Q 01/05

Which 1972 sitcom starring Redd Foxx as a Watts junk dealer was adapted from Steptoe and Son?

A) Sanford and Son

B) What's Happening!!

C) Good Times

D) That's My Mama

Answer · why

A) Sanford and Son

Norman Lear adapted it as NBC's answer to All in the Family, which he had also adapted from a British show, Till Death Us Do Part.

Q 02/05

Redd Foxx's junk dealer Fred G. ran his yard in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?

A) Compton

B) Watts

C) Crenshaw

D) Inglewood

Answer · why

B) Watts

The address was 9114 South Central Avenue. Fred had moved there from his hometown of St. Louis as a young man.

Q 03/05

Which sitcom about the Evanses in a Chicago housing project was TV's first with a Black two-parent family?

A) Julia

B) 227

C) The Jeffersons

D) Good Times

Answer · why

D) Good Times

It was a spin-off of Maude, itself a spin-off of All in the Family. Florida Evans had been Maude's housekeeper.

Q 04/05

The Evans family's housing project on Good Times was implicitly which Chicago development?

A) Cabrini-Green

B) Ida B. Wells Homes

C) Stateway Gardens

D) Robert Taylor Homes

Answer · why

A) Cabrini-Green

They lived at 963 North Gilbert Avenue, apartment 17C. James Evans usually worked at least two manual-labour jobs.

Q 05/05

Which future pop superstar joined the Evans family sitcom in season five as Penny, adopted by Willona?

A) Stephanie Mills

B) Janet Jackson

C) Jody Watley

D) Whitney Houston

Answer · why

B) Janet Jackson

Ratings were already declining by then, and stars Esther Rolle and John Amos had grown frustrated at J.J.'s clowning taking over the show.