Cast:Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley, Whitman Mayo, Nathaniel Taylor, Lynn Hamilton, Hal Williams, Howard Platt, Gregory Sierra, Fritzi Burr, Raymond Allen, Pat Morita, Noam Pitlik, Marlene Clark, Frank Nelson, Slappy White, Nancy Kulp, Arnold Johnson, Leroy Daniels, Ernest Mayhand, Helen Martin, Barry Wright, Dap Sugar Willie, Allan Drake, Davis Roberts, Norma Miller, Danny Wells, Eric Laneuville, Dorothy Meyer
Synopsis
One of television's all-time classic sitcoms, the Norman Lear-produced "Sanford and Son" debuted just three days after the one-year anniversary of Lear's fabulously successful, "All in the Family." Fred Sanford is a cantankerous 65-year-old, black, widowed junk dealer living in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. Helping him is his restless son, 34-year-old Lamont; Fred's beloved wife and Lamont's mother, Elizabeth, had died more than 20 years earlier. Fred's schemes and bigotry especially toward Julio, a Puerto Rican who was Lamont's friend, whites and other minorities often frustrated Lamont. Fred also showed overt disdain for his sister-in-law, Aunt Esther (the feeling was mutual). Many times, Lamont threatened to leave for meaningful work, but Fred faked a heart attack each time ("Oh, this time its real, I'm a-comin' 'Lizabeth!") as a sympathy ploy to get his son to stay. By 1977, Fred and Lamont had sold their business (stars Foxx and Wilson wanted to leave the series); it became ...
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