0---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bottom Of The Deck Dan , a poker hustling gambler accquaintance of Fred and Bubba 's , appears in the Sanford and Son episode The Lucky Streak in Season 5 . The character Dan is played by Sonny Jim Gaines , whoalso appeared on the series in Season 4 's Mama 's Baby , Papa 's Maybe where the man appeared as Big Money Grip Madlock , an old buddy St . Louis . the man also appeared on Sanford as a bailiff in the episode Jury Duty . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ripple was a fortified wine produced by E & J Gallo Winery Low end fortified winethat was popular in the United States , particularly in the 1970s . Possessing a relatively low 11 % ABV , it was originally marketed to casual drinkers . Due to its low price , it had a reputation as a drink for alcoholics and the destitute . It was popular among young drinkers , both underage and college age students . On Sanford and Son , Ripple was often referred to , as it was Fred Sanford 's alcoholic beverage of choice ; Fred loved to mix it with other beverages , such as http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519085943/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3c/Ripple_bottle.jpg/180px-Ripple_bottle.jpg 2---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Champipple Ripple mixed with Champagne http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519085943/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3c/Ripple_bottle.jpg/180px-Ripple_bottle.jpg 3---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Maneschipple RIple and Maneschevitz http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519085943/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3c/Ripple_bottle.jpg/180px-Ripple_bottle.jpg 4---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beaujolipple Ripple and Beaujolais http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519085943/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3c/Ripple_bottle.jpg/180px-Ripple_bottle.jpg 5---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This is the list of Actors from the cast Sanford and Son television series . 6---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Guest in the Yard was the 26th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 12th episode of the ' second season , it premiered December 8 , 1972 . 7---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont discover that no good deed goes unpunished when a homeless man named Gus Liam Dunn whom those people discover sleeping in the bathtub in the yard which those people were attempting to move ; although those people help him by allowing him to stay overnight in the yard , the man plays the Sanfords for suckers , resisting their every effort to throw him out , then claiming injury while being thrown out , and then threatening to sue 8---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Finally , after several attempts to get rid of Gus , who , when claiming and feigning paralysis , gets moved by the Sanfords to their couch , Fred decides that the man should keep feeding him beer until Gus has to urinate and HAS to get up . the man and Lamont set a trap When Gus gets up to use the bathroom upstairs while the Sanfords pretended to go to the store to get more beer , those people catch him redhanded , but Gus dashes out of the house shoving Fred to the floor Now , when Lamont asks Fred if the man is okay , the man feigns injury , and then asks Lamont if the man do one thing , Get me a cold beer 9---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A House is Not a Pool Room was the 49th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eleventh episode of the ' third season , it first aired November 23 , 1973 . 10---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont suffers buyer 's regret after the pool table the man gave Fred for his birthday brings the boys over for billiards every day while Fred 's work and girlfriend Donna Lynn Hamilton go neglected . Lamont Demond Wilson buys his father Fred Redd Foxx a pool table as a birthday present and lives to regret it . Before long , Fred and his buddies have transformed the Sanford living room into their own personal pool hall It is bad enough for Lamont that Fred 's buddies never seem to want to leave , but when those people begin eating the Sanfords out of house and home , Lamont is really behind the eight ball 11---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Eager to get rid of the big eating buddies , Leroy , Skillet , and Bubba , about who the man says these bellies are homegrown , Fred unloads the pool table , selling it to Grady 's buddy Otis Stymie Beard for $ 75 , the man attempts to conceal his windfall from the sell of the table from Lamont , staging as if there was a robbery , and that the table was stolen . But , alas , Lamont , who was listening and watching by the stairs , becomes privy to Fred 's scheme , and then also stages a phony robbery , and retreives the $ 75 the man paid for the table , much to the chagrin of Fred , who becomes the sucker thats crying about losing $ 75 12---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Little Extra Security was the 75th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 13th episode of Season Four , it first aired December 13 , 1974 . 13---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Through a computer error , Grady receives an extra Social Security check by mistake and wastes no time celebrating his windfall , but the wind falls from his sails when the man learns Mr . Hastings Fred D . Scott from the Social Security office is on his way over to the house His transgression may prove to be his undoing when a government agent comes calling but it turns out that Lamont is Grady 's real nemesis . This was one of several Sanford and Son episodes taped while series star Redd Foxx was absent due to a contract dispute . 14---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Matter Of Life and Breath was the fifth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered February 11 , 1972 . Based on T . B . or Not T . B . by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 15---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Concerned about his ' cough , Lamont takes Fred to a mobile clinic to get free x rays . The results reveal that one of the Sanford men has TB , but the x rays are mixed up and neither Fred nor Lamont knows which of them is the unlucky party . Naturally , Fred goes through one of his elaborate I am , Elizabeth death 's door routine , but things take an unexpected turn when the x ray results , with Lamont thinking that the man has T . B . ; when the smoke clears , it is revealed that Lamont 's results were botched because the man was wearing a St . Christopher medal Fred once gave him , but it did not stop Fred from getting rid of everything that was supposedly contaminated of Lamont 's After returning from the hospital breathmobile , and finding out that Fred burned his bed , sheets and linen , in the hilarious ending , Lamont chases him around the living room with Fred escaping his wrath , running upstairs 16---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Matter of Silence was the 128th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 17th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on January 28 , 1977 . 17---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont fears Fred is going deaf , and Fred is content to play along and milk sympathy from Lamont and Donna . 18---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As a result of waxy buildup , Fred temporarily loses his hearing . After visiting the doctor , a cured Fred suddenly realizes that his ailment had earned him the undivided attention of his girlfriend Donna Lynn Hamilton . Thus , Fred plays up his deafness to the hilt at least until his son Lamont turns the tables on him . 19---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Helen Martin makes a guest appearance as a nurse . Fuddle Bagley makes a guest appearance as the ear doctor . 20---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Pad for Lamont was the seventh episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered February 25 , 1972 . Based on A Box in Town by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 21---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fed up with his father frustrating his love life when Fred shatters a tender romantic liason between him and his latest date , Darleen Judyann Elder , Lamont strikes out on his own and rents a ' bachelor pad . in downtown L . A . , Lamont sits back and waits for a crowd of young ladies to beat a path to his door . But , as things turn out , Lamont winds up disappointed , when the landlady , who has a strict policy of no guests of the opposite sex after 11 P . M . , also frustrates another hard fixed date with Darleen , as the man winds up returning to the junkyard , eating humble pie 22---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Lynn Hamilton , who would later in the season join the cast as Fred 's date and future fiancee , Donna Harris , makes her first appearance on the series as Lamont 's landlady in the episode . 23---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Pain in the Neck was the 108th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 22nd episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on March 5 , 1976 . 24---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's friends have got his back , as the man discovers when the man suffers from a backache on the day the man is to receive the Watts Businessman 's award and his friends rush to his aid with all kinds of quack cures . 25---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Nancy Kulp appears as a May Hopkins Smitty 's mom . Tim Herbert appears as Panjib an Indian healer , and Lance Taylor , Sr . makes an appearance as Watts Businessman 's Association President . 26---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Big Party was the 29th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of the ' second season , it premiered January 12 , 1973 . 27---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While on a tour with Lamont of NBC Studios in Burbank , fast thinking Fred , who stumbles upon Lena Horne 's guest dressing room while touring The Tonight Show set , the man fools Lena Horne into visiting the Sanford home after the man spins her a sob story about little lame Lamont who looks upon Lena as a second mother . Lena has no idea that Fred intends to charge admission to his pool room buddies , which include Leroy , Skillet and Luther John Amos when the woman shows up for her personal appearance . 28---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Big Party was the 29th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of the ' second season , it premiered January 12 , 1973 . 29---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While on a tour with Lamont of NBC Studios in Burbank , fast thinking Fred , who stumbles upon Lena Horne 's guest dressing room while touring The Tonight Show set , the man fools Lena Horne into visiting the Sanford home after the man spins her a sob story about little lame Lamont who looks upon Lena as a second mother . Lena has no idea that Fred intends to charge admission to his pool room buddies , which include Leroy , Skillet and Luther John Amos when the woman shows up for her personal appearance . 30---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aaron Ruben March 1 , 1914 January 30 , 2010 was an American television director known for The Andy Griffith Show 1960 Gomer Pyle , U . S . M . C . 1964 and Sanford and Son 1972 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 31---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ruben was born in Chicago , Illinois , the son of Polish Jewish immigrants . the man grew up on the West Side of Chicago and attended Lewis Institute , but did not graduate . the man was involved in theater in Chicago after leaving college . After service in the military the man worked for studios and wrote for radio programs including Dinah Shore 's program , George Burns and Gracie Allen 's show and Fred Allen 's show . the man also co wrote Milton Berle 's 1947 48 radio series with Nat Hiken . 32---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aaron started his TV producing and directing career in 1954 when the man directed the TV series Caesar 's Hour 1954 . the man then directed eleven episodes of The Phil Silvers Show between 1957 and 1959 along with ' CBS TV special , Keep in Step 1959 . the man later produced The Andy Griffith Show 1960 , working on that series for 5 seasons as producer , writer and story consultant . the man went on to create the Andy Griffith spin off Gomer Pyle , U . S . M . C . 1964 , which turned out to be his only TV creation . Other credits include , The Headmaster 1970 , Sanford and Son 1972 , C . P . O . Sharkey 1976 and Teachers Only 1982 . Aaron Ruben last did a voiceover in the videogame Buick Berle , 1954 1995 . 33---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2003 , Ruben won the Writers Guild of America , West 's Valentine Davies Award for public service , for his work on behalf of abused children . 34---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man was married to actress Maureen Arthur . the man died at 95 from pneumonia on January 30 , 2010 , at his home in Beverly Hills , California . the man was just over a month away from his 96th birthday . 35---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Adam Wade born Patrick Henry Wade , on March 17 , 1935 appeared in the fifth season Sanford and Son episode The Director Episode 21 as Mr . Creely , the frustrated acting workshop director who quits amid Fred 's constant interruptions and ogling of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and vistor to the workshop George Foreman , who also makes a guest appearance as himself in the episode . Adam wears several hats in the entertainment industry as a singer , m actor , drummer and television personality . the man is noted for his stint as the host of the 1975 CBS game show Musical Chairs , which made him the first African American game show host in TV history . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 36---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wade , a native of Pittsburgh , PA , worked for a time as a lab assistant with Dr . Jonas Salk on the polio research team . the man wanted to pursue a recording career and signed with Coed Records in 1959 . the man had his first major hit record with a song called Ruby in early 1960 , a cover version of the hit film song of 1953 . Wade was popular in the early 1960s with vocal styling similar to that of Johnny Mathis . In 1961 three of Wade 's songs Take Good Care of Her 7 , As If this person did not Know 10 and The Writing on the Wall 5 made the Top Ten in the Billboard Hot 100 chart . These songs also made the Top Five of Billboard 's Easy Listening later Adult Contemporary survey . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101061606/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/40/Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png/230px-Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png 37---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man released the following albums in the UK ; 1961 Adam and Evening HMV CLP 1451 , Adam Wade One Is A Lonely Number Mono Columbia 33SX1501 & Adam Wade One Is A Lonely Number Stereo Columbia SCX3474 both 1962 . the man also released an EP IN 1960 , And then came Adam , HMV 7EG 8620 . In addition , Take Good Care of Her reached 38 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1961 . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101061606/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/40/Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png/230px-Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png 38---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1975 , Wade become the first African American to host a television game show , with the premiere of Musical Chairs . the man starred in the production Guys and Dolls in 1978 , and hosted the talk show Mid Morning LA . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101061606/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/40/Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png/230px-Adam_Wade_Sanford_and_Son.png 39---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the late 1970s and early 1980s Wade began to concentrate on acting , and appeared in several of the so called blaxploitation movies , including Gordon 's War . the man briefly returned to recording , producing a self titled album on the Kirschner record label . This was a venture into a more soulful singing genre . It met with moderate success and is still a favorite with his loyal fans . His latest theatrical appearance was with the 2008 touring company of the play The Color Purple . Wade and his wife have a music production firm , ' whose headquarters are in New Jersey . the man can also be seen quite frequently on national television as a co pitchman in a television commercial for the Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company . 40---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wade was married 1956 1973 to Kay Wade , with whom the man had 3 children 41---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wade has been married since 1989 to Jeree Wade , an entertainer . those people often perform together . Wade revealed in an interview that the man actually met her on Musical Chairs . 42---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ah Chew was one of Lamont 's friends , who Fred often insults at almost every oppurtunity . character actor Pat Morita , best known for his roles as Mr . Miyagi in the Karate Kid films , and his part as Arnold on the hit 1970 's ABC TV series Happy Days , played the part of Ah Chew in seasons 4 and 5 , first appearing in the episode titled There will Be Some Changes Made Season 5 , episode 4 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 43---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita himself appeared in a total of seven episodes in all , six as Ah Chew , and one as the daffy Colonel Hiokawa in the episode Sergeant Gork Season 5 , episode 23 , also Morita 's last appearance on the show Where Fred started telling a false story about being a master intelligence officer in Germany in WWII . As for Ah Chew , Fred eventually warms up to him when the man and Lamont learns of culinary talents , and after eating dinner with him in the episode titled Sanford and Rising Son Season 5 , episode 10 Fred and Ah Chew go into business together , operating at first a take out that becomes a dine in Chinese restaurant from the Sanford home , until a city health inspector closes them down . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 44---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Al Williams appeared as Al himself , a tap dancer and one half of The Zanies , a traveling song and dance troupe and old friend of Fred who , along with Scatman Crothers as Bowlegs appeared onSanford and Son in the episode titled The Stand In in Season 5 of the Series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 45---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In The Stand in , Al injures his hip while tap dancing in the Sanford living room ; Fred , who felt indebted to Bowlegs , who the man mistakenly credited for introducing him to his late wife Elizabeth , insists that the man and Lamont , who knows how to tap dance , sub in for the injured Al for their next nightclub performance , who wound up being laid up in bed in the Sanford home for two weeks 46---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Alan Rafkin July 23 , 1928 August 6 , 2001 An Emmy Award winning television director , producer , and actor . Alan directed 17 episodes of Sanford and Son in Seasons 4 6 http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 47---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in New York City , Rafkin attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach , New Jersey . 48---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Alan Rafkin was one of the most prolific sitcom directors of all time , directing such series as The Andy Griffith Show , The Dick Van Dyke Show , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , M * A * S * H , It is Garry Shandling 's Show , Murphy Brown , Get Smart , and Coach . 49---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com According to his autobiography Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow its title is taken from a direction on Captain Kangaroo , Rafkin directed episodes of over 80 different sitcom series . the man won an Emmy Award for an episode of One Day At A Time and two CableACE Awards for his work on It is Garry Shandling 's Show . During his career the man worked with legendary producers such as Sheldon Leonard , Danny Thomas , and Norman Lear . Rafkin had endearing relationships with many of his actors including Andy Griffith , Dick Van Dyke , Jerry Van Dyke , Mary Tyler Moore , Bob Newhart and Redd Foxx . At the same time the man had volatile relationships with several others including Demond Wilson and Craig T . Nelson . 50---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Template Tv bio stub 51---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Albert Brock was the Sanfords attorney in the eplsode titled Steinberg and Son in Season 5 of Sanford and Son . The part of Albert is played by veteran stage TV actor Robert Guillaume , who is perhaps best known for his role as Benson Dubois on the late 1970 's early mid 1980 's Paul Junger Thomas Witt Tony Thomas produced sitcoms SOAP , and Benson . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 52---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Lamont and Fred , upset over seeing their lives reproduced when those people go tho NBC Studios with Bubba , Aunt Esther , and Gradyto see an new show called Steinberg and Son , those people then seek to use this as leverage for a lawsuit . Thus , with Albert , those people see the producer of the show and the head legal counsel of NBC over the matter When Albert asks the show 's developer , Bernie Taub , who is Rollo 's cousin , the man mentioned that the man got the idea from Rollo who told him about Lamont and Fred , whe the man described as Two nothings who really loved each other . alsosaying that the man break into Hollywood with any of his ideas , so the man acted on the tip from Rollo . 53---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Albert P . Hall born November 10 , 1937 appeared as Bernie Taub , a cousin of Bollo who writes a TV show which was picked up by NBC which closely resemble the Sanfords in the Season 5 Sanford and Son episode titled Steinberg and Son A veteran actor of stage , film and TV , Hall is perhaps best known for his role as Mininster Baines in the critically acclaimed Spike Lee directed , and Denzel Washington starred film Malcolm X . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 54---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Alabama , Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971 . That same year the man appeared Off Broadway in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical is not Supposed to Die a Natural Death . His most famous film role to date is probably that of Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola 's award winning Apocalypse Now . Contemporary audiences may recognise Hall as stern judge Seymore Walsh , a recurring guest role , on Ally McBeal and The Practice . Hall also has made guest appearances on Kojak , Miami Vice , Matlock , Star Trek The Next Generation , Strong Medicine , 24 , Sleeper Cell and Grey 's Anatomy . Most recently , the man had a recurring role on the TNT Network original series Men of a Certain Age . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 55---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Albert Reed Jr . born January 28 , 1910 died May 31 , 1986 was a veteran actor , voice over artist and , asides from his career in entertainment , a respected law enforcement officer . the man is best known for his recurring role as Alderman Fred Davis on the 1970s sitcom , Good Times . the man also had a recurring role on the children 's adventure series The Secret of Isis as Dr . Joshua Barnes and made guest appearances on The Jeffersons , where the man made a guest appearance as Louise 's Uncle Ward in the Season 1 episode Lionel Cries Uncle , and Sanford and Son . On Sanford & Son , the man appeared in the role of Cousin Grady , a cousin of Fred 's , a part the man played in the Season 2 episode titled The Dowry ; another role which involved a character named Grady , or Grady Wilson , a longtime friend of Fred , would later go to actor Whitman Mayo . the man portrayed Lieutenant Ned Ordway in the original Airport movie 1970 , a case of art imitating life , as Reed was also an airport law enforcement official . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 56---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Outside of his acting career , Reed also served with the Security Division at Los Angeles International Airport from 19591983 , ending his career as the Chief of Security , 19791983 . The Security Division later grew into what is now known as the Los Angeles Airport Police . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 57---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Alex Hacker Miss Wallace , a criminal whom the police was trying to stakeout in the Sanford residence in the Sanford and Son in the episode titled The Stakeout Season 6 , Episode 4 . Charles Weldon appeared in this episode in the dual role Hacker and as his alias , Miss Wallace , whom Hacker was appearing in drag as , Fred gets completely smitten with her him , not knowing that Miss Wallace is really Hacker in hiding http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 58---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Alma Beltran born August 22 , 1919 died June 9 , 2007 was a Mexican American veteran film , stage and television actress . the woman appeared in 82 films between 1945 and 2002 . the woman is well recognized to American TV viewers as Mrs . Fuentes , the mother of Julio Fuentes , on the NBC TV series Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 59---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Pan Americana 1945 . From 1945 until her 2002 , in addition to her film roles , Beltran played over 80 roles in film and television , often in smaller roles , always as Mexican women , and then later in her career , as family matriarch types or senoritas . These included guest roles in such popular TV series as The F . B . this person . Bonanza , Lou Grant , Knight Rider , The A Team and The Jeffersons . On the big screen , in film , the woman appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail , Marathon Man , Oh , God Book II , and most recently in Ghost 1990 which co starred Demi Moore , Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg , and the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow . As a member of the group of Mexican artists in Los Angeles , the woman participated in music festivals such as the Fiesta de la Raza . 60---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beltran died in Northridge , California in 2007 . 61---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Arnold Johnson November 15 , 1921 in Brooklyn , New York died April 10 , 2000 appeared as George Hutch Hutton . an ex con who moves into the Sanford Arms hotel in season 4 of Sanford and Son . A veteran character actor who played the lead role in the film Putney Swope , Arnold 's voice in the film his voice was dubbed by Robert Downey Sr . because Johnson could never remember his lines . the man also had a recurring role as Fletcher , Mother Winslow 's second husband , on the sitcom Family Matters . the man played a role in the 1987 film My Demon Lover . the man also had a minor speaking part in Rocky 1976 and the 1993 film Menace II Society . Arnold died in Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 62---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aunt Esther Has a Baby was the 122nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 11th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on December 3 , 1976 . 63---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Esther and Woody plan to be parents for the first time , but for it to happen Esther is going to need Fred 's help . 64---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After years of waiting , Aunt Esther LaWanda Page is told that the adoption agency has finally found her a child . Nervously anticipating an interview with the adoption agency , Esther 's husband Woody Raymond Allen downs a calmative and as a result , is hopelessly inebriated . Gallant Fred agrees to impersonate Woody when the officials show up . 65---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Robin Braxton appears as Mrs . Sherman . 66---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aunt Esther Meets Her Son was the 124th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 13th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on December 10 , 1976 . 67---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Esther and Woody welcome their son Daniel , but quickly discover those people must practice the forgiveness that Esther preaches . 68---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Eric Laneuville makes his first appearance as Daniel , newly adopted son of Aunt Esther LaWanda Page . Upon learning that Daniel is an atheist , the pious Esther throws him out of the house . It is up to Fred and Lamont to convince Esther that Daniel 's lack of faith is due to a lifetime of hard knocks . Note Eric Laneuville makes his debut in the role of Daniel Anderson . Sid McCoy and Renny Roker both appear as customers . Helen Martin and Cathy Cooper appear as Aunt Esther 's church sisters , and Shirley Washington appears as a salesgirl at Anderson Hardware Store . 69---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Riley B . King born September 16 , 1925 , known by the stage name B . B . King , is an American blues musician , singer , songwriter , and guitarist . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 70---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rolling Stonemagazine ranked him at No . 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time previously ranked No . 3 in the 2003 edition of the same list , and the man was ranked No . 17 inGibson 's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 71---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com According to Edward M . Komara , King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmeringvibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed . B . B . was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein 1987 . the man is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time , earning the nickname The King of Blues , and one of the Three Kings of the Blues Guitar along withAlbert king and Freddie King . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 72---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com B . B . King is also known for performing tirelessly throughout his musical career appearing at 250 300 concerts per year until his seventies . In 1956 it was noted that the man appeared at 342 shows , and still at the age of 87 King appears at 100 shows a year . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 73---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Over the years , B . B . has developed one of the world 's most identifiable guitar styles . the man borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson , T Bone Walker and others , integrating his precise and complex vocal like string bends and his left hand vibrato , both of which have become indispensable components of rock ' vocabulary . His economy and phrasing has been a model for thousands of players , fromEric Clapton andGeorge Harrison , Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck . King has mixedBlues , Jazz , Swing , mainstream pop and jump bluesinto a unique sound . In King 's words , When this person sing , this person play in my mind ; the minute this person stop singing orally , this person start to sing by playing Lucille . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 74---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bank on This was the 90th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of Season Five , it first aired September 26 , 1975 . 75---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio 's former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank . 76---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hoping to open their own rooming house , Fred and Lamont both co apply for a loan at the local bank . While our heroes are negotiating , the bank is held up by a pair of dimwitted novice robbers . As the day progresses , all of the bank 's customers are allowed to leave except for Fred , who stays behind as a hostage and proves more than a match for the inept crooks . 77---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tom Scott guest stars as Mr . Phillips , the bank manager , Bill Henderson appears as Harvey the bank security guard , and Roscoe Orman well known to child TV viewers as Gordon from the long running PBS children 's seriesSesame Street and Charles Thomas Murphy appear as bank robbers Al and Melvin . Roy Stuart makes a second of three guest appearances as news reporter Lyle Martinson . 78---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Barbara Rhoades born March 23 , 1947 appears as lovely red headed moll Gladys in the episodes Hawaiian Connection Parts 1 & 2 in Season 5 of Sanford and Son . Barbara is known primarily for her comedy and mystery roles , especially as lady bandit Penelope Bad Penny Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West opposite Don Knotts 1968 . the woman had a memorable role as Jodie Dallas 's future wife , Maggie Chandler , in the TV series Soap . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 79---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born and raised in Poughkeepsie , New York , Barbara began acting in the late 1960s . 80---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the woman has had guest roles on various television series including It Takes a Thief , Ironside , Mannix , Columbo , Kojak , Alias Smith and Jones , Love , American Style , The Odd Couple , The Six Million Dollar Man , Maude , Trapper John , M . D . , and Murder , the woman Wrote . In 1989 , the woman was cast as Jessica Gardner on the NBC soap opera Generationss . On television into the 2000s , the woman appeared on a 2003 episode of Law & Order . the woman also had a recurring role as the private detective Maggie Chandler on Soap . 81---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A tall 5 foot 10 , voluptuous redhead , Rhoades appeared in a number of 1970s films . those people include There Was a Crooked Man , 1970 , opposite Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda , and Up the Sandbox 1972 starring Barbra Streisand . the woman played a police officer , No Balls Hadley , in 1977 's The Choirboys and a Vegas hooker who picks up Art Carney along the road during his Oscar winning performance in Harry and Tonto 1974 . the woman also had a role in Neil Simon 's The Goodbye Girl 1977 and 1973 's Scream Blacula , Scream . In 2007 , the woman appeared in the movie First Born with Elisabeth Shue . 82---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rhoades joined the American soap opera One Life to Live in 2011 , playing the recurring role of Irene Manning , childhood best friend of Victoria Lord Erika Slezak . 83---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beah Richards July 12 , 1920 September 14 , 2000 appeared as Ethel Winfield , Fred Sanford 's sister in law , Lamont 's aunt , and Esther Anderson 's sister on the series . Beah was a revered veteran actress of stage , screen and television . the woman was a poet , playwright and author . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 84---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg , Mississippi , her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister . In 1948 , the woman graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans , and two years later moved to New York City . Her career started to take off in 1955 when the woman portrayed an eighty four year old grandmother in the off Broadway show Take a Giant Step . the woman often played the role of a mother or grandmother , and continued acting her entire life . the woman appeared in the original Broadway productions of Purlie Victorious , The Miracle Worker , and A Raisin in the Sun . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 85---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beah talks about some of the roles the woman would do , or would be reluctant to do There are a lot of movies out there that this person would hate to be paid to do , some real demeaning , real woman denigrating stuff . It is up to women to change their roles . those people are going to have to write the stuff and do it . And those people will . Beah Richards Beah was nominated for a Tony award for her 1965 performance in James Baldwin 's The Amen Corner . the woman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Sidney Poitier 's mother in the 1967 film Guess Who is Coming to Dinner . Other notable movie performances include Hurry Sundown , The Great White Hope , Beloved and In the Heat of the Night . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 86---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the woman made numerous guest television appearances including recurrent roles on The Bill Cosby Show , Sanford and Son , Designing Women , The Practice , Big Valley and ER as Dr . Peter Benton 's mother . the woman was the winner of two Emmy Awards , one in 1988 for her appearance on the series Frank 's Place , and another in 2000 for her appearance on The Practice . In the last year of her life , Richards was the subject of a documentary created by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton . The documentary Beah A Black Woman Speaks was created from over 70 hours of their conversations . The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 87---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beah died from emphysema in her hometown of Vicksburg , Mississippi at the age of 80 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 88---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bernie Hamilton June 12 , 1928 December 30 , 2008 made an appearance as Officer Jonesy Jones in one episode , titled This Little TV Went to Market , Season 3 , episode 5 . Officer Jones appears with Hoppy as a temporary partner in place of Smitty . who was played by , later of ABC TV 's crime drama series Starsky & Hutch , was an American actor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 89---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hamilton was born in East Los Angeles and attended Oakland Technical High School , where the man first became interested in acting . In films from 1950 , the man laboured in bit roles for years before getting noticed in the film One Potato , Two Potato 1964 , the story of an inter racial marriage . the man is best remembered for his role as the brusque , no nonsense Captain Dobey in the United States 1970 's police series Starsky and Hutch . Hamilton was the brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton . Hamilton was also an impresario ; since the late 1960s the man had run a nightclub art gallery called Citadel dHaiti on Sunset Boulevard . Hamilton also produced Rhythm and blues and gospel music recordings on his own record label called Chocolate Snowman . One of his releases featured himself ; it was entitled Captain Dobey Sings the Blues . 90---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hamilton died of cardiac arrest on December 30 , 2008 , aged 80 . 91---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bernie Orenstein born February 5 , 1931 served as a co executive producer ofSanford and SonwithSaul Turteltaub , with whom healso co wrote 22 episodes for the series . Saul has served as a producer or has written episodes or served as a story consutant for many popular TV projects , particularly such popular TV series such as Sanford and Son , The Dick Van Dyke Show , E R , The Monkees , Kate & Allie , The Cosby Show , That Girl , and the short lived TV seriseFoley Square . Bernie is married to actress Barbara Rhoades , who appeared in the Season 6 e episode story titled The Hewaiian Connection . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 92---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bernie Taub was a cousin of Bollo who writes a TV show which was picked up by NBC which closely resemble the Sanfords in the Season 5 Sanford and Son episode titled Steinberg and Son . The role of Bernie is played by veteran stage TV and film actor Albert Hall , who is perhaps best known for his role as Mininster Baines in the critically acclaimed Spike Lee directed , and Denzel Washington starred film Malcolm X . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 93---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bernie , an aspiring TV show producer , was also a writer who said that the man break into Hollywood with any of his ideas , so the man acted on a tip from Rollo , who is his cousin . Rollo had told him about Fred and Lamont , which , when questioned by the Sanfords when those people went to see the producer of the show and the head legal counsel of NBC with their lawyer Albert Brock Robert Guillaume , the man referred to Rollo who described the Sanfords as Two nothings who really loved each other . Fred , who was sympathetic to Bernie , then asked him , Why did not the person make the characters Black , and name the show Sanford and Son Bernie responds bewilderedly , Sanford and Son It would never make it 94---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beverly Sanders born September 2 , 1940 appeared as Nora Simpson in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Matchmaker , Matchmaker in Season 4 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 95---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beverly studied acting in New York with Lee Strasberg 's Actor Studio . Married to a studio bass musician , Beverly 's adopted daughter is named Laura . 96---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beverly , who often plays the stereotypical blonde and nice moms and girlfriends to the stars , especially on TV , occasionally supported both Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper in their respective sitcoms and in several TV movies with Moore . the woman also starred in her own one woman show on stage entitled Yes Sir , That is My Baby in the late 90s . the woman began writing the play after taking a UCLA writing class . The show details her failure to conceive a baby at 40 years of age , and then the later frustrations of the adoption process . 97---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanders , who has appeared in over 300 commercials , is best recognized as the ever pleasant Louise in the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda spokesperson for nearly a decade . 98---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bhetty Waldron March 23 , 1941 December 1 , 2004 appeared as Fast Fanny in the Sanford and Son episode titled Wine , Women , and Esther Season 3 , episode 13 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121029061649/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/89/Bhetty_Waldron.jpg/275px-Bhetty_Waldron.jpg http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 99---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bhetty was founder of the Quest Theater and Institute in West Palm Beach , a school for African American children to learn drama . Waldron died on December 1 , 2004 , at the age of 65 from a battle with lung cancer . 100---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Billy Ray Bill Foster April 7 , 1932 February 2 , 2011 directed Sanford and Son 12 episodes from Seasons 4 6 . Bill was a veteran television director known for his work with sitcoms . His credits , which spanned more than fifty years and encompassed hundreds of hours , included episodes of Full House , Amen , Marblehead Manor and the person Again . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 101---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foster directed the 1967 pilot episode of Rowan & Martin 's Laugh In , which earned him the only Emmy nomination of his career . Foster went on to direct the television broadcasts of th 23rd and 24th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1971 and 1972 respectively . the man also directed the AFI Life Achievement Award A Tribute to James Cagney in 1974 , for which the man won a Directors Guild of America Award in 1975 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 102---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1986 , Foster directed the now infamous live syndicated special , The Mystery of Al Capone 's Vaults , which was hosted by Geraldo Rivera . The special , which advertised the potential to find the secrets of Al Capone buried in a vault beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago , turned up very little . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 103---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foster spent much of his career directing television sitcoms , especially during the 1970s and 1980s . the man directed 43 episodes of the sitcom , Benson , between 1982 and 1986 . Foster also directed 36 separate episodes of NBC 's Amen , which starred Sherman Hemsley and Clifton Davis , between 1986 and 1989 . Foster largely retired after directing 23 episodes of the ABC television series , Full House , from 1989 to 1990 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 104---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foster died of cancer on February 2 , 2011 , in Los Angeles , at the age of 78 . the man was survived by his wife , Lynn , and children , Julia and Susan . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 105---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com William Bill Manhoff born June 25 , 1919 died June 19 , 1974 was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer and playwright . His television series script writing credits included Sanford and Son , The Partridge Family , All in the Family , Room 222 , The Odd Couple , Petticoat Junction , Leave It To Beaver , and The Real McCoys . the man also wrote the script for The 1964 stage play The Owl and the Pussycat , which Buck Henry used as inspiration for the screenplay for the 1970 film version . Manhoff died just six days before his 55th birthday in Los Angeles , California . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 106---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Billy Eckstine born July 1 , 1914 died March 8 , 1993 made a guest appearance on Sanfrord and Son as a nightclub singer hopeful in the Season 4 episode titled The Stand In . A legendary singer of jazz ballads and a bandleader of the swing era , Eckstine 's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s , first as leader of the original bop big band , then as the first romantic black male in popular music . Eckstine 's recording of this person Apologize MGM , 1948 was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 107---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Billy 's paternal grandparents were William F . Eckstein and Nannie Eckstein , a mixed race , lawfully married couple who lived in Washington , D . C . ; both were born in 1863 . William F . was born in Prussia and Nannie in Virginia . His parents were William Eckstein , a chauffeur , and Charlotte Eckstein . Eckstine was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; a State Historical Marker is placed at 5913 Bryant St , Highland Park , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , to mark the house where the man grew up . Later moving to Washington , D . C . , Eckstine began singing at the age of seven and entered many amateur talent shows . the man attended Armstrong High School , St . Paul Normal and Industrial School , and Howard University . the man left Howard in 1933 , after winning first place in an amateur talent contest . 108---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1944 , Billy formed his own big band and made it a fountainhead for young musicians who would reshape jazz by the end of the decade , including some future modern jazz pioneers auch as Dizzy Gillespie , Dexter Gordon , Miles Davis , Art Blakey , Charlie Parker , and Fats Navarro . Tadd Dameron and Gil Fuller were among the band 's arrangers , and Sarah Vaughan gave the vocals a contemporary air . The Billy Eckstine Orchestra was the first bop big band , and its leader reflected bop innovations by stretching his vocal harmonics into his normal ballads . Despite the group 's modernist slant , Eckstine hit the charts often during the mid 1940s , with Top Ten entries including A Cottage for Sale and Prisoner of Love . On the group 's frequent European and American tours , Eckstine , popularly known as Mr . B , also played trumpet , valve trombone and guitar . 109---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After a few years of touring with road hardened be boppers , Eckstine became a solo performer in 1947 , and seamlessly made the transition to string filled balladry . the man recorded more than a dozen hits during the late 1940s , including My Foolish Heart and this person Apologize . the man was one of the first artists to sign with the newly established MGM Records , and had immediate hits with revivals of Everything this person Have Is Yours 1947 , Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts Blue Moon 1948 , and Juan Tizols Caravan 1949 . Success continued in 1950 with Victor Youngs theme song to My Foolish Heart and a revival of the 1931 Bing Crosby hit , this person Apologize . However , unlike Nat King Cole who followed him into the pop charts . 110---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While enjoying success in the middle of the road and pop fields , Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots , recording with Vaughan , Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs , and the man regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category the man won Esquire magazine 's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as Top Male Vocalist from 1949 to 1954 . 111---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His 1950 appearance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City drew a larger audience than Frank Sinatra at his Paramount performance . Among Eckstine 's recordings of the 1950s was a 1957 duet with Sarah Vaughan , Passing Strangers , a minor hit in 1957 , but an initial No . 22 success in the UK Singles Chart . Even before folding his band , Eckstine had recorded solo to support it , scoring two million sellers in 1945 with Cottage for Sale and a revival of Prisoner of Love . Far more successful than his band recordings , these prefigured Eckstines future career . 112---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The 1960 Las Vegas live album , No Cover , No Minimum , featured Eckstine taking a few trumpet solos as well . the man recorded several albums for Mercury and Roulette during the early 1960s , and the man appeared on Motown for a few standards albums during the mid to late 1960s . After recording sparingly during the 1970s for Al Bell 's Stax Enterprise imprint , Eckstine although still performing to adoring audiences throughout the world made his last recording , the Grammy nominated Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter in 1986 . 113---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Billy made numerous appearances on TV variety shows , including on The Ed Sullivan Show , The Nat King Cole Show , The Tonight Show with Steve Allen , Jack Paar , and Johnny Carson , The Merv Griffin Show , The Art Linkletter Show , The Joey Bishop Show , The Dean Martin Show , The Flip Wilson Show , and Playboy After Dark hosted by Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner . the man also in addition to his Sanford and Son appearance , also acted in such films as Skirts Ahoy , Let is Do It Again , and Jo Jo Dancer . 114---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Billy married his first wife , June , in 1942 ; the woman too was a vocalist . After their divorce the man married actress and model Carolle Drake in 1953 , and those people remained married until his death . the man was the father of five children and two step children , including Ed Eckstine , who was a president of Mercury Records , Guy Eckstine , who was a Columbia and Verve Records A & R executive and record producer , and singer Gina Eckstine . 115---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1984 Billy recorded his final album , this person Am a Singer , arranged and conducted by Angelo DiPippo and featuring Toots Thielemans on harmonica . the man died on March 8 , 1993 , aged 78 . 116---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His friend Duke Ellington recalled Eckstine 's artistry in his 1973 autobiography Music is My Mistress Ellington is quoted as saying Billy Eckstine style love songs opened new lines of communication for the man in the man woman merry go round , and blues a la B were the essence of cool . When the man made a recording of Caravan , this person was happy and honored to watch one of our tunes help take him into the stratosphere of universal acclaim . And , of course , the man has not looked back since . A remarkable artist , the sonorous B . , His style and technique have seen extensively copied by some of the neocommercial singers , but despite their efforts the man remains out front to show how and what should have been done . 117---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Quincy Jones as stated in Billboard this person looked up to Mr . B as an idol . this person wanted to dress like him , talk like him , pattern my whole life as a musician and as a complete person in the image of dignity that the man projected , As a black man , Eckstine was not immune to the prejudice that characterized the 1950s . Jones is quoted in The Pleasures of Jazz as also saying of Eckstine If hed been white , the sky would have been the limit . As it was , the man didnt have his own radio or TV show , much less a movie career . the man had to fight the system , so things never quite fell into place . 118---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lionel Hampton the man was one of the greatest singers of all time , these people were proud of him because the man was the first Black popular singer singing popular songs in our race . these people , the whole music profession , were so happy to see him achieve what the man was doing . the man was one of the greatest singers of that era , the man was our singer . 119---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Blood Is Thicker Than Junk was the 24th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 10th episode of the ' second season , it premiered November 17 , 1972 . 120---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After a nasty spat Sanford and Son split up . Fred hires a new man , named Norman Blood Roger E . Mosley , later of Magnum P . this person . TV series fame to replace Lamont , who signs on to work with a competing junk dealer , Mr . Baxtrum . However , when things does not go smoothly with Fred , who is left all day and evening wondering where the somewhat dim witted , but brawny Norman returns after being gone all day . the man later returns with a stuffed bear , which the man called a Watch Bear The same can be said for Lamont , who , after being severely overworked the man supposedly had two guys who worked under him at the Baxtrum yard , calls him to let him know that went home to take a dinner break ; apparently Baxtrum had some choice unpleasant words for Lamont , who then answers Well , you are a white one before hanging up on him Meanwhile , when Norman finally returns with the bear the man bought , Fred threatens him , charging him Man , if the person do not get me back that money the person spent for that bear , I am going to take this crowbar which the man had in hand and peel your head After overhearing this , Lamont , who poses as if the man is still on the phone with Baxtrum discussing business , hangs up the phone , and offers to quit the job in the Baxtrum junkyard , and return to the fold as part of Sanford and Son . 121---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont manage to make up , and Lamont returns to working as Sanford and SOn Salvage , but angry Norman still loudly asks to get paid , saying Man , where is my bread Fred then goes into the kitchen and hands Norman , who is waiting out in the yard , several loaves of bread through the door and says , Here is your bread Norman then waves him off and leaves 122---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bowlegs was a nightclub performer and old friend of Fred who appeared on the Sanford and Son episode titled The Stand In in Season 5 of the series . The part of Bowlegs was played by veteran Vegas entertainer , nightclub showman , actor , and singer Scatman Crothers , who , at the same time , co starred with Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze in the NBC TV series Chico And The Man , which was aired immediately after Sanford and Son in the NBC TV Tuesday night time slot that season . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 123---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Bowlegs 's partner in The Zanies song dance nightclub act , Al Al Williams injures his hip tap dancing in the Sanford living room , the man asks Fred to help him out ; feeling that the man owes Bowlegs for introducing him to his late wife Elizabeth , the man forces Lamont into volunteering to be the dancing Zanie , while the man sang with Bowlegs . When it turns out that Fred was mistaken about his meeting Elizabeth , when Bowlegs reminds him that the man introduced him to Esther instead , who introduced him to Elizabeth , Fred puts out both of his closed fists as to play a guessing game with a present for Bowlegs , Which one is it in when it is not in either hand , Fred threatens him , It is in both , the person $ @ % 124---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Britt Leach born July 18 , 1938 ; in Gadsden , Alabama made a guest appearance on Sanford and Son as Mr . Harold Johnson on the Season 5 episode titled Earthquake II . Britt is veteran character actor who is best known for his role in the films ' South , Fuzz , The Last Starfighter , Weird Science , The Great Outdoors , Baby Boom , and Silent Night , Deadly Night . Leach has also made guest appearances in television shows such as the ABC TV series The Brady Bunch , Bonanza , Tales from the Crypt and many others . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 125---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com During the fall of 1976 , the man was cast in the role of Mickey Wig Wiggins , an airplane mechanic , in the six episode CBS TV adventure series , Spencer 's Pilots , starring Gene Evans , Christopher Stone , and Todd Susman . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 126---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2007 , Leach did not renew his membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and wrote of his frustration with DVD screeners in a satirical piece on his website . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 127---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Brother , Can the person Spare an Act was the 93rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the sixth episode of Season Five , it first aired October 17 , 1975 . 128---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred 's white brother in law Rodney lands a job emceeing a local vaudeville revival , Fred , Lamont and Smiley Rogers help out by providing the song and dance . 129---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Forced to play host to his unemployed white brother in law Rodney Victor Allan Drake , Fred Sanford Redd Foxx is fed up with Rodney 's obnoxious practical jokes . Finally deciding that if the person cannot beat , join , Fred suggests that the man and Rodney work up a nightclub routine . The ultimate strategy is to get Rodney to work and out of the house , but things do not quite turn out that way . Note Former Gong Show TV game show host Chuck Barris guest appears as himself , Jack Somack as Gabey , Grady 's counterpart , Timmie Rogers appears as Smiley Rogers and Mary Alice returns as Alice , Fred 's Sister . Willie Dap Sugar also appears as a Theatre Manager . 130---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bubba Bexley , along with Grady Wilson was one of Fred Sanford 's two best friends on the Sanford and Son series , appearing frequently on the show throughout its run on NBC . Bubba , who was sometimes portrayed as somewhat dim witted , but loyal as Fred 's friend , is known for his infectious belly laugh and jovial persona . Bubba was primarily used as a straight man to set up punchlines for Fred , who often used him as the butt of his barbs . His loud greeting of Hey Fred often drove Fred and Lamont crazy . His function in several episodes is to encourage Fred into get rich quick schemes , as when the man encourages Fred to fake having whiplash after the man is hit by a white man in a Cadillac while driving the truck in the second season episode Whiplash Season 2 , episode 2 , 1972 , and Fred 's scheme to get out of having to pay taxes by opening a church of Junkists as in the episode Rev . Sanford Season 6 , episode 18 , 1977 . Bubba was played by Don Bexley for 43 episodes of the series , and for eight episodes of the failed spin off series The Sanford Arms in the fall of 1977 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 131---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bud Yorkin born February 22 , 1926 served as co executive producer of All In The Family , and its spinoffs Maude and The Jeffersons and numerous other popular TV shows in the 1970 's . Bud has worn multiple hats in Hollywood over the years as a noted film and television producer , director , writer and actor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 132---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Yorkin was born Alan David Yorkin in Washington , Pennsylvania . the man earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech , now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsbugh , PA . 133---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1954 , Yorkin became the producer of NBC 's The Tony Martin Show , a 15 minute variety program which preceded the nightly news on Monday evenings . In 1956 , the man became the producer and director of Tennessee Ernie Ford 's NBC half hour comedy variety program , The Ford Show . 134---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1958 , Yorkin joined writer producer Norman Lear to form Tandem Productions , which produced several motion pictures and television specials in the 1960s to 1971 with such major studios like United Artists and Warner Bros . 135---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Yorkin directed and produced the 1958 TV special An Evening With Fred Astaire , which won nine Emmy Awards . the man later produced many of the hit sitcoms of the , such as All in the Family , Maude , Good Times , and Sanford and Son . 136---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After his split with Lear , Yorkin went on to form Bud Yorkin Productions . His first sitcom after the split was the unsuccessful Sanford and Son spin off sitcom series Grady . In 1976 , the man formed TOY Productions with Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein who produced Sanford and Son from 19741977 , but their two hits were What is Happening and Carter Country . TOY Productions was acquired by Columbia Pictures Television in 1979 . 137---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1999 , the man and Lear were awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television . 138---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Yorkin 's film directing credits include The Thief Who Came to Dinner , Divorce American Style and Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther series . 139---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Against the wishes of its director , Ridley Scott , and its star , Harrison Ford , Yorkin insisted that the ending of the film Blade Runner , which the man co produced , be altered and that Ford return after the completion of filming to record a voice over track in post production . The happy ending which resulted incorporated footage from the Stanley Kubrick film The Shining . Scott later released the film on video without the voice over or altered ending . 140---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Yorkin is the father of television writer and producer Nicole Yorkin . the man is married to actress Cynthia Sikes . 141---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com was one of the dishes that Fred prepares when B . B . King and his manager Ji Tu Cumbaka visits the Sanford residence in the Season 6 episode of Sanford and Son titled Fred Sings The Blues . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519134433/sanfordandson/images/thumb/b/b2/Buttermilk_cornbread.jpg/270px-Buttermilk_cornbread.jpg 142---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com By the Numbers was the fifteenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the first episode of the ' second season , it premiered September 15 , 1972 . The episode was written by Terry Ryan along with Steptoe and Son series creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 143---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com n this debut episode of Sanford and Son 's second season , Fred yearns for the good old days when the man could gamble on the numbers game without interference . But alas , Lamont is strictly against his dad frittering his money away . When Fred threatens to bet all the man owns on a lottery , Lamont does everything the man can to prevent this economic catastrophe . But it takes a horrible nightmare to cure Fred of gambling fever forever , when freeloading family and friends , which include Bubba Bexley and Aunt Ethel , and a robber David Moses all flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers . 144---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cal Pettie was a friend of Lamont 's who worked with him on the Alaska Pipeline who was dispatched by Lamont , who was still working in Alaska , to visit and look after Fred on the NBC spinoff series Sanford . At the time of their meeting , Cal was a truck driver who was looking for better work who then buys into the Sanford and Son business after lodging at the Sanford Arms for a few days . Cal , an obese , burly man , who hails originally from Texas , is portrayed as having a generally optimistic outlook on life , a really upbeat attitude and jovial demeanor , with a witty sense of humor , not to mention a hearty appetite , which Fred always chides Cal about . Cal was played by character actor Dennis Burkley , also a native Texan , like Cal . By the second season , the two become good friends on the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 145---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com California Crude was the 115th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fourth episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on October 8 , 1976 . 146---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While Fred and Lamont are digging a garden , oil is discovered underground at the junk yard . Fred sees millions but before any money can be paid it must first be tested . 147---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While cultivating their backyard garden , Fred and Lamont apparently strike oil . Their unexpected windfall attracts the attention of an Arabian oil expert named Aram Ross Martin . Naturally anticipating a huge financial bonanza , Fred begins spending money even before the man gets it and then does not get it . 148---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Ross Martin makes an appearance as Sheik Aram . Patrick Campbell appears as Professor Miller . 149---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Calvin the tax man appears in the season 4 episodes of Sanford and Son titled My Kingdom For a Horse and Going Out of Business . The part of Calvin is played by TV actor and writer Philip Bruns , who is perhaps best remembered for portraying George Shumway , the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman with fellow cast member Graham Jarvis , who also appeared on Sanford and Son as Dr . Simmons in the Season 5 episode titled The TV Addict . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 150---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Always trying to find a loophole or a way to cheat for Fred , Calvin , although a good tax man , usually charges $ 20 for his services , also charges an extra S10 for cheating , as evidenced in the episode Going Out of Business ; in that episode Calvin also suggested that Lamont who , along with Fred , were both cash strapped , to quit the junk business and get a job to help with the expenses , due to the fact that those people owed taxes in spite of their low income . In a funny scene , Fred , who had prepared a very spicy potato chip dip which the man called The Mayo Clinic , which caontained garlic , pig snoots , pig spleen , onions , and mayonnaise , tells Calvin to Have a dip , and take a trip , giving Calvin a very nauseated look on the way 151---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In My Kingdom for a Horse Calvin , who , like Fred , is not beyond trying to make a fast buck , sells Fred on the idea of purchasing a former racehorse , a retired thoroughbred named General Lee for breeding purposes , not telling him that the horse is gelded After selling the horse , which the man calls a thoroughpet to him , Calvin exclaims while Fred is in the house getting the money to buy General Lee , the person Can fool some people some of the time , but the person can fool Fred Sanford , Always 152---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Calvin Kelly wrote the episode titled Tower Power in Season 4 of Sanford and Son . Calvin has also written episodes for such popular TV shows as The Rockford Files , Happy Days , The Jeffersons , All In The Family , The Dukes of Hazzard , Three 's Company , Barney Miller and Different Strokes . the man also wrote all 65 episodes of the animated TV series Dennis The Menace in 1986 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 153---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Camping Trip was the 111th overall episode and the Season 5 finale of Sanford and Son . Also the 23rd episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on March 19 , 1976 . 154---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com FLamont brings Fred along on a camping trip to have some solitude and quality time together . Fred is no friend of nature and does nothing but complain , when the truck will not start those people are stranded and begin to reminisce about old times . 155---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hoping to bond with son Lamont Demond Wilson before his marriage , Fred Redd Foxx talks Lamont into embarking upon a camping trip . Things go from bad to worse as the truck breaks down in the tall timbers , and Fred and Lamont are stranded , without food , in a snowstorm . Although not readily apparent , this is a clip show , comprised of flashbacks to earlier episodes . Camping Trip was the final installment of Sanford and Son 's fifth season . 156---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Carol Arthur appears as Girl Scout master Mrs . Barnes . 157---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Can the person Chop This was the 101st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 14th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on January 9 , 1976 . 158---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred plans to get rich quick by selling Whopper Chopper food processors , using Lamont 's acting school tuition money to make his initial investment . 159---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Shades of The Handy Housewife Helper on The Honeymooners Lamont goes ballistic when the man finds that the money the man has been saving up for acting lessons has been squandered by his dad , Fred , who has purchased the Watts franchise for a kitchen appliance called the Whopper Chopper . Stuck with dozens of the useless utensils and with no prospect of selling any of them , Fred decides to exact revenge on the TV host who persuaded him to buy the Choppers in the first place . 160---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Danny Wells makes a 2ndappearance as Whopper Chopper salesman owner Danny Taylor in the role . Paul Harris appears as Whopper Chopper salesman Danny Taylor , and Cesare Danova makes an appearance as The Cavorting Connissuer . 161---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com McCarthy born 1934 is a director who was active between 1977 1985 . Amongst the projects which the man directed , his credits include Sanford and Son , of which the man directed the episode School Daze in Season 6 , the show 's final episode , The Red Skelton Hour , The Richard Pryor Special in 1977 , The Wheel of Fortune , and Punky Brewster . Carl also appeared in a cameo role as a Stage Manager in the Season 6 episode Sanford and Gong which also featured host of the NBC game show The Gong Show . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 162---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carlotta Fuentes is older sister of next door neighbor Julio who appears in the Season 4 episode of Sanford and Son titled Julio and Sister and Nephew . The role of Carlotta is played by veteran actress Miriam Coln . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 163---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carlotta , upon meeting Fred when Julio drops by with her and her son Roberto , immediately starts cleaning house ; when Lamont tries to tell her through Julio that Fred does all the housework , Fred stops him and tells her , That is stop , honey , pick that paper up right there When the school principal of the school Roberto , who just moved to L . A . from Puerto Rico tells Carlotta , who only understands some English , that Roberto , who is in the fourth grade may have to be held back a grade because of the language barrier although the man is bilingual , the woman is able , albeit by begging , to enlist Fred to talk to the principal and get him to tutor her son . 164---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carol was the 121st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 10th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on November 26 , 1976 . 165---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's old friend Carol shows up after 40 years , stirring up memories and sparking a flashback to the Summer of 1936 when Fred was a pool hustler in Cleveland . 166---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Is Fred telling the truth when the man fails to recognize Carol Spo De Odee , a woman who claims the woman knew him 40 years ago For once , the redoubtable Mr . Sanford is telling the truth the man is drawing a complete blank when it comes to Carol , who turns out to be a guy which the man knew from his days in Cleveland , who held up a bank with a bank note put your money in this brown piper bug , or I will short your herd off Apparently the man spell while Fred was making his annual Christmas deposit of $ 25 . When recognition finally dawns , however , Fred is forced to confront his long ago involvement in a criminal activity . 167---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Patrick Cranshaw makes a guest appearance as the bank guard . Cinque Attucks appears as Jake . 168---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carole Cookie Cole October 17 , 1944 May 19 , 2009 played the part of Ellie Wilson Marshall , Grady Wilson 's daughter on the short livedSanford and SonNBC TV spinoff series Grady . Carol also served as the CEO of King Cole Productions . the woman was sometimes credited as Carol Cole . