The Royal Family (1991)

Directed by

Jack Shea, Shelley Jensen

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 15 episodes

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired postal worker and his wife adjust to having their adult daughter and three grandchildren move back into their home. The series follows the family's everyday conflicts and humorous situations.

laugh-trackwarmlightheartedfamily-centricdatedcomedicfamiliar

What happens

The Royal Family is an American sitcom television series that ran on CBS between September 18, 1991, and May 13, 1992. The series was created by executive producer Eddie Murphy, as part of a development deal Murphy had with CBS, and produced by David Garber, Shelley Jensen, Deborah Leschin, Leslie Ray, and David Steven Simon. Other executive producers alongside Eddie Murphy are Mark McClafferty and Greg Antonacci. It was presented by Eddie Murphy Television in association with Paramount Television, the television arm of Paramount Pictures, a Paramount Communications Company, with which Murphy had long been associated. The series starred Redd Foxx and Della Reese. Murphy had previously worked with Foxx and Reese in the 1989 film Harlem Nights, which Murphy wrote and directed. The working title for the series was Chest Pains. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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