Baby I'm Back (1978) | Demond Wilson Kim Fields Denise Nicholas
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Baby, I'm Back (stylized onscreen as Baby... I'm Back!) is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS in early 1978. The series stars Demond Wilson, Denise Nicholas, Helen Martin and Kim Fields.
Raymond Ellis is a compulsive gambler who abandoned his family (wife Olivia, son Jordan and daughter Angie) and headed to California. Seven years later while in California, Ray finds out that his wife plans to remarry to Colonel Wallace Dickey, and that he has been declared legally dead. This prompts him to move back to Washington, D.C., where he tries to win back Olivia by proving he is a better husband, and a better father to his kids, and to prove that he is still alive. However, he now has to contend with his mother-in-law Luzelle and Olivia's soon-to-be husband Colonel Wallace Dickey.
The pilot was videotaped in September 1977. CBS picked the pilot up as a mid-season replacement, going into production at the CBS Studio Center lot in November 1977, for airing from January to April 1978.
In the book Funny You Should Ask: Oral Histories of Classic Sitcom Storytellers by Scott Lewellen, Garrett created the show to address the social issue of the time of black males not being able to get jobs to provide for their families. Many had abandoned their families because of it and in this case, the lead character did abandon his family, but once he found work and got his act together, he came back, hence the name of the show. In the show, the mother had a great government job at the Pentagon and lived in a nice apartment. With the casting as Wilson just completed Sanford and Son and Nicholas was a hot commodity, Garrett saw the chemistry. Nicholas said in a summer 1978 edition of Jet Magazine that she was surprised at the cancellation of the series despite decent ratings.
Garrett stated the show was cancelled due to Norman Lear wanting Good Times to come back for another season and told CBS that he would create them another show in exchange for it. - Wikipedia
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Kim fields was so adorable! Her acting was superb!
A natural even then
So cute and small and remembering all those lines
Kim Fields so adorable 🥰
I believe Kim's mother was an acting coach as well as an actor herself.
@@gerardmcmillan8591 Awesome! I knew Kim’s mother was an actress but not her acting coach. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Helen Martin has played that Old lady role for about 40 years.....😂
🤣
Good Times That's my momma What's Happening 227 and this show
I love Helen Martin
That's What I Immediately Said When I Saw Her! Lol!
Was she EVER young?
Ms. Martin is one of the pioneers that paved the way for our generation and the ones behind us. Let's show more honor than we are doing.
She stayed in the window being nosey on 227
Ok, how many circle jerk comments are you gonna make about Helen Martin? We GET IT already.
She’s everyone grandmother. We watched her growing up all the way to Don’t Be a Menace. I loved seeing her in everything she did.
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I remember watching this show as a kid...
Kim Fields was so adorable as a kid...
Helen Martin was in everything. She stayed working until her death. #RIP
I loved her in Good Times
@@kellymcquay2626 227 & Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townsend!!
And also in Friday and 227
@@SONJASAVEDBYGRACE I DONT remember Helen Martin in Friday?
@@PopePlatinumBeats I was wrong,
Classic Demond! I love this era and Kim was always excellent with her lines.
Dummy from Sanford @ Son
@@christyannmizelleOld Fred saying, "I'll give you five across your lip, Dummy!". One of the most legendary quotes. Oh and Fred's vicious shots at Aunt Esther, brutal, but Redd Foxx was such a legendary actor, he knew how to deliver any line.
I forgot Kim fields was the daughter here... she
Has had sooo many shows... This one
The Facts of Life
Living Single... maybe more
All Great🎉❤ Plus Movies.. she's Always Entertaining😊
@@EdsterIIILoved him in Harlem Nights.
Helen Martin is one of a kind.
I remember watching this show back in the late 70s like it was yesterday and Denise Nicholas gorgeous lady. You really have to see her in “Let’s Do It Again” with Sidney Poitier 👍👍👍👍
Bill cosby boo
She waa so fine
I used to watch this show as a youngster. I've always said/thought that Denise Nicholas, is/was one of the "Most High's" greatest masterpieces ever created, just absolutely a drop dead gorgeous woman...
