The BEST episodes directed by Bob Lally
#1 - Now You See It, Now You Don't (2)
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 5
When the Killer Rabbit overhears Louise telling Harry what she saw through the telescope, he follows her to her apartment and waits until everyone leaves to confront her. The Killer Rabbit soon finds that killing Louise is not going to be an easy task with constant interruptions preventing him.
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#2 - The Announcement
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 1
Lionel and Jenny after wonderful news, Jenny is pregnant, but they only share the news with Tom and Helen, reason being Lionel doesn't want George making jokes about what color the baby will be. However, when Florence overhears the news she accidentally lets slip to Louise and she in turn tells George which leads to yet another argument.
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#3 - Change of a Dollar
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 22
On the night of a big banquet for Tom, George runs out at the last minute to do an errand at his store in Queens. Once there, we're taken back to 1968 and witness the grand opening of Jefferson Cleaners and we see how George earned his first dollar.
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#4 - Brother Tom
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 14
When two old friends of Helen's come for a visit, Tom feels like a "white" outsider in his own home. This prompts him to ask George to teach him how to act black.
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#5 - The First Store
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 23
As Louise and George look through old photos, they recall George opening his first store in 1968. His opening coincides with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr and when news of his death circulates, chaos erupts in the Jeffersons' neighborhood.
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#6 - Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner (1)
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 8
For George's birthday, Louise books herself, George and Florence on a murder mystery cruise ship for mystery novelists, thus George pretends to be a novelist. George is having fun trying to solve a murder mystery until an apparant "real" murder occurs.
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#7 - Mr. Wonderful
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 15
George forgets to pick up opera tickets and this leads to Louise and Helen comparing him to the "thoughful" Tom. A miffed George spills the beans about Tom buying an insurance policy and has made a cousin the beneficiary, a cousin who is a racist and is against Tom and Helen's marriage.
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#8 - Men of the Cloth
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 16
For Jessica's baptism, Louise wants Florence and her gospel singing group to perform and Jenny agrees with her. However, George wants someone else and sets out to get Andrae Crouch to preform at the baptism, going so far as to say he is a reverend.
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#9 - A Short Story
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 2
George is ecstatic when he learns he's been named Small Businessman of the Year. However, Louise quickly learns that the basis of the award is purely physical. The award is to honor short businessmen.
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#10 - Thammy the Thongwriter
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 12
George and Louise receive a post card from Harry, who's been transfered out of the country. Soon after, they meet the man who's moving into Harry's old apartment, a jingle writer whom George tries to get to write a jingle for his business. However, jingles are far from his mind, since he's having marital problems.
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#11 - Louise's Old Boyfriend
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 3
Louise is excited when she receives a letter from her old boyfriend, Bill Simpson, asking her out to dinner. However, she decides not to go because she knows George will be upset if she does, so Florence secretly goes and pretends to be Louise, but things get really confusing for Bill when Louise changes her mind and shows up with George in tow.
#12 - The Good Life
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 20
The good life is striking everyone, George has hit success with the stocks allowing Louise to get a ring she wanted, Tom has just gotten a new client and Helen has just been pampered at a spa where she met famous celebrities. Wanting in on the "good life" Florence shells out enough money to go to the spa wanting to meet celebrities and unknowingly runs into Gladys Knight.
#13 - How Now Dow Jones
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 12
George's investment advice for Tom proves fruitful and puts Helen in a fur coat. This prompts Florence to want to make some money so she asks George for advice. However, since she doesn't have enough money for investing, he suggests she go in on the venture with the other maids in the building. The results of the ordeal prove to be less that satisfying, for George anyway.
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#14 - A Charmed Life
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 11
George doesn't understand why he wasn't invited to a posh gala event at the Whittendale apartment, until Tom, Helen, Louise and Florence break the news the Whittendale "hates his guts." Wanting to earn some respect, George takes charm lessons in order to live up to the standards of the behavior of "rich folks"
#15 - A Case of Self-Defense
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 17
When Lionel and Jenny's apartment gets broken into, George begins to worry that his apartment could just as easily be broken into. His solution: buy a gun, something that Louise is totally against. However, George buys one on the sly and later proves to be a dangerous possession.
