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Sanford and Son - The First Season
:Description:'Elizabeth! I'm comin, honey!' Those were the words often heard coming from 9114 South Central, home to Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) and his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) - known more affectionately to each other as 'Pop' and 'Dummy' - and their junkyard business. Sanford and Son was the second TV series from Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, who created the groundbreaking 'All in the Family' the year before. 'Sanford and Son' aired from 1972-1977 and was NBC's most popular prime-time series for four of its five seasons, earning four Emmy nominations and a ...
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Harlem Nights
: :Business partners sting a white mobster trying to take over their nightclub in 1930s harlem. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Eddie Murphy Redd Foxx Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R Director: Eddie Murphy :This is a supremely disappointing film, especially considering the talent involved. Indeed, the cast would seem to be the summit of African American comedians, starring the three most influential standups of the modern era: Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, and Eddie Murphy. Murphy obviously was paying respect to his elders when he cast them as his father ...
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Sanford and Son - The Third Season
: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/20/2005 Run time: 595 minutes Rating: Nr :Though conflict erupted between comic Redd Foxx and the producers of Sanford and Son during its third season, viewers of this three-disc set, which compiles all 24 episodes of the 1973-74 season, are spared the backstage rancor and instead enjoy more hilarious episodes, fueled as always by Foxx's Emmy-nominated performance as cantankerous junkman Fred Sanford. Sanford and Son was a solid ratings hit as it entered its third season (ranked third among network shows) and Foxx had won ...
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Sanford and Son - The Complete Fourth Season
: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 602 minutes Rating: Nr :Sanford and Son's fourth season (1974-1975) was the highest rated of its five years on network TV (the program reached no. 2 on the Nielsen charts); the program and star Redd Foxx both received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the season, all 24 episodes of which are compiled on this three-disc set. Behind the scenes, however, the series was in turmoil due to Foxx's dissatisfaction with the tone and quality of the program, and he went missing ...
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The Flip Wilson Show
: :Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/07/2000 :For four years in the early 1970s, comedian Flip Wilson presided over one of the most popular variety shows on television. The show featured weekly guest stars as well as Wilson's own characters, the most noteworthy of whom were 'Reverend Leroy,' the genially bombastic pastor of the 'Church of What's Happening Now,' and 'Geraldine Jones,' a thoroughly sassy and proud African American woman played by Wilson in a miniskirt. Featuring highlights from five episodes of the program, this collection includes the show's very first appearance ...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
:Description:One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen, Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson(Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart)a brother whose 'Back To Africa' campaign is nothing more than a big scam forbigga' bucks. But when $87,000 ...
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The Best of the Flip Wilson Show
:Description:The Flip Wilson Show was an instant smash when it premiered on NBC in September 1970, becoming the highest-rated variety program on television. In a bold departure from the standard fare of the time, The Flip Wilson Show did without large production numbers, house band, regular cast, or elaborate sets. From a round stage in front of a studio audience, gifted comedian Flip Wilson entertained the country with nothing but his hilarious monologues, a stellar array of guest stars, and great sketch comedy. This first-ever collection of full-length episodes from The Flip Wilson ...
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Sanford & Son - The Complete Sixth Season
:Description:Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson return for their sixth--and last--hilarious season as 'SANFORD AND SON.' Join Fred, a cantankerous but loveable sexagenarian, and Lamont, his loving but long suffering son, as they welcome guest stars B.B. KING, CHUCK BARRIS, ROSS MARTIN, PAT PAULSEN, and SHELDON LEONARD to their South Central neighborhood junkyard, as one of TV's funniest sitcoms comes to an uproarious conclusion. This three-disk DVD collection features producers Norman Lear's and Bud Yorkin's legendary comedy series' final 24 sidesplitting episodes.
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On Location with Redd Foxx
:Description:'Sanford and Son' made Redd Foxx a household name. This HBO 'On Location' features his night-club act, raw and uncensored, and gives the viewers another side of this comedic genius. Starting thirty years before Sanford in what was known as the 'chitlin' circuit, he performed with the likes of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and the Will Mastin Trio. The Silverbird Hotel in Las Vegas presents the act in the true Redd Foxx tradition, Contains Adult Material
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Harlem Nights
:Description:'Sanford and Son' made Redd Foxx a household name. This HBO 'On Location' features his night-club act, raw and uncensored, and gives the viewers another side of this comedic genius. Starting thirty years before Sanford in what was known as the 'chitlin' circuit, he performed with the likes of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and the Will Mastin Trio. The Silverbird Hotel in Las Vegas presents the act in the true Redd Foxx tradition, Contains Adult Material
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