Good Times

:For the Chic song "Good Times," see Good Times (song). For the virus hoax, see Goodtimes virus.

Premise

The character Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle) had been Maude Findlay's housekeeper on Maude, but in early 1974 the character and her husband (referred to as "Henry" on Maude, he was renamed James on Good Times) were transported to an apartment in a housing project (implicitly the infamous Cabrini-Green projects, shown in the opening and closing credits but never mentioned by name on the show) in a poor, African American neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.

Related Topics:
Esther Rolle - Housing project - Cabrini-Green - African American - Chicago

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Florida lived with James (John Amos) and their children J.J. (Jimmie Walker), Thelma (Bern Nadette Stanis), and Michael (Ralph Carter). When the series began, J.J. and Thelma were seventeen and sixteen years old, respectively, and Michael, called "the militant midget" by his father due to his activism, was eleven years old. Their exuberant neighbor, and Florida's best friend, was Willona Woods (played by Ja'net Du Bois), a recent divorcée.

Related Topics:
John Amos - Jimmie Walker - Bern Nadette Stanis - Ralph Carter - Activism - Ja'net Du Bois

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