A family drama, the series starred James Earl Jones, Joe Morton and Vanessa Bell Calloway.
[1] Under One Roof follows the lives of three generations of a middle class African American family sharing a two-family house in Seattle, Washington.
[2] The lower unit is occupied by family patriarch Nesbit "Neb" Langston (Jones), a recently widowed police officer who has adopted a troubled foster child, Marcus Henry (Merlin Santana).
The upper unit is occupied by Neb's adult son Ron (Morton), his wife and his children.
Meanwhile, Ron's wife Maggie (Calloway) is having reservations about re-entering the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom for the couple's two children, son Derrick (Ronald Joshua Scott), a Type 1 diabetic, and daughter Charlie (Essence Atkins).