Sister, Sister (TV series)

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Sister, Sister
Sister, Sister: 1st season DVD (October 28th)
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Kim Bass Gary Gilbert Fred Shafferman
Starring	Tia Mowry Tamera Mowry Tim Reid Jackée Harry Marques Houston (seasons 1-5) RonReaco Lee (seasons 5-6) Deon Richmond (seasons 5-6)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	120 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Suzanne de Passe Suzanne Coston Sy Rosen (seasons 1-2) Brian Pollack & Mert Rich (season 3) Leslie Ray David Steven Simon (season 4) Rick Hawkins (seasons 5-6)
Camera setup	Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Production company(s)	de Passe Entertainment In Association With Paramount Television (now CBS Television Distribution)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1994-1995) The WB (1995-1999) Nickelodeon (UK)
Original run	April 1, 1994 – May 23, 1999

Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about identical twin girls (Tia and Tamera Mowry), separated and adopted at birth, who one day come face-to-face after 14 years apart. The series premiered during the 1993-94 season on ABC, was briefly canceled after the 1994-95 season; but The WB renewed the show for the 1995-96 season, continuing until May 23, 1999. Sister, Sister was a de Passe Entertainment Productions presentation and was produced in association with Paramount Television. Sister, Sister was a member of The WB's primetime line-up of The Parent 'Hood, The Wayans Bros. and others. The show stars twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry, Jackee Harry, Marques Houston and Tim Reid.

[edit] Premise

In the pilot, the twins are reunited during a chance encounter shopping at the mall with their adoptive parents. The premise is similar to the movie The Parent Trap, where a pair of separated-at-birth twins has a chance encounter at summer camp.

Tia Landry is the intelligent twin from inner-city Detroit, where her mother Lisa works as a seamstress; Tamera Campbell is the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs, where her father Ray owns a limousine service. After their unexpected encounter in the department store, Ray reluctantly allows Tia and Lisa to move in the house because they are going to move. The girls' neighbor is Roger Evans, an annoying teenager who is infatuated with both of them, and who evolves from a nerdy pest to a handsome gentleman. In the final season when the girls go off to college, Roger disappears from the series without any explanation.

In the sixth season episode Father's Day, the twins meet their biological father and learn he was white. He never married their mother because interracial marriage was very controversial at the time, and in his job as a photographer he traveled a lot. When the girls' mother died, he was not allowed to see them because he couldn't prove he was their father. When he searched for twins, he never found them because they had been separately adopted.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

• Tia Landry - is an All-American bookworm. At the top of her class in high school, she had aspirations to go to Harvard, but was rejected, and attended Michigan instead. Tia's main boyfriend is Ray's mechanic, Tyreke, who later joins and becomes a police escort at her college.
• Tamera Ann Campbell - is Tia's polar opposite in terms of personality. She is highly impulsive, and less intellectual than her sister, and a big fan of Coolio and Hush Puppies shoe brand. She can be smart when she wants to, but usually uses 'The Twin Thing' (a frequently-invoked plot mechanism, where the twins pretend to be each other) to pass difficult tests. Her main boyfriend is Jordan, who attends college with her.
• Lisa Landry Sims - is a fashion designer by trade. She is the adoptive mother of Tia, though she is more aligned with Tamera's personality, sometimes even being more impulsive, lustful, and reckless than her daughter's twin. She is prone to bouts of depression, during which she consumes high quantities of food. Lisa eventually becomes a Christian and she and Tia start going to Church with Tamera and Ray. She marries Victor Sims in the finale.
• Ray Campbell - is diametrically opposed to Lisa and Tamera's tendencies. A widower who runs a limousine service, he is highly conservative and level-headed. He is the adoptive father of Tamera. He is more successful in his business than he is in his romantic life, however, and his relationships with women are often short-lived. He is often seduced by both attractive women and not so attractive women, like a stocky friend of Lisa's and an overweight farmer missing several teeth. He briefly dated Lisa. Ray is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and the Republican Party.
• Roger Evans - is Tia and Tamera's annoying neighbor. Initially infatuated with Tamera, he was thrilled when he discovered that she had a twin sister, and frequently attempted to date either one of them. His advances were ill-received, however, and the repeated chorus by the various members of the household was "Go Home, Roger!" Roger eventually matures into the twins' confidante, and at some points even becomes a love interest for a short amount of time. Marques was also a member of the R&B group Immature (later known as IMx); His real life persona was written in as his character's cousin. After Tia and Tamera graduate from High School Roger isn't seen or mentioned again. He did appear in the final episode as a special guest at Lisa's wedding and sings. At the twins High School Graduation Rogers sings; "Never Say Goodbye".
• Tyreke Scott - is Tia's boyfriend. A high school drop-out, after receiving his GED, he is permitted to graduate with the girls and Jordan, and later attends and gets a job at the college they attend. He appears in Season 5 a recurring guest and is a series regular in Season 6.
• Jordan Bennett - is Tamera's boyfriend. He goes to college with the girls. He is goofy at times, and is just as impulsive as Tamera. He can be sexist at times, as well as Tamera can be toward men. Like Tyreke, He appears in Season 5 a recurring guest and is a series regular in Season 6.