#16 - The Separation (2)
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 2
Due to the separation, Lionel is living at home with George and Louise. This prompts George to trick a marriage counselor into showing up at the Jefferson's apartment for the intention of bring Lionel and Jenny back together.
#17 - A Night to Remember
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 20
On their anniversary, George and Louise get into an argument over his honesty, this prompts George to storm out to a hotel and Louise is left to think about George's fidelity. Things get worse when she arrives at his hotel and discovers a young woman in his room.
#18 - One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 12
While making a dry cleaning delivery at a mental institution, George is accidentally mistaken as a mental patient, when the real patient escapes disguised as George.
#19 - Now You See It, Now You Don't (1)
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 4
It's Halloween, and the Jeffersons and the Willis are all gearing up for a costume contest, they're each going as old movie stars. Meanwhile, Harry brings his telescope over onto the Jefferson's balcony to view a specific star, this leads to Louise taking a peek but what she sees is totally unexpected, she sees someone dressed as a rabbit murder someone.
#20 - The Arrival (1)
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 15
George and Louise are disappointed with the news that if Lionel gets the job that he's getting interviewed for, Jenny and him will have to move to Boston. Meanwhile, when Tom comes down with the flu, he can't take Jenny to her Lamaze class which prompts George to take her, but when the class is over and everyone has gone, George gets stuck there with Jenny, who has gone into labor.
#21 - The Arrival (2)
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 16
George rushes Jenny to the hospital as she begins having contractions. Meanwhile, Lionel is offered the job in Boston, and returns from the interview to find out the news the Jenny has gone into labor. At the hospital, the family gathers and George begins to worry if the baby's skin color will be black or white.
#22 - The Loan
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 21
Lionel and Jenny are excited with the news that they're trying to purchase a home. However, when the bank turns down their loan application, George, Louise, Helen and Tom each go down to the bank to help them get one, after each promising not to interfere.
#23 - Blazing Jeffersons
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 15
George is distraught when he learns that his Brooklyn store has burned down due to faulty wiring. However, Tom raises his spirits by reminding him that his insurance will cover it by taking to court the person responsible for the faulty wiring. Just then George remembers who put in the wiring, Lionel.
#24 - Designing Woman
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 23
George is trying to drum up some cleaning business from a famous fashion designer, Camille Hendricks. George tricks Jenny into swinging by the apartment to meet her in order to show her some of her designs, however Jenny is unprepared for this unexpected surprise.
#25 - Me and Mr. G.
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 11
Louise is excited when she gets to have an orphan, stay at the Jefferson's apartment for a week. However, when she and Florence go out to the store and leave George in charge some of his prejudiced attitudes rub off on the impressionable young lady leading to what was supposed to be a week turns into only a few hours.
#26 - And the Doorknobs Shined Like Diamonds
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 13
With her childhood home about to be demolished, Louise visits the building and reminisces.
#27 - Sorry, Wrong Meeting
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 14
Tom unwittingly brings George along to a KKK meeting.
#28 - The House That George Built
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 8
George wants everyone to know him when he dies so he sets out to create himself into a legend. First he tries writing a book about his life but he then changes his mind and does the unthinkable. He buys a building and turns it into the George Jefferson Museum, complete with exhibits about his life and times.
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#29 - Mr. Clean
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 19
One evening while playing poker, George and his buddies make a mess of the living room throwing food all over. This prompts Florence to stay up all night cleaning up after George's mess which is why she is exhausted the next morning. This leads George to make a bet with Florence stating that he can do in three hours what she does in a day.
#30 - Not So Dearly Beloved
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 18
After an employee drops dead while George is firing him, George gives the eulogy at the funeral but has a hard time coming up with nice words.
#31 - My Wife, I Think I'll Keep Her
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 18
Upset that their husbands do not feel they should be involved in business matters, Louise and Helen move in together leaving George and Tom to live together in the Jefferson apartment. All this prompted by George not consulting Louise about a commercial he was making and Tom's plans to go ahead publishing a book by written by a sexist.
#32 - The Expectant Father
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 7
Lionel becomes overwhelmed with advice on being a father when he and Jenny arrive at the Jefferson apartment, one evening which prompts him to storm out.
