“The Jeffersons” moved on up to primetime to change all that ... While early episodes addressed the social politics stirred by their move to Manhattan ‒ stories about identity, invoking ...

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 ...

(Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Flash to the end of season one and The Jeffersons were “movin’ on up” with a fourth place finish in the Nielsen ratings, on average, for the season ...

“The Jeffersons” moved on up to primetime to change all that ... While early episodes addressed the social politics stirred by their move to Manhattan ‒ stories about identity, invoking terms like ...