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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Crossed Swords

Original Air Date—14 January 1972
Lamont buys a porcelain figure for $15 from a silent movie star. After having it appraised, Lamont and Fred decide to sell it at an auction. They attend the auction pretending to be buyers to bid the price even higher. However, things go awry to Lamont's dismay.

Season 1, Episode 2: Happy Birthday, Pop

Original Air Date—21 January 1972
During his birthday celebration, Fred is overwhelmed by a visit to a fancy bar, a movie theater to see Fiddler on the Roof, and dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

Season 1, Episode 3: Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride

Original Air Date—28 January 1972
Lamont is excited about his upcoming, but on the big day he quickly finds himself the only one who is. The bride dumps him at the altar, and his relatives beg to get back their wedding gifts.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Copper Caper

Original Air Date—4 February 1972
Fred and Lamont buy a load of copper from a man who has been stealing it from people in the neighborhood.

Season 1, Episode 5: A Matter of Life and Breath

Original Air Date—11 February 1972
Concerned about his father's smoker's cough, Lamont brings Fred in for a free tuberculosis screening at the American Lung Association's Breathmobile. The test results take his breath away.

Season 1, Episode 6: We Were Robbed

Original Air Date—18 February 1972
O, what a tangled web Fred weaves when he fakes a robbery to cover-up his careless destruction of Lamont's prized porcelain and glass collection.

Season 1, Episode 7: A Pad for Lamont

Original Air Date—25 February 1972
Fed up with his father frustrating his love life, Lamont strikes out on his own and rents a swingin' bachelor pad.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Great Sanford Siege

Original Air Date—3 March 1972
The Sanfords haven't been paying their bills and now find themselves trapped in their home in a standoff with a process server and a collection agency ready to repossess their unpaid furniture.

Season 1, Episode 9: Coffins for Sale

Original Air Date—10 March 1972
Lamont's keeping a pair of coffins in the living room spooks superstitious Fred.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Barracuda

Original Air Date—17 March 1972
Fred's in love and engaged to be married, but not if Lamont can help it.

Season 1, Episode 11: TV or Not TV

Original Air Date—24 March 1972
In need of a new color television, Fred is upset when Lamont decides to spend the money instead on a new car. Lamont has a change of heart, however, when Fred wanders away from home and is taken to the hospital - with an apparent case of amnesia.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Suitcase Case

Original Air Date—31 March 1972
Lamont's daily haul of junk includes a tattered briefcase stuffed with stolen cash. Will Fred and Lamont decide whether to keep it or turn it over to the police before the crook it belongs to comes looking for it?

Season 1, Episode 13: The Return of the Barracuda

Original Air Date—7 April 1972
Fred and Donna kiss and make up, sparking Lamont to hatch new plans for putting the kibosh on Cupid.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Piano Movers

Original Air Date—14 April 1972
It's putting the match to the powder keg when rough and tumble Fred and Lamont are engaged to remove a piano from the lavish Beverly Hills apartment of a cultured antiques collector.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: By the Numbers

Original Air Date—15 September 1972
Freeloading family and friends flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers.

Season 2, Episode 2: Whiplash

Original Air Date—22 September 1972
Fred's fine following his fender bender with a Cadillac, but Bubba convinces him to claim whiplash and then lay claim to a gold mine in monetary damages.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Dowry

Original Air Date—29 September 1972

Season 2, Episode 4: Jealousy

Original Air Date—6 October 1972

Season 2, Episode 5: Tooth or Consequences

Original Air Date—13 October 1972

Season 2, Episode 6: The Card Sharps

Original Air Date—27 October 1972
Lamont won't heed Fred's warnings that he's being played for a sucker by some canny card sharps

Season 2, Episode 7: Have Gun, Will Sell

Original Air Date—3 November 1972
After Fred and Lamont scare away a burglar, they realize that he left his gun at their house. Lamont and Rollo then pressure Fred into going to a pawn shop to try and sell the gun.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Puerto Ricans Are Coming!

Original Air Date—10 November 1972

Season 2, Episode 9: The Shootout

Original Air Date—17 November 1972

Season 2, Episode 10: Blood Is Thicker Than Junk

Original Air Date—24 November 1972
After a nasty spat Sanford and Son split up. Fred hires a new man to replace Lamont, who signs on to work with a competing junk dealer.