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 169---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carol was born in Medford , Massachusetts , a Boston suburb , and was the adopted daughter of legendary singer entertainer Nat King Cole , and the adopted sister of Natalie Cole . Her biological mother , Carol Hawkins , was the sister of Nat King Cole 's wife , Maria . Through her mother , Cole was related to educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown . The eldest of Nat King Cole 's children , the woman had three children , Caroline Clarke , Sage Zailm Cole , and Harleigh Maxim Cole . 170---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cole died on May 19 , 2009 . the woman was 64 and is survived by all three of her children . Carole died in one hospital , while her sister Natalie was in another hospital undergoing kidney transplant surgery . 171---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carole received an associate 's degree at Cazenovia College , and pursued a vital acting career that spanned theater , television and film . In 1964 , the woman signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program , along with friend and colleague Harrison Ford . During her acting career the woman starred in the motion pictures The Silencers , 1967 The Mad Room , 1969 Promise at Dawn , 1970 and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , 1974 . the woman appeared on television in Positively Black 1975 and was a series costar on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son . On stage Cole appeared in Gore Vidal 's Weekend 1968 , the Lincoln Center Public Theater production of Pericles 1974 New York Shakespeare Festival and What If It Had Turned Up Heads 1972 . the woman also appeared as a series regular in the role of Ellie , the daughter of Grady Wilson , in the TV series Grady , a spin off of the highly successful Sanford and Son . 172---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1991 , Carole became the CEO of King Cole Productions , where the woman masterminded the use and licensing of the vast catalog which had belonged to her father , Nat King Cole , as well as his name and likeness . the woman produced such albums as Christmas for Kids From One to Ninety Two , The World of Nat King Cole , Transcriptions Nat King Cole Trio , amongst many others . For 20 years under her supervision , Nat King Cole posthumously released an album nearly every year . 173---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2009 , shortly before her death from lung cancer , Carole released Re Generations , a collaboration of international artists providing their artistic interpretations and tributes to specific works of Nat King Cole . Carole executive produced the album which included tracks performed by The Roots , will . this person . am , Cee Lo , Natalie Cole , Bebel Gilberto , Stephen & Damian Marley and Brazilian Girls . 174---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Template Persondata 175---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cathy Cooper appeared as Clara , the maid of Evelyn Lewis Marguerite Ray , Fred Sanford 's wealthy , widowed girlfriend in the Sanford and Son spinoff series Sanford . credited for 14 episodes of its first season , the woman appeared in nine . Cathy also appeared in three episodes of Sanford and Son various roles , as Ms . Williams , a dating agency clerk in Matchmaker , Matchmaker Season 4 , Episode 2 , and as one of Aunt Esther 's church sisters in the episodeAunt Esther Meets Her Son Season 6 , Episode 12 , Cathy made her first Hollywood vehicle appearance in the 1954 comedy musical film Handle With Care , where the woman appeared with Sanford and Son supporting cast members Leroy & Skillet . the woman also appeared in the 1982 comedy film Rude which starred standup comedian actor Rudy Ray Dolemite Moore . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 176---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This is the list of Characters from the Sanford and Son television series . 177---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Charles Weldon born June 1 , 1940 appeared in the dual role of Alex Hacker Miss Wallace , first as Hacker , a criminal whom the police was trying to stakeout in the Sanford and Son episode titled The Stakeout Season 6 , Episode 4 and then his alias , Miss Wallace , whom Hacker was appearing in drag as , and whom Fred gets smitten with , not knowing that Miss Wallace is really Hacker in hiding http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 178---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A versatile veteran actor of stage , film and TV , Charles , who was born and raised in Wetumka , OK , made his first appearance in Hollywood was in the 1967 film Who is Minding The Mint . Over the course of his career , Charles has made numerous guest appearances on both sitcom and drama TV shows such as his appearance on Sanford and Son , CBS TV 's Kojak , ABC 's The Streets of San Francisco , The Rockford Files and NBC TV 's Hill Street Blues . Weldon also made notable appearances in the Harriet Tubman TV bio film A Woman Called Moses 1976 , where the man appeared as Shadrack Davis , as John Bell in NBC 's The Atlanta Child Murders TV film about convicted serial rapist killer Wayne Williams , and the critically acclaimed ABC TV Roots The Next Generation miniseries 1979 . Charles also made appearances in several noted films such as the Richard Pryor Gene Wilder comedy Stir Crazy , the Oscar Award nominated Spike Lee film Malcolm X 1992 , and the 1976 film River Niger , opposite fellow acting stalwarts James Earl Jones , and Cicely Tyson . 179---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Charles has made numerous noted stage appearances such as Jackson in Cheryl L . West 's Birdie Blue , at the Second Stage Theatre , in New York City in 2005 , and as Hedley inAugust Wilson 's Seven Guitars , while performing with the Signature Theatre Company in New York City in 2006 . 180---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Chinese Torture was the 127th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on January 21 , 1977 . 181---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rehearsing his magic act , Grady snaps a pair of trick shackles onto Fred and Esther , only to discover the instructions for removing them are printed in Chinese . 182---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Amateur magician Grady Whitman Mayo attempts to perform his famous Chinese wristlock trick . As a result , Fred and Esther LaWanda Page end up handcuffed together . With Grady unable to decipher the trick 's instructions they are written in Chinese of course , Fred is forced to literally drag Esther along when the man goes out on a date . 183---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Frank Nelson makes his final appearance as the gift store salesman . Phillip Ahn appears as a Chinese customer . Hazel Medina makes a guest appearance as Crazy Alice , Fred 's date for the evening . 184---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cissy Lewis wasthe daughter ofEvelyn Eve girlfriend in Season 1 of theSanfordTV series . The part of Cissy was played by actress and voice over performer Suzanne Stone , who would also later havea recurring role as Roberta on ABC to Fivesitcom series , andThe Royal Family , which co starredRedd FoxxandDella Reese . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 185---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cissy Lewis wasthe daughter ofEvelyn Eve girlfriend in Season 1 of theSanfordTV series . The part of Cissy was played by actress and voice over performer Suzanne Stone , who would also later havea recurring role as Roberta on ABC to Fivesitcom series , andThe Royal Family , which co starredRedd FoxxandDella Reese . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 186---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Carol is the maid of Evelyn Lewis Marguerite Ray , Fred Sanford 's wealthy , widowed girlfriend in the Sanford and Son spinoff series Sanford . Although credited for 14 episodes of its first season , the woman actually only appeared in nine . Carol is played by actress Cathy Cooper , who also appears in a few episodes of Sanford and Son as one of Aunt Esther 's church going choir friends , and as dating agency clerk Ms . Williams . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 187---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clarice Taylor September 20 , 1917 May 30 , 2011 was an American stage , film and television actress . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 188---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Buckingham County , Virginia but raised in Harlem , New York , Clarice was best known for her recurring role on television on Wikipedia The Cosby Show as Dr . Heathcliff Cliff Huxtable 's Bill Cosby mother , Anna Huxtable . the woman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1986 for the role . the woman was also a regular on Nurse , played Harriet on Sesame Streetand also appeared as Grady 's Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son . 189---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clarice started working in the theatrewith the American Negro Theatreat a time when there were few opportunities for African American actors . To support herself the woman followed in the footsteps of her father , Leon B . Taylor , Sr . , and went to work for the U . S . Post Office . In the 1960s the woman got her big break that enabled her to act full time . Taylor was one of the founding members of the Negro Ensemble Company , headquartered in New York 's East Village , in Manhattan on 8th Street St . Mark 's Place . 190---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While working with the NEC the woman got her first offer of a movie role in Change of Mind . Her next film role was as Minnie in Otto Preminger 's Tell Me That the person Love Me , Junie Moon . In 1971 the woman played Birdie in Clint Eastwood 's Play Misty For Me . In 1973 , the woman brought a role the woman had pioneered off Broadway to film , playing Gladys Brooks in Five on the Blackhand Side . 191---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Taylor appeared in The Wiz as Addaperle , the Good Witch of the North . Her most recent performance was in a touring production of her own one woman show , Moms , for which the woman won an Obie Award . Her most recent film appearance was a small role in Wayne Wang 's film Smoke . 192---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clarice Taylor died at her home in Englewood , New Jersey from congestive heart failure , aged 93 . the woman is survived by her two sons William and James , her daughter in law , Gizele , and four grandchildren Jason , Kristen , Raul Jr . and Jared . 193---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cliff Anderson was thebiological son ofAunt Estherin theSanford and Sonspinoff seriesSanford . The part of Cliff was played by stage TV and film actor Clinton Derricks Carroll . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 194---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Cliff , who supposedly was working for Fred in the Sanford and Son junkyard over the summer in Season one of the Sanford series , would appear in a total of 16 episodes of the series . Early on in the first season , the man dated Cissy Lewis , the daughter of Fred 's girlfriend Eve . The part of Daniel Anderson , who was played by Eric Laneuville on the Sanford and Son series was either just unmentioned , or deliberately ignored as Uncle Woodrow , Cliff 's father , supposedly had died , as the man and mother Esther moved into The Sanford Arms temporarily . 195---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clinton Derricks Carroll born May 15 , 1953 in Knoxville , Tennessee played the part of Cliff Anderson , son of Aunt Esther in the Sanford and Son spinoff series Sanford . Also a gifted musician , Clinton is also the twin brother of Cleavant Derricks , who is also an actor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 196---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clinton starred in the TV series Wally Brown 1979 , as Wally Brown and Sanford 1980 1981 , as Cliff Anderson . the man also had guest appearances in a number of other series , notably Hill Street Blues and the FOX TV sci fi drama series Sliders and the man wrote the music for the 1979 TV movie When Hell Freezes Over , I will Skate . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 197---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On Sliders the man played the double of his brother 's character on three occasions The King Is Back , Greatfellas and The Prince of Slides . This was used instead of split screen . In 1986 , Clinton appeared on the London stage in the role of Captain Ebony in the musical Time . In 2012 , Clinton appeared in the stage play at the San Jose Stage Company about a fictional black US Army Cavalry regiment serving in the Philippine American War of 1899 1902 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 198---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Great Sanford Siege was the eighth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered March 10 , 1972 . Based on The Wooden Overcoats by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 199---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont once again hatches a get rich quick scheme . This time , the man purchases two coffins from a bankrupt undertaker , and temporarily stores them in the Sanford 's living room , intending to parlay these items into a profitable funeral supply business . Alas , Fred , who is incredibly superstitious , and is so unnerved by the presence of the coffins that the man ends up sleeping in the back of his truck . This leaves Lamont all alone in the bedroom and before long , his imagination begins to run riot . Redd Foxx 's former vaudeville partner Slappy White makes the first of several appearances in the role of Melvin White , Fred 's TV watching buddy , on the series . 200---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Colonel Hiokawa , a fictional daffy Japanese Army general that lampoons the actual Japanese Army General Hayakawa , appeared in the episode Sergeant Gork Season 5 , episode 23 Played by Pat Morita , who also played the role of Ah Chew , the role of Hiokawa was Morita 's last appearance on the show . In the episode , Fred started telling a false story about being a master intelligence officer in Germany in WWII to fascinate Roger Lawson , the son of Janet Lawson , his mother and Lamont 's girlfriend . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 201---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Colonel Hiokawa , a fictional daffy Japanese Army general that lampoons the actual Japanese Army General Hayakawa , appeared in the episode Sergeant Gork Season 5 , episode 23 Played by Pat Morita , who also played the role of Ah Chew , the role of Hiokawa was Morita 's last appearance on the show . In the episode , Fred started telling a false story about being a master intelligence officer in Germany in WWII to fascinate Roger Lawson , the son of Janet Lawson , his mother and Lamont 's girlfriend . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 202---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Committee Man was the 119th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eighth episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on November 12 , 1976 . 203---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Soon after Fred is appointed to serve on a mayor 's committee the man is sought out by a slumlord offering a bribe for political favors . 204---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is thrilled when the mayor appoints him to the Watts Community Relations Committee . No sooner has the man accepted the post than Fred is approached with a bribe to push through legislation for a new housing project . Will Fred 's greed win out over his civic duty , or will the man surprise everyone onscreen and in the viewing audience 205---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Ronnie Schell makes a guest appearance as Mr . Wilkins . Edward Andrews makes a guest appearance as Sam Jordan . Fritzi Burr makes a guest appearance as Mrs . Channing . Sosimo Hernandez , who appeared with Redd Foxx in the film Norman , Is That the person makes a second and final appearance as Mr . Rodriguez . 206---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Corrinne Conley a . k . a . Corinne Conley Stuart born May 23 , 1929 appears as a customer who seeks to buy a lamp in the Sanford and Son episode titled Julio and Sister and Nephew in Season 4 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 207---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A veteran actress of nearly six decades , Corinne is well known for her television work ; for nine seasons the woman appeared on the long running NBC daytime soap opera The Days of Our Lives in the role of Phyllis Anderson , from 1973 82 . In addition to her appearnce on Sanford and Son , Corrinne has , over the years made guest appearances on many other TV series , such as Hogan 's Heroes , That Girl , The F . B . this person . , The New Dick Van Dyke Show , CHIPs , and Quincy . As a voice over actress , the woman provided the voice of the doll in the CBS TV holiday classic animated program Rudolph , the Red Nosed Reindeer . 208---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A resident of Canada since 1985 , Corrine continues to act there , appearing in local and repretory theatre projects there , where the woman resides with her longtime husband , actor producer Bonar Stuart . those people have two grown sons , Anthony and Curtis . 209---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady 's Cousin Emma was a gold bricking sort who vistis from Chicago in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Hello Cousin Emma , Goodbye Cousin Emma in the Season 3 season finale . The part of Emma is played by character stage TV and film actress Clarice Taylor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 210---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Emma lows in from the Windy City and promises to make the living easier for Lamont and Cousin Grady , but Lamont has his doubts , especially after being bumped from his bedroom and having to share a bed with Grady After discovering her free loading , gold bricking ways staying in bed all day , promising to cook big dinners and not doing anything but lying around Lamont , along with Grady , cook up schemes to get rid of the unwanted and extremely lazy Emma . 211---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A conconted , made up story about contracting the contagious Junkman 's Itch , complete with The Hong Kong Hives which includes scratching all over , and the need to take a hot bath with Brillo pads , is enough to scare the lazy Emma away , not before the woman takes off with the lunch Grady prepared for the man and Lamont 212---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's Cousin Grady appeared in the Season 2 episode The Dowry . The part of Cousin Grady was portrayed by Albert Reed , Jr , http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 213---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred 's cousin Grady pays a visit , accompanied by his new wife Margaret Marguerite Ray and overweight stepdaughter Betty Jean Gladys Perry . Betty Jean , stands to receive a $ 10 , 000 cash dowry on the day after her wedding day from her deceased father , and Grady , tries to influence Fred , who starts to see dollar signs at the news , to persuade an very uninterested Lamont to wed her . 214---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In greeting his cousin and his new family , Fred gleefully offers , Grady , Grady , always shady , and then Grady responds , Fred , Fred , ' cabbage head Then Grady responds give me five to stay alive , with Fred finishing , How about two , Lou gets through 215---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Grady shows Fred a picture of his new wife 's sisters , and sees that those people are all , like Margaret , are all svelte and lovely looking , Fred asks Grady , Well , if your wife and her sisters , are all pretty , well , stammering at his words why is your stepdaughter , well , so , Grady finishes his question by guessing what the man was trying to say in describing his daugther in law by finishing Large , Plump , Fat 216---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Lamont , who figured out Fred 's scheme , thwarts his plans to collect the dowry money , Grady , upon leaving the Sanford residence , says to Fred Fred , Fred , the plan is dead Fred responds , Grady , Grady , go join your Lady 217---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Crazy Alice was a a date of Fred 's in the Sanford and Son episode titled Chinese Torture a . k . a . The Defiant One in Season 6 , episode 15 . Ubeknownst to Alice , who tries hard to get Fred to open up on their date together , Fred is unpleasently shackled to Estherin Chinese wristlocks , who , is hiding , covered in drapery behind the Sanford 's sofa . Grady , earlier in the episode , attempted to peform a magic trick using Fred and Esther , which went awry Actress Hazel Medina appeared the episode as Alice . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 218---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Crossed Swords was the first episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered January 14 , 1972 . 219---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont Sanford brought a load of junk for his father , Fred G . Sanford to sell at their store . the man also has an object , in a cardboard box , which the man will not allow Fred to touch . Lamont reveals it to be a statue of a shepherdess and a sheep , and tells Fred it is a valuable piece of porcelain , which the man bought from a silent film star for $ 15 in Hollywood The lady originally wanted $ 10 , but to Fred 's dismay , Lamont felt sorry for the old lady and gave her five extra dollars . Upon hearing Lamont 's description of her , Fred remarks that there is nothing uglier than an old white woman . Lamont and Fred take the statue to an antique dealer , who reveals that the piece is very valuable , as the crossed swords on the bottom are the trademark of a major porcelain designer , and offers them $ 800 , but only after provoking Fred with questions about the piece 's origin , which Fred takes to be racially motivated . Fred wants to take the offer , but Lamont vetos , wanting to auction the piece instead . Through shill bidding , Lamont is able to raise the price to $ 1500 , but Fred bids $ 2000 , winning the auction . Later , at Sanford and Son , Lamont is dismayed at having to pay the $ 200 commission for his own good , and proclaims that the piece will be his ticket out of Watts . Fred accidentally drops the piece , blaming it on his arthur itis . In his anger , Lamont runs to the truck , which will not start , forcing Lamont to stay with Fred . The next morning , Lamont finds a suicide note from Fred , and calls the police . Lamont is giving the police details about Fred , who then walks out of the coat closet and corrects Lamont on his weight . Lamont cites Fred 's weight as 180 , Fred tells him 193 . Lamont hangs up , then chases Fred around the room with a broom . 220---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Daniel Anderson was the one time Atheistic , wayward orphaned teen whom the Andersons , Woodrow Woody Anderson and Esther , adopt in season six . Played by Eric Laneuville , In the episode Aunt Esther Has a Baby Season 6 , episode 12 , Daniel almost risks being sent back to the adoption agency when the man steals a hammer from Woodrow 's hardware store , then reveals to Esther and Woodrow that the man did not believe in God , much to her chagrin , but still winds up getting adopted by the Andersons when Esther is able to forgive Daniel , and give him a reason to believe in a higher power again . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 221---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Daniel also appears in the episode titled The Will Season 6 , episode 21 in season 6 . In the 1980 spinoff series Sanford , However , the very mention of his adoption is completely ignored , when another son , played by Clinton Derricks Carroll is introduced as Aunt Esther 's son Cliff Anderson . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 222---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Danny Big Black Rey born Daniel Ray in 1934 in Savannah , Georgia is an American actor , musician , percussionist specializing Latin und Ethnic Jazz music . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 223---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rey got its nickname Big Black from an older brother because of his interest in drums . After the man during his high school years on the radio the conga in the Cuban music had heard the man was interested in the instrument and traveled to Florida and the Bahamas , where the man spent five years . There the man played with Lord Fleas Calypso band met at Fish Ray and Johnny Slick Engraham and looked at Calypso Eddy Trio with Sam and Role with . In Miami , the man worked at Jack Contanzo , Moe Koffman and the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra , before the man formed a band with trumpeter Billy Cook and found a private access to the fusion of Caribbean and Jazzrhytmen . 224---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the early 1960s , the man moved to New York City , where the man worked in the bands of Freddie Hubbard Night of the Cookers and Randy Weston and also played with the likes of musicans Ray Bryant , Johnny Barracuda , Junior Cook and Eric Dolphy was heard . In 1965 the man was in the Caribbean Pavilion of World Expo presented , in the same year the man performed with Dizzy Gillespie at the Newport Jazz Festival . the man got a record deal and put four of his own albums prior to 1972 , where the man partially pushed forward in the area of African rhythms . the man was also a member of the Butterfield Blues Band . It was later the man also worked as an actor of supporting roles in TV shows and films . Next the man played with blues musicians Sun Ra and B . B . King , but also took with Charles Tolliver , and played music during the World Cup campaign of Muhammad Ali in 1974 . In the 1990s , the man was the musical director of several projects by Randy Weston . 225---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Over the years , beginning in the early 1970 's Rey appeared in numerous bit roles in television and film , appearing on the TV series Sanford and Son , and the short lived 1970 's CBS TV series Apple 's , Rey also had roles in such films as Uptown Saturday Night 1974 , Blazing Saddles 1974 , in an uncredited part as Bart 's father , The Pilot 1980 , Lethal Weapon 3 1992 , and , most recently , The Minus in 1999 . 226---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com David Huddleston September 17 , 1930 appeared as a Hawaii Five O cop in the 2 part episode story The Hawaiian Connection . A veteran character actor who appeared on Star Trek The Next Generation , playing the holographic train conductor in the Season 7 | seventh 7 episode Emergence in 1994 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 227---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A veteran of film and television , David made his film debut with an uncredited bit part in the 1963 classic All the Way Home , which co starred Jean Simmons . In the years since , the man has probably become best known for playing Mayor Olson Johnson in the 1974 { Wikipedia Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks } comedy classic { Wikipedia Blazing Saddles | Blazing Saddles } . the man is also known for his Emmy Award nominated recurring role as Grandpa Arnold on { Wikipedia The Wonder Years | The Wonder Years } . Star Trek Voyager star Robert Picardo also had a recurring role in this series , and even appeared in one episode featuring Huddleston , while TNG guest star Olivia was a regular on the series portraying Huddleston 's character 's granddaughter . Huddleston also made a few appearances as A . J . Covington on { Wikipedia The Waltons | The Waltons } , and also appeared as a different character in the 1971 Waltons TV special The Homecoming A Christmas Story , which also featured TOS guest star William Windom . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 228---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com David also played the title roles in the films Santa Claus The Movie 1985 and The Big Lebowski 1998 , with Jack Kehler and Leon Russom . Other film credits include Rio Lobo 1970 , with John Wayne and Gregg Palmer , Bad Company 1972 , Nightmare Honeymoon 1974 , McQ 1974 , with John Wayne and Diana Muldaur , Breakhart Pass 1975 , The Greatest 1977 , the science fiction classic Capricorn One 1978 , and { Wikipedia Roman Polanski | Roman } Frantic 1988 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 229---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His TV movie credits include Brian 's Song 1971 , Sarge 1971 , Sherlock Holmes in New York 1976 , The Oklahoma City Dolls 1981 , Finnegan Begin Again 1985 , Columbo Cries Wolf 1990 , and In a Child 's Name 1991 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 230---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com From 1974 through 1976 , the man and TOS guest star Susan Howard were regulars on the TV series Petrocelli , and in 1979 , the man co starred with Star Trek TOS TNG actress Diana Muldaur on the short lived Hizzonner on which Huddleston also served as executive producer . the man was also part of the ensemble of the 1976 mini series Once an Eagle , as were fellow Trek alumni James Cromwell , George Murdock , Andrew Robinson , William Windom , and Anthony Zerbe . The following year , the man co starred with Paul Fix , Roy Jenson , Richard Kiley , and Anthony Zerbe in the mini series How the West Was Won . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 231---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man has also made guest appearances on such programs as Bewitched , Gunsmoke , Mary Tyler Moore , Bonanza , The Rockford Files , Sanford and Son , Barnaby Jones with Lee Meriwether , Benson with Rene Auberjonois and Ethan Phillips , Trapper John , M . D . with Madge Sinclair , Murder , the woman Wrote , and Walker , Texas Ranger with Noble Willingham . Further television credits include recurring roles as a senator on The West Wing 2000 and 2002 and as a mayor on Gilmore Girls 2000 2001 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 232---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His most recent film work includes the short film Reveille 2004 , the musical comedy The Producers 2005 , with Michael McKean , Andrea Martin , and Ruth Williamson , the short drama Old Glory 2007 , the comedy Postal 2007 , with Erick Avari , Seymour Cassel , and Bill Mondy , the thriller Locker 13 2009 , with Jason Marsden , and the short comedy The Benevolent Byzantine Order of the Nobles of the Enigmatic Oracle 2010 , as well as guest roles in episodes of Andy Barker , P . this person . 2007 , with Harve Presnell , Jericho 2007 2008 , with Alicia Coppola , Titus Welliver , and Daniel Benzali , and It is Always Sunny in Philadelphia 2009 , with William Morgan Sheppard and Christopher Lloyd . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612235513/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png/180px-David_Huddleston_Sanford_and_Son.png 233---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com David Moses born in Dayton , Ohio appeared as Rooster in the episode titledThe Card Sharps Season 2 , episode 6 . the man was one of three card shark swindlers Lamont met who were trying to con him at poker until Fred entered the poker game with his special see thru eyeglasses and loaded deck , which began to tip things in Lamont 's favor . Davidalso appeared as a Robber and Gunman who drops by the junkyard and robs Fred of the remainder of his winnings , all of $ 50 in the episodeBy the Numbers Season 2 , episode 1 . David , a veteran actor from the 1960 's to the late 1990 's , has made many guest appearances over the years , appearing in such TV series as The Streets of San Francisco , Barnaby Jones , Galactica 1980 , Harry O , and The Jeffersons , as well as the films In The Custody of Strangers 1982 TV movie , Creature 1985 , and Storm 1999 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 234---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Davis was a career criminal and the mastermind of a robbery of $ 1 , 000 , 000 in diamonds from a Honolulu bank in the episodes of Sanford and Son titled The Hawaiian Connection . In the three episodes , Davis , along with co conspirator Willis played byGreg Morris of Mission Impossible TV series fame , who was raised in South Central L . A . and is accquainted with Fred and Lamont , and lovely red headed moll Gladys Barbara Rhoades , try to dupe Lamont and Fred into helping them smuggle the diamonds off of the island , with the intent of killing them afterwards ; their plot is thwarted , however , by the Hawaii Five O , whose Commander played by James Gregory of Barney Miller TV series fame had been staking the trio out since Fred and Lamont arrived on the island . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 235---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Five O , with the cooperation of the Sanfords , are able to apprehend Davis and their cohorts , but could not retrieve the diamonds , which Fred and Lamont unknowingly had in their suitcase , which , on the flight back to L . A . , had mixed up with a Japanese American photographer 's suitcase , which the photographer , who had their suitcase was able to give back to them in Los Angeles Fred and Lamont were able to were able to give the diamonds to the LAPD through Officer Hoppy Hopkins and his temporary partner Percy Pat Paulsen . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 236---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Actor Davis Roberts born Robert A . Davis March 7 , 1917 died July 18 , 1993 , portrayed Dr . Caldwell in three episodes in the second and third seasons of Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 237---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Throughout his career , Roberts , a native of Mobile , Alabama , appeared in over 30 feature films , including In a Lonely Place 1950 ; The Killers 1964 written by Star Trek executive producer Gene L . Coon and featuring Ronald Reagan in his last film role ; The Chase 1966 with Steve Ihnat ; Westworld 1973 with Majel Barrett , Charles Seel , Alan Oppenheimer , Kenneth Washington and Paul Sorensen ; Demon Seed 1977 , with Fritz Weaver , Gerrit Graham , Michael Dorn and Felix Silla ; and John Schlesinger 's Honky Tonk Freeway 1981 , which featured Teri Garr , Jerry Hardin and Jeffrey Combs . the man also appeared in the mini series Roots , which starred LeVar Burton , as well as many television series , including this person Dream of Jeannie , Mission Impossible , Gunsmoke , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Sanford and Son , and All in the Family . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 238---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com DeForest Covan September 9 , 1917 September 8 , 2007 originated the Uncle Woodrow character , appearing the Sanford and Son episode titled Members of The Engagment The Wedding Season 3 , Episode 9 in 1973 , before being replaced by Raymond Allen . A venerable actor , dancer , and former black vaudeville performer , DeForest , who was born and raised in Chicago , had a career which spanned eight decades . the man made his first film appearance in the Al Jolson dance musical film titled The Singing Kid 1936 , where the man had a uncredited appearance as a dancer . the man would appear in numerous productions over the next two decades such as Every Day 's a Holiday 1937 Too Hot to Handle 1938 , Going Places 1938 , New Moon 1940 , Take My Life 1942 , No Time For Romance 1948 and the highly successful Harry Belafonte Dorothy Dandrige film Carmen Jones in 1954 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 239---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After a long stretch without a film appearance , In the 1970s , DeForest began a string of guest and or supporting roles on TV and film , appearing in such shows as his part as Woodrow on Sanford and Son , the short lived CBS TV series Apple 's Way 1974 , a supporting role as Josh on the ABC TV sitcom series That is My Mama 1975 , and guest roles on the CBS TV sitcom Good Times 1976 , NBC TV 's Police Story 1976 , and CBS 's Kojak 1977 . the man also had small parts in such high grossing films such as The Day Of The Locust 1975 , the Academy Award Winning film Rocky 1976 , and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens 1979 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 240---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In his latter years , DeForest would appear in the films Body and Soul 1983 , The Night Before 1988 , and To Sleep With Anger 1990 , and make numerous guest appearances on such shows as FOX TV 's Martin 1993 and NYPD Blue 1993 . DeForest died in Los Angeles a day before his 90th birthday , September 8 , 2007 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 241---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Della , Della , Della was the 94th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the seventh episode of Season Five , it first aired October 31 , 1975 . 242---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When two competing politicians each seek to use Fred 's junkyard for a campaign headquarters , Della Reese appeals to Fred to stand by her man . 243---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Under normal circumstances , Fred hates politics and politicians . Then why has Fred allowed his house to become campaign headquarters for a local candidate The answer The candidate 's biggest booster is singer Della Reese playing herself , whose powers of persuasion prove far too strong for Fred to resist . 244---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Actress entertainer Della Reese , longtime friend of and future co star on the CBS TV series The Royal Family , guest appears as herself , Paul Reid Roman appears as Bob Williams and Marvin Jenkins appears as a piano player . 245---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Della Reese born July 6 , 1931 appeared as herself in the Sanford and Son episode titled Della , Della , Della , Seasso 5 . episode 7 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 246---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Reese was born Delloreese Patricia Early in the historic Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit , Michigan to Nellie Mitchelle , a Native American Cherokee cook , and African American steelworker Richard Thaddeus Early Delloreese 's mother also had several older children , before her birth , all of whom did not live with her , hence , the woman lived as an only child . At six years old , Reese began singing in church . From this experience , the woman became an avid gospel musi singer . 247---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On weekends in the 1940s , the woman and her mother would go to the movies independently to watch the likes of Joan Crawford , Bette Davis , and Lena Horne portray glamorous lives on screen . Afterwards , Reese would act out the scenes from the films . In 1944 , the woman began her career directing the young people 's choir , after the woman had nurtured acting plus her obvious musical talent . the woman was often chosen , on radio , as a regular singer . At the age of thirteen , the woman was hired to sing with Mahalia Jackson 's gospel group . Delloreese entered Detroit 's popular Cass Technical High School where the woman attended the same year as Edna Rae Gillooly , later known as Ellen Burstyn . the woman also continued with her touring with Jackson . With higher grades , the woman was the first in her family to graduate from high school in 1947 , at only 15 . 248---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Afterwards , the woman formed her own gospel group , the Meditation Singers . However , due in part to the death of her mother , and her father 's serious illness , Reese had to interrupt her schooling at Wayne State University to help support her family . Faithful to the memory of her mother , Deloreese also moved out of her father 's house when the woman disapproved of him taking up with a new girlfriend . the woman then took on odd jobs , such as truck driver , dental receptionist , and even elevator operator , after 1949 . 249---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Performing in clubs , Early soon decided to shorten her name from Delloreese Early to Della Reese . 250---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Reese has had a wide variety of guest starring roles , beginning with an episode of the ABC TV series The Mod Squad . This led to other roles such as The Bold Ones The New Doctors , Getting Together , NBC 's Police Woman , McCloud , Petrocelli , Joe Forrester , and Police Story , ABC TV 's The Rookies , Sanford and Son with longtime friend Redd Foxx , Vega $ , Insight , two episodes of The Love Boat . the woman also had a recurring role on It Takes Two opposite Richard Crenna and Patty Duke , three episodes of Crazy Like a Fox , four episodes of Charlie & Co . opposite Flip Wilson , 227 with best friend Marla Gibbs , MacGyver , Night Court , Dream On , Designing Women , Picket Fences , That is So Raven and The Young and the Restless . the woman also had a recurring role as Tess , on CBS 's Promised Land with Wendy Phillips and Gerald McRaney , among many others . 251---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After coping with the death of one of her best friends , Redd Foxx , in 1991 , the woman was reluctant to play an older female lead in the inspirational television drama Touched by an Angel , but went ahead and auditioned for the role of Tess . the woman wanted to have a one shot agreement between CBS and producer Martha Williamson , but ordered more episodes . Reese was widely seen as a key component of the show 's success . 252---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Already starring on Touched by an Angel was the lesser known Irish actress Roma Downey , who played the role of case worker Tess 's angel employee , Monica . In numerous interviews , there was an on and off screen chemistry between both Reese and Downey . 253---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The character of Tess was the angelic supervisor who sent the other angels out on missions to help people redeem their lives and show them God 's love , while at the same time , the woman was sassy and had a no nonsense attitude . The show often featured a climactic monologue delivered by the angel Monica in which the woman reveals herself as an angel to a human with the words , this person am an angel sent by God to tell the person that the man loves the person . The character of Tess was portrayed by Reese as down to earth , experienced , and direct . 254---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Reese also sang the show 's theme song , Walk With the person and was featured prominently on the soundtrack album produced in conjunction with the show . 255---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Demond Wilson born Grady Demond Wilson October 13 , 1946 played the role of Lamont Sanford opposite Redd Foxx , who played junkman Fred G . Sanford NBC TV sitcom Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 256---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A talented actor who is now also a Christian author and evangelist , Demond was born in Valdosta , Georgia , and raised in Long Island , New York . At the age of 12 , Wilson 's appendix ruptured , almost killing him . At that time the young Wilson vowed to somehow serve God as an adult in some ministry capacity . Wilson served in the U . S . Army from 19661968 and was in the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam , where the man was wounded . Upon returning from Vietnam a decorated veteran in the late 1960s , Wilson was featured in several Broadway and Off Broadway stage productions before moving to Hollywood where the man performed guest roles on several television series such as Mission Impossible and All in the Family and acted in films such as The Dealing 1970 and The Organization 1971 . 257---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Later that year , Wilson , after appearing as a robber on All in the Family with the late Cleavon Little , won the role of Lamont Sanford , beating out several hopefuls for the part , which included comedian actor Johnny Brown , who went on to fame playing the part of Nathan Bookman , the apartment custodian on the hit CBS TV series Good Times , which was also co produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear . Wilson played Lamont through the run of the series , and in fact became the de facto star when Redd Foxx walked off the show in 1974 and his character was written out for the rest of the season . Foxx returned the following year and the pair worked together until 1977 . 258---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson also appeared in the films Full Moon High 1981 , Me and the Kid 1993 , and Hammer Lock 2000 . 259---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson later starred as divorc Raymond Ellis in the short lived CBS TV comedy series Baby , I am Back and as Oscar Madison , opposite actor Ron Glass who co starred as Felix Unger in the ABC TV sitcom The New Odd Couple , a revamped black version of the original 1970 75 series on the same network which starred Jack Klugman and Tony Randall . 260---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1984 , Wilson became an ordained minister , fulfilling his childhood vow . Later , in 1995 , the man founded Restoration House , a center that helps rehabilitate former prison inmates by providing mentoring , spiritual guidance and vocational training . 261---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson has written several Christian books concerning the New Age Movement and its hidden dangers to society . New Age Millennium by Wilson was released by CAP Publishing & Literary Co . LLC on December 1 , 1998 . Demond 's first name is misspelled Desmond on some book selling websites . Wilson , who has also authored numerous children 's books , stated the book to be an expos of certain New Age symbols and slogans . 262---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson has also authored the book Second Banana The Bittersweet Memoirs of the Sanford & Son Years , which was scheduled for release on August 31 , 2009 . According to an interview on the CelebrityCafe . com website , Wilson said It is just a documented truth , behind the scenes factual account of what happened during those years . Redd Foxx and this person were making history back in those days . these people were the first blacks to be on television in that capacity and these people opened the door for all those other shows that came after us . The book can be purchased at its official website . 263---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson has also made numerous guest appearances on the Praise The Lordprogram aired on the Trinity Broadcasting Network , and is a good friend of Clifton Davis . the man has also appeared as a guest star on the UPN network sitcom Girl the man ate dick , 264---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In summer of 2011 Wilson started appearing with actress Nina Nicole in a touring production of the play The Measure of a Man by playwright Matt Hardwick . The play is described as a faith based production and is set in a small town in south Georgia . 265---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson is slated to appear in a melodramatic family film titled Faith Ties , made in the genre of the classic Frank Capra film It is A Wonderful Life . Says Wilson of the project It is kind of like that . this person play a broken down old drunk whose wife and daughter are killed and he is given up on life . His only friend is a talking scorpion named Adonis . The protagonist is a pastor who is in the middle while the man watches the lives of people crumbling around him . It is a wonderful story . The film , which was still in pre production as of early 2009 , is scheduled for a fall 2016 release . 266---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson has been married to the former Cicely Louise Johnston since May 3 , 1974 . Together those people have six children . 267---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dennis Burkley born September 10 , 1945 died July 14 , 2013 played the part of Cal Pettie , a friend of Lamont 's who was working with him on the Alaska Pipeline sent by Lamont to look after Fred on the NBC spinoff series Sanford . Dennis is a vaunted veteran character actor from Texas who has appeared in a host of films and television series guest roles since the 1970s . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 268---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dennis was born Dennis Henry Burkley in Van Nuys , California , the son of Imogene ne Ware and Henry Burkley . the man grew up in Grand Prairie , Texas . 269---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the 1980s and 1990s appearances , Burkley was most recognizable for his large frame 6 ft 3 in 1 . 91 m , 300 lb 140 kg , scruffy beard and Southern accent , though in more recent appearances the man has clearly lost a significant amount of weight and maintains a less slovenly appearance in terms of hair and attire . 270---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Though the man has many film , television , and other professional acting credits , Burkley 's most recognizable roles include Cal , the Texas born junkyard partner of Fred G . Sanford in the short lived Sanford and Son sequel Sanford , as well as Dozer , a biker with a severe speech impediment who befriends Rocky Dennis and his mother in the movie Mask . Burkley provided the voice of several supporting characters on the animated television series King of the Hill set in his native Texas . In 2005 , the man wrote and directed a film titled Repetition . the man played a small role in the television series My Name Is Earl . the man is often mistaken for fellow character actor Mickey Jones . 271---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dennis Burkley died on July 14 , 2013 of a heart attack in his sleep . 272---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dick Van Patten born Richard Vincent Van Patten December 9 , 1928 in New York City , New York appears on the Sanford and Son series as Mr . Hamblin , a repossessor who was sent to the Sanford residence by a collection agency in the Season 1 episode titled The Great Sanford Siege . A veteran performer of stage , film , and TV for over eight decades , Dick is widely recognized to nostalgic TV viewers for his role as Tom Bradford , patriarch of the Bradford family on the 1977 81 ABC TV series Eight Is Enough . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 273---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Kew Gardens , New York , Dick was born the son of Josephine Rose ne Acerno , who worked in advertising , and Richard Byron Van Patten , an interior decorator . His mother was of Italian descent , while his father had Dutch and English ancestry . the man began work as a model and actor as a child making his Broadway theatre debut at the age of seven . the man was successful on the New York stage , appearing in a dozen theatrical plays before reaching his teen years . the man later moved to Hollywood and began a lengthy career in film and television . 274---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dick 's long career in show business began as a child actor on Broadway in 1937 in The Eternal Road as Dickie Van Patten ; the man went on to appear in twelve other Broadway plays as a teenager . the man moved on to television and movies with the role of Nels Hansen in the 1949 TV series this person Remember Mama , which ran from 1949 to 1957 , 275---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In addition to his appearance on Sanford and Son , Dick has also appeared in episodes of Banacek , Arrested Development , The Brian Keith Show , Cannon , The Streets of San Francisco , and Happy Days . In 1999 and 2000 , the man costarred with Hugh , Richard Roundtree , Deborah Winters , and Richard Anderson in the Warren Chaney TV miniseries , Y2K World in Crisis . 276---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dick is the older brother of actress Joyce Van Patten and the older half brother of film director Tim Van Patten and the uncle of actress Talia Balsam . the man has been married to Patricia Poole aka Pat Van Patten since 1954 . 277---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dick and wife Patricia have three sons , all actors Vincent Van Patten who appeared on the 1978 81 CBS series The White Shadow as Salami , Nels Van Patten , and Jimmy Van Patten . Nels is named for the character Dick played on the CBS TV series Mama . 278---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dick Van Patten is related to several other well known actors through marriages . His sister Joyce married actor Martin Balsam . those people are the parents of actress Talia Balsam . Talia 's first husband was actor George Clooney and the woman is now married to Mad Men actor John Slattery . Dick 's son Vince Van Patten is married to Days of our Lives and former The Young and the Restless actress Eileen Davidson . Dick 's other son Nels is married to former Baywatch regular Nancy 279---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Divorce , Sanford Style was the 89th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the second episode of Season Five , it first aired September 19 , 1975 . 280---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Following a fight with Woodrow , Aunt Esther moves in with Fred and Lamont . Fred works overtime engineering a reconciliation so she will return home . 281---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Splitting up with her husband , Woodrow Raymond Allen , after a row , Aunt Esther LaWanda Page moves in with Fred and Lamont . Fred tolerates Esther 's presence when the man believes that the woman only intends to stay the night . But when it becomes clear that the woman plans to remain in the Sanford home for six months , the better to establish separate residency for a divorce , Fred schemes to bring Esther and Woodrow back together and out of his hair . 282---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hannah Dean guest appears as Jackie . 283---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Donald Thomas Don Bexley March 10 , 1910 April 15 , 1997 appeared as Fred 's Redd Foxx loyal but dim witted at least how Fred insultingly perceives him friend and sidekick Bubba Bexley on Sanford and Son . Don was a standup comedian on the ' Circuit as a solo act and as part of comedy teams , during which time the man became acquainted with Redd Foxx . Bexley recorded party albums with partner Dave Turner and worked constantly throughout the United States . His greatest exposure came from his Sanford and Son appearances . the man appeared as the same character in the Sanford and Son spin off series The Sanford Arms . His other television credits include the ABC TV series T . J . Hooker , and Laverne & Shirley , NBC TV 's Cheers , Hunter , and CBS 's The Royal Family series , which co starred his longtime friends Redd and Della Reese . the man was the MC and comedian in the 1976 movie Sparkle . the man retired from show business in the 1980s and returned to his native Virginia . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 284---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bexley maintained a close friendship with Redd Foxx , until Foxx 's 1991 death , and was an honorary pallbearer at Foxx 's funeral . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 285---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Don Bexley died on April 15 , 1997 , at the age of 87 , in City of Hampton where the man made his home , death due to heart and kidney failure . Reportedly survived by a daughter . Bexley was buried at Hampton Memorial Gardens , in City of Hampton . As of 2010 , a temporary gravestone marked his grave . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 286---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com * UPDATE ON DON BEXLEY GRAVE MARKER On June 28th 2013 a couple from Williamsburg , VA started a fundraising campaign titled The Donald T . Bubba Bexley Grave Marker Fundraiser to purchase Mr . Bexley a proper grave marker . In seven days those people were able to raise the necessary funds , combined with their own contribution , to purchase the marker with the help of family , friends and fellow fans . The new marker is be expected to be placed at his resting place by late summer of 2013 . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 287---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Obituary from Daily Press , Hampton Roads , VA http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 288---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford And ' Comedian Dies At 87 April 18 , 1997 | By SAM MCDONALD Daily Press HAMPTON Donald T . Bexley , a comedian and actor best known for his portrayal of Bubba Hoover on TV 's Sanford and Son , died Tuesday in Hampton . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 289---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man was 87 . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 290---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Bexley died of heart and kidney failure , according to his friend and confidant , Clarence Williams Sr . of Hampton . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 291---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After spending much of his life in Los Angeles , Mr . Bexley came to Hampton 13 months ago to share an apartment with Williams . His friend agreed to be Mr . Bexley 's care giver after the actor broke his hip while in Los Angeles in late 1995 . Williams , a Peninsula native , met Mr . Bexley while working as an agent and promoter in Los Angeles in the late . Mr . Bexley was born March 10 , 1910 , in Detroit . His father was a Bible scholar and teacher , his mother a classical vocalist . But the youngster showed early aptitude as a comic . this person was born with a flair for the stage , as this person had always been a clown even during early adolescence , the man wrote in 1983 . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 292---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While working as a stand up comic in the Catskill mountains of New York in the 1940s , Mr . Bexley developed the expressive , physical style of comedy that the man later used to get laughs on Sanford and Son . That NBC comedy series aired 1972 1977 and starred Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson . It has enjoyed a long life in syndication . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 293---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Bexley maintained a close friendship with Foxx after the series ended . In 1991 the man served as an honorary pallbearer at Foxx 's funeral . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 294---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In addition to Sanford and Son , Mr . Bexley occasionally appeared in the TV series Hunter and Laverne and Shirley . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 295---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man was also a singer and dancer . Early in his career , the man performed with a dance group called Three Shades of Rhythm . And before his television debut , the man did theater in Los Angeles and New York . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 296---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Recently , Mr . Bexley was writing for stage and television . Williams said the actor had completed several scripts , although the man knew of no current plans to produce them . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 297---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Williams said Mr . Bexley remained in good spirits during most of his time in Hampton . the man was still funny up until the day the man passed , Williams said . the man always had a punch line for the person . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 298---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Bexley enjoyed meeting fans and signing autographs , Williams said . the man had appeared at several local events , including a talent contest at Newmarket Fair Mall in June and Aberdeen Day last fall . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 299---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A public memorial service will be held at 1 p . m . Monday at Cooke Bros . Funeral Chapel , 1601 27th St . , Newport News . Burial will be at Hampton Memorial Gardens . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708235311/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/3v3id4.jpg/180px-3v3id4.jpg 300---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Donna Harris is the long time fiancee of widower Fred G . Sanford on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son . Towards the beginning of the series , Fred 's son Lamont was hostile , even ambivalent towards Donna , a pratical nurse , whom the man called The Barracuda . the man felt that way because the man saw her as a threat of her trying to replace his mother , and tried to break up Fred and Donna 's relationship ; however , in time Lamont grew to like Donna , even planning a surpise party for Fred 's return from visiting relatives in St . Louis together along with Bubba , Aunt Esther , Grady , and Rollo in the fourth season 's opening episode titled The Surprise Party Season 4 , episode 1 . The role of Donna was played by actress Lynn Hamilton . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 301---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Early in the show 's run , Lamont , feeling that Donna , who had been dating Fred for some while before meeting him , later , upon their meeting , derides Donna as the barracuda and is openly hostile towards her , attempting to ruin her relationship with his father at least twice ; Fred , who hastily had plans to get married again to her , had to settle on an engagement from her , which still chifed at Lamont , who saw Donna as a threat to his personal relationship and business partnership with his father , not to mention that another woman in the Sanford home as an attempt by Fred , who denied the accusation , to smear his mother 's memory . In later episodes , however , Lamont and Donna begin to warm up to each other , becoming close friends in the care of aging Fred , not to mention that the two often served as the dual foil to many of his later antics and schemes . Lamont even invites Donna out to dinner with himself and his girlfriend fiancee Janet Lawson , remarking that it would do his reputation good to be seen with two lovely ladies . 302---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Donna Pops The Question was the 95th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eighth episode of Season Five , it first aired November 7 , 1975 . 303---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After receiving a proposal from another man , Donna gives Fred one final chance to marry her . 304---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Donna , tired of being the longtime erstwhile fiance of Fred poses the question of marriage to Fred . When Fred again balks at the thought of matrimony , Donna issues an ultimatum Either Fred marries her immediately , or she will accept the proposal of another man which happens to be Judge Judge Mel Brooks who appeared in the Season 3 episode Fred Sanford , Legal Eagle . Can it be that Fred 's hesitancy is due to reverence for his late wife Elizabeth , or is the man merely suffering from that common malady known as cold feet 305---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Arthur Adams makes a second and final guest appearance as Judge Mel Brooks , a role the man played in the Season 3 episode Fred Sanford , Legal Eagle . Elma V . Jackson appears as Mrs . Harris , Donna 's mother . 306---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dr . Simmons was a hypnotist enlisted by Lamont to cure Fred of his TV addiction in the episode titled The TV Addict in Season 5 of Sanford and Son . The part of Dr . Simmons was played by veteran character actor Graham Jarvis , who is perhaps best known for his role as neighbor Charlie Haggers on another Norman Lear sitcom , the short lived , syndicated series Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 307---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , upon his first meeting with Dr . Simmons , who was not sold on him , was not exactly impressed , telling Lamont to Send this swami back to Capistrano Simmons , however , determined the man could help Fred cut down on his TV viewing , is easily able to prove that Fred is an easy subject , by quickly hypnotizing him , with the command that every time the man thinks about watching TV , or reads a TV Guide , the man would get very hot , which is exactly what happened , resulting in Fred pouring a pitcher of ice cold water over himself in his long draws , while feverishly tearing apart his TV Guide , trying to thumb through if for what was on TV that night After Dr . Simmons de hypnotizes him , Fred , still not sold on him , and not realizing the man was hypnotized , quickly says Man , get out of my house with that old hypnosis jazz 308---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dr . Caldwell was a self professed physician who also worked part time as a postal worker at the nearby U . S . Post Office whom Fred Redd Foxx initally called to diagnose his whiplash claim in the second season Sanford and Son episode titled Whiplash Season 2 , Episode 2 . Dr . Caldwell , in a funny and ironic twist , while claming to be , and making house calls as a doctor , ironically chain smoked and had a horrible cough due to the habit , whereas Fred , in the episode Whiplash , shouted to him as the man was leaving the Sanford residence , Hey , Doc , you would better go and see a doctor about that cough Dr . Caldwell , who also the episodes A Guest in the Yard Season 2 , Episode 6 and Lamont , Is That the person Season 3 , Episode 6 was played by late veteran character actor Davis Roberts . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121106053522/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3a/Dr._Caldwell_Fred_Sanford.png/300px-Dr._Caldwell_Fred_Sanford.png 309---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Earthquake II was the 88th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the season premiere episode of Season Five , it first aired September 12 , 1975 . 310---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com An earthquake shakes up the Sanfords , and the threat of an even bigger quake sparks Fred to rush to quickly sell the house and seek shelter in Las Vegas . 311---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In this opening episode of Sanford and Son 's fifth season , a team of Russian scientists announce that a seismic fault runs smack in the middle of the ' house . A series of small earthquakes subsequently sets Fred a tremble in more ways than one . Certain the man will meet his doom in the inevitable Big One , Fred packs his bags and heads off to Las Vegas where , of course , the man runs smack dab into an aggregation of celebrities . 312---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Steve Lawrences and Edie Gorm and Merv Griffin make cameo celebrity guest appearances in this episode . Britt Leach appears as Mr . Johnson , and Reva Rose appears as his wife , Mrs . Johnson . 313---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ebenezer Sanford was the 99th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 12th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on December 12 , 1975 . 314---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In this special Christmas holiday themed episode , tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake up call in this spoof of A Christmas Carol . 315---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It is A Christmas Carol , Sanford and Son style , as the friends and family of stingy Fred try to imbue our curmudgeonly hero with the Christmas spirit . Naturally , Fred is resistant to these efforts until the man has a dream , replete with the ghosts of Christmases Past , Present , and Future who look awfully familiar to Fred and to us . Former child actor Marc Copage of Julia fame appears as the younger Fredsie . 316---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Eric Laneuville , who would later appear in the recurring role of Daniel Anderson , Esther and Woody 's adopted son , appears as Ron , a helper hired by Fred in the junkyard . Adrian Ricard appears as Ron 's mother , and Joe Flash Riley as Mr . Small , his father . 317---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Edward Ed Andrews October 9 , 1914 March 8 , 1985 played the role of Sam Jordan , a corrupt local land developer who attempts to offer Watts area Committe member Fred a bribe in order to block the committee from preventing him to build in the Watts district in the Sanford and Son episode titled Committee Man Season 6 , episode 7 . Ed was arguably one of the most recognizable character actors on television and films between the 1950s and the 1980s . His stark white hair , portly build and horn rimmed glasses added to the type of roles the man received , as the man was often cast as an ornery boss , a cagey businessman , or a strict disciplinarian of some type . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 318---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ed was born in Griffin , Georgia , the son of an Episcopal minister , and grew up in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , Cleveland , Ohio and Wheeling , West Virginia . As a child , the man attended Pittsburgh 's Nixon Theatre and would nab a balcony seat so as to catch a good view of the . At age 12 , the man did a walk on in a stock theatre production which featured James Gleason and the man was ' on an acting career . 319---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ed attended the University of Virginia , and at age 21 , made his stage debut in 1935 , progressing to Broadway by 1935 . During this period , Andrews starred in the short lived but very well received military drama So Proudly these people Hail in the lead role opposite Richard Cromwell . In 1936 , Andrews debuted in the film ' Art . However , it was not until 1955 that the man appeared in his second film . the man was cast as the subversive and corrupt character of Rhett Tanner , head of a knock them off political machine , in The Phenix City Story . 320---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While ' film acting career began in earnest in his forties , the man was consistently typecast as a grandfatherly type , and thus the man is most strongly associated with these roles in later films . Among his roles are those that are soft and friendly though Andrews was equally adept at portraying sleazy businessman types or sinister bureaucrats and officials . 321---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Well known films in which Andrews acted include Send Me No Flowers 1964 , with Doris Day and Rock Hudson , Advise and Consent 1962 , The Harder those people Fall 1956 , The Young Savages 1961 , Elmer Gantry 1960 , in which the man was memorable as George F . Babbitt , The Absent Minded Professor and Son of Flubber 1963 , in both of which the man played the Defense Secretary , and Avanti , in which the man was a very convincing agent of the State Department . Among his other film credits are Summertime 1955 with Katharine Hepburn ; Tension at Table Rock 1956 ; The Harder those people Fall 1956 with Humphrey Bogart ; Tea and Sympathy 1956 ; Three Brave Men 1957 ; The Young Doctors 1961 ; Youngblood Hawke 1964 ; Good Neighbor Sam 1964 ; The Glass Bottom Boat 1966 ; The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley 1969 Tora Tora Tora 1970 as Admiral Harold R . Stark ; How to Frame a Figg 1971 ; Charley and the Angel 1973 ; and The Seniors 1978 . In 1984 , the man played the character of Howard Baker in John ' Sixteen Candles . the man also appeared in Gremlins , filmed later the same year , which would be his final film . 322---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ed also guested on many television series including Thriller U . S . TV series , Goodyear Television Playhouse , Hands of Mystery , The United States Steel Hour , Justice , Cheyenne , The Twilight Zone , The Eleventh Hour , Route 66 , Naked City , Gunsmoke , Rawhide , Bonanza , Alias Smith and Jones , The Wild Wild West , The F . B . this person . , The Beverly Hillbillies , Sanford and Son , Ellery Queen , The Invaders , Bewitched , Hawaii Five O , Charlie 's Angels , The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Bob Newhart Show . the man was a regular on the series Broadside 19641965 as Commander Rogers Adrian . the man played the character of Charley in the 1966 dramatization of Death of a Salesman , and constantly acted throughout the 1970s as Elton Dykstra on The Intruders , Ernest W . Stanley on The Man Who Came to Dinner , Mayor Chrisholm alongside Don Knotts in the 1971 film How to Frame a Figg , and Mayor Massey on The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton 1974 . In 1968 , the man played a safecracker in a 4 part episode of this person Dream of Jeannie . the man played Conductor Harry Flood on the short lived series Supertrain . the man played Jack Tripper 's grandfather in an episode of the ABC TV sitcom series Three 's Company . 323---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ed and his wife Emily had two daughters and a son . the man was an avid yachtsman and loved sailing . the man died of a heart attack in Santa Monica , California , at the age of 70 and was cremated , his ashes scattered at sea . 324---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Edward Crawford born November 25 , 1962 appeared as Roger Lawson on Sanford and Son three times , first appearing in the Season 5 episode titled Sergeant Gork . A former child actor of the 1970 's Edward appeared in guest roles on several popular TV series , which included Good Times , Bonanza , Julia , Emergency as well as his appearance on Sanford and Son . Edward , who also appeared in the 1973 blaxploitation flick Cleopatra Jones , made his Hollywood acting debut in the 1968 69 TV series Felony Squad . ' http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 325---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Elizabeth Winfield Sanford is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son . the woman was the wife of Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx , and the mother of Lamont Sanford Demond Wilson , who was born September 27 , 1940 . In 1946 , the family moved to Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . the woman died twenty three years prior to the pilot Crossed Swords , when Lamont was seven . Although the woman is never shown , the woman is mentioned many times by other characters , most often by Fred in his fake heart attack routine . When things did not go Fred 's way , or the man did not get what the man wanted , the man would act like the man was having a heart attack , grabbing his chest and shouting the person hear that , Elizabeth I am coming to join ya , honey or some variant . Elizabeth 's sisters Ethel Winfield Beah Richards and Esther Anderson LaWanda Page are antagonistic towards their brother in law Fred . Esther is a proud Christian with a sharp tongue , whose appearance is insulted rather frequently by Fred . Elizabeth 's father was a shoe maker . the woman was from St . Louis but later moved to Los Angeles with Fred . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 326---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Elizabeth Winfield Sanford is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son . the woman was the wife of Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx , and the mother of Lamont Sanford Demond Wilson , who was born September 27 , 1940 . In 1946 , the family moved to Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . the woman died twenty three years prior to the pilot Crossed Swords , when Lamont was seven . Although the woman is never shown , the woman is mentioned many times by other characters , most often by Fred in his fake heart attack routine . When things did not go Fred 's way , or the man did not get what the man wanted , the man would act like the man was having a heart attack , grabbing his chest and shouting the person hear that , Elizabeth I am coming to join ya , honey or some variant . Elizabeth 's sisters Ethel Winfield Beah Richards and Esther Anderson LaWanda Page are antagonistic towards their brother in law Fred . Esther is a proud Christian with a sharp tongue , whose appearance is insulted rather frequently by Fred . Elizabeth 's father was a shoe maker . the woman was from St . Louis but later moved to Los Angeles with Fred . