Davis ( Albert Reed Jr.) is a local politician with a slightly shady disposition whom the Evans generally despise. (Wilson also plays a club owner named Stanley in the season four episode, "The Comedian and the Loan Sharks"). He is usually accompanied by bodyguards (one portrayed by Bubba Smith, the other by series painter Ernie Barnes) and comes across as cool and threatening, but has shown a soft heart on occasion, particularly when he decided not to take an antique locket (to settle a debt) that Florida had given to Thelma because it had reminded him of his late mother. Marion "Sweet Daddy" Williams ( Theodore Wilson) is a menacing neighborhood numbers runner and pimp, who has a reputation for wearing flashy clothing and jewelry.(Rolle decided to come back to the show on the condition the character of Carl Dixon was written out.) Florida then revealed to Willona he died from his battle of lung cancer. Carl is referenced briefly in that season's second episode "Florida's Homecoming Part 2," but he is never mentioned again (Florida continues to use the surname Evans instead of Dixon). Florida returns at the beginning of season six, this time without Carl for Thelma's wedding. The two marry off-screen and move to Arizona. After a talk from Bookman, Carl again asks Florida for her hand in marriage. Carl breaks off the engagement after he is diagnosed with lung cancer. Despite their religious differences, Carl and Florida begin dating and become engaged in the final episode of season four. Carl Dixon ( Moses Gunn) is an atheist shop owner for whom Michael briefly works. ![]() Another episode is centered on Michael's plan to "clean up" Ned and get him off the booze by letting him stay at the Evanses' house. uses Ned the Wino as the model for a portrait of Jesus. In the season one episode "Black Jesus," J.J. Ned the Wino ( Raymond Allen) is the local drunk who frequents the neighborhood and the apartment building where the Evans family reside.He sometimes hustles money playing pool, although Florida disapproves of this. Though he is often unemployed, he is a proud man who will not accept charity. James Evans often works at least two jobs, mostly manual labor such as dishwasher, construction laborer, etc. Įpisodes of Good Times deal with the characters' attempts to overcome poverty, living in high-rise public housing in Chicago. Henry's name became James, he worked various odd jobs, there was no mention of Maude but it was mentioned that Florida was a maid once before in the episode 'The Checkup' and the couple lived in Chicago. When producers decided to feature the Florida character in her own show, they changed the characters' history to fit a new series that was well into development rather than start from scratch to create a consistent starring vehicle. The characters originated on the sitcom Maude as Florida and Henry Evans, with Florida employed as Maude Findlay's housekeeper in Tuckahoe, New York, and Henry employed as a New York City firefighter. refer to as "Buffalo Butt" or, even more derisively, "Booger." ![]() ![]() Their building superintendent is Nathan Bookman (seasons 2–6), who James, Willona and later J.J. Their exuberant neighbor and Florida's best friend is Willona Woods, a recent divorcée who works at a boutique. ![]() is 17 (portrayed by 26-year-old Jimmie Walker, who was just eight years younger than co-star John Amos), Thelma 16 and Michael 11. Florida and James have three children: James Jr., also known as "J.J.", a budding artist and illustrator who thinks of himself as a " Casanova" type and achieves both success and rejection on his path to monetize his talent into a career Thelma, a very bright girl who takes education very seriously as she sees it as a way to help her family and is shown attending high school and community college over the course of the series and Michael, whose passionate activism and support for the Black community and Black issues causes his father to call him "the militant midget." The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes, shown in the opening and closing credits. Florida and James (renamed from Henry) Evans and their three children live at 921 North Gilbert Avenue, apartment 17C, in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.
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