The episode was a re-creation of “The Jeffersons” premiere in January 1975, when George and his wife, Louise (Wanda Sykes), move to that deluxe apartment in the sky, where a maid who works in ...

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When you think of classic sitcoms, The Jeffersons will probably immediately come to mind. The show, which ran from 1975 to 1985, was the groundbreaking spinoff of All in the Family, following ...

The Jeffersons aired for a decade, 1975-85, and Hemsley’s performance embodied George’s move from the working-class to the middle-class as the owner of a chain of dry-cleaning businesses ...

VIDEO: Watch George Jefferson at his finest . Small and energetic, delivering his lines in a rasping bark, dapper in a three-piece suit or plaid sports jacket, Hemsley-as-George had the ...

But that wasn’t the end of George and Weezy Jefferson. The Best of the Jeffersons. In 1993, key cast members, including Sanford, Hemsley, Gibbs, ...

The spinoff was assured as soon as Hemsley’s first appearance in “All in the Family” Season 4. Sanford as Louise Jefferson, along with Mike Evans as their son Lionel, had been semi-regulars ...

But George Jefferson was also a TV icon -- the central character in the longest-running sitcom centered on a black cast in TV history, a spin off of Norman Lear's landmark All in the Family comedy ...

Tantaros: On Tuesday, our country lost a television legend when Sherman Hemsley, also known as the always boisterous George Jefferson of the 1970s show “The Jeffersons,” passed away.

At the outset of the Jan. 18, 1975, pilot, Ja'Net DuBois' indelible theme song told viewers that the Jeffersons from "All in the Family" had moved on up from Queens to a "deluxe apartment in the ...

The episode was a re-creation of “The Jeffersons” premiere in January 1975, when George and his wife, Louise (Wanda Sykes), move to that deluxe apartment in the sky, where a maid who works in ...