#Er season 11 air date series

#Er season 11 air date series

Mike Evans and Berlinda Tolbert appear as Lionel and Jenny for the final time in the episodes 'The Separation: Part 1' and 'The Seperation: Part 2'.Д®bonie Smith made four appearances as Jessica Jefferson, the granddaughter of the Jeffersons and the Willises in the episodes 'Ebony and Ivory', 'Sayonara, Parts 1 & 2' and 'Red Robins', the series finale episode. The last episode was 'Red Robins' on July 2, 1985.Д«ut nearly thirty years later, the show remains the longest-running broadcast network series with black leads in TV history (followed by Family Matters at nine seasons and The Cosby Show at eight seasons).

So after 10 1/2 years, The Jeffersons was forced into retirement without a proper series finale (as was accorded to Alice that year and One Day at a Time the year before). Sanford found out about the cancellation from a cousin while Hemsley read about it in the newspaper. At the time, the series was on hiatus with four episodes left to air. The cast was not told of the cancellation as it wasn't announced until AFTER CBS unveiled their 1985-1986 fall schedule in May of 1985 and The Jeffersons just wasn't on it.

But would fall to #59 by the end of this season - precipitated by a midseason time slot change from Sunday nights where it had enjoyed some of its highest ratings during the previous five years to Tuesday nights opposite NBC's Top 10 hit The A-Team.

The Jeffersons had finished the previous season (1983-84) ranked #19 in the Nielsen ratings. A total of 24 episodes of The Jeffersons aired on CBS-TV during Season 11, the show's final season, from Octoto the season and series's conclusion on July 2, 1985.