First Air Date:
September 26, 1986
Last Air Date:
May 10, 1991
Genre:
Comedy, Family
Creator / Director:
Ed. Weinberger
Status:
Ended
TMDB Rating:
0.00/10
Cast
Sherman Hemsley, Clifton Davis, Anna Maria Horsford, Roz Ryan, Jester Hairston, Tony T. Johnson, Bumper Robinson
About the TV Show
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.