''Sugar and Spice'' is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 30, 1990 to May 25, 1990.

Premise

The small town of Ponca City,

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, was the setting for this blue collar series about two middle-aged African American sisters. Loretta and Vickilyn ( Loretta Devine and

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) had very different personalities. Vickilyn was conservative and quiet, a divorcee making her living with Small World Miniatures, a mail-order business run out of her converted garage. Her gregarious sister Loretta, an aspiring actress with a roving eye for good-looking men, was biding time working as a hostess at Cafe Jacques, where the manager Jacques ( Leslie Jordan) was also seen. Living with then was their teenage niece Toby ( LaVerne Anderson), the only child of their late sister, whose good intentions were sometimes derailed when she took bad advice from her best friend Ginger ( Dana Hill). Bonnie (

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), who had a tempestuous relationship with her trucker husband Cliff (Gerrit Graham), was Vickilyn's assistant at Small World Miniatures. Ralph and Brian (Troy Searcy,

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) were schoolmates of Toby's.

Cast

as Vickilyn Fontaine-Clayton * Loretta Devine as Loretta Fontaine * LaVerne Anderson as Toby Reed * Dana Hill as Ginger *

as Bonnie Buttram

Recurring

* Leslie Jordan as Monsieur Jacques * Fitz Houston as Deputy

Guest Stars

* Dorian Harewood as Marcus * Michael Talbott as Joe * Gerrit Graham as Cliff * Rick Fitts as Doug * Willie C. Carpenter as Binder * Elmarie Wendel as Bag Lady *

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as Mr.Prescott * Maureen Arthur as New Yorker

Episodes

References

{{Reflist CBS original programming 1990s American black sitcoms 1990s American sitcoms 1990 American television series debuts 1990 American television series endings Television shows set in Oklahoma Television series by Sony Pictures Television