Here are 10 things you might not have known about the classic series. George Jefferson was as opinionated as his former neighbor Archie Bunker, but he was also much smarter and more ambitious. When he ...

Norman Lear's "The Jeffersons," an "All in the Family" spinoff, was a record-setting Black comedy. But it made important history in other ways.

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

“Shortly later I was cast as Louise Jefferson, the Bunker’s neighbor.” Sherman Hemsley as cantankerous George Jefferson, however, did not appear on All in the Family until the season four ...

At 11 seasons, “The Jeffersons” ran longer than any of producer Norman Lear’s classic 1970s comedies, including its parent show “All in the Family.” But the more important history it ...