Denise Nichols had married Bill Withers.
Yes, I was in love with her as a kid
Yes loved her since room 222.
Yo, Kim Fields got heart. She was born ready to stand up to a couple of grown and no good bullies.
Denies Nichols is a wonderful actress and I use to love her in the heat of the night 💖💖
You should check her out in Lets do it again..
@Adonis SessonShe don't want you lol
She was also in Room 222
She played in a lot of 70s movies she's always had beauty and class
She was fiiine
Once again, Reelblack has brought something to the channel showcasing black talent back in the day! Thanks for the memories! 💜💜💜
I remember that show back in the day
I like this show too. The way they talked about politics and their jokes.
Kim Fields so cute! She has always been smart!
She was a natural even then..
I forgot "Raygine" was in this show, lol
And funny on everything she plays on!!.LMBO
She was adorable! Kim has a huge resume in the entertainment industry since was nearly 2 years old. Her mother, Chip Fields, is super talented and intelligent. She made all of the right moves for herself and her daughters. ❤️❤️❤️
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I used to watch this show back in 1978. I'm glad l found it. . Thanks UA-cam for the upload. 5/24/21. 6:43am
“Baby I am back!” I loved this show I watched the reruns every night on BET in the late 80s early 90s with my grandma. I guess I was too young to notice that the show was based in DC just like 227 and it looks like they lived in the same row homes. Hellen Martin went from Luella to Pearl Shea on the same set 🥰 thanks for posting!
Also, Kim Fields' next major character, one Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey, was also from D.C.
I loved that show too!
Wow there is a show I dont remember
I know who the actors are but I dont remember watching this one
227 was based in Philadelphia
Who knew that years later that both Kim Fields and Deniece Nicholas would cross paths on Living Single during the Sinclaire and Overton focused episodes.
Kim Fields also crossed paths with Helen Martin when she guest starred on 227.
I’m 55 and I loved this show. I thought Denise N was the most beautiful woman in the world next to Dianne Carrol, Jane Kennedy and Diana Ross. ❤️❤️❤️💥💥💥🔥🔥
Agree
She was bill cosby boo
Wow. This is one of those shows that if the internet didn't exist, I would have thought I dreamt it.
😂😂
It’s like the Mandela effect 😂
Right, lol 😄
@@skinnyu01 YES. Honestly I think that's what's behind that effect. Prior to the internet, we just had to rely upon our faulty CHILD memory. Also, very popular parodies that come later (still pre-internet) get mixed up with reality in our memories. SNL has been a big part of that happening. People really think Sara Palin said that she could see Russia from her house, for instance, when that was Tina Fey and Palin said that Russia was "right there" next to Alaska (equally stupid). Imagine being a kid seeing that. Lol. I believe the Mandala effect is a cultural/technological phenomenon.
And you didn't ask me any of that, I know. Lol
I am blown away that I have never heard/seen this until today. I was a sophomore in high school, yipes!
I use to love watching this show when I was 11 years old back in 78...what a time it was...
I have seen several comments referring to Ms. Martin as old as ..., I guess it is intended to be funny, but it is not. It is absolutely disrespectful. How can we expect others to respect us when we do not respect ourselves? What a blessing that she was able to work that long. As other cultures honor their elders, we do not.must do the same and better.
@ Liz Freeman : I agree .. But you talking bout these new generation of younger folks .. They don't know shit about respecting the elders nor themselves or anybody else for that matter .. Coming up as a child , I was taught to say no ma'am and yes ma'am , no sir and yes sir to my elders .. But today's generation most younger people curse around old people and everything else disrespectful on top of it .. you right , we as a people definitely need to do better .. to tell you the truth , that goes for all races .. smh ..
Wà TV
....... WE DO HONOR OUR ELDERS.
@Liz Freeman. .....YOU ARE SO WRONG
Amen
I love these memories! These old shows were the BEST!
Kim Fields was so adorable back then ..
