DuBois, and Janet Jackson, as they sit down for a meal in a scene from the television series 'Good Times,' Los Angeles, California, 1977. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Other notable ...
Good Times was the first US sitcom to centre on a black, two-parent family. Set in Chicago’s housing projects, it blended social themes with crowd-pleasing comedy, paving the way for such later ...
on “Good Times.” Actor John Amos, who gained widespread recognition in the 1970s when he portrayed the patriarch on the classic sitcom “Good Times,” died Aug. 21 of natural causes at 84.
Good Times was adapted in the UK in 1976 as The Fosters, the first British sitcom with an all-black cast. Norman Beaton played the father, with Lenny Henry in one of his early roles as one of his ...