it involved three known black stars

jaleel White
Gladys Knight
Flip Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNaOdv2LlI&feature=related

it involved three known black stars

jaleel White
Gladys Knight
Flip Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNaOdv2LlI&feature=related


I would love it if they aired this.

Kristoff St John is pretty well known.

I remember when it aired but I never watched it.

I remember when it aired but I never watched it.


Someone mentioned on youtube that the show went up against Dynasty:lol:

Someone mentioned on youtube that the show went up against Dynasty:lol:
Yea it did. I just checked at what I watched in that timeslot. It was a short lived NBC Drama starring accused murderer Robert Blake called Helltown. lol

Yea it did. I just checked at what I watched in that timeslot. It was a short lived NBC Drama starring accused murderer Robert Blake called Helltown. lol


It was stupid to air that show at 9pm. It was a family show and should have been aired at 8pm. And when CBS did put it in the 8pm slot in was in July after the 1st season was completed. Too late by that time LOL

It was stupid to air that show at 9pm. It was a family show and should have been aired at 8pm. And when CBS did put it in the 8pm slot in was in July after the 1st season was completed. Too late by that time LOL
That's true and back then no new show had a chance against Dynasty. Maybe they thought that the family audience was watching Highway to Heaven at 8 but that show was still easier to go against then Dynasty.

That's true and back then no new show had a chance against Dynasty. Maybe they thought that the family audience was watching Highway to Heaven at 8 but that show was still easier to go against then Dynasty.


Since the show was a obvious response to the Cosby Show, CBS should have placed it at 8pm on Thursdays lol


Strange that only Webster, and Who's the Boss were the only comedies at 8pm during the week

I remember when it aired but I never watched it.

What show is it?

What show is it?
Charlie and Company

I remember watching this show during its original run. And there was some channel that I had on my satellite dish that played reruns of it during the early 90's. I used to play with a tape recorder when I was a kid. A few years ago I was going through the old cassettes and one of them had an 8 year old me talking about this show. :lol:

I remember watching this show during its original run. And there was some channel that I had on my satellite dish that played reruns of it during the early 90's. I used to play with a tape recorder when I was a kid. A few years ago I was going through the old cassettes and one of them had an 8 year old me talking about this show. :lol:


I have 2 eps on from CBS. Wish I had more

Someone mentioned on youtube that the show went up against Dynasty:lol:


I didn't watch Dynasty. I was watching "Charlie and Company". BET aired reruns one year later. I loved the show in part because Jaleel White was in it.

I didn't watch Dynasty. I was watching "Charlie and Company". BET aired reruns one year later. I loved the show in part because Jaleel White was in it.


BET aired eps when?

BET aired eps when?

Spring 1987

Spring 1987


Well I didn't have cable until the summer of 88:lol:

Well I didn't have cable until the summer of 88:lol:


See what you miss out on when you don't have cable? LOL. I used to watch the show on CBS. I thought it was great.

See what you miss out on when you don't have cable? LOL. I used to watch the show on CBS. I thought it was great.


I have 2 CBS episodes that I may watch this weekend since I been talking about it. A christmas episode and another episode.

Since the show was a obvious response to the Cosby Show, CBS should have placed it at 8pm on Thursdays lol


Strange that only Webster, and Who's the Boss were the only comedies at 8pm during the week

Difficult to say if putting the show in a different time slot would have helped matters any. I think CBS just took a gamble that Flip Wilson in a family sitcom would pull in high ratings like Cosby did with his show, but the gamble failed.

Difficult to say if putting the show in a different time slot would have helped matters any. I think CBS just took a gamble that Flip Wilson in a family sitcom would pull in high ratings like Cosby did with his show, but the gamble failed.


We don't know if the show would have competed with the Cosby show for viewers because CBS was too scared to take the risk

We don't know if the show would have competed with the Cosby show for viewers because CBS was too scared to take the risk

I think it was mostly a case of the majority of viewers having the opinion that Charlie And Company was a cheap imitation of The Cosby Show, that's why ratings were low resulting in cancellation. CBS could have aired Charlie And Company any day and time they wanted, it likely wouldn't have made a difference, the show was destined to fail from the start. Interesting though to talk about it now years later after the fact, I had almost forgot that this show existed. :lol:

I think it was mostly a case of the majority of viewers having the opinion that Charlie And Company was a cheap imitation of The Cosby Show, that's why ratings were low resulting in cancellation. CBS could have aired Charlie And Company any day and time they wanted, it likely wouldn't have made a difference, the show was destined to fail from the start. Interesting though to talk about it now years later after the fact, I had almost forgot that this show existed. :lol:


To me it was a early Family Matters with no Urkel

To me it was a early Family Matters with no Urkel

Charlie And Company might have had a better chance to succeed if CBS hadn't tried to make it a clone of The Cosby Show. For example, they could have had Flip Wilson play a bachelor running his own business, surround him with a funny cast of characters and create funny situations instead of having him play a family man like Cosby did on his show. Flip Wilson as a family man didn't translate too well on TV, it wasn't his type of role so I think CBS should have taken a different approach with this series, a family sitcom wasn't really Flip Wilson's strength.

Charlie And Company might have had a better chance to succeed if CBS hadn't tried to make it a clone of The Cosby Show. For example, they could have had Flip Wilson play a bachelor running his own business, surround him with a funny cast of characters and create funny situations instead of having him play a family man like Cosby did on his show. Flip Wilson as a family man didn't translate too well on TV, it wasn't his type of role so I think CBS should have taken a different approach with this series, a family sitcom wasn't really Flip Wilson's strength.


But Cosby wasn't a family man on a sitcom until the 80's and did variety shows like Flip in the 70's. So I guess they figured, why not Flip?

But Cosby wasn't a family man on a sitcom until the 80's and did variety shows like Flip in the 70's. So I guess they figured, why not Flip?

Cosby was always good with kids, in his earlier sitcom from 1970 he wasn't a family man but he interacted with a lot of kids. I used to watch Flip Wilson's variety show in the early 70's but I don't recall if he had kids on there often or not. In a sitcom however, I think Flip Wilson would have had a better chance for success in a role as a single person as opposed to a family man with wife and children. As a family man, he didn't fit the role like Cosby did in The Cosby Show.