When Lamont and Fred put a porcelain figure up for auction, their shill bidding attempts backfire on them.
Lamont takes Fred out on the town to celebrate his father's birthday but only ends up being embarrassed.
When Lamont is jilted at the altar by his bride-to-be, his relatives try to recover their wedding gifts.
Fred and Lamont fall victim to a copper scam.
Lamont forces Fred to quit smoking and visit the doctor, but Fred becomes convinced he has tuberculosis.
After knocking over Lamont's glass figurine collection, Fred pretends the house was robbed and is treated as a hero.
Frustrated with the lack of privacy at home, Lamont moves into his own apartment.
After Fred ignores all the household bills, debt collectors descend on the house from every direction.
After Lamont buys two coffins at auction, a superstitious Fred refuses to sleep in the house.
Lamont is determined to break up Fred's plans to marry Donna.
Fred fakes amnesia to get Lamont to buy him a color television.
Fred and Lamont find a large sum of money in an old suitcase but are soon visited by a gunman intent on taking the treasure.
With Fred and Donna once again planning marriage, Lamont cooks up a scheme to drive them apart.
Fred and Lamont try to move a piano from the apartment of an eccentric man.
Lamont and Fred hire a maid who'd rather relax than work.
A fed-up Lamont quits the business and takes a job with a competitor while Fred tries to replace his son.
Fred wins $500 playing his lucky number but soon finds Aunt Ethel and Bubba inconveniently needing cash.
After Lamont loses his shirt to some crooked poker players, Fred saves the day by turning the tables on them.
After getting in an accident with the truck, Fred feigns a whiplash injury to collect damages.
When Fred, Lamont and Rollo try to sell a gun at a pawn shop, they are mistaken for stickup bandits.
When Fred finds out that his cousin's plump stepdaughter will inherit $10,000 when she marries, he tries to make Lamont the lucky groom.
Fred fumes with jealousy over Donna's patient, a pompous but sick man who makes Fred feel inferior.
Fred's toothache leads him to the dental clinic, where he insists on a white dentist but soon ends up with his foot in his mouth.
After Fred accidentally fires an antique rifle, he and Lamont become convinced that the bullet has killed their neighbor Goldstein.
Upset about his new Puerto Rican neighbor, Fred hatches a plan to have the city condemn Julio's property.
After meeting Lena Horne, Fred tries to trick her into visiting him at his home.
An old flame stops by and tells Fred that he is her daughter's real father, but Lamont has already taken the girl out for a date, unaware that she may be his sister.
Fred must scramble to keep two dates entertained, much to the delight of a scheming Lamont.
Fred and Lamont find a homeless man sleeping in a bathtub in their junkyard.
After Fred begins throwing parties for which he charges admission, two hoods show up wanting a part of the action.
Lamont gets in touch with his roots but soon learns that Africanism is about more than just clothes and slogans.
When Lamont takes out Julio's sister, Fred spies on them and finds Julio's mother doing the same.
With Lamont spending lots of time with Julio, Fred feels left out.
Fred's new fiancee happens to be Lamont's old flame.
With Lamont joining a tramp steamer to see the world, Fred reluctantly enters a retirement home.
Lamont tries to turn a fast buck on a commode that he thinks is a valuable antique.
A runaway child staying with the Sanfords breaks through Fred's gruff exterior.
After Lamont, Rollo and Fred unwittingly show up at an adult movie shoot, a police raid lands them all in jail.
After Bubba spots Lamont and Rollo mistakenly entering a gay bar, an incredulous Fred tries to find out if his son has become a homosexual.
While visiting the home of Lamont's white drama teacher, Fred surprises the woman's parents and exposes their prejudices as well as his own.
Fred's new TV turns out to be one stolen from Grady, so Fred tries to unload it on Julio.
Rollo and Lamont convince Fred to let their three-girl singing act stay at the house, but Fred and his rowdy friends ruin the opening performance.
Inspired by a visit to an astrologist, Lamont seeks peace with his father, but Fred is convinced that his indigestion may be fatal.
