But the comedian cleaned up his act for the small screen, and "Sanford and Son," with Wilson co-starring as Foxx's beleaguered adult son, debuted 50 years this month on NBC. An instant ratings ...

If you’re over 40, you likely remember the phrase, “Elizabeth, I’m coming!” or “It’s the big one, Elizabeth!” The legendary Redd Foxx uttered those words regularly in his memorable ...

"Sanford and Son makes everybody feel good," Wallace tells ... Though not wholly biographical, the show does draw from Cox's ...

One of television's all-time classic sitcoms, the Norman Lear-produced "Sanford and Son" debuted just three days after the one-year anniversary of Lear's fabulously successful, "All in the Family." ...

Marlene Clark, an actor who appeared on “Sanford and Son,” the horror movie “Ganja & Hess” and several other films of the ’60s and ’70s, died on May 18. She was 85. Clark starred in ...

Lear is best known for transformative television projects including "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Sanford and Son" and "Good Times." Actor Demond Wilson, who starred alongside comedian ...

a reimagined version of Sanford and Son. Wallace didn’t immediately know what his fresh take on the ‘70s Redd Foxx sitcom developed and executive produced by Lear and Bud Yorkin would be ...