Season 4 (1997)

House Arrest
8.0

September 7, 1997 • 30m

16 year old TK tries tosteal from the Petersons and Jerri decides to save him from the criminal justice system. She brings him int...Read more

Curfew-sion
8.0

September 14, 1997 • 30m

T.K.'s stay is negatively affecting the younger kids: he's got Nicholas and Cece talking trash and flashing gang signs. Meanwhile,...Read more

No Soul on Ice
8.0

September 21, 1997 • 30m

Nicholas faces off against a racist hockey coach who believes that the game is ""not the sport for (black) people."" Meanwhile, Za...Read more

Beauty Call
8.0

September 28, 1997 • 30m

Zaria tries to become part of an elite, all-girls social group at school, but the price of admission may be too much for her consc...Read more

Wendell and I Spy
8.0

October 5, 1997 • 30m

After Robert hesitates to call T.K. on his need to have a personal pager, he overhears the boy making a deal to have some ""stuff"...Read more

Father Wendell
8.0

October 12, 1997 • 30m

Robert and Jerri smell a rat when Wendell's former lover show up claiming he's the father of her 10-year-old son. Meanwhile, T.K. ...Read more

Zaria Peterson's Day Off
8.0

October 26, 1997 • 30m

Zaria recruits T.K. to help spy on her father, whom she suspects is having an affair. Meanwhile, after learning that with weddings...Read more

The Play's the Thang
8.0

November 2, 1997 • 30m

Nicholas writes a play for the school arts festival, but has problems with the star --Wendell -- who wants to make his role as a g...Read more

Don't Go There
8.0

November 9, 1997 • 30m

When Nicholas' best friend Drew is abducted from school, Nicholas refuses to leave the house for fear he will be next. Meanwhile, ...Read more

Fast Cash
8.0

November 16, 1997 • 30m

When T.K. gets a job at a pizza place, two of his old street homeys smell a target for a holdup, and try to get T.K. to cut them i...Read more

Bad Rap
9.0

November 23, 1997 • 30m

Zaria's lovestruck friend Jasmine is making beautiful music with her new rap-star boyfriend, but his act hits a sour note with Zar...Read more

Me and Ms. Robinson
8.0

December 7, 1997 • 30m

Nick and T.K. have crushes on older women -- the former on Zaria's friend Jamie, the latter on Jerri's new intern.

Money Shot
8.0

January 11, 1998 • 30m

Racketeer Sony offers T.K. big money to throw the next basketball game; Nicholas tries to manipulate Cece and Jesse and profit fro...Read more

Stand by Boo
8.0

January 18, 1998 • 30m

T.K.'s friend Boo, who's ""the smartest high-school dropout (he) knows,"" prepares for her general-equivalency diploma with help f...Read more

A Sister Scorned
9.0

February 1, 1998 • 30m

Jerri's now beautiful fashion-photographer sister Celeste develops a plan to get back at Wendell, who incessantly taunted her when...Read more

Flaked Out
8.0

February 8, 1998 • 30m

Zaria's special 17th birthday outing turns into a real disaster - a natural one - after a blizzard hits, stranding her and her gir...Read more

Color Him Father
8.0

February 15, 1998 • 30m

TK doesn't want to attend the basketball team's Father & Son banquet because his father is in jail for the past 10 years. Meanwhil...Read more

I Want My Z-TV
7.0

February 22, 1998 • 30m

Zaria becomes ""the voice of teenage America"" as host of a New York-based TV talk show aimed at fellow high-schoolers. But succes...Read more

An Affair to Forget
8.0

March 1, 1998 • 30m

On an awards show telecast, a famous singer credits Robert with teaching her ""all about love and passion."" Meanwhile, flirtatiou...Read more

Hurricane Linda
8.0

April 26, 1998 • 30m

Things get tense when Jerri's best friend Linda blows into town and meddles in everything about the Peterson household.

Here Comes Z Bride
8.0

May 3, 1998 • 30m

Zariah and her new boyfriend decide to get married. Meanwhile Nicholas wants to try boxing.

'Hood Sweet 'Hood (1)
6.0

May 17, 1998 • 30m

TK ponders violence after being assualted in front of Nicholas. He gets a gun and threatens to shoot Stone, but Robert talks him ...Read more