Sanford and Son Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

The Hawaiian Connection: Part 1

Fri, Sep 24, 197630 mins

Luring Fred and Lamont to Hawaii, a trio of jewel thieves plot to make Fred their mule for smuggling stolen diamonds to California.

Episode 2

The Hawaiian Connection: Part 2

Fri, Oct 1, 197630 mins

Fred and Lamont visit Hawaii tourist attractions while running for their lives from the jewel thieves.

Episode 3

California Crude

Fri, Oct 8, 197630 mins

While Fred and Lamont are digging a garden, oil is discovered underground at the junk yard. Fred sees millions but before any money can be paid it must first be tested.

Episode 4

The Stakeout

Fri, Oct 15, 197630 mins

The police are looking for a fence named Alex Hacker who's been spotted coming in and out of The Sanford Arms. They use Fred and Lamont's home to stakeout the Arms. Meanwhile, Fred has a crush on a new lady tenant.

Episode 5

I Dream of Choo Choo Rabinowitz

Fri, Oct 22, 197630 mins

Fred is determined to break Choo Choo Rabinowitz's official world record for the longest amount of time staying awake.

Episode 6

The Winning Ticket

Fri, Nov 5, 197630 mins

A man selling signs comes by and talks Fred into having a contest to try to bring business in. The trick, he says, is to not have a winner, which Fred already knows is illegal, but is talked into it when he is explained that, when it comes to having to have a list of who won a contest, "who really looks at those things?" Fred not only buys the sign, but wants the prize money raised from $200 to $500. Little does he know that the salesperson and a sidekick are con-men who will already have the winning ticket. Although they don't make enough to cover the winnings, Fred confides in Lamont the whole plan. On the day of the contest, Fred gets a rude awakening when the sign man's sidekick shows he has the winning ticket...and is threatening to get the police involved if they don't pay up. Lamont then shows how much of a bind they're in when he realizes how easy it is to obtain the tickets Fred bought, and how they *can't* go to the police because Fred himself broke the law. However, Fred does find a way out of this...at the expense of Aunt Esther. Does Fred learn his lesson?

Episode 7

Committee Man

Fri, Nov 12, 197630 mins

Soon after Fred is appointed to serve on a mayor's committee he is sought out by a slumlord offering a bribe for political favors.

Episode 8

Fred's Extra Job

Fri, Nov 19, 197630 mins

Fred works nights as a bus boy in a fancy restaurant so he can begin paying back the $6,000 bank loan he took out in order to give Lamont an impressive wedding gift.

Episode 9

Carol

Fri, Nov 26, 197630 mins

Fred's old friend Carol shows up after 40 years, stirring up memories and sparking a flashback to the Summer of 1936 when Fred was a pool hustler in Cleveland.

Episode 10

Aunt Esther Has a Baby

Fri, Dec 3, 197630 mins

Esther and Woody plan to be parents for the first time, but for it to happen Esther is going to need Fred's help.

Episode 11

Aunt Esther Meets Her Son

Fri, Dec 10, 197630 mins

Esther and Woody welcome their son Daniel, but quickly discover they must practice the forgiveness that Esther preaches.

Episode 12

Sanford and Gong

Fri, Dec 17, 197630 mins

Lamont brings Fred four tickets to a taping of The Gong Show. Besides Lamont, Fred invites Donna and Bubba. After a charade when making room for all of them to sit together in the audience, Fred then makes a scene expressing his opinions of the contestants (making Bubba laugh, but angering Lamont and Donna). Afterwards, Fred decides to enlist Lamont and his brother-in-law, Rodney, to do an act on the show. However, Rodney has his own aspirations to be on the show; as an opera singer by the name of Raymond C. Gordon (as Rodney has a gambling debt to pay off). When he finds out both he and Fred's act will be on the same show, he feigns a back injury to get out of being in Fred's act. On the day of the show, Fred enlists the soft-shod Bubba to take Rodney's place. Throwing the gong mallets out of the judge's reach proves to help as he is rated the highest in the show up to this point, with only Raymond C. Gordon (Rodney) left. Fred finds him so bad, that he picks up a mallet and gongs him out himself. While Fred and company do win, it wound up sort of a Pyrrhic victory as Rodney got sick for real from his singing and the prize money was used for his doctors bills.