[edit] Minor characters

• Tia and Tamera's real-life brother, Tahj Mowry, has appeared in three episodes of the series. He played Tia's cousin, Tahj, in "Get a Job", a kid visiting a "Mall Santa" in "Christmas", and appeared in a cross-over role in "Child's Play", in which he played T.J. Henderson, his character from fellow WB sitcom Smart Guy.
• Terrence Winningham, is the manager of the local supermarket who dated Lisa for a while and was very briefly engaged to her. Like Ray, many women are attracted to him, but unlike Ray, he seems to attract more pretty women and less not so pretty women. One of the reasons he and Lisa broke up was because of his weakness for gorgeous women. In "Field Trip", she catches him flirting with a sexy clerk at a beauty shop. After Season 3 Terrence isn't seen or mentioned again.
• Rhonda Coley, is the popular girl in Tia and Tamera's high school who always made fun of Tia and Tamera, especially their fashion choices and on her last time on the show, over summer break she changed her appearance. After Season 3 Rhonda isn't seen or mentioned again.
• Diavian Johnson, is the twins' best friend in the final two seasons (1997-1999).
• Victor Sims, is one of Ray's friends. who later becomes Lisa's love interest and later her husband in the series finale. Due to the series ending we'll never know if Victor adopts Tia.

[edit] Special guest appearances

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Theme Song

The series' theme song was written and composed by Tim Heintz, Randy Petersen and Kevin Quinn. Three versions of the original theme song were used from April 1994 to May 1997.

A new version of the show's theme was used starting in Season 5, composed by Heintz, Petersen, Quinn and Kurt Farquhar, who composed the music for the series, save for Season 3, when the music was composed by Paul A. Kreiling, and performed by Tia and Tamera Mowry.

Overall, there were six different versions of the intro. The only time the intro remained the exact same was between Seasons 3 and 4, which is when the girls got their new look as well, making the intro outdated for season 4. A video has been uploaded onto Youtube displaying the three major different introductions to the show. ^[1]

[edit] Syndication

On June 11, 2007, the show began airing on ABC Family.^[2] The series replaced Step by Step, but was knocked off two weeks later then returned in the early morning. In August 2009, Gospel Music Channel began airing the television series. The series has also aired on BET since July 2009, airing at 11:00AM/ET on Sundays, and at 11:00AM and 4:00PM/ET on weekdays.

The show aired on WGN America from September 11, 2007 until May 2009. The Disney Channel aired edited versions of the series from September 9, 2002 until May 28, 2007.^[3] The edited Disney Channel versions are the syndication package of the show that airs on sister network ABC Family, with the exception of a few episodes that were omitted from Disney Channel airings; whereas the airings on WGN America and BET were the original syndicated prints.

The Cable networks that are airing the reruns of the series in the U.S. have imposed restrictions to not allow any broadcast television networks from purchasing the rights to air the reruns again.

In the UK, Sister, Sister was aired on Nickelodeon, and on Channel 4 between 1995 and 2000 as the channel had the terrestrial rights to the show. Currently, it airs on Nickelodeon on Sky and Virgin Media at 8pm, every night. It also airs on RTÉ Two's The Den in Ireland at 11:30am on Saturdays.

In Brazil, Sister, Sister already aired on Nickelodeon, and on October 21, 2009 it debuted on open television Rede Record, but was taken off on October 30th, 2009, the cause for this is unknown.

[edit] Ratings

[edit] DVD Releases

CBS Home Entertainment (distributed by Paramount) has released the 1st & 2nd Seasons of Sister, Sister on DVD in Region 1. [1]

[edit] Trivia

• In the Family Guy episode, "Peter's Two Dads", Stewie is seen unwrapping Meg's birthday gifts and says, "Seasons 1 of Sister, Sister on DVD?". Cleveland then says offscreen, "You're welcome!". However, Season 1 had not been released at the time.
• In the Proud Family episode, Makeover, Oscar was talking about TV twins, and he mentioned Tia and Tamera, calling them, 'Sister, Sister Sisters'.
• In "A Friend Indeed" episode, they make reference to Steve Urkel.
• On the fellow WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood, season 2 episode, "I'm O'Tay, You're O-Tay", Michael chants at the snippet "oh, hey, it's Sister, Sister" where Zaria and CeCe look like twins on February 21, 1996 This series was the show that preceded by The Parent 'Hood which was being dropped from ABC picked up by The WB.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sister, Sister at the Internet Movie Database
• Sister, Sister at TV.com