It dealt by owning a put-on of troika African-American teens living in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Ernest Thomas played Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson played Dwayne Nelson, and Fred Berry played Freddy "Rerun" Stubbs. Too featured were Danielle Spencer as Roger's younger sister, Dee, Mabel King as their mother, Mabel, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson, the waitress at "Rob's Place", a boys' favourite eating house. More recurring characters involved Diane Harris (Debbi Morgan), an attractive girl who two Roger & Run liked, & Miss Collins (Fritzi Burr), the boys' sarcastic history teacher & a sponsor of the school newspaper, of which Roger was the editor.

A stories revolved as much as a several schemes that a boys cooked higher. Unlike Good Times, not tons of their schemes revolved around acquiring money to leave a ghetto. Numerous days, the boys schemed to locate a date for the dance. Sometimes, the boys scalped deuce loose tickets to a Stevie Wonder concert in order to purchase 3 seats of lesser value and then Roger wouldn't develop to take between Run & Dwayne. Predictably, a boys "sold" their tickets to the officer & were arrested. Eventually supplementary schemes required sustaining back at Roger's sister Dee, world health organization was known to become somewhat awful besides as a nosey-parker.

Seen less oft was Bill Thomas (played by Thalmus Rasulala), Mabel's ex-husb& & a father of Roger and Dee. He divorced Mabel, ran out in his personal, & became the shady kind of character. Whenever he come back into a passes of his youngsters 10 years when he left the two, he was viewed by having suspicion by 100% members of the home. Whilst he tried to work authoritarian toward Dee in Christmas, she vented her frustrations at Roger, telling him that she hated their father. Proving that she truly was adept inside, Dee told Roger in the future that she didn't mean it, & asked him whenever God was angry at her for saying people mean items.

a indicate was a mild profits around its network dog inside spite of a select few good production problems, & the repetition of the indicate's 65 episodes did substantially easily around syndication. By using this around mind, the revival of the indicate was produced entitled ''What's Happening Now!!'' It ran from 1985 to 1988 in first-run syndication.

TV Land will start airing Whats Occurrence!!! this November at 11PM eastern instance.

Tons of the indicate's 65 episodes stand been freed in Region One DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.