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51.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Punky Finds a Home: Part 1
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Penelope "Punky" Brewster is an abandoned 8-year-old who wanders into an empty apartment in Chicago. The manager of the building is a 60-year-old curmudgeon named Henry Warnimont, who ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 83
52.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Punky Finds a Home: Part 2
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Henry fails to stop a social worker from putting Punky in an orphanage.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Robert DoQui, Robyn Lively
Votes: 88
53.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Punky Finds a Home: Part 3
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Henry goes to court to get custody of Punky.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Allyn Ann McLerie, Eddie Deezen
Votes: 86
54.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Punky Gets Her Own Room/Lost and Found
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
In the first segment, Punky and her friends convert Henry's study room into her bedroom without asking him first. In the second segment, Henry takes Punky shopping and she wanders off.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Cherie Johnson, Eddie Deezen
Votes: 58
55.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
As the Chicago Cubs play in their first post-season championship since 1945, proud Cubs fan Henry tries to get tickets for Punky and himself.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 53
56.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
The Perils of Punky: Part 1
(1985)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Punky and the gang go on a camping trip. When the children get lost in a cave, Punky tells a ghost story about an evil spirit who threatens the lake.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 46
57.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Visit to the Doctor/Go to Sleep
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
In the first segment, Henry gives Punky a lucky nickel to keep with her while she goes for a booster shot. In the second segment, Punky can't sleep, so Henry agrees to let her stay up and watch the opera with him on TV.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 49
58.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Walk Pool/Gone Fishin'
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
In the first segment, Henry, Punky's foster father, takes over the task of walking her and her hyperactive friends Cherie, Margeaux, Scotty and Allen to school after Mrs. Johnson, Cherie's ... See full summary »
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 51
59.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus: Part 1
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Christmas is approaching, and the only thing Punky wants is to find her mother.
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 43
60.
Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
Episode:
Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus: Part 2
(1984)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family
By playing Santa at school and saying he can do anything if she believes in him hard enough, Henry has inadvertently convinced Punky that Santa Claus will bring back her mother. Now he must... See full summary »
Director: Art Dielhenn | Stars: George Gaynes, Soleil Moon Frye, Susie Garrett, Cherie Johnson
Votes: 42
61.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Guest in the Yard
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred and Lamont discover that no good deed goes unpunished when the homeless man they help plays the Sanfords for suckers, resisting their every effort to throw him out.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Liam Dunn, Davis Roberts
Votes: 160
62.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A House Is Not a Pool Room
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Lamont suffers buyer's remorse after the pool table he gave Fred for his birthday brings the boys over for billiards every day while Fred's work and girlfriend Donna go neglected.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Whitman Mayo
Votes: 142
63.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Little Extra Security
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Grady receives an extra Social Security check by mistake and wastes no time celebrating his windfall, but the wind falls from his sails when he learns Mr. Hastings from the Social Security office is on his way over to the house.
Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page
Votes: 125
64.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Matter of Life and Breath
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Concerned about his father's smoker's cough, Lamont brings Fred in for a free tuberculosis screening at the American Lung Association's Breathmobile. The test results take his breath away.
Director: George Tyne | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lillian Lehman, Noreen Gammill
Votes: 197
65.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Matter of Silence
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Lamont fears Fred is going deaf, and Fred is content to play along and milk sympathy from Lamont and Donna.
Director: Russ Petranto | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Nathaniel Taylor
Votes: 92
66.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Pad for Lamont
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fed up with his father frustrating his love life, Lamont strikes out on his own and rents a swingin' bachelor pad.
Director: Bob LaHendro | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Judyann Elder, Tangerine Sublett
Votes: 185
67.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Pain in the Neck
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred's friends have got his back, as he discovers when he suffers from a backache on the day he is to receive the Watts Businessman's award and his friends rush to his aid with all kinds of quack cures.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Nancy Kulp
Votes: 92
68.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
A Visit from Lena Horne
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fast-thinking Fred fools Lena Horne into visiting the Sanford home after he spins her a sob story about little lame Lamont who looks upon Lena as a second mother.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lena Horne, John Amos
Votes: 171
69.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Aunt Esther Has a Baby
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Esther and Woody plan to be parents for the first time, but for it to happen Esther is going to need Fred's help.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Raymond Allen
Votes: 109
70.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Aunt Esther Meets Her Son
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Esther and Woody welcome their son Daniel, but quickly discover they must practice the forgiveness that Esther preaches.
Director: Al Rabin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Raymond Allen
Votes: 105
71.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Aunt Esther and Uncle Woodrow Pfftt...
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
"I'm not a cream puff!" declares Uncle Woody after Grady gives him an empowering man-to-man talk and sends him home to reclaim his castle. But Aunt Esther doesn't appreciate Grady's making ... See full summary »
Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page
Votes: 125
72.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Bank on This
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio's former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Howard Platt, Roscoe Orman
Votes: 119
73.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Blood Is Thicker Than Junk
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
After a nasty spat Sanford and Son split up. Fred hires a new man to replace Lamont, who signs on to work with a competing junk dealer.
Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Roger E. Mosley, Vernon Weddle
Votes: 153
74.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Brother, Can You Spare an Act?
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
When Fred's white brother-in-law Rodney lands a job emceeing a local vaudeville revival, Fred, Lamont and Smiley Rogers help out by providing the song and dance.
Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Nancy Kulp, Allan Drake
Votes: 113
75.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
By the Numbers
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Freeloading family and friends flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers.
Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Beah Richards, Don Bexley
Votes: 154
76.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
California Crude
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
While Fred and Lamont are digging a garden, oil is discovered underground at the junk yard. Fred sees millions but before any money can be paid it must first be tested.
Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Don Bexley, Patrick Campbell
Votes: 109
77.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Carol
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred's old friend Carol shows up after 40 years, stirring up memories and sparking a flashback to the Summer of 1936 when Fred was a pool hustler in Cleveland.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Spo-De-Odee
Votes: 104
78.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
The Defiant One
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Rehearsing his magic act, Grady snaps a pair of trick shackles onto Fred and Esther, only to discover the instructions for removing them are printed in Chinese.
Director: Russ Petranto | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Whitman Mayo
Votes: 109
79.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Coffins for Sale
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Lamont's keeping a pair of coffins in the living room spooks superstitious Fred.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Slappy White, James Wheaton
Votes: 208
80.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Committee Man
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Soon after Fred is appointed to serve on a mayor's committee he is sought out by a slumlord offering a bribe for political favors.
Director: Chuck Liotta | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Don Bexley, Edward Andrews
Votes: 107
81.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Della, Della, Della
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
When two competing politicians each seek to use Fred's junkyard for a campaign headquarters, Della Reese appeals to Fred to stand by her man.
Director: Mark Warren | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Della Reese, Arnold Johnson
Votes: 106
82.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Divorce, Sanford Style
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Following a fight with Woodrow, Aunt Esther moves in with Fred and Lamont. Fred works overtime engineering a reconciliation so she'll return home.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Howard Platt
Votes: 112
83.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Donna Pops the Question
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
After receiving a proposal from another man, Donna gives Fred one final chance to marry her.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley
Votes: 112
84.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Earthquake II
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
An earthquake shakes up the Sanfords, and the threat of an even bigger quake sparks Fred to sell the house and seek shelter in Las Vegas.
Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page
Votes: 125
85.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Ebenezer Sanford
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of "A Christmas Carol."
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, LaWanda Page
Votes: 153
86.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
The Engagement
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred and Donna are to be married on Sunday, but Lamont plots to put them asunder before the Lord joins them together by inviting to the wedding his Aunt Esther and the rest of Fred's irascible in-laws.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, LaWanda Page
Votes: 148
87.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred & Carol and Fred & Donna
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Two-timing Fred's in the soup when he accidentally double books his dining room table by inviting both his fiancée Donna and the attractive saleswoman Carol over for supper on the same evening.
Director: Rick Edelstein | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Kim Hamilton
Votes: 161
88.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred Sanford Has a Baby
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
A very pregnant woman rents Lamont's room for the week he's away on a fishing trip.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Nathaniel Taylor
Votes: 117
89.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred Meets Redd
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The fourth wall falls when Fred enters NBC's Redd Foxx look-alike contest and eagerly anticipates meeting his idol face to face.
Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Fritzi Burr, Debraca Foxx
Votes: 109
90.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
When Lamont gets a traffic ticket, Fred convinces him to fight it in court, where the poor man's Perry Mason steps up to defend his son against the system.
Director: Bob LaHendro | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 216
91.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred Sings the Blues
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Aspiring songwriter Fred invites B.B. King to dinner, but panics upon reading in the blues legend's biography that the singer has sworn to get even with the man who long ago stole his St. ... See full summary »
Director: Russ Petranto | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, B.B. King, LaWanda Page
Votes: 115
92.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred the Activist
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Angered by the age discrimination policy of a local stereo dealer, Fred rallies a troop of Gray Foxes and leads the charge to change the policy.
Director: Russ Petranto | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley
Votes: 100
93.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred's Cheating Heart
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
After learning about the dangers and high risk of heart disease, Lamont plots to get his heart attack-prone father to the hospital for a cardio check-up.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 128
94.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred's Extra Job
(1976)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred works nights as a bus boy in a fancy restaurant so he can begin paying back the $6,000 bank loan he took out in order to give Lamont an impressive wedding gift.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Lynn Hamilton, Don Bexley
Votes: 96
95.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fred, the Reluctant Fingerman
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred, fearing retaliation after witnessing a robbery at Julio's, is unwilling to get involved by describing the burglars to the police.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Hal Williams
Votes: 137
96.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Fuentes, Fuentes, Sanford & Chico
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Feeling betrayed when Lamont starts a sideline business with Julio, Fred moves out and into a downtown flophouse.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Whitman Mayo
Votes: 143
97.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Funny, You Don't Look It
(1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Inspired by Alex Haley's "Roots," Fred orders a family crest and genealogical scroll that states he's African royalty and a descendant of the Jewish Ethiopian Falashas.
Director: Russ Petranto | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley
Votes: 98
98.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Going Out of Business
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
To get a better tax break and increase their income, Lamont gets a job as a clerk at a haberdashery and Fred considers closing down Sanford & Son.
Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Philip Bruns, Hal Williams
Votes: 117
99.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Golden Boy
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred hopes to get rich quick by becoming co-owner of a boxer dubbed Junior Joe Louis. It then becomes Fred and Grady's job to get Junior into fighting shape before Friday's bout.
Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, David Doyle
Votes: 117
100.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
Grady and His Lady
(1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fred fears wedding bells will break up his beautiful friendship after Grady announces he's engaged to Dolly, so Fred plots to puncture the romance.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Norma Miller
Votes: 133