Series

The Jeffersons 1975

Created by Norman Lear, Michael Ross

  • Comedy, Family
  • 30 min episodes
  • 11 seasons
  • 248 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-PG

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

ComedyFamilynew york citysitcominspirationalhilariousfamiliarCBS

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Classical in form, comic, warm and effortless.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • warmbleak
  • effortlessdemanding
  • resolvedopen-ended

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