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Creating an unforgettable character is a rare achievement on TV. Sherman Hemsley did it twice — with almost no break in between. A year after The Jeffersons ended its 11-season run, Hemsley moved on down I-95 from the East Side of Manhattan to inner city Philadelphia for six seasons on Amen.

“You aren’t in the Army. You’re in the Unit,” Molly Blane (Regina Taylor) says to the wife of a new recruit in The Unit, an action-drama about the lives, loves, and missions of a U.S.-based special operations force.

This popular 2006-2009 series has the look and feel of a feature film with the soul of a nighttime soap opera, and we mean that in the best possible way. You can see for yourself when The Unit joins the getTV lineup on January 2, with two episodes back-to-back every weekday from 9a-11a ET!

Everyone knows that Steven Seagal has been a movie actor since the 1980s. But did you know that the action film icon also starred in a weekly TV series?

When All In The Family debuted in 1971, few people suspected it would be responsible for more spin-offs than any other sitcom in television history.

Creator Norman Lear was just happy the Bunkers were on the air. He had endured a tortured development process that included two pilots rejected by ABC and multiple recasts. To make matters worse, when the show finally debuted on CBS, it was largely ignored by the public. Ratings for the first season were poor, and the network didn’t exactly shout about it from the antenna-covered rooftops.     

“The funk hits the fan” when a former R&B singer becomes a high school music teacher in inner city Chicago in The Steve Harvey Show. Actor and comedian Steve Harvey starred in this hit comedy from creator Winifred Hervey (The Golden Girls) and producer/director Stan Lathan (Sanford And Son) which originally aired on The WB Network from 1996 until 2002.

Steve Harvey was almost 40 when he scored his big break on The Steve Harvey Show in 1996. In the years since he’s become one of the biggest stars in show business, with success in live performance, film, television, radio, and even books. But his road to the top was twisty, a fact Harvey himself believes is vital to his longevity. 

“You have to fail in order to win,” he said in 2012.