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And you have to remember, all their shows were Black and White, no Color TV in those early 50's

@@gsallison1 Were you trying to make a pun (B&W)? If not, you succeeded anyway! LOL I remember seeing them in the early-'60s, before the despicable NAACP forced CBS to take them off by '66. This series showed blacks as middle class or upper-class (ex, lawyers) people, not the usual janitors and maids! So how the hell could it be considered "racist" by the overly-sensitive, race-baiting NAACP (who should disband their outdated org.) when it was far classier (a better pun!) than when they were shown as typical, working-class janitors/maids. The show had superb writers to complement the fine actors. The horrid, race-baiting NAACP allowed "All in the Family" to air (Jan. 1971), without a peep of protest, although Archie Bunker frequently made negative references to them using terms that should have made the NAACP explode! Why the double standard? Did Archie Bunker's idiocy on race make all whites the same as he? Of course not! In many respects, the 1950s to the late-1960s had far higher quality tv series than the mostly junk stuff that is promoted today! The NAACP should relent, and finally allow people to see this series, at least on (cable) television, and then stop meddling in every other tv series! Let the ratings (and now social media) guide which tv series stay or go, instead of pressure from this one long outdated and now un-necessary, and despicable, ugly race-baiting organization!

I remember Queen for a Day would come on and after Amos and Andy, soooooo funny 🤭

Loved Amos N Andy, it was one of the funniest show on and no racism, just a funny show, it is amazing that it is still available.

I heard it was the families of the actors that won’t allow them to be shown. That people (whites?) laughed at them not with them? No one I have ever known has said that about them. They are funny!

@@elizabethapfelbaum1240 Hello, this is the first time I have ever heard this accusations. It is not true. The families had no power to do anything about the A&A series. Please fact check and research for the truth. It is all online. But I'm glad you think they are funny as they are great and wonderful comedians.

@@maldijaili6799 Good to know, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it

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@Baadass Mofo - A 5 year old child does not know race, but does recognize laughter. The Amos & Andy cast were my friends, though I didn’t know you couldn’t befriend a television character. They were very funny and a talented cast. It maybe hard for you to believe, but I laughed with them, not at them. We laughed at their antics and predicaments. As I grew older and would hear of the passing of the cast my heart would sorrow, as if I lost a friend. “Beulah” was another program featuring a black star. I loved her as I loved my own grandmother. Rocked my world? Yes, in the most favorable way. They were part of my childhood family and I love them dearly. Now, at 73, that has not changed. And when I die, I will look them up if I can, and thank them for making my world a better place. I cannot say that about any white TV personality. Why? I think it was a matter of talent. My black TV friends put their hearts in what they were doing. Everyone else just seemed to be a performer.

@Baadass Mofo Every main character on every sitcom ever created, black or white, is a damn stereotype. That's why it's comedy. There are intelligent black people on this show, too. But we don't want to see them in a comedy.

@@BrotherApexx There are and have been black sitcoms in the late 60’s and 70’s. But this show I watched with my grandparents. They were funny. Great memories seeing this again. Just can’t believe they were taken off the air and kept off. Talented actors all.

What a funny show ! I used to watch this all the time .

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@ Felicia Riley Hello, Would like some info on this whole series. How good is the video and audio? How many of the episodes are in your series? Thank you for your help

Yep the good times😂👍🤣

This show has great script writers and a top notch cast to deliver the material. As good as it gets.

Yep. My father was born in 1906, I was born in 1947. My grandparents were born in the 1880s as I recall. Three generations of white folks gathered around our Muntz cabinet style TV, all enjoying the antics of Amos and Andy, How we loved that show. Momma was after The Kingfish, Calhoun the lawyer gave him unsound advice. Lightning was slow and steady on that broom. Sapphire was trying to make it all work while Andrew H. Brown, always the victim, never learned a thing. Amos, the taxi driver, was the straight man who narrated the show while doing his best to be an honest, even-handed pal to all. When that show ended I felt like someone in my family had died.

@@rascal0175 Great memories

@@rascal0175 Hello, How fortunate you are to have a story to tell like that---three generations!!! Right down my alley as genealogy is one of my hobbies. But I must not leave the wrong impression as I did not care for Sapphire and Mama's womanhood. It was too demeaning and insulting and over the top. I did love sapphire's singing voice, so beautiful and sweet. I wish she had made recordings but I don't know if she did. My favorite was the lovable, likeable, intelligent, beloved national legend comedian and actor Tim Moore. Again, thanks for your story.