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 327---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ellie Wilson Marshall , is Grady Wilson 's daughter on the Sanford and Son spinoff NBC TV series Grady . Carole Cole , the eldest child of legendary entertainer singer Nat King Cole , played the part of Ellie . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102074216/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/3f/Carol_Cole.png/300px-Carol_Cole.png 328---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The role of Elroy Pitt , a sidekick of Hutch Arnold Johnson and Fred appeared in two episodes , appearing in The Escorts Season 5 , episode 19 , in which George Foreman also guest starred , and The Director Season 5 , episode 21 . the man also made an appearance in the pilot episode of the Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady . Elroy was played by veteran actor George Wiltshire . 329---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Eric Laneuville born July 14 , 1952 , New Orleans , Louisiana appeared as Daniel Anderson , a one time Atheistic , wayward orphaned teen whom the Andersons adopt in the episode Aunt Esther Has a Baby Season 6 , episode 12 , who also appears in the season six episode The Will Season 6 , episode 21 , and as Ron , a teen apprentice overworked and underpaid by a Scrooge like Fred at Christmas time in the episode Ebenezer Sanford Season 5 , episode 12 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 330---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A multi faceted Hollywood figure as a television director , actor and martial artist , Eric 's first prominent acting roles were in the science fiction film The Omega Man 1971 with Charlton Heston and the ABC TV series Room 222 19701973 . His role as orderly Luther Hawkins in the long running NBC television series St . Elsewhere is probably his best known role . the man also starred in A Force of One playing Charlie , the stepson of Chuck Norris . In more recent years , the man frequently directs such one hour dramas as Ghost Whisperer and Lost . 331---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ernest Skillet Mayhand born March 1 , 1916 in Ohio died May 12 , 2007 was one half of the Leroy & Skillet comdey team that appeared on numerous risque comedy albums for LaFF Records during the 1960 's , performing with future Sanford and Son castmates Redd Foxx , Slappy White , and LaWanda Page , who were all longtime friends of Skillet and Leroy . A veteran entertainer from the Chitlin Circuit of the 1940 's and 1950 's , Skillet once served as an opening act for future comedy team mate and fellow Sanford and Son castmate Leroy Daniels , as well as Redd Foxx , Page , and Rudy Dolemite Moore . In addition to his work on Sanford and Son Skillet also appeared in the films Handle with Care 1964 , Petey Wheatstraw 1977 and Rude 1982 with Dolemite . Eariler in his career , the man appeared in an episode of the 1950 's CBS comedy series Amos and Andy , in a cameo role as Higgins in The Convention , in 1953 . Skillet died of natural couses in Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 332---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ernest Skillet Mayhand born March 1 , 1916 in Ohio died May 12 , 2007 was one half of the Leroy & Skillet comdey team that appeared on numerous risque comedy albums for LaFF Records during the 1960 's , performing with future Sanford and Son castmates Redd Foxx , Slappy White , and LaWanda Page , who were all longtime friends of Skillet and Leroy . A veteran entertainer from the Chitlin Circuit of the 1940 's and 1950 's , Skillet once served as an opening act for future comedy team mate and fellow Sanford and Son castmate Leroy Daniels , as well as Redd Foxx , Page , and Rudy Dolemite Moore . In addition to his work on Sanford and Son Skillet also appeared in the films Handle with Care 1964 , Petey Wheatstraw 1977 and Rude 1982 with Dolemite . Eariler in his career , the man appeared in an episode of the 1950 's CBS comedy series Amos and Andy , in a cameo role as Higgins in The Convention , in 1953 . Skillet died of natural couses in Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 333---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When a pair of gangsters crash a rent party that Fred throws to raise money the man and Lamont need to catch up on debts owed from overdue utility bills , It takes until the next morning ; after a distress call from Fred a Sunday morning visit fromAunt Estherand her Raiders or,Esther 's Raiders , what Fred calls them , her church going sisters , to drive out theparty crashing gangsters Gabriel Dell and Danny Big Black Rey who try to turn the Sanford residence into a gambling and drinking racket , which those people also seek to become partners with Fred and Lamont in , but , the Raiders , complete with bibles in one hand and swords in the other , are able to kick the gangsters and the partiers from the Sanford premises http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 334---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Esther Winfield Anderson , better known to television audiences as Aunt Esther , was a fictional character on the NBC TV sitcom Sanford and Son , portrayed by LaWanda Page . the woman had six sisters , Ethel Winfield Beah Richards , Hazel played by Lillian Randolph , Flossie , Minnie , and the late Elizabeth Sanford . The latter was the wife of Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx , and the mother of Lamont Demond Wilson . Elizabeth died twenty three years before the timeline of the pilot Crossed Swords , and her sisters harassed Fred , serving as his comic foils . Esther was a very religious Baptist . the woman was married to alcoholic Woodrow Woody Anderson Raymond Allen , who later cleaned up his act and became sober so the couple could adopt a child . Esther 's father was a shoe maker . Originally from Detroit , Esther and her family lived for many years in St . Louis , but the woman moved to Los Angeles with Woody . While still living in St . Louis , Esther once dated blues singer B . B . King , when the man was still a struggling blues singer named Riley King , and who later gave Woody $ 1000 for taking Esther , because Esther married Woody and moving to Los Angeles caused King to leave St . Louis and start singing the blues . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 335---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Esther and Fred despise each other ; the sparks fly practically everytime the woman enters the Sanford home , Fred usually makes an exaggerated grimace ; when the woman leaves , the woman usually shouts , Oh Glory Fred often insults her appearance , likening her to wild animals and fictional monsters such as Godzilla , King Kong , or gorillas . the woman cringes , and tells Fred to watch it , sucka . or , when angered , flays her purse wildly in Fred 's direction while issuing a barrage of insults of her own , usually including fish eyed fool or heathen . 336---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Esther was a devout churchgoer , always armed with the Bible , and whenever the woman went to do battle with Fred , which was often , the woman was usually aided by some women from her church , or by her drunken husband , Woodrow ; or would simply show up at Fred 's house quoting the Bible . Usually , at any random moment , even in mid sentence , Esther would throw her hands up and exclaim , Oh , Glory though it came out as Glory , even during her most heated arguments with Fred . Her upright image was deflated when it was revealed that in her youth , a old accquaintance of her and Fred 's , a character called Big Money Grip played by Sonny Jim Gaines had sneaked into her bedroom and had sex with her . Grip had mistaken Esther for the beautiful Elizabeth in the dark , which led Grip to claim the man was Lamont 's real father . Ironicially , Page 's convincing portrayal of the church lady image of Aunt Esther lay in direct contrast to the blue material of her stand up act and record albums . 337---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ethel Winfield is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , portrayed by Beah Richards . the woman had five sisters Esther LaWanda Page , who was married to an alcoholic named Woodrow Anderson Raymond Allen , Flossie , Minnie , Hazel , and Elizabeth , who was married to Watts junk dealer Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx , but died twenty three years prior to time set of the pilot episode , titled Crossed Swords Season 1 , episode 1 , 1972 . Ethel appeared in two episodes in the second season before the woman was replaced by Esther . Both served as Fred 's comic foils , who often insulted their appearance . Ethel 's father was a shoe maker . Her family , as revealed in a later episode , was originally from Detroit , then moved to St . Louis , and then later moved to Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 338---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Evelyn Lewis or Eve Lewis , played by actress Marguerite Ray , appeared on the spinoff series Sanford as the new love interest of Fred Sanford , as Lynn Hamilton elected not to revive the role of Donna , Fred 's fiancee from Sanford and Son . Instead , Evelyn , a widow , and Fred begin dating much to the dismay of Evelyn 's snobbish brother Winston Edwards Percy Rodrigues . Evelyn 's daughter Cissy played by Suzanne Stone was more approving of the relationship . Evelyn is credited as appearing in 24 of the 26 episodes over the two seasons of the series , but then her appearances became more infrequentmidway through the second season , as the writers were trying to focus more on the relationship between Fred and Cal , and also , as all of the series cast , with the exception of Marguerite , Clinton Derricks Carroll , who played Clifford , Esther 's son , Redd Foxx , who played Fred , Dennis Burkley , who appeared as Cal Pettie , and LaWanda Page , who appeared as Aunt Esther , were let go in an attempt by the producers to retool the struggling series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 339---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Everett Greenbaum December 20 , 1919 July 11 , 1999 was a American television and film writer and actor who contributed to such shows as The Andy Griffith Show 24 Episodes , M * A * S * H 35 Episodes , The Love Boat , The Real McCoys 32 Episodes , and The George Gobel Show . Greenbaum was a co creator with Jim Fritzell of Mister Peepers an important early television show which starred Wally Cox . the man wrote the Hollywood feature films The Shakiest Gun in the West 1968 , The Reluctant Astronaut 1967 , and The Ghost and Mr . Chicken 1966 ; all of which starred Don Knotts . Everett co wrote three episodes of Sanford and Son with longtime screenwritng partner Jim Fritzell . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 340---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born and raised in Buffalo , New York , Greenbaum studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and the Sorbonne in Paris . the man then moved to New York City in the mid 1930s to try his luck as a writer , eventually finding employment in radio , writing continuity for a series starring the Canadian folk singer Oscar Brand . 341---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After serving as a naval aviator and flight instructor in the Marshall Islands during World War II , Greenbaum returned to New York City , this time seeking work as a television writer . With Jim Fritzell , the man collaborated on scripts for the TV series Mr . Peepers 1952 , a stylish sitcom starring Wally Cox as a timid small town science teacher ; it also gave Tony Randall his first important role . When the series was cancelled , NBC TV received over 10 , 000 letters of protest . A month later Mr . Peepers returned , running for three years and winning a Peabody Award . 342---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In a 22 year partnership , Greenbaum and Fritzell also won three ' Guild awards and four Emmy nominations , and collaborated on more than 150 scripts . These included the Walter Brennan sitcom The Real McCoys 1957 62 , The Andy Griffith Show 1960 68 and M * A * S * H , on which those people worked for five years , contributing 35 episodes . On his own , Greenbaum wrote two books , including the memoir The Goldenberg Who could not Dance , and worked on The George Gobel Show . the man also acted in brief roles on Griffith 's Matlock series and other programs . 343---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Greenbaum died at the age of 79 in Los Angeles , California ; the man was survied by his wife Deana , a duughter . 344---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Find A Grave is a commercial website providing free access and input to an online database of cemetery records . It was founded in 1998 as a DBA and incorporated in 2000 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 345---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com According to the founder , Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton , the website was developed in 1995 to address the lack of any existing site that catered to his hobby of visiting the graves of celebrities . After some time , an online forum was created on the site . The site contains millions of records . 346---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from all around the world . American cemeteries are organized by state and county , and many cemetery records contain Google Maps with GPS coordinates supplied by contributors and photographs of the cemeteries . Individual grave records contain some or all of the following data fields dates and places of birth and death , biographical information , cemetery and plot information , photographs grave marker , the individual , etc . , and contributor information . A registered user may create memorials without any fact checking or review . Although an active user forum exists it is still possible that memorials are duplicated , incomplete or incorrect therefore , serious Genealogists should check alternate sources or personally visit gravesites . Find a Grave relies on the integrity of its registered users and has strict policies against the uploading copyrighted material . 347---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Interment listings are provided by individuals or genealogical societies . Major institutional contributors to Find A Grave include the US Veterans Department , the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and American Battle Monuments Commission , and the International Wargraves Photography Project . 348---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Contributors must register as members to submit listings , which are called memorials on the website . Upon submitting a listing , that member becomes the manager of the listing , but may transfer management . Only the current manager of a listing may edit the listing , although members and non members may send correction requests regarding listings . Members and non members can submit notations , which consist of images or pictures or flowers , flags , religious symbols , etc . , which are posted on the individual listings . Managers of listings may post links to other listings of spouses and parents for genealogical purposes . Members may also request photos of graves which then other members can fulfill . 349---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Find A Grave also maintains links to memorials of famous persons such as Medal of Honor recipients , religious figures , and educators . Find A Grave exercises editorial control over these listings . 350---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's Cheating Heart was the 55th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 17th episode of the ' third season , it first aired February 1 , 1974 . 351---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After learning about the dangers and high risk of heart disease from a Heart Fund door to door donation representative Thalmus Rasulala , Lamont prods Fred , and then plots to get his heart attack prone father to the hospital for a cardio check up . 352---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's Extra Job was the 120th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the ninth episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on November 19 , 1976 . 353---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred works nights as a bus boy in a fancy restaurant so the man can begin paying back the $ 6 , 000 bank loan the man took out in order to give Lamont an impressive wedding gift . 354---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To keep Lamont from quitting the junk business , Fred tries to get big a huge bank loan , pretending that business is booming and offering the junkyard as collateral . In his efforts to keep up this pretense , Fred moonlights as a waiter in a fancy restaurant . The trick is to keep Fred 's second job a secret from Lamont , Janet Marlene Clark and Donna , who visit Fred at the restaurant and want to bet that does not happen 355---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Milton Frome makes a guest appearance as the restaurant owner Maitre . Barry Wright makes a final guest appearance as Bruno . Mel Carter , appears in the episode as a bank loan officer . 356---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's Treasure Garden was the 73rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 11th episode of Season Four , it first aired November 29 , 1974 . 357---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady , who is house sitting for Fred discovers that one of the vegetables growing in his garden is wild parsley , only Lamont and Rollo recognize it by a different name marijuana Perhaps this explains why , a few hours later , Grady , Aunt Esther , and even the neighborhood beat cops Hoppy and Smitty who , coming off of duty , paid a visit are in such high spirits not to mention the amount off Mint Julep those people were drinking This was one of several Sanford and Son episodes filmed while Redd Foxx was absent from the series due to a contract dispute . 358---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , the Reluctant Fingerman was the 41st episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of the ' third season , it first aired September 28 , 1973 . 359---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , fearing retaliation after witnessing a robbery at Julio 's place , is unwilling to get involved by describing the burglars to the police . To teach Fred Fred a lesson , Lamont and Julio hide the truck , to show Fred how it is to be a victim of a robbery and not have anyone who may have seen the crime not be willing to get involved . After Fred reluctantly gives the description of the theives to Hoppy and Smitty , those people think that the truck was stolen , causing Fred to have another heart attack ; turns out that when Lamont hid the truck around the corner , it was ticketed and impounded for being double parked 360---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred D . Scott born August 31 1918 died July 12 , 2002 was a Black American character actor who appeared as Mr . Hastings , a Social Security representative in the Season 4 episode of Sanford and Son titled A Little Extra Security . A graduate of Ithaca College and Dillard College , Fred studied voice culture and performing arts . As a surgical technician for the U . S . Army in World War II , the man was decorated for service in the South Pacific . the man contracted tuberculosis during the war and was unable to continue plans to become an opera singer . Fred then studied theatre at San Jose State College and began appearing in plays in and around San Francisco . the man then relocated to Hollywood in the early 1970s , and spent the next three decades appearing in commercials , television programs and films . Settling in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles , Fred died there in 2002 at the age of 83 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 361---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred G . Sanford was the focal character on the sitcom Sanford and Son , played by actor and comedian Redd Foxx . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 362---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred G . Sanford was born in St . Louis , Missouri , on January 21 , 1907 . Fred often told tales describing his alleged service in World War this person or World War II depending on the situation and context , but as Lamont once pointed out , Fred was 11 when World War this person took place , and although conscripted into the United States Army for World War II , never went past Fort Dix . 363---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and his wife Elizabeth Winfield had a son Lamont , who was born on September 27 , 1940 , and in 1946 , the man , his wife , and their young son moved to Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . When Lamont was seven years old , Elizabeth died , leaving Fred to raise Lamont by himself . Lamont dropped out of high school to help Fred run the junk business , named Sanford and Son . 364---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When asked for his name , especially when talking via telephone , the man usually responds , Fred G . Sanford . S A N F O R D period . , which is also Fred 's signature . Other times , the man would respond with Fred G . Sanford . The G stands for , and then a word relating to the situation . Fred 's actual middle name is not revealed . 365---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When asked to work , Fred would sometimes claim that arthritis the man pronounced it arthur itis would not allow him to work , showing Lamont his deliberately gnarled fist . 366---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and his sisters in law Ethel Winfield Beah Richards and Esther Anderson LaWanda Page despise each other ; with the latter , being Esther , serving as his comic foils . Ethel appears thoughout the first season and part of the second ; Esther first appears in the second season and was a recurring character throughout the remainder of the series . When Esther enters the Sanford house , Fred usually makes an exaggerated grimace ; when the woman leaves , the woman usually shouts , Oh Glory Fred often insults her appearance , likening her to wild animals and fictional monsters such as Godzilla , King Kong , or gorillas . the woman cringes , and tells him to watch it , sucka . or , when angered , flays her purse wildly in his direction while issuing a barrage of insults of her own , usually including fish eyed fool , bean ' bear hugger or heathen . 367---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred at times displayed tiny streaks of racism and bigotry through wisecracks directed some of Lamont 's friends such as Ah Chew Pat Morita , who is Japanese American , and his Puerto Rican neighbor Julio played by Gregory Sierra , which usually offending those around him . Most frequently these insults and comments were directed towards Julio , and were usually about his accent , culture , or native language . 368---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred Meets Redd was the 126th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 15th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on January 14 , 1977 . 369---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The fourth wall falls when Fred enters NBC 's Redd Foxx look alike contest and eagerly anticipates meeting his idol face to face . 370---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com With his tax deadline rapidly approaching , Fred suddenly skips an appointment with his accountant . The reason Fred hopes to win a huge prize by entering a Redd Foxx lookalike contest . And just guess who makes a guest appearance as Redd Also appearing in this classic dual identity episode is funnyman Jack Carter and old time vaudevillian Benny Rubin . 371---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Jack Carter appears as Marvin . Dap Sugar Willie appears as Phil Tellman . Debraca Foxx , Redd Foxx 's stepdaugther , makes an appearance as Doris Martin a contest judge , and Fritzi Burr makes her final appearance on the series as Miss Rock . Tracee Lyles , Dave Turner makes his 2nd and final appearance on the series as Harrison . 372---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred G . Sanford was the focal character on the sitcom Sanford and Son , played by actor and comedian Redd Foxx . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 373---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred G . Sanford was born in St . Louis , Missouri , on January 21 , 1907 . Fred often told tales describing his alleged service in World War this person or World War II depending on the situation and context , but as Lamont once pointed out , Fred was 11 when World War this person took place , and although conscripted into the United States Army for World War II , never went past Fort Dix . 374---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and his wife Elizabeth Winfield had a son Lamont , who was born on September 27 , 1940 , and in 1946 , the man , his wife , and their young son moved to Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . When Lamont was seven years old , Elizabeth died , leaving Fred to raise Lamont by himself . Lamont dropped out of high school to help Fred run the junk business , named Sanford and Son . 375---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When asked for his name , especially when talking via telephone , the man usually responds , Fred G . Sanford . S A N F O R D period . , which is also Fred 's signature . Other times , the man would respond with Fred G . Sanford . The G stands for , and then a word relating to the situation . Fred 's actual middle name is not revealed . 376---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When asked to work , Fred would sometimes claim that arthritis the man pronounced it arthur itis would not allow him to work , showing Lamont his deliberately gnarled fist . 377---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and his sisters in law Ethel Winfield Beah Richards and Esther Anderson LaWanda Page despise each other ; with the latter , being Esther , serving as his comic foils . Ethel appears thoughout the first season and part of the second ; Esther first appears in the second season and was a recurring character throughout the remainder of the series . When Esther enters the Sanford house , Fred usually makes an exaggerated grimace ; when the woman leaves , the woman usually shouts , Oh Glory Fred often insults her appearance , likening her to wild animals and fictional monsters such as Godzilla , King Kong , or gorillas . the woman cringes , and tells him to watch it , sucka . or , when angered , flays her purse wildly in his direction while issuing a barrage of insults of her own , usually including fish eyed fool , bean ' bear hugger or heathen . 378---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred at times displayed tiny streaks of racism and bigotry through wisecracks directed some of Lamont 's friends such as Ah Chew Pat Morita , who is Japanese American , and his Puerto Rican neighbor Julio played by Gregory Sierra , which usually offending those around him . Most frequently these insults and comments were directed towards Julio , and were usually about his accent , culture , or native language . 379---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred Sanford , Legal Eagle was the 53rd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 15th episode of the ' third season , it first aired January 11 , 1974 . 380---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Lamont gets a traffic ticket , Fred convinces him to fight it in court , where the poor man 's Perry Mason , Sonny Cochran Antonio Fargas , a tailor moonlighting as a lawyer , gives Lamont legal advice on fighting the ticket , telling him to throw himself on the mercy of the court . Lamont takes a pass on Sonny 's counsel , preferring to act as his own defense . But that is not good enough for Fred , who storms into court with his cronies in tow , claiming to be Lamont 's lawyer . 381---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While Lamont gets awarded the judgement in the case , Fred , who , with his buddies , proceed to cause a big scene in the courtroom In one instance , the man asks the judge , Look how many n * gers in here There is so many n * gers in here , there is enough to make a Tarzan movie In another , the man asks the arresting officer , What problem do the person have with Black drivers gets hit with contempt of court by the judee Arthur Adams and has to pay a $ 25 fine 382---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred Sanford Has a Baby was the 103nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on January 23 , 1976 . 383---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A very pregnant woman rents Lamont 's room for the week he is away on a fishing trip . 384---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com With Lamont away on a fishing trip , Fred seizes the opportunity to grab a quick buck by renting out Lamont 's room . His new tenant is a lonely and very pregnant young woman . This being a 1970s sitcom , it must needs be that the woman will go into labor , with only Fred in the vicinity to help with the emergency delivery . 385---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Fritzi Burr makes another appearance as a nurse , Bonnie Banfield appears as pregnant Louwella Evans , Skip Cunningham appears as her husband Don Evans , Renny Roker and Mel Bryant both appear as Men in the hospital Waiting Room . 386---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred Sings The Blues was the 135th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 24th episode and final of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on March 18 , 1977 . 387---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred invites B . B . King to dinner at Sanford home and may give the famous singer another reason to sing the blues . B . B . King Guest stars 388---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Although the man passes on performing songs written by Fred , the great B . B . King playing himself gives Fred a book , which explains why King starting singing the blues . Turns out that King has been nursing a broken heart ever since the man lost his sweetheart to another man . According to the book , King 's lost love was someone with the initials E . W . the same as Fred 's late lamented wife Elizabeth . 389---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Ji Tu Cumbaka appears as Edmond B.B 's valet , Basil Hoffman makes a second and final series appearance as a , Hannah Dean appears as a Woman in the Club Lucifer , and former L . A . Laker Harold ' Hairston appears as The Woman 's Husband . 390---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred the Activist was the 132nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 21st episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on February 25 , 1977 . 391---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Angered by the age discrimination policy of a local stereo dealer , Fred rallies a troop of Gray Foxes and leads the charge to change the policy . 392---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred becomes a Gray Fox when stereo salesman Honest Al refuses to extend credit to anyone over the age of 65 . Before long , Fred 's activism catches on with others his age and even older . This still timely episode reaches a riotous denouement as Fred leads a contingent of oldsters on a protest march . 393---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Tauren Blacque , later of NBC 's Hill Street Blues TV series fame , appears as Honest Hank . Helen Martin makes a final series appearance as Millie , Mel Stewart appears as Clarence , and Hilda Haynes appears as Rose . Tony Burton appears as a guard . 394---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fried chicken was one of the dishes prepared by Fred when blues singer B . B . King visits the junkyard in the Season 6 episode of Sanford and Son titled Fred Sings The Blues . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519114203/sanfordandson/images/thumb/b/b9/Fridd_Chicken.jpg/180px-Fridd_Chicken.jpg 395---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fritzi Burr born May 31 , 1924 died January 17 , 2003 appeared as various comic foils to Fred on Sanford and Son from the fourth season to the sixth beginning with There will Be Some Changes Made Season 4 , Episode 5 . A versatile character actress with a flair for comedy , and could do characterizations in various dialects , Fritzi appeared in both motion pictures and on television , in both comedic and dramatic roles . Fritzi was also the sister in law of Sanford and Son producer Saul Turteltaub and the aunt of Saul 's son Jon , who also works in Hollywood as a producer dirctor writer . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 396---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fritzi appeared in the motion pictures , 3 Ninjas 1992 , Like Normal People 1979 , Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night 1977 , Cover Girls 1977 , The New Original Wonder Woman 1975 , Chinatown 1974 , Frasier , The Sensuous Lion 1973 , and How Do this person Love Thee 1970 . Among her many television appearances are What is Happening , Friends , The Nanny , Melrose Place , Hunter , The Golden Girls , The Incredible Hulk , Sanford and Son , and The Odd Couple . 397---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A native of Philadelphia , PA , where the woman was also born , Burr began performing in little theater and in skits with the Vaudeville comedy team of Smith and Dale . By the late 1950s , Fritzi was working on Broadway and appeared in this person Can Get It for the person Wholesale , the show in which Barbra Streisand gained her first major attention . Later , Burr replaced actress Kaye Medford as the mother of Fanny Brice played by Barbara Streisand in the 1968 film Funny Girl . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101010848/sanfordandson/images/thumb/d/db/Fritzi_Burr_Sergeant_Gork.png/225px-Fritzi_Burr_Sergeant_Gork.png 398---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fritzi died in Fort Myers , Florida of uspecified causes . 399---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Funny , the person do not Look It was the 134th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 23rd episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on March 11 , 1977 . 400---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Inspired by Alex Haley 's Roots , Fred orders a family crest and genealogical scroll that states he is African royalty and a descendant of the Jewish Ethiopian Falashas . 401---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Evidently inspired by the TV miniseries Roots , Fred is convinced that the man is a descendant of none other than King Solomon . And how did this revelation come about Well , it seems that Fred shelled out big money a whole 25 dollars to a family tracing service who told him that the man is the ancestor of a famous Jewish historical figure . 402---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Milton Selzer appears as Sam Gittleman , Jewish shop owner . John Hawker makes an appearance as the mailman , and Will Gill , Jr . and James Mendenhall both appear as shop cutomers . 403---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gabriel Dell October 8 , 1919 July 3 , 1988 was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids East Side Kids The Bowery Boys . Gabriel made two appearances on Sanford and Son , first as a bank robber who drops by the junkyard and threatens Fred and Lomant at gunpoint looking for a suitcase filled with $ 70 , 000 in cash from a bank robbery that the man stashed in the yard in the episode titled The Suitcase Case in Season 1 , then as the leader of two Rent Party Gangsters who strongarm their way into persuading Fred , who was throwing a rent party to help pay bills , into entering the party business , again at gunpoint , in episode titled The Big Party in Season 2 http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 404---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Gabriel Marcel Dell Vecchio in New York City , Dell almost made his stage debut a few years before Dead End when the man and his sister were slated for roles in The Good Earth with Alla Nazimova and Claude Rains . 405---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Dell died in North Hollywood of leukemia in 1988 at age 68 . 406---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gene Farmer born September 6 , 1930 died April 13 , 2000 wrote 6 episodes for Sanford and Son in Seasons 3 & 4 of the series . Gene wrote or produced episodes or served as a story consutant for many TV seriesduring the 1970 's such asSanford and Son , Good Times , Whats Happening , CPO Sharkey , Chico and The Man , andThat 's My Mama . Gene got his start on network TV working as a writer for the popular comedy progams Rowan and Martin 's Laugh In and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s and early 1970s . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 407---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com George E . F . Hutch Hutton is a good natured ex convict who was released from prison after seving 30 years , originally sentenced to six months for petty theft , who Fred is af first reluctant to allow Hutch to stay there at the Sanford Arms when the man learns of his prison past , until the man learns that the reason the man sought to stay in prison was because of an annoying , ugly sister in law , who constantly visited the prison to bug him , which connects with Fred . Thus , Fred allows Hutch to stay at the Sanford Arms until the man was able to get a job and eventually becomes a sidekick of him andElroy . In the scene when Hutch first appears in the fifth season episode titled The Sanford Arms , and is allowed to rent a room in The Sanford Arms rooming house one thing that Hutch does that really annoys Fred is thatafter a ' meeting where the other tenats . led by Mrs . Hopkins , Hoppy 's mother , voice their complaints , Hutch tells Fred that the man found a job as a nightwatchman , and that the man would lend his room to some lovely ladies in the evenings , so that those people could have choir practice . Fred has another big one when the man finds out that the ladies are Esther and her church friends Hutch was played by character actor Arnold Johnson . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030070251/sanfordandson/images/thumb/f/f5/Hutch_Fred_Sanford.jpg/320px-Hutch_Fred_Sanford.jpg 408---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Former Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman born January 10 , 1949 apeeared as himself in the Sanford and Son episode titled The Director Season 5 , Episode 21 . Since the man retired from boxing for good since 1997 , the former two time World Heavyweight Champion , Olympic gold medalist , and ordained Baptist minister has become a highly successful author , part time actor , motivational speaker and entrepreneur . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 409---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After dropping out of school at the age 15 , and joining the Job Corps at age 16 , Young George , who was born in Marshall , Texas , and who grew up in nearby Houston 's notoriously tough Fifth Ward , was sent to train in California as a boxer for a couple of years , the man went on to be a gold medalist at the 1968 Olympics , Foreman won the World Heavyweight title with a second round knockout of then undefeated Joe Frazier in Kingston , Jamaica in 1973 . the man made two successful title defenses before losing to Muhammad Ali in The Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 . the man fought on but was unable to secure another title shot and retired following a loss to Jimmy Young in 1977 and , after suffering from what the man described as a near death experience , along with , a possibly partly because of heat exhaustion and heatstroke , the man claimed the man found himself in a hellish , frightening place of nothingness and despair . Then , at that moment , on the spot , the man became a Born Again Christian , and then by 1978 , an ordained minister . 410---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nine years later , in 1987 , Foreman announced a return from retirement to boxing again , to raise money for his church , Church Of The Lord Jesus Christ , and a youth center which the man started in 1978 , which was short of funds , in spite of detractors , many of them news reporters , who poked fun at his girth , at the time at about 300 lbs . , which the man gained during his 9 years out of the ring ; within several months , George was able to shed about fifty pounds , embarking on the long trek back to title contention usually fighting at between 240 250 pounds . In November 1994 , at age 45 , after several years of working his way back up the heavyweight ranks , the man regained the Heavyweight Championship by knocking out Michael Moorer . the man remains the oldest Heavyweight Champion in history . the man retired in 1997 at the age of 48 , with a final record of 765 , including 68 knockouts . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101043852/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/81/George_Foreman_-_Redd_Foxx_-_Sanford_and_Son.png/220px-George_Foreman_-_Redd_Foxx_-_Sanford_and_Son.png 411---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foreman has been inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame . The International Boxing Research Organization IBRO rates Foreman as the eighth greatest heavyweight of all time . In 2002 , the man was named one of the 25 greatest fighters of the past 80 years by The Ring magazine . The Ring ranked him as the 9th greatest puncher of all time . the man was a ringside analyst for HBO 's boxing coverage for twelve years , leaving in 2004 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101043852/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/81/George_Foreman_-_Redd_Foxx_-_Sanford_and_Son.png/220px-George_Foreman_-_Redd_Foxx_-_Sanford_and_Son.png 412---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Outside of boxing , the man is a successful entrepreneur and is known for his promotion of the Foreman , which has sold over 100 million units worldwide . In 1999 the man sold the naming rights to the grill for $ 138 million . 413---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foreman has 12 children . His 5 sons are George Jr , from his first marriage to AdrienneCalhoun , The other sons , from his marriage to present wife Mary Martelly are George III Monk , George IV Big Wheel , George V Red , and George VI Little Joey . The 2 daughters from his marriage to wife Mary are Natalia and Leola ; his 3 daughters from former marriages are Michi , Freeda , and Georgetta . the man adopted a daughter , Isabella Brandie Lilja Foreman , in 2009 ; and another , Courtney Isaac Foreman , in 2012 . 414---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Veteran actor George Wiltshire October 21 , 1900 December 10 , 1976 appeared as Elroy Pitt , a sidekick of Hutch Arnold Johnson and Fred 's in two episodes , appearing in The Escorts Season 5 , episode 19 , in which George Foreman also guest starred , and The Director Season 5 , episode 21 . A pioneering black veteran actor who first appeared in the 1930 Broadway revue play Hot Rhythm at the Times Square Theatre , the man made his first film appearance in the 1938 all black film Keep Punching opposite fellow veteran negro actor Canada Lee , the man appeared in several films from the 1940 's , appearing in such films as It Happened In Harlem 1945 , Midnight Menace 1946 , Junction 88 1947 , and also in the 1967 film Sweet Love , Bitter . the man also appeared in the pilot episode of the short lived Grady spinoff series titled Be It Ever So Humble . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 415---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wiltshire died in Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 416---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gladys was a voluptous , tall , redheaded gangsters moll and part of a trio , which included her , the mastermind Davis Sheldon Leonard and Willis Greg Morris , an accquaintance of Lamont and Fred , who both participate in the robbery of $ 1 , 000 , 000in diamonds from a Honolulu bank who tries to dupe Fred and Lamont into smuggling them off of the island in the episodes Hawaiian Connection Parts 1 & 2 in Season 5 ofSanford and Son . The part of Gladys was played by actress Barbara Rhoades , who is known primarily for her role as lady bandit Penelope Bad Penny Cushings inThe Shakiest Gun in the Westopposite Don Knotts 1968 . the woman had a memorable role as Jodie Dallas 's future wife , Maggie Chandler , in the TV series Soap . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 417---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gloria Delaney appeared twice on Sanford and Son , first as Janet , an aspiring actress girlfriend of Lamont 's in the Season 4 episode Matchmaker , Matchmaker , then as nurse who is used to plant a bomb in his hospital bed when he is hospitalized and under witness protection from the LAPD when the man witnesses a notorius hitman Daniel Mr . Big Tracy shoot someone in the Season 5 episode titled The Oddfather . Gloria , who made notable appearances in the films Black Girl , Deliver Us From Evil , Penitentiary , and A Piece of the Action which co starred Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier , has made numerous guest appearances on such TV shows as Ironside , Police Story , That is My Mama , Cagney and Lacey , Knots Landing , Falcon Crest and Valerie . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 418---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Going Out of Business was the 68th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the sixth episode of Season Four , it first aired October 18 , 1974 . 419---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To get a better tax break and increase their income , strapped for cash Lamont gets a job as a clerk at a haberdashery and Fred considers closing down Sanford & Son . To prevent this , Fred poses as an eccentric millionaire and heads to Lamont 's place of business , intending to buy all the clothes and put the haberdashery out of business . Wnen Lamont tells him that those people do not give refunds , Fred pretends to be offended by the salesman Lamont , causing a scene and Lamont to return to the junkyard , restoring to the Sanford and Son Salvage business . 420---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Golden Boy was the 81st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 19th episode of Season Four , it first aired February 7 , 1975 . 421---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred hopes to get rich quick by becoming co owner of a boxer dubbed Junior Joe Louis . It then becomes Fred and Grady 's job to get Junior into fighting shape before Friday 's bout . 422---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred Redd Foxx spends the 50 dollars his son Lamont was saving for truck repairs to purchase a half interest in boxer Junior Joe Louis Barry Wright . Promised a return of 500 , 000 dollars on his investment , Fred takes over management of Junior Joe himself . Not surprisingly , Fred messes things up , culminating in a disastrous exhibition bout with poor Lamont . Future Charlie 's Angel 's TV series co star David Doyle makes a guest appearance as Clancy Fitzgerald , a fight promoter , and Hank Rolike also appears in this episode as Yarby , a friend of Fred and Junior 's manager . 423---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady was a spin off of the popular NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , focused on Fred G . Sanford 's Redd Foxx absent minded friend Grady Wilson , who was portrayed by Whitman Mayo . In this series , Fred Sanford 's widower friend Grady moves out of Watts and moves in with his daughter and her family in Westwood section of Los Angeles . Executive producer Norman Lear served as a consultant to the show . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 424---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Redd Foxx made a special guest appearance as Fred Sanford in the second episode . The series never found a solid audience , and was canceled after ten episodes . Whitman Mayo returned to Sanford and Son and would go on to star in the revival series The Sanford Arms . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 425---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com * The date of this episode is uncertain . 426---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The pilot episode was repackaged as an episode of Sanford and Son and is a part of its syndication package . An episode of this series aired on TV Land during a Norman Lear tribute in 2003 . 427---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady , The Star Boarder was the 50th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eleventh episode of the ' third season , it first aired November 30 , 1973 . 428---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred seizes a financial opportunity when Grady gripes about his ' fighting invite Grady to come live in serenity for $ 60 a month with him and Lamont . Sick of listening to his ' quarrelling , Grady accepts the offer made by his friend Fred and moves into the ' house . Alas , Grady soon proves to be a pest , eating too much , snoring too loudly , and hogging the bathroom . Hoping to drive Grady out of the house , Fred and Lamont Demond Wilson stage a phony quarrel which quickly ignites into the real thing 429---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady Wilson is a character on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , who was one of Fred Sanford 's best friends , portrayed by Whitman Mayo . However , in The Dowry , a character named Grady who supposedly was Fred 's cousin , was portrayed by Albert Reed , Jr . Grady is the sometimes scatterbrained friend of Watts junk dealer Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx , and is often involved in , if not a foil to , Fred 's schemes and antics . Grady , who hailed from Chicago , Illinois , is also the godfather of Fred 's son Lamont Demond Wilson . Grady is actually named after Demond Wilson , whose full name is Grady Demond Wilson . Grady 's catchphrases are Good goobliy goop and Great googly moogly , which the man utters when surprised , or startled . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 430---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady is extremely absent minded and regularly forgets the names of people the man knows especially Lamont , who is Grady 's godson . When Grady asks him his name , Lamont often responds by sarcastically giving him a similar name such as Lucas or Lawrence , which Grady then acknowledges . Ironically , Grady is actually named after Demond Wilson , the actor who played Lamont on the series . His full name is Grady Demond Wilson . the man frequently confuses certain words , upon hearing them , for anything similar sounding such as referring to the munchies as Munchkins . Grady often refers to his old age , or his impending death , or the deaths of his and Fred 's friends . the man also frequently inadvertently insults Fred 's sister in law Esther , by telling her something Fred has said about her . the man is often easily alarmed or surprised , and when excited , the man is known to exclaim his catch phrases , Good goobily goop or Great googly moogly . Grady also has a habit of being easily upset , usually when complimented , accidentally offended or hearing of illness or impending death striking a friend , sobbing uncontrollably and blowing his nose loudly Fred often responds to this by telling him irritably do not do that , the person going to blow ' outta your head that the person need p 431---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com For a time during the ' run , Fred was out of town due to a salary dispute between Foxx and NBC , leaving Grady in charge of Fred 's business , effectively making Grady the main character on the show . During Fred 's absence , Grady moved into Fred 's house , and also took over the role of Lamont 's comic foil . Like Fred before him , the man also quite frequently ran afoul of Lamont 's formidable Aunt Esther . 432---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady appeared on Sanford and Son from 1973 until 1977 . During this time , Mayo also starred in a TV series about the character , Grady . In this series , Grady moves out of Watts to live with his daughter . The show was short lived , and the man eventually returned to Sanford and Son . Mayo reprised the role of Grady again in the show 's short lived spin off The Sanford Arms , in which Grady is married to his former girlfriend , Dolly . 433---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady and His Lady was the 66th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fourth episode of Season Four , it first aired October 4 , 1974 . 434---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred fears wedding bells will break up his beautiful friendship after Grady announces he is engaged to Dolly Norma Miller ; at the core of the animonsity of Fred upon the wedding news , other than Fred 's cringing upon meeting Dolly and her rather homely looks is the perception that Dolly will severely curb the free time of future hubby Grady Whitman Mayo once they are married . To this end , Fred plots to break up him Grady and ' Deputy Dawg Norma , in layman 's terms , puncture the budding romance 435---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Graham Brown October 24 , 1924 December 13 , 2011 was perhaps best known for his work in the theatre . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 436---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Robert Brown in New York City , Graham is best known for his work on the stage . the man attended Howard University , where the man earned a BA in theater . the man also studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York . the man began his career as a Shakespearean actor at the Guthrie Theater where the man appeared in productions like Hamlet and Richard III . Brown was an original member of Negro Ensemble Company NEC and played in many NEC productions like Malcochon by Derek Walcott , Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonnie Elder III , District Line and The River Niger both by Joseph A Walker . the man was part of the original cast of controversial play Song of the Lusitanian Bogey by Peter Weiss which toured Europe and was subject to a riot in a London theatre in August 1968 . Graham Brown was often cast as professional and or highly educated people such as doctors and clergymen . 437---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com One of Graham 's best remembered roles was as Jared Philibert , the 50 year old patriarch of a Caribbean American family in Steve Carter 's critically acclaimed play , Nevis Mountain Dew . the man originated the role in NEC 's Off Broadway production and reprised the role in the West Coast premiere of the play . For the latter the man received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance . 438---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Graham Jarvis August 25 , 1930 April 16 , 2003 appeared as Dr . Simmons , a therapist and hypnotist summoned by Lamont to assist Fred in his TV addiction in the Sanford and Son titled The TV Addict Season 5 , episode 17 . Graham was a seasoned Canadian character actor in American films and television from the 1960s . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 439---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Toronto , Graham attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater . Jarvis appeared on such television programs as Naked City , Route 66 , N . Y . P . D . , All in the Family , Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman , M * A * S * H , Mork & Mindy , Starsky and Hutch , Cagney and Lacey , the NBC TV series Fame , Married , with Children , Star Trek The Next Generation , The X Files , ER , and Six Feet Under . the man also played character roles in many films . His last major part was as Charles Jackson , father of Annie Jackson Camden in the Warner Brothers TV drama 7th Heaven , a role that the man filled until his death . 440---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jarvis acted in the role of Elliot Sinclair in the Journeyman Project trio of video games and was also the narrator in the first American production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles , playing alongside Meat Loaf and Tim Curry . 441---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man lived in Los Angeles with his wife Joanna Jarvis , and two sons Alex and Matt . Jarvis was also the uncle of former AIMR President Peter Jarvis . In 2003 , the man died from multiple myeloma . the man was interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village , California . 442---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Greatest Show in Watts was the 102nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 15th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on January 16 , 1976 . 443---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While babysitting an elephant , Fred holds a circus in the junkyard , allowing the cast to display their talents , especially Aunt Esther as The Bronze Goddess . 444---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Unable to pay his back rent , Dan , a tenant of the Sanford Arms leaves his sole possession as collateral . Unfortunately for Fred Redd Foxx , that possession turns out to be an elephant . Hoping for a quick turnover , Fred stages a spectacular advertising gimmick , with the pesky pachyderm as the main attraction and before long our hero is facing a lawsuit . LaWanda Page , who plays Aunt Esther , and who once performed in a Burlesque type fire breathing act in the late 1940s mid 1950s , reprises her act , of sorts , in the carnival as The Bronze Goddess . 445---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Rozelle Gayle makes a 2nd guest appearance as Dan , Lee Weaver appears as Mr . Qunicy . 446---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Greg Morris September 27 , 1933 August 27 , 1996 appeared as Willis , a career criminal and the co conspirator and mastermind of a robbery of $ 1 , 000 , 000 in diamonds from a Honolulu bank in the three sixth season episodes offSanford and SontitledThe Hawaiian Connection . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 447---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Cleveland , Ohio , Greg began his acting career in the 1960s making guest appearances on many TV shows such as The Twilight Zone and Ben Casey . In 1966 , the man was cast in his most recognizable role as the electronics expert Barney Collier in the 1966 1973 CBS TV series Mission Impossible . Morris , Peter Lupus and Bob Johnson were the only actors to remain with the series throughout its entire run . 448---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com While in college , Morris was active in theater and hosted the late afternoon Jazz radio show , Tea Time , on the University of Iowa 's station , WSUI . the man co produced concerts at the university with a student friend . 449---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Iowa , Greg 's first professional stage role was in The Death of Bessie Smith . One of his earliest television roles was a cameo appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show , when Rob and Laura think they have gotten the wrong baby from the hospital . In the 19631964 season , the man appeared on ABC TV 's drama about college life , starring Jason Evers and Henry Jones . 450---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Mission Impossible was cancelled , Morris appeared in movies and made guest TV appearances before the man was cast as Lt . David Nelson during the second season of the TV series Vega $ . After the cancellation of the series in 1981 , Morris continued to make guest TV appearances in the next decade , including a few episodes in the short lived 1980s remake of the Mission Impossible TV series , which starred his son Phil Morris , who was cast as Grant Collier , the son of Barney . the man also appeared in a couple of episodes of the TV series What is Happening as Lawrence Nelson father of Dwayne and in three episodes of The Jeffersons , in which the man reprised his role of an electronics expert although not as Barney Collier in a quasi spoof of the Mission Impossible series . Morris was also a frequent guest star on Password and Password Plus in the 1960 's & 70 's . 451---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morris died in 1996 of brain cancer in Las Vegas . Shortly before his death , the man went to see the film version of Mission Impossible that starred Tom Cruise . The reports were that the man disliked the movie so much an opinion that was shared by several of his former co stars that the man left the theater early . According to The Associated Press , the man said of the movie It is an abomination . 452---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gregory Sierra born January 25 , 1941 played the role of Julio Fuentes , a Puerto Rican junk dealer from New York City who moves next door to the Sanfords , arousing the ire of Fred . Gregory is a seasoned veteran actor known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Chano Amenguale on the ABC TV series Barney Miller and as Julio on Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 453---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Gregory also guest starred as a Jewish radical vigilante activist in an unusually dramatic episode of All in the Family , working with the Hebrew Defense Association , an organization whose goal it was to stop anti Semitism in the neighborhood . In the plot , the man volunteers in helping to chase away neo Nazi thugs presiding in the neighborhood who spray painted a swastika on the ' front door . the man is later killed by a car bomb planted by the neo Nazis . The actor later went on to star as Dr . Tony Menzies on the unsuccessful sitcom A . E . S . Hudson Street . 454---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1980 Sierra was cast as South American anti Communist revolutionary El Puerco whose friends simply call him El on the ABC TV serial spoof comedy series SOAP , figuring prominently in the ' unresolved final episode in 1981 . In 1984 , the man briefly became a main cast member of the then new TV drama Miami Vice where the man played Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez ; the man asked to be written out of the series after just four episodes . More recently the man had regular roles on the TV shows Zorro and Son , Something is Out There , and the 1996 CBS TV legal drama series Common Law . 455---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1992 , Gregory played pernicious drug dealer Felix Barbossa in the Bill Duke directed Deep Cover , which also starred Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum . the man also played a man named Villanazul in the low budget 1998 movie The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit . the man also appeared as Corbin Entek in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode Second Skin . 456---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sierra is of Puerto Rican descent . the man has performed with the National Shakespeare Conservatory in the New York Shakespeare Festival . the man lives in Laguna Woods , Californiaa . 457---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Big Money Grip , an old buddy from St . Louis , appears in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Mama 's Baby , Papa 's Maybe in Season 3 . The part of Grip is played in the episode by character actor Sonny Jim Gaines . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 458---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's feathers really get ruffled when Grip visits from St . Louis claiming that the man is Lamont 's actual father . Aunt Esther 's normally morally upright image gets deflated when it was revealed that in her youth , young Grip had sneaked into her bedroom , thinking it was Elizabeth in the Winfield house and had sex with her Grip had mistaken Esther for Fred 's late wifeElizabethin the dark , which led Grip to believe that the man was Lamont 's real father . When Grip realizes this , the man recoils saying Me and her shuddering as the man leaves the Sanford residence 459---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Big Money Grip , an old buddy from St . Louis , appears in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Mama 's Baby , Papa 's Maybe in Season 3 . The part of Grip is played in the episode by character actor Sonny Jim Gaines . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 460---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's feathers really get ruffled when Grip visits from St . Louis claiming that the man is Lamont 's actual father . Aunt Esther 's normally morally upright image gets deflated when it was revealed that in her youth , young Grip had sneaked into her bedroom , thinking it was Elizabeth in the Winfield house and had sex with her Grip had mistaken Esther for Fred 's late wifeElizabethin the dark , which led Grip to believe that the man was Lamont 's real father . When Grip realizes this , the man recoils saying Me and her shuddering as the man leaves the Sanford residence 461---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hal Cooper born February 23 , 1923 in Ney York City , New York directed two episodes of Sanford and Son ; Hello Cousin Emma , Goodbye Cousin Emma , and The Way to Lamont 's Heart both in Season 3 . Hal has directed over 40 television series , which include his directing work on Sanford and Son , ABC 's The Brady Bunch , CBS 's Maude and One Day At A Time , many of which the man wrote and produced , as well , such as CBS 's Maude , the NBC TV sitcoms Empty Nest and Dear John . Cooper started out in show business as a child actor on radio , and got his first chance to direct at the early age of 13 on the set of the radio program Rainbow House . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 462---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hal Marshall was Grady Wilson 's son in law on the NBC TV Sanford and Son spinoff sitcom series Grady in 1975 76 . Joe Morton played the part of Hal on the series . A college track coach who lives in Westwood section of Los Angeles , with wife Ellie Wilson Marshall played by Carole Cole , Grady 's daughter , those people have two teenaged children , son Haywood , played by Haywood Nelson , later of ABC TV 's What is Happening series fame and daughter Laurie played by Rosanne Katon . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102055028/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9d/Joe_Morton_Grady.png/265px-Joe_Morton_Grady.png 463---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hal and Effie both are concerned , maybe a bit worried about Grady living in the rough Watts section alone , and make an invitation to Grady to move in with them . Reluctant at first , and presented with the options staying where he is been living , or moving into a home for the aged , changes his mind and decides to take the Marshalls on their offer , but only to eventually move back to the rooming house where the man had been staying at the beginning of the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102055028/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9d/Joe_Morton_Grady.png/265px-Joe_Morton_Grady.png 464---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Harold Hal Williams born December 14 , 1938 appeared as the black cop , LAPD Officer Smith a . k . a . Smitty on Sanford and Son . the man is also known as the patriarch Lester Jenkins , the husband of Marla Gibbs 's character Mary Jenkins , on the NBC TV sitcom 227 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121027172155/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/81/Hal-Williams.jpg/280px-Hal-Williams.jpg 465---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hal started out in show business in 1969 . Since then , the man has appeared in movies such as 1979 film Hardcore , Private Benjamin 1980 the man also took his role of Sgt L . C . Ted Ross to the television series of the same name , and The Rookie 1990 . the man was controversially fired from The Jimmy Stewart Show in 1971 at the insistence of its star , James Stewart . In the early to mid 1990s , the man starred in many of comic Sinbad 's productions , including The Sinbad Show and The Cherokee Kid . Most recently , the man played the grandfather in the Bernie Mac film Guess Who . 466---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His other television credits include Moonlight , the UPN series Moesha and Minor Adjustments , NBC TV 's Suddenly Susan , L . A . Law , Quincy , M . E . , Hill Street Blues , give me a Break , and Night Court , CBS series such as Magnum , P . this person . , The Jeffersons , Good Times , The Dukes of Hazzard , The Waltons , Gunsmoke , Knots Landing and The White Shadow , and ABC TV shows such as T . J . Hooker , What is Happening , Kung Fu , S . W . A . T . , and That Girl . 467---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hal is also the host of the annual Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation nationally televised telethon . 468---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Happy Birthday , Pop was the second episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered January 21 , 1972 . 469---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont buys Fred a new hat for his birthday and then tries to take him out on the town to celebrate . However , a visit to a fancy bar for a little drink , which Fred complains about is not well pleasing to Fred . Then the man takes Fred to a movie theater to see Fiddler on the and dinner at a Chinese restaurant which Fred again complains about . Frustrated , Lamont abandons Fred at the restaurant , leaving Fred to walk home in the rain , almost ruining the new Fedora hat the man bought for Fred 470---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Harold Harry Basch born January 16 , 1926 in St . Louis , Missouri appeared as Doctor Jamison in the Sanford and Son episode titled Fred 's Cheating Heart Season 3 , episode 17 . A veteran stage , film and television actor and author columnist , in 1951 , Harry appeared in Mr . Roberts at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco . the man is possibly best known for his role as Vince Caproni in the 1980s television series Falcon Crest . the man appeared in the series from 1982 to 1984 . In addition to acting , Basch has written several articles for the Los Angeles Times about traveling . the man and his late wife , actress Shirley Slater , also wrote several books on the subject including RV Vacations for Dummies . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 471---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Have Gun , Will Sell was the 21st episode of Sanford and Son . Also the seventh episode of the ' second season , it premiered November 3 , 1972 . 472---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After scaring off a burglar , Lamont and Rollo Nathaniel Taylor discover that a crook Dilart Heyson who tried to burglarize the Sanford home while Fred was asleep on the couch dropped his gun , and left it behind . At first , thinking about turning the weapon over to the police , those people were afraid to do so . Thus , those people try to sell the gun , enlisting similarly reluctant Fred , to his objections , to carry it and sell it at the nearby pawn shop without getting in trouble with the authorities or arousing the suspicion of the owner of the pawn shop William Hansen , the resultswhich almost becomes disasterous 473---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When LAPD Officers Smitty and Swanny arrive at the pawn shop after the pawn shop broker pushes a button to an alarm system that alerts the cops , those people are able to explain that those people found the weapon inside the house , and were trying to pawn it ; the pawnbroker argues that Fred , who was actually trying to see how much the gun was worth , had the gun pointed at him , was trying to rob him , mistakenly , After Smitty and Swanny comfiscate the weapon those people admonish them , advising them that finding a weapon and not reporting it to the police was a felony , but that those people would not press charges . Fred then says , That is what this person get , messing with the person two dummies this person told the person to turn it into the police But No This dummy pointing to Lamont wanted to keep it And this here dummy pointing at Rollo wanted to pawn it And the reason why I am here between the person two dummys , trying to sell it to this here dummy the pawnbroker 474---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After the smoke is cleared up , Lamont asks the broker how much would the man given them for the gun in any other circumstance ; when the man says $ 100 , the man says to Fred this person knew you would mess things up as the man and Rollo leave the pawnshop . 475---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Lamont and Rollo leave the pawn shop , Fred quickly turns back to the broker , and asks him about the worth for an old World War this person rifle , which the man claimed was with him when the man fought aside Sgt . Alvin York , when the broker says the man could give as much as $ 100 for it , Fred gleefully cheers , I will take it , I will take it I will get it I will get it I will bring it I will bring it and I will sell it I will sell it 476---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Haywood Marshall was Grady Wilson 's grandson , and the son of college track and field coach Hal Marshall , Grady 's son in law played by Joe Morton , and Ellie Wilson Marshall , Grady 's daughter Carole Cole in the NBC TV Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady Haywood Nelson , who is best known for having later portrayed Dwayne Nelson on the ABC television series What is Happening , and its syndicated spin off series What is Happening Now , played the part of mischeious but well behaved Haywood . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 477---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Haywood Nelson born March 25 , 1960 in New York City played the part of Haywood Marshall , Grady 's grandson in the NBC TV Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady the man is best known for having portrayed Dwayne Nelson on the television series What is Happening , and its spin off series What is Happening Now http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 478---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Haywood was a child star , appearing in many national commercials ; the man also appeared on Broadway in a successful show , Thieves . At the age of 14 , the man also guest starred on Sanford and Son 1972 as Grady 's grandson ; at 15 , the man was in the cast of a spin off of Sanford and Son called Grady 1975 . The show was short lived . The next year , in 1976 , at the age of 16 , the man landed the role of Dwayne on What is Happening 1976 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 479---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Haywood Nelson still works in entertainment , although mainly behind the scenes ; the man has worked in talk shows , TV shows and interview programs . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 480---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hazel Medina born October 8 , 1937 in Colon , Panama died February 14 , 2012 was a veteran actress who appeared as Crazy Alice , a date of Fred 's in the Sanford and Son episode titled Chinese Torture The Defiant One in Season 6 Episode 15 . Medina was born in Colon , Panama . Her parents divorced shortly after her birth , and the woman arrived in U . S . in 1946 with her mother and stepfather , with the family settling in Los Angeles , when the woman was only eight years old . