Louise isn't comfortable with George's idea of getting a maid.
George takes interest in his heritage when he discovers some of his family may have been in a tribe of kings.
George will not let Louise work at one of his stores. Because of this, she gets a job with a competitor.
With the Jeffersons new status, Lionel starts to live life a little more, including wanting to quit school.
George might get to meet with the landlord, which might lead to redecorating the apartment, including a grand piano.
Monk Davis, an old friend of George, shows up, and Louis watches Mr. Bentley's bird.
During Uncle Ward's visit, Lionel gets in a little trouble at school: a fight.
George has a reporter come over to profile him. However, Mr. Bentley and the Willises cause some distractions.
George invites a possible client over. However, Louise has some people from Harlem.
Lionel is starting to become more of George, and Tom and Helen are for different candidates in an election.
Tom and Helen's son comes home from Europe, and Jenny's thoughts toward him worries everybody.
George and Louis have a dinner party for Mr. Bentley. When the Willises arrive, there are problems.
George's mother wants to join her son and his wife on a cruise they go on because George is called a workaholic.
A surprise comes into Louise's life: a lady claims to be her daughter.
Harry Bentley has to worry about his girlfriend, who is thinking of marriage, while George is trying to deal with a building inspector.
George's mother fakes that she had a fall, while Louise battles out in a gin tournament.
It's George and Louise's anniversary, and who would intrude into their anniversary but George's mother. Also, Louise is asked by George to lie about a bike accident.
Mother Jefferson starts dating Uncle Bertram, a white man related to the Willises.
George is afraid that he is going to go out of business, while Lionel wants more money and Florence wants a raise.
George is asked to speak at a college in Harlem.
Jenny's grandfathers end up in the Jeffersons apartment because of their bickering.
George realizes he hasn't payed enough attention to Louise when one of his old friends hits on her.
George faces his wife and mother when he won't hire a white woman as a manager.
Lionel is afraid to tell George about a fender bender, which leads to George fearing the mob.
George won't go to a funeral with Louise because he's going to have lunch with his mother. Mother Jefferson ends up going to the funeral with them.
Lionel refuses to take a job, leading to a fight between the Jeffersons and Willises. Also, George gets a stock tip.
Jenny and Lionel break up after a fight between the Jeffersons and Willises.
Both the Jeffersons and the Willises are deciding whether to get Jenny and Lionel back together. George ends up setting Lionel up on a date.
Louise believes that Florence is suicidal by her recent behavior.
George forgets his mother's 70th birthday, and Louise tries to reunite her with her sister.
A publisher asks Louise to write a cookbook.
George hides in a bathroom with Tom and Helen to meet with Mr. Whittendale.
Lionel starts to feel pressure of his upcoming graduation. Louise and Jenny try to hide him when he comes home drunk.
George wants to renew his vowels with Louise, but she may not when the couple get into an argument.
George dresses up as Thomas Jefferson to attract new customers.
George is trying to open a new store, but Louise finds a love letter and suspects something else.
At his new job, Lionel will not take a lie detector test.
Lionel pretends that his dad is a graduate of Harvard rather than a man who dropped out of high school.
George either has to sell his business or have to sell someome out.
Lionel finds himself an apartment. His roommate ends up being Jenny.
Tom uses the Heimlich Maneuver on George, saving his life. George makes a plan to make things even.
Jenny questions her feelings toward Lionel, but she thinks he might have been killed in a bus crash.
George gives Lionel a suggestion to get a prenup with Jenny.
There's an intruder at the Jefferson's place, but it ends up being Florence's boyfriend. Florence ends up quitting after a battle about boundaries with the Jeffersons.
Lionel and Jenny's wedding is back on. It has been set for Christmas Eve, but an argument between Tom and George might ruin things.
George wants Louise's memory to be better, so she takes a class to do that, while Florence is taking a Judo class.
Bentley ends up going to jail after being afraid of a bully and taking advice from George.
George and Louise take flying lessons.
George gets together a reunion after one of his old friends dies.
