Family Matters1989

With his deft timing and vaudeville hamminess, White brings such extravagant high spirits to the role that he is hard not to like.

Steve Urkel is a cult in Germany. He gets on some people's nerves but for me he is one of the most memorable series characters to this day. It is the highlight. But the rest of the gang convinced me then and entertained me on Kabel 1.

Family Matters offers a picture of black family life that takes its middle-class ordinariness for granted, which is unusual for TV. Even more unusual, it's a show you can watch with your whole family, and chances are, everyone will get a few good laughs out of it.