#33 - Joltin' George
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 8
George takes Marcus to the gym to teach him how to box, after the boyfriend of a girl that Marcus made a move on beats him up. However, George's bigmouth gets him in the ring with another boxer but George is confident he'll win since he used to be called "Joltin' George."
#34 - Louise vs. Florence
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 10
Louise is to present a Volunteer award and must take care of the engraving on the plaque. However, when Florence takes it to her cousin, he mispells the name. This leads to a huge fight between Florence and Louise which results in Louise firing her. When George hires her back to serve some guests he's entertaining, constant bickering erupts.
#35 - Where's Papa?
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 6
While going through a bunch of old items, George and Louise discover an old will which belonged to his father. The will states that his father wanted to be buried next to Mother Jefferson, so George sets out to do just that but quickly discovers that this is no easy task.
#36 - Appointment in 8-B
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 10
George stops by 8-B, Ms. Sanderson's apartment, to drop off her cleaning bid but soon after he leaves, Ralph stops by and hears Ms. Sanderson having sex with a man named George and Ralph quickly jumps to the wrong conclusion.
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#37 - Marathon Men
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 1
George and Tom run in a marathon through Central Park to prove who is the better athlete.
#38 - Lionel Gets the Business
The Jeffersons - Season 4 - Episode 17
George is ecstatic when Lionel joins the family business, however ecstatic is not the word to describe George when Lionel begins making major changes and even puts into effect a half price sale, a change that could put George out of business.
#39 - Baby Love
The Jeffersons - Season 6 - Episode 9
With all the excitement over Jenny's pregnancy, Florence begins to hear her biological clock ticking. This prompts her to find a prospective husband and father through a dating service.
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#40 - Calendar Girl
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 9
While trying to enter baby Jessica in a contest, George and Louise misplace their granddaughter.
#41 - Alley Oops
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 12
A desperate George calls on Tom to fill a spot on his bowling team in a fierce rivalry with another dry cleaner.
#42 - I Spy
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 13
Helen's comments that Tom hasn't been paying any attention to her, fuel George's belief that she is having an affair especially since he sees her and another man having lunch together. This leads George to bring Tom down to the restaurant to see for himself.
#43 - Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner (2)
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 9
The novelists try to solve the apparent "real" murder with George trying his best to solve it as well. When it is determind that the victim, Edgar, was poisoned the crew deduces that the Duchess did it, however in the end George discovers the real culprit.
#44 - Florence Did It Different (1)
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 6
Constant bickering between George and Carmen prompts Louise to tell Carmen how Florence handled George (via flashbacks). However, just as Carmen gets a handle on how to handle George, Florence shows up with news that the hotel burned down and she would like her old job back.
#45 - The Jeffersons Go to Hawaii (3)
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 4
George gets involved in an investment plan that would allow the Jeffersons to move to Hawaii. A sailing trip goes awry when Tom and George get lost.
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#46 - All I Want for Christmas
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 8
When George plays Santa at the Help Center, he makes a seemingly impossible promise to a dispirited young orphan.
#47 - Small Fish, Big Pond
The Jeffersons - Season 7 - Episode 17
To get into an exclusive club, George exaggerates how many stores he owns but soon finds himself in way over his head.
#48 - I've Still Got It
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 5
George has become convinced that age is taking it's toll on him, with a receding hairline and larger midsection. To try to revitalize him, Louise sends him some flowers with a seductive note at his office. However, George becomes convinced the flowers are from his secretary.
#49 - My Maid... My Wife
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 14
Florence runs into an old classmate, Pauline, and finds that she has married money. This prompts a jealous Florence to say that she too married wealth, George. This leads to Louise posing as the maid and Florence posing as Louise when Pauline comes over for dinner.
#50 - My Girl, Louise
The Jeffersons - Season 9 - Episode 16
With the Help Center on its last legs, Louise and Helen desperately try to find someone who could make a sizeable donation to keep the Help Center going. This prompts Louise to go to her ex-employer, Lillian Warren, whom Louise worked for as a maid and who treated her like a piece of furniture.