Los Angeles – "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" come back on television, live and for one night only.

Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will be the protagonists of the reenactment of episodes of the influential sitcom born in the 1970s.

Norman Lear, who created "All in the Family" and his spin-off "The Jeffersons," and Jimmy Kimmel are organizing the ABC special broadcast in prime-time next month, the channel announced Thursday.

Harrelson and Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, with Foxx and Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson. Ellie Kemper, Justina Machado and Will Ferrell will also be present, said ABC, with more stars to announce.

The original series featured Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton in the blue-collar Bunkers, and Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford in the highly mobile Jeffersons.

People say, "These two shows were for the 70s and would not work today," Lear said in a statement. "We do not agree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting" All in the family "and" The Jefferson ", the timeless character of human nature."

Ferrell, Lear and the evening host, Kimmel, are among the executive producers of "Living in front of a studio audience:" All in the Family "by Norman Lear and" The Jeffersons. "The veteran of the sitcom, James Burrows special.

"All in the Family" was a pioneer in television during its debut in 1971, using comedy as a way to explore racism, women's rights and other hot issues. "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985), about a prosperous black family in a largely white world, highlights the television scarcity of an interracial couple.

Lear, 96, was executive producer at Netflix's recently canceled restart of another of his hit series, the film "One Day at a Time" from 1975-1984, which was reinvented with a Latino family.

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