Original title
Webster
Released
9/16/1983
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
Paramount Television, Georgian Bay Productions, Emmanuel Lewis Entertainment Enterprises
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
150
Webster is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 until May 8, 1987, and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 until March 10, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver. The show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the title role as a young boy who, after losing his parents, is adopted by his NFL-pro godfather, portrayed by Alex Karras, and his new socialite wife, played by Susan Clark. The focus was largely on how this impulsively married couple had to adjust to their new lives and sudden parenthood, but it was the congenial Webster himself who drove much of the plot. The series was produced by Georgian Bay Ltd., Emmanuel Lewis Entertainment Enterprises, Inc. and Paramount Television. Like NBC's earlier hit Diff'rent Strokes, Webster featured a young African-American boy adopted by a white family.
After the untimely death of a young boy's parents, he is sent to live with his father's best friend.
In oder to get some extra special attention, Webster makes believe that it is his birthday and wants a party.
Webster tries out for the football team. Katherine is then afraid that Webster will get seriously hurt especially because of his height and bulid. Also, we learn that Webster is picked to be on the team only because of George's fame in football.
Catherine wants to get some attention from Webster and she tries a few things. Meanwhile, Webster's friend is not getting much attention because her mom just had a baby, so she runs away and Webster hides her in his room.
George and Katherine find out that Webster doesn't know that his parents are dead. He originally thought that they had to go away and that they will come back for him, so it's up to George and Katherine to break the news to Webster of what really happened to his parents.
Catherine fears that she is getting old because George and Webster play games with a girl named Mandy, who is real young and really pretty. In the light of all this, Catherine gets jealous.
Thinking that George and Katherine never had an official wedding ceremony, Webster plans to prepare one for them.
It is revealed to George and Katherine why Travis, Webster's late father chose George to be Webster's godparent and legal guardian if something happened to them.
Webster goes on a TV-benefit show to sing and dance.
Catherine gets a taste of the worst being a volunteer art teacher. She feels that she is booring and failing, do Webster tries to help her.
George and Katherine both try and persuade Webster that he can do without his teddy bear which is lost.
All the blame goes to Webster when his friends try to rob the Tracadero, their hangout.
Katherine is too obsessed with winning when she appears on a game show.
Webster has to have his tonsils out, so he tries to be tough just like George.
Webster wants a baby brother or sister so he goes to George and Katherine and asks them for one.
George and Katherine both forget to pick Webster up from school so he goes with a friend and his parents leaving a panicing George and Katherine not knowing of something happened to him.
Webster is always nervous and it has resulted him into a bed-wetting problem.
Webster makes a friend when a boy needs a sponsor for the Special Olympics.
George and Katherine want Webster's Uncle Phil out of his life, but that fails when Webster ends up running into him anyway.
Jerry, Katherine's secretary quits on account of helping Webster run for class president.
Webster gets nightmares because the teacher he has a crush on wants to read Webster's composition aloud.
Webster's Uncle Phillip, Webster's last surviving relative, comes up to the apartment to take Webster to live with him. The Popadapolis' do not think that Uncle Phil can take care of Webster the way they can, so Uncle Phil threatens to take them to court for custody.
Uncle Phil and both George and Katherine all go to court to battle for cutstody of Webster.
After losing the court case, Uncle Phil decides to run away to Atlanta Georgia without consenting George and Katherine.
Webster helps the school janitor go back to being a magician.
Webster and his female friend are caught looking at each other naked. Catherine has a tough time trying to explain that they were only curious though when she talks to the friend's mother.
Webster gets congratulated when he saves George and Katherine from the apartment's fire. Little do they know that Webster actually caused the fire by playing with a chemistry set that he was not suppose to play with.
Mystery and wonder are what to describe the new home George and Katherine are going to rent. This is a victorian house repleat with secret walls, openings, and more. Also, Webster, Katherine, and George all want to know why the owners don't want anybody to go near their runaway daughter's room.
Just when George is about to retire, he is called upon to help a losing football team.
