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| Season 3, Episode 1 Number (#38) in series (133 episodes) | ||||
| Tape date | July 24, 1975 | |||
| Air date: | September 9, 1975 | |||
| Network/Country: | CBS-TV | |||
| Written by: | John Baskin, Roger Shulman (teleplay) Hubert Geiger (teleplay & story) | |||
| Directed by: | Herbert Kenwith | |||
| Production code: | 301 | |||
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The Real Cool Job | |||
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| Starring: | Esther Rolle John Amos Jimmie Walker Ja'net Dubois Bern Nadette Stanis Ralph Carter | |||
| Guest starring: | Dave Turner | |||
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The Real Cool Job is the seaoson premiere episode of Season 3 of Good Times as well as the thirty-eighth series episode overall. The episode was written by John Baskin, Roger Shulman and Hubert Geiger from an original story by Geiger, and directed by Herbert Kenwith. It originally aired on CBS-TV on September 16, 1975.
Synopsis[]
James gets the break he has been waiting for: a good paying job. After completing trade school, he finds out that the job is in Alaska.
Plot summary[]
Season three of Good Times opens on an optimistic note, as the perennially unemployed James Evans (John Amos) is offered an excellent job with high pay and good benefits. The family is as thrilled as James that good fortune is at last smiling upon him. Unfortunately, the new job would take the Evans paterfamilias far away from the family's Chicago home -- all the way to Alaska, in fact.
Guest starring[]
- Dave Turner as Officer Wigmore