Family Matters: The Complete Series

Mother Winslow asserts a little too much authority when she comes to live with her son Carl and his family.

The Winslows must cut costs when Harriette loses her job as an elevator operator.

The Winslow family members have mixed reactions when they realize they are the characters in a story Rachel has sold to a magazine.

Desperate for some time alone with Harriette, Carl encourages Rachel to start dating again.

Eddie thinks he must be getting smarter when he comes home with perfect marks until he learns the truth--his friend Rodney has played a joke on him.

Carl pushes a reluctant Eddie to try out for the high school basketball team. Aunt Rachel experiments with gourmet recipes.

Carl is chosen to drive an antique police car in the Columbus Day parade, but Rachel wrecks the car and has to fix it before Carl finds out.

While Carl unsuccessfully tries to install a shower, Rachel tries to convince everybody that her baby boy really can talk.

Harriette becomes jealous because Carl's new partner is beautiful, shapely -- and likes to bowl!

Carl arrests the Winslow family's favorite television star.

Laura has a garage sale and mistakenly sells Mother Winslow's priceless 200-year-old quilt.

Laura's first date turns into a nightmare when three boys arrive to take her to the school dance.

The children bring home a stray dog that has a habit of chewing on things--and Carl changes his mind about pets.

Policeman Carl Winslow's recipe for lemon tarts leads to a family business venture.

Carl is too embarrassed to attend his high school reunion because of the weight he's gained.

Things get out of control when the Winslow children are left alone for the evening.

Eddie talks his sister Laura into going on a date with Steve Urkel, the school nerd.

The Winslow home fills with children when Laura starts a baby-sitting service.

While Carl Winslow auditions for a job as a television traffic reporter, Eddie helps Steve with a school bully.

Eddie runs for president of the freshman class because he thinks it will make him more popular with girls.

Battle lines are drawn in the Winslow family when the women challenge the men to a bowling match.

Eddie Winslow starts his own band but becomes a little too star-struck.

After Steve accidentally burns down the local hamburger joint, he suggests Rachel buy it and run it herself. With the help of Carl, Harriette and Mother Winslow, she does.

Steve Urkel mistakenly believes Rachel is romantically attracted to him as she prepares a candle-lit dinner--for her loan officer.

To her horror, Laura gets paired with Steve for a class project in which the participants pretend they are married. Harriette is depressed because Carl takes her for granted--until he recognizes the error of his ways by hearing how Steve treats Laura.

Harriette and Carl Winslow compete in a dance contest with Carl's police captain and his wife. Both men injure themselves but insist on continuing.

Steve Urkel faces a future in military school when, to win Eddie Winslow's friendship, he falsely confesses to crashing the Winslow family car.

While Carl Winslow chases a suspect, he gets trapped in a moving boxcar with Steve Urkel. Steve's uncertainty about choosing a career leads Carl to the realization that he should no longer pressure his own son to become a cop.

Carl must save Steve and Laura, who have been taken hostage during a Halloween robbery.

When Steve goes out of town, his look-alike, sound-alike, act-alike cousin Myrtle, the belle of Biloxi, arrives and falls madly in love with Eddie.

Harriette becomes jealous when a pretty neighbor becomes attracted to Carl. Steve Urkel, meanwhile, gets a girlfriend--and it's not his beloved Laura.

Laura's happiness at getting Steve to be her partner for a science project turns to terror when she has a nightmare about him building an atomic bomb.

Steve amazes everyone when he challenges the school bully to a fight after he learns that Laura's honor has been insulted.

When Eddie loses $250 to a hardened pool hustler, he's rescued by Steve, who challenges the hustler to a game.

Christmas is never more wondrous for the Winslows than when they see that Steve's belief in Santa Claus may not be misplaced.

Carl's decision to take his reluctant son ice fishing almost ends in tragedy when the ice on the frozen lake gives way.

Harriette acts as peacemaker when a fierce argument between Carl and Eddie threatens to tear the family apart.

