As of July 2026, 227 Season 3 aired in 1987 with 24 episodes — streaming now on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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227 Season 3

1987 24 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 7/10

227 Season 3 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on . The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 43 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Marla Gibbs is the obvious draw, but the whole ensemble earns its laughs. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason 227 Season 3 keeps coming up in conversation. The jokes in 227 Season 3 land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. Season 3 of 227 includes 24 episodes. It aired from September 1987 to May 1988. This season stars Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams and Alaina Reed Hall. Marla Gibbs and Hal Williams lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1987. 227 Season 3 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, 227 Season 3 respects your intelligence. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Marla Gibbs is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

📡 Where to Watch 227 Season 3

🇺🇸 United States

Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel

🎬 227 Season 3 — Episode Guide

When The Owls Men's Club is giving Lester an award, Mary is excited until she finds out that women are not allowed in the club. Mary decides to dress up like a man (and Sandra has the same idea) and go to the ceremony. After Lester gives his speech, Mary (still disguised as a man) runs up and kisses...

When Sandra is dating a man who wants to open a sleazy night club down the street, Mary starts a petition to keep it from opening. Meanwhile, Brenda is working on an assignment about black cowboys. While reading about he historical figures, Mary dreams that they all live in the old West. Mary is "2-...

There Goes the Building

Sandra introduces her boyfriend to the ladies, the same man that audited the Jenkins. Mary still does not like him, however he charms everyone and eventually wins Mary over. Rose decides to sell 227 to him because she is efficient with his building (across the street) and he handles some of the 227'...

And Baby Makes Three

When Mary is concerned at Calvin and Brenda's nonchalance about teenage pregnancy, she designs an experiment with their sex education class where the kids must take care of an animal. Brenda and Calvin "adopt" a piglet named Alberta and she is a handful. All of the kids in the class realize how hard...

A man with a knife rents an apartment.

Teach Me Tonight (1)

When Sandra meets Brenda's math teacher at the Jenkins' apt., they begin dating and he gets more serious than Sandra. Then, Sandra comes by the Jenkins' with her new rich date, while Mitchell is visiting. To get Sandra back, he spends all his money trying to wine and dine her. One night at the Piano...

Teach Me Tonight (2)

Sandra overhears how Mitchell interacts with his students and she tells him that he needs to continue teaching because he needs the kids and much as they need him. Sandra and Mitchell confide in the Jenkins separately that they are not ready to get married. When the minister asks if anyone objects, ...

See You in Court

Mary and Sandra go to court over song royalties.

The Honeymoon's Over

When Lester's cousin and his wife come to visit the Jenkins, Mary brags about how they are the perfect couple who never argue and still begave like Honeymooners after five years of marriage. When they arrive, Sherry reveals to Mary that Ed is stiffling her and is too overprotective and she says that...

Calvin and his friend Eddie are in danger of failing history, so the Jenkins, Rose, and Pearl try to tutor them. After failing the test the first time, they get a second chance to take the test. After Brenda returns from a rap concert, Mary gets the idea that maybe they should study in rap form, si...

When Mary goes to a seminar about success, she meets a business man who wants to build a $50 million museum. She tells him that Lester is a big time contractor and sets up a meeting date. She uses Sandra's boyfriend's penthouse across the street to prove to Mr. Mortimer that she and Lester have lot...

Sandra gets a job on a low budget television station, Channel 87. She tried out for the weathergirl, but bombed! So the station manager gives her another chance hosting her own talk show. Mary, Lester, Rose and Pearl agree to be on the show and talk about various things (bake sale, rummage). But...

When Mary and Lester's flight to Hawaii is cancelled due to the blizzard, they go home only to find Rose, Pearl, Sandra and Calvin in their apt, which is one of two apts in 227 with working heat. They all stay there, including the Jenkins' cab driver, whose cab was stuck in the snow, for at least tw...

Shall We Dance?

Mary catches Lester dancing with his old girlfriend.

For a choir sing-off, Mary has found housing for all of the competitors except one, and for good reason. He is rude, pushy and impatient. He winds up staying with the Jenkins. He tries everything he can to guarantee that his choir will win, including taking the judges to dinner and bringing in a pr...

When Calvin asks Brenda to his basketball ball, she is not able to go because she is still one week away from being 16 years old. She sulks because she can't go. The next week, she has a sweet sixteen party and when Sandra asks what she will do now that she is 16, she announces that she is going to...

When the daughter of Lester's friend comes to stay with the Jenkins until the dorms at Howard University open, she gets a taste of the big city first hand. Sandra is behind on rent for three months and she decides to get a roommate. Sweet, shy, quiet Donna becomes her roommate after the dorm overbo...

Lester's construction company has the chance to be purchased by a multi-national company. The lawyer that is over the proposed merger sub leases the apt and next door, and he and Mary start off on the wrong foot from the beginning. He requests tickets to see the Pointer Sisters, makes Mary cook a st...

The New Neighbors

When Rose is looking for a live-in superintendent, Manny suggests his father, knowing that the Super's family will live with a 50% decrease in rent. When his family moves in, they later find out that he is also the Superintendent, but Alfonso has no skills in that area. Instead, he would rather play...

Brenda's grandfather arrives with a Wailing Eddie record in tow. While letting Brenda listen to it, she accidentally scratches it and her grandfather is devastated. She doesn't understand what's so special about the blues anyway. Mary and Lester find another rare copy, and it too is ruined accident...

🎭 Cast of 227 Season 3

Marla Gibbs

Hal Williams

Alaina Reed Hall

Alaina Reed Hall

Rose Lee Holloway

Jackée Harry

Regina King

Helen Martin

Barry Sobel

Countess Vaughn

Countess Vaughn

Alexandria DeWitt

Paul Winfield

Julian C. Barlow

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