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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 (1-5) Anna Slotky (2-3) Brittany Murphy (1-2) RonReaco Lee (5-6) Deon Richmond (5-6) Alexis Fields (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)
Running time	Approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Production company(s)	de Passe Entertainment Productions in association with Paramount Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1994-1995) The WB (1995-1999)
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, 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 and Paramount Television presentation. 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 as Ray Campbell.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Characters 2.1 Main Cast 2.2 Minor characters 3 Episodes 4 Special guest appearances 5 DVD releases 6 Ratings 7 Reruns and syndication 8 Theme Song 9 Trivia 9.1 References 9.2 External links

[edit] Premise

In the pilot, the twins are reunited during a chance encounter shopping at the mall with their adoptive parents. Tia Landry was the intelligent twin from inner-city Detroit, where her mother Lisa worked as a seamstress; Tamera Campbell was the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs, where her father Ray owned a limousine service. After their unexpected encounter in the department store, Ray reluctantly allowed Tia and Lisa to move in the house because they were going to move. The girls' neighbor was Roger Evans (Marques Houston), an annoying teenager who was infatuated with both of them. Roger evolved from a nerdy stalker to a handsome gentleman. In the final season when the girls go off to college, Roger disappears from the series without any explanation. Though the plot mainly focuses on the twins' capers, eg: swapping places and pretending to be each other, it is also very focused on the relationship and lives of their parents Ray and Lisa.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main Cast

• Tia Landry

Portrayed by Tia Mowry, 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 Campbell

Portrayed by Tamera Mowry, 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

Portrayed by Jackée Harry, 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. She marries Victor Sims in the finale.

• Ray Campbell

Portrayed by Tim Reid, 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 (1994-1998)

Portrayed by Marques Houston, was 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. In the final season, Roger was removed from the series without any explanation. He did appear in the final episode as a special guest at Lisa's wedding.

• Tyreke Scott (1998-1999)

Portrayed by RonReaco Lee, he 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 (1998-1999)

Portrayed by Deon Richmond, 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 was 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. He was portrayed by Dorien Wilson from Seasons 2-3.

Rhonda Coley was the popular girl in Tia and Tamera's high school who always made fun of Tia and Tamera, especially their fashion choices. Rhonda was portrayed by Bianca Lawson in season 3.

Diavian Johnson is the twins' best friend in the final seasons (1997-1999). She was portrayed by Alexis Fields

Victor Sims was Ray's old frat buddy who later becomes Lisa's love interest and later husband in the Series Finale. He was played by Richard Lawson.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Special guest appearances

[edit] DVD releases

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

DVD Name	Ep #	Region 1
The 1st Season	12	October 28, 2008
The 2nd Season	19	May 19, 2009

[edit] Ratings

• 1993-94: #33

[edit] Reruns and syndication

The Disney Channel aired edited versions of the series from September 9, 2002 until May 28, 2007.

On June 11, 2007, the show began airing on ABC Family.^[1] The series replaced Step by Step, but was knocked off two weeks later then returned in the early morning.

The show aired on WGN America from September 11, 2007 until May, 2009.^[2]

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 in Ireland at 11:30am on Saturdays and 11:00am on Sundays.

On July 4, 2009, Reruns began airing on BET.

[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. ^[3]

On the fellow WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood, episode "I'm O'Tay, Your O-Tay", Michael chants at the snippet of this series "Oh hey, it's Sister, Sister" where Zaria and CeCe look like twins on February 21, 1996. The Parent 'Hood the show as preceded by this series which was being dropped from ABC picked up by The WB.

[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'.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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

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