racism, suicide, being transgender, and much more, certainly making it one of the mostimportantsitcoms of all time. Today we’re heading back to Manhattan, to revisit our favorite family, The Jeffersons.
While the series, which was taped in front of a live audience, was revived for abrief eight-episode run in 2016, the cast members have all, for the most part, moved on to pursue different projects. And they’ve all done pretty well for themselves. Where are they now? Here’s a look...
Developed by groundbreaking television producer Norman Lear, The Jeffersons began in 1975 as a spin-off of All in the Family. It follows a successful African-American couple, George and Louise "Weezy" Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford) as they "move on up" from working-class Queens...
Norman Lear, who has helped develop and/or create iconic sitcoms like All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, One Day at a Time, and The Jeffersons, has never been afraid of tackling controversial topics on his shows. One case in point is the two-part episode “Maude's ...
Episode 117: The Jeffersons (originally aired Apr. 21, 2004) In the original version of the episode, a screen shot from Super Mario Bros. 2 and another from Super Mario Bros. are displayed on two arcade machines inside Blanket's house. Only visible for a few seconds, they are part of ...
The show took a shot at spoofing popular sitcom classics such as The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, Married with Children, What's Happening!!, Saved by the Bell, Different Strokes, Bewitched, The Partridge Family and One Day at a Time. Unfortunately, the execution was...
58. The Jeffersons One of the longest running sitcoms in history, The Jeffersons is also one of the best. Though many people forget, the show began life as an All in the Family spin-off created by the legendary Norman Lear. As the unforgettable theme song "Movin' On Up" explains, the...
When I first heard aboutLive in Front of a Studio Audience:Norman Lear‘s All in the Family & The Jeffersons, I hoped the project — where an all-star cast performed an episode apiece from two of Lear’s iconic Seventies sitcoms — would take that latter approach. Instead, almost everyone...
— The Porch’s “Holiday Feast” was an evening of staged readings from beloved Black sitcoms Amen, The Jeffersons, A Different World, and Family Matters. The Porch did what it does best; it brought its community together in a celebration of Black joy. It was silly: The cast sometimes...
"The Jeffersons" were spun off from "All in the Family," given some money and thrown into a wealthy high-rise. In "Diff'rent Strokes," two poor black kids were adopted by a rich white millionaire. In "Sanford and Son," a wisecracking old man owned a junkyard with his son. A ...