Season Four is the fourth season of the ABC comedy series Black-ish. It premiered on October 3, 2017 and ended on May 15, 2018.
Cast
Main Cast
- Anthony Anderson as Andre Johnson
- Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson
- Marcus Scribner as Andre Johnson, Jr.
- Miles Brown as Jack Johnson
- Marsai Martin as Diane Johnson
- Peter Mackenzie as Leslie Stevens
- Deon Cole as Charlie Telphy
- Jenifer Lewis as Ruby Johnson
Recurring cast
- Laurence Fishburne as Earl Johnson
- Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson
- Jeff Meacham as Josh Oppenhol
Guest Stars
Episodes
| No. overall |
No. in
season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 1 | "Juneteenth" | Anton Cropper | Peter Saji | October 3, 2017 |
| 74 | 2 | "Mother Nature" | Ken Whittingham | Corey Nickerson | October 10, 2017 |
| 75 | 3 | "Elder. Scam." | Anton Cropper | Courtney Lilly | October 17, 2017 |
| 76 | 4 | "Advance to Go (Collect $200)" | Anton Cropper | Gail Lerner | October 24, 2017 |
| 77 | 5 | "Public Fool" | Kevin Bray | Kenya Barris | October 31, 2017 |
| 78 | 6 | "First and Last" | Linda Mendoza | Laura Gutin Peterson | November 7, 2017 |
| 79 | 7 | "Please Don't Feed the Animals" | Michael Schultz | Hale Rothstein | November 14, 2017 |
| 80 | 8 | "Charity Case" | Claire Scanlon | Sam Laybourne | December 5, 2017 |
| 81 | 9 | "Sugar Daddy" | John Fortenberry | Yamara Taylor | December 12, 2017 |
| 82 | 10 | "Working Girl" | Michael Spiller | Lindsey Shockley | January 2, 2018 |
| 83 | 11 | "Inheritance" | Millicent Shelton | Stacy Traub | January 9, 2018 |
| 84 | 12 | "Bow Knows" | Rob Sweeney | Laura Gutin Peterson | January 16, 2018 |
| 85 | 13 | "Unkept Woman" | Pete Chatmon | Christian Lander | February 6, 2018 |
| 86 | 14 | "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" | Gail Lerner | Steven White | March 13, 2018 |
| 87 | 15 | "White Breakfast" | Rob Cohen | Lindsey Shockley | March 13, 2018 |
| 88 | 16 | "Things Were Different Then" | Todd Holland | Courtney Lilly | March 20, 2018 |
| 89 | 17 | "North Star" | Eva Longoria | Laura Gutin Peterson | March 27, 2018 |
| 90 | 18 | "Black Math" | Kevin Bray | Doug Hall | April 3, 2018 |
| 91 | 19 | "Dog Eat Dog World" | Anton Cropper | Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry | April 10, 2018 |
| 92 | 20 | "Fifty-Three Percent" | Tracee Ellis Ross | Gail Lerner | April 17, 2018 |
| 93 | 21 | "Blue Valentime" | Jonathan Groff | Yamara Taylor | May 1, 2018 |
| 94 | 22 | "Collateral Damage" | Gail Lerner | Owen H.M. Smith | May 8, 2018 |
| 95 | 23 | "Dream Home" | E. Langston Craig | Graham Towers & Steve Vitolo | May 15, 2018 |
Trivia
Unaired episode
The fourteenth episode of the season, titled "Please, Baby, Please", was shot in November 2017, and originally scheduled to air on February 27, 2018. However on February 22, 2018, ABC announced that the episode would be pulled from the schedule and that a repeat of a past episode would air instead.[1] USA Today stated that the episode "was apparently too political for the network".[2] An ABC spokesperson said that there "were creative differences we were unable to resolve".[3] On March 10, 2018, it was officially announced that the network had no plans to air the episode.[4] In the episode, Dre tries to read a bedtime story to Devante during a thunderstorm, but instead improvises a new story based on recent social and political issues in the United States.[5]