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The Bunkers & the Stivics: standing, Gloria (Sally Struthers) and Michael (Rob Reiner); seated, Archie (Carroll O'Connor) and Edith (Jean Stapleton) with baby Joey The following is an episode list for the American sitcom television series All in the Family, which originally aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes produced. Series ...
Pop Matters wrote that this episode highlighted the "social stigma against trans persons, an act of injustice emphasized by Edith's inability to understand humanity's rejection of people like her dear friend." [1] NewNowNext said in 2016 that the storyline was groundbreaking for 1975 and even by then-current standards. [2]
All in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was later produced as Archie Bunker's Place, a continuation series, which picked up where All in the Family ended and ran for four seasons through April 4, 1983.
“Archie Bunker’s Place” was a continuation of “All in the Family”; the faux talk show “Fernwood 2 Night” was a chip off “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family. The best Archie Bunker quotes are courtesy of creator Norman Lear.As a progressive, Lear himself was the opposite of Bunker's "lovable bigot ...
Beneath his crusty, irascible exterior, Archie is intensely protective of Edith and becomes upset at the mere thought of losing her. In the episode "Too Good Edith," the 209th and final episode of All in the Family, Edith becomes seriously ill while frantically helping Archie cook a large Irish dinner for a St. Patrick's Day party at the bar.
Norman Lear, 96, who created both shows, will co-host the special — "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'" — with Jimmy Kimmel in May on ABC.
When first introduced on All in the Family in 1971, Archie is the head of a family consisting of his wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), his adult daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and his liberal son-in-law, college student Michael "Mike" Stivic (), with whom Archie disagrees on virtually everything; Archie frequently characterizes Mike as a "dumb Polack" and usually addresses him as "Meathead ...