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Family Matters cast reunited to look back at their iconic TV show!
While the city of Chicago is preparing to tear down the “Winslow Family Home,” EW has reunited the cast.
Family Matters started on ABC in 1989, before it moved to CBS in September of 1997. The iconic sitcom that introduced the world to “Steve Urkel” went off the air in July of 1998.
Kellie Shanygne Williams, Darius McCrary, Shawn Harrison, Bryton McClure, Jo Marie Payton, Reginald VelJohnson, Jaleel White, and Telma Hopkins.
With all the reboots happening, the cast seems ready to bring their “TGIF” family back together.
“Jaleel and I were talking just a little while ago and he said, ‘You know, we can do this.’ And I said, ‘If they dropped a script at our feet when we walked out of here, we would come back in tomorrow, and the next day we’d have a show shot,” Payton said about how quickly and easily they could fall back into their roles.
“Because we all have that rhythm,” Williams chimed in. Added Hopkins: “And we haven’t lost it. As soon as we’re together, it’s back to normal.”
VelJohnson admitted he’s curious what scientist and inventor Steve Urkel would be up to today, but more so, he’d like to see the show come back to “give a new perspective on things that are happening today from our point of view.”
And Payton, who said everyone is “ready to do it,” knows exactly how the revival should start: “I think the first scene should be Judy coming down those steps and everybody saying, ‘Where you been?’”
“There’s just something really magical about this cast and the real feelings that are here. It wasn’t just for the screen,” Hopkins concluded. “Family really did matter and still does.”
Pick up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly to read the full article.