6.8/1062 votes#1 - Laundry is a Tough Town (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1982
George is in a price war with Big Sky Cleaners and they are no holds bar. A representative from Big Sky comes to the Jefferson's apartment offering to buy George out and he refuses. When Big Sky comes out with a 1,000,000 customer gimmick George tries to find his own gimmick and people with ""talent"" swamp the apartment including a bearded lady and a lion tamer. But when Louise goes down to Big Sky to end this battle she becomes the 1,000,000 customer. This leads George to decide to sell out.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Miller
7.0/1064 votes#2 - Laundry is a Tough Town (2)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1982
George has decided to sell out to Big Sky Cleaners and he begins to hang around the apartment like he already has retired. This drives Florence and Louise up the wall since he has gotten into the habit of giving advice to everyone he meets. However, pretty soon, George has second thoughts about giving up his business.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon, Ron Leavitt
7.1/1069 votes#3 - Anatomy of a Stain
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1982
When Tom gets his pants back from Jefferson Cleaners with a stain on them, he wants a refund however George refuses to pay for the pants, charging it was Tom's fault for leaving a candy bar in the pocket. This leads them to take their case to a TV court show.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
7.4/1062 votes#4 - Social Insecurity
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1982
Florence is unsure of the future when she realizes she doesn't have any financial security. This prompts her to ask George for a pension plan, something George flatly refuses.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1072 votes#5 - Charlie's Angels
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1982
Charlie wants George to provide him with a loan for some improvements on his bar. George refuses but does offer him some advice on how to get some more business, including hiring waitresses and dressing them provocatively. This leads Charlie to go to Tom who goes in on the deal and quickly the bar is buzzing with business, something George now wants a part of.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1064 votes#6 - Heeeere's Johnny
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1982
Louise is not looking forward to the visit of one of George's best friends, Johnny Moore, due to the fact that she can't stand his chauvinistic jokestar mannerisms. Things get worse when she inadvertantly gets him to stay at the Jeffersons' apartment during his stay in New York.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1070 votes#7 - A Date With Danger
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1982
At a party thrown by the Willis, the guest of honor, Joe Blake, a successful author, asks Florence out and she can't wait to go out with him. However, soon after he takes her away on their date, Tom and Helen let George and Louise know the fact that he was in prison for murdering his girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
8.0/1085 votes#8 - 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
7.5/1084 votes#9 - Death Smiles on a Dry Cleaner (2)
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1982
The novelists try to solve the apparent ""real"" murder with George trying his best to solve it as well. When it is determind that the victim, Edgar, was poisoned the crew deduces that the Duchess did it, however in the end George discovers the real culprit.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon, Ron Leavitt
7.6/1072 votes#10 - Appointment in 8-B
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1982
George stops by 8-B, Ms. Sanderson's apartment, to drop off her cleaning bid but soon after he leaves, Ralph stops by and hears Ms. Sanderson having sex with a man named George and Ralph quickly jumps to the wrong conclusion.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon, Ron Leavitt
6.7/1062 votes#11 - Poetic Justice
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1982
Louise discovers some old poems the George once wrote and has them bound in a book. However, in order to get it bound she must order a number of copies, copies which get circulated around to those living in the building. George is furious however his attitude changes when a publisher takes an interest in his poems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1066 votes#12 - How Now Dow Jones
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1982
George's investment advice for Tom proves fruitful and puts Helen in a fur coat. This prompts Florence to want to make some money so she asks George for advice. However, since she doesn't have enough money for investing, he suggests she go in on the venture with the other maids in the building. The results of the ordeal prove to be less that satisfying, for George anyway.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
6.8/1064 votes#13 - The Defiant Ones
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1983
While going through a box of momentos, George refuses to allow Louise to see a certain picture and decides to put it in his store safe. Determind to see it and with Helen in tow, Louise tries to break into the store safe but both her and Helen end up in jail.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeffrey Richman
7.7/1078 votes#14 - My Maid. . . My Wife
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1983
Florence runs into an old classmate, Pauline, and finds that she has married money. This prompts a jealous Florence to say that she too married wealth, George. This leads to Louise posing as the maid and Florence posing as Louise when Pauline comes over for dinner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Wayne Kline
7.5/1063 votes#15 - Mr. Wonderful
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1983
George forgets to pick up opera tickets and this leads to Louise and Helen comparing him to the ""thoughful"" Tom. A miffed George spills the beans about Tom buying an insurance policy and has made a cousin the beneficiary, a cousin who is a racist and is against Tom and Helen's marriage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1071 votes#16 - My Girl, Louise
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1983
With the Help Center on its last legs, Louise and Helen desperately try to find someone who could make a sizeable donation to keep the Help Center going. This prompts Louise to go to her ex-employer, Lillian Warren, whom Louise worked for as a maid and who treated her like a piece of furniture.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1064 votes#17 - Bodyguards Are People Too
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1983
Jenny is depressed that no one will take a chance on her fashion designs so she stops by the Jefferson's apartment for a visit. Meanwhile, George's bodyguard, Hugo, is determined to find love now that, as he puts it, is in the spring of his life. When he runs into Jenny he falls for her and is determined to make her his even though she's married.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1064 votes#18 - True Confessions
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1983
George and Louise prepare for a visit from their foster son, Jimmy. However, they are in for the shock of their lives when they discover their foster son is a grown man who's supposedly been using the money they've sent them on his education.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
7.6/1069 votes#19 - Mr. Clean
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1983
One evening while playing poker, George and his buddies make a mess of the living room throwing food all over. This prompts Florence to stay up all night cleaning up after George's mess which is why she is exhausted the next morning. This leads George to make a bet with Florence stating that he can do in three hours what she does in a day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1076 votes#20 - The Good Life
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1983
The good life is striking everyone, George has hit success with the stocks allowing Louise to get a ring she wanted, Tom has just gotten a new client and Helen has just been pampered at a spa where she met famous celebrities. Wanting in on the ""good life"" Florence shells out enough money to go to the spa wanting to meet celebrities and unknowingly runs into Gladys Knight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1063 votes#21 - Father's Day
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1983
A young boy befriends Louise and Helen and they become convinced that he has a crush on one of them but the real reason he befriended them was to get to George. He wants to ask George if he would participate in a father-son bowling tournament, since his father is supposedly dead. However, the boy does indeed have a father who's alive, but not-so well, he's a parapalegic.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1092 votes#22 - 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
7.1/1068 votes#23 - Designing Woman
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1983
George is trying to drum up some cleaning business from a famous fashion designer, Camille Hendricks. George tricks Jenny into swinging by the apartment to meet her in order to show her some of her designs, however Jenny is unprepared for this unexpected surprise.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1079 votes#24 - Double Trouble
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1983
George is in yet another promotional battle with Cunningham. This time Cunningham has hired a popular soap star to boost sales, so for competition, George tries to get celebrities too. However, his idea may get him in trouble with the law when he hires celebrity look alikes and is going to try to pass them off as the real thing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1072 votes#25 - Silver Lining
Season 9 Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1983
An auction is held to raise money for the Help Center and Florence gets a big surprise when she discovers $2500 stuffed under the lining of a hat that she buys. Florence turns the money into the police, hoping no one will claim it and no one does. However, just as Florence thinks she'll get to keep the money, an apparent owner arrives at the apartment.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
The Best Episodes of The Jeffersons Season 9
Every episode of The Jeffersons Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Jeffersons Season 9!
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...
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Network:CBS
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Laundry is a Tough Town (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Jeffersons" season 9. It scored 6.8/10 based on 62 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Mark Miller, it aired on 9/26/1982. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Laundry is a Tough Town (2)".