48 The Jeffersons CBS 1975-85
The best of All in the Family’s many spinoffs was a star vehicle for Sherman Hemsley. As Archie Bunker’s ex-neighbor George Jefferson, who moved with his wife, Louise (Isabel Sanford), a.k.a. Weezy, to a deluxe apartment in the sky, Hemsley strutted his comic genius in every scene. But the show keenly understood George wasn’t as powerful as he thought.