About
Redd Foxx isn’t done scheming and wise-cracking in the spin-off to one of America's most beloved sitcoms.
Cast
Redd Foxx
as Fred Sanford
Dennis Burkley
as Cal Pettie
Nathaniel Taylor
as Rollo Lawson
LaWanda Page
as Esther Anderson
Clinton Derricks-Carroll
as Clifford Anderson
Percy Rodriguez
as Winston
Episodes
Season 1
The Meeting (1)
In this pilot to the sequel series of Sanford and Son, Fred meets a man named Cal. Cal worked with Lamont in Alaska. Before you know it,Fred and Cal partner up in the junk business together. Also, Fred meets a very nice customer who happens to be a widow. Her name is Evelyn Lewis. She buys something and when Fred personally delivers it to her apartment, he finds out that she is rich. There he meets the ""Ugly"" loud-mouth maid, her snobbish brother Winston, and her out of control liberal daughter Cissy. At the end of this episode, we find that Fred and Evelyn begin to fall in love.
The Meeting (2)
Fred gets the idea that Evelyn has marriage intentions towards Fred. When he asks to make sure, she says that the idea never crossed her mind. When he gets offended by her saying that, he asks her to marry him. Thinking that she will say ""no"" she says ""yes"". After the shock of that, Fred tries to go on with the engagement thinking that it might be best for him and her. Evelyn then throws an engagement party, but Fred has 2nd thoughts when he accidentally overhears Evelyn's rich friends making fun of him and his junk-man reputation.
The Meeting (3)
After panicking at the engagement party, Fred pretends that he is sick. Evelyn gets wise to him and is very angry. The truth is that he just doesn't want to get married right now. When he tells her that she gets even more angry. The anger settles down though after he explains to her that things are moving too fast for him. With knowing that, Evelyn decides to wait until Fred is ready to marry.
The Still of the Night
Cal makes his own whiskey and Fred thinks that business can be made on it. When Fred takes it to Evelyn's, all of her friends like it including Winston. Winston offers to pay for the $25,000 liquor license fee if the two become business partners. Fred talks Cal into selling the secret recipe when a company drops by to offer Fred serious money for the formula. Unfortunately Fred keeps thinking he can negotiate more money off of them, so he keeps adding figures. When one of Evelyn's friends comes up bald on account of the liquor, the whole deal is terminated.
Dinner at George's
Winston tells Fred that Evelyn's favorite restaraunt is a fancy one, so Fred decides to take her to that place. Thinking that Fred cannot handle the bill, Evelyn sneaks off to ""powder her nose"" so that she can pay the difference over the $34 Fred brought with him. Fred catches on and then offended, he leaves her at the restaraunt. He goes home to get money and comes across some silver dollars. He then gives them to Evelyn to pay her back for the bill and when she cashes them, it turns out that those silver dollars were old, rare, and worth $1,500. She gives him the money and out of that, he gives her the $100 she paid for dinner.
Younger Than Springtime Am I
One of Fred's customers, a shady salesman for a drug called methusadol, sells Fred a bottle of pills that he says will make him look younger and youthful again. Fred then takes these pill for $100 a bottle and he psychologically thinks that he is getting younger and that the pills are a breakthrough. When he takes it to Evelyn, she calls for a investigation on them and she tells him the bad news.
Retrospective (1)
Evelyn gives Fred and Cal some things that she doesn't want anymore before she goes out with her maid. The cops all of a sudden arrest the two thinking that they are stealing from the posh building. After the arrest, Fred calls Evelyn's place and Winston answers the phone. After Fred talks and explains the conditions to Winston, Winston laughs and hangs up on him. As the two are in jail, they reminisce about past episodes from this season.
Retrospective (2)
Fred and Cal continue to reminisce. Evelyn finally gets a note that Winston left her about the situation and she comes to bail Fred out of jail. A cop then tells the two that they are free to go and that the goods that were in Fred's truck were stolen by a real theif. Mad at the cops for making thier mistake and costing them the goods, Fred gets angry and the cops lock him up again.....at least until he cools off.
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