The Steve Harvey Show Season 6
Janet Denzel
Steve Hightower (Steve Harvey) is a 1970s funk legend and a very successful music star with his musical group who is now a music teacher/vice principal at Booker T. Washington High School on Chicago's West Side. Budget cutbacks meant Steve also had to teach drama and art, much to his surprise. Cedric Robinson (Cedric the Entertainer) is a coach at the high school, and Steve's longtime best friend. The principal of Booker T. Washington High is Steve's former classmate, Regina Grier (Wendy Raquel Robinson), whom Steve affectionately calls "Piggy", because she was overweight in childhood.
In season 2, the show introduced a new character, a secretary named Lovita Jenkins (Terri J. Vaughn), a woman who is fundamentally in the good mood, but nonetheless, considerably unrefined in terms of disposition. Cedric and Lovita begin dating, and eventually marry and gave birth to a child. The show also featured a succession of young actresses who served as female foils to Romeo and Bullethead; the longest-lasting of these was Lori Beth Denberg as the overachieving, socially inept Lydia Gutman. Rapper The Lady of Rage also had a recurring role as Coretta "The Ox" Cox, a physically massive, brutish teenage girl in romantic pursuit of Romeo. Coretta would call Bullethead a "broke Brad Pitt" whenever he annoyed her, but would usually refer to Lydia as "Linda", "Lisa", or "Lucy" (correctly calling her "Lydia" only once).
Steve was part of a fictional music group called "Steve Hightower and the High Tops," who would temporarily reunite to perform on occasion. The members consisted of Steve, T-Bone (played by T. K. Carter, later by Don 'D.C.' Curry), Pretty Tony (played by Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers), and Clyde (played by Jonathan Slocumb). Two of their signature songs (performed several times on the show) were "When the Funk Hits the Fan" (and later on Harvey's eponymous talk show), and "Break Me Off a Piece of That Funk." Though Cedric was not an original member of the group, he usually sang with them on several events.
Minor recurring characters throughout the series included Cedric's grandmother named "Grandma Puddin'" (played by Cedric the Entertainer) and Regina's boyfriend, former NFL star Warrington Steele (played by Dorien Wilson). Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell appeared in several episodes as "Junior" and "Vincent" (which All That cast member Lori Beth Denberg starred in). Wayne Wilderson played Byron, a "bougie" type character who was a television producer and a member of the Onyx Club (a professional men's group that Steve and Cedric tried to join). Dwayne Adway played Jordan Maddox, a professional basketball player who was briefly married to Regina before dying during their honeymoon. Ernest Lee Thomas made a few appearances as the Reverend who eulogized Maddox, and who married Cedric and Lovita.
The series ended with Regina mulling over a job offer to be a principal at a private school in California. Steve, who refused to go with Regina, acts supportive despite his feelings. Regina ends up taking the job; with encouragement from Lydia, Bullethead, and Romeo, Steve decides to go after her to reveal his true feelings. Lydia, Romeo, and Bullethead have all graduated by the series' finale. Meanwhile, Cedric and Lovita win the lottery and Lovita goes into labor (Terri J. Vaughn's real-life pregnancy was written into the show that season).
The series was first distributed to syndication to The WB, Fox, UPN, and independent affiliates in the United States by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution in September 2001, and remained airing in broadcast syndication in some U.S. markets on various local stations (such as WCIU and MeTV in Chicago) as late as 2008. From 2001 to 2005, reruns aired on Secaucus, New Jersey Based UPN station, WWOR-TV. From 2014 to June 2016, after Bill Cosby's sexual harassment allegations, The Cosby Show reruns were replaced on The WB's New York flagship station, WPIX by reruns of The Steve Harvey Show. The show has started airing again in syndication as of 2015.
As of 2022[update], the series is currently available for streaming online on Pluto TV and Tubi and Amazon Prime in the United States and the CTV Television Network's streaming service, CTV Throwback in Canada.[7][8][9]
In 2022, Sony Pictures' channel Throw Back TV on YouTube posted several clips and episodes from the series for streaming purposes, led to the show's distributor Sony Pictures Television launched the channel dedicated to the series on August 24, 2022.[10][11]
As it turns out, the show was not canceled. Harvey was just ready to move on and pursue new endeavors. He agreed to a final season of 13 episodes. The last season of The Steve Harvey Show scored higher ratings than the previous two, which was unheard of at the time.
