The Jeffersons: Not So Dearly Beloved

Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications Company, 1981. Second Draft ribbon copy typescript master script, with manuscript white-out annotations on 25 pages, for the season 7, episode 18, "Not So Dearly Beloved," episode of the acclaimed television sitcom, which aired on May 15, 1981 on CBS. Screenwriters David Silverman and Steve Sustarsic were best known for their work as animators and screenwriters for sitcom television.

Broadcast on CBS for eleven seasons, from 1975 to 1985, "The Jeffersons," created by Norman Lear was a spin-off of his watershed sitcom "All in the Family," and was one of the longest running series in television history, the second-longest featuring a primarily African American cast, and the first television series which prominently featured a married interracial couple. Sherman Hemsley stars as the irascible George Jefferson, a successful African American entrepreneur, who, with the Emmy Award winning Isabel Sanford as his kind and level-headed wife Louise (Weezy), move to an ritzy Manhattan apartment with their college age son and wise-cracking maid.

George invites his rude problem employee Wendell up to his apartment to fire him, but shortly after Wendell arrives, he collapses and dies of a stroke on George's sofa.

Front wrapper integral with title page, noted as SECOND DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. 48 leaves, with last page of text numbered 46. Ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, unbound.

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