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An actor’s one-off visitor look in a beloved sitcom is normally one among two issues: They’re both 1) a personality actor with a prolonged resume and knack for scene-stealing; or 2) testing the waters with a community and auditioning for an additional challenge. Don Cheadle’s 1991 outing in a moderately emotionally good episode of The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air was very a lot the latter.
Whereas Cheadle performed Ice Tray, one among Will’s rambunctious buddies from Philly within the Season One episode “Homeboy, Candy Homeboy,” he was tapped by Contemporary Prince co-creators Andy and Susan Borowitz to play one other lovable jokester of their spin-off sequence Within the Home. The pilot, which premiered on July 1, 1991, was set to air instantly following Contemporary Prince, presumably utilizing the profitable sitcom to bolster rankings. Nevertheless, Within the Home was by no means picked up by NBC and has since solely been preserved by a form man on YouTube.
The logline for the pilot reads, “A current faculty grad (Don Cheadle) rolls again to the Motor Metropolis with desires and schemes of the entrepreneurial quick lane, however his dad (Bruce A. Younger) needs to steer him onto a extra wise highway to enterprise success.” Regardless of by no means going to sequence, the pilot featured all of the fixings of a success: barely hamfisted life classes, a recurring bit arrange throughout the first two minutes, numerous one-liners and Loretta Devine’s enchanting vocal vary.
Not solely was Cheadle set to steer the spin-off, however he additionally had his hand in writing the present’s theme track, a second in his profession he recalled lately whereas chatting with Franklin Leonard in a current episode of Vainness Honest’s A Listing. Cheadle’s involvement within the creation of the theme track shouldn’t come as a shock — Cheadle, who starred and directed within the Miles Davis biopic Miles Forward, at all times thought he’d have a profession in jazz music, even going so far as to say that enjoying jazz offers him extra pleasure than performing. However as Cheadle’s performing profession took off, music was put “within the sidecar.”
Curiously sufficient, though Within the Home by no means noticed the sunshine of day, Cheadle nonetheless discovered his first massive break by way of spin-off — managing the Golden Palace, the resort on the heart of the short-lived Golden Ladies spin-off.
Its theme track, nevertheless, sounded nothing like him.
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