City Guys
TV ShowEnded

City Guys

8.3 / 10
1997
5 seasons
105 episodes
DramaComedy

An edgy, hip look at urban teen life in NYC, tracing the relationship between a smart Black kid from Harlem and a rich White kid from Park Avenue.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.New Kids

    06-09-199730m

    The series opens with the arrival of Jamal Grant and Chris Anderson to Manny High School. Both make different entrances with Jamal paying guys to walk him to school as his posse a...

  • Ep 2

    2.For the Love of Mother

    13-09-199730m

    Chris' mom learns Manhattan High does not have a Music Department because of lack of money, she vows to throw a fundraiser at the Anderson home. When she learns of Jamal's musical...

  • Ep 3

    3.Knicks Tickets

    20-09-199730m

    Shakespeare in the Park is playing the same time as Chris's Knicks and Lakers game. Chris and Jamal are expected to tape the play, but they get Dawn to tape the play. Meanwhile Cas...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Package

    27-09-199730m

    Alberto is delivering drugs for a drug dealer and doesn't know it. So the boys devise a plan to blackmail the dealer into leaving Alberto alone.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Date

    04-10-199730m

    The Spring Dance returns to Manny High. Chris tries to get Cassidy to go to the dance with him. She rejects him and Chris encounters Jamal's sister. He asks her to the dance withou...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Communication Gap

    11-10-199730m

    After getting into a fight with his father, Chris moves in with Jamal and his father. Chris soon realizes that not every father and son relationship is like his. Eventually Chris a...

  • Ep 7

    7.Red Ferrari

    18-10-199730m

    Jamal convinces Chris to have a party and drive his father's car after Chris reveals that his parents forgot his birthday. However it is the complete opposite when they return home...

  • Ep 8

    8.Rock the Vote

    25-10-199730m

    Dawn and Cassidy both run for Student Council President with Jamal and Chris as their individual advisors. Dirty politics arise and even Alberto and El Train get tired of it and El...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Movie

    01-11-199730m
  • Ep 10

    10.Future Shock

    08-11-199730m

    Jamal reconsiders the value of spending time studying after his new friend, Charlie, a straight-A Manhattan High student, is killed by a drunk driver. But with the PSATs coming up...

  • Ep 11

    11.Easy Money

    15-11-199730m

    Chris uses Jamal's skills at guessing the results of games and gets them both into trouble.

  • Ep 12

    12.The College Girl

    22-11-199730m

    Chris falls for an older woman. Afraid she'll dump him, Chris tells her that he's an under cover cop only to discover that she's his new student teacher.

  • Ep 13

    13.Bye Mom

    29-11-199730m

    Karen goes to the hospital as a patient. While she is staying there, Jamal remebers the time of his mother's death and how Karen reminds him so much about his mother.

  • Ep 14

    14.Old Friends

    06-12-199730m

    One of Jamal's friends finally gets out of juvenile Hall and returns. He then proceeds to continue doing the things that led him to the hall in the first place. Meanwhile Chris is...

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