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.

Following a fight with Woodrow, Aunt Esther moves in with Fred and Lamont. Fred works overtime engineering a reconciliation so she'll return home.

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.

With the bank ready to foreclose, Fred and Lamont desperately seek to find tenants for the Sanford Arms.

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.

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.

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.

After receiving a proposal from another man, Donna gives Fred one final chance to marry her.

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.

Fred and Ah Chew team up and turn the Sanford home into a Japanese restaurant.

Jealous of Donna's athletic new boyfriend, Fred begins training so he can challenge him in the Senior Olympics.

Tightfisted Fred gets a ghostly wake-up call in this spoof of A Christmas Carol.

Fred is wounded while witnessing a mob hit and is hospitalized under police protection until he can identify Mr. Big.

Fred plans to get rich quick by selling Whopper Chopper food processors, using Lamont's acting school tuition money to make his initial investment.

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.

A very pregnant woman rents Lamont's room for the week he's away on a fishing trip.

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.

When Lamont falls in love with a mysterious woman, Fred and Esther play amateur sleuths to learn more about her.

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.

Lamont musters the courage to pop the question to Janet.

Starstruck Fred assumes the director's chair when the champ George Foreman comes to star in a play for Lamont's theater workshop.

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.

Fred regales young Roger with tall tales of his World war II exploits that draw more from the late movie than the history books.

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.

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. Fred Sanford is a cantankerous 65-year-old, black, widowed junk dealer living in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. Helping him is his restless son, 34-year-old Lamont; Fred's beloved wife and Lamont's mother, Elizabeth, had died more than 20 years earlier. Fred's schemes and bigotry especially toward Julio, a Puerto Rican who was Lamont's friend, whites and other minorities often frustrated Lamont. Fred also showed overt disdain for his sister-in-law, Aunt Esther (the feeling was mutual). Many times, Lamont threatened to leave for meaningful work, but Fred faked a heart attack each time (Oh, this time its real, I'm a-comin' 'Lizabeth!) as a sympathy ploy to get his son to stay. By 1977, Fred and Lamont had sold their business (stars Foxx and Wilson wanted to leave the series); it became ... Written by Brian Rathjen briguy_52732@yahoo.com