A guilty conscience plagues Carl when he finds a diamond bracelet; Steve faces his own conscience when he has a chance to ruin Laura's latest boyfriend, the new basketball player at school.

Steve finds an unorthodox way of curing Carl of his fear of heights. Rachel and Harriette argue over just who won a car on a radio contest.

Aunt Rachel rescues Steve when his punch is spiked at a party.

Eddie dents the family car and tries to get the money to secretly repair it by going gambling with Steve. The boys are arrested and bailed out by Carl, who is feeling sheepish because he accidentally threw away a relative's ashes.

Laura starts a campaign to have a black history course taught at her school.

Steve and Carl both learn a lesson about when to take credit for their achievement.

Harriette and Rachel's father--whom they had believed was killed in the Korean War--comes to the Winslow home and wants to make amends for abandoning his daughters.

Steve Urkel gives Laura Winslow a bracelet, and Lieutenant Murtagh goes on a date with Rachel. Both are bluntly spurned, leaving Urkel consoling Lieutenant Murtagh.

Carl dreams that he is facing "Two-Gun Urkel," the most annoying gunslinger in the West.

Carl Winslow experiences guilt over a hostage who was shot a year ago while he was on duty as a police officer. Steve Urkel bribes Laura Winslow to go out on a date with him.

Steve Urkel steals an orangutan from a lab, hiding him at the Winslows' house. Lieutenant Murtagh forces Carl to use a state-of-the-art treadmill to get in shape not realizing that one of his enemies has wired it with a bomb. Carl is forced to keep exercising or be blown up.

Carl finally proves his prowess as a handyman by fixing his roof, but while gloating, he falls off of the roof. Steve challenges a "suitor" of Laura's to a rope climb: The loser must stay away from Laura forever.

Laura is cast as Juliet in the school play. When the leading man gets sick, Steve plays Romeo and Laura must kiss him. Lieutenant Murtagh forces Carl to do his personal errands for Carl's annual performance review.

When Steve's sleepwalking disturbs Carl, the Winslows hire a hypnotherapist to cure him. Under hypnosis, Steve reveals that he thinks Carl hates him. Carl insists he doesn't, and Steve hooks him to a polygraph to verify that he's sincere.

Carl gets a new rookie partner, Mike, who idolizes him. When Laura meets Mike, she develops an attraction to him and makes a fool of herself. And Carl unknowingly helps embarrass her.

Steve purchases an expensive beetle, but when it escapes in the Winslow house, Carl smashes it, not knowing it's Steve's pet. The two go on television to settle the case on "Citizen's Court."

Steve builds a robot that looks and talks--and chases after Laura--just like him.

When Laura is disliked as the new girl on the cheerleading squad, she asks Steve for help on how to cope with being unpopular. Steve then leads the basketball team to victory with Laura cheering him on.

When a local gang intimidates the customers at Rachel's diner and beats up Eddie, Carl and Steve team up. Steve goes undercover to join the gang.

Eddie arranges for Vonda, a girl with a reputation for granting sexual favors, to be tutored by Steve. But instead of bestowing her affection upon Eddie, Vonda wants to thank Steve. Carl dresses up as a woman for a police undercover operation.

On Laura's fifteenth birthday, Steve chases a boy she likes away from her by claiming she has a highly infectious disease. Laura doesn't want Steve around her, but she changes her mind after she dreams that she's ninety years old and all alone.

Steve loses the money he saved to buy an accordion when Carl's boss beats him at poker. But then Carl feels bad and personally refunds the money, and Steve uses it to play poker again--this time beating Lieutenant Murtagh.

Steve comes to church with the Winslows and decides to join the choir. When Rachel, the new choir director, discovers he's tone deaf, she won't allow him to participate. Then she alienates the choir members until everyone quits.

Carl sleeps on the couch while his house is being robbed! Eddie convinces Steve to help him cheat on a chemistry test, but when Steve is caught, Eddie refuses to admit that he was the one cheating.

Eddie and Steve land in jail when Eddie's smooth-talking cousin Clarence steals a Ferrari.

