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.
Sherman Hemsley
Clifton Davis
Anna Maria Horsford
Roz Ryan
Jester Hairston
Barbara Montgomery
Tony T. Johnson
Elsa Raven
Bumper Robinson
Franklyn Seales
Montrose Hagins
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Richard Roundtree
Craig Bierko
Ta-Tanisha
Moses Gunn
Ron Glass
Vonetta McGee
Neva Patterson
Tracy Reed
Lee Weaver
Nell Carter
Paula Kelly
Denise Nicholas
John Matuszak
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jane White
James Brown
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sam Scarber
Darius McCrary
Bennet Guillory
Lynn Hamilton
Todd Hallowell
Robert MacNaughton
Tasha Scott
Creator
Ed. Weinberger
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
Networks: