Description: The series follows a middle-class African American family who lived on the South Side of Chicago. Charlie Richmond is a black middle-class employee of the Division of Highways, who juggles his work and home life with his wife, Diana, a schoolteacher played by Gladys Knight. The couple has three children: sixteen-year-old "Junior", fifteen-year-old Lauren, and nine-year-old Robert. Della Reese joined the cast during the latter half of the show's only season as Charlie's sister-in-law, Aunt Rachel.