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The Jeffersons
Season 1
TV-PG
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Wealthy African American dry cleaner George Jefferson, his wife Louise, and son Lionel move into a luxury apartment building and develop occasionally fractious relations with other tenants, including their sassy maid Florence.
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Cast of Season 1
Isabel Sanford
Louise Jefferson
Sherman Hemsley
George Jefferson
Roxie Roker
Helen Woodroow Willis
Franklin Cover
Thomas "Tom" Willis
Zara Cully
Olivia "Mamma" Jefferson
Berlinda Tolbert
Jenny Willis Jefferson
Mike Evans
Lionel Jefferson
Paul Benedict
Harry Bentley
Michael Ross
Producer
Ron Leavitt
Producer
Michael G. Moye
Producer
The Jeffersons • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
TV Insider
Matt Roush
The Jeffersons mined barbed, topical humor in George's boorish bravado...
Tampa Bay Times
Charles Benbow
You'll laugh your head off with the rest of the nation's television addicts who want their social problems siphoned safely through the boob-tube.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
John Archibald
If Saturday night audiences don't find two successive exposures to Archie Bunker-type mentally too much, The Jeffersons will probably prosper.
Newsday
Marvin Kitman
I am reasonably convinced that this is the first show out of the Norman Lear shop which is certifiably the bottom of the barrel. Examination of Norman Lear's gifted fingers would show splinters from scraping together this spinoff.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lee Winfrey
The reasons for the emphatic success of The Jeffersons basically escape me. The three principal players are all strong, some of the one-liners zing nicely, occasionally a guest star will strike sparks. But there are several shows stronger than this.
Philadelphia Daily News
Jim O'Brien
There is also George Jefferson's mother, who is black but to Louise is like every stock mother-in-law you've ever seen, read about or maybe met... You get the idea.
New York Times
John J. O'Connor
Much of the humor is based on insult, what used to be called "playing the dozens," when content can become secondary to delivery. On The Jeffersons, too much of the content is very secondary.
Orlando Sentinel
Noel Holston
The biggest hit of the "second season" is more hostility humor from Norman Lear. Aside from Sherman Hemsley's strident overacting, however, the cast is strong, and mellowing should make the show even better.
Detroit Free Press
Bettelou Peterson
Even the most clichéd characters manage to come off funny and fresh. The experts say that good TV writers are in short supply, but Norman Lear and company come up with a continuing supply.
Chicago Tribune
Gary Deeb
The Jeffersons comes on with smooth professionalism and an unmistakable aura of self-confidence. It's as if the show were an old veteran instead of a rank beginner.
Arizona Republic
Thomas Goldthwaite
Canned laughter comes into play as the show's most valuable asset.
Associated Press
Jay Sharbutt
A talented cast saddled with a poor script. Maybe next Saturday's show will improve.
Austin American-Statesman
Steve Hogner
All this is becoming too familiar. Norman Lear may be pressing his luck with this series... The Lear productions are all starting to look alike, regardless of locale, social conditions or ethnic relations involved.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Jones
The Jeffersons is dull and contrived, with only the Lear-Yorkin shock lines and situations separating it from all the other so-called comedies on television.
Miami Herald
Jack Anderson
[Creator Norman Lear's] stable of canny writers is working the old alchemy here again. Their gag lines ricochet off the walls of the Jeffersons' apartment, but reach their targets with hilarious accuracy.
New York Daily News
Val Adams
Tonight's show may well result in wide controversy among viewers, just as happened with the introduction of All in the Family four years ago. However, this reviewer found the premiere a funny show and well worth further sampling.
Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Flint
The show, in its early years, nimbly mixed sitcom humor with biting racial commentary.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sue Cameron
The Jeffersons, a contrived show full of forced humor where everybody yells at everyone else in a totally unrealistic way - yet I have the feeling the show will work in spite of itself.
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