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Sugar and Spice (American TV series) - Wikipedia

  • ️Fri Mar 30 1990

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Sugar and Spice

Reynolds, Devine, and Anderson in a promotional picture for the series

GenreSitcom
Created by
  • Katherine Green
  • Irma Kalish
  • Stephen Neigher
  • Gina Wendkos
Starring
Theme music composer
ComposerJonathan Wolff
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producerIrma Kalish
Producers
  • Michael Loman
  • Gina Wendkos
  • Roxie Wenk Evans
CinematographyDavid Johnson
Camera setupLeland Gray
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseMarch 30 –
May 25, 1990

Sugar and Spice is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 30, 1990 to May 25, 1990.

The small town of Ponca City, Oklahoma, was the setting for this blue collar series about two middle-aged African American sisters. Loretta and Vickilyn (Loretta Devine and Vickilyn Reynolds) had very different personalities. Vickilyn was conservative and quiet, a divorcee making her living with Small World Miniatures, a mail-order business run out of her converted garage. Her gregarious sister Loretta, an aspiring actress with a roving eye for good-looking men, was biding time working as a hostess at Cafe Jacques, where the manager Jacques (Leslie Jordan) was also seen.[1]

Living with them was their teenage niece Toby (LaVerne Anderson), the only child of their late sister, whose good intentions were sometimes derailed when she took bad advice from her best friend Ginger (Dana Hill). Bonnie (Stephanie Hodge), who had a tempestuous relationship with her trucker husband Cliff (Gerrit Graham), was Vickilyn's assistant at Small World Miniatures.

Ralph and Brian (Troy Searcy, Bumper Robinson) were schoolmates of Toby's.