In the third-season opener, Steve and Regina go on a cruise where he hopes to ""define"" his unconsummated relationship with Regina. While they're gone, Steve entrusts his apartment to responsible student Lydia Guttman. - - -
In exchange for allowing her to keep her lovebirds at the apartment, Lovita agrees not to visit for a week. To make amends for when the birds keep Steve awake all night, Lovita gives Steve a pair of tickets for a weekend cruise to Mexico. When Regina agrees to go along, Steve sets out to make his dream of a romantic vacation come true.
Coretta invites Romeo, Bullethead and Lydia to her Sweet 16 party. The boys look for a way out and think they find it when Steve asks Lydia to house-sit and to care for the birds while he's away. Seeing an opportunity for a party, Romeo gets Lydia to invite him over for dinner. Lydia expects a romantic evening alone, but he brings along his friends for a big party.
Despite Cedric's warnings, Steve agrees to teach Driver's Education. When Steve notices Bullethead and Romeo crossed off the list of students, Regina explains they are to irresponsible too take the course. Steve persuades her to let the boys take the class.
Lovita enters wearing a long brown hair wig. Cedric immediately takes a liking to it. Meanwhile, Steve bets Regina he can assemble her wall unit. If he does, he can select Regina's wardrobe for a week. Should he lose, he must buy a new ragtop for Regina's convertible.
With the first Driver's Education class underway, Steve soon regrets accepting the job as Romeo, Bullethead and Coretta each take turns behind the wheel. Later, the boys make fun of Coretta's driving. Coretta warns them to keep their mouths closed.
When the administration sends Steve, Cedric and Regina to computer class, they are surprised to discover their instructor is Lovita. As the class gets underway, it doesn't take long for everyone to realize Lovita isn't going to tolerate any nonsense.
Meanwhile, Lydia enlists Romeo in an effort to finally beat Heather Gallow in the race for class president. To increase his popularity and get him elected, Lydia persuades Romeo to abandon Bullethead. Once Heather drops out of the race, however, Lydia realizes she no longer needs Romeo and declares her own candidacy.
When her college mentor is appointed the school's visiting psychologist, Regina signs everyone up for his seminars. While Steve and Cedric balk at attending, Regina insists Dr. Leland Powell is the smartest man she's ever known. As a result, Steve concludes she has a crush on her old professor.
Meanwhile, as Leland leads Steve and the others through an exercise designed to uncover the hidden thoughts about their colleagues, it doesn't take long for them to be at each other's throats. Additional role-playing exercises pit the staff against one another as they re-enact each other's personalities.
When Regina shows off her latest prize - a basketball autographed by none other than Michael Jordan - Cedric wants to use it to inspire the school's losing basketball team. Though Regina refuses and locks it inside her file cabinet for safekeeping, Cedric won't take no for an answer and steals it. However, when her unexpected return to the office forces Cedric to stash the souvenir in the hallway, Bullethead and Romeo unwittingly donate it to the school's time capsule.
When Steve purchases a new big screen television, Lovita begs him to sell the old one to her. Steve agrees. When the used TV doesn't work, Steve refuses to refund her money claiming the television was in working order when she took it.
At the local bar, Steve and Cedric sympathize with the marital woes of their longtime friend and television producer, Byron Clarke. Despite Steve's disagreement, Cedric insists Byron stay with them until he finds someplace to stay. Regina and Lovita make an unannounced, unwanted appearance. And when they sign up for the bar's upcoming amateur pool tournament, Cedric assures Steve the women will never win. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead win concert tickets after making up a sad story about a boy who's forced to live inside a germ-free bubble.
Junior and Vincent, the two kids that Steve and Cedric mentored as ""big brothers"", return, and Junior asks Regina if she would go out on a date with his older brother. Steve dates a young coffee shop waitress. - - -
As Steve prepares to date Sheila, a young employee at his local coffeehouse, he and Cedric are surprised by the return of their ""Little Brothers,"" Vincent and Junior. While refusing Junior's request for a date, Regina does agree to go out with his older brother, Zack. And to make the blind date more comfortable, Steve offers to host a dinner party.
Romeo and Bullethead are assigned a report on jazz musician Theolonius Monk. Meanwhile, Romeo and Bullethead agree to give Vincent and Junior lessons how to pick up girls in exchange for help on their music assignment.
As the dinner party is getting underway, everyone is surprised by Sheila's age. But Regina has little room to complain after everyone meets the youthful Zack. To prove she's young a heart, Regina throws herself i
When a stranger, Nina, copies from Steve's paper, both are expelled from the exam. However, Steve is still taken with Nina's beauty and charm. It doesn't take Steve long to fall head over heels in love. Steve is so happy to be involved with Nina that he even pays Cedric's half of the rent when the check bounces. Jealousy forces Regina to make up a new boyfriend of her own.
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