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The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons

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Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Famil...

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The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable famil...

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Benson

Benson

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Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.

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A Different World

A Different World

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Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7

A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students a...

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227

227

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Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.

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Family Matters

Family Matters

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Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Stra...

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Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 6.6

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and h...

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Sanford

Sanford

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Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Redd Foxx isn’t done scheming and wise-cracking in the spin-off to one of America's most beloved sitcoms.

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