The Steve Harvey Show
| The Steve Harvey Show | |
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| Also known as | ''Steve Harvey'' |
| Created by | Winifred Hervey |
| Directed by | Stan Lathan |
| Starring |
Steve Harvey Cedric the Entertainer Merlin Santana William Lee Scott Wendy Raquel Robinson Terri J. Vaughn (seasons 2-6) Lori Beth Denberg (seasons 1-6, regular; season 2, recurring) Tracy Vilar (season 1) Netfa Perry (season 1) Ariyan A. Johnson (season 2) |
| Composer(s) | Patrice Rushen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 122 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Brad Grey Bernie Brillstein Winifred Hervey Stan Lathan (all; entire series) Jeffrey Duteil (season 2) Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. (seasons 3-4) |
| Camera setup | Videotape; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Winifred Hervey Productions Stan Lathan Television (entire run) Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (1996-1999) (seasons 1-3) Brad Grey Television (1999-2002) (seasons 4-6) Universal Television (1999-2002) (seasons 4-6) Columbia Pictures Television (1996-1997) (season 1) Columbia TriStar Television (1997-2002) (seasons 2-6) |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | The WB |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | August 25, 1996 – February 17, 2002 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Steve Harvey Show is a sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2002 on The WB Television Network. It was created by Winifred Hervey and directed by Stan Lathan.
Steve Hightower (Steve Harvey) is a 1970s funk legend who is now a music teacher/vice-principal at Booker T. Washington High School on Chicago's West Side. Budget cutbacks meant Steve also had to teach drama and art, much to his surprise. Cedric Robinson (Cedric the Entertainer) is a coach at the high school, and Steve's longtime best friend. The principal of Booker T. Washington High is Steve's former classmate, Regina Grier (Wendy Raquel Robinson), who Steve affectionately calls "Piggy", because of the fact that she was overweight as an adolescent.
Steve seemingly meets his match in a pair of his students: Romeo Santana (Merlin Santana), a stylish, popular, self-absorbed ladies' man, and the equally vacuous Stanley Kuznocki, nicknamed Bullethead (William Lee Scott).
In 1997, the show introduced a new character, a secretary named Lovita Jenkins (Terri J. Vaughn), a woman who is fundamentally good in nature, but nonetheless, considerably unrefined in terms of disposition. Cedric and Lovita begin dating, and eventually marry and produce a child. The show also featured a succession of young actresses who served as female foils to Romeo and Bullethead; the longest-lasting of these was Lori Beth Denberg as the overachieving, socially inept Lydia Gutman. Rapper The Lady of Rage also had a recurring role as Coretta "The Ox" Cox, a physically massive, brutish teenaged girl in romantic pursuit of Romeo. She would also call Bullethead a "broke Brad Pitt" whenever he annoyed her, but would usually refer to Lydia as "Linda", "Lisa", or "Lucy" (correctly calling her "Lydia" only once).
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