227 · SEASON 1
Family Hero
Episode 3 · 1985-09-28

- Comedy
- Family
Episode overview
For an assignment that requires her to write about her "Most Interesting Relative", Brenda asks her parents for help. Lester suggests his aunt Lucy who was a woman brakeman. After Mary hears about Sandra's supposed relative who was a Moroccan prince, she searches through an old trunk to find information about an interesting relative of hers. What she finds is that she had an uncle, Corporal Mortecai Hurley, who was in the Civil War's 54th Infantry. She persuades Brenda to re-write her paper on Mortecai.
30 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Honesty1985-09-14
2. Mary's Brother1985-09-21
3. Family Hero1985-09-28
4. The Refrigerator1985-10-05
5. Do You Love Me?1985-10-19
6. Pilot1985-10-26
7. The Sidewalk Sale1985-11-02
8. A Letter to the President1985-11-09
9. Pity the Poor Working Girl1985-11-16
10. Football Widow1985-11-23
11. A Daughter is a Precious Thing1985-11-30
12. The Big Piano Play-Off1985-12-07
13. Mary's Christmas1985-12-14
14. The Bed of Rose's1986-01-04
15. Brenda's Last Date1986-01-11
16. A Young Man's Fancy1986-01-18
17. We the People1986-02-01
18. Redecorating Blues1986-02-08
19. Fifty Big Ones1986-02-15
20. Slam Dunked1986-02-22
21. Pick Six1986-03-08
22. Young Man with a Job1986-05-03