Na
@@denisehaley7172 : 😁
Kim Fields was a natural great actress even then at that age.
I wish her and Gary Coleman could have teamed up for a sitcom together during that time period
Would have been awesome!!
YES 👍
That's why Kenya Moore hates on her
Yeah like would ever happen in those times
In a way. They sort of did. Kim played Janet Jackson's little friend on Good Times in the later seasons, at the same time Gary Coleman had a recurring role.
What you talkin bout Tom
I'm turning 50 this year (2020) and I remember this show
I was 8 years old and this was one of my absolute favorite tv shows! Thank you for the memories!😁✊🏿✌🏿
Man I LOVED this show!!! Opps! I just aged myself 🤣🤣
Me 2
Wow Kim Feilds is so talented at a young age ., remarkable
I remember this show. Was shorted lived. I haven't seen it in years, waiting for it to surface !! Thanks for posting!! ❤️😊. Loved the show, Demond was so funny.😊. Never gained the status as Sandford and Son.
*short-lived; --->>>NOT: "shorted-lived"!!.
*YES, this was too short-lived; very much, too short-lived.
I use to watch the old episodes in BET back in the day. I loved some Denise Nicholas😍
She's a fine woman 👏
Lol
Remember back in the day when BET would air the classic black shows That a my Mama, Sanford
@Steelerz Reign Supreme
As you will be at some point..........
I remember Mrs Martin on good times when James and Florida throwed her a rent party to keep her from getting evicted
It’s so nice to go back n look at a time of innocence,thanks for posting love this channel
OMG Denise Nicholas was so beautiful.. I used to dream of marrying her, and I was only 14😂😂😂😂😂😂
Love Denise Nicholas, way too talented for the writers of this sitcom.
I had such a crush on "Lamonte" as a little girl, but I've never even heard of this show. What a random, but pleasant suggestion UA-cam. I haven't searched anything close to this but was in my feed.😍
I definitely remember this show back in the 70's. Longest intro in TV show history lol!
I'm forty four and I've NEVER seen this...
I'm 58 and I remember the show l was 16 the show came out 42 years ago so you were only 2 years old.
I'm 49 n I don't remember this show at all
Im 42. Was one when it came out
It didn't last long. Blink and you would have missed it.
I’ll be 44 in August and I’ve never heard of this either.
🗣🎤 I remember this show. Denise Nicholas was "that girl" back then. I was a kid when I heard my parents talking about her sister was found murdered.
Yes, that was sad about Ms. Nicholas' sister. An episode of In The Heat of the Night was dedicated to her sister. She talked about it after the taping of that episode in which she portrayed a character who lost her sister. She fought to bring justice for her sister and due consequences to the murderer.
@@lizfreeman8802 Hi thanks for the info. I will certainly check for that episode.
@@lizfreeman8802 WOW I never knew that! She really played that part on ITHOTN!
@@lizfreeman8802 I remember that.
@@lizfreeman8802 Thank u never knew that.
I was born 2 yrs. after this show aired. I love Good Times and Sanford and Son. This is my first time watching this show. Baby I'm back seems to be a pretty good. I'm a young lady with a old soul.❤❤
WOW! I remember this show. 3 greats all one place. Demond Wilson, and 2 of my all time idols and inspirations--Helen Martin and Denise Nicholas. And not to forget Kim Fields, a child star who matured beautifully on-screen and offscreen. Thanks again Reelblack!
Regardless of the twisted plot, this was actually pretty funny. Thanx for the upload. Now I wanna watch the entire show.
Great to see Smiley Rogers as the lawyer. He was in a Sanford and Son episode. Stopped by at the beginning of an episode, sung "Tis Aitumn" with Fred and left. It was a classic moment. "Oh yeaaaaaaah!"
Watched it last night
Demond Wilson was hilarious
Wow I’m 43 years old and live and grew up with all the great shows; I have never seen this show.
I Think This Was Off By The Time You Came Along.
@@AndreaTAndreaT What?!? This show was before Sanford & Son?
