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Sanford and Son
Seasons on DVD
Sanford and Son Season 1
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After the runaway
success of their program All In The Family, the producing
team of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin took a cue from the
successful British sitcom Steptoe and Son in order to create
this smash vehicle for African-American comedian Redd Foxx.
Sanford and Son details the comedically endless
disagreements between Fred Sanford (Foxx), aging junkyard
owner, and his 34 year-old son Lamont (Demond Wilson).
Airing from 1972 to 1977, the show was NBC's most popular
program for four of its five seasons and earned four Emmy
nominations. This collection compiles all fourteen episodes
from the show's first season. |
Sanford and Son Season 2
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After the runaway
success of their program All In The Family, the producing team
of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin took a cue from the successful
British sitcom Steptoe and Son in order to create this smash
vehicle for African-American comedian Redd Foxx. Sanford and
Son details the comedically endless disagreements between Fred
Sanford (Foxx), aging junkyard owner, and his 34 year-old son
Lamont (Demond Wilson). Airing from 1972 to 1977, the show was
NBC's most popular program for four of its five seasons and
earned four Emmy nominations. This collection compiles all
twenty-four episodes from the show's second season. |
Sanford and Son Season 3
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After the runaway
success of their program All In The Family, the producing team
of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin took a cue from the successful
British sitcom Steptoe and Son in order to create this smash
vehicle for African-American comedian Redd Foxx. Sanford and
Son details the comedically endless disagreements between Fred
Sanford (Foxx), aging junkyard owner, and his 34 year-old son
Lamont (Demond Wilson). Airing from 1972 to 1977, the show was
NBC's most popular program for four of its five seasons and
earned four Emmy nominations. This collection compiles all
twenty-four episodes from the show's third season. |
Sanford and Son Season
4
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After the runaway
success of their program All In The Family, the producing team
of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin took a cue from the successful
British sitcom Steptoe and Son in order to create this smash
vehicle for African-American comedian Redd Foxx. Sanford and Son
details the comedically endless disagreements between Fred
Sanford (Foxx), aging junkyard owner, and his 34 year-old son
Lamont (Demond Wilson). Airing from 1972 to 1977, the show was
NBC's most popular program for four of its five seasons and
earned four Emmy nominations. This collection compiles all
twenty-four episodes from the show's fourth season. |
Sanford & Son Season 5
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The fifth season of
this sitcom starring Redd Foxx as the title character, Fred
Sanford, a 65 year old junk dealer who lives in the Watts
housing complex in LA with his grown son, Lamont. Lamont is a
reluctant partner in the business, always threatening to leave
but retained by Fred's feigned heart attacks; Fred, meanwhile,
is a crotchety fellow with a heart of gold, and both characters
are constantly coming up with get rich quick schemes that
consistently backfire. Other characters include the zealous Aunt
Esther Anderson, Fred's main squeeze Donna Harris, and various
friends and acquaintances of both father and son. This season
sees Donna and Fred discussing marriage while Esther gets fed up
with hers, and the Sanfords' new business venture, a boarding
house called the Sanford Arms, which also supplied the name and
premise of a spin-off of the show. |
Sanford and Son Season 6
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The final
season of the popular sitcom from the 1970s continues the
hilarity that was by this time well-established on the show.
Based on the British sitcom STEPTOE & SON, SANFORD & SON
was the first show created by Norman Lear that featured a
predominately African American cast. Lear would go on to
spearhead THE JEFFERSON and GOOD TIMES. Redd Foxx stars here as
Fred Sanford, a struggling junk dealer living in LA's Watts
community; he runs the shop with his loving but reluctant son,
Lamont (Demond Wilson), who is always threatening to leave the
business. Aunt Esther visits frequently, toting her Bible and
her alcoholic husband, Woody. Donna Harris (Lynn Hamilton) is
Fred's steady girlfriend, who is a nurse and a voice of reason
in the somewhat chaotic life of the Sanfords. In season six,
Fred inadvertently becomes a jewel smuggler, attempts to get his
name in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, and enters a Redd
Foxx lookalike contest. Episodes include "Here Today, Gone
Today," "Sanford and Gong," "Fred the
Activist," and "School Daze." |
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