Webster, George, and Katherine are all trying to have a peaceful thanksgiving. But things don't turn out the way they plan when George's aggressive father and Katherine's snobby mother arrive for Thanksgiving dinner.
Webster gets angry at God when he realizes that God took his mommy and daddy away.
After Webster transfers to an advanced learning class, his grades start to slip.
Katherine is extremely embarassed when Webster announces that she has once been under the care of a psychiatrist.
The Popadopilis' and Webster all try and save the Tracadero diner from being demolished.
George and Katherine will not let Webster get a dog, so he tries to con Uncle Phil into getting him one without telling George and Katherine.
After she ran away 7 years ago, Bill and Cassie's daughter returns to her parents.
George and Katherine find a job for George's visiting father....a truck driver.
Webster on his way back to the classroom overhears his female friend getting molested by a substitute teacher. After driving the information out of her, he tries to convince her to tell an adult.
Webster meets Diahann Carroll, who is at Webster's school to raise money to bring musical instruments to the school district.
Katherine has been acting strange around George and Webster and they both find out that she is pregnant
Katherine thinks about life with another baby and then examines the possiblity of abortion. Then as she is soul-searching, fate decides for her and she has a miscarriage.
Webster makes a mistake by accidentally recycling Uncle Phil's tin can sculpture.
Webster gets a new best friend named Rob. As Webster enjoys Rob's protection, Rob gets angry because he thinks that Webster is using him as a bodyguard and George has to step in.
Katherine develops a desire for a visiting college professor.
Bill keeps playing pranks on George and it gets to the point where they are at odds.
After going to an amusement park, Webster is deeply upset on account of his height.
Webster gets trapped in a secret room that looks like there is no way out. Meanwhile, while Webster is trapped, the gang reminisces old episodes.
As they are still reminiscing from past shows, they realize that they haven't seen Webster around the house and they start to get worried, not knowing that he is still in the secret room.
The Popadopolis' visit Lizard Flatz Arizona and there they encounter Dusty, a man with interesting stories, a ranch, and moonhunter, a horse that seems to be a legend, but ends up a reality after saving Webster from a rattlesnake. Moonhunter gets caught by some greedy no-gooders, and Webster almost gets killed.
George wants to live on the ranch, Webster wants to save moonhunter and set him free, and after all the excitement, they decide to head back to Chicago.
For a class project, Webster gets married and a bunch of problems end up with him and his snotty, controlling ""wife"".
Webster's friend Rob is upset because he feels that he is too tall.
Webster's friend Rob picks up a tabloid and asks Webster some questions from it. Webster gets the questions right and according to the tabloid, Webster is an alien from Jupiter and he starts to believe it.
As a lesson in teaching Webster responsibility, George and Katherine switch roles to where they are the kids and Webster is the parent.
Katherine is very upset when she finds out that her mother has passed away.
George takes Webster to the New York Nicks game and introduces Webster to basketball player Patrick Ewing.
Webster goes to Hollywood with Uncle Phil and his girlfriend. Matters turn worse after Uncle Phil's girlfriend cheats on Phil with Phil's producer. Meanwhile, Katherine gets sick while she and George have their 2nd honeymoon.
After cheating on Phil, The producer gives Phil's part to his now ex-girlfriend which leaves Phil fired. Meanwhile at George and Katherine's 2nd honeymoon, the power and heat go off.
Robbers break into the house while Webster is home alone and he has to know how to act.
Webster gets a chain letter. George throws it away and things mysteriously go wrong. Webster does bad on his test, there is a spider, and Papa Popadopolis falls down the stairs. Webster then discovers that it wasn't the letter, it was just stuff that happened. Webster then gets an A on the retake test.
Webster takes a picture and shows it to Katherine. Katherine then starts to think that a neigbor is having an affair.
Webster makes Katherine a dress for her birthday. She says that she likes it, but avoids wearing it when she is asked to put it on when they go out. She then tells Webster how she really feels about her gift.
Webster tries to set up Katherine's aunt Charlotte and Papa Papadopolis.
Webster learns that you can be rich without having a lot of money after Webster gets struck with the Lottery Fever.
