Webster is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 until May 8, 1987, and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 until March 10, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver. The show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the title role as a young boy who, after losing his parents, is adopted by his NFL-pro godfather, portrayed by Alex Karras, and his new socialite wife, played by Susan Clark. The focus was largely on how this impulsively married couple had to adjust to their new lives and sudden parenthood, but it was the congenial Webster himself who drove much of the plot. The series was produced by Georgian Bay Ltd., Emmanuel Lewis Entertainment Enterprises, Inc. and Paramount Television. Like NBC's earlier hit Diff'rent Strokes, Webster featured a young African-American boy adopted by a white family.
Producer: Nancy Steen, April Kelly
Katherine Papadapolis
George Papadapolis
Webster Long
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22 episodes
After the untimely death of a young boy's parents, he is sent to live with his father's best friend.
Runtime: N/A minIn oder to get some extra special attention, Webster makes believe that it is his birthday and wants a party.
Runtime: N/A minWebster tries out for the football team. Katherine is then afraid that Webster will get seriously hurt especially because of his height and bulid. Also, we learn that Webster is picked to be on the team only because of George's fame in football.
Runtime: N/A minCatherine wants to get some attention from Webster and she tries a few things. Meanwhile, Webster's friend is not getting much attention because her mom just had a baby, so she runs away and Webster hides her in his room.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine find out that Webster doesn't know that his parents are dead. He originally thought that they had to go away and that they will come back for him, so it's up to George and Katherine to break the news to Webster of what really happened to his parents.
Runtime: N/A minCatherine fears that she is getting old because George and Webster play games with a girl named Mandy, who is real young and really pretty. In the light of all this, Catherine gets jealous.
Runtime: N/A minThinking that George and Katherine never had an official wedding ceremony, Webster plans to prepare one for them.
Runtime: N/A minIt is revealed to George and Katherine why Travis, Webster's late father chose George to be Webster's godparent and legal guardian if something happened to them.
Runtime: N/A minWebster goes on a TV-benefit show to sing and dance.
Runtime: N/A minCatherine gets a taste of the worst being a volunteer art teacher. She feels that she is booring and failing, do Webster tries to help her.
Runtime: 24 minGeorge and Katherine both try and persuade Webster that he can do without his teddy bear which is lost.
Runtime: N/A minAll the blame goes to Webster when his friends try to rob the Tracadero, their hangout.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is too obsessed with winning when she appears on a game show.
Runtime: N/A minWebster has to have his tonsils out, so he tries to be tough just like George.
Runtime: N/A minWebster wants a baby brother or sister so he goes to George and Katherine and asks them for one.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine both forget to pick Webster up from school so he goes with a friend and his parents leaving a panicing George and Katherine not knowing of something happened to him.
Runtime: N/A minWebster is always nervous and it has resulted him into a bed-wetting problem.
Runtime: N/A minWebster makes a friend when a boy needs a sponsor for the Special Olympics.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine want Webster's Uncle Phil out of his life, but that fails when Webster ends up running into him anyway.
Runtime: N/A minJerry, Katherine's secretary quits on account of helping Webster run for class president.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets nightmares because the teacher he has a crush on wants to read Webster's composition aloud.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's Uncle Phillip, Webster's last surviving relative, comes up to the apartment to take Webster to live with him. The Popadapolis' do not think that Uncle Phil can take care of Webster the way they can, so Uncle Phil threatens to take them to court for custody.
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26 episodes
Uncle Phil and both George and Katherine all go to court to battle for cutstody of Webster.
Runtime: N/A minAfter losing the court case, Uncle Phil decides to run away to Atlanta Georgia without consenting George and Katherine.
Runtime: N/A minWebster helps the school janitor go back to being a magician.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and his female friend are caught looking at each other naked. Catherine has a tough time trying to explain that they were only curious though when she talks to the friend's mother.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets congratulated when he saves George and Katherine from the apartment's fire. Little do they know that Webster actually caused the fire by playing with a chemistry set that he was not suppose to play with.
Runtime: N/A minMystery and wonder are what to describe the new home George and Katherine are going to rent. This is a victorian house repleat with secret walls, openings, and more. Also, Webster, Katherine, and George all want to know why the owners don't want anybody to go near their runaway daughter's room.
Runtime: N/A minJust when George is about to retire, he is called upon to help a losing football team.
Runtime: N/A minWebster, George, and Katherine are all trying to have a peaceful thanksgiving. But things don't turn out the way they plan when George's aggressive father and Katherine's snobby mother arrive for Thanksgiving dinner.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets angry at God when he realizes that God took his mommy and daddy away.
