Singer & Sons (television) Television series on NBC from June 9 to 27, 1990. A contemporary comedy in the nostalgic setting of a kosher delicatessen on New York’s Upper East Side, it chronicles the day-to-day comic crises of an aging Jewish deli owner who hires his black housekeeper’s two sons as his partners in the family business. Stars Harold Gould (Nathan Singer), Esther Rolle (Mrs. Patterson), Bobby Hosea (Mitchell Patterson), Tommy Ford (Reggie Patterson), Fred Stoller (Sheldon Singer), Arnetia Walker (Claudia James).