George does a sportscast about Webster's Pee-Wee leauge hockey team. They like his sportscast so much that they want him to do children's sports and he is not too thrilled about that.
Rob's dad kidnaps him and Webster tries to rally up support to try and find him.
Jerry dresses up like a clown and takes Webster to the Leukimia ward at the children's hospital. Meanwhile, the kid is brought home and things do not go right.
Webster falls in love with a girl on Valentines day and he thinks she's taken. But he tries to ask her out to a Valentines party anyway.
Webster's Uncle Jack has Webster visit him. Uncle Jack runs a foster home with a woman, but a conflict with this one child may force him to quit the home.
Webster asks permission to buy a BB gun and he resorts to responsibility to get one. After getting one, and practicing with his friends, he accidentally kills a bird. This bird has babies and he takes the responsibility of raising them on his own.
Katherine's aunt is getting married and George and Katherine decide to reenact their wedding vows.
Webster and Katheine hatch a scheme to try and rid a habit that George has.
Webster and Katherine both end up cheating on some school-related projects at the same time.
George and Katherine both hire a maid who happens to be pregnant and goes into labor.
Katherine hosts a therapy session at the house.
Webster and Papa Popadopolis look back at past episodes. Then, they find out that George and Katherine are caught in a hurricane.
As they continue to reminisce, Webster, Papa Papadopolis, and Jerry receive news that George and Katherine have both survived the hurricane.
Webster starts buying his lunch and the school bully keeps taking Webster's money. After George and Katherine get work about it, they try to stop him and the two end up being friends.
The Papadopolis' family rents a room to a clown not knowing that he is a clown.
George is so obsessed with Webster winning a derby, that he builds the car without Webster. Webster's feelings get hurt especially when he originally wanted them to build the thing together.
For a fundraiser, Katherine decides to run a 6-mile marathon, but a can of tomato juice falls on her foot and she can't run, so Webster takes the 6 mile challenge himself.
The Family leanrs that Papa Papadopolis is illiterate and he is greatfully ashamed of it. To try and ease the tension from this new problem they just discovered, George and Katherine enroll him into a class, after manipulation and persuasion.
Webster discovers that a woman who is said to be a witch, is not a real broom-riding witch, but a woman who is lonely and who needs to care for her.
Webster talks about his late dad when the school is looking to name the school after a famous sportshero.
A former teammmate of George makes a pass at Katherine and Webster witnesses it.
Katherine coaches Webster's baseball team and she assigns him to right field. Webster wants to pitch and after he is given the chance to pitch, it's back to the old right field for Webster.
Webster invites a girl over for a harmless sleepover.
Suppose to be Santa Clause for a Christmas parade, he loses his part and is upset about it.
George gets angry after finding out that his new station manager's son is bullying Webster around.
George and Katherine has different ideas on how to celebrate Webster's birtday. George wants to take him to a professioal wrestling match and Katherine wants to take him to an opera.
Webster's photographs tend to capture an instructor's true character.
Webster writes stories about other teacher's love lives in the school paper. The information then puts Katherine's teaching job at risk because Webster got the information by overhearing her gossiping about them.
When children are making fun of Papa Papadopolis at the comminuty center, Webster gets fed up.
Webster gets a job walking dogs around the neighborhood.
Webster and Jerry both invite the Four Tops to perform at George and Katherine's anniversary party.
Webster gets an autograph from Mike Tyson on a pair of boxing gloves, but the autograph accidentally gets wiped off which makes Webster upset.
Trouble starts to brew when a girl suggests a kissing game at Webster's party.
Webster (Emmanuel Lewis) faces pressure from his peers when they ask him to fire Katherine (Susan Clark) as Junior Ranger troopleader
Webster writes an essay praising and appreciating the love and leadership that George and Katherine has given him throughout the years.
Two of Webster's friends hort and take over Webster's hard-earned money. As a result, he learns a lesson from this.
Webster helps an old man who wants to be reunited with his jazz band in San Francisco.
Katherine is accused of extorting Henry's savings after he disappears.