Season 2, Episode 11: Sanford and Son and Sister Makes Three

Original Air Date—1 December 1972

Season 2, Episode 12: A Guest in the Yard

Original Air Date—8 December 1972

Season 2, Episode 13: Fred & Carol and Fred & Donna

Original Air Date—15 December 1972

Season 2, Episode 14: The Light Housekeeper

Original Air Date—22 December 1972
Lamont hires a housekeeper, but Fred isn't wild about her being white.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Big Party

Original Air Date—5 January 1973
Behind on their bills, Fred and Lamont look to raise money by throwing a house party and charging admission.

Season 2, Episode 16: A Visit from Lena Horne

Original Air Date—12 January 1973

Season 2, Episode 17: Lamont Goes African

Original Air Date—19 January 1973
Lamont looks to reinvent himself by adopting an African name and lifestyle.

Season 2, Episode 18: Watts Side Story

Original Air Date—26 January 1973
Lamont just met a girl named Maria, but she's Julio's Puerto Rican sister, and the possibility of an interracial romance ruffles the feathers of both Fred and Mrs. Fuentes.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Infernal Triangle

Original Air Date—3 February 1973

Season 2, Episode 20: Pops 'n' Pals

Original Air Date—9 February 1973

Season 2, Episode 21: Home Sweet Home for the Aged

Original Air Date—16 February 1973
Before setting off to sail the world aboard a tramp steamer, Lamont must convince Fred to move into a retirement home.

Season 2, Episode 22: Pot Luck

Original Air Date—23 February 1973
Lamont takes advantage of an ignorant seller and buys an antique commode for $20, greedily anticipating reselling it for a tremendous profit.

Season 2, Episode 23: The Kid

Original Air Date—9 March 1973
A lonely latchkey kid stows away on Lamont's truck and spends a day with the Sanfords.

Season 2, Episode 24: Rated X

Original Air Date—16 March 1973
Fred tags along to a movie casting call that Lamont and Rollo hope will make them respected black actors, not suspecting this film is blue.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Lamont as Othello

Original Air Date—14 September 1973
Fred is uneasy with Lamont's rehearsing Othello with a white actress in their home, so Marilyn invites Fred and Lamont to come to her home in Beverly Hills.

Season 3, Episode 2: Libra Rising All Over Lamont

Original Air Date—21 September 1973
As an astrologer tells Lamont that as a Libra he must avoid strife and arguing, hypochondriac Fred is home suffering from gas after eating eight-day-old collard greens.

Season 3, Episode 3: Fred, the Reluctant Fingerman

Original Air Date—28 September 1973
Fred, fearing retaliation after witnessing a robbery at Julio's, is unwilling to get involved by describing the burglars to the police.

Season 3, Episode 4: Presenting the Three Degrees

Original Air Date—5 October 1973
The Three Degrees, the Philadelphia-based singing trio, are the Sanfords' house-guests. The ladies perform "I Didn't Know" for Fred.

Season 3, Episode 5: This Little TV Went to Market

Original Air Date—12 October 1973
Grady claims the television Fred got for a steal from Guy's Groovy Grabbag was indeed stolen--from him.

Season 3, Episode 6: Lamont, Is That You?

Original Air Date—19 October 1973
Fred fears Lamont and Rollo are homosexuals after Bubba reports seeing them go into the Gay Blade Bar.

Season 3, Episode 7: Fuentes, Fuentes, Sanford & Chico

Original Air Date—26 October 1973
Feeling betrayed when Lamont starts a sideline business with Julio, Fred moves out and into a downtown flophouse.

Season 3, Episode 8: Superflyer

Original Air Date—2 November 1973
Fred's Uncle Leotis dies and leaves him $1,500, but the catch to collecting it is Fred and Lamont must fly to St. Louis and oversee the funeral arrangements. But steady Freddy isn't sure he's ready to take his first flight in an airplane.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Engagment/The Member of the Wedding

Original Air Date—9 November 1973
Fred and Donna are to be married on Sunday, but Lamont plots to put them asunder before the Lord joins them together by inviting to the wedding his Aunt Esther and the rest of Fred's irascible in-laws.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Blind Mellow Jelly Collection

Original Air Date—16 November 1973
Lamont becomes annoyed that Fred is constantly playing old blues records featuring a band named Blind Mellow Jelly. Then, he finds out the records are rare and could be worth several hundred dollars.

Season 3, Episode 11: A House Is Not a Pool Room

Original Air Date—23 November 1973
Lamont suffers buyer's remorse after the pool table he gave Fred for his birthday brings the boys over for billiards every day while Fred's work and girlfriend Donna go neglected.

