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Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that aired on NBC from September 27, 1986, to May 11, 1991.
- Sitcom
Amen: Created by Ed. Weinberger. With Sherman Hemsley, Clifton Davis, Anna Maria Horsford, Roz Ryan. Rev. Rueben Gregory, finds dealing with the headstrong, opinionated, and unethical Deacon Ernest Frye--who works as a lawyer when not tending to church business--won't make his job easy.
- (2.4K)
- 1986-09-27
- Comedy
- 30
Watch Amen Free Online | 5 Seasons. A lively, fast-talking Philadelphia church deacon clashes with the new, free-thinking minister, especially after his daughter sets her sights on him.
- Bill Foster
- 5
- Sherman Hemsley
- January 1, 1991
Amen was a breakthrough of sorts--the first hit comedy in TV history to be based on religion. Sherman Hemsley, who played pushy, egotistical George Jefferson on The Jeffersons for ten years, played a similar character here as the insufferable deacon (and lawyer) whose father had founded the First Community Church of Philadelphia, and who ...
S1.E20 ∙ The Magician. The Deacon's magic act flops before the church board, which is selecting entertainment for a charity bash, but it impresses a burglar out to rob the choir hall.
Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts.
Amen follows Deacon Frye as he juggles between his hair-brained schemes to raise money for the church and a growing rivalry with a young, naïve new minister named Rev. Reuben Gregory, played by Clifton Davis.
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