Many of the surviving cast members have retired and stayed out of the spotlight.

The show’s popularity dipped a bit over the course of its 11 seasons — but when the show was abruptly canceled in 1985, the news came as a shock to the cast, including its stars Sherman Hemsley ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mike Milligan, an American TV writer and producer whose credits ... producing work on the Emmy-winning sitcom “The Jeffersons.” The show was among the first American sitcoms to tackle topics ...

“The Jeffersons” moved on up to primetime ... to Black people” in a 1999 essay about race and television.) But the show facilitated a prime-time transition from “Black shows” to series ...

Together, they wrote and produced several award-winning TV shows, including 49 episodes of Norman Lear’s The Jeffersons (1978-81). The producing pair received an NAACP Image Award for the show ...