Genre Drama Opening theme "The Best You Can" | Directed by Ivan Cury Country of origin United States | |
Starring Robert DoQui
Cindy Herron
L. Wolfe Perry, Jr.
Yule Caise
Gamy L. Taylor Theme music composer Benorce Blackman
Bill Withers | ||
Up and Coming is an American television drama series which aired on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) during the 1980-1981 season.
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The series depictes the Wilsons, a successful African American family from Oakland, California who moves into an integrated, middle-class neighborhood in nearby San Francisco. Although it was short-lived, it was one of the first weekly American TV drama series centered on an African American family (preceded only by Harris and Company, a 1979 NBC drama starring Bernie Casey).
Among the cast members were former Stanford University basketball star L. Wolfe Perry, Jr. and a teenage Cindy Herron (who years later would become a founding member of the R&B female quartet En Vogue).
The theme song is a cover version of the Bill Withers tune "The Best You Can". The original version can be found on Withers' 1975 album Making Music.