Runtime: N/A minAfter Webster transfers to an advanced learning class, his grades start to slip.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is extremely embarassed when Webster announces that she has once been under the care of a psychiatrist.
Runtime: N/A minThe Popadopilis' and Webster all try and save the Tracadero diner from being demolished.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine will not let Webster get a dog, so he tries to con Uncle Phil into getting him one without telling George and Katherine.
Runtime: N/A minAfter she ran away 7 years ago, Bill and Cassie's daughter returns to her parents.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine find a job for George's visiting father....a truck driver.
Runtime: N/A minWebster on his way back to the classroom overhears his female friend getting molested by a substitute teacher. After driving the information out of her, he tries to convince her to tell an adult.
Runtime: N/A minWebster meets Diahann Carroll, who is at Webster's school to raise money to bring musical instruments to the school district.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine has been acting strange around George and Webster and they both find out that she is pregnant
Runtime: N/A minKatherine thinks about life with another baby and then examines the possiblity of abortion. Then as she is soul-searching, fate decides for her and she has a miscarriage.
Runtime: N/A minWebster makes a mistake by accidentally recycling Uncle Phil's tin can sculpture.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets a new best friend named Rob. As Webster enjoys Rob's protection, Rob gets angry because he thinks that Webster is using him as a bodyguard and George has to step in.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine develops a desire for a visiting college professor.
Runtime: N/A minBill keeps playing pranks on George and it gets to the point where they are at odds.
Runtime: N/A minAfter going to an amusement park, Webster is deeply upset on account of his height.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets trapped in a secret room that looks like there is no way out. Meanwhile, while Webster is trapped, the gang reminisces old episodes.
Runtime: N/A minAs they are still reminiscing from past shows, they realize that they haven't seen Webster around the house and they start to get worried, not knowing that he is still in the secret room.
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29 episodes
The Popadopolis' visit Lizard Flatz Arizona and there they encounter Dusty, a man with interesting stories, a ranch, and moonhunter, a horse that seems to be a legend, but ends up a reality after saving Webster from a rattlesnake. Moonhunter gets caught by some greedy no-gooders, and Webster almost gets killed.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge wants to live on the ranch, Webster wants to save moonhunter and set him free, and after all the excitement, they decide to head back to Chicago.
Runtime: N/A minFor a class project, Webster gets married and a bunch of problems end up with him and his snotty, controlling ""wife"".
Runtime: N/A minWebster's friend Rob is upset because he feels that he is too tall.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's friend Rob picks up a tabloid and asks Webster some questions from it. Webster gets the questions right and according to the tabloid, Webster is an alien from Jupiter and he starts to believe it.
Runtime: N/A minAs a lesson in teaching Webster responsibility, George and Katherine switch roles to where they are the kids and Webster is the parent.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is very upset when she finds out that her mother has passed away.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge takes Webster to the New York Nicks game and introduces Webster to basketball player Patrick Ewing.
Runtime: N/A minWebster goes to Hollywood with Uncle Phil and his girlfriend. Matters turn worse after Uncle Phil's girlfriend cheats on Phil with Phil's producer. Meanwhile, Katherine gets sick while she and George have their 2nd honeymoon.
Runtime: N/A minAfter cheating on Phil, The producer gives Phil's part to his now ex-girlfriend which leaves Phil fired. Meanwhile at George and Katherine's 2nd honeymoon, the power and heat go off.
Runtime: N/A minRobbers break into the house while Webster is home alone and he has to know how to act.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets a chain letter. George throws it away and things mysteriously go wrong. Webster does bad on his test, there is a spider, and Papa Popadopolis falls down the stairs. Webster then discovers that it wasn't the letter, it was just stuff that happened. Webster then gets an A on the retake test.
Runtime: N/A minWebster takes a picture and shows it to Katherine. Katherine then starts to think that a neigbor is having an affair.
Runtime: N/A minWebster makes Katherine a dress for her birthday. She says that she likes it, but avoids wearing it when she is asked to put it on when they go out. She then tells Webster how she really feels about her gift.
Runtime: N/A minWebster tries to set up Katherine's aunt Charlotte and Papa Papadopolis.
Runtime: N/A minWebster learns that you can be rich without having a lot of money after Webster gets struck with the Lottery Fever.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge does a sportscast about Webster's Pee-Wee leauge hockey team. They like his sportscast so much that they want him to do children's sports and he is not too thrilled about that.
