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The first season of television series The Game aired from October 1, 2006 and concluded on May 14, 2007 on The CW.

Plot[]

Melanie Barnett-Davis (Tia Mowry) is a first-year medical school student who has given up an offer of admission to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore to follow her boyfriend Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall), a professional football player, to San Diego, against the advice of her parents. Derwin Davis is a first-year rookie with a fictional team called the "San Diego Sabers". As Melanie settles into her new life, she meets Tasha Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson), the mother of Sabers' starting quarterback Malik Wright (Hosea Chanchez), and Kelly Pitts (Brittany Daniel), the then wife of Sabers' captain Jason Pitts (Coby Bell). As she learns to balance her new roles as both med student and the partner of a professional football player, Tasha and Kelly immediately warn her to keep a close eye on her boyfriend because of the numerous "gold diggers"

Cast[]

Main[]

Recurring[]

  • Barry Floyd as Terrence "Tee-Tee" Carter
  • Erica Gluck as Brittany Pitts
  • P. J. Byrne as Irv Smith
  • Bumper Robinson as Juvon Glenn
  • Gregory Alan Williams as Dr. James Barnett
  • Claudette Roche as Grace Barnett
  • Tahj Mowry as Cameron Barnett
  • Drew Sidora as herself
  • Rocky Carroll as Kenny "Coach T" Taylor
  • Caryn Ward as Erica Harrison
  • Kendra C. Johnson as Renee Royce
  • Chaz Lamar Shepherd as Trey Wiggs

Episodes[]

  • 1.01:Away Game
  • 1.02:The Rules of the Game
  • 1.03:Gifted
  • 1.04:How Tasha Got Her Groove Back
  • 1.05:Brittany's Super Sweet Sixth
  • 1.06:Rift and Separate
  • 1.07:Mi Casa Es Su Casa
  • 1.08:The Trey Wiggs Episode
  • 1.09:The Trey Wiggs Fallout Episode
  • 1.10:There's No Place Like Home
  • 1.11:It's Hard Being Kelly Pitts
  • 1.12:To Baby...Or Not to Baby
  • 1.13:The Iceman Cometh
  • 1.14:Pro Bowl Blues
  • 1.15:Out of Bounds
  • 1.16:Baby B.S.
  • 1.17:God Bless the Girl That's Got Her Own
  • 1.18:You Say You Want a Revolution
  • 1.19:The Big Chill
  • 1.20:The Many Lies of Derwin Davis
  • 1.21:When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, Part 1
  • 1.22:When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, Part 2

Trivia[]

  • With the growing success of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, that show's creator and producers decided to create a spin-off series.
    • On April 17, 2006, The 18th episode of Season 6 of Girlfriends aired a backdoor pilot called The Game focused on a young woman who decides to put her pending career plans on hold for the rising success of her star athlete boyfriend.
    • The character, Melanie Barnett, was introduced in the episode as the first cousin of Joan Clayton, Girlfriends' principal character.
    • The episode performed well and gained enough interest for The CW network to pick up The Game as a new series for its fall 2006–2007 prime time line-up.
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