Sanford and Son is a hit sitcom that aired on NBC from ... (aka Aunt Esther), the Bible-toting sister of Fred’s late wife, Elizabeth. Esther is pious and humorless, although she’s incredibly ...

Sanford and Son centered on Fred's junk shop at 9114 ... who was Fred's deceased wife Elizabeth's sister – to Fred's best friend Grady Wilson (Whitman Mayo) and Lamont's best friend Rollo ...

or “It’s the big one, Elizabeth!” The legendary Redd Foxx uttered those words regularly in his memorable and longtime role as Fred Sanford in Sanford and Son in the 1970s — making them ...

"Sanford and Son" struck a chord in the American public ... he clutches his heart and shouts out to his dear, departed wife Elizabeth: “I’m comin’ to join ya, honey!”); ...

Sanford and Son, the first mainstream ... But not “the big one, Elizabeth,” it was only a warm-up to one of the show’s running gags, which Foxx stole from his own mother.

But the comedian cleaned up his act for the small screen, and “Sanford and Son,” with Wilson co-starring as Foxx’s beleaguered adult son, debuted 50 years ago this month on NBC. An instant ...

When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to ...