Up And Coming

Up and Coming is an American television drama series which aired on the PBS television network during the 1980-1981 season. The series depicted the Wilsons, a successful African American family from Oakland, California who moves into an integrated, middle-class neighborhood in San Francisco. Although it was short-lived, it was the one of the first weekly American TV drama series centered around an African American family (preceded only by Harris and Company, a 1979 NBC drama starring Bernie Casey).Among the cast members were former Stanford University basketball star L. Wolfe Perry, Jr. and a teenage Cindy Herron (who years later would become a founding member of the R&B female quartet En Vogue).The theme song is a cover version of the Bill Withers tune "The Best You Can". The original version can be found on Withers' 1975 album Making Music.