After Fred witnesses a burglary at Julio's place but refuses to identify the culprits, Lamont and Julio turn the tables to show Fred the value of being a good neighbor.
Convinced that Lamont is abandoning the business, Fred takes a bed at a seedy flophouse.
Lamont regrets his birthday gift to Fred of a pool table, which has turned the house into a billiards room for Fred and his shiftless friends.
Fred donates a collection of Blind Mellow Jelly records to a library for a tax deduction, but after learning of the records' monetary value, he cooks up a scheme to get them back.
To claim an inheritance in St. Louis, a nervous Fred must take his first airplane flight.
To spoil Fred's wedding plans with Donna, Lamont uses Esther and other family members to wreak havoc.
To make some extra cash, Fred and Lamont take in Grady as a boarder but soon regret the decision.
Longtime family friend Grip comes to visit, with a shocking claim: he thinks he is Lamont's real father.
After the death of a friend, Fred and his buddies throw a party to feel young again but run out of gas long before they can make time with a group of younger women.
When Lamont tries to contest a traffic ticket, Fred creates disorder in the court.
Angry with Julio for leaving junk on his property, Fred gets a surveyor to mark the property line but is not pleased with the results.
Fed up with all of Fred's fake heart attacks, Lamont forces his father to check into the hospital for tests.
Lamont and Rollo set up a rendezvous at Rollo's place with two girls that doesn't go as planned, but Fred stops by and saves the day.
Beaten up by a barroom bully, Lamont takes karate lessons to defend himself against the thug.
A confused woman visits the house, insisting that Grady is Fred, the man with whom she had spent a drunken evening.
With Fred away in St. Louis, Grady rules the house with an iron fist.
Woody comes to stay with Lamont and Grady after a fight with Esther.
Spooked by his girlfriend's marriage ideas, Lamont uses Grady as the reason he can't tie the knot.
Grady's cousin Emma comes to visit and tries to take advantage of his hospitality.
With Fred in St. Louis, Grady unwittingly serves a salad to Smitty and Hoppy that may contain marijuana leaves.
Lamont's visiting ex-con friend has Grady on high alert.
After Grady receives an extra Social Security check, he gambles the money away in Las Vegas.
After a fed-up Lamont moves out, Fred lets his son hold a strange gathering at the house in the hopes of getting him back.
With business bad and the tax bill due, Lamont takes a job at a local haberdashery.
Fred becomes convinced that a ring given to him by friends and family was actually stolen from Frank Sinatra.
After a relative leaves Lamont $7,000 if he weds and has a child, Fred visits a dating service to find Lamont a mate.
Fred schemes to break up Grady's new romance with a homely woman.
Fred returns from his extended trip to St. Louis but feels unwanted because Grady took better care of the house and Lamont.
Fred buys a racehorse for breeding purposes but soon finds the animal isn't fit for the task.
When a Japanese company tries to buy out the neighborhood to build a brewery, Fred holds out for as much as he can get.
Fred's niece, who closely resembles his late wife, comes to visit.
After calling into a local radio show, Lamont is drafted to run for state assembly.
When Julio's sister and nephew visit and must stay with the Sanfords, Fred becomes involved with the nephew's problems at school.
Julio and the Sanfords consolidate their junk businesses but soon sour on the merger.
Fred becomes inspired to create a work of art out of junk as his legacy for eternity.
Fred is mortified to meet his new brother-in-law Rodney, a white impresario with an overabundance of affection.
Fred and his pals don ridiculous costumes to win a prize for Lamont on a TV game show.
Fred takes on the mismanagement of a dim-witted prizefighter.
When Fred's friend Bowlegs finds himself a man short for a nightclub engagement, Fred and Lamont must take the stage to help him out.
A psychiatrist tells Lamont that his headaches are caused by a hatred for his father.
Fred tries to convince Lamont to end his romance with an older woman.
Fred and his professional gambler friend conspire to hustle money from Lamont's poker game.
In this backdoor pilot for the '"Grady" spinoff series, Grady gives his daughter a tasteless painting to hang over the fireplace just in time for a high-class party.
Mistakenly believing that Fred is dying, Lamont prepares a party and tries to get Lena Horne to visit.
