Perfect Strangers and Family Matters

Three hundred and sixty-five episodes, and the spin-off outlived the parent by five years.

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Where to start with Perfect Strangers and Family Matters

These are two separate shows that happen to share one character, and the spin-off needs nothing from the parent. Watch either first, or only one.

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    Perfect Strangers, all eight seasons Perfect Strangers

    One hundred and fifty episodes. Harriette Winslow turns up in season three and appears in about thirty-one of them.

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    Family Matters, from season 1 Family Matters

    The first eleven episodes are the show it was meant to be. From the twelfth it starts becoming something else, and from season four or five it is largely a science fiction comedy about a boy with a transformation chamber.

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    Season 9, on CBS Family Matters

    Twenty-two episodes on a different network, and the last of them.

Then what? There was never a crossover between the two shows. Two of the parent show's leads were written into the Family Matters pilot and cut before broadcast, and the character simply changed jobs off screen.

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Perfect Strangers

  • Perfect Strangers 1986, 8 seasons, 150 episodes

Family Matters

  • Family Matters 1989, 9 seasons, 215 episodes

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