Family Matters (1989)

Adventure · Comedy · Drama

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

IMDb rating: 6.6 (32,200 votes)
Seasons: 9
Streaming (US): Hulu · YouTube TV · TBS
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1989)

7.06 avg 22 episodes 6.7 → 6.8 25 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Mama Who Came to Dinner	6.7	288
2	Two Income Family	6.9	237
3	Short Story	6.7	213
4	Rachel's First Date	6.9	213
5	Straight A's	7.1	204
6	Basketball Blues	6.7	194
7	Body Damage	7.1	194
8	Mr. Badwrench	6.9	193
9	Stake-Out	7.4	198
10	False Arrest	7.3	198
11	The Quilt	7.2	200
12	Laura's First Date	7.5	215
13	Man's Best Friend	7.0	184
14	Baker's Dozen	7.1	185
15	The Big Reunion	7.3	186
16	The Party	7.0	184
17	The Big Fix	7.4	188
18	Sitting Pretty	6.9	182
19	In a Jam	7.3	177
20	The Candidate	7.0	172
21	Bowl Me Over	7.2	173
22	Rock Video	6.8	172

Season 2 (1990)

7.21 avg 25 episodes 7.1 → 7.9 26 min avg

Big finale

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rachel's Place	7.1	177
2	Torn Between Two Lovers	7.5	168
3	Marriage 101	7.7	178
4	Flashpants	7.1	161
5	The Crash Course	7.4	163
6	Boxcar Blues	7.5	157
7	Dog Day Halloween	7.5	175
8	Cousin Urkel	7.4	164
9	Dedicated to the One I Love	7.2	155
10	The Science Project	6.9	161
11	Requiem for an Urkel	7.0	155
12	Fast Eddie Winslow	7.1	154
13	Have Yourself a Very Winslow Christmas	7.3	183
14	Ice Station Winslow	7.1	160
15	Son	6.9	149
16	Do the Right Thing	6.8	145
17	High Hopes	6.9	149
18	Life of the Party	7.4	172
19	Busted	6.8	151
20	Fight the Good Fight	7.4	194
21	Taking Credit	6.9	149
22	Finding the Words	7.6	178
23	Skip to My Lieu	7.0	147
24	The Good, the Bad, and the Urkel	6.8	152
25	I Should Have Done Something	7.9	176

Season 3 (1991)

7.12 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 25 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Boom!	7.3	161
2	Brain Over Brawn	7.1	153
3	The Show Must Go On	7.0	148
4	Words Hurt	7.1	155
5	Daddy's Little Girl	6.8	144
6	Citizen's Court	7.0	148
7	Robo-Nerd	7.1	150
8	Making the Team	7.2	145
9	Born to Be Mild	7.9	192
10	The Love God	7.2	156
11	Old and Alone	7.2	142
12	A Pair of Ladies	6.9	142
13	Choir Trouble	6.5	150
14	A Test of Friendship	6.7	144
15	Jailhouse Blues	6.9	152
16	Brown Bombshell	7.2	143
17	Food, Lies and Videotape	7.1	151
18	My Broken-Hearted Valentine	7.2	153
19	Woman of the People	7.3	145
20	Love and Kisses	6.8	143
21	Stop in the Name of Love	7.2	136
22	The Urkel Who Came to Dinner	7.1	139
23	Robo-Nerd II	7.3	139
24	Dudes	7.4	142
25	Farewell, My Laura	7.6	153

Season 4 (1992)

7.20 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.3 24 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Surely You Joust	7.3	147
2	Dance to the Music	7.1	142
3	Driving Carl Crazy	7.5	144
4	Rumor Has It	6.8	149
5	Number One with a Bullet	7.2	150
6	Whose Kid Is It Anyway?	6.9	155
7	An Officer and a Waldo	6.8	152
8	Just One Date	7.0	145
9	The Oddest Couple	6.9	137
10	It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel	8.0	185
11	Muskrat Love	7.1	144
12	Hot Wheels	7.4	132
13	The Way the Ball Bounces	7.2	130
14	A Thought in the Dark	7.3	139
15	Tender Kisses	7.5	143
16	Heart Strings	7.2	133
17	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad House	7.1	150
18	Higher Anxiety	7.1	137
19	Mama's Wedding	7.1	141
20	Pulling Teeth	7.1	141
21	Walk on the Wild Side	7.2	170
22	Hot Stuff	7.3	141
23	Stormy Weather	7.5	136
24	Buds 'n' Buns	7.3	137

Season 5 (1993)

7.36 avg 24 episodes 7.0 → 7.2 24 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hell Toupee	7.0	140
2	It Didn't Happen One Night	7.5	133
3	Saved by the Urkel	7.5	134
4	A Matter of Principle	7.5	133
5	Money Out the Window	7.2	129
6	Best Friends	7.4	139
7	Grandmama	7.8	168
8	Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool	8.0	176
9	Car Wars	7.4	144
10	All the Wrong Moves	7.6	136
11	Christmas Is Where the Heart Is	7.1	154
12	Scenes from a Mall	7.2	131
13	Rock Enroll	7.1	128
14	Like a Virgin	7.2	131
15	Good Cop, Bad Cop	7.7	161
16	Presumed Urkel	7.6	148
17	Father of the Bride	7.6	133
18	Psycho Twins	7.4	132
19	That's What Friends Are For	7.2	124
20	Opposites Attract	6.7	134
21	A-Camping We Will Go	7.6	133
22	Nunsense	7.0	131
23	Aunt Oona	7.1	142
24	Stefan Returns	7.2	137

