Flip Wilson, a pioneer in prime time By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic May 2, 2013 12 AM PT ...

We knew ‘Flip Wilson’ would be No. 1, but we thought ‘The Waltons’ might make a good race against ‘Mod Squad’ for second place, that it might even be neck and neck.” ...

From 1970-1974, “The Flip Wilson Show” was must watch TV. Hosted by comedian Flip Wilson, who Time Magazine dubbed “TV’s First Black Superstar,” it was the highest-rated variety show on ...

Flip Wilson, whose outrageous characters and spunky catch phrases like "the devil made me do it" made him one of the most popular black comics in the 1970s, died yesterday in Los Angeles of liver ...

As portrayed in Kevin Cook's new and overdue biography, "Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar" - which nicks its subtitle from a 1972 Time magazine cover story - Wilson was a more ...

The sprightly Wilson, who died in 1998 of liver cancer at the age of 64, is not exactly unknown today: “The Flip Wilson Show,” which aired from 1970 to 1974 on NBC, reran on TV Land from 1997 ...

Before Martin Lawrence's Shanaynay character, or Tyler Perry's Madea, Flip Wilson set the bar high with his portrayal of the sassy Gerladine Jones. She was one of many characters from the late ...