''Between Brothers'' is an American television

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centered on four middle-class

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men in their late twenties, living in

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. It premiered on September 11, 1997 on

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, with the second season airing on

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, until March 2, 1999. The lead characters were played by

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, Dondré T. Whitfield,

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, and

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Synopsis

Buddy comedy about four black men sharing an apartment in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

. Charles and James Winston (played by

and

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) are brothers. Charles, the responsible older one, is a sportswriter for ''The Chicago Examiner'' while irresponsible James sold real estate. Mitchell (

) - the mooch, a junior high school history teacher, and just returned to the apartment after his second wife, Audrey, had thrown him out. Dusty (

), the short fellow with the loud clothes, had moved up from

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to take a job as a weekend TV on WEQT-TV, Channel 64. Most of the episodes focused on their job and dating problems and the not-always-helpful advice they gave to each other.

Cast

as Charles Winston * Dondré T. Whitfield as James Winston *

as Dustin "Dusty" Canyon * Rachael Crawford as Terri *

as Mitchell Ford recurring *

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as Stuart Franklin *Sandy Brown as May Ford

Episodes

Season 1 (1997–98)

Season 2 (1999)

Syndication

Reruns of the series aired in the United States on the TV One cable network however they stopped as of 2014. The first-season episodes are available on Crackle as of 2020.

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0118268, Between Brothers 1997 American television series debuts 1999 American television series endings 1990s American black sitcoms 1990s American sitcoms English-language television shows Fox Broadcasting Company original programming Television shows set in Chicago Television series by Sony Pictures Television UPN original programming American television series revived after cancellation