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 481---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hazel , who enjoyed extensive work in guest roles in film and on television series , made her first appearance in the CBS TV crime drama series this person Spy which co starred Bill Cosby and Robert Kulp . the woman went on to make guest appearances in numerous TV shows such CBS series as Gunsmoke 1969 , Medical Center 1970 , The Bill Cosby Show 1971 , Baretta 1975 , Lou Grant 1978 , The White Shadow 1980 , NBC 's The Cosby Show , and CBS 's Third Watch in 2000 . In film , Hazel made appearances in Watermelon Man 1970 , Women In Chains 1972 , Malcolm X , and also as Pam in the Chris Rock film this person Think this person Love My Wife 2007 . Although later in her career the woman continued to find steady work , Hazel began to grow increasingly frustrated by the lack of variety in roles for mature women of color , and the woman completed a B . A . in social work at Fordham University , the College at Lincoln Center , and subsequently a masters in social work from NYU . Medina retired as a caseworker in 2007 . 482---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1981 , Hazel wed fellow actor Jerry Matz . Hazel died in February 2012 in New York City , where the woman had lived for years , having suffered in recent years from myeloma . 483---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Helen Martin July 23 , 1909 March 25 , 2000 appeared in different roles in four guest appearances on Sanford and Son , her first being in the episode The Escorts Season 5 , episode 19 who perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 1985 1990 opposite Marla Gibbs who played Florence on The Jeffersons TV series and Hal Williams Officer Smitty Smith on Sanford and Son as the Jenkins 's busybody neighbor Pearl Shay , also would appear with Demond Wilson in the short lived CBS TV sitcom series Baby I am Back in 1978 . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121103203605/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/8b/Helen_Martin.jpg/275px-Helen_Martin.jpg 484---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin was born in St . Louis , Missouri , the daughter of Amanda Frankie ne Fox and William Martin , a minister . the woman attended public schools , which at the time were segregated . 485---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin moved to New York to pursue a career in acting . the woman was chiefly a Broadway theatre character actress for many decades , debuting in Orson ' production of Native Son in 1941 . the woman appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows , including Jean Genet 's The Blacks , the musical Raisin from 1973 to 1975 , Ossie ' Purlie Victorious and later the musical version , which was called Purlie , The Amen Corner and Tennessee ' Period of Adjustment . the woman was an original member of the American Negro Theater . 486---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin became widely known later in life due to her roles in popular television series , which brought her a large audience . the woman had a guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times , and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227 , which lasted from 1985 1990 . the woman also played on the short run sitcoms Baby , I am Back as mother in law , Luzelle and That is My Mama . 487---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the woman played a variety of grandmothers in films Hollywood Shuffle 1987 , do not Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood 1996 , and Mama Doll in Bulworth 1998 . 488---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Helen Martin died of a myocardial infarction on March 25 , 2000 . 489---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hello Cousin Emma , Goodbye Cousin Emma was the 62nd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 24th episode of the ' third season , it first aired March 29 , 1974 . 490---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady 's cousin Emma Clarice Taylor blows in from the Windy City and promises to make the living easy for the two men , but Lamont has his doubts , especially after being bumped from his bedroom and having to share a bed with Grady . After discovering her free loading , gold bricking ways Lamont , along with Grady , cook up schemes to get rid of the unwanted and extremely lazy Emma . 491---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The two , Lamont and Grady , concot a made up story about contracting the contagious Junkman 's Itch that the person supposedly contract from working around a junkyard too much , complete with what those people call The Hong Kong Hives , with scratching all over , and the need to take a hot bath with Brillo pads , is enough to scare the lazy Emma away , not before the woman takes off with the lunch that Grady prepared for the man and Lamont 492---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Herbert Kenwith July 14 , 1917 January 30 , 2008 , sometimes credited as Herb Kenwith , was a television writer , director and producer . the man directed three episods of Sanford and Son during the ' fourth season . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 493---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man also directed for such popular television shows as Nine to Five 1986 , give me a Break , Private Benjamin , Bosom Buddies , Strokes , Me and Maxx , Good Times , Mary Tyler Moore , Love , American Style and Star Trek . the man directed the first episode of The CBS soap opera The Young And The Restless in 1973 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 494---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Herber also worked as a theater director , having directed many plays for the summerstock program at Princeton University . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 495---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the early morning of January 30 , 2008 , Herbert died at his home in Century City , Los Angeles , CA . the man celebrated his 90th birthday on July 14 , 2007 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 496---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Here comes the Bride , There Goes the Bride was the third episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered January 28 , 1972 . 497---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont is all set to marry fiancee Crystal Carol Speed , but his dad , Fred , is not happy about the match up . Lamont is already nervous about the marriage , and Fred 's grousing is not helping any . those people get to the church , and when the pastor , Reverend Trimble Alvin Childress asks the bride if she will take Lamont to be her husband , the woman cries , No 498---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Things only get worse as Crystal 's mom Paulene Myers jumps up and expresses her objections to the wedding . the woman says the woman knew her daughter could do better than marrying a common junkman . Of course , this prompts Fred to insult her and her whole family . Lamont tries to convince Crystal to go somewhere quiet with him to discuss the matter . The arguement between Fred and Crystal 's mother gets worse , and Crystal runs out of the church with Lamont following her . Soon , the church has emptied out , with everybody leaving except for Fred and the pastor . Fred congratulates the pastor for a nice service . 499---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Back at the house , Lamont is down in the dumps . His late mother Elizabeth 's relatives arrive to offer their condolences . Fred spends his time insulting them . Finally , one of Lamont 's uncles asks if the man can take the wedding present back that the man brought . Prompted by his question , Lamont 's aunts decide those people are going to take back their presents , too . An angry Lamont asks them all to leave , and Fred is too happy to help put them out . the man even throws out the wedding cake , which ends up hitting one of Lamont 's Aunt Hazel Lillian Randolph in the face , prompting a now amused Fred , along with Lamont , who now feels better , to say to her , Hazel , you have never looked sweeter 500---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Here Today , Gone Today was the 123rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 12th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on December 7 , 1976 . 501---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Misunderstandings abound and compound when Fred 's friends try to honor his fortieth year in business with a secret surprise . 502---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As a surprise for Fred , who is about to celebrate his 40th year in the business , Lamont and Aunt Esther arrange to upholster all his furniture . This of course requires the removal of the furniture without informing Fred . Upon returning to an empty living room , Fred assumes he is been robbed and summons the police and his insurance company . Evidently slated to air on December 10 , 1976 , as the 122nd episode of Sanford and Son , this installment was moved up to January 7 , 1977 . 503---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Bob Goldstein appears as insurance man Mr . Trild . 504---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Holy Moly guacamole dip recipe is made up of avocado , tomato , peas , chopped onion , cilantros , and jalapenos , and various spices . On Sanford and Son , Julio makes the dish in the episode Fred , The Reluctant Fingerman in Season 3 . It is usually served alongsides carrots , celery , and or patato chips or nachos . http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519113703/sanfordandson/images/thumb/2/29/Holy-Moly-Guacamole_dip.jpg/180px-Holy-Moly-Guacamole_dip.jpg 505---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Home Sweet Home was the 68th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the seventh episode of Season Four , it first aired October 25 , 1974 . 506---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Japanese real estate firm , represented by a lovely agent named Helen Helen Funai wants to buy and tear down all the properties on the ' block in order to build a brewery . Fred is the only holdout when the developers want to buy up all the homes and businesses in the neighborhood . The media is convinced that Fred is acting out of sympathy for his neighbors , when in fact he is merely hoping to wangle a larger cash settlement from the developers . Alas , his plan backfires when the Japanese concede to his demands . 507---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Home Sweet Home for The Aged was the 35th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 21st episode of the ' second season , it premiered February 16 , 1973 . 508---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Before setting off to sail the world aboard a tramp steamer , Lamont must convince Fred to move into a retirement home . It is not long before Lamont regrets this move , but it is up to Fred 's pal Bubba Don Bexley to bring father and son back together . The episode was based on Homes Fit for Heroes , a 1964 episode of Steptoe and Son , the British series forerunner to Sanford and Son , by creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 509---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Howard T . Platt born June 5 , 1938 appeared as Officer Hopkins , or Hoppy in the hit NBC TV comedy series Sanford and Son from 1973 1977 . Howard , a multitalented stage and television actor , singer and director , a veteran of nearly four decades in show business , has appeared in at least 100 plays assuming the roles of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Santa Claus to Frank McCourt and brother , Malachy . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 510---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Platt has made numerous comedic and dramatic appearances on television , most recently as Rev . Weber in What About Joan Along with his role as Hoppy on Sanford And Son , Platt has also had guest roles as Phil Newman on The Bob Newhart Show , Marvin on Alice and Judge Jonathan Stockfish on Evening Shade with actors Burt Reynolds , Charles Durning and Marilu Henner . As a series regular the man played Captain Doug March on the 1978 1979 CBS TV sitcom Flying High with actresses Connie Sellecca , Pat Klous and Kathryn Witt . His many movie roles include T . R . Baskin , Nixon , The Cat from Outer Space , and Norma Jean & Marilyn . 511---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As a director , Platt has directed a dozen shows including A Couple Of Blaguards , do not Dress For Dinner , Pump Boys And Dinettes , Love Letters and Steel Magnolias . Among 20 shows . 512---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Platt was involved in producing in Chicago with Cullen , Henaghan and Platt , his association with Robert Whitehead during the first Broadway Alliance production , Steve Tesich 's The Speed of Darkness , was a theatrical high point . 513---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hucklebuck appeared in the episode titled The Card Sharps Season 2 , episode 6 . the man was one of three card shark swindlers Lamont met who were trying to con him at poker until Fred entered the poker game with his special see thru eyeglasses and loaded deck and tipped things in Lamont 's favor . Hucklebuck was played by Ron Glass who is best known for his role as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the ABC TV sitcom series Barney Miller 19751982 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 514---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz was the 117th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the sixth episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on October 22 , 1976 . 515---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is determined to break Choo Choo Rabinowitz 's official world record for the longest amount of time staying awake . 516---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Mrs . Gordon Royce Wallace , Janet 's mother , a schoolteacher , sets to visit town to receive an award for writing an essay on How to Discipline Problem Children , Fred decides to try to break the world 's record for going the most consecutive hours without sleep , to try to impress Janet 's mother also to Lamont 's objections . Although everybody , including Janet 's mom , offer support , when a representative for the Guinness Book arrives to check up on his progress , Fred falls short and doses off , while Bubba and Janet 's son Roger both set records of their own 517---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Leonard Stone makes an second and final series appearance as Mr . Grayson . 518---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ilunga Adell born William Adell Stevenson born November 27 , 1948 in Memphis , Tennessee is an American television and film producer , screenwriter and actor who has written for many television series , primarily sitcoms , such as Sanford and Son , 227 , A Different World , Married with Children , Roc and Moesha . Ilunga also produced the teen themed series City Guys , for which the man also has written several episodes , the short lived TV swries Up and Coming , and My Brother and Me . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 519---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Internet Broadway Database IBDB is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel . It is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League , a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community . The website also has a corresponding app for both the IOS and Android . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 520---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This comprehensive history of Broadway theatre provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre in the 18th century up to today . Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics . IBDB also has an extensive archive of photos from past and present Broadway theatre productions . Also featured on production pages are song lists with links to cast recordings on iTunes , lists of awards and nominations , gross and attendance information , reviews for closed productions , links to Amazon . com to purchase merchandise , current and replacement cast lists , and opening night production credits . The homepage includes Born On This Day and Opening Nights in History search options as well as the shows , people , theatres , characters , awards , songs , and box office grosses advanced search options . In the future IBDB will include Touring Broadway data as well as the current Broadway information . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 521---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Internet Movie Database IMDb is an online database of information related to films , television programs , actors , production crew personnel , video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media . It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations , with over 100 million unique users each month and a solid and rapidly growing mobile presence . IMDb was launched on October 17 , 1990 , and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon . com . As of October 12 , 2012 , IMDb had 2 , 425 , 902 titles and 5 , 315 , 404 personalities in its database . 522---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com IMDb originated from an on paper list started as a hobby by an English film fan Col Needham in early 1987 . Although many fans maintained such lists , IMDb began with a usenet posting that Needham had entitled Those Eyes , about actresses with beautiful eyes . Others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own . On October 17 , 1990 , Needham , a professional computer programmer not affiliated with the visual media except by avocation , posted a simple software package to the USENET newsgroup rec . arts . movies , which allowed others of that group to create and search a basic movie and TV database . The original database was built from the lists of credits that Needham and two other readers had begun to publish on the rec . arts . movies group . Other film fans began to participate in the collection of data on the Usenet newsgroup rec . arts . movies . 523---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Needham soon started a male Actors List , while Dave Knight began a Directors List , and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST , which would later be renamed the Actress List . Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working , but soon retired people were added , so Needham started what was then but did not remain a separate Dead Actors Actresses List . The goal now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible . By late 1990 , the lists included almost 10 , 000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein . 524---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On October 17 , 1990 , Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists , and the database that would become the IMDb was born . At the time , it was known as the rec . arts . movies movie database , but by 1993 had been moved out of the usenet group as an independent website underwritten by Needham and his colleagues . Users were invited to contribute data which those people may have collected and verified , on a volunteer basis , which greatly increased the amount and types of data to be stored . Entire new sections were added . As the site grew exponentially , full production crews , uncredited performers and other demographic data were added . Needham 's group allowed some advertising to support ongoing operations of the site , including the hiring of full time paid data managers . All the primary staff came and still come from the burgeoning computer industry and or training schools and not extensive expertise in the visual media . In 1998 , unable to secure sufficient funding from limited advertising , contributions and unable to raise support from the visual media industries or academia , Needham sold the IMDb to Amazon . com , on condition that its operation would remain in the hands of Needham and his small cadre of managers , who soon were able to move into full time paid staff positions . 525---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The database had been expanded to include additional categories of filmmakers and other demographic material , as well as trivia , biographies , and plot summaries ; the movie ratings had been properly integrated with the list data ; and a centralized email interface for querying the database had been created by Alan Jay . Later in the year it moved onto the World Wide Web a network in its infancy at that time under the name of Cardiff Internet Movie Database . The database resided on the servers of the computer science department of Cardiff University in the UK . Rob Hartill was the original web interface author . In 1994 the email interface was revised to accept the submission of all information , meaning that people no longer had to email the specific list maintainer with their updates . However , the structure remained that information received on a single film was divided among multiple section managers , the sections being defined and determined by categories of film personnel and the individual filmographies contained therein . Over the next few years , the database was run on a network of mirrors across the world with donated bandwidth . 526---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The website is Perl based . As of May 2011 , the site has been filtered in China for more than one year , although many users address it through proxy server or by VPN . 527---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On October 17 , 2010 IMDb launched original video www . imdb . com 20 in celebration of its 20th anniversary . 528---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1996 IMDb was incorporated in the United Kingdom , becoming the Internet Movie Database Ltd . Founder Col Needham became the primary owner as well as the identified figurehead . General revenue for site operations was generated through advertising , licensing and partnerships . 529---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1998 , Jeff Bezos , founder , owner and CEO of Amazon . com , struck a deal with Col Needham and other principal shareholders to buy IMDb outright and attach it to Amazon as a subsidiary , private company . This gave IMDb the ability to pay the shareholders salaries for their work , while Amazon . com would be able to use the IMDb as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes . 530---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com IMDb continued to expand its functionality . On January 15 , 2002 it added a subscription service known as IMDbPro , aimed at entertainment professionals . IMDbPro was announced and launched at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival . It provides a variety of services including film production and box office details , as well as a company directory . 531---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As an additional incentive for users , as of 2003 , if users are identified as being one of the top 100 contributors of hard data submitted , those people receive complimentary free access to IMDbPro for the following calendar year ; for 2006 this was increased to the top 150 contributors , and for 2010 to the top 250 . In 2008 IMDb launched their first official foreign language version with the German IMDb . de . Additionally in 2008 IMDb acquired two other companies . Withoutabox and Box Office Mojo . 532---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2011 IMDb was sued by an unknown actress for more than Template Currency due to IMDb revealing her age 40 . The actress claims that revealing her age could cause her to lose acting opportunities . A federal judge in Seattle dismissed the lawsuit , saying the actress had no grounds to proceed with an anonymous complaint . the woman re filed and so revealed that the complainant is a Huong Hoang of Texas , who uses the stage name Junie Hoang . 533---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On January 26 , 2006 Full Episode Support came online , allowing the database to support separate cast and crew listings for each episode of every television series . This was described by Col Needham as the largest change we have ever made to our data model Template Citation needed , and increased the number of titles in the database from 485 , 000 to nearly 755 , 000 . 534---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On October 2 , 2007 the characters filmography feature was launched . The feature is similar to the existing title , name and company feature , except now a biography about each character and the actors who played him are available along with memorable quotes . All data in the characters filmography is submitted by regular users and is largely not verified by the IMDb staff , in contrast to most other data submitted to the site , which is verified and by the staff . This lack of oversight is deemed acceptable , however , because very little new data is sent in ; the majority of submissions consist of existing data being connected together . 535---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On September 15 , 2008 a feature was added that enables instant viewing of over 6 , 000 movies and television shows from CBS , Sony and a number of independent film makers , with direct links from their profiles . Due to licensing restrictions , this feature is only available to viewers in the United States . 536---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As one adjunct to data , the IMDb offers a rating scale that allows users to rate films on a scale of one to ten . 537---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com IMDb indicates that submitted ratings are filtered and weighted in various ways in order to produce a weighted mean that is displayed for each film , series , and so on . It states that filters are used to avoid ballot stuffing ; the method is not described in detail to avoid attempts to circumvent it . In fact , it sometimes produces an extreme difference between the weighted average and the arithmetic mean . For example , Jonas Brothers The 3D Concert Experience is considered to be the worst film with a weighted average of 1 . 3 as of March 2009 , but has a rather ordinary arithmetic mean of 4 . 1 . 538---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The IMDb Top 250 is intended to be a listing of the top ' 250 films , based on ratings by the registered users of the website using the methods described . Only non documentary theatrical releases running at least forty five minutes with over 25 , 000 ratings are considered ; all other products are ineligible . Also , the ' rating is based on only the ratings of regular voters . The exact number of votes a registered user would have to make to be considered to be a user who votes regularly has been kept secret . IMDb has stated that to maintain the effectiveness of the top 250 list those people deliberately do not disclose the criteria used for a person to be counted as a regular voter . In addition to other weightings , the top 250 films are also based on a weighted rating formula referred to in actuarial science as a credibility formula . This label arises because a statistic is taken to be more credible the greater the number of individual pieces of information ; in this case from eligible users who submit ratings . IMDb uses the following formula to calculate the weighted rating 539---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The in this formula is equivalent to a Bayesian posterior mean See Bayesian statistics . 540---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The IMDb also has a Bottom 100 feature which is assembled through a similar process although only 1500 votes must be received to qualify for the list . 541---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The top 250 list comprises a wide range of films , including major releases , cult films , independent films , critically acclaimed films , silent films and non English language films . 542---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com One of the most used features of the Internet Movie Database is the message boards that coincide with every title excepting , as of 2006 , TV episodes and name entry , along with over 140 main boards . This section is one of the more recent features of IMDb , having its beginnings in 2001 . In order to post on the message boards a user needs to authenticate their account via cell phone , credit card , or by having been a recent customer of the parent company Amazon . com . 543---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2006 , IMDb introduced its Rsum subscription service , where actors and crew can post their own rsum and upload photos of themselves for a yearly fee . The base annual charge for including a photo with an account was $ 39 . 95 until 2010 , when it was increased to $ 54 . 95 . IMDb rsum pages are kept on a sub page of the regular entry about that person , with a regular entry automatically created for each rsum subscriber who does not already have one . 544---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As of 2012 , Resume Services is now included as part of an IMDbPro subscription , and is no longer offered as a separate subscription service . 545---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com All volunteers who contribute content to the database technically retain copyright on their contributions but the compilation of the content becomes the exclusive property of IMDb with the full right to copy , modify , and sublicense it and those people are verified before posting . Credit is not given on specific title or filmography pages to the contributor s who have provided information . 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Since 2007 , IMDb has been experimenting with wiki programmed sections for complete film synopses , parental guides , and FAQs about titles as determined by and answered by individual contributors . 547---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com IMDb does not provide an API for automated queries . However most of the data can be downloaded as compressed plain text files and the information can be extracted using the command line interface tools provided . Beside that there is the Java based GUI application available that is able to process the compressed plain text files and allow to search and display the information . This GUI application supports different languages but the movie related data is of course English as made available by IMDb . A Python package called IMDbPY can also be used to process the compressed plain text files into a number of different SQL databases , enabling easier access to the entire dataset for searching or data mining . 548---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Template External links The IMDb has sites in English as well as versions translated completely or in part into other languages Portuguese , Finnish , French , German , Hungarian , Italian , Polish , Romanian and Spanish . The non English language sites display film titles in the specified language . While originally the IMDb 's English language sites displayed titles according to their original country of origin language , in 2010 the IMDb began allowing individual users in the UK and USA to choose primary title display by either the original language titles , or the US or UK release title normally , in English . 549---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Template Unsourced section IMDb . com is currently May , 2012 blocked in China . People who try to access IMDb in China directly will get a message similar to This webpage is not available The connection to imdb . com was interrupted . But IMDb in other languages such as imdb . fr , imdb . de , imdb . it , etc . are still accessible . 550---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jack Shea August 1 , 1928 April 28 , 2013 was an American film and television director . the man was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002 . Jack directed 15 episodes of Sanford and Son in Seasons 2 and 3 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 551---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born John Francis Shea , Jr . , Shea 's father was a traveling salesman his mother a bookkeeper . the man received a parochial high school education , later attaining a degree in History from Fordham University . Shea the broke into the entertainment industry in 1951 , initially as a stage manager for the TV series Philco Playhouse , and , following two years of service with the United States Air Force , serving from 1952 1954 , during the Korean War , in which the man made instructional films , later becoming an associate director . 552---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Among the TV shows the man contributed to during this period include The Jerry Lewis Show and The Bob Hope Show , where the man later shared an Emmy Award nomination for in 1961 . It was at this time when Shea became instrumental in forming the Radio and Television Directors Guild and was a strong voice for the hiring of minorities in the industry . During the 1970s , the man began an association with producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear , and would direct episodes from two of their projects in the 1970s , the series Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons the later , the man had roughly 100 directing efforts . Among his many other credits include The Waltons , Silver Spoons , Growing Pains and Designing Women , for which earned him a second Emmy Award nomination . From 1997 until 2002 , the man served as president of the Directors Guild . 553---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A lifelong Catholic , Shea was a co founder , with his wife Patt and other prominent Catholics in the Hollywood entertainment community , of the Hollywood based Catholics in Media Associates CIMA , which the man was also past president of . Shea and Patt Shea jointly received the CIMA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from the organization of Catholic entertainment industry professionals which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013 . Shea was also a former member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Communications . 554---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On January 2 , 1954 , Shea married the former Patricia C . Carmody , who , later known as Patt Shea , became a 3 time Humanitas Award nominated screen writer whose credits include the CBS TV series All in the Family , story editor and or writer for 38 episodes of Archie Bunker 's Place , in addition to screenwriter for episodes of Lou Grant , Valerie , Cagney & Lacey , In The Heat of The Night , Bagdad Caf , and the CBS pilot for Gloria , Sally Struthers spin off from the popular All In The Family TV series , among many other television series . The couple , who resided in Studio City , CA for over 30 years , have five children , three of whom are currently DGA members * and 1st Assistant Directors * Shawn Shea * ; Elizabeth now deceased ; William Bill Shea * ; Michael J . Shea * and John Francis Jay Shea III . 555---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Shea died of complications from Alzheimer 's disease . 556---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Janee Michelle born April 12 , 1946 appeared as Sandra , an art dealer critic and new girlfriend and love interest of Lamont 's in the Season 4 episode of Sanford and Son titled Tower Power . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 557---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Geneva Leona Mercadel , Janee is of large Black Creole family with deep roots in New Orleans 's Seventh Ward . Her father was a barber who owned a business on St . Anthony Street and her mother was a hairdresser . the woman was born the second in a family of four siblings which consisted of an older brother Walbert and two younger sisters , Zernell and Zona . Always wanting to be an entertainer , as a child young Geneva would dance and rehearse skits to perform for family and friends in the neighborhood . Encouraged by Mrs . Leah McKenna , the principal at Rivers Frederick Junior High School , the woman participated in whatever recital or program being presented at the school or other venue . the woman credits her mother for being her staunchest supporter who was the foundation of my life and all my successes . 558---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Janee 's earliest recollections of performers who inspired her are of Pearl Bailey , Eartha Kitt and Lena Horne appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show . The family relocated to Los Angeles during her high school years and then , convinced that the woman could go into show business , got an agent and changed her name to Janell Michelle . Enrolled at the time in Manual Arts High School , Janell , while the woman commuted weekly to Las Vegas to work as a dancer , the woman graduated 25th scholastically in a class of 500 . After graduation , the woman acted in bit parts in made for television programs finally landing a roll in Buffalo Soldier 1970 and Mephisto Waltz 1971 . the woman would find sporadic work in film and TV through the early mid 1970s , appearing in the blaxplotation horror flick Scream , Blacula , Scream 1973 , House on Skull Mountain 1974 , as well as appearances on Ironside , Love , American Style , and Bewitched . the woman also appeared on the hit NBC TV crime drama series In the Heat of The Night as Arlene Jeffson in 1988 . 559---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1970 Janee married Robert DuQui , a widower with 4 children . This marriage produced a son , Robert Diego Duqui and ended in divorce . the woman married Robert Tucker in 1979 . In 1983 the woman gave birth to a daughter , Iam . Janee and second husband Robert reside in her hometown New Orleans , where for a time , those people owned and operated an old fashioned ice cream gelato parlor called Sophie 's Gelato , before its closing in 2011 . 560---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Janet , an aspiring actress girlfriend of Lamont 's , appears in the Season 4 episodeof Sanford and Son titled Matchmaker , Matchmaker . The part of Janet is played by Gloria Delaney . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 561---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred , hoping for Lamont to cash in on a $ 7 , 000 inheritance from a recently deceased Uncle of Fred 's which stipulates that Lamont must marry and have a child witin a year to collect it , mischievously manages , thru a dating service , to have him set him up accidentally with a white woman Nora Simpson Beverly Sanders , who turns out to be disaster date , 562---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont goes along for the ride until the man tries to enlist Janet , a nurse who is an actress at the workshop which the man also participates in . Janet was to pose as the slightly neurotic , vegetarian , and alcoholic lush Nora . When Janet arrives , she is turned away by Lamont , who tells her the real Nora arrived , and did everything that the woman was supposed to do . When Janet asks Is the woman an actress Lamont answers , No , no one can act that good 563---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Janet Lawson played by Marlene Clark is a divorcee , who has a twelve year old son , named Roger played in 2 episodes by Edward Crawford , first played by Derek Tripplett , who Lamont meets in the episode titled The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice Season 5 , episode 20 . The couple begins dating in the fifth season , The Lawsons appear occasionally until Lamont and Janet break up in the sixth and final season , after to the return of Janet 's ex husband Sgt . John Lawson , returns to try to rekindle their relationship . Janet appears in six episodes of the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 564---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jealousy was the eighteenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fourth episode of the ' second season , it premiered October 6 , 1972 . 565---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Nurse Donna Lynn Hamilton said the woman would be bringing a patient to dinner , Fred did not expect the spry and sophisticated Osgood Wilcox Roscoe Lee Browne , who , being the virile smooth talker , wastes no time in making Fred , who quickly becomes jealous of Donna 's attention upon him , look like a washout by comparison . On the verge of punching Wilcox before the rump roast is served , Fred is halted in his tracks when Donna reveals that Osgood is really sick 566---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jerry Ross born August 18 , 1941 is a television producer and screenwriter . the man has written episodes such TV shows as Barney Miller , Welcome Back , Kotter , That Girl , Harper Valley , P . T . A . , and What is Happening . the man also wrote 8 episodes of Sanford and Son from Seasons 5 & 6 of the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 567---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jim Fritzell born James Gustave Fritzell on February 19 , 1920 March 9 , 1979 was a American television and film screenwriter who co wrote , with Everett Greenbaum , 29 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and one episode of Gomer Pyle U . S . M . C , the man also wrote episodes of the TV series Mister Peepers receiving one Emmy nomination , Make Room for Daddy , The Real McCoys , The New Andy Griffith Show , The Odd Couple , Love American Style , Sanford and Son those people co wrote 3 episodes , The Doris Day Show and M * A * S * H . the man also wrote the http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 568---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com screenplays for the ack Lemmon film Good Neighbor Sam , the Don Knotts films The Ghost and Mr . Chicken , The Reluctant Astronaut and The Shakiest Gun in the West , and the Andy Griffith film Angel in My Pocket . In a 22 year partnership , Greenbaum and Fritzell also won three ' Guild awards and four Emmy nominations , and collaborated on more than 150 scripts . These included the Walter Brennan sitcom The Real McCoys 1957 62 , The Andy Griffith Show 1960 68 and M * A * S * H , on which those people worked for five years , contributing 35 episodes . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 569---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Greenbaum died at the age of 59 in Los Angeles , California . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 570---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Joseph Thomas Joe Morton , Jr . born October 18 , 1947 played the part of as Hal Marshall , Grady 's Son In Law in the Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady in 1975 76 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 571---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morton was born in The Bronx , a borough of New York City , New York . the man is the son of Evelyn , a secretary , and Joseph Thomas Morton , Sr . , a U . S . army ntelligence officer . Because of his father 's profession , the man spent parts of his childhood in West Germany and Okinawa . Morton graduated from Hofstra University . 572---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morton made his Broadway theatre debut in Hair , appeared in Salvation , and was nominated for a Tony Award for Raisin . the man has appeared in over 70 movies , including Terminator 2 Judgment Day as Dr . Miles Bennett Dyson and Blues Brothers 2000 as Cab , based upon the late Cab Calloway , and has made many notable TV guest appearances , including his appearances as Dr . Steven Hamilton in the first two seasons of Smallville . 573---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On television , Morton has starred in the Sanford and Son spin off series Grady 19751976 , Equal Justice 199091 , Under One Roof 1995 , and E Ring 2005 . More recently , the man portrayed the jack of all trades scientist , Henry Deacon , as a regular on Sci Fi Channel 's 2006 2012 . Morton has also directed and produced . the man has made several appearances as a defense attorney on Law & Order . 574---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On daytime TV , Morton has had roles on Search for Tomorrow Dr . James Foster , 197374 , Another World Dr . Abel Marsh and Leo Mars , 198384 , and All My Children Dr . Zeke McMillan , 2002 . In 2002 , the man appeared on the London stage in the play Art . 575---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In October 1984 , Morton married Nora Chavooshian , the production designer for The Brother from Another Planet . The couple has three children daughters Hopi and Seta , and son Ara , as well as a grandson , named Moses . 576---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Joe Silver September 28 , 1922 , in Chicago , Illinois February 27 , 1989 , Manhattan , New York appeared as Mr . Stone , a nightclub owner in the episode of Sanford and Son titled The Stand In in Season 4 . A versatile and talented veteran stage , television , film and radio actor , Joe 's distinctive deep voice was once described as the lowest voice in show business ; so low that when the man speaks , the man unties your shoelaces . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 577---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Silver made his Broadway theater debut in 1942 in a revival of Tobacco Road . the man was in the original production of Gypsy A Musical Fable 1959 and was nominated for a supporting actor Tony Award for playing nine different roles in Lenny 1971 . 578---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1947 , the man made the first of more than 1000 appearances on television , as a panelist on What is It Worth Two years later , the man became a member of the cast of the CBS educational children 's television show Mr . this person Magination . In 1950 the man appeared on the short lived CBS variety show Joey Faye 's Frolics . the man was later featured on The Red Buttons Show in the 1950s , and was the second Captain Jet , host of the children 's show Space Funnies in the late 1950s . the man played the husband of star Lee Grant 's character on Fay in the 1975 1976 season . 579---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His film credits include Rhinoceros 1974 , The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 , Shivers 1975 , Rabid 1977 , and second billing in the person Light Up My Life 1977 . the man also provided the voice of The Creep in the horror anthology film Creepshow 2 . 580---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Silver died in Manhattan of liver cancer at the age of 66 . the man was survived by his actress wife Chevi Colton , their son Christopher , their daughter Jennifer , and three grandchildren . 581---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com John Amos born December 27 , 1939 appears as Luther in the season 2 episode of Sanford and Son titled A Visit from Lena Horne . John also appeared in two other Bud Yorkin Norman Lear TV projects As Ernie Cumberbatch in the short lived CBS TV All In The Family spinoff series 704 Hauser and the man also co starred with Esther Rolle and comedian actor Jimmie Walker as James Evans on the CBS TV sitcom Good Times . John , who is an Emmy nominated actor who played Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on the first five seasons of The West Wing . the man was nominated for a Emmy in 1977 for his role on the critically acclaimed ABC TV miniseries Roots http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 582---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Other series which John has either appeared in supporting or guest roles include CBS 's The Mary Tyler Moore Show , The District , The Fresh Prince of Bel Air , Martin , and Maude . the man also starred in the motion pictures Coming to America , Lock Up and Die Hard 2 . the man also guest starred on an episode of Psych as West Wing co star Dul Hill 's uncle . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 583---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com John Amos at the Internet Movie Database 584---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com John T . Bell wrote the Season 6 episode of Sanford and Sontitled A Matter of Silence . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 585---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Juan DeCarlos appeared in two third season episodes of Sanford and Son , first as a bouncer in Presenting the Three Degrees Season 3 , episode 4 and then as an orderly in the episode Fred 's Cheating Heart Season 3 , episode 17 . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121103215911/sanfordandson/images/thumb/1/18/Juan_DeCarlos_orderly.png/270px-Juan_DeCarlos_orderly.png 586---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Juan appeared in numerous guest roles on several Norman Lear produced CBS sitcoms during the 1970 's which included , other than Sanford and Son , All in The Family 1973 , Maude 1973 , and Good Times 1976 . His film roles included the Fred Hammer starred blaxplotation flick Hammer 1972 and Up The Sandbox 1972 . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121103215911/sanfordandson/images/thumb/1/18/Juan_DeCarlos_orderly.png/270px-Juan_DeCarlos_orderly.png 587---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Julio Fuentes is the Puerto Rican next door neighbor of Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx and his son Lamont on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , portrayed by Gregory Sierra . Julio , a rival junkman who moved there to Watts from New York City . makes his first appearance in the second season episode The Puerto Ricans are Coming Season 2 , episode 8 in 1973 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 588---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Although his nationality , accent , culture , and language lead to a barrage of bigoted stereotypes and insults from Fred , Lamont still befriends Julio and often defends him , many times against Fred 's barbs . Julio also owns a goat named Chico , whom the man shares his house with and who often brought by Julio to the Sanford home , annoying Fred , who complains about Julio leaving Chico loose to roam around and straying into the Sanford junkyard , and also about having to pick up after Chico , who messes in their junkyard . In the fifth season , Fred and Lamont buy his house , turning it into the Sanford Arms boarding house , which was the setting for a spin off series of the same name . 589---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Julio and Sister and Nephew was the 72nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 10th episode of Season Four , it first aired November 15 , 1974 . 590---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Allergic to Chico the goat , Julio 's sister Carlotta Fuentes Miriam Colon and young nephew Roberto Manuel Carrasco stay with the Sanfords . Controversy arises when young Roberto is placed down a grade in school because of his poor English skills . Suddenly , foul mouthed Fred , who is able to persuade the school 's principal Graham Brown to serve as Roberto 's tutor , becomes the world 's staunchest advocate of equal rights for all . 591---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ken Hecht born Kenneth Hecht December 2 , 1914 died April 1 , 1984 co wrote two episodes of Sanford and Son with Lloyd Garver in the show 's second season ; Fred & Carol & Fred & Donna and Watts Side Story . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 592---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ken wrote episodes for many popular TV series such as Happy Days , Maude , What is Heppening , Alice , Three 's Company , and the CBS sitcom Private Benjamin . Also a gifted songwriter , Ken penned the tunes Julida Polka , No One Knows Also a composer , author , writer and publisher , the man wrote special material for Red Buttons , Joe E . Lewis , Desi Arnaz , Harry Richman , Benny Fields , Belle Baker , and Rose Marie , and the man was the chief creator and publisher of Who is Who in Show Business . Joining ASCAP in 1957 , his chief musical collaborators included Leonard Whitcup , Harry Revel , Sid Bass , and Walter Dana . His other popular song compositions include Boom Boom Boomerang , Why do not this person Get Wise to Myself , Minnie the Moocher 's Daughter , Polka Dot Polka , and Red Cap . 593---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com LaWanda Page October 19 , 1920 September 14 , 2002 played the role of Esther Anderson , Fred Sanford 's sister in law and Lamont 's aunt on Sanford and Son . Outside of her work on Sanford and Son , LaWanda also had a venerable career as a stand up comedian who released numerous comedy albums , a lounge singer , and nightclub performer . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 594---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Alberta Peal in Cleveland , Ohio , Page was raised in St . Louis , Missouri . the woman began her career in show business working small nightclubs , billed as The Bronze Goddess of Fire , an act which included her eating fire and lighting cigarettes with her fingertips . the man performed the cigarette feat on an episode of Sanford and Son , in which Fred held a circus in his front yard . 595---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com LaWanda Page and Redd Foxx were very close friends from the time those people were pre teen age . those people attended school and grew up together in St . Louis . Later on , those people both entered the field of comedy separately and performed stage acts . Page later recorded several live comedy albums for the Laff Records label in the late 1960s and early 1970s under the LaWanda stage name . One release , a gold selling album called Watch it , Sucka , was titled after one of her Aunt Esther character 's catchphrases to capitalize on her newfound TV fame . During her tenure as a stand up comic , which lasted all the way to the 1990s , the woman was often called The Queen of Comedy , or in some mainstream circles , The Black Queen of Comedy . Other than the expletive free Sane Advice album , released two years after the run of Sanford and Son , most of Page 's albums and stand up material were raunchy in nature . 596---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On Sanford and Son , the character Aunt Esther was the sister of Fred Sanford 's late wife Elizabeth . Before getting the role , Page had already been performing her comedy routine in nightclubs in St . Louis and then Los Angeles for several years . the woman was beginning to get out of show business because the woman was moving back to St . Louis to take care of her ailing mother . Foxx , a stand up comedian himself for several years , was offered a television sitcom back in L . A . When the show was being cast , the man told one of the show 's producers about Page . The producer had heard of her before as the man himself had previously caught her act . Foxx telephoned Page in St . Louis and asked her to read for the role of Aunt Esther . Page came back and auditioned for the role and was offered the part . However , before any taping had begun , producers noticed during rehearsals that Page was unfamiliar with the ins and outs of producing a television sitcom ; the woman had been more accustomed to performing in nightclubs . One of Sanford and SonTemplate 's producers stated to Foxx that the man will need to fire Page and hold auditions again for the Aunt Esther role so that taping could begin . Foxx insisted Page play the part and the man threatened to walk away from the show if the woman was let go . The producers stuck with Page , who would go on to become one of the most famous television personalities of the 1970s . 597---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Aunt Esther character was a combination of a devout churchgoer and a tough as nails realist . Esther would state whatever was on her mind , and the woman was very loving to her nephew Lamont . the woman often sparred with Fred over both the state of Fred 's soul and the lack of his success , resulting in them trading barbs . Although the show was Foxx 's vehicle , the strong portrayal of the Aunt Esther character by Page allowed her to hold her own against Sanford . The character of Esther was in direct contrast to the raunchy , expletive filled material of Page 's stand up comedy act and record albums . 598---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com LaWanda also appeared on several episodes of NBC TV 's The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast specials , and over the next two decades occasionally guest starred in episodes of other popular television shows , including Amen , Martin , 227 , Family Matters , and Strokes . In the early 1990s the woman appeared on several tracks of the debut album by RuPaul entitled Supermodel of the World , most notably the hit song Supermodel the person Better Work . the woman also appeared in several music videos from the album . Shortly before her death the woman appeared in a series of comical Church 's Chicken television commercials featuring the catchphrase got to love it Among her movie credits are an appearance in the Steve Martin film My Blue Heaven ; as an extremely foul mouthed clown in Bobcat Goldthwait 's 1991 comedy Shakes the Clown ; a cameo appearance in the hit movie Friday , stealing the opening scene with a salty one liner ; and a role in the Wayans ' parody film do not Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as the overbearing mother of aging gangsta Old School . 599---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Page died of complications from Diabetes on September 14 , 2002 . the woman is interred in an outdoor crypt at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood , California . Her daughter , the evangelist Clara Estella Roberta Johnson , died on June 4 , 2006 , in Los Angeles , California , at the age of 69 . 600---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont in Love was the 105th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on February 6 , 1976 . 601---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Lamont falls in love with a mysterious woman , Fred and Esther play amateur sleuths to learn more about her . 602---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Marlene Clark makes her first series appearance as Janet Lawson , the new woman in the life of Lamont . Nervous around Janet , Fred wants to know more about the woman 's mysterious past . This leads into a lengthy spoof of the TV series Columbo , with Fred making like the rumpled , raincoated TV detective and with Aunt Esther LaWanda Page as his unlikely girl Friday . 603---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont , Is That the person was the 44th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the sixth episode of the ' third season , it first aired October 19 , 1973 . 604---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is convinced that his son Lamont has become a homosexual . This is confirmed when Bubba spots Lamont and his pal Rollo entering a gay bar called , appropriately , The Gay Blade which those people enter into by accident In truth , it is all a big misunderstanding , but try telling that to Fred , who begins reading hidden meanings into every one of Lamont 's utterances . 605---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont Goes African was the 31st episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 17th episode of the ' second season , it premiered January 19 , 1973 . 606---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont looks to reinvent himself by adopting an African name and lifestyle to impress a young Nigerian woman named Olayia Paula Kelly , much to the chagrin of Fred , who at first laughs at Lamont 's conversion , soon chafes and about Lamont 's attempts to adapt to the African culture by changing his name to Kalunda and imposing his new found ways upon him as to what the man can eat no pig . meaning no bacon , sausage , fatback , ham hocks , or chitterlings , etc . Lamont , who goes through the motions whlle adopting the continent 's culture including its exotic diet is harshly rebuked by Olayia for arguing with Fred and informs them both that , in Nigeria , all fathers are considered sacred , and for Lamont 's disrespect towards his father , people would be beaten . 607---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont Goes Karate was the 57th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 19th episode of the ' third season , it first aired February 15 , 1974 . 608---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont learns karate to defend himself against bar room bully Jo Jo Jackson Stan Haze . Lamont , who is beaten up after dating Candy Wilson Pamela Jones , the ex girlfriend of Jo Jo , Determined to defend himself when the man meets up with Jo Jo again , Lamont begins taking karate lessons . Meanwhile , Grady , after observing and then scoffing at Lamont 's attempts to learn karate with his instructor , and not wanting Lamont to get hurt , tells Jo Jo that Lamont is suffering from a serious illness and after seeing Lamont flamboyantly going through his karate chop movements , Jo Jo is convinced that Lamont is nuts Grady must be telling the truth 609---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This episode was hastily assembled to replace the unfilmed installment Charley 's Tea when series star Redd Foxx walked off the show due to a contract dispute . 610---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont Sanford is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , which aired from 1972 1977 . Lamont Sanford was portrayed by Demond Wilson . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 611---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont Sanford was born in St . Louis , Missouri , on September 27 , 1940 , to Fred G . Sanford and Elizabeth Winfield . Fred , Elizabeth , and Lamont moved to Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles , in 1946 ; however , Elizabeth tragically died when Lamont was seven years old . Lamont quit high school to help his father run the family junk business . 612---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont viewed the family business , Sanford and Son , as a burden , and it is implied that the man only stayed in Watts to help his father Fred Redd Foxx . Lamont tried to leave the business a few times , but it never worked out . In the first episode , Crossed Swords , the man bought a valuable porcelain statue for $ 15 , and attempted to auction it for much more to fund his way out . However , Fred 's overenthusiastic shill bidding forces Lamont to buy the statue himself and pay the $ 200 commission , and Fred later drops the statue , breaking it . Lamont still tries to leave , but when the truck will not start , decides to stay with Sanford and Son after realizing the man has no money and nowhere to live . 613---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Early in the series , Lamont and Fred are both hateful , and disagree on many things , as in Steptoe and Son , the show Sanford and Son was based on . As the series goes on , Lamont becomes more of an open minded progressive , trying to enlighten his father ; much as Mike was to Archie on All in the Family , Sanford and Son 's sister show . 614---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Kid was the 39th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the premiere episode of the ' third season , it premiered September 14 , 1973 . 615---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is uneasy with Lamont 's rehearsing Othello with a woman named Marylin Maureen Arthur , a white actress from the theatre workshop class which the man and Rollo particpate in . When Fred and Bubba , who return from a nearby bar and catch Lamont and Marylin in the choking scene , those people both have heart attacks , thinking that Lamont is strangling a white woman When the smoke clears up , Marilyn , to prove that those people are welcome in her neighborhood , invites Fred and Lamont to come to her home in Beverly Hills while her parents were supposed to be away for the weekend . The misunderstanding then becomes between Marilyn , her parents Jack Manning , Ann Driscoll and Fred , who inadvertantly enter their bedroom , looking to watch TV 616---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont in Love was the 105th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on February 6 , 1976 . 617---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Lamont falls in love with a mysterious woman , Fred and Esther play amateur sleuths to learn more about her . 618---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Marlene Clark makes her first series appearance as Janet Lawson , the new woman in the life of Lamont . Nervous around Janet , Fred wants to know more about the woman 's mysterious past . This leads into a lengthy spoof of the TV series Columbo , with Fred making like the rumpled , raincoated TV detective and with Aunt Esther LaWanda Page as his unlikely girl Friday . 619---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Larry J . Blake April 24 , 1914 May 25 , 1982 appeared as Los Angeles City Health Inspector Mr . Watkins in the Sanford and Son episode titled The Puerto Ricans Are Coming in Season 2 of the series . Larry was a veteran stage , film and TV actor from Brooklyn , New York . In 1947 the man starred in the film Backlash . Larry is the father of Hollywood actor , film crewman , and makeup artist Michael J . Blake . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 620---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Blake was also among the stars of 1953 1954 ABC TV situation comedy series The Pride of the Family , appearing in the role of Frank . Fay Wray played Catherine Morrison , and Paul Hartman played her husband , Albie Morrison . Natalie Wood and Robert Hyatt played the Morrison children , Ann and Junior . Tol Avery filled the role of Dennison . Blake had a recurring role as the accommodating jailer in the 1958 TV series Yancy Derringer . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 621---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lee Kalcheim June 27 , 1938 , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania is an American Emmy Award winning screenwriter . Lee wrote the Sanford and Son episode titled The Light Housekeeper in Season 2 , which Mary Wickes guest starred as housekeeper ppMary . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 622---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kalcheim has written numerous television shows including episodes for 623---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Among his works are 624---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Under the pseudonym Norman Jonas , Kalcheim co wrote the cult favorite horror movie Let is Scare Jessica to Death 1971 , which in Kalcheim 's first draft was reportedly written as a satirical comedy . 625---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lena Mary Calhoun Horne June 30 , 1917 May 9 , 2010 was an American singer and actress the woman plays herself in the Sanford and Son episode titled A Visit From Lena Horne Season 2 , episode 16 in 1973 . Lena joined the chorus of the famed Cotton Club in Harlem at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood , where the woman had small parts in numerous movies , and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky 1942 and Stormy Weather 1943 . Due to the Red Scare during the 1950 's and her left leaning political views , Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 626---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer , Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 , and continued to work as a performer , both in nightclubs and on television , while releasing well received record albums . the woman announced her retirement in March 1980 , but the next year starred in a one woman show , Lena Horne The Lady and Her Music , which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades . the woman continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s , disappearing from the public eye in 2000 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 627---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights movement . In 1941 , the woman sang at Cafe Society and worked with actor singer activist Paul Robeson . During World War II , when entertaining the troops for the USO , the woman refused to perform for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen , according to her Kennedy Center biography . Because the U . S . Army refused to allow integrated audiences , the woman wound up putting on a show for a mixed audience of black U . S . soldiers and white German POWs . Seeing the black soldiers had been forced to sit in the back seats , the woman walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her . the woman was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson , Mississippi , the weekend before Evers was assassinated . the woman also met President John F . Kennedy at the White House two days before the man was assassinated . the woman was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP , Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC , and the National Council of Negro Women . the woman also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti Lynching in the United States laws . the woman was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority . 628---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song National Brotherhood Week in the line Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek referring wryly to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark , of Selma , Alabama , who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965 . 629---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1983 , the woman was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP . 630---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937 in Pittsburgh . On December 21 , 1937 , their daughter , Gail later known as Gail Lumet Buckley , a best selling author was born there . and a son , Edwin Jones born February 7 , 1940 September 12 , 1970 who died of kidney disease . Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944 . 631---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Horne 's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton , who was Music Director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM , in December 1947 in Paris . those people separated in the early 1960s , but never divorced ; the man died in 1971 . 632---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In her as told to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel , Horne recounts the enormous pressures the woman and her husband faced as an interracial couple . the woman later admitted in an interview in Ebony May 1980 , the woman had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the color line in show business , but had learned to love him in a way . 633---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Screenwriter Jenny Lumet , known for her award winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married , is Horne 's granddaughter , the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne 's daughter Gail . Horne 's other grandchildren include Gail 's other daughter , Amy Lumet , and her son 's three children , Thomas , William , and Lena . 634---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Horne died on Mothers Day , May 9 , 2010 , in New York City , succumbing to heart failure . Horne 's funeral took place at St . Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York City . Thousands gathered to mourn her , including Leontyne Price , Dionne Warwick , Jessye Norman , Chita Rivera , Cicely Tyson , Diahann Carroll , Leslie Uggams , Lauren Bacall , Audra McDonald and Vanessa L . Williams . 635---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Leonard Stone November 3 , 1923 November 2 , 2011 was a veteran character actor and voice actor who played supporting roles in over 120 television shows and thirty five films . UbHe voiced the canyon guide inThe Last Airbender . Leonard appeared in two Sanford and Son episodes , appearing as Otto , an unscrupulous copper pipe salesman in the Season 1 episode The Copper Caper , then as Mr . Grayson , a Guinness Book of World Records representative in the Season 5 episode this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 636---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com n 1961 and 1962 , the man was twice cast in different roles on ABC TV 's The Real McCoys in the episodes Money from Heaven and the person cannot Beat the Army . Between 1962 and 1966 , Stone made four guest appearances on CBS TV 's Perry Mason . In his 1962 role , the man played murderer Jerel Leland in The Case of the Hateful Hero . In 1966 , the man had a supporting role as Morton on the short lived CBS sitcom The Jean Arthur Show starring Jean Arthur and Ron Harper . the man played popular and memorable characters on The Outer Limits , Lost in Space , and M * A * S * H . the man appeared twice on ABC 's The Donna Reed Show as Mr . Trestle in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1961 and as Harlan Carmody , Jr . , in Joe College 1965 . 637---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1966 , Leonard had a supporting role as Morton on the short lived CBS sitcomThe Jean Arthur Showstarring Jean Arthur and Ron Harper . Between 1988 and 1994 the man appeared in twelve episodes of the NBC legal dramaL . A . Lawas Judge Paul Hanson . On September 22 , 2000 , Stone appeared as an ordinary , non celebrity contestant on the popular game showWheel of FortuneHe placed second , winning $ 4 , 250 in cash and a trip to Bermuda valued at $ 5 , 310 . 638---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com One of his earlier notables came in 1971 when the man played Sam Beauregarde , the father of golden ticket winner Violet Beauregarde , inWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory . 639---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stone 's last role came in 2006 at the age of eighty three , when the man played a minor character in the TV movie . Surrender , Dorothy . 640---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stone died on November 2 , 2011 in Encinitas , California , after a brief bout with cancer , one day shy of his 88th birthday . 641---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Leroy Daniels born Wilbert LeRoy Daniel November 28 , 1928 in Oklahoma died December 11 , 1993 served as one half of the Leroy & Skillet comdey team that appeared on numerous risque comedy albums for LaFF Records during the 1960 's , performing with future Sanford and Son castmates Redd Foxx , Slappy White , and LaWanda Page , who were all longtime friends of Skillet and Leroy . A veteran entertainer from the Chitlin Circuit of the 1940 's and 1950 's , Skillet once served as an opening act for him before the two formed a team in the 1960 's . In addition to his work on Sanford and Son Leroy also appeared in the films Handle with Care , where along with his comedy partner and future Sanford and Son castmate Ernest Skillet Mayhand 1964 , Disco Godfather 1979 and Rude 1982 with Skillet again , and Rudy Ray Dolemite Moore . Eariler in his career , the man appeared in an episode of the 1950 's CBS comedy series Amos and Andy , in a cameo role as a performer in The Bandwagon , in 1953 . Also a gifted shoe shiner , Leroy 's rhythmic shining technique made him the inspiration for the song Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy , a 1950 hit for country music star Red Foley . Leroy died in Los Angeles . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 642---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Libra Rising All Over Lamont was the 40th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the second episode of the ' third season , it first aired September 21 , 1973 . 