S6.E21

The Lucky Streak

Name: The Lucky Streak
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1977-03-04
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page

Episode aired Mar 4, 1977
TV-PG
30m

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Don Bexley, Redd Foxx, Sonny Jim Gaines, Nathaniel Taylor, and Demond Wilson in Sanford and Son (1972)

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Fred and Lamont need to raise $4,000 by Friday or lose the Sanford Arms. Fred plans to parlay his $500 savings into the needed amount by playing poker, betting on horses and letting it ride ... Read allFred and Lamont need to raise $4,000 by Friday or lose the Sanford Arms. Fred plans to parlay his $500 savings into the needed amount by playing poker, betting on horses and letting it ride in Las Vegas.Fred and Lamont need to raise $4,000 by Friday or lose the Sanford Arms. Fred plans to parlay his $500 savings into the needed amount by playing poker, betting on horses and letting it ride in Las Vegas.

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Trivia
In this episode, it is said that Lamont has no first name and Lamont is his middle name. However, in the first season episode Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride (1972), during his wedding, the minister refers to him as Lamont Grady Sanford.

Goofs
One should ask why it took Fred gambling their savings away before Lamont thought about taking out a second mortgage to save The Sanford Arms. Lamont could have done this from the get-go instead of initially giving up all hope as he was basically doing up until then.

Quotes
Lamont Sanford: Four thousand dollars by Friday or we lose the Sanford Arms.
Fred G. Sanford: I think it's farewell to Arms.

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References King Kong (1933)

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High stakes for big money

"The Lucky Streak" opens with a telegram asking for a payment of $4000 or lose their interest in the Sanford Arms to another buyer: "I think it's farewell to Arms!" Lamont wonders how they can raise that amount in less than a week, while Fred puts in a high stakes call to 'Bottom of the Deck' Dan (Sonny Jim Gaines, previously Big Money Grip in "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe"). Rollo and Bubba join Marvin (Skip Cunningham) and Fred for a foursome, stacking chips in victory till 1:00 AM. Next up is a trip to the race track to build on the initial $600, adding up an additional $1200. Even bigger money awaits in Las Vegas, where the fortune Fred makes results in a $100 donation to Aunt Esther's church, the last cent he had left! Lamont figures they'll still be able to keep the Sanford Arms with a second mortgage, but wonders how his father never gave him a middle name. Fred reveals that Lamont is his middle name: "then what's my first name?" "that's the one we never got around to!" Way back in the third episode ("Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride") we learned that his full name was Lamont Grady Sanford, while Demond Wilson's full birth name name is Grady Demond Wilson.