George asks Tom and Helen to join him at dinner with a couple he is dealing with. The couple, however, are black and white. This causes the Willises to leave before the dinner, so George just gets Ralph and Florence to join instead.
Lionel needs care, but Jenny and Louise get in a battle as to who will take care of him.
Tom and Helen have been seeing a marriage counselor, so Louise thinks that it will work for her and George.
Louise gets a new friend, Michael, which isn't to George's liking.
George's mother invites one of his old girlfriends to dinner.
Jenny gets the chance to transfer to Oxford, but Lionel can't. This causes a fight between the men and women of the two families.
George tries to win an award by donating more money to a charity than his competition.
Louise's doctor tells her that she will live to be 100 years old, upsetting her. George and some other people are throwing a surprise party for her.
George gets a new office, but his loud mouth gets him in trouble. Two thugs hear him and try to kidnap Louise.
The two thugs put a ransom for Louise at $100,000, but they have made a mistake. They kidnap Florence instead.
One of George's old friends have made a change. A big one. Eddie has become Edie. He has undergone a sex change.
George gets Marcus Henderson to work for him at half price, then a suede jacket goes missing.
George gets a sculptor to make a bust of him so he leaves behind a legacy.
Louis wants a job at the Help Center, but Helen gets it.
Florence's parents come for a visit. However, they are bickering, so the Jeffersons lose some sleep.
George wants to avoid his mother, so he takes Marcus camping. Louise and Helen get tickets to see Stevie Wonder.
Louise thinks that her marriage might be over, but George tries to make her think otherwise.
Louise finds out that she likes archaeology while volunteering at the museum. An archaeologist she sees there is going to go on a trip, and he plans for her to be the only person going with him.
The Interracial Awareness Association is going to have a ball, and George could meet someone there to give him more business.
George wants Florence to insult him in front of a potential customer. George ends up taking her on a trip.
George has to choose a general manager because Louise wants him home more.
Marcus tells a girl that he is Lionel, leading to George and Louise to believe that Lionel is having an affair.
Louise trys to figure out who George is sending presents and money to in Harlem.
George and Louise are about to be evicted by Mr. Whittendale, so they have him come over so they can talk about this problem.
Lionel joins the cleaning business when he is persuaded by his dad to do so.
New York City has a blackout, so George and Marcus go to the store to make sure the store doesn't get looted. However, they are mistaken for looters and arrested.
Florence wants to make a union for maids, but Mr. Whittendale doesn't, which makes George disapprove. When Florence is going to have a meeting to possibly make the union, Louise has to help her hide it from George.
George gets more publicity than he expected when he calls President Carter.
George might be starting a publishing business, and Helen doesn't want Tom to sign a loan with him. Meanwhile, Louise makes a horrible mistake and drops her wedding ring down the sink.
George's nephew comes to stay with the Jeffersons for a while.
George and Louise are tied up by a burglar.
Clips are shown as George and Louise are still tied up.
Florence finds George and Louise, and rescues them. The moments they have shared together while tied up have brought them closer.
Jenny is in danger when she does research on street gangs.
Helen suggests to Louise that she should take art classes. However, she draws nude models, which George isn't very happy about.
The Willises son, Allan, comes back to town and eventually moves in with the Jeffersons.
Allan realizes that George wants to get his warehouse, so George's plan to get the warehouse might be ruined. Meanwhile, Louise needs to move the Help Center.
George tries to give Louise help with relocating the Help Center by getting help from the bank. He visits an old friend to do so.
George has a dream about what his future will be like.
A ventriloquist is George's new stockbroker.
Florence can't be convinced that a man in the Jeffersons living room really is Billy Dee Williams.
Allan tries to hit off with the daughter of a banker George is being interviewed by.
George's cousin, Dusty, comes to visit, but asks George if he will donate one of his kidneys.
Louise gets amnesia when she is mugged.
Harry's house guest gets to be annoying, so he moves in with George. When he tries to get rid of her, she thinks he's proposing.
George finds out a huge secret about his mother and his old friend, Buddy.
