Sanford and Son - "A Little Extra Security" - 03:00 am Tuesday, October 28 on WYOU get (Great Entertainment Television)

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A Little Extra Security

Season 4, Episode 13

Grady is getting too many Social Security checks in the mail and he is contemplating on whether or not he should be honest about reporting them or not. He finally decides the latter and keeps them, gambling them away in Las Vegas. Aunt Esther hits the ceiling when she learns of the situation and just then a phone call from the Social Security office comes into the Sanford residence.

repeat 1974 English

Comedy Sitcom

Cast & Crew

Demond Wilson (Actor) .. Lamont Sanford

Whitman Mayo (Actor) .. Grady Wilson

Fred D. Scott (Actor) .. Hastings

Stymie Beard (Actor) .. Cleon

John Hawker (Actor) .. Postman

Raymond Allen (Actor)

Don Bexley (Actor)

Marlene Clark (Actor)

LaWanda Page (Actor)

Fred Daniel Scott (Actor) .. Mr. Hastings

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Did You Know..

Demond Wilson (Actor) .. Lamont Sanford

Born: October 13, 1946
Birthplace: Valdosta, Georgia, United States

Trivia: Began his acting career at the age of 4 with an appearance in the Broadway play Green Pastures. Was drafted by the Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam. Guest-starred on an Emmy-winning episode of All in the Family, which helped him earn a lead role on the popular sitcom Sanford and Son. Scaled back his acting work after experiencing a spiritual awakening and becoming a minister in 1983. Is also a writer whose works include several children's books and the memoir Second Banana: The Bitter Sweet Memoirs of the Sanford & Son Years.

Whitman Mayo (Actor) .. Grady Wilson

Born: November 15, 1930

Fred D. Scott (Actor) .. Hastings

Stymie Beard (Actor) .. Cleon

Born: January 01, 1927
Died: January 08, 1981

Trivia: The son of a Los Angeles minister, three-year-old Matthew Beard won out of 350 kids to replace Allen "Farina" Hoskins as the resident black child in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies. Nicknamed Hercules in his first two-reeler, Teacher's Pet (1930), Beard was thereafter known as Stymie because of his innocent offscreen habit of confounding his elders. Wearing an oversized derby hat (borrowed from Roach comedian Stan Laurel), the clever, resourceful, eternally grinning Stymie quickly became one of the most popular Our Gang kids. After appearing in 36 Our Gang shorts, Beard began freelancing in 1935, playing small roles in big films like Captain Blood (1935), Jezebel (1938), The Great Man Votes (1939), and Stormy Weather (1943). Alas, after dropping out of high school in 1945, he fell into a bad crowd, spending the next two decades in and out of jails for committing crimes to feed his drug habit. Miraculously, Beard completely turned his life around in the mid-'60s when he entered the drug rehab organization Synanon. Looking remarkably like the eternally optimistic Stymie of old, Matthew Beard made a successful show business comeback in the 1970s, appearing in such films as The Buddy Holly Story (1978) and such weekly TV series as Good Times and The Jeffersons.

John Hawker (Actor) .. Postman

Born: February 25, 1918

Raymond Allen (Actor)

Don Bexley (Actor)

Born: March 10, 1910
Died: April 15, 1997

Marlene Clark (Actor)

Born: December 19, 1937
Died: May 18, 2023
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States

Trivia: Marlene Clark, a black supporting actress and occasional lead, appeared on screen beginning in the '70s.

LaWanda Page (Actor)

Born: October 19, 1920
Died: September 14, 2002

Trivia: A comedienne turned actress who rose to fame as outspoken bible-thumper Aunt Ester in Redd Foxx's hit sitcom Sanford and Son, LaWanda Page performed with such other famous contemporaries as Richard Pryor and Rudy Ray Moore before finding success on the small screen. A native of Cleveland who grew up in St. Louis, Page first hit the stage as an exotic dancer and chorus girl billed "the Bronze Goddess of Fire" (due to her penchant for playing with fire on-stage) before fully realizing her talents as a standup comic. Subsequently approached by Foxx to star in Sanford and Son, Page tickled television viewers' funny bones with her memorable role as Foxx's aggressively religious sister-in-law in the original series' spin-off The Sanford Arms, and the 1980 revival Sanford. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Page crafted a feature-film career with minor roles in such comedies as Zapped! (1982), My Blue Heaven (1990), Friday (1995), and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996). Always retaining her fiery approach to comedy, Page also performed on-stage in productions of The Inquest of Sam Cooke and Take It to the Lord...Or Else. On September 14, 2002, LaWanda Page died from complications of diabetes in Los Angeles, CA. She was 81.

Fred Daniel Scott (Actor) .. Mr. Hastings

Born: January 01, 1919
Died: August 01, 2002