Many of the surviving cast members have retired and stayed out of the spotlight.

Berlinda Tolbert as Jenny Willis Jefferson, Ned Wertimer as Ralph the Doorman, Franklin Cover and Roxie Roker as Tom and Helen Willis, Paul Benedict as Harry Bentley, Marla Gibbs as Florence ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

Norman Lear's "The Jeffersons," an "All in the Family" spinoff, was a record-setting Black comedy. But it made important history in other ways.