Summary

Brian McGuire was a California teenager who moves in with his grandfather, Harry in Brooklyn, New York to ease his parents' financial problems. Helping Brian adjust to his new surroundings were Luther Cain and Anthony "The Snake" Johnson, two of his street-smart teammates on the Braxton High School basketball team. Miss Winners was their cynical, no-nonsense English high school teacher. Terrance Dean was their yuppie classmate.

Cancellation

"Better Days" was the first show of the 1986-1987 television season to be canceled. It lasted only five weeks.

Cast

• Raphael Sbarge
  Raphael Sbarge
  Raphael Sbarge is an American actor and voice actor.-Early life:Sbarge was born into a theatre-oriented family in New York City. His mother, Jeanne Button, was a costume designer, and his father, Stephen A. Sbarge, was an artist, writer and stage director who named his son after the Renaissance...
  
  : Brian McGuire
• Chip McAllister
  Chip McAllister
  Chip McAllister [born Phillip McAllister on October 2, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri] was an American actor. He starred as Luther Cain on the short-lived CBS series, ""Better Days " which lasted 5 weeks before being canceled...
  
  : Luther Cain
• Guy Killum: Anthony "The Snake" Johnson
• Randall Batinkoff
  Randall Batinkoff
  Randall Matthew Batinkoff is an American actor.Batinkoff was born in Monticello, New York and was raised on an egg farm near Ferndale, New York...
  
  : Terrance Dean
• Randee Heller
  Randee Heller
  Randy M. "Randee" Heller is an American television and film actress. Her most notable roles were in the film The Karate Kid and one of its sequels, as Daniel Larusso's mother, and on the 1970s serial sitcom Soap as Jodie Dallas's roommate Alice, one of the first recurring lesbian characters in...
  
  : Miss Harriet Winners
• Dick O'Neill
  Dick O'Neill
  Dick O'Neill was an American stage, film and television character actor best known for playing Irish cops, fathers, judges and army generals. He began his acting career as an original company member of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.He served in the Navy then returned to the theater. In the late...
  
  : Harry Clooney