Runtime: N/A minRob's dad kidnaps him and Webster tries to rally up support to try and find him.
Runtime: N/A minJerry dresses up like a clown and takes Webster to the Leukimia ward at the children's hospital. Meanwhile, the kid is brought home and things do not go right.
Runtime: N/A minWebster falls in love with a girl on Valentines day and he thinks she's taken. But he tries to ask her out to a Valentines party anyway.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's Uncle Jack has Webster visit him. Uncle Jack runs a foster home with a woman, but a conflict with this one child may force him to quit the home.
Runtime: N/A minWebster asks permission to buy a BB gun and he resorts to responsibility to get one. After getting one, and practicing with his friends, he accidentally kills a bird. This bird has babies and he takes the responsibility of raising them on his own.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine's aunt is getting married and George and Katherine decide to reenact their wedding vows.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and Katheine hatch a scheme to try and rid a habit that George has.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and Katherine both end up cheating on some school-related projects at the same time.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine both hire a maid who happens to be pregnant and goes into labor.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine hosts a therapy session at the house.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and Papa Popadopolis look back at past episodes. Then, they find out that George and Katherine are caught in a hurricane.
Runtime: N/A minAs they continue to reminisce, Webster, Papa Papadopolis, and Jerry receive news that George and Katherine have both survived the hurricane.
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23 episodes
Webster starts buying his lunch and the school bully keeps taking Webster's money. After George and Katherine get work about it, they try to stop him and the two end up being friends.
Runtime: N/A minThe Papadopolis' family rents a room to a clown not knowing that he is a clown.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge is so obsessed with Webster winning a derby, that he builds the car without Webster. Webster's feelings get hurt especially when he originally wanted them to build the thing together.
Runtime: N/A minFor a fundraiser, Katherine decides to run a 6-mile marathon, but a can of tomato juice falls on her foot and she can't run, so Webster takes the 6 mile challenge himself.
Runtime: N/A minThe Family leanrs that Papa Papadopolis is illiterate and he is greatfully ashamed of it. To try and ease the tension from this new problem they just discovered, George and Katherine enroll him into a class, after manipulation and persuasion.
Runtime: N/A minWebster discovers that a woman who is said to be a witch, is not a real broom-riding witch, but a woman who is lonely and who needs to care for her.
Runtime: N/A minWebster talks about his late dad when the school is looking to name the school after a famous sportshero.
Runtime: N/A minA former teammmate of George makes a pass at Katherine and Webster witnesses it.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine coaches Webster's baseball team and she assigns him to right field. Webster wants to pitch and after he is given the chance to pitch, it's back to the old right field for Webster.
Runtime: N/A minWebster invites a girl over for a harmless sleepover.
Runtime: N/A minSuppose to be Santa Clause for a Christmas parade, he loses his part and is upset about it.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge gets angry after finding out that his new station manager's son is bullying Webster around.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine has different ideas on how to celebrate Webster's birtday. George wants to take him to a professioal wrestling match and Katherine wants to take him to an opera.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's photographs tend to capture an instructor's true character.
Runtime: N/A minWebster writes stories about other teacher's love lives in the school paper. The information then puts Katherine's teaching job at risk because Webster got the information by overhearing her gossiping about them.
Runtime: N/A minWhen children are making fun of Papa Papadopolis at the comminuty center, Webster gets fed up.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets a job walking dogs around the neighborhood.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and Jerry both invite the Four Tops to perform at George and Katherine's anniversary party.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets an autograph from Mike Tyson on a pair of boxing gloves, but the autograph accidentally gets wiped off which makes Webster upset.
Runtime: N/A minTrouble starts to brew when a girl suggests a kissing game at Webster's party.
Runtime: N/A minWebster (Emmanuel Lewis) faces pressure from his peers when they ask him to fire Katherine (Susan Clark) as Junior Ranger troopleader
Runtime: N/A minWebster writes an essay praising and appreciating the love and leadership that George and Katherine has given him throughout the years.
Runtime: N/A minTwo of Webster's friends hort and take over Webster's hard-earned money. As a result, he learns a lesson from this.
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25 episodes
Webster helps an old man who wants to be reunited with his jazz band in San Francisco.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is accused of extorting Henry's savings after he disappears.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is bailed out of jail in time to catch Henry's comeback performance.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's cousin is not too crazy about moving to Nigeria with his family.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine's purse is stolen and Webster creates a crime prevention program.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge's fishing plans get in the way of Webster's original plans.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge does not approve of the way Webster's teacher teaches.