George's birthday surprise for Louise is her sister, but Louise doesn't react to that the way George thinks she will.
Louise finds out that George's new will would not give her any money if she was to remarry.
George searches for solutions for his problems in the bedroom.
Florence's "Mr. Right" is a Christian, and wants her to lead a Christian life. Florence says 'yes' when he asks her to marry him.
George tries to bribe one of the judges when Louise is in the running to win Volunteer of the Year.
Tom's going on a business trip with a woman, which upsets Helen.
George has to make a decision when a developer wants him to sell his store.
An interviewer comes to the Jeffersons place to interview them about their "perfect marriage". However, they're having a huge fight.
George keeps going to a disco palace to dance - every night.
Florence tries to meet men by acting like different women. However, one of them is a psychiatrist.
George tries to avoid celebrating his anniversary, and Louise tries to go to a convention out of town.
Florence, Mr. Bentley, and the Willises all experience problems with the cold when their heat goes off. This makes them pack into the Jeffersons place.
Lionel tries to hid the fact that Jenny's pregnant from George.
The Midtown Small Businessman of the year goes to...George Jefferson! However, Louise finds out that the award was for short businessman.
Louise has Florence pretend to be her so she won't have to see an old boyfriend.
Louise thinks that she has seen a giant rabbit commit a murder.
The murderer in the rabbit suit traps Louise in her apartment.
George's father wanted to be buried next to George's mother, so George sets out on a quest to find him.
Lionel leaves when he is given too much advice about being a father.
George teaches Marcus to box, leading him to become a boxer again.
The family is getting ready for the arrival of Jenny's baby, and Florence decides that she wants to be a mother.
A battle between Louise and Florence makes George beg Florence for her services. It also endangers a social event.
Louise takes in an orphan for a weekend, but she starts to become like George.
George is mistaken for somebody else at a mental instution, and is locked up.
Louise is excited about being interviewed on TV about the suicide helpline at the Help Center. A teenager named Ruthie overdoses on sleeping medicine when Louise is ignoring her.
Helen has some old friends over, leading Tom to want to learn how to "be black", so he asks George to teach him.
Lionel and Jenny might be moving to Chicago. While Lionel is talking to who might be his future employer, George takes Jenny to her natural-childbirth class, but she ends up going into labor.
George gets Jenny to the maternity hospital in time, while Lionel hurries back to New York to be with Jenny when the baby comes.
Instead of going to the baby shower for his newly-born daughter Jessica, Lionel goes to work.
George, Lionel, and Tom have to watch Jessica while the women are shopping.
George's 50th birthday is coming up, and Louise is going to have a surprise birthday for him, but George is planning his own birthday party.
George and Louise have another argument, this time on their anniversary. George goes to a hotel, and when Louise goes to his hotel room, there is another woman there.
Lionel and Jenny can't get a loan from a bank, so they can't get a good home to raise their daughter in. Also, Lionel will not let his parents help them.
George tries to take over Charlie's Bar when the lease for it is not renewed.
In a flashback sequence, George and Louise remember back in 1968 when George opened his shop. Lionel almost costs George the loan he's going to get, but the shop ends up opening anyway. The opening day for it was also a very sad day; it opened the same day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.
George tells a story to Jessica, using the cast as characters.
George and Tom both plan to run in a marathon, both trying to show that they are in better shape than the other.
Florence is given a plane ticket to Hawaii by Louise, but George learns some bad news about his heart, showing him that he needs a vacation too.
George tries to have a dream vacation with Louise, but it's in danger with the Willises there.
George tries to get Tom to help him talk Louise into moving to Hawaii permanently. After that, George and Tom go sailing and get lost.
Tom and George end up on an island, but the island is gonna be replaced by a land development project that George has invested in.
George orders Louise not to go to a striptease club, but Louise goes anyway after George tells her that.
Florence's cousin, Ernie, gets her to borrow $1,000 from George since he needed it, but George thinks that he's a crook.
George has to dress up and act as Santa at the Help Center. Tom, who was originally going to do it, sprained his ankle.
