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[jamesanthony]

I just saw the final episode and it was terrible. I like the last year for nostalgic reasons. There are some fun episodes in the last year like the one with Reggie Jackson and the one with the young woman whom Louise tries to evict, but that final show wasn't even entertaining on the level of those other shows. It felt like they knew they had to contractually do 24 episodes and just knocked it off just to get it over with. At least the talent show episodes of Good Times had some entertainment value. I was looking forward to seeing the cast sing some songs or something. On CBS they aired Red Robins last. Red Robins is nothing special, but it was a better way to end than this weak episode.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by jamesanthony

I just saw the final episode and it was terrible. I like the last year for nostalgic reasons. There are some fun episodes in the last year like the one with Reggie Jackson and the one with the young woman whom Louise tries to evict, but that final show wasn't even entertaining on the level of those other shows. It felt like they knew they had to contractually do 24 episodes and just knocked it off just to get it over with. At least the talent show episodes of Good Times had some entertainment value. I was looking forward to seeing the cast sing some songs or something. On CBS they aired Red Robins last. Red Robins is nothing special, but it was a better way to end than this weak episode.

I still have never seen the Jeffersons episode with Mabel King from What's Happening making a guest appearance

[jamesanthony]

Originally Posted by TVResearcher

I still have never seen the Jeffersons episode with Mabel King from What's Happening making a guest appearance

Some Enchanted Evening. Hal Williams was in that one as well. I saw part of it many years ago (maybe even when it first came on CBS I don't remember). One thing I just realized about the Jeffersons, for a show that ran 11 seasons there were very few cases of actors showing up repeatedly playing different characters. The only one that I can think of off the top of my mind is the guy who played Mr Whittendale's representative in Piano Man later played Mr Whittendale himself in the one where the dog jumps over the balcony.

One unpleasant thing about the last few seasons was that quite honestly there were too many white guest stars. The early seasons provided guest work for very good black actors like Moses Gunn, Lou Gossett and Robert Guillaime. Other than the episodes focusing on Florence's social life blacks were hard to come by in the later years. In the episode where the noisy young woman moves in and Louise calls a tenant meeting to evict her every last one of the tenants who showed up was Caucasian. I just saw an episode with Lionel and Jenny from season 7 and Mike Evans was still speaking in black dialect. When he quit the show, a good part of the show's soul departed as well.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by jamesanthony

Some Enchanted Evening. Hal Williams was in that one as well. I saw part of it many years ago (maybe even when it first came on CBS I don't remember). One thing I just realized about the Jeffersons, for a show that ran 11 seasons there were very few cases of actors showing up repeatedly playing different characters. The only one that I can think of off the top of my mind is the guy who played Mr Whittendale's representative in Piano Man later played Mr Whittendale himself in the one where the dog jumps over the balcony.

One unpleasant thing about the last few seasons was that quite honestly there were too many white guest stars. The early seasons provided guest work for very good black actors like Moses Gunn, Lou Gossett and Robert Guillaime. Other than the episodes focusing on Florence's social life blacks were hard to come by in the later years. In the episode where the noisy young woman moves in and Louise calls a tenant meeting to evict her every last one of the tenants who showed up was Caucasian. I just saw an episode with Lionel and Jenny from season 7 and Mike Evans was still speaking in black dialect. When he quit the show, a good part of the show's soul departed as well.

Yeah that was talked about in a 1983 Tv Guide article saying the show had been white washed