Fearing a massive earthquake, Fred tries to sell the house and heads to Las Vegas.
Fred becomes entangled in a spat between Esther and Woodrow.
At the bank to seek a loan to open the Sanford Arms, Fred and Lamont find themselves hostages in a robbery.
Fred and Lamont open a boarding house and fill the rooms with a variety of strange characters.
Fred sues NBC for airing a show called Steinberg and Son, which seems to copy his life exactly but with white Jewish characters rather than black ones.
To help new brother-in-law Rodney, Fred teams up with an old friend to make Rodney's gig as nightclub impresario a success.
An encounter with Della Reese causes Fred to support a political candidate whose opponent is backed by Lamont.
With another marriage proposal in hand, Donna gives Fred an ultimatum.
With a $1,000 prize on the line, Fred tries to groom Esther to win a beauty contest.
Fred and Ah Chew start a takeout food business in the Sanford home but run afoul of the health inspector.
Fred competes in the Senior Olympics to defeat a rival suitor for Donna's affections.
Fred plays the role of Scrooge in his dream version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
After witnessing a murder attempt, Fred is a target for assassins as he recuperates in a hospital bed.
Fred steals Lamont's savings to become a seller of a kitchen tool called the Whopper Chopper.
To legally keep the elephant left with him by a tenant, Fred must stage a circus in the junkyard.
When Lamont goes out of town, Fred rents his room to a pregnant woman who goes into labor.
A hypnotherapist tries to cure Fred of his addiction to television.
To find the truth about Lamont's new girlfriend Janet, Fred goes undercover.
Fred starts an escort service but must entertain three ladies at the same time.
After Lamont pops the question to Janet, Fred worries that the marriage will cause him to be alone.
Fred becomes the director of a community theater production starring boxer George Foreman.
Fred resorts to desperate measures to overcome his sudden back pain in time for an awards banquet in his honor.
Fred's tall tales about World War II give way to fantasy sequences starring the entire cast.
Fred and Lamont go camping and reminisce, leading to several flashback scenes.
To keep Lamont from quitting the business, Fred takes out a loan and must secretly work as a waiter to pay it off.
Fred tries to set the world record for continuous hours without sleep.
A band of jewel thieves lures Fred and Lamont to Hawaii to unwittingly smuggle diamonds off the island.
When Fred and Lamont discover stolen diamonds intended to be smuggled to the mainland, the thieves chase them all over Hawaii.
After Fred falls victim to a sweepstakes scam, he devises a plan to con the con men.
The new tenant at the Sanford Arms is a wanted fence disguised in drag.
Fred's outdoor garden may actually be the site of a lucrative crude oil strike.
Fred's position as a community councilman draws the attention of a crooked slumlord looking to pass a bribe.
When Woody gets drunk just before a visit from the adoption agency, Fred must stand in as Esther's husband.
Esther and Woody adopt a teenage boy whose attitude and beliefs don't sit well with Esther.
Lamont, Fred and Bubba face the music as contestants on The Gong Show.
A strange man visits and claims that he and Fred robbed a bank years ago.
To reupholster Fred's furniture as a gift, Lamont and Esther convince him the furniture was stolen, but Fred buys tacky new pieces with the insurance money.
Fred enters a Redd Foxx look-alike contest.
Grady's attempt at magic results in Fred and Esther being handcuffed together.
Fred uses his temporary hearing troubles to attract Donna's attention.
The surprise appearance of Janet's ex-husband threatens to spoil Lamont's plans to marry her.
Fred draws up his will and holds a reading of it in the living room.
To avoid paying taxes, Fred becomes a clergyman in a disreputable church that could cost him dearly.
Angered by a local store's discriminatory credit policy, Fred organizes a group of fellow senior citizens.
In order to keep The Sanford Arms, Fred turns to gambling to raise funds.
After Fred receives his family crest, he becomes convinced he is a descendant of Jewish African royalty.
The Sanfords meet blues legend B.B. King, who has something significant in common with Fred.
Fred and Bubba take evening classes to earn their high-school equivalency diploma.
