(Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) 5) Roseanna Christiansen ... through the final eleventh season. Zara Cully and Paul Benedict during filming of the Jeffersons, August 15, 1975.

Marla Gibbs, one of the last surviving cast members of "The Jeffersons," is 93 years old, but breezily insists during a recent phone interview that she'd actually prefer to be a little bit younger.

At 11 seasons, “The Jeffersons” ran longer than any of producer Norman Lear’s classic 1970s comedies, including its parent show “All in the Family.” But the more important history it ...