Rhythm & Blues was a short-lived 1992 American sitcom that aired on NBC

NBC

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 for only five weeks from September 24, 1992 to October 22, 1992. The show stars Roger Kabler

Roger Kabler

Roger Kabler is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Soul in the short sitcom Rhythm & Blues .-Filmography:*The Next Best Thing *The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars*The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue-References:...

, Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Thelma Frye on the sitcom Amen, her role as Craig Jones' mother, Betty Jones, in the 1995 comedy, Friday and the 2002 comedy Friday After Next and as security guard Dee on The Wayans Bros.,...

, Ron Glass

Ron Glass

Ronald E. "Ron" Glass is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller , and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity.-Early life:Glass was...

, Troy Curvey Jr., Vanessa Bell Calloway

Vanessa Bell Calloway

Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress who has appeared in a number of films, including Biker Boyz, Love Don't Cost a Thing, What's Love Got to Do with It, Coming to America, and Cheaper by the Dozen....

, Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., and Christopher Babers.

The premise of the show stars Kabler as Bobby Soul, a white man who gets hired on a black radio station after being initially mistaken as a black man.

Despite being listed among NBC's Must See TV

Must See TV

"Must See TV" is an advertising slogan used by the NBC television network to brand its prime time blocks of sitcoms during the 1990s, and most often applied to the network's Thursday night lineup, which featured such popular sitcoms as The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, A Different...

 thursday night lineup after A Different World at 8:00 and before Cheers

Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...

at 9:00, the show was cancelled after only five weeks due to low ratings. The show was heavily criticized for relying on traditional black stereotypes for its humor. TV Guide said that: "What makes a show built on white jokes any better than a show built on black jokes?"

Cast

• Christopher Babers  as Earl
• Vanessa Bell Calloway
  Vanessa Bell Calloway
  Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress who has appeared in a number of films, including Biker Boyz, Love Don't Cost a Thing, What's Love Got to Do with It, Coming to America, and Cheaper by the Dozen....
  
   as Colette Hawkins
• Troy Curvey Jr. as The Love Man
• Ron Glass
  Ron Glass
  Ronald E. "Ron" Glass is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as the witty Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller , and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short-lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity.-Early life:Glass was...
  
   as Don Phillips
• Anna Maria Horsford
  Anna Maria Horsford
  Anna Maria Horsford is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Thelma Frye on the sitcom Amen, her role as Craig Jones' mother, Betty Jones, in the 1995 comedy, Friday and the 2002 comedy Friday After Next and as security guard Dee on The Wayans Bros.,...
  
   as Veronica Washington
• Roger Kabler
  Roger Kabler
  Roger Kabler is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Soul in the short sitcom Rhythm & Blues .-Filmography:*The Next Best Thing *The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars*The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue-References:...
  
   as Bobby Soul
• Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. as Jammin