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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 ...
Archie decides to expand his bar, Archie Bunker's Place, into a restaurant. In the meantime, Harry has decided to sell his half of the bar to Jewish liberal Murray Klein. Archie, being the bigot he is, tries in vain to get a loan to buy Harry out. Harry finalizes the sale of his half to Murray Klein, much to Archie's chagrin.
The episode includes the third and final appearance of Beverly LaSalle (played by Lori Shannon), after "Archie the Hero" (in which Archie Bunker saves her life) and “Beverly Rides Again” (in which she invites the Bunkers out to dinner).
Jean Stapleton continued to play Archie's wife Edith Bunker when Archie Bunker's Place premiered. The show featured Edith five times during the first 14 episodes of the first season, but Stapleton decided to leave the series late in 1979; her character was referred to but unseen during most of the 1979–80 season.
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.
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 ...
Edith Bunker is a fictional character on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family (and occasionally Archie Bunker's Place), played by Jean Stapleton. She is the wife of Archie Bunker, mother of Gloria Stivic, mother-in-law of Michael "Meathead" Stivic, and grandmother of Joey Stivic. Her cousin is Maude Findlay , one of Archie's nemeses. [1]
Norman Lear's cantankerous, bigoted creation ignited dialogue, not a culture war. We could use him now.