A bum threatens to sue Fred when he accidentally injures himself in the junkyard.
Show
Sanford & Son
Fred accidentally fires an antique gun and fears the worst when his neighbor doesn't answer.
Episodes
126 indexedFred invades Lena Horne's television studio dressing room during a tour of NBC.
Fred is forced to find a new partner for the junkyard when Lamont seeks employment elsewhere.
Fred invites his fiancee and a door-to-door saleswoman to dinner on the same evening.
Fred witnesses a burglary at Julio's house but is too scared to identify the criminals for the police.
Lamont and Julio go into the used auto-parts business and drive Fred to Skid Row.
Fred moves to a senior citizens home when Lamont decides to travel around the world.
A drama coach comes to the Sanford home to tutor Lamont for an acting role.
Fred thinks that Lamont's African dress and customs are ludicrous until he hears what they include.
Lamont and Rolla go into a gay bar by mistake during a night out on the town.
Lamont runs afoul of the stars in an astrological mix-up involving his father and Aunt Esther.
Fred is upset about Lamont spending a lot of time with Julio and ignoring him, so he tries to make his son feel guilty by discussing burial insurance with a funeral home agent.
Lamont gets involved in a con game when he buys what he believes is a rare antique commode.
Lamont promotes an all-female singing trio from Philadelphia, The Three Degrees.
A newspaper ad leads Fred and Lamont to try out for a low-budget movie.
Lamont discovers that his new fiancee may actually be his half sister.
Fred makes his first airplane trip when his uncle leaves him an inheritance.
Fred and Lamont throw a neighborhood party in an effort to raise money to pay their bills.
Lamont is upset when Fred announces that he plans to marry a young woman he has just met.
A 9-year-old boy begins spending all his time at the Sanford home.
When Fred receives a slight injury in a car mishap, Lamont hires a housekeeper to help out.
Fred accidentally fires an antique gun and fears the worst when his neighbor doesn't answer.
Fred's new color television set may be the same one that was stolen from Grady.
Fred is aghast when Lamont dates the sister of their Puerto Rican neighbor.
Fred's buddies turn his house into a pool hall when Lamont buys him a pool table.
Woodrow moves into the Sanford house when Esther kicks him out.
Lamont goes to court after receiving what he feels is an unfair traffic ticket.
Lamont takes his father to the hospital to find out why he's had so many heart attacks.
Grady is sick of being a boarder for the bickering Ferguson's and vents his frustrations to Fred.
When Lamont is hit in the nose over the affections of a girl, he decides to take karate lessons.
A question arises as to whether Fred is really Lamont's father.
Fred donates a collection of rare jazz albums to a music library in order to get a tax write-off.
Fred succumbs to Donna's pressures and agrees to get married, but his family has other ideas; Fred and Donna plan to wed in a private ceremony at the Sanford home, and Lamont uses this as a ploy to try to get rid of Donna.
Fred has different plans when Lamont and Rollo plan a romantic evening with two girls.
A dispute arises between Fred and Julio over the boundary dividing their properties.
Grady tries to keep the Sanford home free of Bible meetings and orgies.
A woman with whom Grady had a drunken fling mistakes him for her fiance, Fred Sanford.
Fred and his friends plan a cheer-up party after attending a friend's funeral.
Fred sees the beginning of the end of his junk business when Lamont takes a job in a men's clothing store.
Grady's fiancee decrees that after the wedding, he will no longer be spending his evenings with the Sanfords.
Grady invites cousin Emma to the Sanfords', hoping that she will do the cooking and cleaning.
Fred holds out for more money when a Japanese land development company offers to buy his house.
Uncle George dies, and Lamont will inherit $7,000 if he produces a son within the next 12 months and names him George.
Fred buys a racehorse with an impressive history in hopes of breeding him.
Fred is sure that the ring Lamont gave him as a present is the one he has heard was stolen from Frank Sinatra.
When Fred returns early from a long trip, he spoils a homecoming party Lamont and Grady had planned.
Judy makes advances toward Grady to win his support in her scheme to marry Lamont.
Lamont leaves after Fred refuses to allow a sensitivity group to meet at the Sanford home.
Grady must decide whether to lie when he receives too many Social Security checks.
A fun time is had by all when Grady serves his friends, including two policemen, a salad made with marijuana.
Fred buys half ownership of a professional fighter who can't fight.
Julio's sister and nephew stay with the Sanfords temporarily.
Fred awaits a visit from his sister until he finds out that her new husband is white.
Grady steps in to protect the Sanford ``treasures`` when Lamont invites an ex-convict friend home.
Fred's niece, the spitting image of his late wife, visits the Sanford home.
Fred's lifestyle is disrupted when Lamont runs for state assemblyman.
After a doctor fails to find the reason for his headache, Lamont consults a psychiatrist to treat his pain.
Fred, Grady and Bubba become contestants on a television game show, hoping to win a birthday present for Lamont.
Julio and the Sanfords decide to merge their junk businesses into one. However, they argue about who will be the star of their television commercial.
Father and son nightclub performers are injured in Fred's house.
Fred tries to sculpt a work of art from junk when he discovers the value of sculpture.
Fred is inside the bank when it gets robbed, and becomes a hostage.
