Foxx walked off the series during season three, citing health issues. Although Foxx was still absent for production of the first three shows of season four, NBC aired his return as the season premiere. That show was also short-lived, surviving for only 13 episodes. Faced with the prospect of losing one of their biggest hits, NBC decided to keep going without either of the leads. Ratings plummeted and the show was cancelled after four episodes. The series did not match the success of the original and was cancelled after two short seasons.
On October 11, , while working on his comeback series The Royal Family , Foxx suffered a heart attack. Cast members initially thought he was kidding, but Redd Foxx died later that night at the hospital. Ironically, the working title for the series had been Chest Pains.
Fred manipulates with constant threats of "the big one" and avoids manual labor due to his "arthur-itis". In earlier episodes, Lamont through various antics would try and drive a wedge between his father and Fred's girlfriend Donna Harris Lynn Hamilton , who he disapproves of because he thinks she is trying to usurp his mother's place.
Demond Wilson played Lamont Sanford, who is depicted at times as the greedier of the two. In one episode, for example, he refuses to sell two coffins for less than what he thinks they were worth, despite the fact that even possessing them upsets his superstitious father.
Lamont sometimes receives his comeuppance for being disdainful of his father's habits and ways. One example of this is the time Lamont is upbraided by a Nigerian woman who considers his attitude towards Fred to be disrespectful. There are moments when Lamont is shown to be naive and foolish, such as the episode where he invites his new "friends" over to play poker. His street-savvy father immediately recognizes that they are card sharps, out to cheat Lamont after they gain his confidence by letting him win a few smaller-stakes games.
After Lamont has lost all of his money, Fred turns the tables on the scammers by pretending to be ignorant of poker himself, agreeing to play a few hands and then taking all of their money by means of a marked deck of cards and special glasses that allow him to see what he is dealing. A similar predicament befalls Lamont in the second season when he gets involved in an unethical deal by purchasing a possibly valuable Regency commode from a woman for a rock-bottom price, then selling it back to her husband at double the price.
He then takes an offer from a third party for quadruple that price while Fred tries over and over again to warn him that he is doing something immoral. Lamont becomes so angry that he threatens to lock Fred in his bedroom. Finally, due to some investigation on Fred's part, it is revealed that Lamont has been scammed, the pot is a fake, and the culprits have made off with several hundred dollars of Lamont's money. One constant with Lamont particularly in the second season is that he is always trying to find new ways to move up in the world and away from the junk business, like his British counterpart Harold Steptoe played by Harry H.
Corbett , but he often is thwarted by Fred's interference. In the first episode, he buys a possibly valuable piece of porcelain from an elderly woman in Beverly Hills with the intention of selling at auction.
However, Fred messes things up at the auction, and Lamont ends up buying the piece back from himself. In the second season, Lamont buys a war rifle from the American Revolution at an auction with the intent to sell it for thousands.
While investigating it, Fred accidentally fires the gun through the front window, and he and Lamont spend all night wondering if he's accidentally killed the neighbor across the street who appears to be missing.
In a panic, Lamont melts the gun down before realizing that the neighbor was just out of town. In one episode, he attempts to become an actor, Lamont and Rollo answer an ad for wannabe black film actors for an independent film company only to realize that it is really a pornographic film factory.
In another episode, he answers an ad to travel around the world working on a tramp steamer, which would mean putting Fred in a nursing home, but Fred tricks him into not going. During the third season, Lamont attempts to open a side business with Julio, selling used automobile parts.
Fred is so upset that he leaves and moves into a flop house. User reviews 3 Review. Top review. The final episode, all except Grady present. Everyone worries about Fred, who's been spending nights locked in his room, not watching TV like he usually does, and seeing a strange woman to boot. Donna fears that he's having an affair, sneaking out smelling like a perfume factory. A frantic phone call to Doris Chandler Sarah Jane Miller , who turns out to be a young pretty white woman has Aunt Esther wondering if he's gone senile Rollo: "if you gotta go senile, that's the way to go!
Both Fred and Bubba are revealed to be preparing to earn their high school diplomas, a fitting subject for the series finale, in which the ages mentioned indicate that Fred has aged 3 years 65 at the start and Lamont 6 years 31 in the beginning over six seasons! The conclusion features just Sanford and Son sharing the screen: "Pop, how would you feel about a man my age saying I love you to his father?
Details Edit. Release date March 25, United States. One of her trademarks was that she was a devout Baptist , and exhibited behaviors Fred saw as " Bible -thumping". Fred criticized Esther frequently for many reasons, ranging from her incessant talk about the Bible to constant comparisons to Godzilla. Her reaction, invariably, was to tell Fred to "Watch it, sucka. Lynn Hamilton was shown infrequently as Fred's nurse girlfriend Donna Harris. Julio Fuentez, Lamont's friend, also showed up from time to time, whom Fred made ethnic jokes about.
A pair of police officers, one white and one black Swanny and Smitty, played by Noam Pitlik and Hal Williams , also were perennial visitors. In , Redd Foxx walked off the show in a salary dispute midway through the season and his character was written out of the series for the rest of the season, though Foxx later returned.
After the series was canceled in due to ABC giving Foxx a big raise to do a variety show and NBC refusing to give Wilson a raise , a short-lived continuation featuring supporting characters entitled Sanford Arms aired.
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