Post by tomishereagain on Jun 3, 2022 12:00:23 GMT -6
7.90 Rating
One of television's all-time classic sitcoms, the Norman Lear-produced "Sanford and Son" debuted just three days after the one-year anniversary of Lear's fabulously successful, "All in the Family." Fred Sanford is a cantankerous 65-year-old, black, widowed junk dealer living in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. Helping him is his restless son, 34-year-old Lamont; Fred's beloved wife and Lamont's mother, Elizabeth, had died more than 20 years earlier. Fred's schemes and bigotry especially toward Julio, a Puerto Rican who was Lamont's friend, whites and other minorities often frustrated Lamont. Fred also showed overt disdain for his sister-in-law, Aunt Esther (the feeling was mutual). Many times, Lamont threatened to leave for meaningful work, but Fred faked a heart attack each time ("Oh, this time its real, I'm a-comin' 'Lizabeth!") as a sympathy ploy to get his son to stay. By 1977, Fred and Lamont had sold their business (stars Foxx and Wilson wanted to leave the series); it became the Sanford Arms, a rooming house. The show continued as the short-lived "Sanford Arms" (without Foxx or Wilson); it was revived in 1980 on CBS as "Sanford" (starring Foxx and without Wilson).
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1972
Director: Peter Baldwin,Alan Rafkin,Jack Shea,Bill Foster,Norman Abbott,Russ Petranto,Bud Yorkin,Mark Warren,Stan Lathan,James Sheldon,Rick Edelstein,Herbert Kenwith,Bob LaHendro,Charles S. Dubin,Sid McCoy,Hal Cooper,Bruce Bilson,Coby Ruskin,George Tyne,Lewis Gomav
Cast: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Noreen Gammill, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Lance Taylor Sr., Eddie Carroll, Lester Fletcher, Peter Bonerz, William Lanteau, Slappy White, Robert Mandan, Bardu Ali, Tangerine Sublett
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1972
Director: Peter Baldwin,Alan Rafkin,Jack Shea,Bill Foster,Norman Abbott,Russ Petranto,Bud Yorkin,Mark Warren,Stan Lathan,James Sheldon,Rick Edelstein,Herbert Kenwith,Bob LaHendro,Charles S. Dubin,Sid McCoy,Hal Cooper,Bruce Bilson,Coby Ruskin,George Tyne,Lewis Gomav
Cast: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Noreen Gammill, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Lance Taylor Sr., Eddie Carroll, Lester Fletcher, Peter Bonerz, William Lanteau, Slappy White, Robert Mandan, Bardu Ali, Tangerine Sublett