Benson, a spin-off of the comedy cleaning soap opera Cleaning soap premiered on ABC on September 13, 1979. It adopted the witty and sharp-tongued Benson DuBois (performed by Robert Guillaume) over the course of seven seasons and 158 episodes, as he rose from family butler to state price range director and finally ran for governor. The sequence was acknowledged for its stability of comedy and conscience, in addition to its excellent forged — Guillaume gained an Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Collection in 1985, and although he’s now not with us, quite a few different forged members are.