George an Louise want to enter Jessica in a contest, but Lionel and Jenny don't. But George and Louise end up doing it anyway, and misplace her.
Florence writes a soap opera script, with the main character being very similar to George. He is shot, and they are trying to figure out who shot him.
George wants to be on a patriotic talk show, but him sponsoring a Cuban refugee might ruin his chance.
George goes up against his rival in the dry-cleaning business to win their bowling league championship. However, George's teams best bowler gets sick, so he asks Tom to take his place.
Louise finds out that the city is planning to tear down the building where she grew up.
George goes to what he thinks is a tenants' meeting because of the many robberies in his apartment building. The meeting is actually being sponsored by the KKK.
George rescues a woman from a mugger, and becomes a hero. But the mugger escapes from the police, and threatens whoever turned him in to the police.
Tom writes a poem for Helen on Valentine's Day. Not only does George forget Valentine's Day, he tries to make up for it by giving Louise money.
George gets his business into a tycoons' club. He makes a $100 donation during a club fundraiser, but he is marked down for a $100,000 donation.
George is going to fire his store manager, Wendell. But when he's about to do that, Wendell drops dead, and George has to give the eulogy at his funeral.
Florence is offered a job as a hotel's executive housekeeper.
Florence accepts the job offer, and has to fire an old friend and tell George that the hotel won't give him a dry-cleaning contract.
George, Louise, Tom, and Helen try to prevent Lionel and Jenny from splitting up.
George has a marriage counselor come over to play poker with Lionel to prevent him and Jenny from splitting up.
George sees a picture in the paper of Harold Mills, which is Louise's dad's name. But her dad has been dead since she was two. Louise won't believe it's her dad.
Without talking to each other about it, Louise and George both pick new housekeepers.
George thinks that his secretary is attracted to him when Louise sends him flowers.
George and Carmen don't get along very well, so Louise tries to show Carmen how Florence handled him. Then, Florence comes back, wanting her job back after the hotel burned down.
Florence decides to let Carmen keep her job, but Carmen doesn't want to take Florence's job away. Florence ends up trying to get fired after Louise decides to hire them back.
George is going to write memoirs to leave a legacy. But he soon gets rid of this idea and decides to make a museum about himself.
George is planning to build a new building where a playground was supposed to be built.
Louise has been writing in a diary, and George tries to find out what she's writing.
George realizes that Mr. Whittendale doesn't like him, so George tries to make himself more likable.
Bentley has to go to Europe, so Sammy, a songwriter, takes over his apartment. George tries to get him to do a commerical for him, but he's having problems with his marriage.
George thinks that Helen is cheating on Tom when she is really doing something about Tom is neglecting her.
George watches Mr. Whittendale dog for him. The dog pratically destroys the apartment and then dies in an accident.
A fire damages one of George's store. The person that started it was Lionel.
Florence wants to sing at Jessica's baptism with her gospel group, but George doesn't want her to. George eventually learns that a famous singer is in town, and wants to get her to sing.
George gets a gun after Lionel and Jenny's apartment is broken into.
Helen and Louise move in together, and kick out Tom and George.
Florence thinks that she is not invited to a party, but it's actually a party for her. She gets some of George's wine when she thinks this and gets drunk.
George and his messenger are beat up by a gang of teenage girls.
George tries to find the gang that beat him up and get Louise's wedding ring back.
A record producer hears Florence's choir, and likes them. But George and Louise try to stop her from giving him money because he might be a fake.
A prostitute might show Helen and Louise that their efforts at the Help Center are not useless.
Florence thinks that she will be single her whole life, until George tells her how she can get a guy.
Helen accepts an invitation to go to lunch with her old boyfriend, and Tom gets jealous. He daydreams that he is in the Old West, with the rest of the cast in it.
Louise becomes one of George's competitors one millionth customer. It just happens that at this time, George is battling with that company.
George makes the decision to sell out to his competitor, Big Sky, and retire.
Tom's suit gets a stain after it was cleaned at George's business, but it was caused from Tom leaving a candy bar in it. Because of this, Tom wants a refund. This causes them to go on a court television show.