Season 3, Episode 12: Grady, the Star Boarder

Original Air Date—30 November 1973
Fred seizes a financial opportunity when Grady gripes about his neighbors' fighting: invite Grady to come live in serenity for $60 a month with him and Lamont.

Season 3, Episode 13: Wine, Women and Aunt Esther

Original Air Date—14 December 1973
Depressed about death and growing old, Fred and his drinking buddies determine to think young and go for the gusto by throwing a wild party, inviting topless waitress Fast Fanny and four of her fast friends to spice it up.

Season 3, Episode 14: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe

Original Air Date—4 January 1974
Fred's feathers get ruffled when an old friend from St. Louis comes to town claiming to be Lamont's actual father.

Season 3, Episode 15: Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle

Original Air Date—11 January 1974
When Lamont gets a traffic ticket, Fred convinces him to fight it in court, where the poor man's Perry Mason steps up to defend his son against the system.

Season 3, Episode 16: This Land Is Whose Land?

Original Air Date—18 January 1974
Fred, petty and prejudiced against his Puerto Rican neighbor, hires a surveyor to mark the legal property line to ensure Julio keeps his stuff off the Sanford side.

Season 3, Episode 17: Fred's Cheating Heart

Original Air Date—1 February 1974
After learning about the dangers and high risk of heart disease, Lamont plots to get his heart attack-prone father to the hospital for a cardio check-up.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Party Crasher

Original Air Date—8 February 1974
Lamont and Rollo don't want to invite fuddy-duddy Fred to their party with a pair of live-wire women from Detroit.

Season 3, Episode 19: Lamont Goes Karate

Original Air Date—15 February 1974
Lamont learns karate to defend himself against bully Jo Jo Jackson.

Season 3, Episode 20: Will the Real Fred Sanford Please Do Something?

Original Air Date—22 February 1974
A woman Fred wooed over one too many boilermakers comes looking to take him up on his marriage proposal. Betty is bent on getting satisfaction and skeptical of Grady's insisting he's not Fred

Season 3, Episode 21: Tyranny, Thy Name Is Grady

Original Air Date—1 March 1974
With Fred away in St. Louis, Grady is put in charge of the house. He quickly makes his presence known by keeping Aunt Esther out and preventing Lamont from bringing girls home.

Season 3, Episode 22: Aunt Esther and Uncle Woodrow Pfftt...

Original Air Date—8 March 1974
"I'm not a cream puff!" declares Uncle Woody after Grady gives him an empowering man-to-man talk and sends him home to reclaim his castle. But Aunt Esther doesn't appreciate Grady's making a man of her mouse and shows that hell hath no fury like the wife of a worm turned.

Season 3, Episode 23: The Way to Lamont's Heart

Original Air Date—15 March 1974
Lamont's looking for a little lovin', but new girlfriend Judy is looking to settle down. When Lamont tells Judy he can't get married because his godfather Grady would disapprove, Judy sets to winning Grady's approval with a smile and a smoked pork butt, which sets Grady jumping to conclusions.

Season 3, Episode 24: Hello Cousin Emma... Goodbye Cousin Emma

Original Air Date—29 March 1974
Grady's cousin Emma blows in from the Windy City and promises to make the living easy for the two men, but Lamont has his doubts, especially after being bumped from his bedroom and having to share a bed with Grady.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Surprise Party

Original Air Date—13 September 1974
Fred returns from St. Louis to a welcome home surprise party. Lamont must exercise diplomacy and peacekeeping after he bruises the feelings of both Fred and Grady.

Season 4, Episode 2: Matchmaker, Matchmaker

Original Air Date—20 September 1974
Lamont stands to inherit $7,000 if within a year he marries and has a son named after his late uncle George. Fred sees dollar signs, so he and Grady set to making marriage bells ring by turning to a computer dating service.

Season 4, Episode 3: Ol' Brown Eyes

Original Air Date—27 September 1974
Fred is celebrating 35 years in the junk business and snoops and finds his intended gift: a signet ring with his initials on it that Rollo got for a good price. Then Fred learns that among the items recently stolen from Frank Sinatra's hotel room was an initialed signet ring.

Season 4, Episode 4: Grady and His Lady

Original Air Date—4 October 1974
Fred fears wedding bells will break up his beautiful friendship after Grady announces he's engaged to Dolly, so Fred plots to puncture the romance.

Season 4, Episode 5: There'll Be Some Changes Made

Original Air Date—11 October 1974
Lamont moves out after a fight with Fred, but Fred lures his son back by agreeing to allow Lamont's eccentric encounter group to hold its meeting in their home. This episode introduces the recurring character Ah Chew.