Katherine is bailed out of jail in time to catch Henry's comeback performance.
Webster's cousin is not too crazy about moving to Nigeria with his family.
Katherine's purse is stolen and Webster creates a crime prevention program.
George's fishing plans get in the way of Webster's original plans.
George does not approve of the way Webster's teacher teaches.
When George learns that an old school friend of his has died, George thinks about his own life.
Webster is upset when funds raised for sports equipment are stolen.
On a weekend trip, George and Katherine's hosts literally reveal themselves as nudists on a relaxing getaway.
When he fails to pick the winning teams for a football pool, he asks Katherine for her help.
A man dressed like Santa Clause keeps giving overexpensive gifts for Christmas and Katherine has had enough.
The Four Tops meet their pal Webster.
After finding out that a buch of nerds are in the same school group Webster just joined, he starts to have second thoughts about joining that club.
When Katherine demonstrated some of her cooking ""skills"" on television, George and Webster try to prevent trouble from brewing.
The family takes care of Jerry who had sprained his ankle, and they find out that he is no picnic to wait on.
Katherine and George look back at the time they first met after Webster is assigned a project about famous lovers.
Katherine has the idea that an ex-con is after her and she is frightened.
George gets some strange news about the boys who are on Nicky's football team.
George encounters a promising basketball player. The only problem is that this player is addicted to cocaine and George tries to help him out of it.
Webster plays matchmaker to a romance-seeking Nicky.
Katherine is very jealous of George's new success and Webster thinks that the two might get a divorce.
Webster goes to see a movie that he was forbidden to see and ends up getting nightmares from it.
The family wins a spa from a shady dealer and tricks George into endorsing his product.
George sees corruption in the Board of Education.
After being bullied around, Webster fantasizes that he is in the Wild West to take care of his bully.
Katherine is appalled when she sees a nude portrait of her in an art gallery. The ironic part is that when she posed, she was fully clothed.
Webster and his classmates appear on a TV game show.
The family supports Papa's techniques with a belly dance instructor.
Webster is in charge of campaigning for a class presidential candidate, but the boy he presents loses.
While gathering things for a garage sale, the family reminisces.
Katherine gives dating advice to a teen who wants to date an older woman, but she is in for a surprise when the older woman is her.
George and Katherine find out that their friend Chelsea is a cat burglar.
Webster's rich aunt plans on adopting a boy and Webster thinks that he is just interested in her very large bank roll.
Webster is upset when his turtle dies. He then gets even more upset after a friend tells him that the turtle will not be in heaven for him.
Webster daydreams that he is in a 1920's type cops and robbers situation. In this adventure, Webster tries to nab a root-beer racketeer.
While his daydream continues, Webster finds that he was ""set up"" by a gangster and moves in on the caper.
When Katherine's rich Uncle falls in love with the leading lady of a thratrical performance, Webster and Katherine's debuts are in danger.
Webster encounters a convicted gambler who is going under rehabilitation. This man's influence is then put on to Webster.
An insulting couple want to use Katherine to help make them popular.
The Four Tops, who are friends of George are invited for thanksgiving after having nowhere to go for the holiday.
Katherine tries to buy Webster tickets to see the Jets, but their sold out. She then tries to buy them off of a ticket scalper and then ends up arrested as part of a sting operation.
To try and spice up their romance and to bring back the youth in them, George and Katherine go camping together.
Webster gets a brand new bike, but ends up getting a ticket from a cop.
Webster's very smart friend gets depressed because her science project didn't come in as number one.
Webster arranges a Gospel group thinking that it is a rock group to perform at a party.
Webster goes to the race track and learns that one of the horses will be put to death because it's too old to race anymore. With this, Webster tries to make a plan that will save the horse from the brutality.
Webster's pen pal, an adult butler from England visits to meet Webster in person.
A flood hits the basement and everyone realizes that most of the contents in the basement are pretty much ruined. This includes photographs of the family's evolvement which is expressed through a series of flashbacks from past episodes.
Webster's video game transports him as the captain of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The next Generation.
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