ABC was not willing to keep the show on TGIF, since they were adding the already successful Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and the new Michael Jacobs series Boy Meets World to the Friday lineup.
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Dolores had two sons, 15-year-old suave schemer Marcus (Merlin Santana) and 14-year-old Darren (Deon Richmond), the earnest yuppie-in-the-making.
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The women, widowed Dolores Dixon (Telma Hopkins) and Cathy Hale (Cindy Williams), whose husband ran off with another woman, were also co-workers, employed as social workers for the Chicago Department of Welfare.
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Telma Hopkins, who had been co-starring for the past three years as Rachel Crawford on Family Matters, made the decision to leave the latter series after its third season for her own venture.