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The Jeffersons: The True Story Behind One Of TV's Most Iconic Shows
ByEric Winick
Spanning 253 episodes from 1975 to 1985 and developed by TV legend Norman Lear, "The Jeffersons" was among the most popular shows of its day, depicting the life of a well-to-do Black family in a high-rise apartment building on New York's Upper East Side.
Created by Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, and Bernie West, and starring Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as George and Louise (Weezy) Jefferson, the show arrived on the heels of "Good Times," another successful Lear-developed show that portrayed the lives of a Black family, and found a following as a spinoff of Lear's classic "All in the Family."
This was something of a golden era for sitcoms about Black families, with "What's Happening!!" (based partially on "Good Times" co-creator Eric Monte's film "Cooley High") also running concurrently with "The Jeffersons" from 1976-1979, and "The Jeffersons" was among the