If he wasn't so damn goofy, his character would have been likable. If he would have been square like Tom Willis, his interractions with Fred would've been classic. he was too goofy to hold his own with Fred which therefore made him annoying.

I hate to say it, but by the time he was brought in, the show was definitely on its downward slide. When they have to bring in a character to play Hoppy's mother, you know the end is near. Geez!

I disagree I thought Alan Drake who played Rodney Victor was hilarious. and the goofiness is what made him funny. especially all those times he hugged or tried to hug fred were hysterical.His first episode was his best where fred finds out Aunt Francis married a white guy.

Three great lines in the show

Lamont-Where's Aunt Francis
Fred-She probably ran out to catch the white tornado lol

Rodney hugs fred tight
Fred yells somebody get this polar bear off me

Fred-Francis it kills me to tell you this but Rodney married you just to get his hands on my bunko

Allan Drake (Rodney) was an oddball, but that was his appeal to me, and what made him funny. I was trying to find out more info on Mr. Drake, but there is little. He was a radio personality in N.Y. in the late 50s, also, his wife, who was a Miss New York or something, had ties to the mafia, and was shot to death in the late 50s. (They had one son). He made several smaller TV appearances (Get Smart, Eddie's Father, The Partners, Governor & J.J.), and a film in 1960 "Sex Kittens Go To College" before his 3 Sanford & Son episodes. He also appears briefly in the 1976 film of Redd's "Norman Is That You?" In the uncut version, he flips off the camera at the end. After 1976 though, he pretty much disappeared for some reason. He died in 86, from what, I don't know.