Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27 1986 to May 11 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show A Different World and 227.