The theme song to 227 was written by television songwriter Ray Colcord, who went on to write the themes to The Torkelsons, Boy Meets World, and Promised Land.
Houston's three sons and daughter really had to eat their words when the play she wrote and produced at Kennedy-King College in 1978 was later picked up for an NBC comedy.
Houston loved the televised "227," even though it was set decades later than her adolescence.
In August, the grandmother of four plans to pitch her sitcom "Let's Have a Party," which centers on an African-American widow and a white widow who had never met but must work together to keep their husbands' party-planning business afloat.