Seasons & episodes

Mark takes Nicole and a few of her friends to the matinee only to suffer through the pains of taking little kids to the movies.

Mark decides to invest in the vending machine business.

Mark finds out that his former basketball rival will be back in town to play at his high school's upcoming alumni basketball game. Fearing a repeat of an old high school humiliation with Reggie, who is now a NBA star, Mark fakes an injury.

Geneva invites P.J. to stay at their house...but Mark didn't anticipate P.J. moving in along with her new little dog, aptly named Monster.

Mark finally gets a job interview with the head coach at San Francisco State, but he hurts his back before the interview.

While Mark substitutes for a sportswriter friend by writing a sports column, he is continually interrupted when people ask his advice on their love lives.

Mark goes to a men's clothing store to buy a new tie for a weekend banquet and ends up getting conned by a beautiful but cunning saleswoman.

It's Christmas. Mark accidentally leaves a window open. When they get back, they have been robbed.

Mark finally gets his dream job as the school's head basketball coach after Coach Corley leaves the position to coach college basketball.

Mark's friend, Steve, convinces Mark that his relationship with his girlfriend Denise is boring. Concluding that Denise is to blame, Mark makes plans to stop dating her, but Denise stops dating him first.

Instead of keeping his promise to Nicole to bring her to the circus, Mark lies to her so he can go out with his girlfriend Denise.

Geneva convinces Mark to coach Nicole's all-girl basketball team, which hasn't won a game all season. Determined to help the girls win, Mark convinces Tyler to dress up like a girl and play on the team.

Mark and Vanessa are determined to win the lottery and enlist Geneva's help in obtaining her aunt's guaranteed winning formula.

While waiting to use the ATM, Mark witnesses a botched robbery attempt. A woman stops the thief but leaves the scene quickly. Everyone believes that Mark actually prevented the robbery and he doesn't deny it.

Mark advises Earvin to slow down his romance with his new girlfriend Lisa. However, Mark's good intentions prove ill advised when Earvin, after listening to Mark, decides to elope with Lisa.

Mark and Geneva's crazy Aunt Eunetta comes to visit, and with her quirky technique of touching people's heads, determines that Mark and Vanessa would be the perfect couple.

After being pestered by Geneva, Mark reluctantly tries to help Geneva's boyfriend, Ken, become a part of Mark's group of male friends.

It looks like roommates Mark, Geneva and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland.

Everyone's plans to leave Oakland, California go awry and they all come back.

Rehired as basketball coach, Mark takes advantage of Geneva's position as principal.

Geneva recruits a new instructor for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, her former boyfriend, Master Sergeant Ken.

Vanessa saves Mark's life after he falls and gets a concussion.

When Tyler becomes scared while watching a horror movie, Nicole and her friend, Sandy (SHEKINAH WILLIAMS), tease him and dare him to camp out in a haunted house on Halloween. Tyler does, and Mark skips a costume party to go get him. But they both stay the night in the haunted house. Meanwhile, Vanessa gets a job as an emergency medical technician and has her first ambulance assignment on Halloween night.

Nicole breaks Mark's prized mug and lets Vanessa take the blame. Later, while playing a fantasy computer game, Nicole falls asleep and has a dream that teaches her the importance of honesty.