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What's Happening Now!!(TV show/series, 1985-1988)

30min per episode | Genre: Comedy

Scripted Reality in 3 seasons with 66 episodes

What's Happening Now!!Rating: 3.3/5 (with 5 votes)
What's Happening Now!! is an American sitcom sequel to the original ABC 1976–79 sitcom What's Happening!! focusing on its main characters as independent people. It aired in first-run broadcast syndication from September 7, 1985 until March 26, 1988. ()
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About What's Happening Now!!

What's Happening Now!! is an American sequel series of What's Happening!! It ran in syndication from 1985 to 1988. Like the previous series, What's Happening Now!! is loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High.

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What's Happening!! (Intro) S1 (1976)(Opening Credits, 0:54)

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What's Happening Now!! Seasons and Episodes

09/21/1987Season 3 - 22 episodes
#1 | 09/21/1987Ask Al
Shirley eats her words when she takes a job as an undercover advice columnist and inadvertently causes Dwayne and his new girlfriend to break up.
#2 | 09/28/1987The Boxer
Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.
#3 | 10/05/1987The New Employee
Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.
#4 | 10/12/1987The Hat Comes Back
Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.
#5 | 10/19/1987Dwayne's Big Step
After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.
#6 | 10/26/1987Girls' Night Out
Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.
#7 | 11/02/1987The Candidate
When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Daryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.
#8 | 11/09/1987Family Life
With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.
#9 | 11/16/1987Runnin' Scared
A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10K run for charity.
#10 | 11/23/1987Nadine's Wood-Be Father
Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancée and she kicks them out of her house.
#11 | 11/30/1987The Pad
Maurice and Daryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.
#12 | 12/07/1987Teacher's Threat
Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.
#13 | 12/14/1987Daddy's Back
Shirley's truck driving father comes to town but is too busy to attend the banquet when Shirley is named ""Business Woman of the Year.""
#14 | 01/25/1988I Gotta Be Raj
When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!
#15 | 02/01/1988Run, Shirley, Run
Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he had forgotten why he was elected to office in the first place.
#16 | 02/08/1988The Older Woman
Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.
#17 | 02/15/1988Happy Face
The diner is threatened when Shirley decides to deed over her half to a con man.
#18 | 02/22/1988The Fabulous Fortunes
Shirley teaches a young boy with ""two left feet"" how to dance.
#19 | 04/25/1988Shirley's Debt
Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.
#20 | 05/02/1988Man in Motion
Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.
#21 | 05/09/1988Members Only
Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.
#22 | 05/16/1988Adventures of Kangaroo Kincaide
A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real life bear invades the campsite.
09/22/1986Season 2 - 22 episodes
09/02/1985Season 1 - 22 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/07/1985
Last episode released on: 05/16/1988

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