LIVING SINGLE: BACK IN THE DAY (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy series about a group of black friends living in a Brooklyn brownstone. In this episode, the friends prepare to attend a dinner at which Khadijah is set to receive a journalism award, though Regine and Max descend into their usual squabbling as they get ready, recalling that their feud used to be even worse in the past. Five years earlier, Kyle arrives at the apartment to romance Regine, much to the annoyance of Max, who is currently living there. Khadijah struggles to pick a name for her fledgling magazine and observes her pals' "fake friendliness," and they explain that they have called a truce until Max passes the bar. Later, however, Khadijah returns home to find them having an enormous fight all around the apartment, and Max angrily declares that she is moving out. Elderly landlady Esther flirts with Overton and promotes him to full-time building handyman, and Kyle and Regine simultaneously dump one another, tired of the other's egotistical ways. Khadijah introduces her friends to her ditzy Minnesotan cousin, explaining that she is moving into Max's old space, and Synclaire and Overton are instantly smitten with one another.
In the present, their rented limo gets a flat tire, forcing them all – minus Regine – onto the subway. Once there, Synclaire is shocked to learn that her friends once seriously considered sending her back to Minnesota, and in the past, Khadijah and Regine grow exasperated with their quirky new roommate. Overton begs them to allow her to stay, however, and Khadijah immediately changes her mind when Synclaire has a lucky "run-in" with basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and convinces him to be Flavor's first cover-story subject. In the present, the subway stalls and Khadijah frets that they will all miss the dinner, though they are excited to have another celebrity encounter, this time with Evander Holyfield, with whom Regine shamelessly flirts. They arrive at the banquet just in time for Khadijah to receive her award, and she thanks all of her friends in her acceptance speech. Later, the women agree that the night was a success after all. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: FOX
- DATE: 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:18
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 122821
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; Comedy; Friendship
- SERIES RUN: Fox - TV series, 1993-1998
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Roger S.H. Schulman … Executive Producer
- Yvette Lee Bowser … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Chuck Tatham … Supervising Producer
- Bill Fuller … Co-Executive Producer
- Jim Pond … Co-Executive Producer
- Jacque Edmonds … Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- Patricia Rickey … Producer
- Warren Hutcherson … Producer
- Kriss Turner … Co-Producer
- Grant Johnson … Associate Producer
- Ellen Gittelsohn … Director
- Stu Gardner … Music by
- Queen Latifah … Theme Music by
- Queen Latifah … Cast, Khadijah James
- Kim Coles … Cast, Synclaire James-Jones
- Erika Alexander … Cast, Maxine 'Max' Felice Shaw
- T.C. Carson … Cast, Kyle Barker
- John Henton … Cast, Overton 'Obie' Wakefield Jones
- Kim Fields … Cast, Regine Hunter
- Evander Holyfield … Cast, Himself
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar … Cast, Himself
- Susan L. Taylor … Cast, Herself
- Estelle Harris … Cast, Esther Brooks
- Danny Mora … Cast, Soapy
- Al Pugliese … Cast, The Limo Driver