Amen - Season 1 - Eps 4: The Deacon Delivers
A wayward teen wants to be reinstated in the church choir after being away from it for a while. Pastor Gregory is anxious to reinstate her, until he finds out she is pregnant, and not married. Fearing that her example might be a bad one for other teens in the church, he asks her to leave the choir. But things come to a head when she goes into labor during a baby shower at Deacon Frye's house, and the deacon is the only one left to deliver the baby. Meanwhile, the gang is trying to learn to speak Italian.
About Amen
    Title: Amen
First Air Date: 1986-09-27
Last Air Date: 1991-05-11
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.5/10 (from 17 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 110
Network: NBC
Genres: Comedy, Family
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
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.
Cast
            Sherman Hemsley
Deacon Ernest Frye
            Clifton Davis
Reverend Reuben Gregory
            Anna Maria Horsford
Thelma Frye
            Roz Ryan
Amelia Hetabrink
            Jester Hairston
Rolly Forbes
            Tony T. Johnson
Chris
            Bumper Robinson
Clarence