In 1971, independent producer Norman Lear introduced the most controversial sitcom in television's brief history. That show was the groundbreaking CBS program, All in the Family. One particular occasional character was Archie Bunker's...

The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975 through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons, and a total of 253 episodes. It is the longest running comedy (or series of any genre) with a predominantly African-American...

The three-disc set contains all 26 episodes of the fourth season. At the heart of each episode is George, the short-tempered dry cleaners owner who has a serious Napoleon complex. A two-part series opens the set, with George preparing for the grand opening of his...

Is this a flashback? One faction of the 1960s psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane is again suing founding member Paul Kantner, alleging that he's using the band's name without permission.Singer Grace Slick and Bill Thompson, former manager of the Jefferson Airplane and the Jefferson Starship, filed...

A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday night in an apparent suicide.The body of Lance Schilling, 30, was found at a home in suburban Metairie. The Jefferson Parish...

Authorities are investigating claims that six off-duty Chicago police officers were captured on video assaulting four men in a bar, the second report of police involved in an assault to surface in a week.Adam Mastrucci, Scott Lowrance and brothers Aaron and Barry Gilfand were playing...

Despite some fascinating touches, the [situation of "The Jeffersons"] is somewhat shaky. The character of Mr. Jefferson, snobbish, and given to frequent temper tantrums, verges on the unattractive. Even Archie Bunker is an "appealing" bigot. And much of the humor is based on insult, what used to be called "playing the dozens," when content can become secondary to delivery. On "The Jeffersons," too much of the content is very secondary…. And then...

Bombastic, frenetic, boastful, ill-mannered, prejudiced and scheming, George Jefferson, his wife Louise, and a cast of other interesting characters have become a success in The Jeffersons…. (p. 112) Spun off from the front-running All In The Family, The Jeffersons appear to some as the flip side of the Archie Bunkers. Unlike Archie, however, who has never risen above his blue-collar status, George has, in the words of the show's theme music, moved on up to that big East Side apartment in the s...