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Amen (series)
- User score: 6.5
- Production country: United States of America
- Creator: Ed. Weinberger
- Genre: Comedy, Family
- Release date: 9/27/1986
- Release date of last episode: 5/11/1991
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 5 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 110
- Run time: 30 min.
Series description
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.