Season 4, Episode 6: Going Out of Business

Original Air Date—18 October 1974
To get a better tax break and increase their income, Lamont gets a job as a clerk at a haberdashery and Fred considers closing down Sanford & Son.

Season 4, Episode 7: Home Sweet Home

Original Air Date—25 October 1974
A Japanese real estate firm wants to buy and tear down all the properties on the Sanfords' block in order to build a brewery.

Season 4, Episode 8: My Kingdom for a Horse

Original Air Date—1 November 1974
Fred buys a retired thoroughbred racehorse, betting on a big profit after selling him as a breeding stud.

Season 4, Episode 9: Sanford and Niece

Original Air Date—8 November 1974
Fred's tender side is stirred when his niece Elizabeth comes to visit and bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

Season 4, Episode 10: Julio and Sister and Nephew

Original Air Date—15 November 1974
Allergic to Chico the goat, Julio's sister and young nephew stay with the Sanfords. Controversy arises when young Roberto is placed down a grade in school because of his poor English skills.

Season 4, Episode 11: Fred's Treasure Garden

Original Air Date—29 November 1974
Among the vegetables growing in Grady's garden is "wild parsley," only Lamont and Rollo recognize it by a different name: marijuana!

Season 4, Episode 12: Tower Power

Original Air Date—6 December 1974
A visit to a gallery of abstract art inspires Fred to create his magnum opus: a towering heap of junk.

Season 4, Episode 13: A Little Extra Security

Original Air Date—13 December 1974
Grady receives an extra Social Security check by mistake and wastes no time celebrating his windfall, but the wind falls from his sails when he learns Mr. Hastings from the Social Security office is on his way over to the house.

Season 4, Episode 14: The Merger

Original Air Date—20 December 1974
The Sanfords and Julio agree to merge their competing junkyards and bank on business booming after they broadcast a television commercial.

Season 4, Episode 15: Once a Thief

Original Air Date—27 December 1974
Grady gets uptight when Lamont brings his ex-convict friend Herman home to stay until he can find a job.

Season 4, Episode 16: The Stand-In

Original Air Date—17 January 1975
The Sanfords welcome Fred's buddies Bow Legs and Al, who are bringing their song, dance and comedy act to an LA nightclub. When Al hurts his back, Fred and Lamont step up and step out in this revue episode highlighted by Billy Eckstine singing "Jelly Jelly."

Season 4, Episode 17: Strange Bedfellows

Original Air Date—24 January 1975
Praise for Lamont's impassioned call into a radio political program sparks him to run for the state assembly. Will it be Mr. Sanford goes to Sacramento?

Season 4, Episode 18: The Masquerade Party

Original Air Date—31 January 1975
In this spoof of "Let's Make a Deal," Fred, Grady and Bubba appear as contestants on "Wheel and Deal," hoping to win a new car as a birthday present for Lamont.

Season 4, Episode 19: Golden Boy

Original Air Date—7 February 1975
Fred hopes to get rich quick by becoming co-owner of a boxer dubbed Junior Joe Louis. It then becomes Fred and Grady's job to get Junior into fighting shape before Friday's bout.

Season 4, Episode 20: My Brother-In-Law's Keeper

Original Air Date—14 February 1975
Fred is bothered and bewildered by his baby sister's marriage to a white man.

Season 4, Episode 21: The Headache

Original Air Date—21 February 1975
Lamont's headache drives him to the psychologist's couch, where it is suggested the pain in Lamont's head is caused by the pain in the neck he lives with.

Season 4, Episode 22: The Stung

Original Air Date—28 February 1975
Tired of Lamont telling him he's a loser at cards, Fred and his professional gambler friend play a prank on Lamont and his poker pals. But will Fred be left holding the dead man's hand?

Season 4, Episode 23: The Older Woman

Original Air Date—7 March 1975
Fred and Grady don disguises to discover the cougar who has her claws in Lamont's heart.

Season 4, Episode 24: The Over-the-Hill Gag

Original Air Date—14 March 1975
Lamont misunderstands the doctor and believes Fred has only six months to live and lavished love and kindness upon him. Fred's content to ride the gravy train, though it may land him in the soup.

Season 4, Episode 25: The Family Man

Original Air Date—25 April 1975
The story of Grady and his eyebrow-raising gift to his daughter and son-in-law just before their cocktail party for stuffy university professors.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Earthquake II

Original Air Date—12 September 1975
An earthquake shakes up the Sanfords, and the threat of an even bigger quake sparks Fred to sell the house and seek shelter in Las Vegas.

