Sanford & Son

Pros: Funny, Laughs, Funny, More Laughs
Cons: Went off the air

Who would have thought that a show about a junk yard would make it this big on TV. Norman Lear did and was he ever right! Lear was responsible for the hugely successful comedy All in The Family. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first viewed this...

Pros: Funny, well written, original for it's time.
Cons: Two dimensional characters.

When I sit around and watch these "retro" television networks I often find myself bored senseless. Hours of Laverne and Shirly, Taxi, and Mork & Mindy leave me wishing for our modern Friends and the like. What keeps me turning back to...

Pros: biting wit, adult entertainment
Cons: not for children

Sanford & Son was a sitcom with a biting edge. Set in Watts, in South Central Los Angeles, in the early 1970s. The show's two main characters were Fred G. Sanford [that's S-A-N-F-O-R-D period!] a junk man, although we hardly ever see him sell...

Pros: laughs and comedic acting skills
Cons: not for the little ones

I guess I never thought a sitcom about owners of a junkyard would ever make it to the TV screen. But was this ever pulled off in a big way with Sanford and Son. Redd Foxx played Fred Sanford with such polished style and treated his son like he was really...

Pros: Hilarious
Cons: Hard to Find Reruns

"You big dummy" was one of the many "affectionate" names that Sanford had for his son. This is one of my all time favorite shows. Redd Foxx was a comedic genius and he really shows it on this program. I watched reruns of S&S...

Pros: Funny,clean entertainment
Cons: none

First of all Sanford and Son is just one of the many good shows that air on TVLD.It is set in 1970's Watts district of Los Angeles.It is about a father and son who live in Watts eaking out a living in the junk buisness.For the most part it is simply a...

Pros: Greatest black sitcom of all time...
Cons: Why don't they make them like they used to?

At a time when Norman Lear was exploiting and enlightening during America's quest for racial parity in the 70's, "Sanford and Son" was probably his finest effort in bringing the essence of lower-class Black America into our living rooms. Unlike...

Pros: Humorous, pioneer
Cons: possible racial stereotyping?

This was one of the first all-black comedies on television. Redd Foxx plays a cantankerous old junkyard dealer who lives with his son Lamont. "Pop," as Lamont calls him, is the comedian, with Lamont being the straight man. The show has...

Pros: Hysterical!
Cons: None

What truly devoted TV fan could possibly do anything other than LOVE this show? It is absolutely hilarious... true to the record of Norman Lear, who gave us greats such as All in the Family.

Fred is just the best.... lovingly ignorant,...

Pros: Great Humor.
Cons: None.

This was a 70 sitcom that i just loved dearly we would watch this on a fridayn night and practically die laughing, It was based on A man named Fred Sanford and his son Lamont they ran the junkyard called Sanford's. Fred's best friend was named Grady....

Pros: still funny?
Cons: I don't know....yeah....

I saw an Epinion today written about Happy Days by someone with over a thousand people in their web of trust, and once again I was baffled. Naturally, it came back shining with "Highly Recommended" ratings, as if scores of Epinion members were...

Pros: Great jokes.
Cons: Fred never made it big.

As a child growing up in the 70s I didn't understand this show too much. It wasn't until the 80's that I started watching this show with my brother. We couldn't stop laughing at characters like Fred,Lamont, Esther, and even Grady. For some unknown reason...

Pros: Funny
Cons: nothing

This is one show I liked when I was a teen and I still like as an adult.
This is one show that I can sit and watch for hours with my child and not worry about sex and bad wording.
It is almost like real life between fathers and sons that are on...

Pros: Redd Foxx
Cons: should be aired more on t.v.

I feel that Sanford & Son is one of the best classic sitcom tv shows on the television today. Redd Foxx was just absolutely brilliant. If you are sad, just watch one episode of Sanford and Son and you will forget about being sad. Too bad tv ...

Pros: hilarious all the way around
Cons: none

Who could ever forget Sanford and Son, a classic comedy sitcom which made the term," I'll give you five across your lips." such a popular, oft-quoted phrase? The shows is seventies comedy at its best, incredibly hilarious at times, yet poignant...