The Mighty Pawns (1987)

Starring:

• Paul Winfield
• Alfonso Ribeiro 
• Rosalind Cash 
• Terence Knox

Storyline
Terence Knox stars as, Steve Grenowski, a white inner-city teacher, assigned to a classroom full of problem students. By appealing to his students' gambling instincts, Gernowski turns the kids onto chess. Soon the teacher's chess team, headed by Frank (Alfonso Ribero, TVs The Fresh Prince), has won the county's junior championship. A shot at a national title is compromised when one of Frank's less trustworthy pals lures him away to a few local "money matches". Paul Winfield (Trouble Man, Sounder) and Rosalind Cash (Cornbread, Earl and Me, Amazing Grace) costar in this fact-based drama, first telecast February 14, 1987 on the PBS series Wonderworks. 

Kiss Shot (1989)

Starring:

• Whoopi Goldberg
• Dorian Harewood 
• Tasha Scott
• Dennis Franz

Storyline
Fresh from her Oscar winning role in Ghost, the delightful Whoopi Goldberg is right on cue for comedy. Whoopi is unmissable as a single mother with double trouble. Threatened with the repossession of her home by the bank she needs to make some serious money ... quick! Dubbed the 'Queen of Eight-Ball' in her teens she decides to try and make a killing as a pool room hustler. Fleecing a string of macho male opponents with her accuracy and prowess. But a handsome playboy opponent offers to help bail her out of her troubles but as they fall in love fail into trouble and debt himself leaving Whoopie faced with a double debt and needing to hustle pool again and make the ultimate kill shot! 

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations [a.k.a. On The Streets of L.A.] (1993)

Starring:

• Louis Gossett Jr. 
• Blair Underwood
• Rae Dawn Chong
• Clarence Williams III
• David Harris
• Christopher M. Brown
• Eddie De Harp
• Tony Plana

Storyline
Leonard Clay (Louis Gossett Jr.) is serving a long prison sentence in a Los Angeles prison. He finds out a recently transferred inmate Jared Williams (Blair Underwood) is his son. Jared is set to be paroled, but the parole committee is concerned that Jared will go back to his old ways. The committee paroles Leonard with Jared and they are to live in a halfway house together. While working as a mechanic, Leonard meets Yvonne (Rae Dawn Chong) and they begin a relationship, but Jared reunites with his old gang members that set off a chain of events that could cost him his life.