Will All in the Family Be on Again

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Network: CBS
Episodes: 210 (one-half-hour)
Seasons: Ix

TV show dates: Jan 12, 1971 — Apr viii, 1979
Serial status: Cancelled/ended

Performers include: Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor, Rob Reiner, Emerge Struthers, Mike Evans, Isabel Sanford, Jason Wingreen, Allan Melvin, Betty Garrett, Danielle Brisebois, Danny Dayton, Sherman Hemsley, Bob Hastings, Baton Halop, Vincent Gardenia, Mel Stewart, and Liz Torres.

Telly bear witness description:
This comedy series centers around the Bunker family who live in a tiny home in Queens, NY.

Archie (Carroll O'Connor) is the working potent head of the household and is a crass and rude bigot. His wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton), whom Archie calls "Dingbat," is extremely kind and attentive merely ultimately a bit dizzy.

Living with them are their grown daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and her married man, liberal Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner) whom Archie has nicknamed "Meathead." They afterward lave a son together, Joey.

The Stivics eventually motility to California and Stephanie Mills (Danielle Brisebois), Edith's young niece, comes to alive with the Bunkers.

Series Finale:
Episode 210 — Too Good Edith
Archie enlists Edith to help cook corned beef and cabbage for a St. Patrick's Solar day festival at his bar. Unknown to Archie, Edith has a bad case of phlebitis with a bloodclot in her leg that could travel to her lungs. Dr. Shapiro (invitee George Wyner) has firmly told her to stay off her anxiety merely Edith's afraid to allow Archie down and doesn't tell him.The phlebitis eventually catches upwardly with Edith and she tin can't walk. She tells Archie to phone call Dr. Shapiro. The doctor is very angry at Archie initially for plain forcing his wife to work but then he learns that Archie didn't know and apologizes.Archie is stunned that Edith would hide her illness from him and visits her in bed. He questions her love for him, that she would hazard leaving him alone to raise Stephanie. After Edith reassures him of her feelings, Archie tells her that he wants to be told the adjacent time that she isn't feeling well.As they hold each other in bed, Archie tells Edith that he's non going in to work until she'southward feeling better. He and then says, "You know somethin'? If the whole damned globe was to go the dogs, every bit long as I had yous standin' by my side, or sittin' by my side, or layin' here like this, by my side, everythin' would be but okay." He sighs, and continues, "I been blowin' my own horn for a lotta years and I'm gonna tell you somethin'. I ain't nottin' witout you lot."

They embrace and shed a couple tears. Edith tells her hubby that he's "a pip, a real pip." They lay on the bed belongings 1 another, equally the scene closes.
First aired: April eight, 1979.

What happened next?
For CBS' 1979-lxxx flavour, the characters moved to a new series called Archie Bunker's Place. It focuses more than on the neighborhood tavern that Archie co-owns rather than the Bunker habitation. The show lasted four seasons and was a meridian-rated testify, dropping to 23rd place in its final year.

The 1979 Thanksgiving episode of Archie Bunker's Place marks the final time that Archie, Edith, Mike and Gloria would be seen together. Mike has been fired from his job as a college professor in California because of his involvement with a nuclear protest. This puts additional stress on the Stivic's marriage and foreshadows their eventual divorce.

Edith'southward health problems in the last episode of All in the Family unit are a forerunner to her death from a stroke on Archie Bunker's Place. Jean Stapleton appeared in some early season one episodes but decided to leave tardily in 1979. Edith was mentioned but not seen for the remainder of the flavor. In the season ii opener of the spin-off, the audience learns that Edith has died from a stroke.

In a 1982 episode of Archie Bunker'south Identify, Gloria returns with her son Joey in tow. She'due south left Mike, who'southward joined a co-ed California commune with one of his students. In a curt-lived spin-off chosen Gloria, she takes a job working at a veterinarian'due south office in upstate New York where Gloria and Joey move. The show lasted just 21 episodes.

In 1994, All in the Family creator Norman Lear created a new sitcom chosen 704 Hauser. It takes place in the firm formally owned by the Bunkers and revolves effectually a liberal African-American couple whose son is conservative (sort of a reversal of All in the Family). In the first episode, an adult Joey Stivic (Casey Siemaszko) stops by to visit the former home of his grandparents.

Backside the Scenes


•	The show inspired seven spin-offs, either direct or indirectly. Straight spin-offs are Maude, The Jeffersons, Archie Bunker's Place, Gloria, and 704 Hauser (set in the Bunker'south house, many years subsequently). Indirect spin-offs are Good Times (from Maude) and Checking In (from The Jeffersons).

•	A total of 201 episodes aired during the show's original network run, with seven being hour-long installments and ane being a xc minute special. In syndication, they are broken upward into 210 half-hr episodes.

•	All in the Family is the first of three sitcoms in history in which all 4 master actors accept won Emmy Awards. The afterward two shows are The Gold Girls and Will & Grace.

•	A 90-minute retrospective aired in February 1991. All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special is hosted past Norman Lear and includes clips and interviews with the original four castmembers.