Florence goes on strike when George won't set up a pension plan for her.
George gives advice to Charlie on how to get more business, and Tom gives him financial help. George wants to be a part of the action when Charlie gets more business.
Louise invites George's friend Johnny to stay with them on accident.
An author, Tom Blake, asks Florence to go out with him one night. But she is unaware that he was once in prison for killing his girlfriend.
George and Louise go on a cruise ship, getting a discount by George pretending to be a mystery novelist. While there, a murder takes place.
George tries to solve a murder case on the cruise ship. But all the other people on board, all real mystery writers, try to solve it too.
George goes to a apartment 8-B to drop off a cleaning bill. Later, Ralph hears Dede Sanderson, the tenant living there, saying the name "George". He suspects that George is cheating on Louise.
Some of George's poems he wrote for Louise end up with some of their friends, and he is upset, until a publisher might put them into a book.
George gives Tom some financial advice, and from this, he gets a small fortune. Florence wants George to help her too, but he won't, considering she doesn't have much money.
Helen and Louise end up in jail when they try to break into George's safe to see a picture kept in there.
Florence has Louise switch roles with her. She pretends to be married to George, and Louise pretends to be her maid. She does this to impress an old friend, who is now wealthy.
George doesn't like always being compared to Tom, so he reveals a secret about Tom to Helen.
Louise tries to get Lillian Warren, one of her former employers, to help her when the help center is in financial trouble.
George's bodyguard, Hugo, comes back, and starts to like Jenny.
George and Louise have been helping with Jimmy Townsend's education, who they think is a young boy. However, they find out he's middle-aged.
George bets that he can do a day of Florence's cleaning in three hours.
Florence goes to a spa where Helen met some famous people. While there, she sees Gladys Knight, who she doesn't recognize.
George is going to go to a father-son bowling tournament with a boy who says he has no father.
George goes to his old store in the Queens, and he thinks about his first customer and first dollar.
George has Jenny come to his apartment with some of her designs. But she doesn't know that he has a fashion designer there.
George tries to get a celebrity for a personal appearance, but he has to settle for lookalikes.
Florence finds $2500 in a hat she buys, but there is a chance that the owner will come to claim it.
Florence tells George he won't be able to go to Heaven with his attitude after he won't give her money to buy a TV. George has a dream about a game called "The Wheel of Forever".
George agrees to spend one night a week with Louise. One night, him and Louise break their legs while bicycling.
George and some of his old friends get Tom into giving up $15,000 he had been saving for a new home when they are trying to teach him a lesson.
George, along with Tom, go to Los Angeles to get back the $15,000.
Louise, Helen, and Florence track the guys to Los Angeles, where Jimmy's mysterious cousin is helping them convince con men Tyndall and West that a Caribbean country is launching a nuclear attack on the city so they have to get the stolen $15,000 out of the bank.
Louise refuses to host a seminar for newlyweds, so Tom and Helen do it. But opportunity arises for George when Tom gets sick.
Florence goes to the museum with her friend, trying to find a millionaire man. Florence finds one that likes her, but there's a problem: he's married.
Louise is in the running for the Volunteer of the Year award, and it seems that she will win, but her rival returns before the award is given and gives a huge donation to the Help Center.
Harry is being helped by the Jeffersons and Willises to get his old apartment back. But George loses his loyalty to Harry when he finds out who the person is that's going to be living there.
George has accomplished all the goals on a list he made as a teenager, except one: to punch out a bully.
George has a contest at the store to get business. Whittendale's niece is in the contest, and if she doesn't win, George will be evicted.
George and Tom decorate George's Christmas tree, and talk about Christmas with their fathers.
Sammy Davis, Jr. moves into the apartment next to the Jeffersons using an alias, hoping to get away from his fans and a reporter.
George hires Walter, an artist, to help him make a commercial. But, Walter can't read or write. Now George has to persuade Walter to get the rest of his education.
