Family Matters was supposed to be a spinoff from Perfect Strangers with the Harriet character but as seasons go by the focus went from her to Steve Urkel and Carl Winslow. It gotten so bad that Jo Marie Payton had to leave the show. Then the show went from ABC to CBS for the final season and the producers replaced her with another actress. I'm not saying she was bad but Judyann Elder was not Harriet. As for the show Family Matters did become the Urkel Show with Urkel far fetched inventions. The transformation chamber and the cloning machine was tools so Jaleel White can shed the Urkel character so he would not be typecast.
Review of Family Matters
