Season 6 • Episode 24
LatestThis final episode brings all too good news for the Evans family. J.J. gets an offer to a comic company, Keith's bad knee is miraculously healed and is offered another football contract, and Florida is asked if she wants to move in with Keith and Thelma in the fancy apartment building across town where Willona happens to be moving and just so happens to be her future next door neighbor.
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.
Acting
Esther Rolle's Florida grounds every episode in fierce maternal dignity.
Writing
Norman Lear's team snuck real poverty politics into prime-time laughs.
Production
That opening theme? 'Movin' on Up' composer before The Jeffersons existed.
Creators
Mike Evans, Eric Monte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
First U.S. sitcom with a two-parent Black family — Lear fought CBS to keep Florida married.
Jimmie Walker's 'Dy-No-Mite!' was written into scripts after he improvised it constantly.
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