Episode 13

Here Today, Gone Today

Fri, Jan 7, 197730 mins

After Fred and Lamont go out to see a movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Fungus," they return to the house...to find all the furniture and just about everything else in the living room had been stolen. After Fred eliminates some obvious suspects (like the always suspicious to him Rollo), he and Lamont make a police report. While Lamont was gone to possibly identify his furniture among police evidence, Fred calls his insurance company to file a claim (which was nearly thwarted when Fred tried inflating the value of the stuff to get a bigger settlement). When Lamont returns, he finds the house refurnished and redecorated with all new snazzy furniture and decorations. Unfortunately, this is where Lamont had to break it to Fred as to what really happened to the furniture (it was all taken to be refurbished and reupholstered for his 40th anniversary in business), and only the possibility of being jailed for insurance fraud makes Fred reconsider his purchase and claim. The fun wasn't over yet when their truck was stolen with all that furniture still in it. However, it was Rollo who took it, but only to have their sign on the door redone up, and have a new CB radio installed, and also to sell the furniture to a relative for almost as much money as the settlement (which the claims adjuster, who had been called over to explain the misunderstanding, accepts back). With all the problems and misunderstandings finally ironed out, it turned out to be a wonderful 40th anniversary celebration after all.

Episode 14

Fred Meets Redd

Fri, Jan 14, 197730 mins

The fourth wall falls when Fred enters NBC's Redd Foxx look-alike contest and eagerly anticipates meeting his idol face to face.

Episode 15

The Defiant One

Fri, Jan 21, 197730 mins

Rehearsing his magic act, Grady snaps a pair of trick shackles onto Fred and Esther, only to discover the instructions for removing them are printed in Chinese.

Episode 16

A Matter of Silence

Fri, Jan 28, 197730 mins

Lamont fears Fred is going deaf, and Fred is content to play along and milk sympathy from Lamont and Donna.

Episode 17

When John Comes Marching Home

Fri, Feb 4, 197730 mins

Lamont's engagement to Janet is jeopardized by the unexpected return of her ex-husband John.

Episode 18

The Reverend Sanford

Fri, Feb 11, 197730 mins

To avoid paying taxes, Fred buys a mail-order clergy ordination and transforms his home into the Chapel on the Junkpile for the church of the Seventh-Day Junkists.

Episode 19

The Will

Fri, Feb 18, 197730 mins

Fred suffers amnesia after being bludgeoned with Esther's silver-plated Bible. Having looked death in the face, Fred wants to get his affairs in order and so prepares his last will and testament and summons his friends for its reading.

Episode 20

Fred the Activist

Fri, Feb 25, 197730 mins

Angered by the age discrimination policy of a local stereo dealer, Fred rallies a troop of Gray Foxes and leads the charge to change the policy.

Episode 21

The Lucky Streak

Fri, Mar 4, 197730 mins

The Sanfords receive a letter from the bank stating their option to buy the Sanford Arms outright. However, in order to do so, they must come up with $4000 by noon that Friday, or they lose the property to an awaiting buyer. Lamont is ready to concede the property over to the bank when Fred steps in and makes a plan to take their entire savings account balance of $500 and bet it until he reaches $4000. He does this by inviting some card sharps over for a night of poker, garnering him an extra $100. Next it's off to the horse-races, where he wins a 2-1 bet to bring the total to $1800. Finally it's off to Las Vegas to try to get the rest of the money. Will Fred be a big enough winner to save The Sanford Arms, or does he come back a big loser?

Episode 22

Funny, You Don't Look It

Fri, Mar 11, 197730 mins

Inspired by Alex Haley's "Roots," Fred orders a family crest and genealogical scroll that states he's African royalty and a descendant of the Jewish Ethiopian Falashas.

Episode 23

Fred Sings the Blues

Fri, Mar 18, 197730 mins

Aspiring songwriter Fred invites B.B. King to dinner, but panics upon reading in the blues legend's biography that the singer has sworn to get even with the man who long ago stole his St. Louis sweetheart "E.W.", a woman matching Elizabeth's description.

Episode 24

School Daze

Fri, Mar 25, 197730 mins

For a month Fred and Bubba have been sneaking out at night, concerning family and friends and leading Donna to fear that Fred has fallen for another woman.

Episode 25

Family reunion

Fri, Jun 30, 1978