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E1 Episode 1: Love, Deacon Style

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• 30m
• Nov 17, 1990

On her six-month anniversary, Thelma feels neglected because Reuben is teaching night school.

E2 Episode 2: Two Men, One Woman and a Baby

• 30m
• Dec 1, 1990

After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no children of her own, whe makes plans to become the child's foster mother, against objections from the deacon and the Rev. Soon the child even begins to soften the deacon's stand. But in the end, Thelma is determined to hold onto the baby. . . until the child's mother shows up. Meanwhile, Deacon Frye is tax audited and owes Uncle Sam a large sum of money.

E3 Episode 3: Child's Play

• 30m
• Dec 8, 1990

Frye establishes a day care center called ""Deaconland.""

E4 Episode 4: Yo, Deak

• 30m
• Dec 15, 1990

Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""

E5 Episode 5: Miracle on 134th Street (1)

• 30m
• Dec 22, 1990

Frye backs a man claiming to be Santa Claus. (Part 1 of 2)

E6 Episode 6: Miracle on 134th Street (2)

• 30m
• Dec 22, 1990

E7 Episode 7: Judge Deacon Frye

• 30m
• Dec 29, 1990

Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.

E8 Episode 8: The Gospel Truth

• 30m
• Jan 5, 1991

Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.

E9 Episode 9: Lights, Camera, Deacon

• 30m
• Jan 12, 1991

Frye sees publicity in a televised trial involving writer-comedian Steve Allen in a suit against a fried-chicken mogul.

E10 Episode 10: Unforgettable

• 30m
• Jan 19, 1991

Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.

E11 Episode 11: Ernie and the Sublimes

• 30m
• Feb 2, 1991

The deacon reassembles his '50s doo-wop group for a benefit.

E12 Episode 12: The Deacon's Slam Dunk

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• Feb 9, 1991

Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the deacon's plans?

E13 Episode 13: Three Men and a Hammer

• 30m
• Feb 23, 1991

Rapper MC Hammer has a dual role as a flamboyant minister and as himself, busting a move to keep Clarence in school. Guard: Jacques Apollo Bolton. Clarence: Bumper Robinson. Rev. Gregory: Clifton Davis.

E14 Episode 14: Nothin' Says Lovin' ...

• 30m
• Mar 2, 1991

E15 Episode 15: My Fair Homeboy

• 30m
• Mar 9, 1991

E16 Episode 16: A Star is Burned

• 30m
• Mar 23, 1991

Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

E17 Episode 17: Deak-Scam

• 30m
• Mar 30, 1991

Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over. And while everyone watches him on film, Judge Frye must make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether to be honest and turn the money down, or enjoy the spice of life, with all that cash!

E18 Episode 18: The Wild Deak

• 30m
• Apr 6, 1991

E19 Episode 19: Three's a Crowd

• 30m
• Apr 13, 1991

Deacon Frye dates a teacher Clarence likes, and the 2 begin to bump heads.

E20 Episode 20: Date with an Angel

• 30m
• Apr 27, 1991

At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.

E21 Episode 21: Deliverance (1)

• 30m
• May 4, 1991

Frye and Clarence try raising church funds by dating wealthy Darla and her equally unattractive granddaughter Darletta.

E22 Episode 22: Deliverance (2)

• 30m
• May 11, 1991

Appearances by James Brown and Lloyd Price aren't the only surprises during a telethon to save the church: Thelma delivers a baby boy. (Part 2 of 2) Her delivery overdue, Thelma attends a telethon.