"Libra Rising All Over Lamont" marked the debut of Whitman Mayo as Fred's good buddy Grady Wilson, named after co-star Demond Wilson, whose first name was actually Grady. Lamont seeks advice from astrologer Audrey (Vivian Bonnell, later seen in "Will the Real Fred Sanford Please Do Something?"), who learns that her client is a double Libra and must avoid conflict and pursue peace and harmony, even with a father like Fred: "Lord, give me strength!" The ailing Fred sends for Doctor Stewart (Harvey Jason) for a proper diagnosis, gastritis from eating eight day old collared greens for breakfast! Lamont wears a smile on his face that frightens his father: "why are you smilin' at me like Bela Lugosi?" Fred insists that Lamont have 'sympathy pains' on his behalf: "there you go again, look like Dracula!" Grady drops in to visit his 'half dead' friend, now fully convinced that the doctor lied about his serious illness, the same symptoms that Grady's cousin had: "what did he take for it?" "his last breath!" (the first thing he hears on his radio is Curtis Mayfield's "Freddie's Dead"). When Lamont catches his father with a bible, it's not long before Aunt Esther shows up brandishing her own. Grady's first completed episode was actually "This Little TV Went to Market," which waited three more weeks for broadcast, never able to remember Lamont's name in his earliest entries.
Review of Libra Rising All Over Lamont