643---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As an astrologer , Audrey Vivian Bonnell tells Lamont , who finds out from her that is a Double Libra , that the man must avoid strife and arguing ; the man must deal with hypochondriac Fred , who is at home laid up in bed , suffering from gas after eating eight day old collard greens When Lamont runs into a doctor , Dr . Stewart Jason Harvey which the man calls concerning Fred 's ailment , it turns out that the man has severe indigestion from eating the bad greens 644---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lloyd Garver wrote two episodes for Sanford and Son ; Fred & Carol & Fred & Donna and Watts Side Story , both in Season 2 of the series . TV writing and producing credits under his belt which include Sesame Street , Hollywood Squares , Love , American Style , The Bob Newhart Show , Family Ties , where the man was also the series 's executive producer , Home Improvement and Frasier . the man also served as a consulting producer for the popular TV series 8 Simple Rules and Home Improvement , as well as the executive producer of the short lived FOX sitcom series True Colors . Lloyd has also penned many blogs and articles for newspapers , magazines and online media plus an appearance on the Oprah show . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 645---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lou Turnerwasa patient of Fred 's girlfriendDonnawho vies for her affections with Fredin the Season 5 episode of Sanford and Son titled The Olympics . The part of Lou was played by veteran stage film and TV actor and voice over performerPercy Rodrigues , who also appeared in the Sanford and Sonspinoff revival series Sanford , where the man appears as Winston Edwards , the snobbish brother of Evelyn Eve Lewis , Fred 's new girlfriend fiancee on the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 646---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The spry Lou , who competed in the local Senior Olympics , winning every event for the past 3 years , is a sure fire bet to win again ; Fred , who is worried about losing Donna to him , in thinking that the woman and Lou were an item , seeks to compete against him in the Olympics , and does win , but only by default as the man had no one to compete against , seeing that no one wanted to challenge Lou , who was suckered out of competing due to a threat to burglarize his store . Alas , the threat was given by the equally worried about the out of shape Fred Grady , whose voice Lou unknowingly heard as the phone caller to his store who used a funny saying Goo , Poobly , Poo , which was Grady 's familiar exclamation Good Goobly Goop 647---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred challenges Lou in arm wrestling , Fred appears to win after a struggle with the well fit , strong armed Lou , exclaims to Donna , who with Lamont disproved of Fred 's involvement in the Olympic competition to begin with , Look at the thrill of victory , and the agony of defeat But , not to be outdone , Lou , wnen feigning a sore arm in the loss , and in leaving the Sanford residence with Donna , sharply salutes Fred for his beating him at armwrestling , then curls back into a feigned sick appearance 648---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Louise Marshall is the granddaughter of Grady Wilson on the NBC Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady . the woman was played by future fashion model , actress , comedian and activist , Rosanne Katon , who went on to become Playboy magazine 's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102081044/sanfordandson/images/thumb/2/29/Rosanne_Katon_Whitman_Mayo.png/300px-Rosanne_Katon_Whitman_Mayo.png 649---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Luther was one of Fred Sanford 's pool room buddies who appears in the Season 2 episode of Sanford and Son titled A Visit from Lena Horne . The part of Luther is played by television and film actor John Amos , who would later become widely well known for his role as James Evans in the 1974 79 CBS TV sitcom series Good Times , another Bud Yorkin Norman Lear sitcom , where the man would appear for the first three seasons . the man also is well known for his part as the adult Kunta Kinte in the critically acclaimed ABC TV miniseries Roots . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 650---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Luther , to the request of Fred , drops by with Leroy , Skillet and the other buddies . When Fred tells them all that the man met Lena Horne , who the man ran into by sneaking into her guest dressing room while visiting the NBC Studios on a tour of the facility with Lamont , laughingly disbelieve him , when the man shows him a sample of Flip Wilson 's motor oil from his car , Luther says this person know the person call us over here just to show us Flip Wilson 's oil When Fred insists the man met her , and was coming over to visit the junkyard , the man really laughs , saying , the man must have drank some of Flip Wilson 's oil 651---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Anyway , the guys make a bet with Fred the the man get her to show up ; those people all put $ 15 dollars each down in the bet . When the woman does show up , and Fred wins the bet , those people all give him their money , which angers Lena , who had a flight waiting for Las Vegas ; thinking quickly Fred makes up a lie , saying the man and the guys were chipping in to donate to charity and was giving the money to her for that purpose ; Lamont makes sure Fred would donate too , by asking him , Pop where is your $ 15 652---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lynn Hamilton born April 25 , 1930 played the role of Donna Harris , Fred Sanford 's girlfriend and later fiancee who was a licensed practical nurse on Sanford and Son . A gifted veteran actress , Lynn , a native of Yazoo City , Mississippi , made her film debut in John ' directed Shadows 1959 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 653---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lynn is perhaps best known for her role as Donna Harris , a licensed practical nurse and Fred 's girl on Sanford and Son , from 1972 to 1977 . As the Fred Sanford 's girlfriend and fiancee , Donna usually took care of Fred Sandford , as well as the patients which the woman was assigned to care for at the hospital where the woman worked and the home patients which the woman regularly visited . Although their first meeting was not shown on the series , apparently those people had been dating for only a little while , and apparently very long after those people began dating those people got engaged , becoming Fred 's fiancee , to Lamont 's initial chagrin . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 654---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In addition to her work on Sanford And Son , Hamilton also had a recurring role as Verdie on The Waltons , and made numerous appearances on such television sitcoms , soap operas and miniseries such as 227 , Dangerous Women , Generations , Port Charles and Roots The Next Generations . the woman also appeared in an episode of The Golden Girls as the aunt of Lorraine , whom Dorothy 's son Michael was planning to marry . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 655---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Community Projects are projects undertaken by the Sanford and Son wiki community to fix recurring or large scale problems in the wiki . 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If the person should complete the linkectomy , please remove it from the list of pages that need linkectomies and add it to the list of pages that have already had linkectomies . 659---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanford and Son Wiki is a wiki based reference on Wikia for the television series Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/675px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 660---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Welcome to Sanford and Son , a wiki devoted to the now classic NBC TV comedy series which was produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear , who also brought the person such clasic TV shows such as All In The Family , Maude , The Jeffersons , One Day At A Time , and Good Times 661---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the person are welcome to browse what these people have , create a new article just click on one of the many red links the person see , fix an existing article , or participate in one of our Community Projects to make the wiki a better information source . 662---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To write a new Sanford and Son Wiki article , enter the page title in the box below . 663---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com these people are constantly adding new articles to this new wikia . Any information which is valuable to this wikia site that the person can contribute is greatly appreciated , with as many good reliable sources as the person can find . 664---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son wiki is a collaborative fan tribute website to the American sitcom Sanford and Son , which aired on NBC from 1972 1977 . Sanford and Son is about a junk dealer and his son in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . 665---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that originally ran on NBC , based on the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son , which was produced and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson The series premeired on January 14 , 1972 , and ended on March 25 , 1977 . Sanford and Son is about junk dealer Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx and his son Lamont Demond Wilson , who live in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . In 1973 , Redd Foxx won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the gruff , irascible , cantakerous Fred Sanford . Throughout its six seasons , the sitcom ran for 135 episodes . 666---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Welcome , fans Welcome to this Wikia , these people welcome any contributions these people invite the person to log in and create a user name . 667---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Creating a user name is free and takes only a minute and it gives the person greater anonymity if that is your wish . In addition , it is easier for other contributors to ask the person questions and help the person . 668---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mama 's Baby , Papa 's Maybe was the 52nd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 14th episode of the ' third season , it first aired January 4 , 1974 . 669---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's feathers get ruffled when an old friend named Big Money Grip Sonny Jim Gaines from St . Louis comes to town claiming to be Lamont 's actual father . Aunt Esther 's normally morally upright image was deflated when it was revealed that in her youth , a grip had sneaked into her bedroom in the Winfield house and had sex with her . Grip had mistaken Esther for Fred 's late wife Elizabeth in the dark , which led Grip to claim the man was Lamont 's real father . 670---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Marguerite Ray also credited sometimes as Margueritte Ray born March 18 , 1931 appeared on the spinoff series Sanford as Evelyn Lewis a new love interest of Fred Sanford , as Lynn Hamilton elected not to revive the role of Donna Harris , Fred 's fiancee from Sanford and Son . Instead , Evelyn , a widow , and Fred begin dating much to the dismay of Evelyn 's snobbish brother Winston Percy Rodrigues . the woman also made a guest appearance on Sanford and Son , appearing as a Fallen woman who tries to rent an room in the Sanford Arms from Fred in the episode titled The Sanford Arms in Seaason 5 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 671---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A veteran stage and TV actress , Marguerite has made appearances in numerous TV series in guest roles over the years , appearing on such shows as CBS 's The Wild , Wild West 1969 , ABC TV 's Bewitched 1969 , NBC 's The Bill Cosby Show 1969 70 , 2 episodes , Barnaby Jones 1973 , ABC TV 's Marcus Welby , M . D . 1973 , Sanford and Son 1975 76 , 2 episodes , Quincy , M . E . 1981 82 , in 2 episodes , Simon & Simon 1985 , and the ABC TV prime time soap series Dynasty 1989 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 672---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Maria Fuentesis the younger sister of next door neighbor Julio who appears in the Season 3 episode ofSanford and Sontitled Watts Side Story . The role of Maria is played by veteran actress Migdia Chinea . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 673---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Julio 's sister Maria goes out on a date with Lamont , who shows her around L . A . , it garners the contemptful curiosity of Fred , who already has his views about Puerto Ricans , as well as Mrs . Fuentes , Julio 's mother , who questions Lamont 's motives in taking out Maria , who has no hangups about it . 674---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Marlene Clark born December 19 , 1949 , in Los Angeles , California appears in the role of Janet Lawson , a divorced mother , and girlfriend fiancee of Lamont Sanford on the NBC TV series Sanford and Son . A veteran film TV actress with 35 credits to her resume . Marlene was raised in Harlem , New York . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 675---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Marlene 's father was a bus driver and her mother worked in a factory . After graduation from high school in 1966 , Marlene attended junior college in Tennessee before transferring to the City College of New York as a Speech Major . the woman first started acting in plays at CCNY , moonlighting as a fashion model before making her film debut with a small part in the Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy 1968 . This later led to bit roles in Midnight Cowboy 1969 and Putney Swope 1969 . 676---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In her first major role in film , Marlene gave an incredible performance as the alluring but dangerous Ganja in Ganja & Hess 1973 . Other parts include pesky government agent Kim in Slaughter opposite Jim Brown 1972 . the ill fated Mariane Hargis in the cult horror sci fi classic Beware The Blob 1972 , the very sexy , reptilian demonic seductress in Night of the CobraWoman 1972 , the foxy Caroline in The Beast Must Die 1974 and the affluentCaroline in The Baron 1977 . Marlene auditioned and was selected for the recurring role as Janet Lawson , who eventually became Lamont Sanford 's girlfriend fianc on the NBC TV series Sanford and Son 1975 . In addition , the woman has made guest appearances on episodes of such TV shows as Marcus Welby , M . D . 1969 , Bonanza 1971 , The Bill Cosby Show 1970 , two episodes of ABC 's Mod Squad in 1970 and 1972 , NBC TV 's Highway to Heaven 1987 and Head of the Class 1988 . 677---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Clark was married to actor Billy Dee Williams from 1968 to 1971 . More recently the woman has done interviews and commentaries on DVD releases of the films Ganja & Hess and The Baron . 678---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin Kosleck March 24 , 1904 January 15 , 1994 played a German General in the Sanford and Son episode titled Sergeant Gork . Like many other German actors , the man fled when the Nazi regime in Germany came to power . Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis , Kosleck would make a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films . While in the United States , the man would appear in more than 80 films and television shows in a 46 year span . His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen made him a popular choice to play Nazi villains . the man portrayed Joseph Goebbels , Adolf Hitler 's propaganda minister , five times , and also appeared as an SS trooper and a concentration camp officer . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121029224204/sanfordandson/images/thumb/1/13/Martin_Kosleck_General_Sergeant_Gork.png/300px-Martin_Kosleck_General_Sergeant_Gork.png 679---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kosleck was born Nicolaie Yoshkin in Barkotzen in Pomerania , Germany , the son of a forester . His family was German Russian . the man became interested in acting at an early age . the man spent six years in the Max Reinhardt Dramatic School , particularly excelling in Shakespearian roles , and working in revues and musicals in Berlin . 680---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com At the age of 23 , the man appeared in his first film , a silent movie directed by Johannes Brandt called Der Fahnentrger von Sedan . Two years later the man appeared in Lupo Pick 's Napoleon auf St . Helena . Martin would appear in two more films in Germany in 1930 ; the science fiction thriller Alraune 1930 his first sound film and Der Singende Stadt . 681---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the early 1930s , Hitler and the Nazi Party were growing in power . Kosleck spoke out against both and decided to leave Germany in 1931 for the United Kingdom . The following year , the man moved to the United States , arrived in New York City , and then traveled west to Hollywood . In 1933 , when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power , because of his opposition to the Nazis , Kosleck was placed on the Gestapo list of undesirables . 682---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man appeared in his first American film Fashions of 1934 starring Bette Davis . However , the man found little work in Hollywood , so the man returned to New York and the stage . While Kosleck was acting in The Merchant of Venice on Broadway , Anatole Litvak invited him to Hollywood for a role in a Warner Brothers film . The highly controversial Confessions of a Nazi Spy , starring Edward G . Robinson , Francis Lederer , Paul Lukas and George Sanders , was based on The Nazi Spy Conspiracy in America , a book by Leon Turron , an FBI agent who had uncovered the network of Nazi organizations throughout the United States . Kosleck , in a small role playing Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , revealed a sinister streak of evil that would be sought after in wartime movies to come . 683---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Many other German actors at the time resented being typecast as Nazis , Kosleck on the other hand reveled in it as a way to get back at the Nazis . the man appeared in numerous anti Nazi films of the early 1940s Nurse Edith Cavell 1939 , Espionage Agent 1940 , Underground 1941 , Berlin Correspondent 1942 , Bomber 's Moon 1943 and Chetniks The Fighting Guerrillas 1943 . However , it was his impression of Goebbels that will remain in the memories of moviegoers , especially in Paramount Pictures 's 1944 pseudo documentary The Hitler Gang . 684---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com With the end of the Second World War , roles as Nazis declined . Kosleck then moved into B movie horror films , such as The Frozen Ghost and The Mummy 's Curse both starring Lon Chaney Jr . , whom Kosleck disliked intensely , House of Horrors 1946 and the woman Wolf of London 1946 , starring a young June Lockhart , who later starred on the CBS sci fi Saturday morning television series Lost in Space . The House of Horrors gave Kosleck his best remembered role beyond Goebbels , as an insane sculptor , Marcel De Lange , who saves a monster from drowning and gets revenge by having the monster kill his critics . 685---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com With fewer film opportunities presenting themselves , Kosleck returned to New York City with his wife , the German born actress Eleonore von Mendelssohn , a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn . Kosleck appeared on Broadway in The Madwoman of Chaillot in the late 1940s and early 1950s . the man would also appear on television as guests in episodes of numerous shows . In 1951 , the man appeared in the this person Lift Up My Lamp episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame , a television anthology of plays and books . Throughout the 1950s and 1960s , the man would appear in television episodes of The Motorola Television Hour , where the man played Goebbels again , Studio One , Thriller , The Rifleman , Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , The Outer Limits , Get Smart , Batman playing Professor Avery Evans Charm , The Man from U . N . C . L . E . , The F . B . this person . , The Wild Wild West , Mission Impossible and It Takes a Thief . 686---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1970 , Kosleck played a Gestapo general in the television comedy Hogan 's Heroes . the man suffered from a heart attack in the 1970s , and thereafter worked only occasionally , mostly in television . During this time , the man appeared in Love , American Style , Banacek and Sanford and Son . In 1980 , the man appeared in his last film , The Man with Bogart 's Face . 687---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aside from acting , Kosleck was an accomplished painter who supported himself through his work as a portrait artist while waiting for a movie role . An impressionist style portrait painter , the man painted both Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich . 688---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1951 , his wife committed suicide . Kosleck died at age 89 , following abdominal surgery , in a Santa Monica convalescent home . 689---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mary was a housekeeper which Lamont hires to keep house and look after Fred in the episode of Sanford and Son titled The Light Housekeeper in Season 2 . The part of Mary is played by veteran stage , film , and TV actress , Mary Wickes , who , like S & S co star Redd Foxx , is a St . Louis , Missouri native . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 690---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred does not want to be left at home alone , noting that those people never did catch that Zodiac Killer . The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in the Northern California Bay Area in the late 1960s and possibly into the early . the man also complained of the work in the junkyard not helping his ailments , particularly his arthritis . Thus , Lamont hires Mary from an employment agency ; Fred , upon finding that the new housekeeper is white , is not too thrilled . Coupled with that , the only thing which the woman cooks is a fine boiled mutton 691---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mary Wickes June 13 , 1910 October 22 , 1995 was a stage , film and television actress whose career spanned seven decades . the woman appears as the white housekeeper Mary , who Lamont hires to look after Fred in the Sanford and Son episode titled The Light Housekeeper in Season 2 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 692---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mary Isabella Wickenhauser the woman later shortened her surname for acting was born to Frank Wickenhauser 1880 1943 and his wife , Mary Isabella ne Shannon ; died 1965 , in St . Louis , Missouri of German , Scottish and Irish extraction , and raised Protestant . the woman graduated at the age of eighteen with a degree in political science from Washington University in St . Louis , where the woman joined the Phi Mu women 's fraternity and was initiated into Mortar Board in 1929 . 693---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com ' first Broadway theatre appearance was in Marc Connelly 's The Farmer Takes a Wife in 1934 with Henry Fonda . the woman began acting in films in the late 1930s , and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama The Mercury Theatre on the Air . One of her earliest significant film appearances was in The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 , reprising her stage role of Nurse Preen . 694---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A tall , gangling woman with a distinctive voice , Mary would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne , but the woman first attracted attention in the 1942 film Now , Voyager as the wisecracking nurse who helped Bette Davis 's character during her mother 's illness . the woman had already appeared earlier that year with Davis in The Man Who Came To Dinner , and joined her again six years later in June Bride . In 1942 , the woman also had a large part in the Abbott and Costello comedy Who Done It . the woman continued playing supporting roles in films during the next decade , usually playing wisecracking characters . A prime example was her deadpan characterization of the harassed housekeeper in the Doris Day vehicles By the Light of the Silvery Moon and On Moonlight Bay , a character type the woman would repeat in the holiday classic White Christmas 1954 , starring Bing Crosby , Danny Kaye , Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen . the woman played similar roles in two later movies with Rosalind Russell The Trouble with Angels and Where Angels Go , Trouble Follows in the mid 1960s . 695---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Moving to the new medium of television in the 1950s , Wickes played the warm , yet jocular maid Katie in the Mickey Mouse Club serial Walt Disney Presents Annette and regular roles in the sitcoms Make Room for Daddy and Dennis the Menace . the woman also played the part of a ballet teacher , Madame Lamond , in the this person Love Lucy episode The Ballet in 1952 . Wickes also served as the live action reference model for Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney 's One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 , and played Mrs . Squires in the film adaptation of Meredith Willson 's The Music Man 1962 . 696---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1953 , Wickes played the housekeeper , Martha , to Ezio Pinza 's character in NBC 's short lived Bonino sitcom . Pinza portrayed an Italian American opera singer trying to rear six children . Among the child actors on the program were Van Dyke Parks and Chet Allen . In 1954 1955 , the woman played Alice , the housekeeper to a college president , in the CBS sitcom The Halls of Ivy . In 1956 , Wickes appeared with Thelma Ritter in The Babysitter episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents . 697---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the 1961 1962 season , the woman appeared as Maxfield with Gertrude Berg in CBS 's Mrs . G . Goes to College . For her work in the sitcom , Wickes was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress . In 1964 , the woman appeared on ABC 's The Donna Reed Show in the episode First Addition . 698---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A longtime friend of Lucille Ball , Wickes played frequent guest roles in Ball 's three CBS series , this person Love Lucy , The Lucy Show and Here is Lucy . In 1970 1971 , the woman guest starred on CBS 's The Doris Day Show . Day was another of her friends . the woman was also a regular on the Sid and Marty Krofft children 's television show , Sigmund and the Sea Monsters , and the sitcom Doc . the woman made numerous appearances as a celebrity panelist on the CBS game show Match Game . By the 1980s , her appearances in television series such as Our Man Higgins , M * A * S * H , The Love Boat , Kolchak The Night Stalker and Murder , the woman Wrote had made her a widely recognizable character actress . the woman also appeared in a variety of Broadway shows , including a 1979 revival of Oklahoma , in which the woman portrayed Aunt Eller . 699---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the woman was cast as the mother of Shirley MacLaine 's character in the 1990 film Postcards from the Edge and from 1989 to 1991 portrayed Marie Murkin in the television movie and series adaptations of Father Dowling Mysteries . the woman played Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act 1992 and in the sequel Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit 1993 . the woman appeared in the 1994 film version of Little Women before the woman became ill . 700---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wickes suffered from numerous ailments in the last years of her life , which cumulatively resulted in her dying while undergoing surgery on October 22 , 1995 , at age 85 . Her final film role , voicing the gargoyle Laverne in Disney 's animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released posthumously in 1996 . the woman was interred beside her parents at the Shiloh Valley Cemetery in Shiloh , Illinois . 701---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wickes was posthumously inducted into the St . Louis Walk of Fame in 2004 . 702---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Unmarried , Wickes left a large estate and made a $ 2 million bequest , in memory of her parents , the Isabella and Frank Wickenhauser Memorial Library Fund for Television , Film and Theater Arts . 703---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Matchmaker , Matchmaker was the 64th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the second episode of Season Four , it first aired September 20 , 1974 . 704---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont stands to inherit $ 7 , 000 if within a year the man marries and has a son named after his late uncle George . Fred sees dollar signs , so the man and Grady set to making marriage bells ring by turning to a computer dating service ; the dating agency clerk , Ms . Williams Cathy Cooper , is able to find a match for Lamont from the description that Fred and Grady gives her , the dating service match it gives is a white woman Nora Simpson Beverly Sanders , who turns out to be disaster date for the already disinterested Lamont not to mention Fred , who was still reeling because the dating service find someone black , but the man goes along for the ride until a girlfriend of his named Janet Gloria Delaney , who is an actress , and was to pose as the slightly neurotic , vegetarian , and alcoholic lush Nora . When Janet arrives , she is turned away by Lamont , who tells her the real Nora arrived , and did everything that the woman was supposed to do . When Janet asks Is the woman an actress Lamont answers , No , no one can act that good In the end , Grady winds up the one who has to help pour the drunken Nora , who had too many martinis , into a cab and escort her home 705---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com May Hopkins is Officer Hopkins 's mom , who moves from back east and moves into the Sanford Arms Apartments after having stayed in a hotel for a week . the woman eventually helps to organize a ' committee to offer complaints grievances about the need for repairs in the rooms , and Fred 's installation of pay toilets in the bathrooms Fred , who is well known to hurl insults at everybody the man argues with , spare Mrs . Hopkins from the same , at times commenting about her looks , kind of like the man insults Esther . Like her son Hoppy , May has the gift of gab , a tendency to quote old sayings , like Excelsior , which irritates Fred , especially the woman is even adept at using ghetto slang , or ebonics , correcting son Hoppy in the episode The Sanford Arms , when the man says Right In , and the woman says Right On http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 706---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ms . Hopkins was played by late veteran comedic actress Nancy Kulp , who is best known for her role in the 1962 70 CBS TV sitcom series The Beverly Hillbillies . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 707---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Melvin White , a TV watching buddy of Fred 's , was played by tate veteran stand up comedian entertanier Slappy White , who was a longtime friend of Redd Foxx . Melvin is an old buddy of Fred 's who appears in the first season , as well in one second season episode . Melvin , who usually watches TV with Fred , was often entangled in arguments between Fred and Lamont , as in the episodes titled Barracuda Season 1 , episode 10 and The Return of the Barracuda Season 1 , episode 13 , where Lamont protested the courting of Donna Harris , as well as Fred 's plans to marry her . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 708---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Migdia Chinea Varela a . k . a . Migdia Chinea , born August 5 , 1947 is a Cuban American screenwriter , TV personality and actress . the woman was a writer for the CBS TV series The Incredible Hulk , The Facts of Life , Punky Brewster , and Superboy . the woman also guest appeared as Maria Fuentes , the younger sister of Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son in the Season 3 episode titled Watts Side Story . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 709---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1988 , Maria , a native of Coral Gables , Florida , a Miami suburb , wrote an essay in Newsweek 's My Turn column describing her experiences with minority quotas . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 710---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2012 , Chinea graduated with a Master 's in Film and Television MFA from the University of California , Los Angeles UCLA . the woman wrote and directed the short film Anonymous Street Meat as part of an experimental film course . The four minute film , which is based on her experiences with faulty mortgage foreclosure notices , was accepted to screen at the Cannes Short Film festival and earned an honorable mention at the California International Shorts Film Festival . Chinea hopes to be able to film a full length version . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 711---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Milton Selzer October 25 , 1918 October 21 , 2006 played the part of Mr . Sam Gittleman , a Hebrew souveniers shopowner Fred visits when the man sends for a fake Jewish crest in the episode Funny , the person do not Look It in season six . Milton was an veteran stage , film , and television actor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 712---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Lowell , Massachusetts , Selzer and his family moved to Portsmouth , New Hampshire where the man was raised . After graduating from Portsmouth NH High School , the man attended the University of New Hampshire before serving in World War II . After the war , Selzer moved to New York to train at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The New School . His acting career began with small parts on Broadway , and then later in film and television . After moving to Hollywood in 1960 , the man began a prolific career making many guest appearances . 713---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Selzer 's many television roles included appearances on The Twilight Zone , where the man portrayed an alien in Hocus Pocus and Frisby , and as the miserly son in law in The Masks . From 1965 to 1967 , the man made seven guest appearances as Professor Parker in Get Smart followed by roles on That Girl , The Rat Patrol , Hogan 's Heroes , and The Bold Ones The Protectors . In the many crime shows of the 1960s and 70s , Selzer would often portray unsympathetic characters who would also possess sad and often pathetic qualities . 714---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Selzer 's film career includes roles in The Young Savages 1961 opposite Burt Lancaster , In Enemy Country 1968 , and The Buddy System 1984 . the man made his last onscreen appearance in the 1995 television movie Cagney & Lacey Together Again . 715---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On October 21 , 2006 , Selzer died of pulmonary complications . 716---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Template Persondata 717---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mriam Coln born August 20 , 1936 appeared on Sanford and Son as Carlotta Fuentes , older sister of next door neighbor Julio , in the Season 4 episode titled Julio and Sister and Nephew . A revered Puerto Rican born veteran actress of stage film and TV since the 1950 's , Miriam is also the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 718---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Coln birth name Mriam Coln Valle was born in Ponce , Puerto Rico . the woman was a young girl in the 1940s when her recently divorced mother moved the family to a public housing project called Residencial Las Casas , located in Barrio Obrero , San Juan . the woman attended the Ramon Baldorioty de Castro High School in Old San Juan , where the woman actively participated in the school 's plays . Her first drama teacher , Marcos Coln no relation believed that the woman was very talented and with his help the woman was permitted to observe the students in the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico . the woman was a good student in high school and was awarded scholarships that enabled her to enroll in the Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institude and also in The Lee Strasburg Acting Studio in New York City . 719---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1953 , Coln debuted as an actress in Peloteros Baseball Players , starring Ramn Diplo Rivero , a film produced in Puerto Rico , and in which the woman played a character called Lolita . 720---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com That year , Coln moved to New York City , where the woman was accepted by Actors Studio co founder Elia Kazan after a single audition , thus becoming the Studio 's first Puerto Rican member . In New York , Coln worked in theater and later landed a role on the CBS TV daytime soap opera Guiding Light . On one occasion the woman attended a performance of Rene Marques ' La Carreta The Oxcart . That presentation motivated her to form the first Hispanic theater group , with the help of La Carreta 's producer , Roberto Rodrguez , called El Circuito Dramatico . 721---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1954 Miriam appeared on stage in In The Summer House at the Play House in New York City . Between 1954 and 1974 , Coln made guest appearances in television shows such as Peter Gunn and Alfred Hitchcock Presents . the woman appeared mostly in westerns such as Gunsmoke , Bonanza , The High Chaparral , and Have Gun , Will Travel . 722---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Coln appeared in the 1961 film One eyed Jacks as the Redhead . In 1979 , the woman starred alongside fellow Puerto Rican actors Jos Ferrer , Ral Juli , and Henry Darrow in Life of Sin , a film in which the woman portrayed Isabel la Negra , a real life Puerto Rican brothel owner . In 1983 , the woman played the mother of Tony Montana played by Al Pacino in Scarface . the woman was also cast as Mara in the 1999 film Gloria , which starred Sharon Stone . 723---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the late 1980s , Coln founded , The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre on West 47th street in Manhattan , New York . The company presents Off Broadway productions onsite and goes on tour . the woman is the director of the company and the woman has appeared in these PRTT productions 724---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1993 , Miriam received an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater . A biography of Miriam Colon , titled Miriam Coln Actor and Theater , was written by Mayra Fernandez . In 2000 , Mriam received the HOLA Ral Juli Founders Award , presented by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors HOLA . 725---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mriam Coln born August 20 , 1936 appeared on Sanford and Son as Carlotta Fuentes , older sister of next door neighbor Julio , in the Season 4 episode titled Julio and Sister and Nephew . A revered Puerto Rican born veteran actress of stage film and TV since the 1950 's , Miriam is also the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 726---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Coln birth name Mriam Coln Valle was born in Ponce , Puerto Rico . the woman was a young girl in the 1940s when her recently divorced mother moved the family to a public housing project called Residencial Las Casas , located in Barrio Obrero , San Juan . the woman attended the Ramon Baldorioty de Castro High School in Old San Juan , where the woman actively participated in the school 's plays . Her first drama teacher , Marcos Coln no relation believed that the woman was very talented and with his help the woman was permitted to observe the students in the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico . the woman was a good student in high school and was awarded scholarships that enabled her to enroll in the Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institude and also in The Lee Strasburg Acting Studio in New York City . 727---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1953 , Coln debuted as an actress in Peloteros Baseball Players , starring Ramn Diplo Rivero , a film produced in Puerto Rico , and in which the woman played a character called Lolita . 728---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com That year , Coln moved to New York City , where the woman was accepted by Actors Studio co founder Elia Kazan after a single audition , thus becoming the Studio 's first Puerto Rican member . In New York , Coln worked in theater and later landed a role on the CBS TV daytime soap opera Guiding Light . On one occasion the woman attended a performance of Rene Marques ' La Carreta The Oxcart . That presentation motivated her to form the first Hispanic theater group , with the help of La Carreta 's producer , Roberto Rodrguez , called El Circuito Dramatico . 729---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1954 Miriam appeared on stage in In The Summer House at the Play House in New York City . Between 1954 and 1974 , Coln made guest appearances in television shows such as Peter Gunn and Alfred Hitchcock Presents . the woman appeared mostly in westerns such as Gunsmoke , Bonanza , The High Chaparral , and Have Gun , Will Travel . 730---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Coln appeared in the 1961 film One eyed Jacks as the Redhead . In 1979 , the woman starred alongside fellow Puerto Rican actors Jos Ferrer , Ral Juli , and Henry Darrow in Life of Sin , a film in which the woman portrayed Isabel la Negra , a real life Puerto Rican brothel owner . In 1983 , the woman played the mother of Tony Montana played by Al Pacino in Scarface . the woman was also cast as Mara in the 1999 film Gloria , which starred Sharon Stone . 731---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the late 1980s , Coln founded , The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre on West 47th street in Manhattan , New York . The company presents Off Broadway productions onsite and goes on tour . the woman is the director of the company and the woman has appeared in these PRTT productions 732---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1993 , Miriam received an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater . A biography of Miriam Colon , titled Miriam Coln Actor and Theater , was written by Mayra Fernandez . In 2000 , Mriam received the HOLA Ral Juli Founders Award , presented by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors HOLA . 733---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mofongo Spanish translation mofogo is a fried plantain based dish from Puerto Rico . It is typically made with fried green plantains mashed together in a piln which is a wooden mortar and pestle , with broth , garlic , olive oil , and pork cracklings or bits of bacon . It is often filled with vegetables , chicken , crab , shrimp , or beef and is often served with fried meatand chicken broth soup . Mofongo relleno is mofongo stuffed with stewed beef , pork , chicken or seafood , with stewed sauce poured over . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 734---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The dish is ultimately of African origin and is a variant of a traditional dish called Fufu , which is made from various starchy vegetables and was introduced to the Caribbean by African slaves in the Spanish New World colonies such as the Dominican Republic Mang , Cuba fufu de pltano , and Puerto Rico mofongo . Starchy root vegetables and plantains are boiled then mashed until a dough like consistency with water , butter , or milk . Mofongo is fried then mashed with broth , olive oil and seasoning . The consistency of mofongo is much more stiff than fufu . 735---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It is also possible to make mofongo with cassava , bread fruit , ripe plantains , or a combination of cassava , green plantains , and ripe plantains called trifongo . 736---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Food Network chef and host Guy Fieri featured mofongo from Benny 's Seafood in Miami , Florida and from El Bohio in San Antonio , Texas on two separate episodes of his show Diners , Drive Ins and Dives . the man liked the dish so much that the man called it the best fried thing this person ever ate on an episode of the show The Best Thing this person Ever Ate . 737---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mofongo is featured in a Season 2 episode of Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell as the opening dish challenge . 738---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In a Season 2 episode of Sanford and Son , Lamont tells his father that the man has met their new next door neighbor , Puerto Rican Julio Fuentes . Lamont tells his father that Fuentes gave him a dish of some stuff that was terrific , which was mofongo . 739---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mister Creely , the frustrated acting workshop director of the acting workshop Lamont participated in , quits amid Fred 's constant interruptions when the man is invited to join in on the workshop reluctantly by Lamontin the fifth seasonSanford and SonepisodeThe Director Episode 21 . The part of Mr . Creely is played by actor Adam Wade . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 740---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred is reluctantly allowed by Lamont to sit in on a session of the acting workshop that Creely directs , the man is a constant distraction ; amid the criticizing of the script , which Creely wrote and produced , the acting , and the ogling of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion George Foreman who Fred came to see , who was a visitor to the workshop , Mr . Creely gets fed up exclaiming I have had it this person quit this person cannot work amid all these constant distractions The play continues , with Fred changing half of the original script , giving Lamont a silly British Cockney accent Shipping off to Oxford Rather Marvey , ' chap and causing George to injure his hand by punching a hole in the wall as part of the script George , who was due to fight a few days later , still donated money to the workshop , without Creely , who Fred derisively called Creepy Creely , and without Fred , who the man says in a letter , his hair is my favorite color , Meat 741---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Grayson , a representative for the Guinness Book of World Records , appears in the episode this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz in Season 5 . The part of Mr . Grayson is played by veteran character voice actor Leonard Stone , who also appeared in the Season 1 episode The Copper Caper . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 742---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A rather stiff upper lip British gentleman , Mr . Grayson is called by Fred and Bubba when Fred , out of boredom and in an attempt to impress Mrs . Gordon Royce Wallace , the mother of Lamont 's finacee Janet , decides to try to break the world 's record for going the most consecutive hours without sleep ; when Grayson drops by , Fred , who had been up for 6 straight days , needed only a few more minutes before the record would be broken , However , while Mr . Grayson is conversing with Lamont , Bubba , Esther , and Janet 's son Roger , about the excitement Fred generated in his record breaking attempt , Fred dozes off on the couch , missing the record by only 43 seconds Just before those people find him on the couch , all were wondering where Fred disappeared to ; an impatient Grayson explains that the man has a busy schedule or , as the man pronounces it shedd the person ull the man tells them that the man has a man that the man has to see who had eaten nothing but prunes for six straight days and that obviously this person do not want to keep him waiting 743---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Hamblin was a repossessor who was sent to the Sanford residence by a collection agency in the Season 1 episode of Sanford and Son titled The Great Sanford Siege . The part of Hamblin was played by veteran character actor Dick Van Patten , who is best known to TV viewers for his role as Tom Bradford , the Bradford family patriarch in the 1977 81 ABC series Eight Is Enough . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 744---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont , who were behind in all of their bills , due to Fred 's negligent approach to it Put it back in the mailbox find themselves trapped in their home in a standoff with a process server and wjith Hamblin , a collection agency repossesor , a onewith the cops in tow , who are ready to repossess their unpaid furniture . Fred 's acting ability , which culminates in him faking a bad heart , and faking as if the man were pushed rudely by the repossesor when those people head upstairs to take the bedroom furniture , coupled with a convenient legal loophole , comes to the rescue , saving their necks , and it nets them $ 200 . 00 as Hamblin said To help pay for the person little doctor bills 745---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Hastings was a representativefrom the Social Security office who visits Grady at the Sanford residence in the episode titled A Little Extra Security in Season 4 of Sanford and Son . The part of Mr . Hastings is played by veteran actor Fred D . Scott . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 746---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Hastings from the Social Security office , visits the Sanford residence to talk to Grady concerning his not receiving his monthly Social Security check unaware that Grady actually did receive his check , plus another one by accident , via a computer error , and of a great amount which Grady , in his sudden windfall , spent gleefully carousing about the town with buddy Otis Littlejohn Stymie Beard Lamont , who tries to implore Grady to notify Social Security of their error , becomes Grady 's real nemesis Nervous about the possibility that the goverment might catch up with its error , the man contemplates telling Mr . Hastings , until , in another error , Hastings who Grady kept referring to as Haystacks returns to present Grady with still another check 747---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mister Stone wasa nightclub owner in the episode ofSanford and Son titled The Stand In in Season 4 . The part of Mr . Stone was played by veteran character actor Joe Silver . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 748---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stone , who was expecting the two Zanies , one song and the other dance , was upset that the other Zanie was not present ; Al Al Williams had injured his hip while performing a dance routine in the ' living room , and could not do the scheduled gig . Thus , Fred , feeling indebted to Bowlegs Scatman Crothers beceause mistakenly thought that Bowlegs introduced him to his late wife Elizabeth , forcibly enlists the reluctant Lanont to sub in for Al , while the man would perform too , singing with Bowlegs . When Stone angrily asked , Where is the other Zanie this person paid for song and dance , so where is the dance part Fred , trying to divert his anger , would do his trademark knockneed walk , which made Stone laugh heartily , and say , Look He is walking He is Walking 749---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Wilkins was the chairman of the L . A . Community Committee on which Fred Sanford was made a member of in the sixth season Sanford and Son episode titled Committee Man Season 6 , episode 7 . Ronnie Schell , who is known for his role as Duke Slater on the 1964 69 CBS TV sitcom series Gomer Pyle , USMC , played the part of Wilkins in a guest appearance , who proposed a vote to move to try to prevent a corrupt land developer and builder named Sam Jordan Edward Andrews to build in the West L . A . area . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 750---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mrs . Fuentes , Julio 's mother , appears in the Season 3 episodes ofSanford and Sontitled Fuentes , Fuentes , Sanford & Chico and Watts Side Story . The role of Maria is played by veteran actress Alma Beltran . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 751---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the episode Watts Side Story , when Julio 's sister Maria and Mrs . Fuentes , visit L . A . , Lamont decides to show Maria around town ; being cordial , and a good host , the man takes Maria out on a dinner date , and shows her around L . A . , it garners the contemptful curiosity of Fred , who already has his views about Puerto Ricans , as well as Mrs . Fuentes , Julio 's mother , who questions Lamont 's motives in taking out Maria , who has no hangups about it . When Fred and then Mrs . Fuentes decide to sneak over to the restaurant where Lamont takes Maria , the two have already left , Fred and his accidental date , Julio 's mother surprise each other , sitting at a table together in dark sunglasses , only to be met by Skillet and Leroy , who think that those people are out together 752---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the episode Fuentes , Fuentes , Sanford and Chico , the woman , Lamont and Julio are able to persuade Fred , who stubbornly choses to stay at a 35 cent a day flophouse in Downtown L . A . by cooking a big Puerto Rican Pigs Knuckles dinner , all while getting Lamont , who visits him to break the news , that Julio and the woman were moving in with him 753---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mrs . Gordon , is the mother of Lamont 's finacee Janet who appears in the episode of Sanford and Son titled this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz in Season 5 . The part of Mrs . Gordon is played by actress Royce Wallace . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 754---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred decides to try to break the world 's record for going the most consecutive hours without sleep , to try to impress Janet 's mother also to Lamont 's objections , who was visting from Oakland , the man already had not slept for 4 straight days ; when Mrs . Gordon , a schoolteacher who was in town to receive an award from Education Magazine for writing an essay on How to Discipline Problem Children , arrives and then is told by Janet of Fred 's insominiacal endeavor , the woman is quite impressed saying to Fred It is quite an undertaking the woman then offers tough discipline support in attempt to keep the sleep deprived Fred from dozing off by responding , You are so thoughtful , so warm , so kind , so loving , so off your duff this person write a paper on discipline for nothing , so keep moving , Left Right Left 755---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ms Williamswas the computer dating service clerk which Fred and Grady referred the profile of Lamont , who those people were looking for a computer match for inMatchmaker , Matchmaker Season 4 , Episode 2 . The part of Ms . Williams is played by actress Cathy Cooper , who also appears on the seriesas one of Aunt Esther 's church sisters in the episode Aunt Esther Meets Her Son Season 6 , Episode 12 , and the woman also appears intheSanford and Sonspinoff seriesSanford ; credited for 14 episodes of its first season , the woman appeared in nine . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 756---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ms . Williams , the Date A Mate dating service clerk , when asking about the age of Lamont , Fred , in trying to get the best match for Lamont , hesitates and asks Grady what age should the man give Ms . Williams , Grady responds Oh , well , he is 32 , is not the man Fred responds , 32 . Yeah , right . Fred then asks Grady , What if , uh , Cicely Tyson likes an older man Grady responds , Oh . then say he is 42 . Fred then asks Grady , What if she is that kind of chick that likes a younger man Grady then responds Oh . then say he is , uh , 22 . 757---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Here is the rest of the scene with Ms . Williams 758---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred talking to Ms . Williams Uh , he is 22 . Ms . Williams 22 . Fred confused as to which age to give her Or 32 . or 42 . Ms . Williams 22 Or 42 Fred this person remember it had a 2 on it . Ms Williams Why do not these people just use the median That will make him 32 . 759---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Ms . Williams calls the Sanford residence to check up on the date match with Nora Simpson played by Beverly Sanders , Lamont intercepts the call , to find out that Fred set up the date with Date A Mate for him . Ms . Williams , who says about the man and Nora She is dying to meet the person , the person two have so much in common , especially the margarine body rubs . Lamont responds , The Margarine What the woman answers The body rubs , the person do not do that anymore Answers Lamont , No , this person moved up to the higher priced spread 760---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com My Brother in Law 's Keeper was the 82nd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 20th episode of Season Four , it first aired February 14 , 1975 . 761---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is bothered and bewildered by his baby sister 's marriage to a white man named Rodney Victor . 762---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is delighted that his sister Frances Mary Alice has finally gotten married . His delight quickly evaporates when the man meets his new brother in law Rodney Victor Allan Drake , in his first series appearance . It seems that dear old Rodney is an inveterate gambler and a practical joker and worst of all , for starters , he is White , secondly , the man seems to be overly affectionate towards his future brother in law , in that the man seems to have , as Fred complains , chronic huggitis 763---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com My Fair Esther was the 96th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 9th episode of Season Five , it first aired November 14 , 1975 . 764---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred becomes a latter day Henry Higgins when the man undertakes the task of transforming ugly duckling Esther into a swan so the woman can win the Mrs . Watts Businessman 's Contest and net Fred half the prize money . 765---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred underrtakes the task of transforming a sow 's ear into a silk purse . This is Fred 's rather insulting assessment of his mission to give Aunt Esther LaWanda Page a complete fashion makeover Has Fred finally buried the hatchet with Esther No , the man merely wants to win a 500 dollar bet the man made with Esther 's hubby Woodrow Raymond Allen . 766---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Wilbur Hi Fi White appears as the beauty contest emcee , Jackie Toles appears as Lucille Brown , a contest , and Tina Dixon as Mabel Johnston . 767---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com My Kingdom For a Horse was the 70th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eighth episode of Season Four , it first aired November 1 , 1974 . 768---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred buys a retired thoroughbred racehorse named General Lee , betting on a big profit after selling him as a breeding stud . It does not matter that the horse 's racing days are over , and that the man had been reduced to hauling a junk wagon Fred 's hopes are dashed , when the man is informed by the horse trader whom the man tries to sell General Lee to , Mr . Crenshaw Ned Wertimer checks the horse and discovers that he is been gelded , which that Fred and Lamont already found out when thumbing thru a rhorse acing almanac which Grady bought and read with them , meaning the man cannot breed , also meaning no riches Fred is grudingly forced to accept Crenshaw 's offer of $ 25 plus $ 50 for the pants Fred made for the horse 769---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nancy Kulp August 28 , 1921 February 3 , 1991 appeared in the recurring role of May Hopkins , mother ofOfficer Hoppy Hopkins on Sanford and Son , first appearing the episode titled The Sanford Arms Season 5 , Episode 4 in 1975 . Nancy is perhaps best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the popular CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 770---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , Nancy was the only child of Robert this person . Kulp , a traveling salesman , and his wife , Marjorie S . Kulp . The family moved from Mifflintown , Pennsylvania , to Dade County , Florida , sometime before 1935 . 771---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nancy received a bachelor 's degree in journalism from the Florida State University in 1943 , then known as the Florida State College for Women , and the woman started pursuing a master 's degree in English and French at the University of Miami . the woman was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority . Early in the 1940s the woman worked as a feature writer for the Miami Beach Tropics newspaper , writing profiles of celebrities , including Clark Gable and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . 772---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1944 Kulp left the University of Miami to volunteer for service in the U . S . Naval Reserve during World War II . As a member of the WAVES Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service , Ltjg . Kulp received several decorations , including the American Campaign Medal , the National Defense Medal , and the Good Conduct Medal . the woman left the service in 1946 . 773---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kulp married Charles Malcolm Dacus on April 1 , 1951 , in Dade County , Florida ; those people divorced in 1961 . 774---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Shortly after her marriage , Kulp moved to Hollywood , California , to work in a studio publicity department , where director George Cukor convinced her that the woman should work in front of a camera . 775---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nancy made her film debut as a character actress in 1951 in The Model and the Marriage Broker . the woman then appeared in other films , including Shane 1952 , Sabrina 1954 , and A Star Is Born 1954 . Kulp has an uncredited bit part in a crowd scene as a fan of Donald in one of the opening scenes in Anything Goes 1956 . After working in television on The Bob Cummings Show , the woman returned to movies in Forever , Darling , The Three Faces of Eve , The Parent Trap 1961 , and The Aristocats . 776---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nancy was once described as television 's most homely girl or , as one reviewer put it , possessing the face of a shriveled balloon , the figure of a string of spaghetti , and the voice of a bullfrog in mating season . Others described her as tall and prim and praised her comedic skills . 777---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1955 , Nancy joined the cast of The Bob Cummings Show a . k . a . Love That Bob with Bob Cummings , portraying pith helmeted neighborhood bird watcher Pamela Livingstone . In 1956 the woman appeared in the episode Johnny Bravo of Clint Walker 's ABC TV series Cheyenne . the woman also appeared in 1955 56 as Anastasia in three episodes of the NBC sitcom It is a Great Life . 778---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kulp also appeared in one episode of this person Love Lucy . In the 1957 episode Lucy meets the Queen , the woman played an English maid and showed Lucy and Ethel how to properly curtsy before the Queen . the woman also appeared in several episodes of Perry Mason , The Jack Benny Program , 87th Precinct , The Twilight Zone and The Outlaws , and the woman briefly played a drunken waitress with slightly slurred speech in a 1959 episode of Maverick , featuring James Garner , entitled Full House . Kulp also played a housekeeper in a pilot for The William Bendix Show , which aired as the 1960 61 season finale of Mister Ed under the episode title Pine Lake Lodge . 779---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1962 , Nancy landed her breakout role of Jane Hathaway , the love starved bird watching perennial spinster , on The Beverly Hillbillies television series . the woman remained with the show until its cancellation in 1971 . In 1967 the woman received an Emmy Award nomination for her role . 780---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1966 the woman appeared as Wilhemina Peterson in the movie Night of the Grizzly , starring Clint Walker and Martha Hyer . After The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled in 1970 , Kulp appeared on The Brian Keith Show and Sanford and Son . the woman also appeared in Broadway productions , including Morning 's at Seven in 1981 . 781---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kulp was diagnosed with cancer in 1990 , and the woman underwent chemotherapy . By 1991 the cancer had spread , and Kulp died on February 3 at a friend 's home in Palm Desert , California . the woman is interred at Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery in Mifflintown , Pennsylvania . 782---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nathaniel Taylor born March 31 , 1938 in St . Louis , Missouri played the part of Rollo Lawson , the best friend of Lamont Sanford Demond Wilson and Fred 's nemisis on Sanford and Son . Nathaniel reprised the role of Rollo on its spinoff series Sanford . Nathaniel has appeared in number of guest roles on other sitcoms , most notably as Rerun 's Fred Berry brother in law Ike in the ABC TV sitcom What is Happening . Taylor 's character Rollo once referred to Redd Foxx 's character Fred G . Sanford as , One cold blooded old dude . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121028000511/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/46/Nathaniel_Rollo_Taylor.png/320px-Nathaniel_Rollo_Taylor.png 783---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Noam Pitlik born November 4 , 1933 died February 18 , 1999 appeared in six Sanford and Son episodes during its first season as LAPD Officer Swanny Swanhouser , first appearing in the fourth episode of the first seasonThe Copper Caper in 1972 . A multifaceted entertainment figure , Noam wore numerous hats as a director , actor , and producer for several episodes of the ABC TV version of the 1980 hit film Nine to Five , ABC TV 's Barney Miller series , and as co executive producer of the 1990 comedy film Anna . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 784---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Noam directed episodes of 29 different series , mostly situation comedies such as Barney Miller 102 episodes , the NBC TV series Wings 27 episodes , NBC 's Night Court 1 episode , ABC TV 's Mr . Belvedere 44 episodes , Off the Rack 6 episodes , Taxi 4 episodes and CBS 's One Day at a Time 18 episodes . 785---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As an actor , Noam appeared on 82 different TV series making multiple appearances in several series including Sanford and Son in 1972 where the man played Officer Swanhauser aka Swany a white cop whose partner was Officer Smitty Smith played by Hal Williams . In the second season , the man was replaced by Officer Hoppy Hopkins played by Howard T . Platt . 786---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Other acting credits include Hogan 's Heroes , where the man appeared in various roles as American and German characters including a spy pretending to be a new POW in the seldom seen series pilot episode . the man also appeared in The Bob Newhart Show as Mr . Gianelli , one of Dr . Robert Hartley 's patients a character that was taken over by Daniel J . Travanti . the man also played the role of a milkman named Wilbur in one episode All in the Family , a villain in the show The Flying Nun , an English teacher on Gidget , and had an uncredited role in the film The Graduate as a gas station attendant . Pitlik also was in the movies Fade In and Fitzwilly . 787---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Noam was married three times ; his first marriage was to Jesse Blostein . The couple married on February 11 , 1967 , and then divorced on September 29 , 1970 . Pitlik 's next marriage was to Linda Hirsch on June 23 , 1974 , but those people divorced on April 25 , 1977 . Pitlik then married Susan Whittaker on January 18 , 1986 . those people would remain married until his death from lung cancer on February 18 , 1999 . 788---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com An episode of the ABC TV animated series The Smurfs included a gnome named Mr . Pitlik . 789---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Nora Simpson was a blind computer date for Lamont which Fred , in trying to get Lamont to collect on a $ 7 , 000 inheritance left by a recently deceased uncle , who stipulated in his will that within a year Lamont , who is still single , must marry and have a child , in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Matchmaker , Matchmaker in Season 4 . The part of Nora is played by actress Beverly Sanders . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 790---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Deseperate to collect on the inheritance Lamont could collect from wedding someone and having a child , Fredturnd to a computer dating service called Date A Mate ; where the dating agency clerk , Ms . Williams Cathy Cooper , is able to find a match for Lamont from the description that Fred and Grady gives her , the dating service match it gives is a white woman http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 791---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The arranged date , which turns out to be disaster for the already disinterested Lamont not to mention Fred , who was still reeling because the dating service find someone black , but the man goes along for the ride until a girlfriend of his named Janet Gloria Delaney , who is an actress , and was to pose as the slightly neurotic , vegetarian , and alcoholic lush Nora . When Janet arrives , she is turned away by Lamont , who tells her the real Nora arrived , and did everything that the woman was supposed to do . When Janet asks Is the woman an actress Lamont answers , No , no one can act that good In the end , Grady , although it was Fred 's fault for the dating fiasco , winds up the one who has to help pour the drunken Nora , who had too many martinis , into her car and drive and escort her ome http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 792---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Norman Abbott born July 11 , 1922 is a television director . the man directed episodes of Welcome Back , Kotter , Get Smart , The Munsters , Leave It To Beaver , and The Jack Benny Program . the man also directed 11 episodes of Sanford and Son from Seasons 4 6 of the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 793---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man is a nephew of the comedian actor Bud Abbott of Abbott & Costello comedy team . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 794---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Norman Blood was a new hire in the junkyard by Fred when the man and Lamont had a falling out and dissolved Sanford and Son Salavge temporarily in the Season 2 episode of Sanford and Son titled Blood Is Thicker Than Junk . The part of Norman was played by actor Roger E . Mosley , who would in later years go on to further success in film Leadbelly , where the man appears in the title role as the late Delta blues singer , and a part in the ABC TV miniseries Roots , and most notably , the role of Theodore T . C . Calvin on the long running CBS TV series Magnum , P . this person . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 795---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After a nasty spat which causes the Sanford and Son partnership between Fred and Lamont to split up . Fred hires Norman toreplace Lamont , who , on a referral from the state unemployment agency , begins work with a competing junk dealer who lives down the street from Fred and Lamont , Mr . Baxtrum , while still living in the Sanford home . However , when things does not go smoothly with Fred , who is left all day and evening wondering where the somewhat dim witted , but brawny Norman , who , when asked by Fred if the man knows anything about trucks , boasts that the man can take an entire truck apart in minutes , returns after being gone all day . the man later returns with a stuffed bear , which the man called a Watch Bear When Norman finally returns with the bear the man bought , Fred threatens him , charging him There the person are with 200 lbs . of brawn , and an ounce of brain Man , if the person do not get me back my money the person spent for that bear , I am going to take this crowbar which the man had in hand and peel your head 796---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Norman Milton Lear born July 27 , 1922 is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All In The Family , Sanford and Son , One Day at a Time , The Jeffersons , Good Times and Maude . As a political activist , the man founded the advocacy organization People For the American Way in 1981 and has supported U . S . Constitution First Amendment rights and progressive causes . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 797---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lear was born in New Haven , Connecticut , the son of Jeanette ne Seicol and Herman Lear , who worked in sales . the man grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah . Lear went to high school in Hartford , Connecticut and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston , but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces . During World War II , the man served in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio operator gunner on Boeing B 17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron , 463rd Bombardment Group Heavy of the Fifteenth Air Force . the man flew 52 combat missions , for which the man was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters . Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945 . the man and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the book Crew Umbriago by Daniel P . Carroll tail gunner , and also in another book 772nd Bomb Squadron The Men , The Memories by Turner Publishing Company . 798---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1954 , Lear was enlisted as a writer hoping to salvage the new Celeste Holm CBS TV sitcom , Honestly , Celeste , but the program was canceled after eight episodes . During this time , the man became the producer of NBC TV 's The Martha Raye Show , after Nat Hiken left as the series director . In 1959 , Lear created his first television series starring Henry Fonda , a half hour western for Revue Studios now Universal Media Studios called The Deputy . 799---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Starting out as a comedy writer , then a film director the man wrote and produced the 1967 film Divorce American Style and directed the 1971 film Cold Turkey , both starring Dick Van Dyke , Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue collar American family to ABC TV . those people rejected the show after two pilots were filmed . After a third pilot was shot , CBS picked up the show , known as All in the Family . It premiered January 12 , 1971 to disappointing ratings , but it took home several Emmy Awards that year , including Outstanding Comedy Series . The show did very well in summer reruns , and it flourished in the 1971 1972 season , becoming the top rated show on TV for the next five years . After falling from the 1 spot , All in the Family still remained in the top ten , well after it transitioned into Archie Bunker 's Place . The show was based on the British sitcom Til Death Us Do Part , about an irascible working class Tory and his Socialist son in law . 