Runtime: N/A minWhen George learns that an old school friend of his has died, George thinks about his own life.
Runtime: N/A minWebster is upset when funds raised for sports equipment are stolen.
Runtime: N/A minOn a weekend trip, George and Katherine's hosts literally reveal themselves as nudists on a relaxing getaway.
Runtime: N/A minWhen he fails to pick the winning teams for a football pool, he asks Katherine for her help.
Runtime: N/A minA man dressed like Santa Clause keeps giving overexpensive gifts for Christmas and Katherine has had enough.
Runtime: N/A minThe Four Tops meet their pal Webster.
Runtime: N/A minAfter finding out that a buch of nerds are in the same school group Webster just joined, he starts to have second thoughts about joining that club.
Runtime: N/A minWhen Katherine demonstrated some of her cooking ""skills"" on television, George and Webster try to prevent trouble from brewing.
Runtime: N/A minThe family takes care of Jerry who had sprained his ankle, and they find out that he is no picnic to wait on.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine and George look back at the time they first met after Webster is assigned a project about famous lovers.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine has the idea that an ex-con is after her and she is frightened.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge gets some strange news about the boys who are on Nicky's football team.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge encounters a promising basketball player. The only problem is that this player is addicted to cocaine and George tries to help him out of it.
Runtime: N/A minWebster plays matchmaker to a romance-seeking Nicky.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is very jealous of George's new success and Webster thinks that the two might get a divorce.
Runtime: N/A minWebster goes to see a movie that he was forbidden to see and ends up getting nightmares from it.
Runtime: N/A minThe family wins a spa from a shady dealer and tricks George into endorsing his product.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge sees corruption in the Board of Education.
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25 episodes
After being bullied around, Webster fantasizes that he is in the Wild West to take care of his bully.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine is appalled when she sees a nude portrait of her in an art gallery. The ironic part is that when she posed, she was fully clothed.
Runtime: N/A minWebster and his classmates appear on a TV game show.
Runtime: N/A minThe family supports Papa's techniques with a belly dance instructor.
Runtime: N/A minWebster is in charge of campaigning for a class presidential candidate, but the boy he presents loses.
Runtime: N/A minWhile gathering things for a garage sale, the family reminisces.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine gives dating advice to a teen who wants to date an older woman, but she is in for a surprise when the older woman is her.
Runtime: N/A minGeorge and Katherine find out that their friend Chelsea is a cat burglar.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's rich aunt plans on adopting a boy and Webster thinks that he is just interested in her very large bank roll.
Runtime: N/A minWebster is upset when his turtle dies. He then gets even more upset after a friend tells him that the turtle will not be in heaven for him.
Runtime: N/A minWebster daydreams that he is in a 1920's type cops and robbers situation. In this adventure, Webster tries to nab a root-beer racketeer.
Runtime: N/A minWhile his daydream continues, Webster finds that he was ""set up"" by a gangster and moves in on the caper.
Runtime: N/A minWhen Katherine's rich Uncle falls in love with the leading lady of a thratrical performance, Webster and Katherine's debuts are in danger.
Runtime: N/A minWebster encounters a convicted gambler who is going under rehabilitation. This man's influence is then put on to Webster.
Runtime: N/A minAn insulting couple want to use Katherine to help make them popular.
Runtime: N/A minThe Four Tops, who are friends of George are invited for thanksgiving after having nowhere to go for the holiday.
Runtime: N/A minKatherine tries to buy Webster tickets to see the Jets, but their sold out. She then tries to buy them off of a ticket scalper and then ends up arrested as part of a sting operation.
Runtime: N/A minTo try and spice up their romance and to bring back the youth in them, George and Katherine go camping together.
Runtime: N/A minWebster gets a brand new bike, but ends up getting a ticket from a cop.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's very smart friend gets depressed because her science project didn't come in as number one.
Runtime: N/A minWebster arranges a Gospel group thinking that it is a rock group to perform at a party.
Runtime: N/A minWebster goes to the race track and learns that one of the horses will be put to death because it's too old to race anymore. With this, Webster tries to make a plan that will save the horse from the brutality.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's pen pal, an adult butler from England visits to meet Webster in person.
Runtime: N/A minA flood hits the basement and everyone realizes that most of the contents in the basement are pretty much ruined. This includes photographs of the family's evolvement which is expressed through a series of flashbacks from past episodes.
Runtime: N/A minWebster's video game transports him as the captain of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The next Generation.
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