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| − | + | {{Image Thumbnail right|File:Actor Sherman Hemsley.jpg|300px|Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012) played the ground-breaking role of George Jefferson.}} | |
| − | It was | + | '''''The Jeffersons''''' was a television show, which ran on [[CBS]] from 1975 to 1985. It was a spinoff of ''[[All in the Family]]'' (the lead character, George Jefferson, was Archie's neighbor in that series). |
| − | + | It was one of the first shows to prominently feature an African-American couple as successful (George Jefferson owned a chain of dry-cleaning stores, and he and his wife Louise lived in an East Side high rise apartment complex with their live-in maid Florence) as well as the first to prominently feature an interracial couple (Tom and Helen Willis, Tom was white and Helen was black).<ref>In real life, the actress who played Helen (Roxie Roker) was married to a white man (Sy Kravitz); their son is noted rock star Lenny Kravitz.</ref> Until 2012 (when it was surpassed by ''Tyler Perry's House of Payne'' by one episode), it was the longest-running sitcom with African-Americans as featured lead characters. | |
| − | [[Category:Television Shows]] | + | In the show, George would be the one showing negative traits (he often called the Willis' daughter and his daughter-in-law, Jenny, a racist epithet due to her mixed race); Louise (and, quite often and with sass, Florence) would be the one to correct him. However, George often had positive traits: he would the only person able to fix the back problems of their neighbor Bentley (a British expat who worked for the United Nations; George could walk on Bentley's back and straighten it out). |
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Latest revision as of 22:17, June 27, 2023
The Jeffersons was a television show, which ran on CBS from 1975 to 1985. It was a spinoff of All in the Family (the lead character, George Jefferson, was Archie's neighbor in that series).
 Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012) played the ground-breaking role of George Jefferson.
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It was one of the first shows to prominently feature an African-American couple as successful (George Jefferson owned a chain of dry-cleaning stores, and he and his wife Louise lived in an East Side high rise apartment complex with their live-in maid Florence) as well as the first to prominently feature an interracial couple (Tom and Helen Willis, Tom was white and Helen was black).[1] Until 2012 (when it was surpassed by Tyler Perry's House of Payne by one episode), it was the longest-running sitcom with African-Americans as featured lead characters.
In the show, George would be the one showing negative traits (he often called the Willis' daughter and his daughter-in-law, Jenny, a racist epithet due to her mixed race); Louise (and, quite often and with sass, Florence) would be the one to correct him. However, George often had positive traits: he would the only person able to fix the back problems of their neighbor Bentley (a British expat who worked for the United Nations; George could walk on Bentley's back and straighten it out).
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- ↑ In real life, the actress who played Helen (Roxie Roker) was married to a white man (Sy Kravitz); their son is noted rock star Lenny Kravitz.