@@maldijaili6799 Tim Moore and I were big pals, though we were on opposite sides of the TV screen. I was only 4 or 5 years old, and that didn’t seem to matter. As a child I wasn’t ready to consider social issues. I only knew them as they were presented and I shamelessly admit that I loved them as I did my own family. Maybe more because they never corrected me, spanked me or made me go to bed. There were other characters that were black thar came into our home via electronics. There was Beulah, who I now know was a maid, who seemed the only one with any sense in a white household. She was forever saving the day. And there was Willie the Handyman, who helped out Stu Erwin and his family. I remember him getting electrocuted harmlessly while putting up a TV antenna on a roof. I laughed as he appeared on the TV screen while getting shocked. I had a big male Tabby cat whom I loved dearly. One day he was gone and I was (and am) brokenhearted. How I missed him. It was, and is, the same for Amos, Andy, and all the others. Now at 73 my clock is ticking and I will be gone. I hope to see my cat again and tell him how much I missed him. Again, it is the same with my black TV family. As an adult I hope to thank them for what they gave me as a child. They were a large part of my childhood and they, those black folk, made my life better for 70 years. Life, I was to learn, can be short of laughter and happiness, but no one can steal your memories.

I loved the interaction between kingfish and his mother inlaw

@Herb- Please don't forget 'Mama-in-law'.

@@prudencehorvath8466 Hello, she should have stayed in Brooklyn and minded her own business. She didn't like George and said as much often and she was also a very bad name caller. She was always telling Sapphire how to manage the marriage and it was not comedy, it was meddling. By the way, how did she earn a living? Looks like she was healthy enough to be out doing some kind of work!!!

i have all these shows on discs. i watched and loved them when they were on tv.

The very early radio shows from the 30's and 40's did feature Amos and Andy, with Kingfish an extraneous character. Kingfish did begin dominating the show, especially in the early 50's when it was put on TV. They kept the old name, however.

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@ Denise Hardy. Hello, May I ask what check you are talking about?

@@maldijaili6799 Hi, it's the check written for cash by Kingfish at :38 seconds in the video and dated in November 1951.

BLACK LiVE MATTERS

@@metrometro4248 All lives matter.

Me too, a long time ago, great performers...

Love the show my dad loved it so so so much like to hear more of it thank you God-bless

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@@alvinthomas1018 got to whiz on over somewhere, loved to hear Lighting say that...still makes me smile

Never thought much about color just loved the show

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I really don't think it was about black people. It was just about people.

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Agreed. Far more interesting and less predictable.

NO !

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Unbelievable this had to go because some say it is not ok, yet watching sex and violence is all fine as long as they don't show stereotypes. Insane world.

Can buy

All of the characters, including Kingfish, even Mama-in-law were were endearingly represented in a wonderful and entertaining way. We've lost our innocence.

Amen to that, Jim !

KIngfish was the man

Too true.

I'm white Jim but white or black this is just one of the best shows ever.

I'm white and at the age of 6 I watched this show with my Grand Dad. It was pure comedy for all to enjoy.

How are you doing today my name is Eric

How are you doing today my name is Eric

Yes sir o love them actor back in those days 👏 yes sir they made me laugh

I have all the videos of Amos & Andy and I love them!! They are classics and are so much better then a Jerry Lewis or Abbott & Costello. Real talent!!!

@@karenlarralde2736 , Hello, Please tell me where you got the videos from and are they good as far as audio and video are concerned?

How are you doing today my name is Eric

How are you doing today my name is Eric

@@ericmoore6716 Doing fine, thanks. Trust you are, as well. 🙏♥️✝️✡🇺🇸🇮🇱🎺📣

@@shirleybowers7251 okay cool

@@shirleybowers7251 so where are you from

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Nephew Tommy about the kidney

Thanks for keeping them alive!

These people made a living went just about impossible to earn real money any place in in the country. The open the doors for alot of talents to come.

I remain a big "Amos and Andy Show" fan and credit them with helping people that looked like me break into the entertainment industry. Thank you. Also, I remain non-supportive of the NAACP because of its aggressive role in destroying the careers of these people.

@ Paul kunz. Hello, Yes, exactly correct. About life and the human condition no matter what ethnicity you happened to be. And everyone needs some comedy now and then.

Not one white face anywhere,try doing a show of any kid without a coloured or asian and you'd be slapped with a writ so fast your head wouldn't stop spinning.Funny thing about racism,it's a one way card always pulled from the pack.Different strokes for different folks hey Arnold.??

