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On the night of Feb. 8, 1974, millions of viewers had just settled in at 8 for another episode of ABC's “The Brady Bunch,” while over on NBC, “Sanford and Son” — barely two seasons old — was getting ...

On a quiet evening exactly 50 years ago today, the first episode of Eric Monte and Mike Evans’ Good Times flickered to life on television screens across the nation. Little did anyone know that this ...

Actor John Amos, who gained widespread recognition in the 1970s when he portrayed the patriarch on the classic sitcom “Good Times,” died Aug. 21 of natural causes at 84. “It is with heartfelt sadness ...

If the personal is political, then Norman Lear found a way to make the political funny. The writer and producer of some of the 20th century’s most enduring and influential TV comedies — from “All in ...

You could probably already guess this, but the Good Times animated sequel has been cancelled after one season at Netflix.