Season 6 (1994)

7.25 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 23 min avg

Rebound

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	To Be or Not to Be: Part 1	7.3	137
2	To Be or Not to Be: Part 2	7.3	140
3	Till Death Do Us Apartment	7.3	125
4	The Looney Bin	7.4	126
5	Beta Chi Guy	6.9	120
6	Dark and Stormy Night	7.1	135
7	Par for the Course	7.1	119
8	Sink or Swim	7.1	123
9	Paradise Bluff	7.5	124
10	Flying Blind	6.9	120
11	Miracle on Elm Street	7.4	137
12	Midterm Crisis	7.3	117
13	An Unlikely Match	7.5	121
14	The Substitute Son	7.4	126
15	The Gun	7.2	184
16	Wedding Bell Blues	7.2	113
17	Ain't Nothin' But an Urkel	6.8	124
18	My Uncle the Hero	7.2	115
19	My Bodyguard	7.6	116
20	Cheers Looking at You, Kid	6.5	115
21	What's Up Doc?	6.9	123
22	We're Going to Disney World: Part 1	7.7	133
23	We're Going to Disney World: Part 2	7.7	135
24	They Shoot Urkels, Don't They?	7.3	126
25	Home Sweet Home	7.6	118

Season 7 (1995)

7.19 avg 24 episodes 6.8 → 7.6 24 min avg

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Little Big Guy	6.8	127
2	The Naked and the Nerdy	7.2	128
3	Bugged	7.1	121
4	Teacher's Pet	7.1	116
5	Walking My Baby Back Home	7.1	117
6	She's Back	6.9	120
7	Hot Rods to Heck	6.9	124
8	Talk's Cheap	7.1	127
9	Struck by Lightning	7.4	117
10	Best Years of Our Lives	6.8	119
11	Fa La La La Laagghh!	7.2	128
12	Friendship Cycles	7.0	120
13	South of the Border	7.3	118
14	Life in the Fast Lane	7.5	125
15	Random Acts of Science	7.4	125
16	Tips for a Better Life	6.6	121
17	Swine Lake	7.1	125
18	My Big Brother	7.2	112
19	Eau de Love	7.5	129
20	Twinkle Toes Faldo	7.4	117
21	Scammed	7.2	117
22	Dream Date	7.8	131
23	A Ham Is Born	7.3	118
24	Send in the Clone	7.6	124

Season 8 (1996)

7.00 avg 24 episodes 7.0 → 7.0 23 min avg

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Paris Vacation: Part 1	7.0	129
2	Paris Vacation: Part 2	6.9	115
3	Paris Vacation: Part 3	7.1	116
4	Movin' On	7.1	111
5	3J in the House	6.9	121
6	Getting Buff	7.1	116
7	Stevil	7.2	163
8	Karate Kids	6.2	137
9	Home Again	6.9	112
10	Nightmare at Urkel Oaks	6.9	124
11	Chick-a-Boom	6.8	112
12	The Jury	7.1	111
13	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	7.2	115
14	Revenge of the Nerd	7.3	118
15	Love Triangle	7.0	120
16	Father Time	7.1	120
17	Beauty and the Beast	7.3	116
18	Le Jour d'Amour	7.0	115
19	What Do You Know?	6.9	112
20	Odd Man In	6.9	110
21	Flirting with Disaster	6.8	110
22	Pound Foolish	6.9	113
23	The Brother Who Came to Dinner	7.4	108
24	A Pirate's Life for Me	7.0	113

Season 9 (1997)

7.12 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 6.8 25 min avg

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Out with the Old	7.6	127
2	They Shoot Ducks, Don't They?	7.0	110
3	Dumb Belle of the Ball	7.1	116
4	Drinking and Jiving	7.4	119
5	Who's Afraid of the Big Black Book?	7.2	116
6	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read	7.3	119
7	Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone	6.7	147
8	Trading Places	7.4	120
9	A Pain in Harassment	7.2	119
10	Original Gangsta Dawg	6.6	129
11	Deck the Malls	7.2	135
12	Grill of My Dreams	7.1	122
13	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	7.3	126
14	Crazy for You	7.4	127
15	Crazier for You	6.9	119
16	Whose Man Is It Anyway?	6.5	118
17	Polkapalooza	7.1	121
18	Throw Urkel from the Train	7.2	119
19	Don't Make Me Over	7.0	115
20	Pop Goes the Question	7.7	136
21	Lost in Space: Part 1	6.9	143
22	Lost in Space: Part 2	6.8	151

Family Matters (1989)

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