800---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lear 's second big TV hit was also based on a British sitcom , Steptoe and Son , about a west London junk dealer and his son . Lear changed the setting to the Watts section of Los Angeles and the characters to African Americans , and the NBC TV series Sanford and Son was an instant hit . Numerous hit shows followed thereafter , including Maude the lead character of which was reportedly based on Lear 's then wife Frances , The Jeffersons both spin offs of All in the Family , One Day at a Time and Good Times . 801---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com What most of the Lear sitcoms had in common was that those people were character driven , had sets that more resembled stage plays than common sitcom sets , were shot on videotape in place of film , used a live studio audience , and most importantly dealt with the social and political issues of the day . Ironically , although Lear 's shows are often considered somewhat autobiographical and closely identified with his personal experiences , his early hits were actually all adapted from someone else is creations the two aforementioned British adaptations and Maude , while reputedly based on Lear 's wife , was actually the brainchild of series producer Charlie Hauck . Bud Yorkin was also the major force behind All in the Family , Sanford and Son , The Jeffersons , and countless others . 802---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Norman 's longtime producing partner was Bud Yorkin , who created produced All in the Family , Sanford and Son , What is Happening , Maude , and The Jeffersons , split with Lear in 1975 . the man started a production company with writer producers Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein , but those people had only two shows that ran more than a year What is Happening and Carter Country . The Lear Yorkin company was known as Tandem Productions . Lear and talent agent Jerry Perenchio founded T . A . T . Communications T . A . T . stood for Tuchus Affen Tisch , which is Yiddish for Putting one 's butt on the line in 1974 , which co existed with Tandem Productions and was often referred to in periodicals as Tandem T . A . T . The Lear organization was one of the most successful independent TV producers of the 1970s . TAT produced the influential and award winning 1981 film The Wave about the Ron ' social experiment . 803---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lear also developed the cult favorite TV series Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman MH MH which was turned down by the networks as too controversial and placed it into first run syndication with 128 stations in January 1976 . A year later , Lear added another program into first run syndication along with MH MH , All That Glitters . the man planned in 1977 to offer three hours of prime time Saturday programming directly , with the stations placing his production company in the position of an occasional network . 804---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Norman himself stepped down as production supervisor on his shows in 1978 to work on a film dealing with his concerns about the growing influence of radical right wing evangelists . The film was never fully developed , but the process stimulated his long engagement in political activism . 805---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1982 , the company bought out Avco Embassy Pictures from Avco Financial Corporation , and the Avco part of its name was dropped . Embassy Pictures was led by Alan Horn and Martin Schaeffer , later co founders of Castle Rock Entertainment with Rob Reiner . In 1985 , Lear sold all his film and television production holdings to Columbia Pictures then owned by the Coca Cola Company which acquired Embassy 's film and television division which included Embassy 's in house television productions and the television rights to the Embassy theatrical library for $ 485 million in shares of The Coca Cola Company . Lear and his longtime partner Jerry Perenchio split the net proceeds about $ 250mm . Coke later sold the film division to Dino De Laurentiis and the home video arm to Nelson entertainment led by Barry Spikings . 806---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The brand Tandem Productions was abandoned in 1986 with the cancellation of Strokes , and Embassy ceased to exist as a single entity in late 1987 , having been split into different components owned by different entities . The Embassy TV division became ELP Communications in 1988 , but shows originally produced by Embassy were now under the Columbia Pictures Television banner from 19881994 and the Columbia TriStar Television banner from 1994 1998 . 807---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lear is unofficially credited with giving Rob Reiner , son of Carl Reiner and a star of All in the Family his start as a director by financing the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap . Lear 's Act III Communications , founded in 1986 with Tom McGrath as President , produced several notable films , including Rob Reiner 's next three films The Sure Thing , Stand By Me , and The Princess Bride , as well as Fried Green Tomatoes . 808---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Odie Hawkins born July 7 , 1937 co = wrote the teleplay for the Sanford and Son episode titled The Big Party in Season 2 of the series . Odie is a native of Chicago , Illinois , where the man attended Wilson Junior College . the man and his wife reside in Compton , California . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 809---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Odie has been given the title , The Underground Master , by a loyal constituency who have followed his career through his twenty four novels , short story collections , essays , television scripts , radio and film scripts . the man takes pride in being the originator of the Pan African Occult genre , as exemplified by The Snake and Shackles Across Time . the man was one of the original members of the famed Watts Writers Workshop , established by Budd Schulberg , 810---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Officer Hoppy Hopkins was an LAPD patrolman , and a friend of Lamont and Fred who often stopped by the Sanford residence on a simple social call , just to visit , often times while on a break while still on duty . the man was usually paired with Officer Smitty Smith Hal Williams on Sanford and Son . Played by Howard T . Platt , Hoppy reappeared along with Smitty on the Sanford spinoff series in 1980 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 811---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The rather talkative , somewhat jovial Hoppy was in stark contrast to the much more serious , monosyllabic , humorless and solemn demeanor of his white officer predecessor , Officer Swanny Swanhouser , whom Hoppy replaced as Smitty 's white partner in Season one . Hoppy had a tendency to ramble on and on , straying onto subjects the man likes , while straying away from the subject at hand that was at first being discussed , from which it usually Officer Smith , or Smitty , or one of the others in that given scene , to set him back on track . Also portrayed as a bit of an incompetent buffoon , Hoppy is still portrayed as a still capable , good cop . 812---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The working comedic line was always that Hopkins , being Caucasian , as well as Swanhouser , who preceded him as Officer Smith 's partner , often would incorrectly use ' slang , which Smitty often correctede . g . , cold instead of cool or right up instead of right on . Both the by the book Swanny , and the ever professional Hoppy would both deliver a speech filled with police jargon and big words , at which the often confused Fred and or Lamont would turn to Officer Smitty , who would then translate Swanny 's or Hoppy 's speech into Jive . Later in the series 's run , the officers often appear individually . Unlike Ah Chew and Julio Fuentes , Hoppy is usually able to keep free of Fred 's insults , particulary when the subject of race appears through ethinc barbs . 813---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hoppy 's mother , May Hopkins Nancy Kulp , moved from back east in season four , and eventually moved into the Sanford Arms apartments , which made it easier for Hoppy to visit her on social calls , to have milk and cookies . 814---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In one episode , This Little TV Went to Market , Officer Jonesy Jones Bernie Hamilton appears with Hoppy in place of Smitty . In the sixth season episode The Hawaii Connection , Smitty appears with his slow witted new partner , Percy Pat Paulsen . In The Reverend Sanford episode , comedic actor Freeman King appears as a police officer named Jim , presumably standing in for Smitty , but without Hoppy or any other partner . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030002741/sanfordandson/images/thumb/1/1a/Hoppy_Smitty.png/220px-Hoppy_Smitty.png 815---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Officer Jonesy Jones appeared one episode , titled This Little TV Went to Market , Season 3 , episode 5 Jonesy , who was played by Bernie Hamilton , later of ABC TV 's crime drama series Starsky & Hutch , who appears with Hoppy as a temporary partner in place of Smitty . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 816---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com LAPD Officer Smith , or Smitty , was the African American LAPD police officer friend of the Sanfords who usually cordially vistied them from time to time with different partners , usually with Officers Swanny Swanhouser , who was played by Noam Pitlik , or Hoppy Hopkins Howard T . Platt . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 817---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Smitty played by Hal Williams , usually served as the straight man to comedic moments of the serious , straight laced , solemn and humorless Swanny and the somewhat inept , but still by the book and capable officer Hoppy . Both Swanny but usually Hoppy would incorrectly use ' slang , which Smitty always correctede . g . , cold instead of cool or right up instead of right on . Conversely , the ever professional Hoppy delivers a speech filled with police jargon and big words , which confuses Fred and or Lamont thus turning to Smitty , who would then translate Hoppy 's or Swanny 's speech into Jive . Officer Smith and Hopkins also appeared in several episodes of the spinoff series Sanford in 1980 81 . 818---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Officer Swanny Swanhouser was played by Noam Pitlik , and appeared in six episodes during the show 's first season , first appearing in the fourth episode of the first season titled The Copper Caper in 1972 . Swanny was originally Smith 's Caucasian partner who is replaced early in the second season with Officer Hoppy Hopkins Howard T . Platt . Swanny is basically the same as Hoppy , in the sense that the twooften incorrectly used ' slang , which Smitty often correctede . g . , cold instead of cool or right up instead of right on . and the ever professional Swanny , then later , Hoppy , often delivered a speech filled with police jargon and big words , which usually confuses Fred and or Lamont thus turning to Smitty , who would then translate Swanny or Hoppy 's speech into Jive . but Swanny 's demeanor is much more serious than the more jovial Hoppy , and completely humorless . Like Hoppy , Swanny is never racially insulted by Fred . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 819---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com ' Brown Eyes is Back was the 65th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of Season Four , it first aired September 27 , 1974 . 820---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , who is celebrating 35 years in the junk business snoops around the living room and finds his intended gift from Lamont a signet ring with his initials FS on it that Rollo got for a good price . Then Fred learns that among the items recently stolen from Frank Sinatra 's hotel room was also an initialed signet ring . 821---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When the man mistakely puts 2 2 together , and comes to the conclustion that the ring was stolen from Frank Sinatra 's room , the man goes to the hotel to return the ring , only to get stopped by security ; there Fred , not wanting Lamont to get in trouble with the law for fencing stolen goods , lies and claims to be the Tip Toe Burgular , Needless to say , the man manages to get himself arrested , booked at the police statiion in the Watts precinct . 822---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com At the police station , Hoppy and Smitty ask Fred , how could the person be the Tip Toe Burgular the man just struck in New York City just last week Fred responds , this person tipped in 823---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Everything is then sorted out , and Smitty , Hoppy tell Fred that those people all chipped in to get him the ring ; Lamont , who arrives , tells the cops that Fred got the ring from behind the pillow of their couch , where the man tried hide it . When Smitty , who on behest of Fred , examines the ring , it turns out to be a worthless imitation Fred asks Smitty , the person mean to tell me all of the person all chipped in and could not give but $ 15 Least the person could do is give me a hundred dollar diamond ring . 824---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Here is the rest of the scene Lamont Well , actually , these people did pay more than $ 15 for it . Smitty A lot more Rollo Hey , well , fellas , you have got to think of my overhead . the person know , like , mileage , phone calls , insurance . insurance Fred Now insurance . When the man 's right , he is right . I am fixing to perform a 459 . Rollo What is a 459 Fred Breaking and entering your skull 825---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , who then lunges after Rollo , who runs out of the police station , is quickly stopped by three police officers before the man could perform his 459 826---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Once a Thief was the 77th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 15th episode of Season Four , it first aired December 27 , 1974 . 827---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Grady gets uptight when Lamont brings his ex convict friend Herman Edwards Ron Glass home to stay until the man can find a job , which Esther is willing to give to him working in husband Woodrow 's hardware store , until the woman learns of his prison past , before the woman has a change of heart and gets him rehired at the hardware stroe . 828---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Otis Littlejohn is a buddy of Grady Wilson who appears in three episodes of Sanford and Son during the fourth season , in the episodes A Little Extra Security , Fred Sanford , Legal Eagle , and A House is Not a Pool Room . The role of Otis is played by former Our Gang cast member and veteran actor Stymie Beard . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 829---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Although the man initially comes off as a fair weather friend in the episode A Little Extra Security , when , after carousing about the town with buddy Grady , and then when asked by him for a loan of $ 233 , the amount of the extra check that the man received from Social Security due to a computer glitch , when the man says this person need that money , If this person cannot make money , who is going to care for me Who is going to look after me , and when after Grady says this person will answering You are going to be in jail , thief , Otis still comes through as a loyal friend when , after the man leaves the Sanford home , returns with the amount Grady needed just in case Mr . Hastings , from the Social Security office asked about the money , which the man never does , instead , in another error , Hastings who Grady kept referring to as Haystacks returned to present Grady with still another check 830---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Otto , a contact of Kelly , a friend of the Sanfords , appears in the episode of Sanford and Son titled The Copper Caper . The part of Otto is played by veteran character voice actor Leonard Stone , who later appears on the series as Mr . Grayson , a representative for the Guiness Book of World Records in the Season 5 episode this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 831---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred 's friend Kelly played by Clancy Cooper , turns Fred and Lamont onto a apparent sweet deal involving some cheap copper that a contact , named Otto , is trying to get rid of because the man claims his church is being torn down to put up a parking lot . Fred is skeptical of the deal because of the cheap price Otto was willing to sell the copper for the man was charging only 10 a pound , when the average going price , as Lamont saw in the morning newspaper , was about 38 a pound , but Lamont insists to him that the man knows what the man is doing . 832---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont are instructed by Otto to wait at a diner for the man to show up to close the deal for the copper . After doing so , those people return home where , Officers Smitty and Swanny pay them a visit and warn them about a copper thief that is working in the area . Panicked , Fred and Lamont drive their newly acquired load of copper down to the ocean and dump it . Returning home , those people discover that all of their plumbing has been stolen including Kelly and the rest of the neighborhood , and that the shady , dishonest Otto sold them their own copper which the man pulled out while those people were waiting for him at the diner 833---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pat Morita born Noriyuki Morita June 28 , 1932 died November 24 , 2005 played the part of Ah Chew , one of Lamont 's friends , who Fred often insults at almost every oppurtunity . was a revered American character actor of Japanese descent who was well known for playing the roles of Matsuo Arnold Takahashi on Happy Days and Kesuke Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series , for which the man was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 834---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pat was born in Isleton , California . the man developed spinal tuberculosis at the age of two and spent the bulk of the next nine years in Northern California in hospitals , including the Shriners Hospitals for Children in San Francisco . For long periods the man was wrapped in a full body cast and was told the man would never walk . 835---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After a surgeon fused four vertebrae in his spine , Pat finally learned to walk again at the age of 11 . When the man walked out of the hospital , an FBI agent escorted him directly to his Japanese American family , which had been sent to an Japanese American internment camp to be detained for the duration of World War II . 836---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A young Pat was transported from the hospital directly to the Gila River camp in Arizona to join them . It was at this time that the man met a Catholic priest from whom the man would later take his stage name , Pat . For a time after the war , the family operated Ariake Chop Suey , a restaurant in Sacramento , California . Teenage Nori would entertain customers with jokes and serve as master of ceremonies for group dinners . Later , the man worked as a data entry clerk for the State of California and at Aerojet General Corporation near Sacramento . In the early 1960s , the man started his career as a stand up comedian known as The Hip Nip , performing in local nightclubs and bars . the man also spent time as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe , The Groundlings . 837---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita was married three times . His first marriage was soon after the man finished high school at Armijo High School in Fairfield , California . those people were married for 14 years and had one daughter , Erin Morita , born in 1954 . 838---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita later married his second wife , Yuki , in 1970 . those people had two daughters , Aly and Tia . The couple had to deal with several setbacks during their marriage . First , their $ 300 , 000 uninsured , Tarzana , California , home was badly damaged in a mudslide . The family escaped with just the clothes those people were wearing . Shortly afterward , Tia , their youngest daughter , was diagnosed with kidney disease . Their marriage dissolved in 1982 after two years of separation . 839---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita met his last wife , Evelyn Louise Guerrero , when the woman was 15 years old because Evelyn 's mother had the same manager , Sally Marr . Morita and Evelyn met again years later , and were married in Las Vegas on March 26 , 1994 ; those people remained together until his death . those people did not have any children together . 840---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His first movie role was as a stereotypical henchman in Thoroughly Modern Millie 1967 . the man also was cast as Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka , in the film Midway in 1976 . Later , a recurring role as South Korean Army Captain Sam Pak on the sitcom M * A * S * H helped advance the comedian 's acting career . 841---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pat had a recurring role on the ABC TV sitcom series Happy Days as Matsuo Arnold Takahashi , owner of the diner Arnold 's . After the first season 19751976 , the man left Happy Days to star as inventor Taro Takahashi in his own show , Mr . T and Tina , the first Asian American sitcom on network TV . The sitcom was placed on Saturday nights by ABC TV and was quickly canceled after a month in the fall of 1976 . In 1977 , Morita starred in the short lived Blansky 's Beauties as Arnold . Morita eventually returned to Happy Days , reprising his role in the 19821983 season . the man appeared in an episode of The Odd Couple and had a recurring role on Sanford and Son in the mid 1970s . 842---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita gained worldwide fame playing wise karate teacher Keisuke Miyagi who taught young Daniel san LaRusso Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid . the man was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor , as well as a Golden Globe and reprised his role as the sensei Mr . Miyagi in three sequels The Karate Kid , Part II 1986 , The Karate Kid , Part III 1989 and The Next Karate Kid 1994 , with Hilary Swank . Noriyuki never actually studied karate and only learned enough for the film The Karate Kid . Although the man had been using the name Pat Morita for years , producer Jerry Weintraub suggested that Pat be billed with his given name to sound more ethnic . 843---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita went on to play Tommy Tanaka in the TV movie Amos for which the man received Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award nominations , starring Kirk Douglas . the man then starred as the title character in the ABC detective show Ohara which aired in 1987 and ended a year later due to poor ratings . the man then wrote and starred in the World War II romance film Captive Hearts 1987 . Late in his career , Morita starred on the Nickelodeon television series The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo and had a recurring role on the ABC TV sitcom The Hughleys . the man also made a guest appearance on an episode of Fox TV 's Married With Children . the man went on to star in Talk To Taka as a sushi chef who doles out advice to anyone that will hear him . In 1998 , Morita voiced the Emperor of China in Disney 's 36th animated feature Mulan and reprised the role in Kingdom Hearts II and Mulan II , a direct to video sequel . 844---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Morita had a cameo appearance in the 2001 Alien Ant Farm music video Movies . Morita 's appearance in the video spoofed his role in The Karate Kid . the man would also reprise his role to an extent in the stop motion animated series Robot Chicken . In the episode , the man is assumed to be Mr . Miyagi , but the man immediately denies that by saying , First of all , I am Pat Morita , ya nutsack . 845---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com One of Pat 's last TV roles was as Master Udon on the SpongeBob SquarePants episode , Karate Island . The episode was dedicated to him after the man died about six months after its first run . One of his last film roles was in the 2005 independent feature film , Only the Brave , about the 442nd 442nd Regimental Combat Team , where the man plays the father of lead actor and director Lane Nishikawa . About this time the man starred in a Michael Sajbel movie called Remove All Obstacles as a cold storage guru . Pat also took a small role in the independent film , Act Your Age , filmed in central Illinois and released in April , 2011 . His last movie was Royal Kill , which also stars Eric Roberts , Gail Kim , and Lalaine and is directed by Babar Ahmed . 846---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Paul Harrisappeared onSanford and Son , asDaniel Mr . Big Tracy , a notorious mobster who intimidates Fred , in bed , hospitalized and under witness protection from the LAPD , into not indentifying him as the gunman whoshoot someone in the Season 5 episode titled The Oddfather . Paul , who made notable appearances in the Sidney Poitier film For The Love Of Ivy , as well as the 70 's blaxplotation action crime films Across 110th Street , The Mack , andTruck Turner , has made a guest appearance on Sanford as a Corban Hills man in the Season 2 episode titled Freeway . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 847---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Comedian Paul Mooney born August 4 , 1941 co wrote two episodes of Sanford and Son , The Dowry Season 2 , episode 3 , and Sanford and Son and Sister Makes Three Season 2 , episode 11 with longtime friend and fellow comedian actor Richard Pryor . A controversial , but brilliantly talented stand up comedian , like Pryor , Mooney gained a following during the late 1960 's early 1970 's as a new wave of comics such as himself , Pryor , and Dick Gregory , and George Carlin began to test the waters and push the boundaries of what was once considered too hot to touch in stand up comedy , tackling the subjects of racism , war , sex , the drug and counterculture and religion , while keeping fans in stitches with their onstage presences . Paul , like his longtime friend Pryor , has worn several entertainment hats as a talented comedian , comedy sketchwriter , social critic , and television and film actor . the man was also featured on the TruTV reality show , Ma 's Roadhouse . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 848---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mooney was born in Shreveport , Louisiana , and moved to Oakland , California seven years later . His parents are George Gladney and LaVoya Ealy . Mooney was raised primarily by his grandmother Aimay Ealy , known among the family as Mama . Mama coined the nickname Mooney , but never explained to him the meaning or inspiration of the name . 849---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mooney became a circus ringmaster with the Gatti Charles Circus . During his stint as ringmaster , the man always found himself writing comedy and telling jokes , which would later help Mooney land his first professional work as a writer for Richard Pryor . 850---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mooney wrote some of Pryor 's routines for his appearance on NBC TV 's Saturday Night Live , co wrote his material for the Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip , Bicentennial Nigger , and , Is It Something this person Said albums , and Pryor 's film Jo Jo Dancer , Your Life Is Calling . As the head writer for The Richard Pryor Show , the man gave many young Stand up comedy | stand up comics , such as Robin Williams , Sandra Bernhard , Marsha Warfield , John Witherspoon , and Tim Reid , their first break into show business . 851---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mooney also wrote for Redd Foxx 's Sanford and Son , Good Times , acted in several cult classics including Which Way Is Up , ' Loose , Hollywood Shuffle , and portrayed singer songwriter Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story . 852---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man was the head writer for the first year of the Fox TV network 's In Living Color program , creating the character Homey D . Clown , masterfully played by comedian actor Damon Wayans . Mooney later went on to play ' father in the Spike Lee film Bamboozled as the comedian Junebug . 853---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Paul Mooney initially appeared in the sketches Ask a Black Dude and Mooney at the Movies on Comedy Central 's Chappelle 's Show . the man later appeared as Negrodamus , an African American version of Nostradamus . As Negrodamus , Mooney ad libbed the answers to life 's most unsolvable mysteries such as Why do white people love Wayne Brady Answer Because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X . Mooney was planning to reprise his role as Negrodamus in the third season of the Chappelle 's Show , before it was canceled . 854---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2006 , Paul Mooney hosted the BET network tribute to Black History Month titled 25 Most @ % Moments in Black History . In this show , the man narrated some of the most shameful incidents involving African Americans since 1980 . The top 25 moments included incidents involving Marion Barry , Terrell Owens , Wilson Goode , Michael Jackson , Flavor Flav , Whitney Houston , and Tupac Shakur amongst others . 855---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Much of Mooney 's material is based on the subject or racism in the United States which disturbs some audience members . Such incidents can be heard on Mooney 's comedy albums Race and Master Piece and seen in his DVD Know Your History Jesus Is Black ; So Was Cleopatra . 856---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In September 2005 , Mooney performed a segment at the 2005 BET Comedy Awards called the Nigga Wake Up Call Award , in which the man jokingly presents an award to African American celebrities who have had well publicized legal troubles . The nominees included Michael Jackson , Oprah Winfrey , ' Kim and Diana Ross . Mooney awarded Ross and made numerous jokes about ' 2002 arrest for DUI . According to people who were in attendance , Mooney also made light of the death of ' ex husband Arne Nss Jr . , who fell while mountain climbing in 2004 . Tracee Ellis Ross , Ross 's daughter and Nss 's stepdaughter , was also in attendance . the woman reportedly was so offended and embarrassed that the woman left the room and was comforted by host Steve Harvey . Backstage in the press room , Mooney was asked if the man felt his performance was over the top . Mooney replied How can somebody get arrested for being under the influence and go to jail and this person be over the top this person think that is over the top , do not the person Agree or disagree , folks . No , comedy is not over the top . When the person are a celebrity and the person do crazy stuff , that is the game . 857---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Percy Rodrigues sometimes credited as Percy Rodriguez June 13 , 1918 September 6 , 2007 played the part of Winston Edwards , the brother of wealthy widow Evelyn Eve Lewis Marguerite Ray who did not approve of her relationship with Fred Redd Foxx on the NBC TV series Sanford . the man also made and appearance on Sanford and Son as Lou Turner , a patient of Donna 's who the woman brought to the Sanford home to meet Fred and Lamont . Percy was a talented Canadian born veteran actor who appeared in many television shows and films from the 1950s to the 1980s . Born in the Saint Henri neighborhood in Montreal , his birth surname was Rodrigues , but after it was misspelled in a Broadway theatre program early in his career , Rodriguez became his de facto stage name and most of his acting credits are under that spelling . the man was of Afro Portuguese heritage . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 858---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Percy started his acting career in the 1930s appearing in stage plays and television series in his native country . the man eventually moved to New York City , where the man made his Broadway theatre debut in Lillian Hellman 's Toys in the Attic in 1960 . the man first gained widespread notoriety in 1968 for his role as neurosurgeon Dr . Harry Miles in the CBS TV prime time soap opera Peyton Place . Rodrigues managed to avoid the stereotypical roles typically given to Black actors at the time . His deep , authoritative voice and articulate speaking manner helped Rodriguez to be cast usually as intelligent authority figures . the man also narrated numerous movie trailers and documentaries throughout his career . the man retired from acting in 1987 but continued to do voiceovers for animated and live action film TV projects and commercials . the man spoke of his narration of the trailer for Jaws in the documentary film The Shark is Still Working . This was his final public appearance . 859---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rodrigues died of kidney failure at his Indio , California home . 860---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Peter Baldwin born January 11 , 1931 is an American actor and director of film and television . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 861---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Baldwin started his career as an actor , employed as a contract player at Paramount Studios . the man played the character Johnson in the movie Stalag 17 and Lieutenant Walker in the movie Little Boy Lost , both made in 1953 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 862---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Baldwin eventually became a television director with an extensive rsum . As well as directing many of the episodes of ABC TV 's hit situation comedy The Brady Bunch , the man also directed a few episodes of another ABC hit sitcom , The Partridge Family , from 1970 to 1971 . the man was among the directors of episodes of the 1985 1986 CBS TV sitcom Foley Square and also helped direct a few episodes of Family Ties in 1987 . the man won an Emmy in 1988 for the television series The Wonder Years . His last directing credit was an episode of the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens in 2002 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 863---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Baldwin lives with his wife in Pebble Beach , California . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 864---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Phil Wheeler , portrayed by Theodore Wilson , was a character on the NBC sitcom The Sanford Arms , which was a very short lived , failed 1977 78 season spinoff ofSanford and Son . Accorrding to the story line , Phil was a friend of Fred G . Sanford , the two of whom met each other in the army during World War II . Fred later sold his business to Phil so the man could move to Arizona . Along with the business , Sanford and Son , Phil received a rooming house the Sanford Arms , which the man tried to turn into a hotel . When the Sanford TV series premiered with Redd Foxx reassuming his role as Fred Sanfordtwo seasons later in early 1980 , the entire storyline , synopsis , and the Wheeler characters all were ignored in the Sanford series . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121026011619/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/4b/Teddy_Wilson_Phil_Wheeler.jpg/280px-Teddy_Wilson_Phil_Wheeler.jpg 865---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Philip Bruns May 2 , 1931 February 8 , 2012 appeared on Sanford and Son as Calvin the tax man in the season 4 episodes titled My Kingdom For a Horse Going Out of Business actor and writer , best remembered for portraying George Shumway , the father of Mary Hartman on the 1970s comedic series Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman with actor Graham Jarvis , who also made an appearance on Sanford and Son as Dr . Simmons in the Season 5 episode The TV Addict . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 866---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Pipestone , Minnesota , Philip appeared as Morty Seinfeld in the long running NBC TV sitcom Seinfeld , in a first season episode entitled The Stake Out , but was replaced in the role by fellow veteran character actor Barney Martin . 867---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Philip also appeared in Columbo , Night Court , Airwolf , Just Shoot Me , and M * A * S * H . the man appeared in dozens of films , TV commercials , and on and Off Broadway plays winning an Obie award for Mr . Simian in the 1963 64 season . the man also played the Warlock in Werner Liepolt 's The Young Master Dante at The American Place Theater in 1968 . Films in which Bruns appeared include The Great Waldo Pepper , Harry and Tonto , Flashdance , The Stunt Man , My Favorite Year , and Return of the Living Dead Part II . 868---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bruns wrote The Character Actor 's Do is , And Anecdotes , which was published in early November 2008 . ' co star in The Stunt Man and My Favorite Year , actor Peter wrote the book 's foreword . This is the charming and fascinating autobiography of one of Americas premier character actors , Phillip Bruns . From Shakespeare at the Old Vic in England to commercials , major films and television , Phillip Bruns has done it all with great success and now in his retirement hes written a wonderful book full of exciting tales of his life and his experiences recounting his life as a young farm boy in Minnesota , as a Fulbright Scholar in England , then as a successful Broadway Theater actor , star of many television commercials , with over forty film credits and hundreds of appearances on TV sit coms . Philip also helped to establish the largest private school library in the Bahamas . 869---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note If the person are interested in Phil 's book please contact the following e mail http www . philipbrunsbookatgmail . com 870---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Up until his death , Bruns resided in Hollywood , California with his wife , former Broadway musical actress Laurie Franks . the man died of natural causes on February 8 , 2012 , aged 80 . 871---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pops ' Pals was the 34th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 20th episode of the ' second season , it premiered February 9 , 1973 . 872---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Fred announces plans to accompany Lamont and Julio on a weekend visit to Tijuana , Fred goes into his do not leave your poor , sick father alone monologue . This fails to move Lamont , so Fred begins cooking up a few more devious strategies to keep his son at home . After Fred , Lamont and Julio visit a Spanish restaurant , and Fred spoils the visit , Lamont refuses to take Fred with them to Tijuana ; When Lamont and Julio arrive in Tijuana , Lamont , who begins to worry about Fred , begins to feel guilty for not taking him , especially after Julio tells him about the man and his father . When those people arrive back in Watts , those people find the house empty ; thinking Fred may have wandered off or had the real big one , Lamont prepares to call the police , when those people find Fred , who arrives at the house with a woman Cardella DeMilo who the man picked up at a nearby bar , and a fifth of Sangria , which the man got the taste for when the man went to the Mexican restaurant with Lamont and Julio 873---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pot Luck was the 36th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 22st episode of the ' second season , it premiered February 23 , 1973 . 874---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont takes advantage of an ignorant seller and buys what the man believes is an antique Welsh commode for $ 20 , greedily anticipating reselling it for a tremendous profit . What the man does not realize does not realize is that the man is being played for a sucker by two men , Mr . Osborne Herb Voland and Emile Bonnet Jonathan Harris who are clever con artists who observed him at the swap meet where the man purchased what is actually a worthless new imitation commode . Based on The Three Feathers by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 875---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Presenting The Three Degrees was the 42nd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fourth episode of the ' third season , it first aired October 5 , 1973 . 876---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Three Degrees , the Philadelphia based singing trio , are the ' house guests . The ladies perform this person did not Know for Fred . When Fred and his buddies crash the talent show at the nightclub at which those people are performing , causing them all to get kicked out of the club , including The Three Degrees , the girls , who thank Fred , are able to make it back home to Philly through a producer who saw them crying outside of the club . 877---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Quincy Delight Jones , Jr . born March 14 , 1933 composed the score for the opening theme song for Sanford and Son which was titled The Streetbeater . An equally talented record producer , conductor , arranger , composer , television producer , and trumpeter , Quincy 's career has spanned nearly six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations , 27 Grammys , ref including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 878---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1968 , Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ; The Eyes of Love from the Universal Pictures film Banning . That same year , the man became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood . In 1971 , Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony . the man was the first African American to win the Academy 's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995 . the man is tied with sound designer Willie D . Burton as the most Oscar nominated African American , each of them having seven nominations . At the 2008 BET Awards , Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award . the man was played by Larenz Tate in Ray , the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles , which starred comedian actor singer musician Jamie Foxx . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 879---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In addition , Jones was the producer of the album Thriller , by pop icon Michael Jackson , which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide , and was the producer and conductor of the charity song these people Are the World . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 880---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Quincy was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as the winner , alongside Lou Adler , of the Ahmet Ertegun Award . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 881---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Kid was the 38th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 24th and the fianle episode of the ' second season , it premiered March 16 , 1973 . 882---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred tags along to a movie casting call that Lamont and Rollo hope will make them respected black actors , not suspecting this film is blue . How did Lamont Demond Wilson and Rollo Nathaniel Taylor , and then Fred , almost end up starring in a porno film Aunt Esther LaWanda Page wants to know the whole sordid story especially since the woman had to use her own money to bail our heroes out of the slammer . This was the final episode of Sanford and Son 's second season . 883---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Raymond Gilmore Allen born March 5 , 1929 is an American actor best known for his appearances on television in the 1970s . the man had recurring roles as Ned the Wino on the CBS TV series Good Times , as Aunt Esther 's long suffering , prone to drink husband , Uncle Woodrow on the NBC TV sitcom series Sanford and Son , and as mechanic Merle the Earl on Starsky and Hutch . Allen also made guest appearances on The Jeffersons , What is Happening , The Love Boat and the film Wattstax . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 884---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Allen has not appeared in any acting roles since 1985 , but still makes infrequent public appearances , where the man speaks and signs autographs . According to his MySpace page , Allen was forced to retire from acting due to illness . Presently , Allen lives with his wife Barbara and daughter , former child actress Ta Ronce Allen in Lancaster , California . the man often visits the nearby Los Angeles area to visit his other daughter Brenda Allen . 885---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com John Elroy Sanford , commonly known as Redd Foxx is a legendary stand up comic perfomer , singer , and entertainer Redd Foxx played the title role of Fred G . Sanford , a junkman in the Watts area section in Los Angeles on Sanford and Son . The title character took the name from Redd 's brother , who was named Fred Sanford . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 886---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Redd was born John Elroy Sanford on December 9 , 1922 in St . Louis , Missouri and raised on Chicago 's South Side . His mother was half Seminole Indian . His father , an electrician , left his family when Foxx was four years old . Foxx was raised by his mother , his minister , and his grandmother . the man briefly attended DuSable High School with future Chicago mayor Harold Washington . 887---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the 1940s , the man became accquainted Malcolm Little , later known as Malcolm X , while working on passenger trains which ran from New York City to Boston . In Alex Haley 's The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Foxx is referred to by Malcolm X as Chicago Red , the funniest dishwasher on this earth . Foxx earned the nickname due to his reddish hair and complexion . His stage surname was taken from baseball star Jimmie Foxx . During World War II , Foxx dodged the draft by eating half a bar of soap before his physical , a trick that resulted in heart palpitations . 888---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Redd gained notoriety with his nightclub act considered by the standards of the time to be raunchy . His big break came after singer Dinah Washington insisted that the man come to Los Angeles , where Dootsie Williams of Dootone records caught his act at the Brass Rail nightclub . Foxx was signed to a long term contract and released a series of comedy albums that quickly became cult favorites . 889---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man was also one of the first black comics to play to white audiences on the Las Vegas Strip . the man used his starring role on Sanford and Son to help get jobs for his friends such as LaWanda Page , Slappy White , Gregory Sierra , Don Bexley , Leroy Daniels , Ernest Mayhand and Noriyuki Pat Morita . 890---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foxx achieved his most widespread fame starring in the television sitcom comedy Sanford and Son , an adaptation of the BBC series , Steptoe and Son , which premiered on the NBC television network on January 14 , 1972 , and was broadcast for six seasons , the final episode airing on March 25 , 1977 . Foxx played the role of Fred G . Sanford Fred Sanford was actually Foxx 's brother 's name , while Foxx 's co star Demond Wilson played the role of his son Lamont . 891---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the sixth season episode titled Fred Meets Redd Season 6 , episode 14 , Redd plays a dual role as himself and Fred Sanford , as Fred auditions for and wins a Redd Foxx lookalike contest . 892---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1977 , Foxx left Sanford and Son , after six highly successful seasons and the show was canceled solely due to his departure to star in a short lived variety show , but by 1980 the man was back on NBC playing Fred G . Sanford in a brief revived spinoff series , titled Sanford . In 1986 , the man returned to series television in the ABC series The Redd Foxx Show , which was cancelled after 12 episodes due to low ratings . 893---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Foxx appeared to make a comeback until his death with the 1990 CBS TV series , The Royal Family , in which the man co starred with his long time friend Della Reese . 894---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Redd Foxx was married four times . His first marriage was to Evelyn Killebrew in 1948 , but was short lived and ended in divorce in 1951 . 895---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Redd 's second marriage was to Betty Jean Harris , a showgirl and dancer , who was a colleague of LaWanda Page , who would later be known as Foxx 's TV nemisis Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son . The couple wed on July 22 , 1956 . Foxx adopted Harris 's daughter Debreca , who was about nine years old at the time and then assumed the surname Foxx . The marriage ended in divorce in 1975 . Redd then married Korean American Yun Chi Chung in 1976 , but the marriage was again brief , ending in 1981 . 896---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com At the time of his death in 1991 , Foxx was married to Ka Ho Cho , who used the name Ka Ho Foxx . 897---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The two Rent Party Gangsters , the Leader Gabriel Dell , and his enforcer Duane Danny Big Black Rey manage to muscle their way into the rent party Fred throws , in lookingto raise money to pay the bills and charging admission , but to the demands of visiting gangsters , who give Fred and Lamont an offer that those people cannot refuse at the threat of a cocked revolver , those people must keep the party going , and allow the gangsters to become partners in the unwanted operation http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 898---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It takes until the next morning ; a Sunday visit fromAunt Estherand her Raiders or,Esther 's Raiders , what Fred calls them , her church going sisters , to drive out the hoods and the partiers from the Sanford premises http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 899---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Reva Rose born July 30 , 1940 in Chicago , Illinois appeared as Mavis Johnson with actor Britt Leach as Mr . and Mrs . Harold Johnson , whom Fred Sanford tries to sell his earthquake racked junkyard to in the Sanford and Son episode titled Earthquake II . Reva is a veteran actress of TV , theatre and film , best known for playing Lucy van Pelt in the Off Broadway production of Clark Gesner 's You are a Good Man , Charlie Brown . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121031174434/sanfordandson/images/thumb/8/82/Reva_Rose.png/275px-Reva_Rose.png 900---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com As a stage performer , Rose starred alongside Gary Burghoff better known to TV viewers as Radar from M * A * S * H and Bob Balabanin1967 Off Broadwayrun of the A Good Man , Charlie Brown . Reva won a Theatre Awardand a Clarence Darvent Awardfor this role . Rose also appeared in the 1959 Broadway musicalLook After Lulu , coincidentally playing the role of Rose . In 2002 , the woman played Tessie Greenglass in Worse Than Murder , a play by Lou Shaw at the Ventura Court Theater in California . 901---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After appearing on the Mister EdTV series in 1961 , Rose has guest starred on many television shows , including Pete and Gladys , That Girl , The Partridge Family , Mannix , Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman as coach 's wife Blanche Fedders and To Rome With Love . the woman also had a frequent role on Temperature 's Rising , as Nurse Mildred MacInerny . Reva has also appeared in such films as Three in the Attic , If It is Tuesday , It Must Be Belgium , The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat , and the CBS TV series House Calls . More recently , the woman was in the 2003 film Exorcism , and on an episode of the TV seriesRodney , in 2006 . 902---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor December 1 , 1940 December 10 , 2005 co wrote two episodes of Sanford and Son , The Dowry Season 2 , episode 3 , and Sanford and Son and Sister Makes Three Season 2 , episode 11 with longtime friend and fellow comedian Paul Mooney . A controversial , but brilliantly talented stand up comedian , Richard also proved his mettle as a film TV actor , vocal social critic , comedy writer , and emcee . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 903---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Peoria , Illinois , Young Richard grew up in his grandmother 's brothel , where his mother , Gertrude L . Thomas , practiced prostitution . His father , LeRoy Buck Carter Pryor was a former bartender and boxer . After his mother abandoned him when the man was 10 , the man was raised primarily by his grandmother Marie Carter , a domeneering , austere , at times combative woman who would beat him at times for any of his eccentricities . Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother 's brothel and was molested as a child . 904---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Richard was expelled from school at the age of 14 . His first professional performance was playing drums at a night club . Pryor served in the U . S . Army from 1958 to 1960 , but spent virtually the entire stint in an army prison . According to a 1999 profile about Pryor in The New Yorker , Pryor was incarcerated for an incident that occurred while stationed in Germany . Angered that a white soldier was a bit too amused at the racially charged sections of Douglas Sirk 's movie Imitation of Life , Pryor and some other black soldiers beat and stabbed him , though not fatally . 905---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com During this time , Pryor 's girlfriend gave birth to a girl named Renee . Years later , however , the man found out that the woman was not his child . In 1960 , the man married Patricia Price and those people had one child together , Richard Jr . his first child and first son . those people divorced in 1961 . 906---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Richard was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues , which employed colorful vulgarities , and profanity , as well as racial epithets . the man reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style . the man is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand up comedians of his era Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor The Picasso of our profession ; Bob Newhart has called Pryor the seminal comedian of the last 50 years . This legacy can be attributed , in part , to the unusual degree of intimacy Pryor brought to bear on his comedy . As Bill Cosby reportedly once said , Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it . 907---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His body of work includes the concert movies and recordings Richard Pryor Live & ' 1971 , That Nigger 's Crazy 1974 , Is It Something this person Said 1975 , Bicentennial Nigger 1976 , Richard Pryor Live in Concert 1979 , Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip 1982 , and Richard Pryor Here and Now 1983 . the man also starred in numerous big budget , high box office grossing films as an actor , such as Superman III 1983 but was usually in comedies such as Silver Streak 1976 , and occasionally in dramatic roles , such as Paul Schrader 's film Blue Collar 1978 . the man collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder . Another frequent collaborator was actor comedian writer Paul Mooney . 908---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pryor won an Emmy Award 1973 , and five Grammy Awards 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1981 , and 1982 . In 1974 , the man also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award . The first ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1998 . Pryor is listed at Number 1 on Comedy Central 's list of all time greatest stand up comedians . 909---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pryor suffered a mild heart attack in November 1977 . the man was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986 . In 1990 , Pryor suffered a second and more severe heart attack and underwent triple heart bypass surgery . By the early 1990s , the man was confined to using a wheelchair as well as a motor powered scooter for the remainder of his life to get around when his multiple sclerosis began to take its toll on his body . 910---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On June 9 , 1980 , during the making of the film ' Loose , Richard Pryor set himself on fire after freebasing cocaine and drinking 151 proof rum . While on fire , the man ran down Parthenia Street from his Northridge , California home , until being subdued by police . the man was taken to the hospital , where the man was treated for burns covering more than half of his body . Pryor spent six weeks in recovery at the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital . His daughter , Rain Pryor , stated that Pryor poured high proof rum over his body and set himself on fire in a bout of drug induced psychosis . 911---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pryor incorporated a description of the incident into his comedy show Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip in 1982 . the man joked that the event was caused by dunking a cookie into a glass of low fat and pasteurized milk , causing an explosion . At the end of the bit , the man poked fun at people who told jokes about it by waving a lit match and saying , What is that Richard Pryor running down the street . 912---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After his final performance , Pryor did not stay away from stand up comedy long . In 1983 , the man filmed and released a new concert film and accompanying album , Richard Pryor Here and Now , which the man directed himself . In 1986 , the man wrote and directed a fictionalized account of his life , Jo Jo Dancer , Your Life Is Calling which revolved around the 1980 freebasing incident . 913---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pryor was married seven times to five different women 914---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His marriages were characterized by accusations of domestic violence , except for his relationship with Belaine . Most of these allegations were connected to Pryor 's drug use . The exception was Patricia Price , who was married to Pryor before his rise to stardom . During his relationship with Pam Grier , Pryor proposed to Deborah McGuire in 1977 . 915---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man had six children Richard Jr . , Elizabeth , Rain , Steven , Franklin and Kelsey . 916---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1984 , his fourth child and second son , Steven , was born to his girlfriend Flynn Belaine . Pryor married Belaine in October 1986 . those people divorced in July 1987 . Before their divorce was final , Belaine conceived Kelsey Pryor . Meanwhile , another of Pryor 's girlfriends , Geraldine Mason , gave birth to Franklin Mason , his fifth child and third son , in April 1987 . Six months later in October 1987 , Belaine gave birth to Kelsey Pryor , Richard 's sixth child and third daughter . 917---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pryor had a relationship with actress Margot Kidder . 918---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On December 10 , 2005 , Pryor suffered a heart attack in Encino , California . the man was taken to a local hospital after his wife 's attempts to resuscitate him failed . the man was pronounced dead at 7 58am PST . the man was 65 years old . His widow Jennifer was quoted as saying , At the end , there was a smile on his face . the man was cremated and his ashes were given to his family . 919---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rick Mittleman born 1930 wrote ofSanford and Sonfrom Seasons 4 6 ; ' Brown Eyes is Back in Season 4 , A Pain in the Neck in Season 5 , and the ' finale episode School Daze in Seasons 5 , as well as an episode for the short lived 1977 spinoff , The Sanford Arms . Rick has written episodes or served as a story consutant for many popular TV projects , particularly such popular TV series such asThe Red Skelton Hour , Petticoat Junction , this person Spy , Gomer Pyle , USMC , The Courtship of Eddie 's Father , Sanford and Son , Bewitched , M * A * S * H * , MacGyver , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Welcome Back , Kotter , also serving as a creative script consultant forsuch series as McHale 's Navy , NBC 's Remington Steele , CBS TV 's Simon & Simon , ABC 's What is Happening and the short lived CBS TV and Dukes of Hazzard spinoff seriseEnos . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 920---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Robber Gunman posing as an L . A . Times news reporter supposedly conducting an interview with winners of illegal numbers lotteries drops by the Sanford junkyard in the episode of Sanford and Son titled By the Numbers , which was the first episode of the 2nd season . The role of the fake reporter robber was played by actor David Moses , who later appears in the episode titled The Card Sharps that same season 2 . 6 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 921---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Apparently word spreads quickly when someone wins in the in the illegal numbers racket lotteries in the Watts community where Fred and Lamont lives ; Not only was Bubba , who supposedly had his car impounded , where the man could not take Fred , who won $ 600 , but spent $ 100 on his new outfit , to Las Vegas , and Aunt Ethel , who claimed to need a gall bladder operation , a good portion of his winnings , but a robber who had a Smith and Wesson revolver in his camera notepad bag , who was posing as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times , pulls a gun on the two , Fred says while being held up Hey , you are not from The Times , the robber responds , If this person was , would this person be doing this , dummy 922---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Robert Guillaume born Robert Peter Williams November 30 , 1927 appears as Sanford lawyer Albert Brock in the fifth season Sanford and Son episode titled Steinberg and Son . is an actor who was portrayed butler Benson DuBois on the series Soap and Benson in a ten year period for the American Broadcasting Company . While most butler in the past were portrayed as being obedient Benson was a wisecracking person who usually got the best of the people who paid him . Guillaume is most known to children as the voice of Rafiki the Mandrill baboon in the animated The Lion King series . Guillaume is one of only two voice actors who has portrayed their character in EVERY animated medium the other being Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 923---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com St . Louis , MO born and raised , Robert studied at Saint Louis University and Washington University and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career . 924---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com On leaving the university , Guillaume joined the Karamu Players in Cleveland and performed in musical comedies and opera . the man toured the world in 1959 as a cast member of the Broadway musical Free and Easy . the man made his Broadway debut in Kwamina in 1961 . Other stage appearances included Golden Boy , Tambourines to Glory , Guys and Dolls , for which the man received a Tony Award nomination , Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris , the Los Angeles production of The Phantom of the Opera succeeding Michael Crawford in the lead role , and Purlie . Added roles were in Katherine Dunham 's Bambouche and in Fly The Blackbird . In 1964 the man portrayed ' Life in a revival of Porgy and Bess at New York 's City Center . Guillaume has been a member of the Robert de Cormier Singers , performing in concerts and on television . the man has soloed on The Tonight Show . the man recorded a LP record , Columbia CS9033 , titled Just Arrived as a member of The Pilgrims , a folk trio , with Angeline Butler and Millard Williams . 925---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Guillaume made several guest appearances on sitcoms , including Good Times , The Jeffersons , Sanford and Son , Saved By The Bell The College Years and in the 1990s sitcoms The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and A Different World . His series regular debut began on the ABC series Soap , playing Benson , a butler , from 1977 to 1979 . Guillaume continued the role in a spinoff series , Benson , from 1979 until 1986 . Guillaume also played Dr . Franklin in Season 6 episode 8 titled Chain Letter in the series All in the Family . 926---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man also appeared as marriage counselor Edward Sawyer on The Robert Guillaume Show 1989 , Detective Bob Ballard on Pacific Station 1991 , and television executive Isaac Jaffe on Aaron Sorkin 's short lived but critically acclaimed ABC TV sitcom series Sports Night 19982000 . Guillaume suffered a mild stroke on January 14 , 1999 , while filming an episode of the latter series . the man recovered and his character was later also depicted as having had a stroke . the man also made a guest appearance on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter . 927---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Guillaume won an Outstanding Supporting Actor Comedy Series primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for the series Soap and an Outstanding Lead Comedy Actor primetime Emmy Award in 1985 for Benson . In 1995 , Guillaume received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for his narrator role as Rafiki on The Lion King read along book . Guillaume has a star on the St . Louis Walk of Fame . 928---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Roberto Fuentesis the young nephew of next door neighbor Julio who appears in the Season 4 episode ofSanford and Sontitled Julio and Sister and Nephew . The role of Maria is played by Hector Carrasco . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 929---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ten year old Roberto , Julio 's nephew , displays a shrewd sales sense , as the man persuades a customer Corinne Conley to purchase a lamp which Fred and Lamont seek to sell to her for $ 20 , pretending that it was a lamp which the man used to study with ; when the customer agrees to buy it for $ 30 instead of the original price , Roberto , who takes credit for the sale , asks Fred for his $ 10 ; Fred , in response , says to Roberto You have got a fine head on your shoulders , Wanna see it on the floor 930---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When the principal of the new school Roberto attends Graham Brown intends to keep him back a grade because of his trouble keeping up with the other students in English , Fred helps the man and his mother Carlotta lobby to keep him in the 5th grade by persuading the principal to tutor him after school . 931---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Roger E . Mosley December 18 , 1938 appeared as Norman Blood , a temporary hire of Fred 's in the episode of Sanford and Son titled Blood Is Thicker Than Junk in Season 2 . Roger is perhaps best known to TV viewers for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore T . C . Calvin on the long running CBS television series , Magnum , P . this person . , which starred Tom Selleck as the title character . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 932---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mosley was born in Los Angeles , California . the man grew up in the Imperial Courtsproject with his mother Eloise Harris in Watts . In 1974 , the man founded the Watts Repertory Company . 933---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mosley 's most prominent film role to date was his 1976 starring turn as the title character in Leadbelly , directed by Gordon Parks . the man has guest starred on shows such as Night Court , Starsky and Hutch , Kojak , The Rockford Files , Baretta , as well as his guest role on Sanford and Son ; the man also had a role in Roots The Next Generation . the man also made a memorable appearance in the 1973 blaxplotation crime action drama film The Mack , as the militant brother of the main character Goldie , and played officer Roy Cole alongside Kurt Russell and Ray Liotta in Unlawful Entry 1992 . Mosley also made several appearances as Coach Ricketts on the 1990 's ABC comedy ' with Mr . Cooper . 934---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Roger appeared in season five of Las Vegas as the billionaire friend of Montecito owner AJ Cooper Tom Selleck . the man appeared in Magnum P . this person . as Tom Selleck 's friend and a helicopter pilot who operates his own tourist charter from 1980 1988 . 935---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Roger Lawsonwas a twelve year old son played in 2 episodes , first played byEdward Crawford , then byDerek Tripplett of Janet Lawson , a divorcee who Lamont meets and then becomes engaged to in the Sanford and Son episode titledThe Engagement Man Always Rings Twice Season 5 , episode 20 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 936---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred seeks to set a new Guinness Book Record for most consecutive hours without sleep in the Season 5 episode this person Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz , Roger , who had been dribbling a ball in the junkyard and Bubba both offer moral support ; when Fred falls short of the new record , Both Roger and Bubba are given good news by Mr . Grayson , a representative for the Guinness Book ; they have both set new records the man for dribbling 5 straight days , and Bubba for singing over 5 , 000 verses of Alexander 's Ragtime Band 937---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rollo Lawson is the best friend of Lamont Sanford Demond Wilson and Fred 's nemisis on Sanford and Son . Nathaniel Taylor , who first appeared as Rollo in the Sanford and Son episode Have Gun , Will Sell Season 2 , Episode 7 reprised the role of Rollo on its spinoff series Sanford in the pilot episode Season 1 , Episode 1 . Fred , who dislikes Rollo , will often make disrespectful remarks towards him , usually stating that the man thinks Rollo is a criminal , as Rollo had spent time in jail before his present job as a gas station service attendant . Rollo appears in the show every so often to come pick up Lamont so those people can go out and chase women . Also , those people sometimes go to pornographic films or what Rollo calls skin flicks . His mother , Rita , is also friends with Lamont 's Aunt Esther . The part of Rollo was played by Nathaniel Taylor . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 938---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ronald E . Ron Glass born July 10 , 1945 appeared in two episodes of Sanford and Son , first as Hucklebuck in the episode titled The Card Sharps Season 2 , episode 6 then as Herman in the episode titled Once a Thief Season 4 , episode 14 . the man is best known for his roles as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the ABC TV sitcom series Barney Miller 19751982 , and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the short lived 2002 science fiction series Firefly and its sequel film Serenity . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 939---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Glass was born in Evansville , Indiana , the son of Lethia and Crump Glass . Graduating from St . Francis Seminary OH in 1964 , Glass attended the University of Evansville , where the man received a Bachelor of Arts degree double majoring in Drama and Literature . Years later the university honored his work in television and film with their highest commendation , the Medal of Honor . Glass stated in an interview that the man knew the man wanted to act while the man was in college . A teacher liked his voice and encouraged him to try out for a play . the man went on to act in that play and many others during his time there . 940---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Glass made hi theatre debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis , MN , before moving to Hollywood . His earliest TV appearances include episodes of Sanford and Son in 1972 , an episode of All in the Family in 1973 , an episode of The Bob Newhart Show , and episodes of Good Times in 1974 . In 1975 , the man landed the role of Det . Ron Harris in Barney Miller which ran until 1982 . The following season , Glass also co starred with Demond Wilson on television in the short lived remake of The Odd Couple , called The New Odd Couple . On December 13 , 1985 , the man played a soul collecting devil opposite Sherman Helmsley 's mathematics professor in an episode of the revived Twilight Zone series . In 1992 , the man co starred in the short lived sitcom Rhythm & Blues , a kind of black WKRP in Cincinnati , playing the fifth Four Top opposite Roger Kabler . In 1996 , Glass was cast as uptight history teacher Roland Felcher in the NBC sitcom Mr . Rhodes opposite comedian Tom Rhodes . In 1999 , the man appeared in an episode of the NBC TV sitcom Friends as Ross Geller 's divorce lawyer , Russell . 941---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Since then , Glass has appeared in dozens of television series , including sitcoms such as Family Matters and the series Teen Angel where the man played God 's cousin Rod . the man was in the UPN network series Star Trek Voyager in the episode Nightingale and the science fiction series Firefly 2002 , in which the man played Derrial Book , a Christian Preacher , or Shepherd , with a mysterious past . Glass himself is a | Buddhist . Glass reprised his role from Firefly in the film Serenity 2005 . 942---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Glass also provides the voice of Randy Carmichael for the Nickelodeon series All Grown Up and Rugrats and the character Garth in the video game Fable II . In 2008 the man appeared in the film Lakeview Terrace alongside Samuel L . Jackson , and starred in the 2010 version of Death at a Funeral as Duncan . 943---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Glass is a member of the Soka Gakkai International , a lay Buddhist organization . 944---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ronnie Schell born December 23 , 1931 played the part of Mr . Wilkins , Watts Committe chairman in the sixth season Sanford and Son episode titled The Committee Man Season 6 , episode 7 . Ronnie a multitalented veteran actor , stand up comedian and cartoon voice actor notably Peter Puck . Early in his career the man appeared as himself as a contestant on the person Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx , demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk . Schell is probably best known in his 1960s television role as Duke Slater in Gomer Pyle , U . S . M . C . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 945---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ronnie was born Ronald Ralph Schell in Richmond , California . His first choice of careers was to play professional baseball . the man got as far as the semi pro league level before enlisting in the U . S . Air Force , where the man performed in variety shows as both an emcee and comedian and also did record pantomimes . Schell studied at San Francisco State University and formed a nightclub comedy duo which took off . the man turned solo within a year and progressed to Las Vegas work as an opening act . 946---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In his role as Duke Slater on Gomer Pyle , U . S . M . C . , Schell 's character was cast for three seasons as a Marine Private , and best friend of Gomer Pyle . Schell left for a season to star as a disc jockey in his own sitcom , Good Morning , World . the man then returned to Gomer Pyle , U . S . M . C . as a Corporal for its fifth and final season . Schell played his Duke Slater character as street wise , compared to Pyle 's bucolic background as portrayed by Jim Nabors . 