Episode
What's Happening!!: Christmas
Overview
With Mama planning to work on Christmas, Raj and Dee agree to have Christmas dinner at Bill's apartment. However, Mama is able to get out of working at the last minute and soon discovers that the kids have plans and finds herself facing a lonesome Christmas.
Details
- Series
- What's Happening!!
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1976-12-11
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Christmas is Episode 9 in Season 1 of What's Happening!!. It aired on 1976-12-11. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 8: Shirley's Date
Raj has sold a kid's story to a children's magazine and to celebrate, throws a party. However, Shirley is reluctant to come because she doesn't want to show up without a date. This leads Raj and Rerun to take steps to get her a date.
Episode 10: Puppy Love
Raj is tutoring Patrice Williams in exchange for one of the puppies that her dog is soon to have. Confusion erupts in the Thomas household, however, when Dee overhears a conversation between Raj, Dwayne and Rerun which leads her to believe Raj has gotten a girl pregnant.
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