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Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom starring real-life identical twins Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley. The premise of the show was that the girls (playing characters Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell) were separated and adopted at birth. One was adopted by a single mother while the other was adopted by a couple, although the mother died a short time later. The two accidentally found each other fourteen years later and reunited.
In the pilot episode, the twins are reunited during a chance encounter shopping at a clothing store at the mall with their adoptive parents.
Tia Landry (Tia Mowry) is the intelligent twin from inner city Detroit, where her adoptive mother, Lisa (JackÃĐe Harry), works as a seamstress; Tamera Campbell (Tamera Mowry) is the boy-crazy twin from the suburbs, where her adoptive father, Ray (Tim Reid), owns a successful limousine service. After their unexpected encounter in the department store, Ray reluctantly allows Tia and Lisa to move in the house because Lisa was about to take a job in St. Louis, which would have separated the girls. The girls' neighbor is a nerdy Roger Evans (Marques Houston; "Go Home, Roger!"), an annoying teenager who is infatuated with both of them, and who evolves into a perfect gentleman they both find attractive. In the final season when the girls go off to college, Roger ceases to appear in the series because he was still in high school, though he does return as a guest in the final episode. By the fifth season, Tia and Tamera ended up with steady boyfriends: Tia with a boy named Tyreke Scott (RonReaco Lee) and Tamera with a boy named Jordan Bennett (Deon Richmond).
In the sixth-season episode "Father's Day," the twins meet their biological father, Matt Sullivan, and learn that he is white and a famous photojournalist. Matt never married their mother, Racelle Gavin, because they never got the chance: she had been asked to paint a mural in Florida and he had been assigned "the opportunity of a lifetime" in the Middle East. Also, Racelle told him that she would later join him in Tel Aviv without telling him of her pregnancy. After six months, Racelle suddenly stopped writing. When the girls' mother died, Matt was not allowed to see them because he couldn't prove he was their father. When he searched for his twin daughters, he never found them because they had been adopted by two different people.
Tia and Tamera's real life little brother, Tahj Mowry, also appeared in three episodes of the series. He played Tia's cousin, Tahj, in "Get a Job", a kid visiting a "Mall Santa" in "Christmas", and appeared in a crossover role in "Child's Play", in which he played T.J. Henderson, his character from fellow WB sitcom
Smart Guy.
Sister, Sister also featured Dorien Wilson (
Bella and the Bulldogs) as Terrence Winningham, the manager of the local Food Boy supermarket who dated and was briefly engaged to Lisa during season two and early season three, and Vernee Watson-Johnson (
School of Rock) as Patrice, Lisa's best friend from the inner-city neighborhood that Lisa and Tia previously lived and is the mother of Tia's childhood friend Darnell (Jason Weaver).
Created by Kim Bass (
Kenan & Kel), Gary Gilbert and Fred Shafferman, the series was produced by de Passe Entertainment and Paramount Network Television.
In the USA,
Sister, Sister was picked up by ABC as a midseason replacement and debuted on April 1, 1994 as part of the network's TGIF comedy lineup. The show later moved to The WB, which was still in its infancy, on September 6, 1995.
Sister, Sister ran for 119 episodes over six seasons. In the US, the series aired between April 1, 1994 and May 23, 1999.
In the UK,
Sister, Sister ran on Nickelodeon UK between the mid-nineties and mid-noughties, and quickly became a top show on Nick, often winning Watch Your Own Wednesdays and Watch Your Own Weekends. During its run, Tia & Tamera made numerous visits to the UK, touring London and
participating in webchats on NickTV.co.uk. Tia & Tamera also hosted
Sister, Sister Sundays specials from the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California.
In addition to Nickelodeon UK,
Sister, Sister also aired on Nickelodeon Australia and Nickelodeon LatinoamÃĐrica.
Watch all five opening titles for Nickelodeon UK's popular sitcom
Sister, Sister, performed by Tia & Tamera Mowry, in the fantastic video below!:
Sister, Sister season one theme song:
Sister, sister
Talk about a two-way twister
Shaking up the family tree
With sibling synchronicity
Sister, sister
Never knew how much I missed ya
Now that everybody knows
I ain't ever gonna let you go
Oh-oh-oh-oh
(Oh, yeah)
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Sister, sister
Talk about a two-way twister
Living underneath one roof
No, it won't be trouble-proof
Sister, sister
Never knew how I missed ya
Now that everybody knows
I ain't ever gonna let you go
Sister, sister
Sister, Sister season two theme song:
Sister, sister
Talk about a two-way twister
Shaking up the family tree
With sibling synchronicity
Sister, sister
Never knew how much I missed ya
Now that everybody knows
I ain't ever gonna let you go-oo-oo-oo
I ain't ever gonna let you go
Sister, sister
Sister, Sister season three and four theme song:
Sister, sister
Talk about a two-way twister
Shaking up the family tree
With sibling synchronicity
Sister, sister
Never knew how much I missed ya
Now that everybody knows
I ain't ever gonna let you go-oo-oo-oo
Oh-oh-oh-oh (Oh yeah)
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Sister, sister
Never knew how much I missed ya
Now that everybody knows
I ain't ever gonna let you go-oo-oo-oo
Sister, sister
Sister, Sister season five theme song:
Oh, sister, sister!
Sister, Sister
Sister! Sister!
(Tia:) I got my own mind
(Tamera:) I do my own style in my own time.
And now everybody sees
How different we have come to be!
Sister, Sister
Even though I'm glad to be with ya.
I've got to feel what's real for me.
Like you got to do what's right for you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh, oh-oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh-uh-uh-uh.. sister!
Oh, Sister, Sister!
Sister, Sister season six theme song:
Sister, Sister
Sister! Sister!
(Tia:) I got my own mind
(Tamera:) I do my own style in my own time.
And now everybody sees
How different we have come to be!
Sister, Sister
Even though I'm glad to be with ya.
I've got to feel what's real for me.
Like you got to do what's right for you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh, oh-oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh-uh-uh-uh.. sister!
Oh, Sister, Sister!
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Originally published: July 30, 2024.
