History Series / SanfordAndSon

!!Contains examples of:

* BrotherChuck: Melvin - Fred's best friend, pre-Grady and Bubba.
** Julio after Season Four, and for really no explanation (that's when the Sanfords bought his property and turned it into the Sanford Arms boarding house).

* CloudCuckoolander: Usually Grady, but Officer Hoppy had his moments.
* CrossOver

* [=Retcon=] Grady Wilson was originally Fred's cousin, married, and had a daughter with designs on Lamont. By his second appearance, the wife, daughter and blood relationship with Fred had been dropped, with Grady now an old family friend.

* RetCon: Grady Wilson was originally Fred's cousin, married, and had a daughter with designs on Lamont. By his second appearance, the wife, daughter and blood relationship with Fred had been dropped, with Grady now an old family friend.

* ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior

** Julio after Season Four, and for really no explanation (that's when the Sanfords bought his property and turned it into the Sanford Arms boarding house).* CatchPhrase: "You big dummy!" "Watch it, sucker!" "...on account of my arthur-its."

* CatchPhrase: "You big dummy!" "Watch it, sucker!" "...on account of my arthur-its."

** Julio after Season Four, and for really no explanation (that's when the Sanfords bought his property and turned it into the Sanford Arms boarding house).

* {Expy}: Not only is the entire series this for the British sitcom ''SteptoeAndSon'', but Norman Lear intended Fred himself to be the black expy of [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]]/

* SpinOff: ''Grady'', ''The Sanford Arms''

* AmbiguouslyGay: An antiques collector who hires Fred and Lamont to move a piano in "The Piano Movers". Fred spends most of the episode doing everything short of outright asking him to find out if he is or not.

* CrossOver: Inverted with ''HawaiiFiveO'', of all shows. While none of the characters from the series are seen, there are several references to Steve [=McGarrett=], even by the in-Sanford-universe Five-O's Chief of Police, implying that a [=McGarrett=] (famous hair and all) actually works for the actual Hawaii Five-O. Likewise, whenever detectives arrive on a scene, or enter frame, the then-current ''Hawaii Five-O'' theme song plays.
** Also inverted with the original series of ''MissionImpossible'', in the same episode, as Greg Morris made a guest appearance as one of the diamond smugglers; in two different scenes when he sneaks into Fred and Lamont's hotel room, the ''Mission: Impossible'' theme plays.

** ...and of course: "This is the big one!"
*** That line may be a BeamMeUpScotty. I know he did often say: "This is it! Hear that Elizabeth? I'm comin' to join ya, honey!"

* MyNaymeIs: S-A-N-F-O-R-D Period.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Whatever the "G." stands for.

* JugglingLoadedGuns: After Lamont buys an old musket, Fred starts explaining how his [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]]-era ancestor fought the British. The gun goes off, and both Fred and Lamont begin thinking that he killed a neighbor across the street.

* JugglingLoadedGuns: After Lamont buys an old musket, Fred starts explaining how his RevolutionaryWar-era ancestor fought the British. The gun goes off, and both Fred and Lamont begin thinking that he killed a neighbor across the street.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season while having the same tone as most of the others lacks many of the show's memorable supporting cast (see DropInCharacter above for a partial list) that would give episodes their flavor. Most of these would be introduced in the second season. (Part of this the result of a number of first season ''Sanford'' episodes being adapted ''SteptoeAndSon'' scripts.)

* {{Aftershow}}: 1980's ''{{Sanford}}''. Before that was ''TheSanfordArms'' during the opening scene of which Grady comes to the house to discover that Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona ([[PutOnABusToHell without telling Grady, a lifelong friend and the godfather of his son]]), [[HandWave "because of Fred's health"]], the house had been sold to a widower named Phil Wheeler who had turned it into the head office of a fully operational hotel, that now employed Bubba, seemingly overnight.

* {{Aftershow}}: 1980's ''{{Sanford}}''. Before that was ''Sanford Arms'' during the opening scene of which Grady comes to the house to discover that Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona ([[PutOnABusToHell without telling Grady, a lifelong friend and the godfather of his son]]), [[HandWave "because of Fred's health"]], the house had been sold to a widower named Phil Wheeler who had turned it into the head office of a fully operational hotel, that now employed Bubba, seemingly overnight.

** Lamont in both {{Aftershow}}s. In ''SanfordArms'' he and Fred have both moved to Arizona while ''{{Sanford}}'' he's said to be working on an oil pipeline in Alaska.

** Averted in ''The Sanford Arms'' when Fred and Lemont are replaced by a widower named Phil Wheeler and his children and averted even harder in ''Sanford'' where Lemont is replaced as Fred's business partner by Cal a fat, white redneck.

* {{Aftershow}}: 1980's ''{{Sanford}}''. Before that was ''Sanford Arms'' during the opening scene of which Grady comes to the house to discover that Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona ([[PutOnABusToHell without telling Grady, a lifelong friend and the godfather of his son]], [[HandWave "because of Fred's health"]], the house had been sold to a widower named Phil Wheeler who had turned it into the head office of a fully operational hotel, that now employed Bubba, seemingly over night.

* ShoutOut: Both ''HawaiiFive0'' and ''MissionImpossible'' in the 2 part "The Hawaiian Connection".

* AsideGlance: When the [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling NBC executive]] cancels ''[[ShowWithinAShow Steinberg and Son]]'' (in the episode of the same name) by explaining that [[BetterThanItSounds no one wanted to see a sitcom about an old junk dealer and his grown loser son]], Fred/Redd [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to give the audience a shocked glance.

** Grady had "Great Googly Moogly".