The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons was a television show, which ran on CBS from 1975-1985. It was a spinoff of All in the Family (the lead character, George Jefferson, was Archie's neighbor).

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). Until 2012 it was the longest-running sitcom with African-Americans as featured.

In the show, George would be the one showing negative traits (he often called the Willis' daughter, Jenny, "zebra" 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).