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Sanford and Son: Season 05
Running Time: 30 min.
Release By: NBC

Beginning its fifth successful season on Friday, September 12, 1975, Sanford and Son was essentially the mixture as before with most of the familiar regulars firmly in place. His well-publicized contract disputes more or less receding into memory, Redd Foxx was back as cantankerous Watts junk dealer Fred Sanford, with Demond Wilson as his long-suffering son and reluctant business partner Lamont. Also returning were LaWanda Page as Fred's explosively prudish sister-in-law Aunt Esther, Lynn Hamilton as Fred's sometimes fiancée Donna Harris, Don Bexley and Nathaniel Taylor as family friends Bubba and Rollo, and Hal Williams and Howard Platt as police officers Smitty and Hoppy. Conspicuously absent from the fifth-season roster were three actors who had departed for other sitcoms: Gregory Sierra (Julio Fuentes), who had moved to Barney Miller; Pat Morita (Ah Chew), who had transferred to Happy Days; and, most notably, Whitman Mayo (Grady Wilson), now starring in his own spin-off series, Grady. However, despite his new leading-man workload, Mayo would continue to make token Sanford appearances as Grady, returning to the series on a more or less regular basis after Grady (the series) folded in the spring of 1976. Additions and emendations to the Sanford format included the arrival of Marlene Clark as Janet Lawson, a widowed mother with whom Lamont would fall in love, and Edward Crawford as Janet's young son Roger. Also, Fred and Lamont Sanford would try to amplify their income by managing a boarding house, the Sanford Arms, which introduced as steady stream of recurring characters -- and also set the stage for the ultimate conclusion of Sanford and Son at the end of 1977. That denouement was still part of the distant future by the conclusion of the series' sixth season, during which Sanford ranked as America's seventh most popular weekly series. Fans were particularly gratified that NBC chose to rerun selected episodes on Wednesday evenings from April to August 1976, under the title The Best of Sanford and Son. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Sanford and Son: Season 05 Cast and Crew:

Redd Foxx - (Fred Sanford)

Demond Wilson - (Lamont Sanford)

LaWanda Page - (Aunt Esther)

Marlene Clark - (Janet Lawson)

Hal Williams - (Off. Smith)

Howard Platt - (Off. Hopkins)

Lynn Hamilton - (Donna Harris)

Don Bexley - (Bubba Hoover)

Nathaniel Taylor - (Rollo Larson)

Edward Crawford - (Roger Lawson)

Raymond Allen - (Woody )

Production Credits:
Norman C. Hopps (Associate Producer)
Quincy Jones (Composer (Music Score))
Norman Abbott (Director)
Mark Warren (Director)
Hal Cooper (Director)
Lewis Gomavitz (Director)
Alan Rafkin (Director)
Bill Foster (Director)
Norman Lear (Executive Producer)
Bud Yorkin (Executive Producer)
Bernie Orenstein (Producer)
Aaron Ruben (Producer)
Saul Turteltaub (Producer)


Sanford and Son: Season 05 Episodes:
Sanford and Son: Earthquake II
Sanford and Son: Divorce, Sanford Style
Sanford and Son: Bank on This
Sanford and Son: The Sanford Arms
Sanford and Son: Steinberg and Son
Sanford and Son: Brother, Can You Spare an Act?
Sanford and Son: Della, Della, Della
Sanford and Son: Donna Pops the Question
Sanford and Son: My Fair Esther
Sanford and Son: Sanford and Rising Son
Sanford and Son: The Olympics
Sanford and Son: Ebenezer Sanford
Sanford and Son: The Oddfather
Sanford and Son: Can You Chop This?
Sanford and Son: Greatest Show in Watts
Sanford and Son: Fred Sanford Has a Baby
Sanford and Son: The TV Addict
Sanford and Son: Lamont in Love
Sanford and Son: The Escorts
Sanford and Son: The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice
Sanford and Son: The Director
Sanford and Son: A Pain in the Neck
Sanford and Son: Sergeant Gork
Sanford and Son: Camping Trip

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