The Jeffersons

Categories: Entertainment | Television | Sitcoms
    • Network: CBS
    • First Aired: January 18, 1975
    • Format Sitcom
    • Run Time: 30 minutes Each Episode
    • Number of Seasons: 11
    • Number of Episodes: 253
    • Ended June 25, 1985
    • Was a spin off of All in the Family
    • Noted for featuring the first interracial couple on prime time television, Helen and Tom Willis
    • The theme song "Movin' On Up" was written and performed by Ja'net Du Bois
  • As a spinoff from the beloved Norman Leaf show All in the Faimly, The Jeffersons was a long-running and groundbreaking sitcom about an African American family with a successful dry cleaning company that move into an upper middle class apartment building. As a slice-of-life comedy, the show was a major success and lasted 11 seasons before being canceled.
  • Cast

    • Sherman Hemsley - George Jefferson
    • Isabel Sanford - Louise Jefferson
    • Roxie Roker - Helen Willis
    • Franklin Cover - Tom Willis
    • Marla Gibbs - Florence Johnston
    • Paul Benedict - Harry Bentley

  • Theme Song

    • Well we're movin on up
    • To the east side
    • To a deluxe apartment in the sky
    • Movin on up
    • To the east side
    • We finally got a piece of the pie
    • Fish don't fry in the kitchen
    • Beans don't burn on the grill
    • Took a whole lotta tryin'
    • Just to get up that hill
    • Now we're up in the big leagues
    • Gettin' our turn at bat
    • As long as we live, it's you and me baby
    • There ain't nothin wrong with that
    • Well we're movin on up
    • To the east side
    • To a deluxe apartment in the sky
    • Movin on up
    • To the east side
    • We finally got a piece of the pie
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