Florence allows the police to use the Jeffersons apartment as a command post while George and Louise are away. But, Florence ends up in the hospital wounded.
Tom and George try to prove that they are manly by going hunting. Failing at that, they try to impress their wives with a stuffed animal collection.
Louise is angry at George for breaking two dinner plans with their friends. She imagines herself as George, with his attitude.
George acts as the manager of the singing group the Satin Sisters, who are Florence's friends. George arranges for them to a sing at a western bar.
Louise and Florence try to persuade George into letting Rhonda, Florence's cousin, to stay in their apartment. However, Rhonda gets into an argument with Florence and becomes a mud wrestler.
A magazine is going to do a story about George's business, making him worry about Otis, the owner of a shoeshine stand right outside of George's store.
Whittendale is going to put in an automatic door in the building, making Ralph useless.
George gets a letter from his old girlfriend, so George goes to visit her. But she is up to something, involving a gun in her purse.
It's Tom and Helen's 30th anniversary, and they go to the hotel where they spent their honeymoon, but it's not what it used to be.
Jimmy Townsend's back with casino chips; $50,000 worth. Soon after, some gamblers show up claiming they've been ripped off by someone named George Jefferson.
George has Ralph donate blood, but only under the name George Jefferson. The blood ends up saving the life of Mrs. Wertimer, Whittendale's wife.
Louise plans for Jessica to go up against Mrs. Van Morris's grandson in a piano recital.
George is tricked by Louise and Florence to be on a hidden camera TV show. But the producers of this show might be burglars.
The council of the apartment buildings tenants' is having an election to decide who the president will be. George and Louise are running against each other.
Florence's favorite soap opera actor is going to be at a ball that the Jeffersons and Willises are going to, but she can't go. This causes her to imagine herself as Cinderella, with the actor as Prince Charming.
George tries to find a birthday present for Louise when she thinks that he is going to throw a surprise party for her.
Florence is going to go to Ohio with her church choir for a convention, but the money for the trip is stolen by the minister.
George and Louise catch some kid thieves, and Louise thinks she can change the kids. But George disagrees, and says that he will give a check for $2,000 to the arts program at the Help Center if Louise indeed does change them.
Florence gambles in hopes of raising money so she can go to a graduation. While she is doing that, Louise goes around Atlantic City looking for stars, but when she finds them, she doesn't recognize them.
Reggie Jackson hit a homerun at a baseball game George is at, and George catches it! But he ends up dropping the ball, embarrassing himself in front millions of people.
Tom wonders if he is attractive while everyone else is busy. Mr. Bentley's girlfriend's sister practically answers his question for him.
Lionel and Jenny come back from Japan with some bad news.
Lionel and Jenny make their announcement: their getting a divorce. A battle between the Jeffersons and Willises follows.
Clark, a trainee of George's, can't get a date to go to his prom with, so Florence goes with him. Florence sees a man there she wanted to go to the prom with when she was in school.
Charlie, to get more profit, decides to host a party at his bar. But Louise has to work there for him when he has to go out-of-town. The party is for a bunch of tough bikers.
Tom gets promoted to president of Pelham Publishing after the original president retires, but he's not sure if he can handle the job.
George and Louise have to try to help Charlie with his marriage while trying to celebrate their anniversary, but they find out that he is an alcoholic.
George is in another battle with Cunningham, his rival. But this one is different; Cunningham dies.
Louise tries to get the other people in the apartment to make a formal compliant about a new tenant, in apartment 12-C. The young woman is constantly partying.
George and Tom try to set a world record for the most times riding up and down an elevator while Louise and Helen are at a spa.
Louise makes a painting, and her friends and family tell her that they they are good - although they do not think so. So, Louise decides to enter an art show.
Florence puts an ad in a column of a singles magazine, trying to find a man. The ad is responded to, but by none other than Harry Bentley.
George uses a talent show started by Louise and Helen to get business for his store. The winner will get time on TV to promote their favorite charity.
George becomes the nest mother for the Red Robins, which Jessica is in. He does this so he can qualify to be Dry Cleaner of the Year.