How ‘Family Matters’ Made One of Its Biggest Characters Disappear

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How ‘Family Matters’ Made One of Its Biggest Characters Disappear
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The cast of Family Matters with Jaleel White's Steve Urkel in the front

The Big Picture When Family Matters debuted on ABC in 1989 as part of the network's Friday night TGIF lineup, it was a show much different from the one it would become. As a spinoff of the popular series Perfect Strangers, Family Matters stood out from most other sitcoms of the day by focusing on an all Black cast. These characters didn't fall into 80s stereotypes, but were well-thought-out people. There was Carl Winslow , a lovable Chicago cop, and his wife, Harriette .

Release Date September 22, 1989 Cast Reginald VelJohnson , Darius McCrary , Jaleel White Main Genre Sitcom Seasons 9 Who Was Judy Winslow on 'Family Matters'? Judy Winslow's character was just nine years old when Family Matters first started. She didn't usually get as much storyline time as the other characters in the Winslow family, but she was far from a background character. She was portrayed as your typical child.

Steve Urkel became a pop culture phenomenon. "Did I do that?" became part of the lexicon. By Season 4, Steve Urkel was such an icon that there was little breathing room for anything else. It was then that the showrunners decided to make the most drastic and unnecessary of moves by cutting a valued member of the cast.

'Family Matters' Jo Marie Payton Was Upset by Judy Winslow's Removal Some of the cast of Family Matters, as you can imagine, were not happy about the decision. Not only had a member of their TV family been let go, a person that they had grown close to in real life, but she was a child. Darius McCrary, who played Judy's brother, Eddie, took it well, telling Comedy Hype in 2019,

"I said, You guys need to tell me something that is not only creative, but also politically correct to straighten out this situation because there's nowhere in the world a family … You gave me three kids, you took away my baby. If you had taken away my oldest child, we could have always come up with that she was at the mall or with her friends. You took away my baby, and when I asked you, 'Why did you take away my baby girl?,' you said, 'Nobody would notice.

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