8.6/10165 votesLoading...#1 - Sorry, Wrong Meeting
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1981
Louise and Florence run into members of the Ku Klux Klan at the CPR class held for the tenants in the building. Meanwhile, a rash of robberies in the building prompts Tom to start a meeting with the tenants. He later gets invited to one already scheduled unknown to him it's a Ku Klux Klan meeting and he invites George to come along with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
8.4/10168 votesLoading...#2 - 984 W. 124th Street, Apt. 5C
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1977
It's the Christmas season and the 1st wedding anniversary of Lionel and Jenny. However, George is sneaking around sending gifts to a mysterious address in Harlem. This leads Louise to follow him and she is shocked at what she discovers.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: John Baskin
8.4/10125 votesLoading...#3 - Me and Billy Dee
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1978
At the last minute, George's speaker at a benefit cancels which leaves him scrambeling to find a celebrity to speak. He sets out to rope Billy Dee Williams into speaking even considering getting a celebrity look-alike. However, George passes himself off as Alex Haley, and Billy Dee agress to speak. Meanwhile, an excited Florence is let down when she mistakes Billy Dee, her idol, for an impersonator.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.4/10108 votesLoading...#4 - Louise vs. Florence
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1979
Louise is to present a Volunteer award and must take care of the engraving on the plaque. However, when Florence takes it to her cousin, he mispells the name. This leads to a huge fight between Florence and Louise which results in Louise firing her. When George hires her back to serve some guests he's entertaining, constant bickering erupts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10112 votesLoading...#5 - A Case of Black and White
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1977
George's latest business deal is with a black man married to a white woman, so when he invites them over for dinner, he also has Tom and Helen come over, to make it look like he doesn't have racial prejudices. However, when Tom and Helen discover his plot, they storm out before the guests have arrived. This leads to George having Florence and Ralph impersonate Tom and Helen.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
8.3/10107 votesLoading...#6 - The First Store
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/6/1980
As Louise and George look through old photos, they recall George opening his first store in 1968. His opening coincides with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr and when news of his death circulates, chaos erupts in the Jeffersons' neighborhood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10124 votesLoading...#7 - And the Doorknobs Shined Like Diamonds
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1981
Louise is heartbroken when she discovers that the city is planning to tear down the building she grew up in. This leads her to make one last visit to her childhood home where she quickly remembers special memories of her mother and of her wedding day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10105 votesLoading...#8 - Louise Gets Her Way
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1976
Florence breaks down and tells Louise that she's losing her apartment due to the fact that the building is going to be torn down, this leads Louise to offer Florence a live-in maid position at the Jeffersons. Now the only problem is to get George to allow her to accept the job.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.1/10119 votesLoading...#9 - Florence in Love
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1976
One early morning, Louise and George are startled to discover a man in the kitchen, it isn't until after George threatens to beat him with a trophy, that he learns that Florence let him spend the night. This leads to a major argument resulting in Florence quitting her job.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
8.1/1092 votesLoading...#10 - Change of a Dollar
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1983
On the night of a big banquet for Tom, George runs out at the last minute to do an errand at his store in Queens. Once there, we're taken back to 1968 and witness the grand opening of Jefferson Cleaners and we see how George earned his first dollar.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ron Leavitt
8.0/10127 votesLoading...#11 - Mother Jefferson's Fall
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1975
After being ignored, a hurt Mother Jefferson fakes a fall and gets all the attention she wants and proves to be an even bigger burden to Louise than usual.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Erik Tarloff
8.0/10106 votesLoading...#12 - Florence Meets Mr. Right
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1979
Florence's latest boyfriend, Buzz Thatcher, proposes marriage which she accepts happily. However, his religious attitudes give Louise a bad feeling about the whole thing.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
8.0/1085 votesLoading...#13 - Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner (1)
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1982
For George's birthday, Louise books herself, George and Florence on a murder mystery cruise ship for mystery novelists, thus George pretends to be a novelist. George is having fun trying to solve a murder mystery until an apparant ""real"" murder occurs.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon, Ron Leavitt
7.9/1099 votesLoading...#14 - Me and Mr. G.
