Weakest season with Redd Foxx? Season 1, 5, or 6?

[TVFactFan]

I always considered the best seasons to be 2 and 3 and 4 was with Grady, but out of the seasons with Fred, which one do you think was the weakest?

Season 1 because of the British scripts?

Season 5 because of Janet and Lamont?

Season 6 because of horrible eps?



I will go with season six mainly because of the episode Sargeant Gork

[Skywalker]

Season 6 was the worst. I think there was only 1 really good episode "Committee Man". A few were ok, but others were awful like the Hawaiian Connection episodes, Fred meets Redd and the ones that dealt with Aunt Esther adopting a kid who looked like a grown man.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

Season 6 was the worst. I think there was only 1 really good episode "Committee Man". A few were ok, but others were awful like the Hawaiian Connection episodes, Fred meets Redd and the ones that dealt with Aunt Esther adopting a kid who looked like a grown man.

Fred Meets Redd was dumb and the Esther adopting a son. ALso the episode CAROL. Worst episode of the series. The only episode that stood out was the last one which was the one when Fred went back to school

[Cloud9 Lorraine]

IMO, I wouldn't even include season 1, which I thought was brilliant. Imagine watching for the first time in 1972 as the season unfolded. Every week an episode aired. Crossed Swords, Happy Birthday Pop, Here Comes the Bride The Copper Caper, A Matter of Life and Breath, and so on. Week by week, the show in it's infancy developed.

Both Seasons 5 & 6 are pretty weak with a golden moment or two in each. But I'd give the edge to the worst season to season 6 due to the Hawaiian trilogy. I didn't enjoy one minute of that. Although the Oddfather in season 5 was unwatchable.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Cloud9 Lorraine

IMO, I wouldn't even include season 1, which I thought was brilliant. Imagine watching for the first time in 1972 as the season unfolded. Every week an episode aired. Crossed Swords, Happy Birthday Pop, Here Comes the Bride The Copper Caper, A Matter of Life and Breath, and so on. Week by week, the show in it's infancy developed.

Both Seasons 5 & 6 are pretty weak with a golden moment or two in each. But I'd give the edge to the worst season to season 6 due to the Hawaiian trilogy. I didn't enjoy one minute of that. Although the Oddfather in season 5 was unwatchable.

OH YES!!!, Godfather when he was in that hospital room acting like a NUT. Yes the 2nd worst episode behind Carol

[magellan333]

I will cast a vote for Season 6 as that was when Fred had his church. Horrible Episode!

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by magellan333

I will cast a vote for Season 6 as that was when Fred had his church. Horrible Episode!

Yes another crappy episode

[rollo's girl]

season 6 was just awful to me, a waste of time and effort by everyone involved IMO, EXCEPT for "Sanford and Gong" and the episode with BB King. I love the episodes where the cast does musical numbers and these were two of the very best I think.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by rollo's girl

season 6 was just awful to me, a waste of time and effort by everyone involved IMO, EXCEPT for "Sanford and Gong" and the episode with BB King. I love the episodes where the cast does musical numbers and these were two of the very best I think.

The B.B King episode and the one when Fred goes back to school are the main highlights in season 6

[GARFIELDKOOL]

Season 5 was bad, very bad. I don't know what the hell the producers and writers were thinking when they made those crappy episodes. I will admit, season 6 wasn't that good, but to me it was like a rebound of season 5. I actually found episodes of season 6 watchable, but season 5 was an embarrasment of the show.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by GARFIELDKOOL

Season 5 was bad, very bad. I don't know what the hell the producers and writers were thinking when they made those crappy episodes. I will admit, season 6 wasn't that good, but to me it was like a rebound of season 5. I actually found episodes of season 6 watchable, but season 5 was an embarrasment of the show.

Seem like the show lost momentum after Redd Foxx Return

[GARFIELDKOOL]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Seem like the show lost momentum after Redd Foxx Return

right. he came back and the show wasn't the same. After he came back, we saw Fritzi Burr in multiple roles.... I didn't like her. Rodney, he was an unfunny cornball, Frank Nelson, as talented as he was, he didn't belong on the show. Don't get me started on Hoppy's mother either. It was like a whole new production and writing team.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by GARFIELDKOOL

right. he came back and the show wasn't the same. After he came back, we saw Fritzi Burr in multiple roles.... I didn't like her. Rodney, he was an unfunny cornball, Frank Nelson, as talented as he was, he didn't belong on the show. Don't get me started on Hoppy's mother either. It was like a whole new production and writing team.

I did like the episode when Fred and Lamont was dancing on stage in season 5. Both had on tuxedos

[rollo's girl]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

I did like the episode when Fred and Lamont was dancing on stage in season 5. Both had on tuxedos

yes, that was great. Like I said, any show where the cast did musical numbers was super. Fans got to see more aspects of their talents, and many of the numbers had stuff in them that cracked me up (like Fred in the pink hula skirt, or he and Esther trading insults while singing "Down By the Old Mill Stream" during the Mrs. Watts Business Woman pageant). .

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by rollo's girl

yes, that was great. Like I said, any show where the cast did musical numbers was super. Fans got to see more aspects of their talents, and many of the numbers had stuff in them that cracked me up (like Fred in the pink hula skirt, or he and Esther trading insults while singing "Down By the Old Mill Stream" during the Mrs. Watts Business Woman pageant). .

Esther....."I was 16"

Fred........"That was your shoe size"

Eather......."A beauty queen"

Fred........."Queen Kong"