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Old 07-08-2020, 12:12 AM   #1
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Default Updated Jeffersons TV Facts about actors departure

Jeffersons TV Series Facts

2nd Lionel left the show after the 4th season because he found it difficult to fit in and preferred living in Manhattan.

1st Lionel returned in season 6 after running into Sherman Hemsley in the summer of 1979

Leroy and Marcus vanished after the 6th season without explanation

Mr. Bentley left the show in mid season 8 and returned in season 10

1st Lionel left the show after season 1 because he felt his role became too small. Notice how Mother Jefferson's role was bigger and she didnt even live there

N word is uttered by George for the last time in season 8 episode Blazing Jeffersons.

Info supported by DVD, Ebony Magazine 1976, Book titled "The Jeffersons" and Sarasota Tribune, Feb 1977.
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LOL Somebody’s having fun with their Jefferson’s DVD set.( An easy thing to do!)
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Halfway through season 9, No Bentley or Lionel in this season
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I was glad when Marcus left the show. He was so awful and annoying. That guy was a horrible actor.

I sorta liked Leroy. He could have stayed.
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Do you know why Alan #1 left. He was so much better than Alan #2 who could be pretty damn annoying. Still, he wasn't as bad as Marcus. Marcus was the worst, then Alan #2.
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I was glad when Marcus left the show. He was so awful and annoying. That guy was a horrible actor.

I sorta liked Leroy. He could have stayed.


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Do you know why Alan #1 left. He was so much better than Alan #2 who could be pretty damn annoying. Still, he wasn't as bad as Marcus. Marcus was the worst, then Alan #2.
No I never found out why he left, I will put that in my research list lol
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I was glad when Marcus left the show. He was so awful and annoying. That guy was a horrible actor.

I sorta liked Leroy. He could have stayed.
Leroy was hilarious!
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I guess George fired Clara, Leroy and Marcus
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I guess George fired Clara, Leroy and Marcus
He also fired Carmen.

"The enchilada has to go"!

Today they'd call him a racist for that joke!
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He also fired Carmen.

"The enchilada has to go"!

Today they'd call him a racist for that joke!

Carmen got a job offer and that's why Florence was able to come back
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Yes! That is your next mission!
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Reading the Jeffersons Book now and I am closing in on why Alan left the show as I am completing season 4. I just found out the real reason Damon Evans left and it was because he was fired for being late for the taping of Lionel Gets the Business"

So that's why we never see him after that episode again. lol
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Read all through season 5 and 6 and they never mentions why Jay Hammer was no longer on the show. Just how Mike Evans ended up back on the show and that Jay Hammer was a soap opera star who took the role as Alan Willis but not why he left. And it wasnt because of another show because after the Jeffersons, he wasnt acting for 2 years, 1979 to 1981
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Read all through season 5 and 6 and they never mentions why Jay Hammer was no longer on the show. Just how Mike Evans ended up back on the show and that Jay Hammer was a soap opera star who took the role as Alan Willis but not why he left. And it wasnt because of another show because after the Jeffersons, he wasnt acting for 2 years, 1979 to 1981
I did not like Jay Hammer's acting at all. I liked the first Alan much better. He was actually pretty cool. Alan #2 (Jay) was incredibly annoying IMO.
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