Amen - Season 1 - Eps 8: Maitre D'eacon
A woman bequeaths the church members her eatery (a French restaurant) — providing they continue its successful operation. But the church runs into trouble meeting it's next balloon mortgage payment, which is due immediately. So, in order to save the church, they decide to sell the restaurant, but the terms of the will state that as long as it is a success, they can never sell it. What will the church do in order to meet its obligation to the bank?
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.
Cast

Sherman Hemsley
Deacon Ernest Frye

Clifton Davis
Reverend Reuben Gregory

Anna Maria Horsford
Thelma Frye

Roz Ryan
Amelia Hetabrink

Jester Hairston
Rolly Forbes

Tony T. Johnson
Chris

Bumper Robinson
Clarence