Up and Coming

Up and Coming is an American television drama series which aired on the PBS television network during the 1980-1981 season. The series depicted the Wilsons, a successful African American family from Oakland, California who moves into an integrated, middle-class neighborhood in San Francisco. Although it was short-lived, it was the one of the first weekly American TV drama series centered around an African American family (preceded only by Harris ... more

Up and Coming is an American television drama series which aired on the PBS television network during the 1980-1981 season. The series depicted the Wilsons, a successful African American family from Oakland, California who moves into an integrated, middle-class neighborhood in San Francisco. Although it was short-lived, it was the one of the first weekly American TV drama series centered around an African American family (preceded only by Harris and Company, a 1979 NBC drama starring Bernie Casey). Among the cast members were former Stanford University basketball star L. Wolfe Perry, Jr. and a teenage Cindy Herron (who years later would become a founding member of the R&B; female quartet En Vogue). The theme song is a cover version of the Bill Withers tune "The Best You Can". The original version can be found on Withers' 1975 album Making Music. less