Carl struggles to deal with Steve's pen pal, a woman who has just been released from prison. She is in love with Steve, but Steve had sent her a photo of Carl. Mother Winslow tries to relate family history to her uninterested grandchildren.

Steve takes a cooking class.

Steve asks Laura to be his valentine, but she declines, favoring instead the offer of Daniel Wallace. Maxine warns Laura that Daniel will try to seduce her but Laura doesn't believe her until it's too late.

When Laura runs against a friend for student council president, the girl tries to blackmail Laura by threatening to publish a photo of Steve and Laura in an apparent embrace! Carl becomes jealous when the neighbors ask Harriette to run a neighborhood watch program.

Desperate for Laura's attention, Steve promises to introduce her to soul singer Johnny Gill in exchange for a kiss. After 20 years of marriage, Carl and Harriette finally have a honeymoon, but with some unexpected problems.

Harriette and Carl agree that Mother Winslow's vision is too bad for her to keep driving, but neither wants to tell her. Laura tries to help Waldo gain some confidence, but Waldo thinks she's in love with him.

When his parents go on a vacation without him, Harriette invites Steve to stay with the Winslows.

Steve's robot look-alike "Urkelbot" returns to fight crime. The Winslow women try a new line of hair products and go bald.

Eddie, Waldo and Steve are contestants on a television dating show where Steve professes his eternal love for Laura, embarrassing her. Carl lies, claiming he does not want a birthday party this year.

Rachel and Laura read a story that Steve wrote. In the story, Steve is a 1940s detective whom Laura hires to protect Rachel, but when Rachel is killed, Steve must investigate all the suspects and deduce her murderer's identity.

When Carl becomes angry with his obnoxious neighbor Steve, they arrange to fight it out-on national television.

Carl buys Eddie a used police car so they can refurbish it together. Steve glues himself to Laura just as she is supposed to go out on a much anticipated date.

Laura is impressed when Steve arranges a great date for her--with another guy. Carl is jealous when Harriette takes piano lessons from a handsome young man.

When Laura says she will go steady with the next boy to ask her out who has his own car, Steve acquires a car and persuades Carl to teach him to drive--seriously aggravating Carl's problem with anger management.

Ted spreads the rumor that he had sex with Laura, and Steve decides to reveal the rumor as false--at any cost.

Steve is hospitalized for an appendectomy, and Carl is happy to be rid of him. But when Carl is shot, he must share a hospital room with Steve.

Eddie promises to take Richie trick-or-treating, but he leaves Richie with Waldo, who loses the boy.

Eddie insults Waldo, who then joins the army. Eddie and Steve go to rescue him and are mistaken for army recruits--possibly the worst recruits ever.

When Laura refuses, for the thousandth time, to go out on a date with Steve, he climbs onto the Winslow's roof and vows to stay up there until Laura agrees to go out with him.

After Eddie gets in a huge fight with Carl, he moves out and shares an apartment with Steve.

The Winslow household suffers when Harriette, upset with her family's lack of cooperation, refuses to cook and clean. When Eddie's teacher arrives to see Eddie's home life, she gets a horrible impression.

Laura's guardian angel arrives and shows her a world where Steve's and Laura's roles are reversed--Steve is suave, while Laura is socially inept.

The "Sadie Hawkins Day" dance becomes interesting when Eddie refuses Melissa's offer to take him and then regrets it, while Laura's best friend goes with the guy Laura wanted to ask.

Both Eddie and Laura want to go to college. Laura works day and night studying for a big entrance exam, and Eddie decides to go to an easy college that wants him to play basketball for them.

Laura and Ted arrange a blind date for Steve with Ted's cousin Myra.

When Eddie can't get tickets to the big Tracie Spencer (Herself) concert, he sneaks into Tracie's hotel room to meet her.

Valentine's Day brings romance into the Winslow's home as Laura agrees to be Steve's valentine and Gwendolyn tries to convince Richie to be her valentine.

Carl becomes distressed when Mother Winslow goes camping with her boyfriend. Eddie's near-death experience, shared with Steve and Waldo, helps him realize that breaking up with his girlfriend isn't so bad.

