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- What's Happening Now!! is an American sitcom sequel to the original ABC 1976–79 sitcom What's Happening!! focusing on its main characters as independent people. It aired in first-run broadcast syndication from September 7, 1985 until March 26, 1988.
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What's Happening Now!! is an American sitcom sequel to the original ABC 1976–79 sitcom What's Happening!! focusing on its main characters as independent people. It aired in first-run broadcast syndication from September 7, 1985 until March 26, 1988.
- THE SHOW IS LOOSELY BASED ON THE 1975 FEATURE FILM COOLEY HIGH. At least that was the original premise. And while Cooley High and What’s Happening!! do share some themes (namely: grades and girls), the film’s darker elements of drugs and crimes didn’t translate to a prime-time sitcom.
- A COOLEY HIGH PILOT DOES EXIST. Getty Images. But the only similarity between it and What’s Happening!! is Ernest Thomas. “I was the only one left from the original pilot,” says Thomas.
- COOLEY HIGH WRITER ERIC MONTE WASN’T HAPPY WITH THE CREDIT HE RECEIVED. Eric Monte—who IMDb credits as a writer on the entire What’s Happening!! series—sued ABC, CBS, Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin, and others for using his ideas for Good Times, The Jeffersons, and What's Happening!!
- THOMAS LEARNED ABOUT THE SERIES ON THE SET OF THE JEFFERSONS. It was Mary White—the agent of Isabel Sanford, who played Louise Jefferson—who encouraged Thomas to audition.
TV Series. 1985–1988. TV-G. 30m. IMDb RATING. 6.2 /10. 1.3K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Comedy. "What's Happening Now!" is a sequel to "What's Happening!," a TV series about the adult main characters (Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, Shirley, and Dee) as teenagers/children. Stars. Ernest Thomas. Haywood Nelson. Shirley Hemphill. See production info at IMDbPro.
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What's Happening!! is an American sitcom television series that first aired on ABC from August 5, 1976, premiering as a summer series. It returned as a weekly series from November 1976 until its April 1979 conclusion. What's Happening!! was loosely based on the Eric Monte-penned film Cooley High.
Below is a list of episodes from What's Happening Now!!, a sitcom that aired in first run syndication from 1985 to 1988. Series overview. Episodes. Season 1 (1985–86) Season 2 (1986–87) Season 3 (1987–88) References. External links. What's Happening Now!! at IMDb. Category: Lists of American sitcom episodes.
Jun 12, 2007 · What's Happening Now!! is one of my favorite TV shows, with most of its original cast from the What's Happening!! show back in 1976-1979. What's Happining Now!! ran from September 7th, 1985 until September 3rd, 1988 for a total of Three seasons and 66 episodes (22 episodes for each season).
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What’s Happening!! was a sitcom loosely based on the film Cooley High, following a group of teens working and living in Watts, an L.A. neighborhood. It was Bud Yorkin’s second series after he...
