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And in literal blackface, when they tried spinning a movie off from the 30's series. Which, FTR, the two hated, since it distracted from the characters, a different blackfaced white actor had to play Kingfish, and the script was written by a completely different studio house-musical writer who...

Black comedian George Kirby hosted the documentary "Amos & Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy", which does a good job of rushing to the series's defense, and even featured a clip from "Kingfish Sells a Lot", which may be one of the funniest moments I've seen in a classic 50's sitcom episode. :lol...

The black actors were filling in for the white radio actors and had to deliberately imitate the voices from the show, and Tim Moore as the Kingfish, although a great comic actor, might've been overdoing it a tad. (When you hear a parody of offensive black stereotypes going "Ohh, holy mac-kerel...

Maverick S1 hadn't really found James Garner's niche yet, and kept trying to play Maverick as a straight Western hero (probably by borrowing storylines from other series). The show didn't start finding its groove till S2. (And if Starz had kept their western shows on Instant Netflix, I'd have...