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No One Told Sherman Hemsley and ‘The Jeffersons’ Cast That the Show Was Canceled
The show’s popularity dipped a bit over the course of its 11 seasons — but when the show was abruptly canceled in 1985, the news came as a shock to the cast, including its stars Sherman Hemsley ...
'The Jeffersons' at 50: Looking back at a classic sitcom that changed TV
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 ...
'The Jeffersons' at 50: How Norman Lear changed the way Black people were represented on TV
Norman Lear's "The Jeffersons," an "All in the Family" spinoff, was a record-setting Black comedy. But it made important history in other ways.
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'The Jeffersons' at 50: How Norman Lear changed the way Black people were represented on TV
At 11 seasons, “The Jeffersons” ran longer ... Experience,” Lear told how a non-show-business encounter sped it along. How Black Panthers inspired a TV family that wasn't 'dirt poor ...