The Jeffersons

Series • 1975 - 1985

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Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

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80s Talk

The Jeffersons never got the respect it deserved from critics or CBS... Audiences, however, couldn’t have cared less about that—the reason being the simplest of all: The Jeffersons was reliably, predictably, reassuringly funny, season after season.

80stalk.com/2019/05/29/the-jeffersons-1975-1985-tv-series-review/

Common Sense Media

Occasional drinking and pipe and cigar smoking. References to getting drunk. Language includes words like 'damn' and racial epithets like 'honky'.

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The Hollywood Reporter

A contrived show full of forced humor where everybody yells at everyone else — yet I have the feeling the show will work in spite of itself.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jeffersons-first-episode-1975-review-736454/

Television Heaven

At its best, The Jeffersons was funny with broad characters that proved a black comedy could succeed on American television.

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Drunk TV

The Jeffersons never got the respect it deserved from critics or CBS during its impressive ten and a half seasons run. Audiences, however, couldn’t have cared less about that—the reason being the simplest of all: The Jeffersons was reliably, predictably, reassuringly funny, season after season.

drunktv.net/2018/05/26/the-jeffersons-complete-series-tv-1970s-1980s-tv-show-review/

IMDb

The show explored everything like interracial relationships and race with tact and dignity.

imdb.com/title/tt0072519/

Rotten Tomatoes

The Jeffersons mined barbed, topical humor in George’s boorish bravado...

rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_jeffersons/s01

Rotten Tomatoes

"We're moving on up, to the East Side, to a deee-luxe apartment in the sky ... ."

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