Fred goes into show business in order to get his brother-in-law out of the house.
Esther fights with Woodrow and moves into the Sanford house. Fred comes up with plans to patch things up between them and send Esther home.
Donna wants to marry Fred, but another man proposes to her first.
Fred puts his home and business up for sale when he hears an intense earthquake will hit and looks for a shelter in Las Vegas.
Fred tries to transform Esther's appearance to win a beauty contest so that her husband gives him the prize money.
Fred and Lamont see a television series that resembles their lives. They become furious and prepare to sue the network.
Fred is injured and hospitalized while witnessing an attempted murder.
Fred goes out for the Senior Olympics to compete for Donna's affection.
Lamont and Rollo mistakenly think Fred has only six months to live and set him up on a date with Lena Horne.
Fred and Lamont take in boarders to pay the mortgage, but the prospects don't look good.
Fred is put under hypnosis to cure his addiction to television.
Fred uses Lamont's acting school money to supply Whopper Chopper food processors and interrupts a TV cooking show to advertise the device.
Della Reese, a political campaigner, asks Fred for permission to use his home as campaign headquarters, even though Fred and Lamont support a different candidate.
After lashing out at Lamont, Esther and Bubba, Fred has a dream in which Lamont is the spirit of Christmas past.
Fred rents Lamont's room to a pregnant woman while Lamont is on a fishing trip.
Fred stages a circus in the junkyard after he inherits an elephant.
Fred and Esther investigate Lamont's mysterious new girlfriend.
Despite Lamont's objections, Fred opens a Japanese restaurant in his living room.
Fred and his friends decide to start their own escort service.
While preparing to receive the Watts Businessman of the Year award, Fred worries that his back pain may get in the way of the glory. Lamont suggests Fred try acupuncture.
When Fred learns of the possibility of oil on his property, he starts spending his ``millions.``.
Fred and Lamont wind up stranded in the forest when they go camping. They reflect on past experiences together.
Fred is chosen for a community-relations committee, and is offered a bribe.
Fred gets a job as a busboy in a restaurant to pay back a loan.
To impress Lamont's future mother-in-law, Fred decides to get into the Book of World Records by being the man who stays awake for the longest time.
Fred fabricates a story about the war to tell to his grandchildren.
George Foreman guest stars as Lamont's brother in a community play.
Fred is happy with Lamont's wedding plans until he learns the couple plans to live in their own place. He tries to convince Lamont's fiancée to break up with him.
While at a convention in Hawaii, Fred is an unwitting jewel smuggler.
Fred discovers that the tenant he has a crush on is a man and a criminal.
Two con artists talk Fred into a promotion gimmick designed to increase sales in the junkyard.
Seeking Donna's sympathy, Fred decides to prolong his temporary deafness.
Fred plays an important role when Esther tries to adopt a child, but her husband is drunk during the adoption agency's visit.
Esther and Woodrow are not pleased with Daniel, their newly adopted son with a different religious belief.
A person comes to visit, claiming that he and Fred were friends 40 years ago.
Fred debates competing in a Redd Foxx look-alike contest in town.
Fred thinks that all his furniture has been stolen when Lamont and Esther send it out to be upholstered.
Fred gets an act together for a TV amateur show with Lamont and Bubba.
Grady tries an ancient magic trick and shackles Fred to Esther.
Grady feels out of place when he moves in with his daughter and her family.
When Lamont falls for an older woman, Fred schemes to show him how ridiculous it is.
Fred asks a professional gambler to teach Lamont and his friends a lesson.
When Lamont and Fred take advantage of a Breathmobile, Fred is convinced that he has TB.
Lamont discovers that the porcelain figure he has bought is worth a great deal of money.
Fred invites B.B. King to dinner and gives him another reason to sing the blues.
Lamont takes Fred out for a night on the town for his 65th birthday.
Much to Fred's delight, Lamont's bride-to-be decides not to marry him.
Fred is caught spending a lot of time with a white schoolteacher.
Lamont buys some copper on speculation, only to discover the goods are stolen.
Fred accidentally breaks Lamont's porcelain and glass collection.
Lamont decides to get his own apartment when Fred keeps invading his privacy.
After Lamont refuses to let Fred place a bet, Fred finds out that his number was the winner of the day.
Lamont buys two coffins at an auction hoping to sell them at a profit.
A burglar leaves his gun in the Sanford house after Lamont and Rollo scare him off.
Fred's fiancee brings a patient who is under her care to dinner at the Sanford home.
Lamont objects to Fred's plan to propose marriage to widowed Donna Harris.
Fred is convinced that Lamont's card-playing buddies are trying to take him for all his money.
Fred schemes to get Lamont to marry a distant cousin in the hopes of obtaining her dowry.
Two deputies come to repossess the furniture when Fred defaults on the payments.
Lamont is offered a grand piano by a wealthy eccentric if he will move it out of his apartment.
Fred and Donna have reconciled their differences and are once again planning to wed.
When Lamont finds a suitcase full of money, he puts it in the safe until the police arrive.
Fred fakes amnesia in a scheme to get a color television set.
Fred pretends to suffer from whiplash when he has an accident in the pickup truck.