Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

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Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
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Genre Sitcom
Created by Jeff Franklin [1]
Starring
Theme music composer
Opening theme
  • "Hangin' with My Man", performed by Dawnn Lewis & Holly Robinson Peete with En Vogue (season 1)
  • "Soul Man", performed by Howard Hewett (season 2)
  • "Cooper, Cooper", performed by Sherwood Ball, Carmen Carter and Oren Waters (seasons 3–5)
Composers
  • Jesse Frederick & Bennett Salvay (season 1)
  • Steve Tyrell (season 2)
  • Gary Boren
  • Steven Chesne (seasons 3–5; alternating)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes101 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Jeff Franklin (season 1, eps. 1–3 & 10)
  • Danny Kallis (season 1, eps. 3–22)
  • Cheryl Gard (season 2)
  • William Bickley & Michael Warren (seasons 3–5)
  • Barry O'Brien & Cheryl Alu (season 4)
  • David Chambers (season 5)
Camera setup Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseSeptember 22, 1992 (1992-09-22) 
August 30, 1997 (1997-08-30)

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 1992, to August 30, 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The show took place in Curry's hometown of Oakland, California. [2] [3] The series chronicles Mark Cooper (Curry), an NBA player-turned-substitute teacher/gym coach (and later basketball coach), and his roommate (later girlfriend, then fiancée) Vanessa (Robinson). [4]

Contents

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper was produced by Jeff Franklin Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television, having been produced by Lorimar Television for the first season before being absorbed, and also became produced by Bickley-Warren Productions by the third season. The show originally aired on Tuesdays in prime time after sister series Full House , also created by Jeff Franklin and set in the San Francisco Bay Area. The show found its niche as an addition to the TGIF Friday night lineup on ABC, and was part of the lineup from September 1993 to May 1996 (spanning the show's second, third and fourth seasons before moving to Saturdays for its fifth and final season).

Cast

Main

Recurring

The pilot episode was filmed on the same house set used by the Seaver family on the sitcom Growing Pains . [5]

Main cast, from Season 2 (l-r): Quarterman, Symone, Curry, Robinson Peete, Wilson Hangin with Mr. Cooper.jpg
Main cast, from Season 2 (l–r): Quarterman, Symoné, Curry, Robinson Peete, Wilson

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedRankRating
First airedLast aired
1 22September 22, 1992 (1992-09-22)May 18, 1993 (1993-05-18)1614.6
(Tied with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Jackie Thomas Show )
2 22September 24, 1993 (1993-09-24)May 20, 1994 (1994-05-20)3811.92
3 22September 23, 1994 (1994-09-23)May 12, 1995 (1995-05-12)4111.2
4 22September 15, 1995 (1995-09-15)May 10, 1996 (1996-05-10)619.3
5 13June 21, 1997 (1997-06-21)August 30, 1997 (1997-08-30)
Broadcast History
[6]

Syndication

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper went into off-network broadcast syndication (via Telepictures Distribution and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution) in the fall of 1996, where it lasted until the fall of 2000 (airing until the fall of 1999 in some markets). From July 2008 to January 2009 it aired on ION Television as part of the network's Laugh Attack hour of American sitcoms, initially running from 5-6PM/ET, then moved an hour later (switching time slots with The Steve Harvey Show ).

The series has also aired on cable network TNN from 2000–2002, on Nickelodeon’s teen-oriented television programming block, TEENick from 2001 to 2003, and on TV One from 2006 to 2008. The sitcom was picked up by Nick at Nite on January 13, 2014 during the 6:00AM–7:00AM morning line-up), and that same year it aired on the Nick Jr. Channel as part of the block, NickMom. when it was aired from October 15, 2014 to April 11, 2015.

On September 29, 2017, Hulu acquired the streaming rights to Hangin' with Mr. Cooper along with fellow Warner Bros. TV properties Family Matters , Full House , Perfect Strangers and Step by Step in addition to Disney-ABC TV properties Boy Meets World , Dinosaurs and Home Improvement . [7]

On November 1, 2021, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper began streaming on HBO Max after its streaming rights expired from Hulu. [8]

Home media

On August 2, 2016, Warner Bros. released Hangin' with Mr. Cooper- The Complete First Season on DVD via their Warner Archive Collection burn-on-demand service. [9] The second season was released on March 5, 2019, via WBShop.com. [10]

DVD NameEp #Release Date
The Complete First Season22August 2, 2016
The Complete Second Season22March 5, 2019
The Complete Third Season22January 21, 2020

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