Amen

Amen was set in Philadelphia, the real-life hometown of star Sherman Hemsley, and was part of a wave of successful 1980s NBC sitcoms featuring predominantly black casts, alongside shows like The Cosby Show, A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and 227.

Amen marked Sherman Hemsley's return to television series work after The Jeffersons ended its eleventh-season run on CBS in 1985.

Clifton Davis and Jester Hairston had previously worked together in the 1970s, playing Clifton and Wildcat on the sitcom That's My Mama, before reuniting as cast members on Amen.

Rosetta LeNoire played Rolly's love interest and eventual wife Leola Henderson for two seasons before leaving the show to star as Grandma 'Mother' Estelle Winslow on Family Matters; she was replaced in the role by Montrose Hagins.

Barbara Montgomery, who played Casietta Hetebrink, left the series in 1990 to star on ABC's Married People, and her character's disappearance from the show was never explained.

The character of Inga, the Deacon's Swedish housekeeper played by Elsa Raven, was quietly dropped from the show in 1990 with no explanation given for her disappearance.

The exterior shots of the fictional First Community Church were filmed at the real Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church, a stone gothic church building in Powelton Village, Philadelphia, which subsequently became known nationally as the 'Amen Church'.