Haywood Nelson

Haywood Nelson plays Dwayne Nelson on What's Happening!!, the 1970s Black teen hangout sitcom that held court at Rob's Place while Mama's basement rules still applied. Raj, Fred Berry's Rerun, dance breaks, soda-shop plotting. Dwayne is the pal temperature: a friend who makes the booth look like a series instead of a star vehicle. Cooley High roots, a later sequel afterlife, syndication love that outlasted the original ABC run by years.

If the question is where Nelson actually works, the answer is What's Happening!!. ABC, 1976–1979, Dwayne Nelson in the credits. s01e01: The Runaway opens the soda-shop hangout. Raj, Dwayne, and Berry's Rerun already holding court at Rob's Place; Mama's basement rules apply. Cooley High roots, dance breaks loading. s02e01: Rerun Gets Married is the catchphrase body as a season open. Black teen hangout sitcom treating a ceremony as a gag and a milestone: syndication love still ahead of the ABC clock. Two stamps beat a biography box

TV Flash files him as hangout-comedy craft with a jukebox. On this desk Nelson is 1970s ensemble voltage: a Dwayne who photographs as the sidekick and plays as the reason the hang still had three kids in it, loyalty as a weekly table.

Queue s02e15 when you already know the seating. Dee's First Date is the little-sister hour as hangout liturgy. Basement rules still the law: soda-shop plotting, dance breaks, a family sitcom that outlasted its original run in reruns. 1970s ABC hours argue better from that stamp than from a sidebar. File Nelson there as Dwayne Nelson