While visiting the set of ‘227’, Kym Whitley gained a longtime friend in Marla Gibbs. But that wasn’t the case for another star of the popular sitcom.

One of the most acclaimed and successful sitcoms of all time, 'The Jeffersons' broke ground as the first series to showcase an upwardly mobile black family in primetime, and in so doing change perceptions about African American life on and off the screen.

One of the most acclaimed and successful sitcoms of all time, 'The Jeffersons' broke ground as the first series to showcase an upwardly mobile black family in primetime, and in so doing change perceptions about African American life on and off the screen.

One of the most acclaimed and successful sitcoms of all time, 'The Jeffersons' broke ground as the first series to showcase an upwardly mobile black family in primetime, and in so doing change perceptions about African American life on and off the screen.

The Jeffersons went from working-class Queens to the Upper East Side and STILL kept it real

The Jeffersons went from working-class Queens to the Upper East Side and STILL kept it real