Isabel Sanford's 10 best episodes of The Jeffersons
Isabel Sanford (1917-2004) will always be remembered as Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson on The Jeffersons (1975-1985). She introduced the character on All in the Family in 1971.
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- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerAfter Florence has been evicted from her apartment (which is scheduled to be torn down), Louise allows her to move in. Big problem....George, who is tired of Florence's sass, has not been consulted on the matter.
- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerWhen Lionel gets sick, Louise and Jenny fuss over who is responsible to take care of him.
- 1975–198524mTV-PG8.3 (124)TV EpisodeDirectorBob LallyStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerWhen The Jeffersons' new furniture for their living and dining room arrives, one of the delivery men informs Weezie that the block of buildings she grew up around in Harlem - including the building she lived in - will be demolished for new development. She then visits her old, abandoned apartment there one last time, while thinking about some of the times she spent there.
- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerGeorge and friends want to surprise Louise after her sister Maxine, whom she hasn't seen in years, visits from Paris. However, when Louise sees her sister, she gets furious.
- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerA young woman shows up at the Jeffersons', claiming that she is Louise's long-lost daughter. Louise and George deny her claims, but Mother Jefferson brings up the disturbing news that Louise dated a man years ago while George was in Korea--and that man is the young woman's father.
- DirectorBob LallyStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerA newspaper article reveals that a man with the same name as Louise's father thwarted a crime. Since the man's picture and name are similar to those of Louise's presumed-dead father, George investigates.
- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerLouise is convinced that her marital stability rests on the presence of her wedding corsage inside a book. But when the corsage turns up missing, Louise's imagination runs wild.
- DirectorBob LallyStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerLouise masquerades as the maid and Florence plays George's wife in order to impress Florence's former schoolmate Pauline Jones Smythe, who is now a wealthy ostentatious snob.
- DirectorBob LallyStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerLouise and Florence get into an argument over pettiness after Louise discovered an error in a plaque she had Florence take to an engraver.
- DirectorJack SheaStarsIsabel SanfordSherman HemsleyRoxie RokerLouise's charity work might win her a special award, if George's "donation" to a politician doesn't ruin her chances.