Once a Thief

Once a Thief was the 77th overall episode of Sanford and Son. Also the 15th episode of Season Four, it first aired December 27, 1974.

Episode synopsis
Grady gets uptight when Lamont brings his ex-convict friend Herman Edwards (Ron Glass) home to stay until he can find a job, which Esther is willing to give to him working in husband Woodrow's hardware store, until she learns of his prison past, before she has a change of heart and gets him rehired at the hardware stroe.