@@AndreaTAndreaT This says 1978, I was born in 1977
I don't think it lasted very long
Sanford and Son went off in 77. It was briefly replaced with The Sanford Arms which starred neither Demond Wilson or Redd Foxx. This was Wilson's followup to Sanford and Son.
Demond Wilson was just fresh of my all time favorite show Sanford and Son when I first saw this ok of a series. It should have been given another season.
I used to crack up every time the theme music would change when Helen Martin would come out of the door. 🤣🤣
This is show is hilarious.
I just googled it, discovered it was only on for one season.
I can't imagine why it didn't run longer? This is the first I've actually watch it but I remember seeing it briefly on TV growing up.
Wow!!!!! I remember this program but now, after some 40 years, I'm just now noticing, there's a difference of portrayals, than leave it to beaver! But happy as then to see African Americans working in entertainment industry.
Yes but different era too. This was the 70s.
You are right. Here lay the stereotypical roles for Blacks and positive characters for Whites. It is a disrespect to the image of the Black family, but I am glad we had someone to pave the road for us.
I use to 💘 LOVE this show. I had a CRUSH on Deniece Nicholas.
The actor playing the divorce attorney was also on an episode of Good Times. He played the homeless guy staying in the abandoned building that Florida, Penny, Kim Fields and another kid ducked into after the school bus Florida was driving got stuck in the blizzard.
Baby am back, also Sanford and son was wonderful shows on till now and they are very funny 😆😂
Wow, this brings back tons of positive memories of my childhood.
Wow, I forgot about this show. Thanks for posting.
“She’s just as pretty as the day I left” 😂 classic black
Please bring these shows back we eveneed laughter and something to look at besides the same thing that doesn't
I love how the openings of TV shows were a whole film by themselves with theme music and a complete storyline.
Kim Fields before Facts of Life! ☺️💕
Check out Helen Martin in The Phenix City Story (1955). This was a small dramatic part that she played. She and James Edward's played a black married couple who are pivotal to the story. I was very surprised to see her in it because I was so used to seeing her in comedies in the 1970s-1990's when she was older. My comedic old school idols are her, LaWanda Page, and Moms Mabley. Don't mess with them!
I have seen reruns of this show and it’s pretty funny. I live Kim Fields as a child actress. She was on Good Times a few episodes too before Facts of Life.
I had no idea Damon Wilson did any other sitcom but Sanford and son wow!! I'm surprised this must not been on to long because I never seen this before dig that look at little kim fields im really surprised
He was also in The New Odd Couple in the early 80s with Ron Glass from Barney Miller.
@@maximusprime3459 dig that
I actually forgot all about this show
Never ever heard of this i have seen every episode of Sandford and Son never saw Lamont in anything else
Thanks a Million!
Thank you so much! I haven't seen this show in a long time! ! RIP Helen Martin.
Damn!
I remember watching this when it 1st aired!
TV shows sure have changed!
It was funny, its sad to know that the TV show had been canceled! That's life...
I was born in '76 and never heard of this show! 😂😂😂😂😂
It wasnt on long, but when BET reran it, you'd think it was on longer.
I know I'm young at 28 but I never heard of this show a day in my life. And I've watched shows like Sanford & Son & The Jeffersons
That is ok that you've never heard of this show, because It probably stayed on for a year or a few months, because of it it wouldn't be picked up for syndication.
Yeah, I don't think it lasted very long. By the way, Demond Wilson was like 31 or 32 in this episode.
WOW MAN the memories I mean thank you 4 uploading or downloading or however you did this thank you for sharing it 1978 wow this is wonderful
Binge watched every episode and this was very comedic and has some great messages, each actor did a great job. Thanx for the upload. Outstanding writing.
Lamont looked more like lamont in this, than he did by the end of Standford and son.
First time seeing this show in many years. Love this show!!
I enjoyed watching this show, Helen Martin is funny in everything she's in, and Kim Fields is so adorable, I really loved her when she did a few appearances on Good Times, those phrases she would say was too funny and cute on Good Times 😂❤❤
I remember this show. I was Kims age. I loved Denise Nicholas. I remember wanting to grow up to look like her!
