Did I Do That? A Look Back At Family Matters

Two Actors Appeared in Every Episode

Even though Steve Urkel ended up stealing the show, only two actors appeared in all 215 episodes of the nine-season run of Family Matters. Reginald VelJonson, who played the family patriarch, Carl Otis Winslow, and Kellie Shaygne Williams, who played Laura Lee Winslow, were the only two to earn that distinction.

Some stars decided to leave the show early. Jo Marie Payton, who played Harriette Winslow, the family matriarch, left the show partway through its final season. Rumor has it she was fed up with the Urkel-centric nature of the show, and she was replaced by Judyann Elder in the remaining eight episodes.