Our Street - anyone know more about this?

[DRW50]

Thank you @jam6242 for all those wonderful articles. So important to have this history being documented. I wish the episodes were available.

That's definitely the Frances Foster who played Vera on GL.

[SoapDope]

Thanks for to the video clip. It would be great to see complete episodes of this series. 

[jam6242]

Synopses:

Slick is released on 8-months probation.

The Robinsons try to help Grandma with her aging problems.

Bull is fired from his job and investigates various government agencies which might retrain him.

The Robinsons seek aid from the Legal Aide Society and use the rent escrow law when their landlord fails to make needed repairs on their home.

The Robinsons face eviction and Bull is unable to obtain a salary advance to forestall this misfortune.  

When Cathy learns that her unmarried friend is pregnant, she others information on various agencies that help.

Cathy tells Mae the truth about her friend.

While job hunting, Slick learns about job counseling work experience programs and placement services.

Murder and morphine invade the Robinson home and Johnston Murdock seems to be involved.  Slick saves Cathy from nearly being killed.

Tony wants to go to summer camp.  The Robinsons find a home but can they raise the necessary down payment in time?

When Tony falls in love his school work suffers and he needs tutoring.

Slick and Tony ponder the question of old-fashioned fidelity and trust, as it relates to their parents.

Seeds of suspicion, planted by Tony and Slick, cause Mae to temporarily doubt Bull’s faithfulness to her.

Mae must make a choice between paying the gas bill and yielding to family pleas for new clothes.

The Robinsons try to help a friend dying from alcoholism.

A neighbor’s death prompts Mae to teach her sons about death.

Mae, Bull, and their friends get into heated discussion about the generation gap while in Jet’s apartment.  Sandy and Jet discuss their relationship.

Tony has a bad case of puppy love and Bull uses this experience to explain to Tony the real meaning of boy-girl relationships.

Grandma’s homecoming is an occasion for a joyful reunion of all the members of the Robinson family, except Slick, who is still reluctantly living with a girl he does not love.  

Mae and Bull argue over Bull’s refusing to go to the rescue of a new white neighbor.  Grandma and the new neighbor have a confrontation.

Jet’s friend, Lou Brody, visits the Robinson family and tension develops because he is white.

The Robinson household is upset when Miss Clara visits for a week.

Doubting his acceptance by the family, Slick is prompted to go on an acid trip.

Disciplining a teenager.

After overhearing a strange telephone conversation, Sandy begins to suspect that Jet is involved with junkies and pushers.

Bull Robinson is dead.  While mourning his senseless death, the Robinsons recall the times he spent with them, brought them happiness, and relate it to the world they live in.

Bull’s untimely death becomes more of a tragedy and source of pain for the Robinson family because of the senseless way he meets death.

Bull leaves the family $50.

On the pretext of celebrating his new job, J.T. offers to buy the Robinsons a home-cooked meal after he discovers that their cupboards are bare.

The murder of Bull Robinson has sent a series of emotional shock waves through the lives of the Robinson family.  Slick comes face-to-face with George, his father’s murderer.

Clara Ham Devine flees the Robinson’s household after having a fight with her boyfriend, Leon.

Tony bets his friend Kevin that he will be selected for a part in a play.

Through Tony's negligence, Jet is nearly asphyxiated by gas escaping from the stove.

Bonny and J.T. discover that their paths crossed years ago in New Orleans.

As a result of a fainting spell, Mae begins a fantastic series of dreams.

An encounter with a white friend causes Jet to reconsider his aspiration to become a lawyer and historian.

Mae and Mama console their friend, Esther Buford, after the funeral of her son, whom she believes to have been murdered at the prison where he was confined.

After having listened to street corner preachers, Slick finds himself susceptible to “Jesus Fever.”  He later finds that he has been deceived by the so-called preachers.

Mrs. Ryder, an eccentric friend of Grandma’s, has been told by the Health Department that she has too many pets and the neighbors have complained, and tells her she must give up all but two of her pets.

Slick is arrested after disrupting the taping of a television interview of a black political candidate whose platform is composed of promises Slick believes cannot be delivered.

Slick helps a seemingly plain young woman named Pearlena to become aware of herself and her potential attractiveness, only to lose her.

When Cathy’s principal balks at sending one of her students to the Junior Olympic Meet for the Handicapped, Grandma tries to raise the needed funds.

Believing Clara Ham Devine to be on the brink of suicide, after telling them she is pregnant, the Robinsons contact Gregory Avendon, her fiancé, hoping that he can stop her from committing suicide.