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1979
Louise is excited when she gets to have an orphan, stay at the Jefferson's apartment for a week. However, when she and Florence go out to the store and leave George in charge some of his prejudiced attitudes rub off on the impressionable young lady leading to what was supposed to be a week turns into only a few hours.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1075 votesLoading...#15 - Otis
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/1984
George is all excited about having a magazine expose done on him and his cleaning business. However, the magazine wants to present a non-stereo typical view of blacks, and this is a problem for Otis, a shoeshine man who has his stand right out side of George's Harlem store.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: N/A
7.8/10240 votesLoading...#16 - A Friend in Need
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/1975
The Jeffersons have moved on up and are now enjoying living in their new high-rise apartment. Louise has made a new friend in Diane Stockwell, who is having a hard time believing that George made his way up the ladder without doing anything shady. However, bigger problems are brewing when George insists that Louise hire a maid but Louise is totally against the idea.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Michael Ross
7.8/10131 votesLoading...#17 - A Dinner for Harry
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1975
It's Harry Bentley's birthday and the Jeffersons are planning a birthday party at there apartment. However, the joyous occasion is anything but when Tom arrives wearing the same dinner jacket as George. Meanwhile, Helen keeps the fact that she was mugged from Tom due to the fact that Tom is at the end of his rope with New York.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Michael Ross
7.8/10123 votesLoading...#18 - Jenny's Grandparents
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1975
Jenny is tired of the bickering between her two grandfathers who have been against each other ever since Tom and Helen wed. So this leads Jenny, Louise and Mother Jefferson to concoct a scheme to get the two together at the Jeffersons' apartment since neither of the grandfathers will step foot in the Willis' apartment.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#19 - Florence's Problem
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1976
Florence goes on a cleaning spree in the Jefferson's apartment as well as behaving extremely strange including, kissing Harry and giving away a swimming award to Louise. This leads Louise to believe Florence is contemplating suicide.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.8/10114 votesLoading...#20 - Mother Jefferson's Birthday
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1976
Mother Jefferson is all excited about it being her 70th birthday and even more excited about what George is giving her for a gift. However, George and Louise have totally forgotten all about it leading them to scramble to come up with something to please the old bitty.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
7.8/10106 votesLoading...#21 - Uncle George and Aunt Louise
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1978
George and Louise's have a houseguest, George's nephew, Raymond. Raymond is staying with them for six weeks and proves to be a hand full. When George's attempts to entertain the tyke fail, George takes him horseback riding, but when that fails, Raymond runs away.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: John Baskin
7.8/1097 votesLoading...#22 - Louise's Sister
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1979
George is planning a surprise party for Louise in which her gift is a surprise visit from her sister, Maxine. When Louise has a strange reaction to her sister, George is puzzled, unknown to him, her reasons stem to her and Maxine's childhood.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
7.8/1091 votesLoading...#23 - Now You See It, Now You Don't (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1979
When the Killer Rabbit overhears Louise telling Harry what she saw through the telescope, he follows her to her apartment and waits until everyone leaves to confront her. The Killer Rabbit soon finds that killing Louise is not going to be an easy task with constant interruptions preventing him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
7.8/1090 votesLoading...#24 - They Don't Make Preachers Like Him Anymore
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1984
Florence is all excited since her and her church choir are going to Ohio for a competition. However, Florence loses her faith in God when the Reverend steals the money they needed to enter the competition.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: N/A
7.7/10157 votesLoading...#25 - Lionel Cries Uncle
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1975
Louise is expecting a visit from her Uncle Ward, a man who happens to be a butler. His job is what makes George and Lionel put him down, calling him an "Uncle Tom." Meanwhile, a fight at school prompts Lionel to get kicked out.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: Jim Carlson
The Best Episodes of The Jeffersons
Every episode of The Jeffersons ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Jeffersons!
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Sorry, Wrong Meeting" is the best rated episode of "The Jeffersons". It scored 8.6/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Peter Casey, David Clark Lee, it aired on 2/15/1981. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "984 W. 124th Street, Apt. 5C".