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Where is the '227' cast now? NBC's 'Today' show stopped off at '227' today during its Classic TV Families Reunion Week. While the address might not be immediately famili...

  • '227' Cast: Where Are They Now

  • Where is the '227' cast now? NBC's 'Today' show stopped off at '227' today during its Classic TV Families Reunion Week. While the address might not be immediately famili...
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There's a sad footnote to this trip down primetime memory lane: only a handful of the original stars of 'The Jeffersons' are still alive. But a look back at the chara...

  • Remembering Paul Benedict

  • "Memorial" is a word that we usually associate with the dead, but its etymological roots stem from a living process, the act of memory, recalling vital deeds and past as...
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How swinging is CBS's new summer series Swingtown? It's not swinging in the Sinatra-Rat Pack-ring-a-ding-ding way. No, this Swingtown is set in an era ten years later, s...

  • Swingtown -- An early look

  • How swinging is CBS's new summer series Swingtown? It's not swinging in the Sinatra-Rat Pack-ring-a-ding-ding way. No, this Swingtown is set in an era ten years later, s...
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You'll remember Evans from his role as Lionel Jefferson on All In The Family and the spinoff show The Jeffersons. He died of throat cancer last week in California. Besid...

  • Mike Evans dead at 57

  • You'll remember Evans from his role as Lionel Jefferson on All In The Family and the spinoff show The Jeffersons. He died of throat cancer last week in California. Besid...
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I took this quiz over at Mental Floss and scored 100%. You have to match the sitcom with the house/setting they show in the opening credits. By the way, I'm not bragging...

  • Do you know your sitcom homes?

  • I took this quiz over at Mental Floss and scored 100%. You have to match the sitcom with the house/setting they show in the opening credits. By the way, I'm not bragging...
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As we reported yesterday, Franklin Cover, best known as dorky white guy Tom Willis on The Jeffersons in the 1970s, passed away. His death made me ruminate on T...
SHOW DESCRIPTION

``We're moving on up, to the East Side, to a deee-luxe apartment in the sky ... .'' This spinoff from ``All in the Family'' is about literal upward mobility - African- American couple George and Louise Jefferson move into a swanky high-rise building. George is an obstreperous, often rude guy who thinks his wealth should get him anywhere he wants to go. His wife is more levelheaded and often cuts him down to size when his schemes go awry.