
About the TV Show

philadelphia, pennsylvania religion church sitcom
Amen
First Air Date: September 27, 1986
First Aired on | : | 1986 |
Status | : | Ended |
Created By | : | Ed. Weinberger |
Networks | : | NBC |
Genres | : | Comedy |
Seasons/Episodes | : | 110 episodes in 5 Seasons |
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.