Carl gives Mother Winslow and Fletcher a huge wedding which gets even bigger when more than one hundred of Eddie's friends arrive by mistake.

When Laura's best friend, Maxine, ends her relationship with her boyfriend, Laura, Steve, Eddie and Waldo all help get Maxine and Waldo together for a date.

When Laura sneaks into a male strip club, Steve learns that Harriette is going as well, and he tries to warn Laura.

Laura successfully gets Steve romantically interested in Myra, who is infatuated with him. Eddie buys a new car stereo system and realizes that he got a good price because the equipment is stolen.

Laura attends the Junior Prom with Jimmy, who forbids her to speak to her intellectual friend, Steve. When Steve arrives at the prom with a gorgeous girl, Myra, all the students are shocked!

Carl takes an extra job at a hot dog restaurant, working with his son, Eddie, but Eddie gets promoted and becomes his dad's boss. When Steve stops annoying Laura, she misses his friendship.

Carl buys a toupee after enduring one too many jokes from Harriette. Steve tries to end the interminable bickering between Laura and his new girlfriend, Myra.

Steve offers to drive Laura to a cheer leading championship after she misses the bus but Steve's car breaks down and Laura and Steve must share a motel room for the night. After Harriette says she wishes Carl would be more romantic, he uses his police bullhorn to declare his undying love to her ... and the entire neighborhood.

After Steve saves Carl's life, Carl and and his family feel obligated to be nice to him.

When Harriette's boss asks her to discharge part of her staff, Carl encourages her to refuse, but Harriette's boss discharges her instead. Myra transfers to Steve's school to be closer to him ... but becomes frustrated because he is not physically passionate.

Eddie bets on football games, then steals a stamp from his father's collection to pay his bookie. Laura works two jobs to buy a car.

Eddie hires his good friend Waldo to work at Mighty Weenie and then considers discharging Waldo because he's horrible at the job. Laura is embarrassed by her mother.

Eddie agrees to be Steve's partner in a basketball tournament but then finds a better partner. Steve partners with an old lady, Grandmama.

When Laura tells Steve to be less annoying, he creates a potion that transforms him into a suave, charming man. But his new attitude soon causes more problems than it solves.

Laura encounters sexism while shopping for a used car but she uses the salesman's sexist attitudes against him to negotiate a good price for a car.

To teach Carl a lesson, Harriette makes him pay her for her housework. Steve and Laura both have overly aggressive dates at the same drive-in movie.

Carl learns the true meaning of Christmas aboard a train stranded in a snowstorm as Steve attempts to cheer the miserable passengers.

The shopping mall is the meeting place for a battle between the sexes as the Winslow children and their friends converge.

After performing with his friend, the famous singer Shanice, at a benefit concert, Eddie announces his plans to pursue a singing career rather than go to college.

Eddie is humiliated when his friends learn that he is still a virgin.

Eddie is harassed by police officers while driving through a white neighborhood.

Laura defends classmate Steve in a student trial when he is accused of blowing up the science laboratory.

Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) dreams that his daughter, Laura (Kellie Shanygne Williams), marries Steve (Jaleel White).

When Carl, Steve and the boys visit a professional wrestler, Steve's new potion puts the wrestler and his partner to sleep--and Carl and Steve agree to take the sleeping wrestlers' places in the ring against The Bushwackers.

When Waldo is worried that college will end his friendship with Eddie and Carl is afraid to take the test to become a lieutenant, Eddie and Mother Winslow help them gain self-confidence.

Laura clashes with an overeager reporter at the school newspaper--but then realizes her attraction to him. Steve suffers from a severe attack of the hiccups after he is robbed in his own home.

Carl, Eddie and Waldo's camping trip is disrupted when Steve arrives. Steve becomes even more annoying when he warns them about dangers at their campsite--all of which prove to be true.

Steve's dowdy Aunt Oona (DONNA SUMMER) visits and with Harriette's help becomes confident enough to win a singing competition.

