Harris & Company 1979–1979 NBC Drama

The story of a black family just trying to get by! “It’s the new NBC,” bragged the stations in its promos of Harris and Company, starring Bernie Casey as widower Mike Harris, whose skills as a mechanic are matched only by his love for his five children!

A lot of people remember the warm-hearted family drama named Harris and Company from the late 1970s, and wish it would appear on YouTube. TV guide says it’s Currently not available to stream. Add it to your Watchlist to be notified when it becomes available.

It was the first weekly American TV drama series centered on a black family.

Well, here’s hoping the show about a widower and his five children who leave Detroit to begin a new life in Los Angeles shows up on someone’s watchlist soon.

Harris & Company was an unusual attempt to build a dramatic series around a loving, caring black family. NBC premiered it on March 15, 1979, and it drew a small following but didn’t last a month on the network’s schedule. It was sadly over by April 5, 1979.

According to Nostalgia Central, there were only 4 of the 60 minute episodes that aired. But folks like me remember the show from 45 years ago! Especially one episode, where I think I saw the daughter of the show getting ice cream from her kitchen when someone broke into the house. Perhaps that…