Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

George and Louise Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley and Isabel ... to Black people” in a 1999 essay about race and television.) But the show facilitated a prime-time transition from “Black shows ...

In total, The Jeffersons aired for 11 seasons, with 253 episodes produced. However, there was no official “final” episode that was normally afforded to any long-running TV series.

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 ...