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA13&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors&article_id=6024,5157993&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAnOerhqyPAxVPG9AFHTO6EEg4FBDoAXoECAsQAw)

Jet - Nov 4, 1991 - Page 60 (https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd2aHghqyPAxUb4MkDHcM6NYMQ6AF6BAgIEAM)

Jet - Jan 13, 1992 - Page 35 (https://books.google.com/books?id=d7kDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd2aHghqyPAxUb4MkDHcM6NYMQ6AF6BAgJEAM)

Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s: A Complete Guide - Page 255 (https://books.google.com/books?id=C3JuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA255&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd2aHghqyPAxUb4MkDHcM6NYMQ6AF6BAgHEAM)

Historical Dictionary of African American Television - Page 472 (https://books.google.com/books?id=a0yAEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA472&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd2aHghqyPAxUb4MkDHcM6NYMQ6AF6BAgMEAM)

The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented ... (https://books.google.com/books?id=zOV3EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA118&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi05teNiKyPAxUUm2oFHT7VF584ChDoAXoECAkQAw)

Jet - Nov 16, 1992 - Page 15 (https://books.google.com/books?id=v8IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Cleavon+Little+True+Colors+Fox&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi05teNiKyPAxUUm2oFHT7VF584ChDoAXoECAoQAw)