*This is a true classic!*
I've never seen or heard of this before. It's funny, during the opening credits I was thinking that that looked like the set of 227, and then Pearl popped out!
I watch all the episodes they were good 💯
I absolutely love Reel black. Thank you guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Why this not on Antenna Tv or ME TV or TV land they keep the same ole one on why not sumthin different..
It was a pretty short-lived series for one...lasted only one season.
Ratings & money.. it's just like why do radio stations play the same songs when there are thousands of good songs out there.
That must have been a rhetorical question lol. We all know why. Im familiar with all of those channels. Especially MeTv - extra wt with a side of wt. The only one that **could possibly** have the sincere reason for not airing as being bc of the 'series run & ratings' is TV Land. And thts a stretch bc its basically still an known show.
It would have never even made it into a consideration phase with the others. As it is, they already stay within the same pop culture, nostalgia shows echelon.
@@brentad2004
Unless u r referring to computer programming over human programmers & djs as being cheaper, thats not it. And trusting ratings as organic is at least 20 yrs long gone, now. U have something ridiculous like 5 huge media corporations owing something even more ridiculous like 95-98% (& Im being conservative) of the stations(both tv & radio) in the US. U r talking about streamlined operations. Homogenization of content, that, particularly with radio, is computer generated (& even outsourced to companies that specifically do this kind of programming). So what u end up with is a domination of the market w the same kind of stations (regardless of genre) > automated, cloned & disturbingly potpourri-like in content. Those Bob & Jack stations where they play a hodge podge of music are excellent examples of that.
That episode of Martin where he visits the station after he quits & Sean tells him how its all automated now & that he just comes in every few hours to change the tapes. They really do tell the public about how things are, but they also know thst 99% of the population are either not paying attention or not believing it as actual bc its being presented as fiction.
The local news is just as bad now, too. Same copy/script > try finding info about a story from the local news channel's internet sites & see how often its the same, skimpy, detail lacking copy - often verbatim or with the occasional sentence/word juxtapositions.
On radio its the same playlists from market location to market location. Even down to timing. I first noticed radio changing back in the early/mid 90s. Im was a channel surfer, so I would hear a group of songs on one station where I lived, then surf to the same genre station in the next city & hear them again, usually in the same order.
U could even hear the same classic song on the same station at about the same time for days in a row. Lately, they seem to change programming about every 1.5/2 weeks (Ive stopped listening as much out of annoyance). An the contemporary top hits channels wiil blatantly play the EXACT same set of songs EACH HOUR. That will drive a person crazy if the are somewere stuck listening to that all day. But it does work. U will start to like songs that u couldn't stand at first, given enough exposure & repetition. I think thats a psychological sanity preservation technique.
Intentional redundancy masquerading as entertainment & information.
Its prevalent that even independent stations use some of these same techniques, but with enough leeway that its less noticeable if u r not paying attention. They dont do payola now like in radios heyday bc the music industry is so homogenized & therefore more efficient at welding their influence over radio. Its basically their full-on b****** now. Even the college stations are not immune. Every now & then u can find a station that doesn't seem to be apart of the media machine. But somehow, if u listen often enough u can see the tells of how they have decided to keep up w the jones of new radio/media.
Those shows are popular and well known. Sanford and Son , Jeffersons, Good Times crossed boundaries
So he comes back for his family and he's employed where??? What was the plan to take care of his family again?? I missed it!!😂😂
Wow!! I was eight when this came out!!! The video quality is outstanding!!!
Thanks for sharing! I used to watch this show all of the time as a kid on BET. Still a great show as i remember.
This had everything going for it.
I watched a few episodes of 'Baby I'm Back' growing up but didn't like it much, I loved 'Sanford and Son' 'The Jefferson's' 'Good Times' 'All in the Family' and 'What's Happening' 📺 ☎ 📻
I didn’t like it much either when I was younger. I’m bored so I’m watching now.
