Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestGrady is an spin-off of the sitcom, Sanford and Son. In this series, Fred Sanford's widower friend Grady moves out of Watts and moves in with his daughter and her family in Westwood. Executive producer Norman Lear served as a consultant to the show. Redd Foxx made a special guest appearance as Fred Sanford in the second episode. The series never found a solid audience, and was canceled after just ten episodes. Whitman Mayo returned to Sanford and Son and would go on to star in the revival series The Sanford Arms.
Acting
Whitman Mayo's effortless Grady charm carries every scene.
Writing
Lerner-trained writers tackling middle-class Black family dynamics.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Whitman Mayo reportedly accepted this role hoping to escape Fred Sanford's shadow—only to return to Sanford and Son within months of cancellation.
Grady represents Norman Lear's brief experiment with centering working-class Black characters in middle-class settings, a tension the show never fully resolved.
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