Although none of the series' supporting characters appeared on every episode, most were seen frequently enough to qualify as regulars. His favorite ploy was to feign having a heart seizure, whereupon he would look heavenward and "call out" to his late wife, "I'm comin', Elizabeth! This is the big one! I'm comin'!" Inasmuch as this charade fooled no one - least of all Lamont - one wondered if the younger Sanford really was that hepped out about leaving after all, or whether he felt secure in his shabby environs. The wily elder Sanford would have none of this, and devised all manner of schemes and subterfuges to keep Lamont from leaving. The cranky, mercenary Fred was satisfied with his lot in life, which was more than could be said for his 34-year-old son, Lamont (Demond Wilson), who was forever seeking out strategies to escape the junk business and go off on his own - and, hopefully, to find himself a wife. junk dealer who ran a ramshackle salvage business in the backyard of his home.
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Debuting January 14, 1972, the NBC series cast Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford, a 65-year-old L.A. In the initial development stages, Sanford and Son was to have been about a pair of Jewish men, but it was finally decided to transform the characters into African-Americans - and in so doing, veteran "Chitlin Circuit" standup comedian Redd Foxx was catapulted to superstardom. Like his previous smash hit All in the Family, producer Norman Lear's NBC sitcom Sanford and Son was based on a British original, in this instance Steptoe and Son, the story of an elderly, irascible cockney junk dealer and his cloddish bachelor son and business partner.
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