As the 11th season of The Jeffersons drew to a close, no one on the cast guessed that the show would be canceled ... Hemsley, who preferred the stage to TV and often complained about George ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Shortly later I was cast as Louise Jefferson, the Bunker’s neighbor ... that was normally afforded to any long-running TV series. “We never got the attention we deserved,” said ...

“The Jeffersons” benefitted from a larger cast than seen in Lear’s other ... to rank among TV’s top five shows, the first to rank as TV’s top comedy for a season (1981-82), CBS ...