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Amen
Amen

6.6

Amen

NR

Amen

TV-G·1986·110 episodes

Summary

Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.

Crew

Creator

Ed. Weinberger

Status:

Ended

Original Language:

English

Type:

Scripted

Networks:

NBC

Keywords

philadelphia, pennsylvania
religion
church
sitcom