Sherman Hemsley, the star of...

...the 1970s sitcom The Jeffersons, died at age 74. I used to watch the show, which was a spinoff from All in the Family, and was surprised to read this (my emphasis): 

“The Jeffersons” made its debut in January 1975; in the opening episode, George, the owner of a successful cleaning business; his wife, whom he called Weezy (played by Isabel Sanford, who was 20 years Mr. Hemsley’s senior); and their son, Lionel (Mike Evans), leave Queens and, in the words of the show’s memorable theme song, are “movin’ on up” to Manhattan’s fashionable Upper East Side — to “a deluxe apartment in the sky.”