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Amen
Comedy
Family
September 27, 1986 – May 11, 1991 (began 40 years ago)
30m / episode
6.6/10
Ended
5 Seasons
110 Episodes
NBC

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.