227: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of 227 Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Wheel of Misfortune
Oct 4, 1986 · 30 min
Mary and Sandra become contestants on ""Wheel of Fortune"" and wind up competing against each other.
Mary Nightingale
Oct 11, 1986 · 30 min
Lester comes home from work sick, with the assumption that he has the flu. Using a bell that Sandra gives him, he drives Mary crazy with his demands for ""water"" and ""celery salt
Washington Affair
Nov 1, 1986 · 30 min
Mary invites Sandra and her date, an eligible Congressman, to a dinner for Brenda's teacher who is attracted to the legislator.
The Great Manhunt
Nov 8, 1986 · 30 min
After Sandra sees her neighbors (a married couple) interact with each other and with their daughter, Sandra decides that she wants a husband and a child. She goes out on a series o
The Temptations
Nov 15, 1986 · 30 min
Mary is in charge of the church's charity show, and it's like divine providence when the Temptations show up at her door.
Pillow Talk
Nov 22, 1986 · 30 min
When Sandra sees a pillow that Mary is making for Brenda, she is impressed. She tells Mary that they could go into business and make lots of money. So Mary agrees to a 50/50 deal w
Come Into My Parlor
Nov 29, 1986 · 30 min
When Brenda meets a cute boy she decides to invite him to her party Saturday night. After getting permission to actually have the party, she then hears Sandra tell a story about ho
Father's Day
Dec 6, 1986 · 30 min
Calvin's dad comes to visit D.C. He and Calvin have fun going to basketball games and going to see the Blue Angels fly. Because he and his grandma have been arguing a lot lately, C
Author, Author
Dec 13, 1986 · 30 min
Sandra is writing a romance novel whose characters resemble the residents of 227: Marie, Rosita, and Pearlie Mae. With Mary up against Emma Johnson for the presidency of the Ladies
Matchmakers
Jan 3, 1987 · 30 min
Rose tries a video-dating service, but wonders if she can live up to the image Sandra creates for her.
The Handwriting on the Wall
Jan 10, 1987 · 30 min
When Mary and Rose come home from the movie theater, they see JoJo spray painting his gang tag underneath Pearl's window. Pearl hits him with her pillow, Rose grabs the spray can a
A Matter of Choice
Jan 17, 1987 · 30 min
The 227 residents are worried when Calvin's free-spending new friend offers him a chance to make 50 dollars for doing what ""sounds like a Miami Vice drug deal.""
Got a Job
Jan 24, 1987 · 30 min
When Ms. clark uses her feminine wiles to get Brenda a part-time job at Billy Bob's Burgers, Brenda's parents are divided: she wants Brenda to study full time, while he is delighte
Far From the Tree
Feb 7, 1987 · 30 min
Sandra is very upset when she learns that her mother is coming to visit. She feels as though her mother doesn't love her because she is so different from her ""normal"" siblings an
Toyland
Feb 14, 1987 · 30 min
Mary and Lester go to a toy store to purchase toys for kids in the hospital. When they get there, the guy lets them in even though the sign on the door says closed. The Jenkins dis
The Audit
Feb 21, 1987 · 30 min
The IRS audits Mary and Lester. At a diner, Mary gets into an argument with a man whose views on women are old-fashioned and clash with Mary's views. She goes as far as to insult h
A Good Citizen
Feb 28, 1987 · 30 min
When Sandra comes to show the ladies the new ring that her boyfriend gave her, Mary notices an article in the newspaper that mentions a robbery at the same jewelry store where Sand
Happy Twentieth
Mar 7, 1987 · 30 min
When Lester decides to rent a hotel room for the weekend, Mary plans a cruise, and the ladies plan a surprise party for Mary and Lester's Anniversary, it's all Brenda can take to k
The Fourth Time Around
Mar 21, 1987 · 30 min
When Lester goes to watch the game at a friend's house, Mary and the ladies decide to have a girl's night out. They go to a club/bar where Pearl meets man. They hit it off. When P
Rich Kid
Apr 11, 1987 · 30 min
Calvin befriends a new kid named Ron who says that his money comes from his rich uncle. He buys Calvin a new pair of shoes and offers to take Calvin and Brenda to a Stevie Wonder C
The Working Game
May 23, 1987 · 30 min
Upset when Brenda comes home from University Day wanting to attend Northwestern, Mary anticipates an empty nest by demanding that Lester give her a job at the construction site --a
Check Snub
Jun 6, 1987 · 30 min
The Social Security office says that Pearl is dead, and the resulting protest lands Pearl, Mary and Rose in jail.