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George Jefferson .............................Sherman Hemsley
Louise Jefferson.....................................Isabel Sanford
Florence Johnston .....................................Marla Gibbs
Helen Willis ..............................................Roxie Roker
Tom Willis..............................................Franklin Cover
Lionel Jefferson (1975, 1979-)......................Mike Evans
Jenny Willis Jefferson ..........................Berlinda Tolbert
Harry Bentley..........................................Paul Benedict
Mother Jefferson (1975-1978).........................Zara Cully
Lionel Jefferson (1975-1978).....................Damon Evans
Ralph the Doorman .................................Ned Wertimer [/FONT]
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PRODUCERS George Sunga, Jay Moriarity, Mike Mulligan, Don Nichol, Michael Ross, Bernie West, Sy Rosen, Jack Shea, Ron Leavitt, David Duclon [/FONT]
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PROGRAMMING HISTORY[/FONT]
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CBS
January 1975-August 1975 Saturday 8:30-9:30
September 1975-October 1976 Saturday 8:00-8:30
November 1976-January 1977 Wednesday 8:00-8:30
September 1977-March 1978 Monday 8:00-8:30
April 1978-May 1978 Saturday 8:00-8:30
June 1978-September 1978 Monday 8:00-8:30
September 1978-January 1979 Wednesday 8:00-8:30
January 1979-March 1979 Wednesday 9:30-10:00
March 1979-June 1979 Wednesday 8:00-8:30
June 1979-September 1982 Sunday 9:30-10:00
September 1982-December 1984 Sunday 9:00-9:30
January 1985-March 1985 Tuesday 8:00-8:30
April 1985 Tuesday 8:30-9:00
June 1985 Tuesday 8:30-9:00
June 1985-July 1985 Tuesday 8:00-8:30 [/FONT]
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FURTHER READING [/FONT]
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Bogel, Donald. Blacks, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film. New York: Garland, 1973. [/FONT]
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_______________. Blacks in American Television and Film. New York: Garland, 1988. [/FONT]
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Friedman, Lester D. Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Urbana, Illinois and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. [/FONT]
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Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for "Blackness." Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. [/FONT]
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MacDonald, J. Fred. Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1993. [/FONT]
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Marc, David, and Robert J. Thompson. Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law, America's Greatest TV Shows and People Who Created Them. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992. [/FONT]
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Taylor, Ella. Prime Time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1990.[/FONT]
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See also All in the Family; Cosby Show; Good Times; Hemsley, Sherman; Lear, Norman [/FONT]