Season 5, Episode 2: Divorce, Sanford Style

Original Air Date—19 September 1975
Following a fight with Woodrow, Aunt Esther moves in with Fred and Lamont. Fred works overtime engineering a reconciliation so she'll return home.

Season 5, Episode 3: Bank on This

Original Air Date—26 September 1975
Fred and Lamont are applying for a loan to finance their purchase of Julio's former property when a pair of robbers burst into the bank.

Season 5, Episode 4: The Sanford Arms

Original Air Date—3 October 1975
With the bank ready to foreclose, Fred and Lamont desperately seek to find tenants for the Sanford Arms.

Season 5, Episode 5: Steinberg and Son

Original Air Date—10 October 1975
The series spoofs itself when the characters in the new television show "Steinberg and Son" turn out to be Borscht Belt parallels to those in the life of Fred G. Sanford.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 117:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 6: Brother, Can You Spare an Act?

Original Air Date—17 October 1975
When Fred's white brother-in-law Rodney lands a job emceeing a local vaudeville revival, Fred, Lamont and Smiley Rogers help out by providing the song and dance.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 117:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 7: Della, Della, Della

Original Air Date—31 October 1975
When two competing politicians each seek to use Fred's junkyard for a campaign headquarters, Della Reese appeals to Fred to stand by her man.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 1311:00 AMTVLAND
Fri. Nov. 137:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 8: Donna Pops the Question

Original Air Date—7 November 1975
After receiving a proposal from another man, Donna gives Fred one final chance to marry her.

Season 5, Episode 9: My Fair Esther

Original Air Date—14 November 1975
Fred becomes a latter-day Henry Higgins when he undertakes the task of transforming ugly duckling Esther into a swan so she can win the Mrs. Watts Businessman's Contest and net Fred half the prize money.
Next US airings:
Thur. Nov. 1211:00 AMTVLAND
Thur. Nov. 127:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 10: Sanford and Rising Son

Original Air Date—21 November 1975
Fred and Ah Chew team up and turn the Sanford home into a Japanese restaurant.
Next US airings:
Mon. Nov. 1611:00 AMTVLAND
Mon. Nov. 167:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 11: The Olympics

Original Air Date—5 December 1975
Jealous of Donna's athletic new boyfriend, Fred begins training so he can challenge him in the Senior Olympics.

Season 5, Episode 12: Ebenezer Sanford

Original Air Date—12 December 1975
Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of "A Christmas Carol."

Season 5, Episode 13: The Oddfather

Original Air Date—2 January 1976
Fred is wounded while witnessing a mob hit and is hospitalized under police protection until he can identify Mr. Big.

Season 5, Episode 14: Can You Chop This?

Original Air Date—9 January 1976
Fred plans to get rich quick by selling Whopper Chopper food processors, using Lamont's acting school tuition money to make his initial investment.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 1311:30 AMTVLAND
Fri. Nov. 137:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 15: Greatest Show in Watts

Original Air Date—16 January 1976
While babysitting an elephant, Fred holds a circus in the junkyard, allowing the cast to display their talents, especially Aunt Esther as the Bronze Goddess.
Next US airings:
Thur. Nov. 1211:30 AMTVLAND
Thur. Nov. 127:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 16: Fred Sanford Has a Baby

Original Air Date—23 January 1976
A very pregnant woman rents Lamont's room for the week he's away on a fishing trip.
Next US airings:
Mon. Nov. 1611:30 AMTVLAND
Mon. Nov. 167:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 17: The TV Addict

Original Air Date—30 January 1976
Fred's lifestyle of too much TV and too little exercise has Lamont concerned for his father's health, so Fred undergoes hypnotism to break his addiction to television.

Season 5, Episode 18: Lamont in Love

Original Air Date—6 February 1976
When Lamont falls in love with a mysterious woman, Fred and Esther play amateur sleuths to learn more about her.
Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 1711:00 AMTVLAND
Tue. Nov. 177:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 19: The Escorts

Original Air Date—13 February 1976
When Fred's friend Elroy can't find a date, Fred's inspired to launch his latest get rich quick scheme: an escort service for seniors.
Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 1711:30 AMTVLAND
Tue. Nov. 177:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 20: The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice

Original Air Date—20 February 1976
Lamont musters the courage to pop the question to Janet.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 1811:00 AMTVLAND
Wed. Nov. 187:00 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 21: The Director

Original Air Date—27 February 1976
Starstruck Fred assumes the director's chair when the champ George Foreman comes to star in a play for Lamont's theater workshop.

