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J.J. and the Older Woman: Directed by Gerren Keith. With Esther Rolle, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis. Thelma invites her favorite teacher to the apartment and while she is there she is fascinated with JJ's artwork.
- (74)
- Comedy
- Gerren Keith
- 1976-10-06
Jimmie 'JJ' Walker. Actor: Good Times. He symbolized the 70s American dream of success -- the former kid from the ghetto who rose to wisecracking TV superstardom. While in his element as the broadly strutting, gleamy-toothed J.J. Evans of the popular urban-styled sitcom Good Times (1974), Jimmie Walker lived the extremely good life. Following the series' demise, however, reality again checked ...
- June 25, 1947
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Apr 22, 2022 · Janet Jackson (Penny Gordon Woods) Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Jackson is one of the more famous people to appear on Good Times , as the bulk of her professional career really took off when she ...
- It's Related to All in The Family, But only by Marriage
- It Featured TV's First Two-Parent African American Family
- It Was An Instant Hit, Thanks in Large Part to Jimmie "J.J." Walker
- It Served as A Launching Pad For Some Future Big Names
- It Had A Seriously Kick-Ass Theme Song
While it falls in the patheon of Norman Lear's '70s sitcom universe through the character of Florida Evans (who was first introduced in Maude, itself a spin-off from All in the Family), Good Times is more of a distant cousin to those shows. Unlike its predecessors, Good Times was not created by Norman Lear. That credit goes to Eric Monte and Michae...
Anchored by Rolle as Florida Evans and John Amos as her husband James Evans, Good Times was the the first TV series to put an African American family at the center of its story. (1969's Julia and Lear's own Sanford and Sonprededed it, but both focused on single African American parents.) Much like Lear's other shows, Good Times' premise provided fe...
Initially aired as a 13-episode mid-season replacement in February 1974, the show consistently ranked among the top 20 shows in its first season, breaking into the top ten in its second season. Much of the credit for the show's high ratings was attributed to the breakout success of Jimmie Walker's J.J. character. Much like Michael J. Fox's portraya...
At the show's height, Jimmie Walker hired two comedian friends to write one-liners for his character. Those comedians? None other than then-friends Jay Leno and David Letterman. (Leno appeared on screenin a Season 3 episode.) Both comedians have credited Walker with giving them one of their first big breaks. In addition to Leno and Letterman, Good ...
The undisputed highlight of last spring's Live in Front of a Studio Audience special was Jennifer Hudson's live rendition of The Jeffersons theme song, and while Hudson's performance will be hard to top, ABC has lined up Anthony Anderson and Patti Labelle to sing the Good Timestheme song, which is ace source material at the very least. The gospel-s...
Mar 7, 2022 · March 7, 2022 3:23 PM PT. “Good Times” actors BernNadette Stanis and Janet Jackson paid tribute to their co-star Johnny Brown this weekend following his death at 84. Brown, who died March 2 ...
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Janet Jackson played good kid Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods, the daughter of neighbor Willona Woods. Her character was introduced in Season 5 and stayed on until the end of the series. read more
Good Times – Season 2, Episode 18. Watch Good Times — Season 2, Episode 18 with a subscription on Peacock. J.J. finds out that his date has snobbish parents that disapprove of him.
