For eight magical seasons, The Cosby Show revolved around the Huxtables, a well-to-do African-American family living in a Brooklyn brownstone. Not only were both parents present, they were extremely successful. Cliff was a doctor and Claire was a lawyer. They had five children: four girls and one boy.
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The Jeffersons represented the American Dream. With 11 seasons, it's one of the longest-running sitcoms on American television, and it all began as a simple spin-off of All in the Family. That's right, notorious racist Archie Bunker deserves some credit for bringing George Jefferson into the world.
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Worst kept secret ever, right? After running for eight seasons on NBC and receiving accolades as one of the best TV shows of the 1980s, The Cosby Show is the best black sitcom ever produced.
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Still, it was the first series to prominently feature a mixed-racial couple, Helen and Tom Willis. The show had its own spin-off, titled Checking In and centered on the character of housekeeper Florence. Low ratings led to its cancellation after just four episodes, and Florence returned to The Jeffersons.
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The longest-running TV series with a predominantly African American cast in the history of American television, The Jeffersons aired for eleven seasons (1975 85) on CBS.
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1 George and Louise appear in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and both of them appear again along with Florence in that show's Grand Finale. 2  George, Louise, Florence, and Tom Willis appear in a Dream Sequence episode of Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
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No, but neither did the families on previous shows. Not only did The Cosby Show offer a look into the life of an affluent African-American family, it also offered TV's first look at the HBCU through Hillman College. This paved the way for A Different World, and set up great crossover episodes between the two shows.
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L-R: Toni, Maya, Joan, Lynn. A show that aired on UPN and later The CW. One of the longest-running sitcoms with a predominantly African American cast. For most of its run, it had the same main characters until Jill Marie Jones, the actress that played Toni left after the sixth season when her contract ended. It ran for 8 seasons until it was cancelled in early 2008, partly because of the writer's strike. Executive produced by, of all people, Kelsey Grammer.
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During its eighth season, it became the first African-American sitcom since Sanford and Son to crack the top five in ratings. I t amassed 13 Emmy nominations, and in 1981, Isabel Sanford (who played Louise, or Weezie, as she was known) became the second black actress to win the award for Best Actress.
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1 Crossover 2  : George appears in the pilot episode of the 1984 sitcom E/R, where he's named as the uncle of one of the show's regulars. 3  George and Louise appear in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and both of them appear again along with Florence in that show's Grand Finale.
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The American Dream is longest running african american sitcom The American Dream is the longest running African-American sitcom.