947---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Schell also acted in a few Pacific Southwest Airlines Commercials such as Smile Inspection and PSA Gives the person A Lift Pageant . At the end of a Jerry Lewis PSA Jingle , a voice said That was Jerry Lewis for PSA , and this is Ronnie Schell . What did this person do wrong the man also did a commercial with Don Adams where the man parodied Don 's TV character Maxwell Smart . 948---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His television guest credits include The Andy Griffith Show , Phil of the Future , Yes , Dear , The Wayans Bros . , Step by Step , Coach , The Golden Girls , 227 , Saved by the Bell , Empty Nest , Mr . Belvedere , Santa Barbara , Trapper John , M . D . , Too Close for Comfort , The Brian Keith Show , The Love Boat , Love American Style , Alice , Mork & Mindy , One Day at a Time , Charlie 's Angels , The Dukes of Hazzard , Sanford and Son , Emergency , Happy Days , Adam 12 , The New Dick Van Dyke Show , That Girl , Black Sheep Squadron , Hogan 's Heroes and Jessie , currently on the Disney Channel , where the man appeared as Ranger Bill in the 6th episode this season . 949---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2007 , Schell was part of a touring cabaret show titled , 5 Star Revue with Gary Collins , Mary Ann Mobley , Ruta Lee and Steve Rossi . the man starred in the 2009 Off Broadway production of do not Leave it All to Your Children , a comedic and musical revue dedicated to those Baby Boomers everywhere who are about to enter into the golden age of Senior Citizenship . 950---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rooster appeared in the episode titled The Card Sharps Season 2 , episode 6 . the man was one of three card shark swindlers Lamont met who were trying to con him at poker until Fred entered the poker game with his special see thru eyeglasses and loaded deck , which began to tip things in Lamont 's favor . Rooster was played by David Moses , who also appeared in the episode By the Numbers Season 2 , episode 1 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 951---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rosanne Katon born February 5 , 1954 played the part of Louise Marshall , the granddaughter of Grady Wilson on the NBC Sanford and Son spinoff series Grady . A beautiful fashion model , talented actress , comedian and activist , Rosanne was Playboy magazine 's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue . Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 952---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Katon was born in New York City to a Jamaican born father , and African American mother . 953---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beginning in the mid 1970s , Katon worked steadily in Hollywood , including a stint on Grady , the short lived spin off of the hit sitcom , Sanford and Son and guest appearances on the ABC TV sitcom What is Happening , where the woman acted again with former Grady castmate Haywood Nelson , and CBS TV 's Good Times . However , the shapely actress was often typecast in sex kitten roles in R Rated sexploitation farce comedies such as Chesty Anderson , USN 1976 , Lunch Wagon 1981 and Bachelor Party . This was solidified by her appearance as the September 1978 Playboy centerfold . Notable exceptions to this rule were a recurring role opposite Denzel Washington on the NBC TV medical drama series St . Elsewhere and her appearance in two award winning UCLA student films , Julie Dash 's Illusions 1982 in which the woman played a singer who doubles for a white actress in 1940s Hollywood and S . Torriano Berry 's Rich playing the supportive girlfriend of the title character . 954---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rosanne also had leading roles in two Cirio Santiago action films released in 1976 , Ebony , Ivory & Jade in which the woman received top billing and The Muthers playing opposite former Playboy centerfold , Jean Bell . 955---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Additionally , Katon has had several stage credits including a Broadway lead role in Godspell , and a featured role in the parody of women in prison movies , Women Behind Bars . 956---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com At one point , Katon segued into the world of stand up comedy , even appearing in Playboy 's June 1991 pictorial Funny Girls , which covered female comedians . 957---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1984 , Katon married Richard M . Walden , who is the president and chief executive officer of Operation USA , an international organization that supplies relief to Third World areas in need such as Rwanda , Cambodia and , more recently , tsunami ravaged Sri Lanka , Thailand and Indonesia ; and to Hurricane Katrina ravaged areas of Louisiana and Mississippi . Rosanne is an active participant with Operation USA and also serves on its Advisory Board . The relief group is based in California . 958---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Waldens have two children , including a son who is autistic and an expert cellist . The family is featured in the 2007 documentary Autism The Musical which won the 2007 Emmy for Best TV Documentary Special HBO . 959---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ross Martin March 22 , 1920 July 3 , 1981 appeared on Sanford and Son as wealthy Arab oil shiek Aram in the episode titled California Crude Season 6 , Episode 3 . Ross was a Polish born , theatre seasoned , Emmy nominated actor who was best known for playing Artemus Gordon in the Western television series The Wild Wild West , co starring with Robert Conrad , and Andamo on Mr . Lucky , starring John Vivyan . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 960---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin was born into a Jewish family as Martin Rosenblatt on March 22 , 1920 , in Grodek , Poland , but grew up on New York City 's Lower East Side . the man spoke Yiddish , Polish and Russian before learning English and later added French , Spanish and Italian to his repertoire . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 961---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Despite academic training and honors in business , instruction , and law , Martin chose a career in acting . the man was partners in a comedy team with Bernie West for several years , then appeared on many radio and live TV broadcasts before making his Broadway theatre debut in Hazel Flagg in 1953 . the man appeared three times on the NBC public affairs television series The Big Story in 1954 and 1956 . Martin 's first film was the George Pal production Conquest of Space , followed by a brief , but memorable appearance in The Colossus of New York 1958 , as the scientist father of Charles Herbert . In 1959 Martin appeared in Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond in the episode Echo and as a drug dealer in an untitled episode of M Squad starring Lee Marvin . Soon after , the man caught the eye of Blake Edwards who cast him in a number of widely varied roles , as Sal in the 1959 Peter Gunn episode The Fuse , Mr . Lucky and Experiment in Terror , culminating with a role in The Great Race , as the smoothly villainous Baron Rolfe Von Stuppe . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 962---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After his performance in The Great Race , CBS cast him in what was to become his most famous part , U . S . Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon in The Wild Wild West , opposite Robert Conrad , formerly the principal star of the ABC TV detective series , Hawaiian Eye . Martin 's character , a master gadgeteer and disguise artist , fitted Martin perfectly . Unknown to most , Martin created most of his disguises for the show and most of the cast had no idea what he would look like until seeing him during the shooting of the episode . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 963---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The recent DVD release of the first season of the series includes a recently discovered pre production sketch Martin had made of his very first make up design for the pilot episode . Another episode revealed another of Martin 's talents , that the man was a concert trained violinist . Martin was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series for the fourth and final season of Wild Wild West 196869 . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 964---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1967 , the man married Olavee Grindrod and adopted her two children . Martin had a daughter with his first wife . Martin suffered a near fatal heart attack in 1968 , forcing The Wild Wild West to temporarily replace him with other actors , including Charles Aidman , William SchallerT and Alan Hale , Jr . the series was cancelled the following year . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 965---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man appeared as a guest star in several programs from the 1950s to the 1970s , including 87th Precinct , McCloud , Bonanza , Marshall Dillon in the episode Bottleman , Honestly , Celeste , Sheriff of Cochise , Wonder Woman , Sanford and Son , Columbo , The Twilight Zone , Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond , The Law and Mr . Jones , Night Gallery , Mork & Mindy , Hawaii Five O , and Charlie 's Angels . the man also appeared on the game shows Your First Impression and Password Plus , and voiced Agent 000 in The Robonic Stooges . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 966---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin starred in a 1973 made for TV movie , The Return of Charlie Chan , portraying famed Asian detective Charlie Chan as a retiree forced to return to detective work . Although the movie received ratings more than sufficient enough for a regular series to be ordered , intense pressure from Asian ' groups who protested an Occidental playing an Oriental character caused plans for such a series to be discarded . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 967---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1976 Martin starred as John Adams in a touring production of the musical 1776 . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101032136/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/72/Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg/225px-Conrad-Martin_Wild_Wild_West.jpg 968---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the man reprised the role of Artemus Gordon in a pair of Wild , Wild Westtelevision movies in 1979 and 1980 , reuniting with his co star Conrad . Martin collapsed while playing tennis on July 3 , 1981 , and died from a myocardial infarction , in Ramona , California , at age 61 . 969---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Martin is interred in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles . 970---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Royce Wallace May 9 , 1925 November 24 , 1992 was an American veteran stage and screen actress who had a long distinguished career in films and television from the 1960s through the 1980s . the woman has appeared in mostly guest roles on shows such as Sanford and Son , Benson , Soap , Quincy , M . E . and in miniseries such as Roots The Next Generations . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 971---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wallace first got her acting start on Broadway , appearing in such productions throughout the 1940s and 1950s as Funny Girl 1968 and Carmen Jones 1943 , which ran for 2 years which was her first stage appearance . In the 1960s , Wallace was a founding co member of the Cambridge Players theatrical group , a group which included some of the most distinguished veteran black actresses such as Esther Rolle of Good Times TV show fame , Lynn Hamilton who starred as Donna on the hit NBC TV sitcom Sanford and Son , and Helen Martin of NBC TV 's 227 TV show fame . 972---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wallace died on November 24 , 1992 in Ventura , California at the age of 67 973---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Retranto born August 9 , 1941 in Plainsboro , New Jersey is a Hollywood film and TV director who was active between 1977 1991 . Amongst the projects which the man directed , his credits include Sanford and Son , of which the man directed nine episodes in Season 6 , the show 's final season , She is the Sheriff , The Sanford arms , and The Munsters Today . Retired from directing , Russ currently resides in Southern California . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 974---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Mr . Sam Gittleman , was a Hebrew souveniers shopowner Fred visits when the man sends for a fake mail order Jewish crest in the episode Funny , the person do not Look It in season six . The part of Sam Gittleman was played by veteran actor Milton Selzer . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 975---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred enters his shop inquiring about the authenticity of a fake Jewish crest which the man ordered through the mail from a company which claimed to trace the backgrounds of people , but was actually a mail order scam , Sam , who sensed that Fred , who , in thinking the man was descended from an Ethiopian Hebrew king , but did not feel Jewish , may have been misled , and had earlier , tried some corned beef at a nearby deli , asked him Does it feel genuine , Does it make the person feel warm all over When Fred says Yes the man answers , It is the Corned Beef Fred then pays for a book of the Hebrew history by pledge when told by Sam that every year the members of his synagouge meet every year to pay on the pledges that those people make to the synagouge . 976---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Sam visits the Sanford residence after taking Fred to visit his synagouge , Fred reveals that Sam told him that several other customers entered his shop with the same crest , asking the same things that Fred , who was ridiculed by Bubba , who called him a lost litte wandering Jew , and Esther , who told the story about Queen Esther , the most beautiful Queen there ever was . Anyway , upon visting Watts , the man Fred , Lamont , Bubba and Esther agree that by understanding the commonalities in the history of their struggles as a people , that Blacks and Jewish people had faced could hopefully bring the two closer together . 977---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sam Jordan was a corrupt local land developer who attempts to offer Watts area Committe member Fred a bribe in order to block the committee vote from preventing him to build his substandard housing developments in the Watts district in the Sanford and Son episode titled Committee Man Season 6 , episode 7 . The part of Sam Jordan was played by late character actor Edward Andrews . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 978---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sandra was a girlfriend of Lamont who appeared in the Season 4 Sanford and Son episode titled Tower Power . The part of Sandra is played by actress Janee Michelle . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 979---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , in trying to create his own lasting legacy , constructs a tower in the junkyard , to the objections of Lamont , who , unrealizingly , influences Fred to build the monstrosity after a visit with him and Sandra to a local art museum . The result is a brand new Watts Tower , of sorts , constructed out of the junk in Fred 's backyard . When harshly critiqued by Lamont 's new girlfriend Sandra who is an art critic , when Lamont shows her , and then after Sandra breaks the news of what the woman told Lamont about what the woman thought of the tower gently to Fred , who became engrossed in the project , ignoring his duties around the house and in the junkyard , Fred dejectedly scraps the project , demolishing it completely ; Lamont consoles Fred , reminding him that the man , his only child , is his greatest legacy . 980---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford was a second attempt NBC TV to revive the 19721977 sitcom Sanford and Son , and the second spin off attempt after the first , the short lived NBC sitcom The Sanford Arms , failed miserably after eight episodes in 1977 . Sanford , which premiered in the middle of the 1979 80 season . completely ignored the storyline of its failed spinoff predecessor Sanford Arms , in that while Sanford Arms had Fred and Lamont selling the junkyard and the Sanford Arms hotel Julio 's old home to an old Army buddy Phil Wheeler and moving , Sanford had Fred still living at the residence and owning the junkyard , with a friend of Lamont 's named Cal Pettie Dennis Burkley , who worked with him on the Alaska pipeline , and who was working as a trucker before coming to visit Fred , dispatched to visit Fred and possibly help Fred run the junkyard hotel at Lamont 's request . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 981---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1977 , after six seasons of Sanford and Son , Redd Foxx decided to leave the popular NBC show to star in a variety show for ABC TV . His new show , The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour , was cancelled after four months . Foxx returned to NBC two years later in an effort to revive the character of Fred Sanford . By the 19791980 season , NBC had fallen to third place in the Nielsen ratings out of only three networks at the time and had no programs ranked in the top 10 . Because of this , NBC was also eager to revive its most successful show of the 1970s . 982---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford premiered in March 1980 as a midseason replacement . Demond Wilson refused to reprise his role as Fred 's son , Lamont . His absence was explained by having Lamont away working on the Alaska Pipeline . Fred 's new partner in the junkyard was Cal Dennis Burkley , an obese white Texan with a generally optimistic , jovial , and upbeat demeanor . Cal had worked with Lamont on the pipeline and Lamont sent him to visit his father . Cal moves into Lamont 's old room . Rollo Larson Nathaniel Taylor , a recurring character on the previous series , was now working for Fred as a delivery man The events of the series Sanford Arms wherein Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona after selling the property to Fred 's Army buddy Phil Wheelerwere ignored . 983---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford found Fred with a new love interest , as Lynn Hamilton did not revive the role of Donna Harris , Fred 's fiancee from Sanford and Son . Instead , Fred meets a customer who is an affluent widow named Evelyn . The two begin dating much to the dismay of Evelyn 's snobbish brother Winston , who was played by Percy Rodrigues , who also appeared in Sanford and Son as a love interest of Donna Harris , Fred 's fiancee on that series in the episode Olympics Season 5 , Episode 11 , and sharp tongued maid Clara who see Fred as low class . Her daughter Cissy was more accepting of Fred . Later in the season , Aunt Esther 's college student son Cliff Clinton Derricks Carroll moves in with Fred and Cal and starts dating Cissy . In the original series Cliff 's name was Daniel . Officers Smitty and Hoppy Hal Williams and Howard T . Platt , recurring characters from the original series , appeared in two episodes . Sammy Davis Jr . appeared as himself in two episodes first in an uncredited cameo appearance for which the man also directed the episode and then in the season finale in which Fred persuades Davis to perform for Evelyn 's charity . 984---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The show was highly promoted by NBC and the premiere episode garnered decent ratings , however the ratings fell steadily as the season progressed . The show wound up ranking outside the top 30 of the Nielsen ratings for the 1979 1980 season , whereas Sanford and Son consistently ranked in the top 10 except in its final season By that time , the original series had dropped to 27 . Sanford was then put on hiatus to be retooled . 985---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The show returned in January 1981 again as a mid season replacement . The show was moved from Saturdays to Fridays . The original series of the 1970s dominated on Friday night for several seasons . Aunt Esther LaWanda Page , appeared in the two part season premiere along with another episode later in the season . It was explained that her husband Woodrow has died and the woman was moving in to prevent Fred from being a bad influence on Cliff . While Derricks Carroll was now featured in the opening credits , the man only appeared in a few episodes of the season . This season now focused more on the relationship between Fred and Cal . Evelyn was now reduced to a recurring character and eventually disappeared by the end of the season . The characters of Rollo , Winston , Cissy and Clara were dropped with no explanation . Grady Wilson Whitman Mayo , another popular recurring character from the original series , appeared in two episodes as a special guest star . Officers Smitty and Hoppy also reappeared several times . 986---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The retooled Sanford performed very poorly in the ratings and was quickly canceled . NBC pulled the series after four episodes and aired the remaining episodes in the summer . 987---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford has not been included in the syndication package with Sanford and Son . However , reruns aired on BET throughout the 1990s . The show returned to BET in March 2008 . To celebrate the return , an all day marathon of all 26 episodes occurred on March 8 , 2008 to celebrate Daylight Savings Time as . 988---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford Arms was the name of the boarding house Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx built on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , using the old house of his next door neighbor Julio Fuentes Gregory Sierra . It was the subject of the spin off series The Sanford Arms , in which Phil Wheeler Theodore Wilson turned it into a hotel . The series failed miserably in the Nielsen ratings , getting canceled after only eight episodes . 989---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note When Sanford . the second spinoff attempt with Redd Foxx as the star , premiered on NBC TV during the 1979 80 season , the storyline for Sanford Arms was completely ignored . 990---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford Arms was the name of the boarding house Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx built on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son , using the old house of his next door neighbor Julio Fuentes Gregory Sierra . It was the subject of the spin off series The Sanford Arms , in which Phil Wheeler Theodore Wilson turned it into a hotel . The series failed miserably in the Nielsen ratings , getting canceled after only eight episodes . 991---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note When Sanford . the second spinoff attempt with Redd Foxx as the star , premiered on NBC TV during the 1979 80 season , the storyline for Sanford Arms was completely ignored . 992---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Gong was the 125th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 14th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on December 17 , 1976 . 993---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , Lamont , Donna and Bubba attend a taping of The Gong Show and are inspired to audition as contestants , bringing their musical act onto the show . 994---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Chuck Barris guest stars in this zany episode , wherein Fred and his cronies are booked to appear on The Gong Show . Unfortunately for Fred , his wise guy brother in law Rodney Victor Allan Drake is slated to appear on the same show and fully intends to win the grand prize . A last minute plot wrinkle results in a hilarious song and dance performed con brio by Fred , Lamont Demond Wilson , and Bubba Don Bexley . 995---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Jack DeLeon appears as Sven . Sid McCoy and Renny Roker both appear as customers . Roy Stuart makes his 3rd and final appearance as Barton , and Paul Ziegler appears as Charley . Tracee Lyles , Al Hansen and Bob Goldstein all appear as Gong Show panelists 996---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Niece was the 71st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the ninth episode of Season Four , it first aired November 8 , 1974 . 997---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is taken aback when the man is reunited with his college coed niece Elizabeth Tina Andrews . It seems that the girl has grown up to become the spitting image of her namesake , Fred 's late wife , Elizabeth . At first nervously avoiding the younger Elizabeth like the plague , Fred suddenly becomes a surrogate father , obnoxiously interfering with the girl 's private life . 998---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Rising Son was the 97th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 10th episode of Season Five , it first aired November 14 , 1975 . 999---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Ah Chew team up and turn the Sanford home into a Japanese restaurant . 1000---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Pat Morita makes another series appearance as Fred Sanford 's Japanese friend Ah Chew Pat Morita . Hoping to get Fred to invest in a Japanese restaurant , Ah Chew puts on an impressive display of his vast and extremely inexpensive culinary skills . Fred is in fact so impressed that the man converts the Sanford living room into a teriyaki palace . 1001---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Al Stevenson appears as Health Inspector Logan , Tommy Butler as Mr . Walker , and Dorothy Meyer as Mrs . Walker . 1002---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that originally ran on NBC , based on the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son . The series premeired on January 14 , 1972 , and ended on March 25 , 1977 . Sanford and Son is about junk dealer Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx and his dummy son Lamont Demond Wilson , who live in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . Throughout its six seasons , the sitcom had 135 episodes . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1003---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Junk dealers Fred G . Sanford and his son Lamont run a business , Sanford and Son , in Watts , a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . Fred 's wife and Lamont 's mother Elizabeth had died twenty two years prior to the show . When the series first started , it was more like Steptoe and Son , with Fred and Lamont disagreeing over many issues , and depicted Fred and Lamont as being equally manipulative and greedy . Fred would use threats of the big one a major heart attack and complain of his arthur itis arthritis to evade labor , and Lamont attempted to drive a wedge between Fred and his long time girlfriend Donna Harris Lynn Hamilton . However , as the series went on , it evolved to become more like its American sister All in the Family , focusing on Fred 's antics , with the more open minded and progressive Lamont attempting to enlighten Fred . 1004---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's comic foils on the show included Ethel Winfield and Esther Anderson , his wife 's sisters . Ethel only appeared through the first and part of the second seasons when the woman was replaced by Esther . Fred often insulted Esther 's appearance , likening her to fictional monsters and wild animals , which the woman would respond to with insults of her own , and occasionally physical violence . 1005---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com During the 1975 76 season , the short lived spin off series Grady was launched by NBC , starring Whitman Mayo as Grady Wilson . After Sanford and Son ended , it had two more spin offs , The Sanford Arms and Sanford . The Sanford Arms , which aired in 1977 , focused on Phil Wheeler , presented as an old army buddy of Fred 's , who combined the Sanford Arms and the Sanford Junkyard exclusively into a hotel . Sanford , which ran for parts of two seasons , starting midway in the 1979 80 season and running for all of 1980 81 , was a renewal of the series , without Lamont . None of the spin offs were popular or successful . 1006---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This is the list of Actors from the cast Sanford and Son television series . 1007---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son is a business on the NBC sitcom of the same name . Sanford and Son is run by Fred G . Sanford and his son , Lamont Sanford . Fred often addressed the business as the empire , Lamont tended to call it the junkyard , and others usually referred to it as Fred Sanford 's junkyard . The business was located at 9114 South Central Avenue in the Watts neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles . The business made approximately US $ 4 , 000 every year . 1008---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Although the actual business structure was never stated , Sanford and Son appears to be a partnership , with Lamont and Fred each owning half . However , Fred is the boss of the company , with official title President ; Lamont 's official title is Vice President , or VP . Fred coordinates all day , staying at the store . Fred 's coordination usually consists of watching TV all day or playing checkers with Grady Wilson . Lamont , travels in their truck , looking for junk to buy and take to the store . Most of the junk is sold in the store , but Fred and Lamont occasionally sell their junk in other places e . g . antique shops , auctions . 1009---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This episode guide for Season One of Sanford and Son lists all of the episodes that aired for the first time on NBC TV for the first season of the series , which began with the airing of the pilot episode , Swords , which marked the series premiere , which aired in the middle of the 1971 72 television season . 1010---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Twenty five episodes were written for Season Three , but Episode 19 was never taped due to contract disputes with Redd Foxx and producers of the show . The negotiations led to Foxx being absent from the last six episodes , but the man returned to the series at the beginning of Season Four . 1011---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanford and Son Wiki is a wiki based reference on Wikia for the television series Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/675px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1012---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Welcome to Sanford and Son , a wiki devoted to the now classic NBC TV comedy series which was produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear , who also brought the person such clasic TV shows such as All In The Family , Maude , The Jeffersons , One Day At A Time , and Good Times 1013---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com the person are welcome to browse what these people have , create a new article just click on one of the many red links the person see , fix an existing article , or participate in one of our Community Projects to make the wiki a better information source . 1014---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To write a new Sanford and Son Wiki article , enter the page title in the box below . 1015---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com these people are constantly adding new articles to this new wikia . Any information which is valuable to this wikia site that the person can contribute is greatly appreciated , with as many good reliable sources as the person can find . 1016---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son wiki is a collaborative fan tribute website to the American sitcom Sanford and Son , which aired on NBC from 1972 1977 . Sanford and Son is about a junk dealer and his son in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . 1017---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that originally ran on NBC , based on the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son , which was produced and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson The series premeired on January 14 , 1972 , and ended on March 25 , 1977 . Sanford and Son is about junk dealer Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx and his son Lamont Demond Wilson , who live in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . In 1973 , Redd Foxx won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the gruff , irascible , cantakerous Fred Sanford . Throughout its six seasons , the sitcom ran for 135 episodes . 1018---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Welcome , fans Welcome to this Wikia , these people welcome any contributions these people invite the person to log in and create a user name . 1019---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Creating a user name is free and takes only a minute and it gives the person greater anonymity if that is your wish . In addition , it is easier for other contributors to ask the person questions and help the person . 1020---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sanford and Son and Sister Makes Three was the 25th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 11th episode of the ' second season , it premiered December 1 , 1972 . 1021---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A husband seeking old flame named Juanita Dubois of Fred 's returns with a shocking revelation about her daughter Alice Emily Yancy , who has sparked a flaming passion in Lamont 's heart . Fred , however , panics when his son Lamont Demond Wilson starts to fall in love with Alice , whom Juanita , in hopes to lure Fred into rekindling their one time romance , gets Fred to believe , is his daughter , just before the woman and Alice get ready to prepare a special dinner , which Juanita believes , is the way to a man 's heart 1022---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Things really start to get tense at the dinner table , when tempers flare between Fred and Juanita , who tries to get Fred to talk about the issue with Alice possibly being his daughter some other time , When Fred , who does not like to be talked down to harshly by a woman when the man is eating , lets her know this , this apparently brings back old fire which possibly wrecked their onetime relationship . The evening culminates with all four arguing , with Alice calling Lamont a creep , Juanita calling both Fred and Lamont a pair of creeps , the girls storming out of the junkyard , and Fred throwing back a smoking jacket which Juanita brought him as a gift with him saying Here and take back this faggoty jacket 1023---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sangria is a wine punch typical of Spain , Portugal and Argentina . It normally consists of wine , chopped fruit , a sweetener , and a small amount of added brandy . Chopped fruit can include orange , lemon , lime , apple , peach , melon , berries , pineapple , grape , kiwifruit and mango . A sweetener such as honey , sugar , syrup , or orange juice is added . Instead of brandy , other liquids such as Seltzer , Sprite or 7 Up may be added . In the episode of Sanford and Son titled Pops ' Pals in Season 2 , Fred tries and gets hooked on Red Sangria after Julio tells him the meaning of the drink 's name is blood , the man at first spits it out , thinking it is actually blood After Julio explains that its only the meaning of the name , Fred develops a liking to it , saying that it tastes like Ripple gone flat http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519084506/sanfordandson/images/thumb/3/36/800px-Dos_Jarras_de_Sangr%C3%ADa-2009.jpg/180px-800px-Dos_Jarras_de_Sangr%C3%ADa-2009.jpg 1024---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Saul Turteltaub born 1932 served as a co executive producer of Sanford and Son with Bernie Orenstein and also wrote 22 episodes for the series . Saul has served as a producer or has written episodes for many popular TV projects , particularly such popular TV series such as Sanford and Son , The Dick Van Dyke Show , Love , American Style , That Girl for which the man also directed several episodes , Kate & Allie , The Cosby Show , Cosby , and the short lived TV serise Foley Square . Saul is the father of fellow TV producer writer director Jon Turteltaub , and the former brother in law of actress Fritzi Burr , who appeared on Sanford and Son in various roles during the series 's run . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1025---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Benjamin Sherman Scatman Crothers May 23 , 1910 November 22 , 1986 was an American actor , singer , dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man , and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980 . the man was also a prolific voiceover artist , and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters , Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers , the title character in Hong Kong Phooey , and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats . Scatman appears as Bowlegs in a guest appearance on Sanford and Son appearing in the episode The Stand In in Season 5 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1026---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Crothers was born in Terre Haute , Indiana . the man got the name Scatman when the man auditioned for a radio show in 1932 at the former WSMK now WING in Dayton , Ohio . The director did not think his given name was catchy enough , so Crothers quickly concocted the handle Scat Man , although this talent , scat singing , would develop later . the man continued to enjoy this talent throughout his career , even teaching scat singing to college students . Later , the nickname was condensed to Scatman b Arthur Godfrey . In his early career , the man also associated with many Cleveland based acts and frequently played on the scene in Ohio . 1027---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Crothers started his musical career as a 15 year old drummer in a speakeasy band in his home town of Terre Haute . the man played a variety of instruments , including drums and guitar , on jazz club band circuits in his early days as an entertainer . Among the people the man performed for was notorious gangster , Al Capone . Crothers formed his own band in the 1930s and traveled to Oakland California with the band in 1948 , the man played piano at the Port ' Call and Walt 's 405 Club . the man also appeared in a 1950 episode of The Phil Harris Alice Faye Radio Program performing Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy with Harris who introduced him as Scatman Roth . the man left Oakland to stay in Los Angeles in 1952 . 1028---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Crothers made his official debut in the movie Meet Me at the Fair 1953 . the man worked in both the movies and television , often taking bit parts . the man also made musical shorts and played drums with Slim Gaillard in the mid 1940s . Crothers then landed a major supporting role in the 1970 animated film The Aristocats from Walt Disney Pictures , providing the voice of Scat Cat . the man also performs the film 's theme song Wants to be a Cat . Good friends with Jack Nicholson , the man appeared in four of his films The King of Marvin Gardens 1972 , The Fortune 1975 , One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest 1975 , and The Shining 1980 . His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable tellingconvict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin 1975 , as a train porter in Silver Streak 1976 , as a liveryman in The Shootist 1976 , as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy 1980 , the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped 1982 , an angel in Two of a Kind 1983 and finally Mr . Bloom , a magician in the guise of an old man in the Kick the Can segment of Twilight Zone The Movie . 1029---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Some sources erroneously list him as a dancer in the Duke Ellington Short subject film , Symphony in Black 1935 , who is first seen dancing with a woman in his apartment before taking her out . Later , the man encounters his jilted lover , played by the also uncredited Billie Holiday . those people briefly have words , the man pushes her down and exits with his new girlfriend before her song . This role was actually played by Earl Snakehips Tucker , who also appears at the end of the short . 1030---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Even though Scatman worked in television at the beginning of his career , the man really came into his own in the medium doing voiceover work on several animated series , beginning with his voicework in Disney 's The Aristocats . In the 1970s , fans recognized his distinctive voice as Hong Kong Phooey , and the voice of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series . In 1966 an animated special from the Hanna Barbera studios aired called The New Alice in Wonderland or What is a Nice Kid Like the person Doing in a Place Like This , a hip take on the Lewis Carroll story that featured Sammy Davis , Jr . as a , beatnik Cheshire Cat ; the special was followed up by an audio adaptation for records on Hanna Barbera 's HB Records label , but with Davis exclusive to the Reprise label , Crothers provided the Cat 's record voice , and an even more exuberant spin on the character . Additionally , the man made guest appearances on many popular shows , including Dragnet in 1967 , Bewitched and McMillan & Wife in 1971 , Adam 12 in 1972 as George Strothers , Ironside in 1973 , Kolchak The Night Stalker and Sanford and Son in 1974 , Starsky and Hutch in 1977 , Charlie 's Angels in 1978 and Magnum , P . this person . in 1980 . In the 1980s , the man gained a new fanbase , providing the voice of the smooth talking , music loving Autobot Jazz on the television series The Transformers . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519144523/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/7e/Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG/249px-Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG 1031---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com During his appearance on Sanford and Son as Bowlegs the man joined Fred for two musical numbers . One of which was a memorable version of the standard All of Me , where the man accompanied Foxx on ukulele . Crothers starred in three short lived 1980s television series One of the Boys 1982 , Casablanca 1983 , and Morningstar Eveningstar 1986 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519144523/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/7e/Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG/249px-Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG 1032---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Through all of the television characters that the man played , the man was most noted for his supporting role Louie Wilson the garbage man on the NBC TV sitcom series Chico and the Man . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519144523/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/7e/Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG/249px-Scatman_Crothers_Redd_Foxx_Sanford_and_Son_1975.PNG 1033---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A heavy smoker most of his life , Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer late in 1985 , but continued to perform . The cancer eventually spread to his esophagus ; the man ultimately died of pneumonia on November 22 , 1986 at his home in Van Nuys , California . Crothers is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood , California . 1034---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com School Daze was the 136th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 25th episode of Season Six , as well as the series final episode , it first aired on NBC TV on March 25 , 1977 . 1035---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com For a month Fred and Bubba have been sneaking out at night , concerning family and friends and leading Donna to fear that Fred has fallen for another woman . 1036---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Can it be that Fred Sanford Redd Foxx has fallen in love with a white woman named Doris That is what Lamont and Donna Lynn Hamilton are led to believe when Fred begins mysteriously disappearing each and every night . It turns out , however , that Doris Chandler , the other woman is a high school teacher and Fred merely wants to earn his diploma after these many years . This was the 135th and final episode of Sanford and Son . 1037---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Sarah Jane Miller appears as Doris Chandler , Fred and Bubba 's night school teacher , Barry Wright makes final series appearance as Herman Berry , a fellow student of Fred and Bubba . 1038---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sergeant Gork was the 110th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 22nd episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on March 5 , 1976 . 1039---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred regales young Roger with tall tales of his World War II exploits that draw more from the late movie than the history books . 1040---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hoping to impress his future grandson Roger Edward Crawford , Fred Redd Foxx weaves an incredible tale of his heroic exploits during WWII . Casting himself as the Patton like Major Fred G . Sanford , Fred concocts an unbelievable account based on every war movie clich ever minted , culminating in a top secret mission to sabotage a Nazi guided missile plant . Naturally , Fred 's contemporary cronies appear in his fabrications , among them Lieutenant Lamont , Fingers Rollo , and Bubbaface Bexley . 1041---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Frank Nelson appears as a U . S . Army soldier . Fritzi Burr appears as Helga a German masterspy , Kenneth Menard appears as a customer , Pat Morita appears as Japanese Colonel Hiakowa , Milton Frome appears as a Nazi officer and voicer , and Martin Kosleck makes an appearance as a Nazi General . 1042---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Aram was a wealthy Saudi Arabian oil baron who appeared in the episode of Sanford and Son titledCalifornia Crude in Season 5 5 . 23 . of the series . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1043---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sheldon Leonard born Sheldon Leonard Bershad ; February 22 , 1907 January 11 , 1997 appeared as career jewel thief Davis in three Sanford and Son episodes titled The Hawaiian Connection in Season six . A pioneering American film and television producer , director , writer , and actor , Sheldon 's venerable entertainment career spanned seven decades . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1044---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Leonard was born in New York City , the son of middle class Jewish family . As an actor , Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters , especially gangsters or heavies , in films such as It is a Wonderful Life 1946 , To Have and Have Not 1944 , Guys and Dolls 1955 , and Open Secret 1948 . His trademark was his especially thick New York accent , usually delivered from the side of his mouth . In the cult classic Decoy , Leonard uses his heavy persona to create the hard boiled police detective Joe Portugal . In the 1950s , Leonard provided the voice of lazy cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros . cartoons directed by Robert McKimson . Sheldon Leonard Bershad graduated from Syracuse University in 1929 . 1045---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In radio , Leonard played an eccentric racetrack tout on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s and early . His role was to salute Benny out of the blue in railroad stations , on street corners , or in department stores Hey Bud , come here a minute , ask Benny what the man was about to do , and then proceed to try to argue him out of his course of action by resorting to inane and irrelevant racing logic . Ironically , as The Tout , the man never gave out information on horse racing , unless Jack demanded it . One excuse the tout gave was Who knows about horses Leonard was part of the ensemble cast of the Martin and Lewis radio show . the man also appeared frequently on The Adventures of the Saint , often playing gangsters and heavies , but also sometimes in more positive roles . Sheldon Leonard was also a regular on The Adventures of Maisie in the 1940s . Sheldon is better recognized today as the producer of several hugely popular television series , including The Danny Thomas Show aka Make Room For Daddy 195364 , The Andy Griffith Show 196068 , The Dick Van Dyke Show 196166 , and this person Spy 196568 . Leonard also provided the voice of the animated character Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963 64 , which led to a Linus cartoon series that aired on Saturday and later , Sunday mornings on CBS 196466 and ABC 196769 . the man also was briefly the star of his own television show Big Eddie , where the man played the owner of a large sports arena . The show lasted only one season 197576 . 1046---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The character of Sherriff Andy Taylor was introduced in a 1960 episode of The Danny Thomas Show , which led to the series of The Andy Griffith Show . Leonard is informally credited with developing the practice of using an episode of a series as a backdoor pilot episode for new series , in which a guest star is introduced as a new character with the intention using this character as the basis for a new show . 1047---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sheldo also has the distinction along with author Mickey Spillane of being one of the first two Miller Lite spokesmen . Using his trademark accent , the man told the audience , this person was at first reluctant to try Miller Lite , but then this person was persuaded to do so by my friend , Large Louis . One of his last acting roles was a guest appearance on the NBC TV series Cheers , in which the man played the proprietor of The Hungry Heifer , Norm Peterson 's favorite eating establishment . 1048---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Leonard died at 89 , and was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City , California . 1049---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Bill Cosby included an impersonation of Sheldon Leonard in one track of his 1966 hit comedy album Wonderfulness . The track , Niagara Falls , describes Sheldon Leonard 's honeymoon at Niagara Falls . 1050---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His name served as a namesake for the characters Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter in the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory , as the writers are fans of his work . 1051---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Skeeter Matthews was a card hustler buddy of Lamont 's who appears in the episode titledThe Card Sharps Season 2 , Episode 6 , The part of Skeeter was played by actor Thalmus Rasulala , who also appears on Sanford and Son as a Heart Fund door to door donation man in in the episode titledFred 's Cheating Heart Season 3 , Episode 17 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1052---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When it turns out that Skeeter , who is the son of a neighbor of the Sanfords , Ugly Herbert Matthews and his wife , and who , according to the Sanfords , is also an ex con and a hustler and thief , was , along with buddies Hucklebuck and Rooster was cheating Lamont in a poker game by dealing from the bottom of the deck , the man and his buddies have the tables turned on them when Fred , with the use some special see thru bifocals , have all of their winnings , Lamont 's losses , and the flashy duds on their backs , taken from them When Lamont returns after just several minutes to the junkyard from a grocery store beer and refreshment run to see all the money and clothes Fred won , Skeeter , who along with Rooster and Hucklebuck quickly leave embarassed , only greets Lamont , whose name the man never could get right , with a quick See ' Later , Lucas 1053---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Slappy White born Melvin Edward White on September 20 , 1921 died November 7 , 1995 played the role of Melvin White , an old friend of Fred 's who usually watched TV with him at the Sanford home , in the first season and the first episode of second season of Sanford and Son . A veteran entertainer , stand up comedian and actor , Slappy worked often with longtime friend Redd Foxx on the ' circuit of stand up comedy during the 1950s and 1960s . In addition to his appearances on Sanford and Son , Slappy appeared on the television shows That is My Mama , Blossom , and the CBS TV sitcom Cybill which starred actress Cybill Sheperd , and in the films Mr . Saturday Night which starred Billy Crystal 1994 , and Amazon Women on the Moon 1986 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1054---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in Baltimore , Slappy began his career as a dancer and did not take to comedy until 1940 when the man joined with a fellow hoofer and labeled his act the Two Zephyrs . The Two Zephyrs made the circuits together for over four years appearing with such notables as Lionel Hampton , Count Basie , Duke Ellington and many others . With his team Slappy was first introduced to Californians , making his West Coast debut in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre along with Louie Armstrong . 1055---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Two Zephyrs came Lewis and White his second successful comedy team . Lewis and White traveled together for several years and appeared with such greats as Johnny Otis , The Ink Spots , Count Basie , Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton . The team with which the man is best known is Redd Foxx and ' White . Foxx and White toured from coast to coast with Billy Eckstine Orchestra for over four years . Slappy 's solo career started in 1951 when Dinah Washington requested him to introduce her act at the Black Hawk in San Francisco . Slappy was such a hit with the patrons , the woman kept him on as her opening act . 1056---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1972 the man auditioned for and got the role of Melvin White , Fred 's TV viewing buddy , named after his given name on his friend Redd Foxx 's TV show Sanford and Son . Redd Foxx 's character was also his brothers real name Fred Sanford In contrast to the off color humor of the ' roasts , Slappy also wrote and performed a more conservative comedy routine using one black and one white glove while reciting his poem about equality between men . White performed the routine many times during the civil rights movement in America , and the man said that President John F . Kennedy once gave it a standing ovation . 1057---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com White enjoyed a minor renaissance after his death owing to bootleg recordings of ' Club roasts that became available through comedy record outlets . 1058---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Slappy died in 1995 in Brigantine , New Jersey . 1059---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Smoked pork butt is a cut of pork that comes from the upper part of the shoulder from the front leg and may contain the blade bone . Smoked Boston butt , which is then pulled from the bone and served with or in a spicy sauce is what is commonly referred to in the American Deep South as Barbecue . In the Sanford and Son episode titled The Way to Lamont 's Heart in Season 3 , a rejected ex girlfriend of Lamont named Judy Judy Pace attempts to woo Lamont back by prepare a smoked port butt , which the woman brings to Grady , who has the impression that it was made with him in mind . http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519112102/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9c/Smoked_Boston_Pork_Butt.jpg/180px-Smoked_Boston_Pork_Butt.jpg 1060---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Sonny Jim Gaines born September 10 , 1927 died September 2 , 2006 was a veteran character actor who worked on TV 1970 's through the early 2000 's . the man appeared in two Sanford and Son episodes first in Season 4 's Mama 's Baby , Papa 's Maybe where the man appeared as Big Money Grip Madlock , an old buddy of Fred 's from St . Louis , then as Bottom Of The Deck Dan a poker hustling gambler accquaintance of Fred and Bubba 's in the episode The Lucky Streak in Season 5 . the man also appeared on Sanford as a bailiff in the episode Jury Duty . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1061---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born James E . Gaines in North Carolina , Sonny Jim , who was raised in New York City . In addition to his Sanford and Son appearances , made numerous other guest appearances on TV , such as Good Times , Baretta and Law and Order . Gaines also had roles in several films which included the 1973 blaxploitation flick Five On The Black Hand Side , this person Know Why The Caged Bird Sings , The Distingushed Gentleman opposite Sheryl Lee Ralph and the films star , Eddie Murphy , the Oscar nominated 1992 biopic Malcolm X , which starred Denzel Washington , with whom the man also appeared in the 1993 film The Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts . 1062---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A resident for many years of Balitimore , MD , Sonny Jim died in Manhattan , NY . 1063---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stan Lathan born July 8 , 1945 is a veteran television director , film director , television producer and television director . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1064---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lathans career began with public television in Boston where the man co created and directed one of the first and longest running urban themed magazine shows , Say Brother . In 1969 , the man moved to New York City to become one of the first directors of the groundbreaking urban preschool phenomenon Sesame Street . 1065---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1973 , Lathan teamed up with Quincy Jones and Jesse Jackson to produce and direct Save the Children , a music documentary feature film distributed by Paramount Pictures . Lathan began directing network television shows in 1975 , when the man was invited to Los Angeles to direct multiple episodes of Sanford and Son starring Redd Foxx . the man went on to direct numerous television drama and comedy series , including Hill Street Blues , Miami Vice , Cagney & Lacey , Eight is Enough , The Waltons , Falcon Crest , Remington Steele , Frank 's Place , Fame , and Roc . 1066---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com During the 1970s and 1980s , the man contributed to performance arts series on public television . the man directed Alvin Ailey Memories & Visions , as well as dance specials featuring The Martha Graham Company , Mikhail Baryshnikov , and Agnes de Mille . In addition , the man directed dramas for PBS such as Great Performances , American Playhouse , The American Short Story , and Wonder Works . In 1984 , the man worked with Harry Belafonte to direct the hip hop movie Beat Street for Orion Pictures . 1067---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the 1990s , Lathan remained one of Hollywoods most prolific directors of TV and film . the man directed the pilots and thus seeded the series and syndication success of Martin , Moesha , The Parkers , The Steve Harvey Show , Amen , Cedric the Entertainer Presents , Eve , and All of Us . 1068---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2000 and 2004 , Lathan continued to break the mold and expand the business model for black comedy on cable TV . the man executive produced and directed Dave Chappelles highly successful comedy specials ' Them Softly for HBO and For What Its Worth for Showtime . the man also executive produced and directed Cedric the Entertainers Taking the person Higher , for HBO . 1069---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lathan is currently directing the new TV Landsitcom The Soul Man . 1070---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1989 , Lathan and Russell Simmons partnered to create one of the most successful franchises in entertainment HBOs Def Comedy Jam series , which started the careers of some of todays biggest television and movie stars , such as Chris Tucker , Dave Chappelle , Martin Lawrence , Bernie Mac , Cedric the Entertainer , Steve Harvey , Mike Epps , and D . L . Hughley . After a nine year hiatus , Def Comedy Jam relaunched in 2006 to huge ratings . Together , those people co own The Simmons Lathan Media Group , a film and television production and acquisitions company that develops and distributes urban content across a variety of media platforms . 1071---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 2002 , the partnership was honored with their first Peabody Award for their series Def Poetry Jam on HBO . That same year , Lathan and Simmons produced and Lathan directed Def Poetry Jam on Broadway , which won a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event . 1072---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lathan and Simmons feature film credits include , co executive producers of Waist Deep , and The Show . 1073---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lathan and Simmons are executive producing the MTV hit reality shows Run 's House , Daddy 's Girls , and Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices for HBO . Simmons Lathan Media Group is also developing a wide variety of broadband and mobile content , and producing independent films . 1074---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lathan has five children , including film actress Sanaa Lathan . the man currently resides in Beverly Hills , California with his wife Marguerite and his youngest daughter Colette . 1075---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Steinberg and Son was the 91st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fifth episode of Season Five , it first aired October 10 , 1975 . 1076---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The series spoofs itself when the characters in the new television show Steinberg and Son turn out to be Borscht Belt parallels to those in the life of Fred G . Sanford . 1077---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Inside jokes abound in this classic Sanford and Son episode , which spoofs not only the ' derivation from the British Steptoe and Son but also pokes fun at recent real life contract squabbles between the Sanford producers and series star Redd Foxx . It all begins when Fred and Lamont find out that a new television series which closely resembles their own lives is in the works . Spurred on by a hotshot lawyer and friend of the Sanfords named Albert Brock Robert Guillaume , the Sanfords head down to the TV studio where the first episode of Steinberg and Son is in production . The best moment Fred Sanford 's TV counterpart Max Steinberg Lou Jacobi refuses to go before the cameras until the man gets a window in his dressing room . 1078---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Future Night Court TV series co star John Larroquette guest appears as Murray Steinberg Lamont 's counterpart on the Steinberg and Son show , Jack Somack as Gabey , Grady 's counterpart , Jane Lambert as Aunt Ethel Aunt Esther 's counterpart and Albert Hall as Bernie Taub , Rollo 's cousin and the writer creator of Steinberg and Son 1079---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Steptoe and Son was a British sitcom series which served as the inspiration for the creation of the NBC TV series Sanford and Son shown on American TV . Written by the comedy writing team of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane , a fictional street in Shepherd 's Bush , London . Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965 , followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974 . Its theme tune , Old Ned , was composed by Ron Grainer . The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain 's Best Sitcom . It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son , in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon . In 1972 , a movie adaptation of the series , Steptoe and Son , was released in cinemas , with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973 . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101152020/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/Steptoe-and-son.jpg/300px-Steptoe-and-son.jpg 1080---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The series focussed on the inter generational conflict of father and son . Albert Steptoe , a dirty old man , is an old rag and bone man , set in his grimy and grasping ways . By contrast his 37 year old son Harold is filled with social aspirations , not to say pretensions . The show contained elements of drama and tragedy , as Harold was continually prevented from achieving his ambitions . To this end the show was unusual at the time for casting actors rather than comedians in its lead roles , although both actors were drawn into more comedic roles as a consequence . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121101152020/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/42/Steptoe-and-son.jpg/300px-Steptoe-and-son.jpg 1081---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The show had its roots in a 1962 episode of Galton & Simpson 's Comedy Playhouse . Galton and Simpson 's association with British comedian Tony Hancock , for whom those people had written Hancock 's Half Hour , had ended and those people had agreed to a proposal from the BBC to write a series of ten comedy shows . The fourth in the series , The Offer , was born both out of writer 's block and budgetary constraints . Earlier shows in the series had cost more than expected , so the writers decided to write a two hander set in one room . The idea of two brothers was considered but father and son worked best . Ronald Fraser was second choice for Harold , which would have produced a totally different character . 1082---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Galton and Simpson were not aiming to make a pilot for a series , having worked for seven years with Hancock . However , Tom Sloan , the BBC 's Head of Comedy , told them during rehearsals that The Offer was a definite series pilot the man saw that the Steptoe idea had potential , as did the audience of that edition of Comedy Playhouse . Galton and Simpson were reportedly overwhelmed by this reaction , and the first of what became eight series was commissioned , the first four of which were transmitted between 1962 and 1965 . The last four series were broadcast between 1970 and 1974 , now in colour . At the peak of the ' popularity , it commanded viewing figures of some 28million per episode . In addition , the early 1970s saw two feature films , two 46 minute Christmas specials . In 2005 , the play Steptoe and Son in Murder at Oil Drum Lane , written by Ray Galton and John Antrobus , brought the storyline to a close . 1083---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The series was one of the first UK situation comedy programmes to employ actors rather than comedians in the principal roles . Galton and Simpson had decided that those people wanted to try to write for performers who did not count their laughs . 1084---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The ' title music , Old Ned , won its composer Ron Grainer his second successive Ivor Novello award . The series had no standard set of opening titles but the opening sequences would often feature the ' horse , Hercules . Steptoe and Son is the ' trading name , but as established in the first episode , the Son is not Harold but Albert . The name dates from when the man and his motherMrs . Steptoeworked the rounds . The first series has the pair as very rough looking and often dirty and in ragged clothes but those people quickly tidied up for later series . 1085---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The father , Albert Edward Ladysmith Steptoe Wilfrid Brambell , was born on September 26 , 1899 though the man always claimed to have been born in 1901 . His father was unknown but is believed to have been a local muffin man who died in 1910 ; the portrait Albert keeps of his father is in fact of William Gladstone . the man appears to have joined the army underage at the start of World War this person , and is seen wearing the Mons Star medals to prove it . the man served with the British Expeditionary Force to the Russian city Archangel , White Russia , in 1919 . Steptoe Senior is lazy , stubborn , narrow minded and foul mouthed , and has revolting personal habits . Albert is content with his place in the world , utterly unpretentious and downright cynical . the man can be extremely vindictive and does everything the man can to prevent Harold , his son , improving himself especially if it means him leaving home . the man is normally unshaven and wears a very old pair of false teeth , discoloured and with teeth missing . His wife died in 1936 . the man mentions in one episode that the man was one of fourteen children . 1086---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Harold Albert Kitchener Steptoe played by Harry H . Corbett , was born 1925 Corbett 's birth date in the 1960s series or born 1932 in the 1970s series and educated at Scrubs Lane Elementary School , is also obstinate , though prone to moments of enthusiasm about an idea . Harold has aspirations . the man wants to move up in the world most of all to escape from the family home and his stifling relationship with his father . This is the subject of the first episode , The Offer . the man likes to see his business as antiques rather than junk . the man bitterly regrets leaving the army ; his army service took him to Malaya and the man achieved the rank of Corporal . the man nearly always wears a workman 's belt adorned with army cap badges . In the 1960s series the man was a veteran of the Korean War , and this was mentioned at least once during the 1970s series . the man is a dreamer and idealist . Politically , Harold is a UK Labour party supporter who is appalled that his father is a Conservative Party supporter . the man aims to improve his mind and his social circle but always fails , often thanks to Albert 's deliberate put downs or sabotage . Harold 's exasperation and disgust at his father 's behaviour often results in his repeating the catchphrase the person dirty old man 1087---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Strange Bedfellows was the 79th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of Season Four , it first aired January 24 , 1975 . 1088---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Praise for Lamont 's impassioned call into a radio political program sparks him to run for the state assembly . Will it be Mr . Sanford goes to Sacramento 1089---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Hoping to impress his new girlfriend , a politically active young lady named Denise Margaret Avery , Lamont calls up a radio talk show to air his views on community affairs . Impressed by Lamont 's eloquence , a number of highly connected people suggest that the man run for the state assembly . Though Lamont is eager to become a political mover and shaker , Fred remains skeptical . 1090---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stymie Beard born Matthew Beard , Jr . January 1 , 1925 January 8 , 1981 appeared as Otis Littlejohn , a buddy of Grady Wilson , in three episodes of Sanford and Son in Season 4 . Stymie a former child actor , Stymie is most famous for portraying the character of Stymie in the Our Gang short films from 1930 to 1935 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1091---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Stymie had previously played baby parts in many films before signing a five year contract to play in Our Gang . In contrast to Farina , the character the man replaced , Stymie was a slick tongued con artist who was always self assured , nonchalant , and ready with a sly comment as well as clever ideas to solve the problems the man faced . Stymie could also offer sound , commonsense advice that helped resolve the dilemmas of his white playmates . The character 's trademark was a bald head crowned by an oversize derby hat , a gift to Beard from comedian Stan Laurel , who had also worked under Our Gang creator Hal Roach . Stymie is the only Our Ganger who both replaced one of the original gang members Allen Farina Hoskins and was in turn replaced by one who would stay on until the series disbanded , Billie Buckwheat Thomas . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130605042406/sanfordandson/images/a/a3/Stymie-1-sized.jpg 1092---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The name Stymie was provided by Our Gang director Robert McGowan , who was always frustrated stymied by little Matthew 's curious wanderings around the studio ; the character was originally to be named Hercules . McGowan would later recall that Stymie was his favorite of all the Our Gang kids . The then five year old Beard came to the series a year after the transition from the silent early talkie era Our Gang . the man had the exclusive distinction of being with the gang from Miss Crabtree talkies of the early 1930s , through the mid thirties transitional period , up until the era of the more familiar group of Spanky , Alfalfa , and Buckwheat , who would ultimately replace Stymie in 1935 . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130605042406/sanfordandson/images/a/a3/Stymie-1-sized.jpg 1093---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beard 's paycheck was used to help support his East Los Angeles family , including thirteen brothers and sisters . After Beard renamed his younger brother Bobbie Cotton which was also used as Bobbie 's Our Gang character name , his parents allowed him to name all of the rest of his siblings as those people were born . the man named one Dickie after his best friend , child actor and Our Gang kid Dickie Moore . Beard 's younger brother Renee Beard would appear in Hal Roach 's Our Gang derived featurettes of the 1940s Curley and Who Killed Doc Robbin . http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130605042406/sanfordandson/images/a/a3/Stymie-1-sized.jpg 1094---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After Stymie left the series in 1935 at the age of ten , the man went on to score some minor roles in feature films , such as Captain Blood 1935 starring Errol Flynn and Jezebel 1938 with Bette Davis . At the age of 15 the man makes an appearance and is credited as Mose the bellboy in the 1940 Fritz Lang directed The Return of Frank James with Henry Fonda and fellow child star and Our Gang alumnus Jackie Cooper see IMDB full cast and crew . By the time the man was in high school , the man had retired from acting . Falling into drug use and street life , Beard became addicted to heroin , and spent most of his early adult life in and out of jail because of it . 1095---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the 1960s , the man checked himself into Synanon , a drug rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles , and successfully ended his heroin use . After leaving Synanon , the man made a small comeback , appearing in small roles in feature films and episodes of television shows such as Sanford and Son and Good Times ; the man had a recurring role as Monty on the latter series . In 1978 , the man appeared in the movie The Buddy Holly Story as a member of the backstage crew at the Apollo Theatre , wearing his trademark bowler hat . Beard also traveled around the country , giving lectures on drug abuse awareness . 1096---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Beard suffered a stroke two days after his 56th birthday in 1981 , sustained head injuries , and died of pneumonia on January 8 , 1981 . the man was residing in Los Angeles at the time of his death . the man is interred in the Evergreen Cemetery , Los Angeles . the man was buried with his famous bowler hat the man wore . 