Sister, Sister (TV series)
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| Sister, Sister | |
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Sister, Sister title card from 1994-1996 |
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| Format | Sitcom |
| Created by | Kim Bass Gary Gilbert Fred Shafferman |
| Starring | Tia Mowry Tamera Mowry Tim Reid Jackée Harry Marques Houston (Season 1-4) Anna Slotky (Seasons 2-3; recurring) Britanny Murphy (Seasons 1-2; recurring) RonReaco Lee (Season 6) Deon Richmond (Season 6) Alexis Fields (Seasons 5-6; recurring) |
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| 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) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC (1994-1995) The WB (1995-1999) Disney Channel (2000-2007) |
| Original run | April 1, 1994 – May 23, 1999 |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about twin girls (Tia and Tamera Mowry), separated and adopted by separate parents at birth, who one day come face-to-face after 14 years. The series premiered during the 1993-94 season on ABC, briefly canceled after the 1994-95 season; but The WB re-newed the show for the 1995-96 season, continuing until May 23, 1999.
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In the plot, the twins re-united during a chance encounter shopping at the mall with their adoptive parents. Tia Landry was the studious 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 into his home for the girls' sake. The girls' neighbor was Roger Evans (Marques Houston), an annoying teenager who was infatuated with both of them.
By the 1996-1997 season, Tia and Tamera straightened their hair, and abandoned their conservative wardrobe of the first three seasons for a new look. Also, Ray and Lisa began a romance in Season 4, which was short-lived. There were hints to a possible romance between the 2 in earlier episodes. Example: "The Concert" from Season 1, in which Lisa and Ray inadvertently kissed.
A frequent sub-plot was of the twins searching, and eventually finding, their biological parents to be an African-American woman, Racelle Gavin, and a Caucasian man, Matt Sullivan. In real-life, Tia and Tamera Mowry are also bi-racial.
In the 1997-1998 season, Tia started dating Tyreke Scott (RonReaco Lee), a reformed street kid who worked as a mechanic for Ray, and Jordan Bennett (Deon Richmond) became Tamera's boyfriend. Roger was suddenly dropped from the cast at this point.
The final season showed the twins entering college with their boyfriends and their best friend Diavian. The girls were ultimately re-united with their birth father, and Lisa married her boyfriend Victor in the final episode. Roger also made 1 last appearance in the last episode, singing at Lisa's wedding.
- 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 becomes a police escort at Michigan.
- Tamera Anne 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. 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 Michigan 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.
- 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 more successful in his business than he is in his romantic life, however, and his relationships with women are often short-lived.
- Roger Evans
Portrayed by Marques Houston, was Tia and Tamera's annoying neighbor. Initially infatuated with Tamera, he was thrilled when he discovered that she had an identical twin, and frequently attempted to date either one of them. His advances are ill-received, however, and the repeated chorus by the various members of the household is "Go home, Roger!" Roger eventually matures into the twins' confidante.
- Tyreke
Portrayed by RonReaco Lee, is Tia's boyfriend. A high school drop-out, he is permitted to graduate with the girls and Jordan, and later gets a job at the college they attend. He appears in Seasons 5 and 6.
- Jordan
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. He appears in Seasons 5 and 6.
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 crossover role in "Child's Play" in which he played T.J. Henderson, his character from fellow WB sitcom Smart Guy.
The show premiered on Disney Channel in 2002 and ran until May 28, 2007.
Beginning June 11, 2007 the show began airing on ABC Family.[1] Sister, Sister replaced Step by Step on ABC Family, was knocked off two weeks later then returned in the early morning. The show began airing on SuperStation WGN on September 11, 2007 (originally September 10, but will be pre-empted for Cardinals-Cubs makeup game).[2] In the UK, it was shown on for a good 12 years on Nickelodeon and it was shown on Channel 4 between 1995 and 2000 as the channel had the terrestrial rights to the show. Today, it airs on Nickelodeon on Sky and Virgin Media at 8pm, every night.
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 5 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.
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