I promised them that we would go out with style and grace.” “I told everyone that season six would be our final season and that they should take the year to make whatever plans or preparations they felt necessary. So he made the decision to pull the cast aside.
“I had successfully fulfilled a promise to myself that I would never get caught in a cycle of deterioration without having the next thing on tap,” wrote the first-time author. Smith recalled Amos telling him to take care of his family of co-stars, and most importantly to allow them and himself to walk away with dignity. Years earlier, Amos found himself written out of the popular ’80s sitcom when he disagreed with the direction of the show. It was then that Smith found the sage advice on moving forward he needed from “Good Times” family patriarch James Evans, played by actor John Amos. He goes on to explain at that point, he found himself at a career crossroads where he could finish the sixth and final contracted season of the show, or he could go on to make blockbuster movies, leaving the sitcom in his past. Ours was season 5, episode 15, ‘Bullets Over Bel-Air,’ the one in which I got shot and Carlton started carrying a gun,” said the actor-rapper. “Anyone who has ever been on a sitcom can tell you the episode in which their show jumped the shark.
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