1097---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Superflyer was the 46th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eighth episode of the ' third season , it first aired November 2 , 1973 . 1098---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's Uncle Leotis dies and leaves him $ 1 , 500 , but the catch to collecting it is Fred and Lamont must fly to St . Louis and oversee the funeral arrangements . But steady Freddy is not sure he is ready to take his first flight in an airplane . 1099---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Suzanne Stone played the part of Cissy Lewis , the daughter of Evelyn Eve Lewis , Fred 's new girlfriend in Season 1 of the Sanford TV series . Amongst her acting credits , Suzanne has made appearances on numerous films and TV series over the course of her career , such as the short lived early 1980 's NBC TV soap Texas , a recurring role as Roberta on ABC TV 's Nine to Five sitcom series , and The Royal Family , which co starred Redd Foxx and Della Reese . Also a talented voice actress , Suzanne has also lent her talents to numerous animated TV projects , such as the 1988 Bill Cosby family comedy film Ghost Dad , the new Batman cartoon series 1994 , Duckman Private Dick Family Man 1996 and The New Batman Adventures from 1997 1999 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1100---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com TV or Not TV was the eleventh episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered March 24 , 1972 . Based on The Colour Problem , an old episode of the British series Steptoe and Son which was written by series creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1101---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In desperate need of a new color television , Fred becomes upset when Lamont decides to spend the money instead on a new car , a convertible . Lamont has a change of heart , however , when Fred wanders away from home and is taken to the hospital with an apparent case of amnesia , diagnosed by an ear , nose and throat doctor Peter Bonerz . Also guest starring Slappy White as Melvin , Fred 's TV viewing buddy . 1102---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ted Bergmann born September 12 , 1940 is a former television producer , screenwriter , who , beginning in the 1967 , Bergmann would take on even more jobs , first beginning as a scriptwriter for the popular CBS TV variety comedy series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , eventually branching out and taking on the role of producer and production manger for several popular TV series from the 1970 's through the 1990 's . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1103---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles , Ted graduated from UCLA where the man sold his first TV script , The Munsters , while still in college . A short time later , Ted became the youngest staff writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , earning an Emmy nomination . 1104---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1967 , after the dissoliving of the Dumont Network , and several years of working in numerous film and TV projects as a stage crew member Ted took on his first job as a scriptwriter , writing 26 episodes for the popular CBS TV series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ; the man would then write an episode of the NBC TV sitcom The Munsters in 1968 , eventually going on to write scripts for give me A Break , Small Wonder , Out Of This World , and It is Garry Shandling 's Show . the man also wrote several episodes of the popular NBC TV series Sanford and Son , and its short lived 1980 spinoff series Sanford , . By 1976 , Bergmann would take on the job as the production manager for the ABC TV sitcom Three 's Company , serving in that capacity during the series eight season run on ABC . the man also would serve in a similar capacity for its spinoff series The Ropers and Three 's A Crowd . the man also would serve as the producer for the made for TV films The Best On Record 1968 , Death Stalk 1970 , and Chelsea D . H . O . 1973 and The Good ' Boys in 1979 . 1105---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ted currently resides in Sebastopol , CA , where the man continues to work on TV scripts . 1106---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Thalmus Rasulala born Jack Crowder November 15 , 1939 October 9 , 1991 appeared in two different roles on Sanford and Son first and most notably as Skeeter Matthews in the episode titled The Card Sharps Season 2 , Episode 6 , then as a Heart Fund door to door donation man in in the episode titled Fred 's Cheating Heart Season 3 , Episode 17 A tall , lean striking actor with a resonant baritone voice who starred in numerous blaxploitation and action crime film TV projects , Thalmus also was an original cast member of ABC TV 's soap opera One Life to Live from its inception in 1968 until the man left the show in 1970 . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1107---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born Jack Crowder in Miami , Florida , Thalmus appeared in many films and made guest appearances in TV shows . Notable blaxploitation film roles include Sidney Lord Jones in Cool Breeze 1972 , Dr . Gordon Thomas in Blacula 1972 and Robert Daniels in Willie Dynamite 1974 ; the man also was the assistant director of The Slams 1973 . On television , the man is notable as Skeeter Matthews on Sanford and Son , The Lt . Jack Neal in One Life to Live , Bill Thomas Raj 's Father on What is Happening , and Omoro Kinte Kunta Kinte 's father on Roots . the man also appeared on The Twilight Zone , All in the Family , The Jeffersons , Good Times , Star Trek The Next Generation , and The Sophisticated Gents . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1108---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His other film roles include Cornbread , Earl and Me 1975 , Bucktown 1975 , The Last Hard Men 1976 , The ' Wife 1986 , New Jack City 1991 and his last film role as General Afir in Mom and Dad Save the World . the man died shortly after completing his scenes , and the film , released after his death , is dedicated to his memory . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1109---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Thalmus married Shirlyn Mozingo on November 6 , 1984 . Thalmus died on October 9 , 1991 , from heart failure in Albuquerque , New Mexico . the man was survived by his wife Shirlyn , and their four children . 1110---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Barracuda was the tenth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered March 17 , 1972 . Based on The Stepmother , a 1963 episode of the British series Steptoe and Son which was written by series creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1111---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's in love and engaged to be married , but not if Lamont can help it . Widow Donna Harris , a private homecare nurse who also works at the nearby hospital , intends , with elderly junkman Fred , who the woman has been dating for some weeks , to eventually march together down the altar ; on a drive in movie date , Fred presents her with an engagement ring . Describing Donna as the Barracuda , when Fred breaks his engagement plans to him , the peeved Lamont Demond Wilson , does everything the man can to break up the geriatric romance . 1112---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Lynn Hamilton makes her first appearance as Donna on the series . 1113---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Big Party was the 29th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 15th episode of the ' second season , it premiered January 5 , 1973 . Loosely based on Teleplay by Odie Hawkins and Aaron Ruben , the story was also written for the episode by Hawkins . 1114---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Behind on their bills , Fred and Lamont look to raise money by throwing a house party and charging admission , but to the demands of visiting gangsters Leader Gabriel Dell and Duane Danny Big Black Rey , who gives them an offer that those people cannot refuse at the threat of a revolver , those people must keep the party going , and allow the gangsters to become partners in the unwanted operation 1115---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It takes until the next morning ; a Sunday visit from Aunt Esther and her Raiders or,Esther 's Raiders , what Fred calls them , her church going sisters , to drive out the hoods and the partiers from the Sanford premises 1116---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Gabriel Dell makes his second and final guest appearance ; LaWanda Page makes her series episode debut as Esther . 1117---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Kid was the 48th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the tenth episode of the ' third season , it first aired November 21 , 1973 . 1118---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont becomes annoyed that Fred is constantly playing old blues records featuring a band named Blind Mellow Jelly . Lamont Demond Wilson convinces Fred Redd Foxx to donate his collection of rare jazz records to the library , in hopes of securing a large tax deduction . Then , the man finds out the records are rare and could be worth several hundred dollars . Thus , the man decides to retrieve them from the library by hook or by crook . Fred 's fellow crook in this instance is Bubba Don Bexley , who poses as the son of the late great blues musician . 1119---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Card Sharps was the 20th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the sixth episode of the ' second season , it premiered October 27 , 1972 . The episode was based on and adapted from Full House , a 1963 episode of the British TV sitcom series Steptoe and Son by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson 1120---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont will not heed Fred 's warnings that he is being played for a sucker by some canny card sharp hustler types by the names of Skeeter Matthews Thalmus Rasulala , Rooster David Moses in his 2nd and final S & S appearance and Hucklebuck Ron Glass of Barney Miller TV series fame , in his first of 2 appearances . 1121---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred , who sends Lamont , who was getting cheated at poker , to the supermarket to get some more beer , the man manages to win back all of Lamont 's money , . his card buddie 's cash , as well as the flashy clothes off of their backs ; it turns out that Fred , who discovered that the guys were dealing from the bottom of the deck ; the man manages to turn the tables with some see thru bifocals which enabled him to see the other side of every card which was dealt 1122---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Copper Caper was the fourth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered February 4 , 1972 . 1123---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's friend Kelly played by Clancy Cooper , turns Fred and Lamont onto a sweet deal involving some copper that a contact , named Otto Leonard Stone , is trying to get rid of because the man claims his church is being torn down to put up a parking lot . Fred is skeptical of the deal , but Lamont insists to him that the man knows what the man is doing . Fred and Lamont are instructed by Otto , the contact , to wait at a diner for the man to show up to close the deal for the copper . After doing so , those people return home where , Officers Smitty Hal Williams and Swanny pay them a visit and warn them about a copper thief that is working in the area . Panicked , Fred and Lamont drive their newly acquired load of copper down to the ocean and dump it . Returning home , those people discover that all of their plumbing has been stolen , and that the copper dealer sold them their own copper which the man pulled out while those people were waiting for him at the diner Forced to reinstall all of the plumbing themselves , the episode ends with Lamont asking Fred to check the kitchen faucet valve to see if the water is running , and Fred angrily answering back , Yeah , It is running , the person big dummy , after water streams up through a leak in the living room 1124---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Director was the 108th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 21st episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on February 27 , 1976 . 1125---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Starstruck Fred assumes the director 's chair when the champ George Foreman comes to star in a play for Lamont 's theater workshop . 1126---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred expresses indifference when his son Lamont gets involved with a local acting workshop . But Fred quickly changes his tune when the man learns that one of the workshop actors is boxing champion George Foreman as himself . This explains why Fred shows up at the theater , preparing to make his directorial debut Orson Welles has nothing to worry about . Note Adam Wade appears as Mr . Creely , the actors workshop director , George Wiltshire appears as Elroy Pitt , and Dave Turner makes an appearance as Eugene . 1127---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Dowry was the seventeenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of the ' second season , it premiered September 29 , 1972 . 1128---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's cousin Grady Albert Reed , Jr . pays a visit , accompanied by his new wife Margaret Marguerite Ray and overweight stepdaughter Betty Jean Gladys Perry . Cousin Grady 's stepdaughter Betty Jean stands to receive a $ 10 , 000 dowry on her wedding day from Grady , which sets Fred also upon Grady 's prodding to playing matchmaker with uninterested Lamont . 1129---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Marguerite Ray , who would later resurface as Evelyn Lewis , Fred 's new girlfriend finacee on the spinoff series Sanford , makes the first of two guest appearances on Sanford and Son . 1130---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice was the 107th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 20th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on February 20 , 1976 . 1131---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com WLamont musters the courage to pop the question to Janet . 1132---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Reconciled to the romance between his son Lamont and Janet Lawson Marlene Clark , Fred gives his blessing to the couple 's engagement . Soon , however , the man tries to revoke that blessing when the man learns that Lamont and Janet do not intend to live with Fred after their marriage . Frank Nelson , the Eeeeeyesss man of The Jack Benny Show fame , makes a cameo appearance . 1133---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Frank Nelson appears as a jewelry salesman . Derek Triplett makes an appearance as Roger Lawson , Janet 's son . 1134---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Escorts was the 106th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 19th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on February 13 , 1976 . 1135---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When Fred 's friend Elroy cannot find a date , Fred 's inspired to launch his latest get rich quick scheme an escort service for seniors . 1136---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ever seeking out new sources of income , Fred applies for work at an escort service , only to be bluntly informed that the man is too homely for such work . Hoping to prove that the man is still catnip to women , Fred opens up his own escort business , with his equally unlovely pals Hutch Arnold Johnson and Elroy Pitt } Elroy George Wiltshire as his stable of studs . As always , Fred finds that what seems easy in theory is next to impossible in reality . 1137---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Helen Martin makes the first of two appearances on the series . Frances E . Nealy makes a second appearance , Lauren Jones appears as Marlene , and Betty Cole appears as Maxine . 1138---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Family Man was the 87th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 25th and season finale episode of Season Four , it first aired April 25 , 1975 . 1139---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The story of Grady and his eyebrow raising gift to his daughter and son in law just before their cocktail party for stuffy university professors . 1140---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Feeling out of place and neglected , Grady Whitman Mayo decides to move out of his old Watts neighborhood . the man is immediately installed in the fashionable Westwood home of his daughter Ellie Carole Cole , his son in law Hal Marshall Joe Morton , and his grandchildren Laurie Rosanne Katon and Haywood Haywood Nelson . The result Poor Grady feels even more like a fifth wheel than ever before . Originally telecast as the final episode of Sanford and Son 's fourth season , The Family Man was actually the pilot for Whitman Mayo 's short lived spin off series Grady . 1141---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Howard Hesseman , who later co stars as Dr . Johnny Fever on the CBS TV sitcom series WKRP in Cincinnati appears as Professor Stoneham and Michael Talbott , later of NBC TV 's Miami Vice series fame appears as Pete . 1142---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Great Sanford Siege was the eighth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered March 3 , 1972 . Based on The Siege of Steptoe Street by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1143---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanfords have not been paying their bills and now find themselves trapped in their home in a standoff with a process server and a collection agency repossesor , a one Mr . Hamblin Dick Van Patten , with the cops in tow , who are ready to repossess their unpaid furniture . Fred 's acting ability , which culminates in him faking a bad heart , and faking as if the man were pushed rudely by the repossesor when those people head upstairs to take the bedroom furniture , coupled with a convenient legal loophole , comes to the rescue , saving their necks , and it also nets $ 200 from the repossesor for Fred to keep quiet about the incident , and for his injury Based on The Siege of Steptoe Street by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1144---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Hawaiian Connection Part III was the 113th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of Season Six and the second of a two part story , it first aired on NBC TV on October 8 , 1976 . 1145---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont visit Hawaii tourist attractions while running for their lives from the jewel thieves . 1146---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the conclusion of a two part story , a gang of jewel thieves have planted their stolen gems on Fred , who is in Hawaii to attend a junkman 's convention with Lamont , in the guise devised by jewel thief Davis Sheldon Leonard and Willis , Greg Morris who is well accquainted with the Sanfords , having grown up in the Watts community . Pursued all over Honolulu with the bad guys one step behind him , innocent Fred who has since misplaced the loot has no idea what is going on even with that Hawaii Five O music playing incessantly in the background . Singer Don Ho makes a guest appearance . 1147---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Don Ho makes a cameo appearance on the series . Frank Nelson makes a cameo appearance as an airline pilot . David Huddleston appears as a police detective , James Gregory appears as his Commander , Barbara Rhoades as Gladys , Greg Morris appears as Willis , and Sheldon Leonard appears as Davis . Pat Paulsen appears as Percy , an LAPD officer and temporary partner of Smitty . 1148---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Hawaiian Connection Part III was the 113th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the third episode of Season Six and the second of a two part story , it first aired on NBC TV on October 8 , 1976 . 1149---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont visit Hawaii tourist attractions while running for their lives from the jewel thieves . 1150---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the conclusion of a two part story , a gang of jewel thieves have planted their stolen gems on Fred , who is in Hawaii to attend a junkman 's convention with Lamont , in the guise devised by jewel thief Davis Sheldon Leonard and Willis , Greg Morris who is well accquainted with the Sanfords , having grown up in the Watts community . Pursued all over Honolulu with the bad guys one step behind him , innocent Fred who has since misplaced the loot has no idea what is going on even with that Hawaii Five O music playing incessantly in the background . Singer Don Ho makes a guest appearance . 1151---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Don Ho makes a cameo appearance on the series . Frank Nelson makes a cameo appearance as an airline pilot . David Huddleston appears as a police detective , James Gregory appears as his Commander , Barbara Rhoades as Gladys , Greg Morris appears as Willis , and Sheldon Leonard appears as Davis . Pat Paulsen appears as Percy , an LAPD officer and temporary partner of Smitty . 1152---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Headache was the 83rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 21st episode of Season Four , it first aired February 21 , 1975 . 1153---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont 's headache drives him to the psychologist 's couch , where it is suggested the pain in Lamont 's head is caused by the pain in the neck the man lives with . 1154---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Having suffered a splitting headache for two weeks , Lamont goes to see a doctor . When it turns out that the headache is psychosomatic , Lamont is referred to a psychologist Robert DoQui who determines that the pain is being caused by Lamont 's own father Fred . The problem How can Lamont break the news to Fred that the man is literally making him sick Darrell Zwerling appears in this episode as a pediatrician , and Frances E . Nealy appears as a patient . 1155---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Infernal Triangle was the 33rd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 19th episode of the ' second season , it premiered February 2 , 1973 . 1156---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred announces his engagement to a woman named Judy Ketty Lester , who , a widow at age 36 , is a woman young enough to have been his daughter in law , who is also an old flame of Lamont 's , who began dating her under the guise of the use of the name J . Ruper Roe . Based on Two 's Company by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1157---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Kid was the 37th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 23rd episode of the ' second season , it premiered March 9 , 1973 . 1158---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A lonely latchkey kid , a nine year old runaway named Jason Lincoln Kilpatrick Jr . stows away on Lamont 's truck and spends a day with the Sanfords . Much to Fred 's chagrin , the fatherless boy is not inclined to leave the junkyard , inasmuch as the man has latched onto the grouchy Fred as a surrogate daddy . When Jason 's mother Marcene Harris arrives to pick up Jason , who the woman reported as missing , the woman decides to stay and have dinner with Lamont and Fred , who the woman goes into the kitchen with to prepare dinner , so the man could help flour those the chicken , not hers legs 1159---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Light Housekeeper was the 28th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 14th episode of the ' second season , it premiered December 22 , 1972 . Loosely based on Teleplay by Lee Kalcheim and Aaron Ruben , the story was also written for the episode by Kalcheim . 1160---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred does not want to be left at home alone , noting that those people never did catch that Zodiac Killer . The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in the Northern California Bay Area in the late 1960s and possibly into the early . Fred 's statement still holds true these many years later since the Zodiac Killer has never been captured or even positively identified . Anyway , Thus , Lamont hires a housekeep named Mary Mary Wickes from an employment agency ; Fred , upon finding that the new housekeeper is white , is not too thrilled . Coupled with that , the only thing which the woman cooks is a fine boiled mutton 1161---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Lucky Streak was the 133rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 22nd episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on March 4 , 1977 . 1162---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont need to raise $ 4 , 000 by Friday or lose the Sanford Arms . Fred plans to parlay his $ 500 savings into the needed amount by playing poker , betting on horses and letting it ride in Las Vegas . 1163---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanford Arms is threatened with foreclosure due to nonpayment of rent . Fred and Lamont both decide that the best way to avoid this contingency is to buy the rooming house outright but for that , those people need 4 , 000 dollars immediately . Throwing caution to the winds , Fred turns to gambling to get rich quick , whereupon a streak of incredibly good luck convinces the Sanfords that their dreams might actually come true for once . 1164---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Sonny Jim Gaines appears as Bottom Of The Deck Dan . Skip Cunningham makes an appearance as Marvin , and Prince C . Spencer appears as a messenger . 1165---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Strange Bedfellows was the 80th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of Season Four , it first aired January 31 , 1975 . 1166---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In this spoof of Let is Make a Deal , Fred , Grady and Bubba appear as contestants on Wheel and Deal , hoping to win a new car as a birthday present for Lamont . 1167---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In this spoof of the popular daytime giveaway game show Let is Make a Deal , Fred and his pals Grady and Bubba attend a taping of the TV game fest Wheel and Deal . Dressed respectively as a fairy , a gorilla , and a Viking , our three heroes rack up a number of impressive and expensive prizes at least until Fred decides to gamble it all on What is behind Curtain Number Two . What happens next profoundly affects the outcome of Lamont 's Demond Wilson birthday party . John Barbour makes a guest appearance as the Game Show host . 1168---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Members of the Wedding was the 47th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the ninth episode of the ' third season , it first aired November 9 , 1973 . 1169---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Donna are to be married on Sunday , but Lamont , who still does not approve of their relationship and impending nuptials , plots to put them asunder before the Lord joins them together by inviting to the wedding his Aunt Esther and the rest of Fred 's irascible in laws . 1170---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Merger was the 76th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 14th episode of Season Four , it first aired December 20 , 1974 . 1171---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tired of the bickering between Fred and neighbor and rival junk dealer Julio , Lamont gets Julio and Fred , though reluctantly , to agree to merge their competing junkyards and bank on business booming after those people broadcast a television commercial which was to be shot by a film class director teacher at the nearby community college Danny Wells , until chaos ensues in the shoofing of it 1172---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Oddfather was the landmark 100th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 13th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on January 2 , 1976 . 1173---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is wounded while witnessing a mob hit and is hospitalized under police protection until the man can identify Mr . Big . 1174---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred is really put on the spot when the man witnesses a bungled gangland slaying attempt . For a while , Fred basks in the likelihood that the man will earn a 25 , 000 dollar reward for identifying the would be assassin of a one Johnny Popcorn when the man and Donna were coming out of the local movie theatre . Unfortunately , the gunman , Daniel Tracy , who is notoriusly known as Mr . Big , has decided to add Fred to his hit list , generously prepared to knock off two for the price of one . When Fred , who seems initally to basking in the luxury of recuparting from a sore foot in his hospital room , which is all paid for by the LAPD whose assigned officers seem to be waiting on him at his beck and call is given a chain letter message from Mr . Big telling him to forget all that the man saw , the man , fearing for his life and for loved ones Donna , and Lamont , who was out of town with Rollo , has his fears cemented even further , which began almost as soon as the police , Donna , and Esther visit him , as a banana which the police got for him explodes as his throws it in a nearby wastebasket , and machine gun fire erupts after Donna closes the window curtains 1175---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When the Police Commisioner arrives with TV news reporter Lyle Martinson , and then when the Commisioner brings Mr . Big in for Fred to identify him , the man conveniently forgets everything the man saw , which foils the cops attempts to indict Daniel Tracy . When Esther steps up and identifies Tracy as the man who robbed our store and wounded my husband Woodrow , the Commissioner declares that Esther , by swearing of her testimony on a Bible is safe , which dashes Fred 's hopes of collecting on the reward money , which then goes to Esther and Woodrow . 1176---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Roy Stuart makes a third and final and final guest appearance as news reporter Lyle Martinson , his 2nd appearance in the role . Gloria Delaney appears as a Nurse Mob MollPaul Harris appears as Daniel Mr . Big Tracy , and Dick makes a second appearance as the LAPD Police Commissioner . 1177---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Older Woman was the 85th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 23rd episode of Season Four , it first aired March 7 , 1975 . 1178---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tired of Lamont telling him he is a loser at cards , Fred and his professional gambler friend play a prank on Lamont and his poker pals . But will Fred be left holding the dead man 's hand 1179---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Surprised that the man and his son Lamont have not had an argument for days , Fred Redd Foxx concludes that Lamont must be in love again . Sure enough , Lamont is head over heels over a woman named Grace Kim Hamilton , in her 2nd and final guest appearance , who happens to be several years older than the man . To teach Lamont a lesson about dating older women , Fred starts squiring Grady 's cousin 's grandmother Mabel 1180---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Kathryn Jackson makes the first of two guest appearances as Mabel , and Lillian Randolph appears as a customer , and Brenda Sutton also appears as Louise , Grace 's daughter . 1181---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Olympics was the 98th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 11th episode of Season Five , it first aired December 5 , 1975 . 1182---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Jealous of Donna 's athletic new boyfriend , Fred begins training so the man can challenge him in the Senior Olympics . 1183---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Can it be Fred Sanford , a man constitutionally unwilling to perform any form of physical exertion , is about to compete in the Senior Olympics Yes , it is true and it is all because Fred does not want to lose his erstwhile fiance Donna Harris Lynn Hamilton to venerable but virile athlete Lou Turner Percy Rodrigues . 1184---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Over the Hill Gag was the 86th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 24th episode of Season Four , it first aired March 14 , 1975 . 1185---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont misunderstands the doctor and believes Fred has only six months to live and lavishes love and kindness upon him . Fred 's content to ride the gravy train , though it may land him in the soup . 1186---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont misunderstands the doctor and believes Fred has only six months to live and lavished love and kindness upon him . Fred 's content to ride the gravy train , though it may land him in the soup . 1187---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Keene Curtis makes a guest appearance as Doctor Goodman , and Odessa Cleveland appears as Audrey , Doctor Goodman 's nurse and a girlfriend of Lamont , Dick Bass as a messenger , Carol Jean Owens as a Lady in the Doctor 's office . Pat Morita also appears as Ah Chew in the episode . 1188---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Party Crasher was the 56th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of the ' third season , it first aired February 8 , 1974 . 1189---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont and Rollo do not want to invite fuddy duddy Fred to their party with a pair of live wire women , Angel Angela Elayne Gibbs and Della Della Thomas from Detroit . When things get off to bad start , in that the girls disprove of the fancy Beaujolais wine those people prefer Ripple , refreshments such as potato chips and peanuts those people prefer Onion Stew , Fred pops up , with exactly what the doctor ordered , with the Onion Stew and Ripple at least for the girls 1190---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont and Rollo , who are left out in the cold , seeing that old fuddy duddy Fred wins over the live wire girls instead of them , those people instead opt to use the two tickets for the Midnight Cruise up Catalina , which those people tried to give to Fred when those people were trying to use the Sanfords residence to entertain Angel and Della in the first place 1191---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Piano Movers was the fourteenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the final episode of the ' first season , it premiered April 14 , 1972 . The episode Based on The Piano by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1192---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It is putting the match to the powder keg when rough and tumble Fred and Lamont are engaged to remove a piano from the lavish Beverly Hills apartment of a cultured antiques collector Lester Fletcher . Lamont is dedicated to the getting the job done , but Fred spends most of his time snooping around the man 's apartment and making wisecracks about the possibility that the man might be a homosexual . The man , who keeps walking in and out of the apartment , takes pity on Fred who , from his point of view , seems to be doing all the work . Finally , when the piano becomes wedged in the front door , and a policeman Rick Hurst alerts the Sanfords that those people have to move the truck which was parked in a no parking zone , Lamont gets fed up with the man 's negative attitude and decides to leave it there . 1193---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Puerto Ricans Are Coming was the 22nd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the eighth episode of the ' second season , it premiered November 10 , 1972 . 1194---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's fighting mad to find that his new neighbor , Julio Fuentes , is a Puerto Rican man from New York City with a pet goat named Chico When the man tries to have the Health Dept . Inspector , Mr . Watkins Larry J . Blake to give Julio a citation , if not evict him , for safety violations , things backfire on him miserably when Julio gets a good citation , a commendation for the way the man fixed up his home and residence from the city Fred , on the other hand , gets cited for numerous health and safety violations Even more upset , Fred frustratingly exclaims , This place has a strong foundation No faulty wiring the person find a better place like this nowhere in the world But , when the man slams the front door shut on the way into the house the little roof above the door collapses , hilariously Fred and Julio managed to patch things up ; well , uh , sort of , when Julio , as a greeting , brings a hot , delicious looking pot of spareribs , mustard greens , and candied sweet potatoes , only to have Chico , the goat , escape , only to walk in the ' living room , and start eating out of the pot of the dish 1195---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Return of The Barracuda was the thirteenth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered April 7 , 1972 . 1196---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lynn Hamilton returns as Donna Harris , the nurse and widow who intends to become the next Mrs . Fred Sanford . Lamont again objects to the notion of Fred entering into matrimony with the barracuda . Fred and Donna , after the first meeting with Lamont , were able to patch things up after a falling out . When the three eat dinner together at the Sanford home as part of a double dinner date , Lamont tries to break up his dad 's romance by threatening to get married himself to his dateSheila Beverly Hope Atkinson . When the four manage to fight and argue constantly , in the process getting at each other is throats , the women both storm out of the junkyard , while Fred and Lamont finish the dinner together , with the attitude of Good Riddings 1197---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Reverend Sanford was the 130th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 19th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on February 11 , 1977 . 1198---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To avoid paying taxes , Fred buys a mail order clergy ordination and transforms his home into the Chapel on the Junkpile for the church of the Seventh Day Junkists 1199---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To avoid paying taxes , Fred invests ten dollars in a close cover before striking divinity school headed by a clever con man . Inveigling Uncle Woodrow Raymond Allen and Bubba Don Bexley in his scheme , the Reverend Sanford sets up his own tax exempt ministry , worshipping at the altar of the new religion known as Junkism . Suffice it to say that the scheme heads down the same road paved with good intentions . 1200---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Comedian Sammy Shore appears as Bishop Lovelace . Freeman King makes a guest appearance as LAPD Officer King , and Darrow Igus appears as Walter , a lawyer . 1201---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanford Arms was the 91st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fourth episode of Season Five , it first aired October 3 , 1975 . 1202---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio 's former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank . 1203---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Ever in pursuit of extra money , Fred and Lamont take over management of a rooming house , which was Julio 's old home , which those people rename the Sanford Arms . At first , our heroes intend to be discriminating in their clientele ; after all , those people cannot just let anybody rent a room . But when tenants fail to materialize and the debt begins mounting , the Sanfords are forced to rethink their screening process and as a result , those people open their doors to a fugitive from justice . Nancy Kulp makes her first series appearance as May Hopkins , the mother of semi regular Officer Hoppy Hopkins Howard T . Platt . Arnold Johnson makes his series debut appearance as George Hutch Hutton , an ex convict who later befriends Fred and Lamont . 1204---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanford Arms was a spin off of the popular NBC sitcom Sanford and Son which debuted in October 1977 on NBC TV . It is based around the Sanford Arms boarding house , which Fred G . Sanford Redd Foxx bought in the fifth season of Sanford and Son . In The Sanford Arms , Fred 's friend Phil Wheeler Theodore Wilson bought Fred 's business and his boarding house , and attempted to turn the Sanford Arms into a hotel . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121025133444/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9a/Sanford-Arms-TVTitle.png/300px-Sanford-Arms-TVTitle.png 1205---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com After six seasons , Redd Foxx left Sanford and Son to star in a variety show for ABC . The producers planned to continue the series with Demond Wilson still in his role as Lamont , but Wilson left the project in a dispute over his expected salary as the star of the series . The producers decided to continue the project with a new character . Norman Lear stepped down from his position as executive producer but stayed on as a consultant . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121025133444/sanfordandson/images/thumb/9/9a/Sanford-Arms-TVTitle.png/300px-Sanford-Arms-TVTitle.png 1206---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The new lead character was Phil Wheeler Theodore Wilson , a widower and old Army buddy of Fred Sanford 's . It was explained that Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona and those people sold their property to Phil . Phil now lived in the ' old house with his two teenage children , Angie and Nat . The primary setting of the series , however , was the rooming house next door which Fred named The Sanford Arms . Fred and Lamont bought the house in the penultimate season of the original series . The new series focused on Phil 's attempts to turn the rooming house into a successful hotel . 1207---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Most of the recurring characters from the original series also starred in this series . Grady Whitman Mayo was now married to his girlfriend Dolly who appeared in an episode of the original series . Bubba Bexley played by Don Bexley now worked at the Sanford Arms as a bellboy and a maintenance man . Aunt Esther LaWanda Page was left in charge helping Phil and collecting the mortgage payments . Rounding out the cast of characters was Phil 's girlfriend , Jeannie . 1208---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The attempt to continue a popular series without its two main stars turned out to be a failure . The Nielsen ratings were dismal and the show was cancelled after four episodes . When Redd Foxx returned to TV as Fred Sanford in the 1980 1981 spinoff series Sanford , the events of Sanford Arms were completely ignored . 1209---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Shootout was the 23rd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the ninth episode of the ' second season , it premiered November 17 , 1972 . 1210---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fooling around with his son Lamont 's newly and expensively purchased antique Revolutionary War era rifle , Fred Redd Foxx accidently fires the weapon into the window of his neighbor , Goldstein Leo Fuchs Ensuing circumstances convince Fred that the man has killed his neighbor , and this after the whole neighborhood witnessed him arguing with the man . There is nothing to do but destroy the extremely valuable evidence . 1211---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note This is first episode which Howard T . Platt appears as Officer Hoppy Hopkins , replacing Noam Pitlik and his character Officer Swanny Swanhouser as the new partner of LAPD Officer Smitty Smith Hal Williams . 1212---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Stakeout was the 116th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fifth episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on October 8 , 1976 . 1213---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The police are looking for a fence named Alex Hacker who is been spotted coming in and out of The Sanford Arms . those people use Fred and Lamont 's home to stakeout the Arms . Meanwhile , Fred has a crush on a new lady tenant . 1214---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Alex Hacker , a criminal wanted for fencing stolen goods , and whom the police was trying to stakeout in the Sanford Arms . Charles Weldon appeared in this episode in the dual role Hacker and as his alias , Miss Wallace , whom Hacker was appearing in drag as , Fred gets completely smitten with her him , not knowing that Miss Wallace is really Hacker in hiding When a reward of $ 1 , 000 is promised to whoever helps capture Hacker , Bubba beats Fred to the reward by also appearing in drag at a department store 1215---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Rozelle Gayle makes an second and final series appearance as Sgt . Perkins . 1216---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Stand Ins was the 78th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of Season Four , it first aired January 17 , 1975 . 1217---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanfords welcome Fred 's old buddies Bowlegs Scatman Crothers and Al Al Williams , who are bringing their song , dance and comedy act , The Zanies to an LA nightclub . When Al hurts his back , however , Fred and Lamont step up and step out in this revue episode highlighted by Billy Eckstine singing Jelly Jelly , only to get rejected by the nightclub owner , Mr . Stone Joe Silver tells to Forget about singing Back to The Zanies , When Stone angrily asks , Where is the other Zanie this person paid for song and dance , so where is the dance part Fred who goes to meet Stone with Bowlegs , trying to divert his anger , and after those people reassure Stone that there would be a dancing Zanie , which turned out to be the reluctant Lamont , would do his trademark knockneed walk , which made Stone laugh heartily , and say , Look He is walking He is Walking 1218---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Stand Ins was the 78th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of Season Four , it first aired January 17 , 1975 . 1219---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Sanfords welcome Fred 's old buddies Bowlegs Scatman Crothers and Al Al Williams , who are bringing their song , dance and comedy act , The Zanies to an LA nightclub . When Al hurts his back , however , Fred and Lamont step up and step out in this revue episode highlighted by Billy Eckstine singing Jelly Jelly , only to get rejected by the nightclub owner , Mr . Stone Joe Silver tells to Forget about singing Back to The Zanies , When Stone angrily asks , Where is the other Zanie this person paid for song and dance , so where is the dance part Fred who goes to meet Stone with Bowlegs , trying to divert his anger , and after those people reassure Stone that there would be a dancing Zanie , which turned out to be the reluctant Lamont , would do his trademark knockneed walk , which made Stone laugh heartily , and say , Look He is walking He is Walking 1220---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Stung was the 84th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 22nd episode of Season Four , it first aired February 28 , 1975 . 1221---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tired of Lamont telling him he is a loser at cards , Fred and his professional gambler friend play a prank on Lamont and his poker pals . But will Fred be left holding the dead man 's hand 1222---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Excluded from his son Lamont 's weekly poker game , Fred gets even by arranging for his pal Al Banks Richard Ward , a professional gambler , to sit in for a few hands . Just as Fred planned , Al wins all the ' money but then neglects to give it back . The result Fred and Lamont are now at the mercy of a very big , tall and goonish tough guy named Arms Crowder George Reynolds , who is a very , very , this person mean , very sore loser Fritzi Burr makes another guest appearance as Miss Copley , a employment referral office worker . 1223---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Suitcase Case was the twelfth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered March 31 , 1972 . 1224---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont 's daily haul of junk includes a tattered briefcase stuffed with stolen cash . Will Fred and Lamont decide whether to keep it or turn it over to the police before the crook it belongs to comes looking for it Anyhow , by the time they have dismissed their fears , a tough looking yegg Gabriel Dell shows up at their doorstep , gun in hand to recollect his ill gotten booty over $ 70 , 000 before the cops , Swanny and Smitty , who dropped by to check on Fred and Lamont after those people conversed with the nervous Fred while at gunpoint . This is the episode sequence in which Fred talks with his eyes , in which the man is able to alert Swanny and Smitty of the bank robber 1225---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Surprise Party was the 63rd overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the season 4 premiere episode , it first aired September 13 , 1974 . 1226---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred returns from St . Louis to a welcome home surprise party . Lamont must exercise diplomacy and peacekeeping after the man bruises the feelings of both Fred and Grady , who both got the impression that Lamont thought that the other could do a better job managing the junkyard and looking after him . 1227---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The TV Addict was the 104th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 17th episode of Season Five , it first aired on NBC TV on January 30 , 1976 . 1228---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred 's lifestyle of too much TV and too little exercise has Lamont concerned for his father 's health , so Fred undergoes hypnotism to break his addiction to television , 1229---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont thinks Fred is watching too much TV . Fred disagrees , sparking a violent quarrel . Hoping to end his dad 's TV addiction once and for all , Lamont arranges for Fred to be hypnotized From now on , whenever the man has the urge to be a couch potato , Fred will imagine that his TV set is overheating . Originally scheduled to air on January 16 , 1976 , this episode was bumped forward to January 30 . 1230---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Graham Jarvis makes a guest appearance as Dr . Simmons . 1231---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Way to Lamont 's Heart was the 61st episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 23rd episode of the ' third season , it first aired March 15 , 1974 . 1232---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont 's looking for a little , but new girlfriend Judy Judy Pace is looking to settle down . When Lamont makes an excuse for not marrying her , telling Judy the man cannot get married because , as the man tells her , his godfather Grady would disapprove , kick him out of the house , and beat the hell out of him Judy sets to winning Grady 's approval with a smile and a smoked pork butt , which sets Grady jumping to conclusions . 1233---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Will was the 131st overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 20th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on February 18 , 1977 . 1234---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred suffers amnesia after being bludgeoned with Esther 's silver plated Bible . Having looked death in the face , Fred wants to get his affairs in order and so prepares his last will and testament and summons his friends for its reading . 1235---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com It is nothing new when Aunt Esther LaWanda Page clobbers Fred Redd Foxx with her purse . This time , however , the weapon is a bit heavier , thanks to Esther 's new silver plated Bible . Convinced the man has been dealt a fatal blow , Fred gathers his family and friends together , intending to divulge the contents of his will . 1236---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Julius Harris appears as Fred 's doctor . Eric Laneuville makes a final series appearance as Daniel Anderson . 1237---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com The Winning Ticket was the 118th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the seventh episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on November 5 , 1976 . 1238---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A couple of con men sucker Fred into running a rigged lucky number contest for which the crooks secretly hold the winning ticket . 1239---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A pair of shapsters persuade Fred to invest in a shady sales promotion . The plan is to hold a fund raising sweepstakes raffle without a winning ticket . The scheme backfires when a winner unexpectedly shows up , leaving Fred holding the bag . It is up to friends Bubba , Don Bexley and an unwitting Aunt Esther LaWanda Page to bail our hero out . 1240---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note Danny Dayton makes a guest appearance as Timmy The Sign Man . Danny Wells makes a second and final series appearance as Danny Taylor . 1241---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Theodore Teddy Wilson December 10 , 1943 July 21 , 1991 first appeared as the delivery agent that delivers Fred a telegram inviting him to a bogus junk man convention in Hawaii in Episode one of Hawaiian Connection aired on September 24 , 1976 . Later , the man appeared as Phil Wheeler , an old army buddy of Fred 's who bought the Sanford and Son Salvage and the Sanford Arms , in the failed 1977 NBC TV spinoff comedy series titled The Sanford Arms . Teddy was probably best known for his recurring role as Sweet Daddy Williams on the CBS TV sitcom series Good Times . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1242---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Born in New York City , Teddy made his acting debut in the blaxploitation film , Cotton Comes to Harlem , along with Sanford and Son series star Redd Foxx . the man would go on to appear in several blaxploitation films of the era . In addition to films , Wilson also landed roles in several popular television shows . Wilson portrayed Earl the postman and barber in the series That is My Mama . the man also played several characters in the 1970s sitcom What is Happening , including the role of Al Dunbar in a popular two part episode . In the conclusion of the two part episode , Wilson 's character gets arrested for bootlegging a Doobie Brothers concert . 1243---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1977 , Wilson starred in the short lived sitcom The Sanford Arms , a spin off of Sanford and Son . After the series was canceled , Wilson made various guest appearances in episodes of The White Shadow the man also wrote a 1980 episode , Enos , give me a Break , The Golden Girls , and What is Happening Now . In 1986 , the man had a recurring role on another short lived series , The Redd Foxx Show . 1244---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Wilson continued to work steadily throughout the late 1980s and 1990s appearing in Alien Nation , CBS TV 's Dallas , ABC TV 's Family Matters , Tales from the Crypt , Gabriel 's Fire , Mama 's Family , and NBC TV 's Quantum Leap . the man was also featured in films The Hunter 1980 , Blake ' A Fine Mess 1986 and That ; s Life 1986 . Wilson made his last onscreen appearance in Blood in Blood Out , a 1993 crime drama series released after his death . 1245---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1980 , Wilson married actress Joan Pringle . The couple had two children . On July 21 , 1991 , Wilson died of a stroke at the age of 47 in Los Angeles , California . 1246---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com There will Be Some Changes Made was the 67th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fifth episode of Season Four , it first aired October 11 , 1974 . 1247---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont moves out after a fight with Fred , sick and tired of Fred 's Redd Foxx grouchiness in general and hostility toward other minority groups in particular . Hoping to change his dad 's attitude , Lamont invites a sensitivity group to the Sanford house . Fred lures his son back by reluctantly agreeing to allow Lamont 's eccentric encounter group to hold its meeting in their home . This episode introduces the recurring character Ah Chew Pat Morita . 1248---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This Land is Whose Land was the 54th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 16th episode of the ' third season , it first aired January 18 , 1974 . 1249---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred , petty and prejudiced against his Puerto Rican neighbor Julio , hires a surveyor Rodolfo Hoyos Jr . to mark the legal property line to ensure Julio keeps his stuff off the Sanford side . When Fred and Lamont get the surveyors results , and finds out actual the property line of Julio 's residence extends much further into what those people all thought was the Sanfords property , Fred , in a conniving means to deceive Julio , attempts to move the markers back to what those people thought was the original property lines . But , much to Fred 's chagrin , Lamont tells Julio the news of surveyor , and those people move the markers back to the new survey points ; to catch Fred in his tracks and to stop him from moving the lines again , Lamont moves the truck inside of the Sanford line , pinning him against the front door Eventually two arguing parties , Fred and Julio , work out a compromise . 1250---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com This Little TV Went to Market was the 43rd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fifth episode of the ' third season , it first aired October 12 , 1973 . 1251---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the market for a color television , Lamont wants to purchase a new TV on credit , but Fred intends to spend no more than 50 dollars on a used set . Luck of luck , Fred finds just such a bargain at Guy 's Groovy Grab Bag , a paneling truck which fences stolen goods . Alas , Fred has unwittingly purchased a stolen TV and it was stolen from his pal Grady Whitman Mayo , in his first series appearance , who also bought it from the shady Grab Bag When Fred tries to sell the TV to Julio , who was looking to gat a new TV , but afford one , the man thinks that the man broke even ; but when Grady bring the police , Officers Hoppy and Jonesy back to complain about the hot TV set , neither Fred , Grady , or Julio are able to keep it ; turns out the set was stolen from an establishment called Dan The TV Man , so Fred , who sold the set to unsuspecting Julio , is forced by Lamont to give him back his $ 50 , Grady is also out of $ 50 1252---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tooth or Consequences was the nineteenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the fifth episode of the ' second season , it premiered October 13 , 1972 . 1253---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Rather than shell out good money at the dentist 's office , Fred Sanford Redd Foxx tries hypnosis and then a homespun remedy , an asiphicity bag that stinks up the living room , to cure a toothache . When this inevitably fails , Insistent Lamont Demond Wilson orders Fred to pay a visit to a free dental clinic . But even here , Fred refuses to plant himself in the chair unless the man is taken care of by a white dentist ; the man even goes as far as saying A brother black man is fine for a drinking buddy , but this person want a white dentist for my tooth White dentist , please The black dentist the man rejects then sends in a white dentist Hal England , who is actually an inexperienced young intern . Turns out that the dentist Fred refuses , Dr . Rogers , who is the head of oral surgery at the clinic Sid McCoy , is the one who the man wanted to see anyway 1254---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tower Power was the 74th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 12th episode of Season Four , it first aired December 6 , 1974 . 1255---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A visit to a gallery of abstract art inspires Fred to create his magnum opus a towering heap of junk Fred vows to raise the aesthetic level of his own neighborhood , and to leave a lasting legacy . The result is a brand new Watts Tower , constructed out of the junk in Fred 's backyard . When harshly critiqued by Lamont 's new girlfriend Sandra Janee Michelle , who is an art critic , Crushed when told by Sandra , who tries to break the news of her critique gently , to him , Fred dejectedly scraps the project , demolishing it completely ; Lamont consoles Fred , reminding him that the man , his only child , is his greatest legacy . 1256---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A Turkey Dinner was what Fred was preparing for his old buddy , a nightclub performer named Bowlegs Scatman Crothers and his sidekick in his Zanies act , a dancer named Al visited the Sanford residence in the Season 5 episode of Sanford and Son titled The Stand Ins . When Bowlegs reminded Fred that his favorite food was prime rib , Fred hurried and made that , too , prompting Al , Bowlegs 's performing sidekick , to say That is the first time this person had prime rib and turkey for dessert http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519132525/sanfordandson/images/thumb/4/43/Turkey_dinner.jpg/275px-Turkey_dinner.jpg 1257---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Tyranny , Thy Name Is Grady was the 59th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 21st episode of the ' third season , it first aired March 1 , 1974 . 1258---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com With Fred away in St . Louis , Grady is put in charge of the house . Watching over the Sanford home while Fred is out of town , Grady has vowed to honor Fred 's requests to the letter . At first , this does not bother Lamont , especially since Grady bars Aunt Esther and her church lady pals from congregating in the living room But when Grady refuses to allow Lamont to have any women over lest the man indulge in an orgy , the younger Sanford blows his stack Responding to Lamont 's locking him out of the house while the man and Rollo get set to get down with the two girls , Grady domineeringly makes his presence known by enlisting Aunt Esther to sneak through and spoiling Lamont and Rollo 's plans 1259---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Watts Side Story was the 32nd episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of the ' second season , it premiered January 26 , 1973 . 1260---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont just met a girl named Maria Migdia Chinea , but she is Julio 's Puerto Rican sister , and the possibility of an interracial romance ruffles the feathers of both Fred and Mrs . Fuentes Alma Beltran . 1261---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com these people Were Robbed was the sixth episode of Sanford and Son . It premiered February 11 , 1972 . Based on T . B . or Not T . B . by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1262---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com To cover up his careless destruction of Lamont 's prized porcelain and glass collection , Fred stages a fake robbery where the man then claims that their home was burglarized . Naturally , Lamont Demond Wilson calls the cops ; when their friends , LAPD officers Smitty Hal Williams and Swanny Noam Pitlik arrive , Fred makes a tall tale taller by improvising an account of his heroics when confronted by the thieves . Eventually , Lamont learns the truth , and craftily arranges for Fred to be hoist on his own petard . ased on Robbery with Violence by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1263---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com When John Comes Marching Home was the 129th overall episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 18th episode of Season Six , it first aired on NBC TV on February 4 , 1977 . 1264---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Lamont 's engagement to Janet is jeopardized by the unexpected return of her ex husband John . 1265---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Having already announced their engagement , Lamont and Janet Marlene Clark eagerly make plans for their wedding . Then , out of nowhere , Janet 's ex husband John appears . From all outward appearances , John wants to kiss and make up with Janet but it turns out that the man may have a hidden agenda . 1266---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Note James A . Watson appears as US ArmySgt . John Lawson . Frank Nelson makes his final guest appearance as a waiter . 1267---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Whiplash was the sixteenth episode of Sanford and Son . Also the second episode of the ' second season , it premiered September 22 , 1972 . The episode was written by Allan Katz and Don Reo along with Steptoe and Son series creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . 1268---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Fred emerges from a minor traffic accident with nary a scratch . This is not quite good enough for Fred 's buddy Bubba Don Bexley , who never met a scam the man did not like . Fred is fine following his fender bender with a Cadillac , but Bubba convinces him to claim whiplash and then lay claim to a gold mine in monetary damages ; Fred even consults quack Doctor and part time postal clerk Dr . Caldwell Davis Roberts . It all ends to no avail as the other driver had stolen the Cadillac , dashing Fred 's monetary compensation hopes 1269---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Whitman B . Mayo November 15 , 1930 May 22 , 2001 was an American actor best known for his character Grady Wilson on the 1970s NBC TV series Sanford and Son . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1270---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Whitman was born in New York City , and grew up in Harlem and Queens , New York . At the age of seventeen the man moved with his family to Southern California and from there entered the United States Army , serving from 1951 to 1953 . Upon release , the man studied at Chaffey College , Los Angeles City College , and UCLA . During this time the man began acting in small parts , while waiting tables , working in the vineyards and as a probation officer as well as a variety of other small jobs . the man also spent seven years as a counselor to delinquent boys . 1271---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the late 1960s , while working for the New Lafayette Theater , Norman Lear offered Mayo a part as Grady Wilson on Sanford and Son . His portrayal of Grady Wilson caught on and the man lasted through the entire duration of the show . the man opened a travel agency in Inglewood , California . Mayo would late star in the unsuccessful spin off , Grady , in which his character moved in with his daughter and her husband in Beverly Hills . After the cancellation of Grady after only ten episodes in 1976 , Mayo and the Grady character returned to Sanford and Son , where those people remained for the duration of the serie 's run until ' cancellation by NBC in 1977 . Mayo also reprised the role in the unsuccessful 1977 NBC TV spinoff series Sanford Arms opposite actor Theodore Wilson , as well as for two episodes of Sanford , another NBC TV Sanford and Son spinoff , this time opposite Redd Foxx and actor Dennis Burkley , in 1981 . 1272---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Also in the late 1970s , Mayo appeared on the Los Angeles children 's television program That is Cat , offering sage advice in a sweet manner to the main character , Alice . 1273---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In 1996 , Late Night with Conan spent several weeks trying to find Grady , and have Mayo appear on the show . The show aired a mock episode of Unsolved Mysteries . On February 8 , 1996 , Mayo finally appeared on Late Night , to much fanfare . Whitman also played a role in the 1996 film The Cape as Sweets , the owner of Moonshot Bar and Grill . 1274---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Although best known for his television work , Mayo made several film appearances , including The Main Event with Barbra Streisand , D . C . Cab , Boyz n the Hood and Waterproof with Burt Reynolds . Mayo also appeared as Reverend Banyon on the Black Entertainment Television BET TV Movie Boycott in 2001 and in an episode of Martin . the man also taught drama at Clark Atlanta University and hosted Liars and Legends on Turner South . 1275---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Whitman died of a heart attack at Atlanta 's Grady Memorial Hospital . the man had resided in Atlanta 's Historic Collier Heights community , since 1994 and was survived by his children and by his third wife , Gail Mayo . 1276---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com His son , Rahn Mayo , is currently a member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing House District 91 . the man is also survived by his daughters Tanya Mayo , Suni Mayo Simpson , and daughter Pangi Raysor and son Jon Jo Raysor of Brooklyn , New York . 1277---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Will the Real Fred Sanford Please Do Something was the 58th episode of Sanford and Son . Also the 20th episode of the ' third season , it first aired February 22 , 1974 . 1278---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A confused woman Fred wooed over one too many boilermakers named Betty Vivian Bonnell comes looking to take him up on his marriage proposal Betty is bent on getting satisfaction and skeptical of Grady 's insisting he is not Fred . When Grady attempts jog her memory and remind her of who Fred really is by giving her a few drinks , it backfires when the woman leaves , gassed , from the Sanford home and returns with the cops Hoppy and smitty ; the woman then gets so confused the woman begins mistaking everyone . Grady , Lamont , and the cops , Smitty , and then even Hoppy , who is of the Caucasian persuasion as the man tells her , for the out of town Fred 1279---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com William Hansen March 2 , 1911 June 23 , 1975 appeared as the pawn shop owner and pawnbroker in the Sabford and Son episode titled Have Gun , Will Sell in Season 2 . William was a veteran actor , active in film , television , and the stage . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1280---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com A founding member of The Actors Studio in New York , Hansen originated the role of Mr . Lundie in the original Broadway production of Brigadoon in 1947 and is best known to film audiences for the role of Secretary Swensen in Fail Safe . 1281---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Williswas a career criminal and the co conspirator and mastermind of a robbery of $ 1 , 000 , 000 in diamonds from a Honolulu bank in the three sixth season episodes ofSanford and Sontitled The Hawaiian Connection . In the three episodes , Willis , along with co conspirator and chief mastermind Davis Sheldon Leonard , accompanied by pretty red headed moll Gladys Barbara Rhoades conspire to dupe the Sanfords into smuggling diamonds off of the island by sending a mock invitation to a fake Junkman 's convention , sending them to plane tickets to the island . Willis is played by veteran TV actor Greg Morris , who is well known to TV viewing audiences as Barney Collier on the 1966 1973 CBS TV series Mission Impossible . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/275px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1282---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Willis , who grew up in the Watts neighborhood where the Sanfords live , and is well accquainted with them ; when questioned by Davis about the possibility of Fred being the perfect stooge in their devious diamond smuggling plot , Willis sarcastically says His name is Fred G . Sanford , The G stands for Goonybird 1283---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Winston Edwards was the brother ofEvelyn Eve girlfriend in Season 1 of theSanfordTV series during the show 's first season . The part of Winston was played by veteran stage film and TV actor and voice over performer Percy Rodrigues , who also appeared in the Season 5 Sanford and Son episode titled The Olympics , where the man appears as Lou Turner , a patient of Fred 's then girlfriend Donna who vies for her affections with Fred . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1284---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com In the opening episode of Sanford , Winston and Fred immediately did not exactly hit it off ; the snobbish Winston , who visited Eve to borrow a small loan of $ 1000 to replenish his depleted cash flow , laughed at the concept of Eve dating a common junk man such as , Junkford , which the man mistakenly calls Fred upon their greeting 1285---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Winston Moss is a television screenwriter . the man has written episodes such TV shows as The Flip Wilson Show , The Jeffersons , Love , American Style , That is My Mama , and What is Happening . the man also wrote 2 episodes of Sanford and Son , the episodes titled Once A Thief and A House is Not a Pool Room in Season 3 of the series , as well as the Sanford episode titled Cissy and the Nephew . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1286---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Woodrow Woody Anderson was Aunt Esther 's long suffering , prone to drink husband on the NBC TV sitcom series Sanford and Son . Woody owned a hardware store not far from the Sanford and Son Salvage Yard , and was generally a good natured soul who often hit the bottle to sometimes escape the rantings and ravings of Bible thumping , loudmouthed , sometimes domeneering religious wife Esther . Woody later repented of his boozing ways later in the series as both his and Esther 's characters were developed , even to the point where those people were able to adopt an orphaned teen son named Daniel , who was played by actor Eric Laneuville . The role of Woodrow was origianally played by veteran black actor and former black vaudeville entertainer DeForest Covan , who was replaced after one episode by Raymond Allen in 1973 , who then assumed the part for the rest of the show 's run . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1287---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Daniel Anderson was the one time Atheistic , wayward orphaned teen whom the Andersons , Woodrow Woody Anderson and Esther , adopt in season six . Played by Eric Laneuville , In the episode Aunt Esther Has a Baby Season 6 , episode 12 , Daniel almost risks being sent back to the adoption agency when the man steals a hammer from Woodrow 's hardware store , then reveals to Esther and Woodrow that the man did not believe in God , much to her chagrin , but still winds up getting adopted by the Andersons when Esther is able to forgive Daniel , and give him a reason to believe in a higher power again . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png 1288---sitcoms---sanfordandson.wikia.com Daniel also appears in the episode titled The Will Season 6 , episode 21 in season 6 . In the 1980 spinoff series Sanford , However , the very mention of his adoption is completely ignored , when another son , played by Clinton Derricks Carroll is introduced as Aunt Esther 's son Cliff Anderson . http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130513032644/sanfordandson/images/thumb/7/77/Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png/300px-Sanford_and_Son_retro_Wiki_Script.png