Slick tries to make Pearlena break up with her white boyfriend by luring her to Jet’s apartment and pretending to threaten her.

Grandma discovers through reading a magazine the fortunes made by popular rock groups and decides to get rich quick by forming her own singing group, The Ultimates.

Slick finds himself going through many changes trying to decide if he should introduce his new white girlfriend to his family.

The Robinsons prepare to meet and have dinner for Jet’s fiancee, Cynthia.

The Robinsons are frightened by a strange man who keeps strolling in front of their home.

A mysterious white man, Tony Bianci (Andrew Gerardo), bewilders the Robinsons when he introduces himself as the father of Cathy.

Questions arise over Cathy’s status as Mae’s legitimate daughter.

Grandma and Mrs. Botticelli venture out to apply for jobs as school crossing guards in the unfamiliar suburbs.

An escaped murderer, hotly pursued by the police, forces his way into the Robinson house and holds Mae and Grandma hostage all night.

Slick arrives home for breakfast to discover Mae and Grandma ill at ease, and they ask him to leave immediately.  Sensing there is danger, he sends for the police, and the murderer is captured.

The neighborhood junkman, Denny the Mole, fancies himself smitten with grandma, and proceeds to profess his love to her in outlandish ways.

Mrs. Botticelli, Slick and Grandma suspect that J.T. fancies himself in love with Mae.  Discouraged by Slick and Grandma, J.T. finally decides to leave the household.

George and Martha Wright, who met Mae and Bull during the Selma Civil Rights Demonstration some ten years ago, re-enter Mae’s life to renew their acquaintance.

Martha, opposing her husband George, urges Mae to accompany them to Washington to participate in a Welfare Mother’s March for reasons that have nothing to do with the demonstration.

During an unexpected visit with Flock, Rocky Bottle reveals his crazy scheme to murder Jimmy Diamond for his insurance money.

Mae and Grandma spy on Jane Harrington, who has just moved across the street from them.  When Jane falls sick in their home, the two become suspicious, and suggest to the police that she is on drugs.

Slick falls in love with an intelligent woman named Laura.

Grandma, Laura, and Slick drift into defensive discussion, pro and con, as to whether Black men live up to their responsibilities to their women.  Slick accuses Grandma of having been brainwashed by “the man” because her opinion of Black men is tainted.  Insulted, Grandma threatens to leave take up a new residence at a home for the aged.

Slick and Laura want to be married in an unusual African wedding ritual despite their mothers’ objections.

Acting out the role of the proud expectant father, Slick begins to spend his money unwisely on expensive clothing that neither he nor Laura need.

Under the threat of a city-wide school boycott, an irate parent, who has no objection to a Confederate flag hanging in her son’s classroom, challenges Cathy to remove a black liberation flag which was recently hung in the same room.

Not being able to really accept the fact that she must now share her son with his wife, and using Laura’s irresponsibility around the house as an excuse, May finally shows Laura how agitated she really is.

Mae finally admits to herself that she is a jealous mother-in-law.

Slick and Laura disagree over financial matters.

Aware that Slick is opposed to her working, but realizing that she must if they are ever to get some of the material things they both want, Laura reveals to Grandma that she has accepted a job as a typist.

Jane Harrington finds out that her new boyfriend is a con man.

Slick fancies himself a free man while Laura is on a trip, and he proceeds to act out the role of a a lover with his old girlfriends.

Laura finds a love letter from an old girlfriend in Slick’s clothing and suspects him of seeing another woman, and he tries to prove his innocence.

Mr. Levy, a pawn shop owner, visits Mae to tell her of a music box he has for sale.

When the Robinsons discover that Grandma needs a heart operation, their activities revolve around ways to meet the emergency, including raising money.  Slick takes control of the situation despite family misgivings about his methods.

Grandma comes home from the hospital.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2024 by jam6242

[DRW50]

Thanks @jam6242 .. Interesting to see that a number of stories do carry over week-to-week. They packed a lot into their time on the air. The episodes about Bull's death are those I would most want to see. I wonder if they ever brought back the same white characters or mainly just had them as one-off antagonists.

[jam6242]

I also would like to know more about the circumstances of Bull’s murder. And wondered how the issue of Cathy’s parentage turned out. I thought it was odd she didn’t seem to have a romantic interest. Even her little brother and Grandma had one. Jet seemed to to disappear.

[Akil Muhammad]

Yes, I've been trying to find this series for years.

[Akil Muhammad]

Yes, I've been searching for this series for years. Can anytell me if Our Street is available to view?