Now this really brought back memories of my childhoodI remember watching episodes of this when I was ten or 11 years old now I'm almost 70 , and they are expanding today when I was a kid in the south now I live in California 7/12/2020

@@bobbythorman7421 Hello, If you mean there were no white people in the Amos and Andy TV episodes, look again. I see them all the time.!!!

I remember my dad watching this show on Friday nights followed by boxing after a long week of work. I was about 2 or 3. I loved to hear the opening of the show with the choir. It brings back so many memories. Mom and Dad are gone now and I’m in my late 60’s but the choir in the intro.... so many memories.

I know white people in The Bronx with (real) equally exaggerated dialects!

Thus show was so uplifting they were so respectable & funny as heck

I was in 5th grade when this was produced. I’m 81 years old now. I’m enjoying every one of these shows everyday.

@@anniel.marshall9563 there’s other shows you can watch that has black people doing more than always poor not finding work and not being Caricatures there’s a reason why the naacp had it canceled just like why John Amos left good times...

@@vidaldiddy Hello, The NAACP did not have it canceled. They did play a role but that's not the full story. First you should find out who was controlling the NAACP at that time. Then read deeper and you'll find out who all was involved besides the NAACP. Fact check and research.

@@maldijaili6799 hello all though you may be right i am sure it wasn’t completely the naacp who got the show off the air. I was simply saying that there’s better tv for black people now a days that is not offensive to us. This show had no class no up bringing value or progress for black people. It’s a complete mockery as most of the shows we’re back then and the writers and producers were all white.

Perhaps not but ... for what irrational reason?

They should.... it wouldn’t do any harm ; no one is cursing, no one is killing but someone using his whits

If u notice Amos was not black...his face/ hands were painted brown

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@@latrieceb3619 he was black. He played the Reverend on Sanford and Son, too.

@@latrieceb3619 there’s no way this man was a (painted) black man! If so, they did a wonderful job in 1951 🤣

LaTriece B Hello! Happy new year and I hope you’re doing well and that this year will be the best one you’ve had! Amos was played by Alvin Childress and yes, he was a black gentleman but very light complected. So make up was indeed added to make him appear darker. At least, that is what my books on the Amos and Andy state . Just google in the name Alvin Childress for more information.

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@ Dennis Day, Hello, All that is available can be found on KZfaq.

How are you doing today my name is Eric

@@ericmoore6716 just fine how are you?

@@bettywmay8453 I'm good thank you

@@bettywmay8453 so where are you from

you nasty racist nazi

You can watch almost all of the episodes on KZfaq. The one you refer to is called "The king fish finds his future". Enjoy!!

@@maldijaili6799 Hey, good man! Thank you.

You are very welcome. Happy to help. (Sorry I did not know how to reply to your Gmail. I tried but it didn't work.)

@@TheRealDrJoey Hello, I see that I have already replied to you but I will just add a little bit more to it. Wow!! What a great memory you have!! At the end of this episode I remember that the Kingfish is painting the end of a barn while singing and humming ,I believe, " A hundred bucks a day". The episode being entitled The Kingfish Finds His Future. The other actor's name is Roy Glenn. He is also in a few more episodes. Recently I was reading another post about this episode and this person said that if only Kingfish really composed those drawings, signed and dated them, there's no telling how much they would be worth today.!! Anyway, I know you can't tell by my name on the post that I am not a male but I am a grandma and need to get one of my grandchildren to fix that name for me by adding first name. And yes, I would say it was a crime what they did to the show and how they treated the actors. Kingfish received a last residual check in January of 1958 for $65.00. Enjoy A & A

@@maldijaili6799 Okay, then. Correction: good Grandma! I was about 5-7 years old when I saw these, but that's how good they were. I remember when Kingfish sold Andy a really imposing looking building that turned out to be a stage flat, and then I think somehow Andy cashed in on it anyway. And I remember Kingfish taking his painting and, I think a fish trophy or something, when Sapphire kicked him out, and he moved to the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge.

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@ Lou Noritz. Hello, Thank you for your words and I agree with you 100%. No equal before or after.

@ LauderdaleKeith, Hello, Lucy should not have copied someone else's work. I guess they had their own writers to write scripts for them. Tim Moore would not have liked that and he indicated as much when someone tried to sell him his very own material. But thank you for your comments at the beginning of your post--- very, very true.