THE JEFFERSONS (1975 Series Premiere Promo)

This is a promo that aired on CBS in January 1975 for its’ new hit comedy series “The Jeffersons“, the 1975-85 long-running spinoff of the 1971-79 landmark CBS sitcom “All in the Family“. The series premired Saturday, January 11, 1975 and ran all the way until Tuesday, July 23, 1985. Things have drastically changed for Archie Bunker’s longtime next door neighbor, up and coming dry cleaning mogul George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley). After he has secured enough business profits to open up a third dry cleaning store, he makes the decision to “leave Bunkersville in style“. Over the objections of his level headed wife Louise aka “Weezy“(Isabel Sanford) and college student son Lionel (Mike Evans), George and his family leave their working class Queens neighborhood (and the Bunkers) behind and “move on up to a deeeeeee-luxe apartment in the sky“ on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. George and Louise are floored when they meet their new neighbor