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“The funk hits the fan” when a former R&B singer becomes a high school music teacher in inner city Chicago in The Steve Harvey Show. Actor and comedian Steve Harvey starred in this hit comedy from creator Winifred Hervey (The Golden Girls) and producer/director Stan Lathan (Sanford And Son) which originally aired on The WB Network from 1996 until 2002.

Steve Harvey was almost 40 when he scored his big break on The Steve Harvey Show in 1996. In the years since he’s become one of the biggest stars in show business, with success in live performance, film, television, radio, and even books. But his road to the top was twisty, a fact Harvey himself believes is vital to his longevity. 

“You have to fail in order to win,” he said in 2012.

You may know Steve Harvey as one of The Original Kings of Comedy or as the host of popular talk and game shows like Family Feud. But before he became one of television’s preeminent emcees, the actor and comedian headlined his own long-running situation comedy: The Steve Harvey Show.

“What’s the legacy of Married...With Children?” co-creator Michael Moye was asked in a 2012 interview with the Television Academy Foundation.

“It’s funny,” said Moye, who also wrote for TV classics like Good Times and The Jeffersons. “At least that’s what I hope.”

The life and times of James Capen Adams — the actual historical figure upon whom the fictional “Grizzly Adams” was based — lasted longer than many of his contemporaries. The mountain man died in 1860 at the ripe old age of 48, more than eight years longer than typical life expectancy for that era.

The 1980s was not New York City’s finest hour. Crime rates spiked, homicides reached historic highs, and a 1984 shooting by a man dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” only solidified the Big Apple’s rep as a lawless metropolis.