The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons (Original Title: The Jeffersons ) is an American sitcom that aired from 1975 to 1985 on CBS. The series came to a total of 253 episodes in eleven seasons. It was one of the longest and most popular African- American series on U.S. television.

Content

George Jefferson is a successful owner of a profitable cleaning. Due to the strong economic growth of his cleansing, he decides to make a move with his family in a better area. With his wife Louise and their son Lionel, he pulls in the posh Upper East Side of New York City. There, however, it can expect new problems of social everyday life. Among his new neighbors, who are mostly vain and decadent, there is an eccentric Briton, George and his family makes life difficult.

Background

The Jeffersons is an offshoot (so-called spin-off ) of the highly successful U.S. sitcom All in the Family in which the Jeffersons played a neighboring family. The series of Norman Lear and on CBS broadcast was produced.

Awards

In the years 1979-1985 the series and their actors were nominated several times for an Emmy. Isabel Sanford won the award in 1981 as best actress in a comedy. She was thus the first African American woman to receive an Emmy. Larry Harris in 1983 was awarded an Emmy for outstanding video editing a sequence (Change of a Dollar ).

There were a total of eight nominations for the Golden Globe in the years 1977 to 1985, including in the category "Best TV Series ".

Sherman Hemsley and Marla Gibbs won the 1982 Image Award for the best representation of an actor in a series.

The character of George Jefferson was in the U.S. TV Guide TV Guide ranked number 44 in the " list of the 50 greatest TV dads of all time " is selected (issue of 20 June 2004).

Others

The series was abruptly canceled due to a dispute of CBS. A proper series finale came. The performers were not informed; Hemsley himself said that he had learned of the dismissal of the show from the newspaper.