Family Matters
Comedy • Series

Family Matters

6.8/10 1989 9 Seasons 215 Episodes Ended

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Season 3 Episodes

S3E1
E1
Boom!
24 min 1991

Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.

S3E2
E2
Brain over Brawn
24 min 1991

Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affection…

S3E3
E3
The Show Must Go On
24 min 1991

In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with…

S3E4
E4
Words Hurt
24 min 1991

Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.

S3E5
E5
Daddy's Little Girl
24 min 1991

Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.

S3E6
E6
Citizen's Court
24 min 1991

Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the m…

S3E7
E7
Robo-Nerd
24 min 1991

Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.

S3E8
E8
Making the Team
24 min 1991

When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and e…

S3E9
E9
Born to be Mild
24 min 1991

A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack …

S3E10
E10
The Love God
24 min 1991

Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.

S3E11
E11
Old and Alone
24 min 1991

Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is …

S3E12
E12
A Pair of Ladies
24 min 1991

Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cu…

S3E13
E13
Choir Trouble
24 min 1991

Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director R…

S3E14
E14
A Test of Friendship
24 min 1992

The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.

S3E15
E15
Jailhouse Blues
24 min 1992

Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable …

S3E16
E16
Brown Bombshell
24 min 1992

Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Ai…

S3E17
E17
Food, Lies and Videotape
24 min 1992

Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than a…

S3E18
E18
My Broken-Hearted Valentine
24 min 1992

Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but tro…

S3E19
E19
Woman of the People
24 min 1992

When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on …

S3E20
E20
Love and Kisses
24 min 1992

Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for seren…

S3E21
E21
Stop, in the Name of Love
24 min 1992

Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Win…

S3E22
E22
The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
24 min 1992

Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a …

S3E23
E23
Robo-Nerd II
24 min 1992

It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in …

S3E24
E24
Dudes
24 min 1992

Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthda…

S3E25
E25
Farewell, My Laura
24 min 1992

Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who nee…

Cast

Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson
Carl Winslow
Darius McCrary
Darius McCrary
Eddie Winslow
Kellie Shanygne Williams
Kellie Shanygne Williams
Laura Winslow
Jaleel White
Jaleel White
Steve Urkel

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