
Building superintendent Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown), derisively nicknamed "Buffalo Butt" or "Booger",.Michael Evans (Ralph Carter): "The Militant Midget", male Soapbox Sadie, The Smart Guy.Thelma Anderson, nee Evans (Bern Nadette Stanis): The Heart.( Jimmie Walker): Catchphrase machine, Jive Turkey, The Wisecracker, Kavorka Man (cleaned up in later seasons) James Evans ( John Amos): Patriarch, Chew Toy.


The show, a Spin-Off of Lear's earlier comedy Maude (itself spun off from All in the Family), followed the lives of the Evans family, a poor black family living in the high-rise projects of Chicago: Good Times was a Norman Lear-produced Sitcom that ran on CBS from 1974–79.
