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Good Times
Season 1
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A poor African-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.
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13 Episodes
Too Old Blues
E1
Too Old Blues
Episode 1
Black Jesus
E2
Black Jesus
Episode 2
Getting Up the Rent
E3
Getting Up the Rent
Episode 3
God's Business is Good Business
E4
God's Business is Good Business
Episode 4
Michael Gets Suspended
E5
Michael Gets Suspended
Episode 5
Sex and the Evans Family
E6
Sex and the Evans Family
Episode 6
Junior Gets a Patron
E7
Junior Gets a Patron
Episode 7
Junior the Senior
E8
Junior the Senior
Episode 8
The Visitor
E9
The Visitor
Episode 9
Springtime in the Ghetto
E10
Springtime in the Ghetto
Episode 10
The TV Commercial
E11
The TV Commercial
Episode 11
The Check Up
E12
The Check Up
Episode 12
My Son the Lover
E13
My Son the Lover
Episode 13
Cast of Season 1
Esther Rolle
Florida Evans
Ja'net DuBois
Wilona Woods
Jimmie Walker
James "JJ" Evans
John Amos
James Evans Sr.
Ralph Carter
Michael Evans
Bern Nadette Stanis
Thelma Evans
Season 1 Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Harry Harris
Good Times, bolstered by charismatic characters and spiced by sexy and "soul"-slanted quips, looks like another Norman Lear winner.
Orlando Sentinel
Noel Holston
Not much is allowed to get in the way of a "socially relevant" satirical swipe. Sometimes not even honesty.
Boston Globe
Percy Shain
It has two great assets in Esther Rolle and John Amos as the sensible, likable parents and such an abundance of good cheer in adversity that they have to be winners in your heart, even though they are losers everywhere else.
Los Angeles Times
Cecil Smith
It manages to achieve a rare quality of human comedy that is as human as it is comic.
Chicago Tribune
Gary Deeb
While Good Times is probably the most eagerly awaited new midseason series, the premiere is a brutal disappointment, a missed opportunity of the first magnitude.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Irv Letofsky
It does not appear to be sophisticated or provocative or challenging. But what the boys have done at Tandem is celebrate life. Everybody loves everybody so much it is a joy to behold.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
John Archibald
If you accept the premise that poverty in Sanford's junkyard or Florida's housing project is largely fun, The Good Times is good entertainment.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Jerry Coffey
Within the limits of the form, the new series may be more honest and perceptive in dealing with human nature and social and economic realities than a lot of shows with more serious pretensions. And besides, it's fun to watch.
Detroit Free Press
Bettelou Peterson
It's an amusing program with some very funny lines, although not quite as funny as the tame audience who watched the taping seemed to think. There were a couple of the sociological jabs which are to be expected in a Yorkin-Lear product.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Jones
Good Times is contemporary, but is one of the most delightful shows I have seen on television. It is beautifully written and Miss Rolle is one of the most accomplished comediennes around.
AV Club
Emily St. James
Good Times aimed to show life in poorer neighborhoods. It largely succeeded while gracefully integrating melodrama into the Lear formula.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
Good Times depends largely on one‐liners and jive talk with no time for tears... If the initial situation lacks real belly laughs, it makes up for it in genuine warmth and decency.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
The show was blessed with the grooviest Seventies theme song this side of Sanford and Son, the benefit of a young, fresh-faced Janet Jackson adding cachet to the later seasons and J.J. Walker's ability to turn "Dy-no-MITE!" into a national catchphrase.
New York Daily News
Kay Gardella
All characters... are very real, easy to relate to and ingratiating. Their interaction is natural, not strained, and with time they could become a winning combination.
Miami Herald
Jack Anderson
The series is cast in all too familiar mold, in spite of advance boasting that it would be biting, satirical comedy, and one-liner gags, however funny, do not such comedy make.
Philadelphia Daily News
Jim O'Brien
There are funny lines, but most are the kind of stock gags you might expect from a series that relies on black stereotypes. If you don't find that offensive, you might find it annoying because such lines are all too predictable.
Tampa Bay Times
Charles Benbow
The one constant factor is marvelous Esther Rolle as Florida. One wonders why it took Lear so long to give her her own show. And John Amos... can match Miss Rolle for warmth, comic timing and, in this episode, slow-boil, fiery-eyed anger.
Paste Magazine
Garrett Martin
As you get older you realize that, at its best, it's actually a pretty daring (and, at times, heartbreaking) show, finding humor and humanity in a setting that much of its audience was probably afraid of or depressed by.
PopMatters
Stephen Tropiano
As on other Lear sitcoms of the early '70s with a decidedly liberal slant, current events and social issues were discussed by the characters on an almost weekly basis and were largely the source of Good Times' humor.
Common Sense Media
Melissa Camacho
Unfortunately, in later years Good Times shifted away from being a vehicle for positive family values to centering on the Walkers' brand of comedy - which includes a lot of behavior that reinforces African-American stereotypes of the time.
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