Steve, Eddie and Waldo dress up as nuns and search for Myra in the convent to which she went after Steve ended their relationship.

Laura encourages nerdy Steve to create a new, improved potion to transform himself into his suave alter ego again--this time without the obnoxious side effects.

Steve transforms back into Stefan to please Laura. When Carl has problems with his eyesight, Eddie convinces him to use Steve's transformation machine but something goes wrong.

Carl upsets his family when he must remain a nerd while the suave Stefan, formerly Steve Urkel, struggles to fix his transformation chamber.

Eddie goes to college and moves into an apartment with Waldo but, despite his new found freedom, has trouble with the opposite sex.

Steve and Carl get locked in the school bomb shelter with the school custodian, Mr. Looney. Harriette becomes discouraged in her search for a job.

Eddie wants to join a college fraternity but his prospective fraternity brothers ask him to give up his friendship with the socially inept Steve.

In a ghost story that the Winslow family invents during a power outage on Halloween, Carl and Harriette play vampires living in a castle.

When he learns that his new boss (Sherman Hemsley) loves to play golf, Carl pretends to be interested in it as well. But the Captain cheats, and Steve insists that Carl confront him and demand that he play fairly.

Carl must teach Steve to swim, or Steve won't be able to graduate from high school. Rachel gets into a fight with Harriette when she tries to return a dress to the store where Harriette works in customer service.

Steve and Myra are almost killed on lovers' lane, but Steve asks Myra to wear his science club pin. Carl is convinced that Harriette thinks he's an inadequate lover.

When the pilot, a vindictive ex-convict, parachutes out of their plane, Carl and Steve are forced to fly an airplane together—and neither one knows how. Eddie experiences financial difficulties.

In this Christmas episode, Richie invites a homeless man who claims to be Santa Claus to dinner. Steve searches through tons of garbage to find a special present for Laura.

Eddie and Steve try to bake a cake for Waldo's class project after eating the one Waldo made. Carl realizes that his boss (Sherman Hemsley) is dating a stripper - and it's Carl's responsibility to tell him.

When the school bully is diagnosed with leukemia, Steve organizes a bone marrow drive.

Eddie neglects Carl, so Waldo tries to be a "son" to Carl. Steve transforms himself into a martial arts expert to defend Laura's honor.

After she is robbed, Laura considers getting a gun, but the Winslows organize a gun turn-in program instead.

Steve's friend Mr. Looney (Tom Poston) is jilted on his wedding day when his fiancée leaves him for the church organist. Steve and Carl have to climb up the steeple of the church to save Mr. Looney from jumping.

Steve accidentally transforms himself into Elvis Presley. While they are counseling a young couple about marriage, Carl and Harriette get into an argument.

Carl hosts Richie's class trip to the precinct. Myra sees Steve and Laura together and becomes jealous, not knowing they are planning a surprise party for her.

Carl loses his self-confidence after he is tricked by a robber, while Steve stops the thief. But then Carl is assigned to protect Steve from the robber's brother.

Laura enjoys her independence when her parents allow her to fly to a cheer leading competition alone - but she must also decide what to do when a guy she likes visits her in her hotel room.

The Winslow family visits a psychiatrist for advice on how to live with Steve.

On a trip to Disney World, Steve transforms himself into his suave alter ego and proposes marriage to Laura, and Carl decides to quit his job and move the family to Florida.

On a trip to Disney World, Laura must decide whether to marry Steve's suave alter ego, Stefan, and Carl yearns for his job in Chicago.

A dance marathon pits Steve against Carl. Musical group All-4-One performs.

Steve's parents move to Russia and Steve moves in with Eddie and Waldo. But when he causes their ceiling to collapse, Steve becomes Carl's house guest instead.

Steve tries to show Carl a new moneymaking use of his transformation machine but it malfunctions and shrinks them both to a few inches in height stranding them on the kitchen counter.

Steve and Laura accidentally see each other naked--a traumatic experience for both. Carl's neighbor asks Carl to hold onto an expensive diamond bracelet. But Harriette finds it and thinks Carl bought it for her.