Amen - Season 1 - Eps 2: The Courtship of Bess Richards

Name: Eps 2: The Courtship of Bess Richards
Released: 1986-10-04
Rating: 3.3

1986-10-04 • 30 min • ⭐ 6.6/10

After hearing a beautiful gospel singer sing at a wedding, Deacon Frye decides to woo her so she will join the church and sing in the choir. He flatters her, and wines her and dines her to compel her to come, but his plan backfires when all the attention she is receiving causes her to fall in love with Deacon Frye, and she thinks he wants to marry her. At his wits end, he decides to tell her the truth, unaware of the wrath of a scorned woman.

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About Amen

Title: Amen

First Air Date: 1986-09-27

Last Air Date: 1991-05-11

Status: Ended

Rating: 6.6/10 (from 15 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 5

Total Episodes: 110

Network: NBC

Genres: Comedy, Family

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

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.