@@kimberlygray699 what about silver spoon ,together we gonna find our wayyyyy
I have never seen this show before
Who knew Helen Martin would do that boxing scene over in " Dont Be A Menace"? 🤷
Lamont!!! And Tootie when She was real little! Sanford and Son ended in 1977, and the Facts of Life started in 1979! Both 2 great shows! Grady from Sanford and son had his own show also that didn't last long.
Wow! Was Helen Martin always old asf? Lmao I'm 40 years old and every show I saw her in as a kid she was always old ....too funny.
that's something we can all agree on.lol
Her and Morgan Freeman
She was born in the early 1900’s.
On 227 she had to get a replacement SS card and she told the guy her # was 000-00-0009
I Remember that show, it lasted for a Minute 😉
Great memories, Kim Fields stayed so pretty!
Those were the good old tv shows. These days I don't even watch tv.
I remember this show. It didn't last very long.
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Only 6 months Feb. TO Aug. of '78.
Probably why alot is saying they didn't hear bout this show really
The premise was he flew the coop,he wife declared him dead, she remarried, and Baby I'm Back!
@The Commentator Named OREH
Black men have been making themselves look bad all on their own 🙄
@@almondy1963 that's the monster that Dr Frankenstein made. We weren't like that until we were brought here by this White man.
The war wages on against humanity.
That can be a storyline for anybody.There's nothing "racial" about it.
@@garymattscheck9066 Very good point! Best comment!
Before 227, it was Baby, I’m Back ... starring Helen Martin & a Young Tootie!!! 🤎
Good to know, 227 was always my favorite show and I see some of the characters in this as well.
And before this, was That's My Mama (1974), starring Clifton Davis, who later starred in the 80s show, "Amen"
This was My Show!!!!!! I hated they canceled this!!
Pearl before 227...
RIH Helen Martin
I bet Pearl has appeared in more tv shows then any other black actor in Hollywood
When did she pass
BOSS LADY July 23rd 1909 - March 25th 2000
But after Good Times
This is 227. Look at opening and the setting of the show.
I remember this show back in the day 👍
I remember Sanford and Son. It was and still is one of the best comedies we have had. Redd Foxx was a comedic genius. His timing was spot on perfection, and the casting was also perfectly done. Grady was the nice friend, Lamont always the recipient of the famous line, "I'll give you five across your lips, DUMMY!", and Fred's nemesis Aunt Esther. Every other cast member was perfectly casted as well. Fred's sweet and caring lady-friend. I used to just sit and laugh for 25 minutes everytime it was on TV.
That little girl and the grandma were both on Good times !
Janet Jackson was on Good Times (Penny).
Denise Nichols - just as 🔥 as she was on Room 222!
As a teenager I liked this show.
As an adult I hate the premise.
Yes very negative premise, but I did laugh at some of the episodes. ‘The Book Of Ruth’ episode is especially funny!
Heather TEA the same for me
Same. It actually just hit me right now now awful it was.
the show isn't the problem. it's ONLY the idea that people believed ALL black people should be viewed in this light.
there are shows where white people are negative types also. But they had other variations for a well rounded outlook.
So, don't hate the show. We should just hate that THEY wanted that more than our positive sides as well
@@agonleed3841
True but the problem is the White audiences rarely get those types of shows that show them in a negative light
I.miss this!! Bring back old memories!!
Denise Nicholas was a Dime piece!!
Don C Nunez who wins between her, Lonette McKee and Marilyn McCoo?
@@klimb22 Lonette McKee !!!
Kevin Imes Lonette sister Kathrine McKee in her younger years that episode on Sandford and Son when Lamont told Grady she was his cousin and he said that ain’t no cousin 😂😂😂 If it was he want a cousin like that lmao
Kevin Imes Jane Kennedy 2
@@klimb22I noticed all the women you mentioned are racially ambiguous blk yet y'all cliam colorism doesn't exist.
But were salty when blk women liked the Debarge men and other lightskin men yall some flaming hypocrites lol