Season 5, Episode 22: A Pain in the Neck

Original Air Date—5 March 1976
Fred's friends have got his back, as he discovers when he suffers from a backache on the day he is to receive the Watts Businessman's award and his friends rush to his aid with all kinds of quack cures.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 1811:30 AMTVLAND
Wed. Nov. 187:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 23: Sergeant Gork

Original Air Date—12 March 1976
Fred regales young Roger with tall tales of his World war II exploits that draw more from the late movie than the history books.
Next US airings:
Thur. Nov. 1911:30 AMTVLAND
Thur. Nov. 197:30 PMTVLAND

Season 5, Episode 24: The Camping Trip

Original Air Date—19 March 1976
Lamont brings Fred along on a camping trip to have some solitude and quality time together. Fred is no friend of nature and does nothing but complain...when the truck won't start they are stranded and begin to reminisce about old times.
Next US airings:
Thur. Nov. 1911:00 AMTVLAND
Thur. Nov. 197:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: The Hawaiian Connection: Part 1

Original Air Date—24 September 1976
Luring Fred and Lamont to Hawaii, a trio of jewel thieves plot to make Fred their mule for smuggling stolen diamonds to California.

Season 6, Episode 2: The Hawaiian Connection: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 October 1976
Fred and Lamont visit Hawaii tourist attractions while running for their lives from the jewel thieves.

Season 6, Episode 3: California Crude

Original Air Date—8 October 1976
While Fred and Lamont are digging a garden, oil is discovered underground at the junk yard. Fred sees millions but before any money can be paid it must first be tested.
Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 2411:00 AMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 4: The Stakeout

Original Air Date—15 October 1976
The police are looking for a fence named Alex Hacker who's been spotted coming in and out of The Sanford Arms. They use Fred and Lamont's home to stakeout the Arms. Meanwhile, Fred has a crush on a new lady tenant.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 2011:30 AMTVLAND
Fri. Nov. 207:30 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 5: I Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz

Original Air Date—22 October 1976
Fred is determined to break Choo Choo Rabinowitz's official world record for the longest amount of time staying awake.
Next US airings:
Mon. Nov. 2311:00 AMTVLAND
Mon. Nov. 237:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 6: The Winning Ticket

Original Air Date—5 November 1976
A couple of con men sucker Fred into running a rigged lucky number contest for which the crooks secretly hold the winning ticket.
Next US airings:
Mon. Nov. 2311:30 AMTVLAND
Mon. Nov. 237:30 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 7: Committee Man

Original Air Date—12 November 1976

Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 2411:30 AMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 8: Fred's Extra Job

Original Air Date—19 November 1976
Fred works nights as a bus boy in a fancy restaurant so he can begin paying back the $6,000 bank loan he took out in order to give Lamont an impressive wedding gift.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 2011:00 AMTVLAND
Fri. Nov. 207:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 9: Carol

Original Air Date—26 November 1976

Season 6, Episode 10: Aunt Esther Has a Baby

Original Air Date—3 December 1976
Esther and Woody plan to be parents for the first time, but for it to happen Esther is going to need Fred's help.

Season 6, Episode 11: Here Today, Gone Today

Original Air Date—7 December 1976

Season 6, Episode 12: Aunt Esther Meets Her Son

Original Air Date—10 December 1976
Esther and Woody welcome their son Daniel, but quickly discover they must practice the forgiveness that Esther preaches.

Season 6, Episode 13: Sanford and Gong

Original Air Date—17 December 1976

Season 6, Episode 14: Fred Meets Redd

Original Air Date—14 January 1977

Season 6, Episode 15: Chinese Torture/The Defiant One

Original Air Date—21 January 1977

Season 6, Episode 16: A Matter of Silence

Original Air Date—28 January 1977

Season 6, Episode 17: When John Comes Marching Home

Original Air Date—4 February 1977

Season 6, Episode 18: The Reverend Sanford

Original Air Date—11 February 1977

Season 6, Episode 19: The Will

Original Air Date—18 February 1977

Season 6, Episode 20: Fred the Activist

Original Air Date—25 February 1977

Season 6, Episode 21: The Lucky Streak

Original Air Date—4 March 1977

Season 6, Episode 22: Funny, You Don't Look It

Original Air Date—11 March 1977

Season 6, Episode 23: Fred Sings the Blues

Original Air Date—18 March 1977

Season 6, Episode 24: School Daze

Original Air Date—25 March 1977

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