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Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride

Episode Number: 3    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday January 28, 1972    Prod Code: 103
Engaged, Lamont is excited about his impending nuptials but on the wedding day he quickly finds himself the only one who is. The bride dumps him at the altar and he finds his relatives begging to get back their wedding gifts.

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Writer: Aaron Ruben
Director: Bud Yorkin
Star: Demond Wilson (Lamont Sanford),  Redd Foxx (Fred G. Sanford)
Guest Star: Paulene Myers (Mother),  Royce Wallace (Aunt Rosetta),  Lance Taylor Sr. (Uncle Edgar),  Lillian Randolph (Aunt Hazel),  Carol Speed (Crystal),  Bardu Ali (Father),  Dave Turner (Paul (uncredited)),  Stanley Clay (Reception Guest #1 (uncredited)),  Alvin Childress (Minister),  Tina Andrews (Reception Guest #2 (uncredited))

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This wasn't the last time Lamont would get close to the altar. A few years later, he would become engaged to Janet Lawson and would get as far as his bachelor party before the wedding was called off. (edit)
Alvin Childress, who makes a cameo the minister in this episode, played Amos in the television series Amos 'n' Andy. (edit)
Lillian Randolph (Hazel) is best known as Annie, the Bailey family maid, in the 1946 holiday classic film, It's a Wonderful Life. (edit)
This episode is based on the Steptoe and Son episode, "And Afterwards At", written by Alan Galton and Ray Simpson. (edit)

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Lamont: Pop, it says right in this Bible "Thou shalt not steal."
Fred: And it also says, "The meek shall inherit the earth." So you got to start somewhere! (edit)
Fred: Aunt Hazel? You mean Witch Hazel! (edit)

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The title alludes to the traditional Bride's march. (edit)
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Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride
"Series classic"
One of the wildest and most freewheeling episodes in the series.
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