# Brother's Keeper (1998-1999, TGIF)

Imagine taking care of someone who's really immature, and your 8-year-old son as well. After one too many bar-fights, wisecracking pro-football player Bobby Wade (Sean O'Bryan) is forced to live with someone responsible for his million dollar contract to be paid off. He chooses his widowed, stuffy college professor brother, Porter, (William Ragsdale) and his son, Oscar (Justin Cooper). Dena Draeger (Bess Meyer) is Bobby's sarcastic sports agent, who's forced to chauffeur him as she secretly pines away for Porter. Rose (Natasha Slayton) is Oscar's playmate and Marilyn (Kate Hodge) is her mother. Includes guest appearances by Piper Laurie ( The Hustler , Carrie ) as Porter's and Bobby's cantankerous mom ( Everybody Says I Love You ); John Michael Higgins as Porter's colleague ( Trick or Treat , Note , Politically Impolite ), Elizabeth Berkley as Porter's girlfriend ( You Are Me ), Illeana Douglas as Oscar's Teacher ( Dating the Teacher ), Holmes Osborne as the owner of Bobby's Team ( The Duel ), Pat Finn as a Construction Worker ( With Friends Like Porter ), plus Bill Maher and Dr. Henry Kissinger ( Politically Impolite ), Karl Malone ( You're in Trouble ), and TV's original Odd Couple ( Tony Randall & Jack Klugman ) playing variations of their old TV personas ( An Odd Couple of Days ). The show first aired on ABC's TGIF following Boy Meets World , which was maturing in the middle of its run, and Brother's Keeper pushed the moral envelope a little further than standard TGIF…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1998
- By: ABC
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Brothers_Keeper_ABC_Rarities)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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