Sister, Sister
Sister, Sister title card from 1994-1996
Created by	Kim Bass Gary Gilbert Fred Shafferman
Starring	Tia Mowry Tamera Mowry Tim Reid Jackée Harry Marques Houston (Season 1-4) Anna Slotky (Seasons 2-3; recurring) Britanny Murphy (Seasons 1-2; recurring) RonReaco Lee (Season 6) Deon Richmond (Season 6) Alexis Fields (Seasons 5-6; recurring)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	120 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Suzanne de Passe Suzanne Coston Sy Rosen (seasons 1-2) Brian Pollack & Mert Rich (season 3) Leslie Ray David Steven Simon (season 4) Rick Hawkins (seasons 5-6)
Running time	Approx. 23 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1994-1995) The WB (1995-1999) Disney Channel (2000-2007)
Original run	April 1, 1994 – May 23, 1999
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about twin girls (Tia and Tamera Mowry), separated and adopted by separate parents at birth, who one day come face to face after fourteen years. The series premiered during the 1993-94 season on ABC, briefly canceled after the 1994-95 season; but The WB renewed the show for the 1995-96 season, continuing until May 23, 1999.

Premise

In the pilot, the twins reunited during a chance encounter shopping at the mall with their adoptive parents. Tia Landry was the studious twin from Detroit, where her mother Lisa worked as a seamstress; Tamera Campbell was the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs, where her father Ray owned a limousine service. After their unexpected encounter in the department store, Ray reluctantly allowed Tia and Lisa to move into his home for the girls' sake. The girls' neighbor was Roger Evans (Marques Houston), an annoying teenager who was infatuated with both of them.

By the 1996-1997 season, Tia and Tamera straightened their hair and abandoned their conservative wardrobe of the first three seasons for a new look. Also, Ray and Lisa began a romance in season four which was short-lived. There were hints to a possible romance between the two in earlier episodes. Example: "The Concert" from season one, in which Lisa and Ray inadvertently kissed.

A frequent subplot was of the twins searching and eventually finding their biological parents to be a black woman, Racelle Gavin and white man, Matt Sullivan. In real life, Tia and Tamera Mowry are also bi-racial.

In the 1997-1998 season, Tia started dating Tyreke Scott (RonReaco Lee), a reformed street kid who worked as a mechanic for Ray, and Jordan Bennett (Deon Richmond) became Tamera's boyfriend. Roger was suddenly dropped from the cast at this point.

The final season showed the twins entering college with their boyfriends and their best friend Diavian. The girls were ultimately reunited with their birth father, and Lisa married her boyfriend Victor in the final episode. Roger also made one last appearance in the last episode singing at Lisa's wedding.

Characters

Major characters

• Tia Landry

Portrayed by Tia Mowry, is an all American bookworm. At the top of her class in high school, she had aspirations to go to Harvard, but was rejected and attended Michigan instead. Tia's main boyfriend is Ray's mechanic, Tyreke, who later becomes a police escort at Michigan.

• Tamera Campbell

Portrayed by Tamera Mowry, is Tia's polar opposite in terms of personality. She is highly impulsive and less intellectual than her sister, and a big fan of Coolio. She can be smart when she wants to, but usually uses 'The Twin Thing' (a frequently invoked plot mechanism where the twins pretend to be each other) to pass difficult tests. Her main boyfriend is Jordan, who attends Michigan with her.

• Lisa Landry

Portrayed by Jackée Harry, is a fashion designer by trade. She is the widowed adoptive mother of Tia, though she is more aligned with Tamera's personality, sometimes even being more impulsive, lustful, and reckless than her daughter's twin. She is prone to bouts of depression during which she consumes high quantities of food.

• Ray Campbell

Portrayed by Tim Reid, is diametrically opposed to Lisa and Tamera's tendencies. A widower who runs a limousine service, he is highly conservative and level-headed. He is more successful in his business than he is in his romantic life, however, and his relationships with women are often short-lived.

• Roger Evans

Portrayed by Marques Houston, was Tia and Tamera's annoying neighbor. Initially infatuated with Tamera, he was thrilled when he discovered that she had an identical twin, and frequently attempted to date either one of them. His advances are ill-received, however, and the repeated chorus by the various members of the household is "Go home, Roger!" Roger eventually matures into the twins' confidante.

• Tyreke

Portrayed by RonReaco Lee, is Tia's new boyfriend. A high school drop-out, he is permitted to graduate with the girls and Jordan, and later gets a job at the college they attend. He appears in Seasons 5 and 6.

• Jordan

Portrayed by Deon Richmond, is Tamera's new boyfriend. He goes to college with both the girls. He is goofy at times and is just as impulsive as Tamera. He can be sexist at times, as well as Tamera can be toward men. He appears in Season 5 & 6.

Minor characters

Tia and Tamera's real-life brother, Tahj Mowry, has appeared in three episodes of the series. He played Tia's cousin Tahj in "Get a Job", a kid visiting a Mall Santa in "Christmas", and appeared in a crossover role in "Child's Play" in which he played T.J. Henderson, his character from fellow WB sitcom Smart Guy.

Throughout the series, Tia and Tamera also had a "revolving door" group of friends, most notably Brittany Murphy as Sarah in the first season.

Racelle Gavin, The twins' birth mother, was an artist. Unfortunately, Racelle died at the twin's birth in Florida. Although she never appeared in the series, a beautiful painting she did was seen in an episode.

Matt Sullivan, the girls' birthfather, is an accomplished photographer. He was found by the girls 6 years after Tia and Tamera found each other. In the last episode he was going on a safari. And offered his daughters to come with him. Tamera went along, but Tia went to New York to go on an internship for the WNBA.

Episodes

Main article: List of Sister, Sister episodes

Reruns/Syndication

The show premiered on Disney Channel in 2002 and ran until May 28, 2007.

Beginning June 11, 2007 the show began airing on ABC Family.[1] Sister, Sister replaced Step by Step on ABC Family, was knocked off two weeks later then returned in the early morning. The show began airing on Superstation WGN on September 11, 2007 (originally September 10 but will be preempted for Cardinals-Cubs makeup game).[2] In the UK, it was shown on for a good 12 years on Nickelodeon and it was shown on Channel 4 between 1995 and 2000 as the channel had the terrestrial rights to the show. It is no longer aired in the UK.

Theme Song

The series' theme song was written and composed by Tim Heintz, Randy Petersen and Kevin Quinn. Three versions of the original theme song were used from April 1994 to May 1997.

A new version of the show's theme was used starting in season five composed by Heintz, Petersen, Quinn and Kurt Farquhar, who composed the music for the series, save for season three which the music was composed by Paul A. Kreiling, and performed by Tia and Tamera Mowry.

Overall there were 5 different versions of the intro. The only time the intro remained the exact same was between seasons 3 and 4, which is when the girls got their new look as well, making the intro outdated for season 4.

External links

• Sister, Sister at Disney Channel.com