They were one of the most popular 1970s’ and ’80s TV couples: Louise and George Jefferson, played by Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley. Spun off from All in the Family, the character of Louise was ...

While the chemistry between Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley as Louise “Weezy” Jefferson and George Jefferson on the classic sitcom The Jeffersons was obvious, it wasn’t always that way. Both actors ...

In January 1975, an All in the Family spin-off starring the Bunkers’ next-door neighbors, the Jeffersons, premiered. Not only ...

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When The Jeffersons debuted on Jan. 18, 2025, the All in the Family spin-off was not just an instant hit, but groundbreaking in its depiction of a wealthy African American family in a network sitcom.

Fifty years ago Friday, just before 8:30 p.m., one of the iconic characters of TV history arrived through the Bunkers front door at 704 Hauser St., to the ...

TMZ reports that Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the character George Jefferson famous in "The Jeffersons," died at his home in El Paso, Texas. The George Jefferson character first appeared on the ...

Forty years ago today, on July 2, 1985, The Jeffersons went from "movin' on up," to movin' on, as the beloved sitcom aired its final episode. In 1975, the fictional married couple and their friends ...

Movin' on back, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel conducted a fun but only partly successful exercise in nostalgia and cultural context Wednesday with "Live In Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the ...

At 11 seasons, “The Jeffersons” ran longer than any of producer Norman Lear’s classic 1970s comedies, including its parent show “All in the Family.” But the more important history it made came as soon ...

For our ongoing series on indelible American characters, listener Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite, from Atlanta, Ga., nominates the character George Jefferson. "As a young black boy growing up during the ...

Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, died at 74. Police ...