Danielle Spencer, the actress who performed the precocious Dee Thomas on What’s Occurring!!, died on Aug. 11 on the age of 60.
The present, based mostly loosely on the 1975 movie, Cooley Excessive, gave tv some iconic characters as Roger “Raj” Thomas (Ernest Thomas), Freddy “Rerun” Stubbs (Fred Berry), and Dwayne Nelson (Haywood Nelson). Spencer performed Raj’s youngest sister, greatest recognized for being “the brattiest child on tv” and her catchphrase, “Ooooh, I’m tellin’ Mama!”