Roc

Eleanor's (ELLA JOYCE) birthday party is ruined when Roc (CHARLES S. DUTTON) loses all patience with Joey's (ROCKY CARROLL) irresponsibility and evicts him.

When Joey is given free use of his friend's luxury car, Eleanor insists that Roc withdraw some of their savings from the bank so they can buy a car of their own.

Feeling confident in her relationship with Roc, Eleanor invites Roc's former girlfriend to dinner, but the evening goes awry when Eleanor learns something surprising.

When Joey Emerson hires his brother Roc to paint his friend's luxury condominium, Roc gets arrested for being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.

To help her win a promotion at the hospital, Eleanor asks Andrew to romance the head nurse, Matty.

While Joey tricks two famous jazz musicians into playing with him, Eleanor worries that Roc is getting too friendly with neighborhood vigilante Ronnie Paxton.

When tests confirm a low sperm count, Roc Emerson asks his brother, Joey, to donate sperm so Eleanor can have a baby. Later, Roc changes his mind.

Joey lies to keep the piano player in his jazz band from finding out he is dating his ex-girlfriend but when Roc confesses the truth, the band breaks up.

On the eve of the election, Eleanor, Andrew, and Matty try to convince Roc and Joey to cast their ballots before the polls close.

Ruben Stiles, a popular actor, uses Roc as the model for his role in a new movie, revealing some embarrassing information about Roc.

When Joey escapes serious injury in a car accident, Andrew foresees his own death and buys cemetery plots for himself and Joey, but not for Roc.

Roc loses hundreds of dollars in a poker game. When Joey offers to pay the debt for him he stubbornly refuses.

Joey proudly encourages his musical protege, Devon Brown, until he learns that the young man is involved with Andre Thompson, the local drug dealer.

When the Emersons' landlord wants to sell all of his rental properties, Roc and Eleanor invest their life savings to become the new landlords.

Trouble ensues when Roc and Eleanor renew their marriage vows and the entire Emerson family gathers together to witness the ceremony.

When the Emerson brothers get a bit drunk, Joey confesses a secret to Roc that still affects their relationship with their father, Andrew.

Roc is eager to form a business partnership with a wealthy white man, Jim Larson, until he learns that the man is a racist.

As Roc is giving boxing lessons to his friend's son, the boy confesses that his father is forcing him to be a boxer when he actually wants to be a ventriloquist.

Joey is in love with an attractive singer in a local musical group, but selfishly insists that she quit the group when they're contracted for a six-month European tour.

he Emerson family worries that Joey is being unfaithful to his girlfriend when they discover that he's dating a white woman and a black woman at the same time.

Eleanor and Roc try to put some of the romance back into their marriage.

Roc and Eleanor invite their homeless friend, Linda, to the house for dinner and she immediately develops a mutual attraction with their neighbor, "Crazy" George.

The Emerson family is shocked to learn that Andrew is dating a young woman who looks exactly like his deceased wife.

When "The Downtown Divas" return from a European singing tour, one of the "Divas" asks Roc to help prevent a local drug dealer from murdering her brother.