All in the Family

Its Edith and Archie Bunkers wedding anniversary. Edith manages to drag Archie to church. Daughter Gloria and her husband Mike try to whip up a party atmosphere for the parents.

Archie is convinced hell collect a large settlement from a petty traffic accident if a Jewish lawyer handles the case. The stylistic minimalism of the Bunkers sparsely furnished set is on full display in this early episode. According to director John Rich, who grew up not far from Archies neighbood, the Spartan look of the Bunkers living room deco was achieved as a result of painstaking efforts. The director remembers personally supervising the cracking of windows and repainting of walls to give the place a run-down, lived-in look. "I told the set designers to take all the color out of it," remembers Rich. "Norman and I wanted to do the show in black and white, but CBS nearly went into a coma. So we decided to do the next best thing and shoot the entire show in muted sepia tones."

Archie scorns one of Mikes effeminate friends, unaware that one of his own beer-drinking buddies is a well-adjusted gay man.

Mike invites one of his hippie friends to spend the night in his living room, despite Archies strenous ojections.

Edith abandons the kitchen for the courtroom when she is chosen for jury duty, leaving Archie to fend for himself.

Gloria leaves the house in a rage after Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in their marriage.

The Jeffersons arrive for dinner at the Bunkers--minus husband George, who refuses to socialize with his white neighbors.

Mike has second thoughts after he agrees to let Gloria pose as a nude model for one of his artist friends.

Archie buys a gun to protect his family, but a pair of burglars hold the family at bay with Archies own pistol.

Mike and Gloria campaign for the liberal candidate in a local election, while Archie places himself in the opposing camp.

An unscrupulous black real-estate salesman tempts Archie to sell his house to a black family at an inflated price.

Archie lays off a Puerto Rican worker during a cut back at the dock; and his homeowners policy is canceled when his neighborhood is redlined as a bad risk.

Everyone in the family is sick, so Edith calls Cousin Maude to help out.

Archie gets caught in an elevator, along with a pregant Puerto Rican and her husband, an aging hippie, and an erudite black businessman.

Archies paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship.

Archie refuses to get involed with the police, even though hes the only witness to a neighborhood mugging.

Archie is too proud to let Edith accept a mink stolen from her cousin Amelia, until he sees a chance to make a three-hundred-dollar profit.

Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat.

Archie and Edith visit Maudes house for Carols wedding to David Green, a Jewish man. Archie doesnt want to go, and Carol doesnt want him there. Archie is invited to the bachelor party, but declines the invitation, and ends up staying at the hotel, where the bachelor party is held (which he doesnt know). Archie calls the police because the party is too loud. Edith stays for the bridal shower. After David and Walter return from the bachelor party, David and Carol fight over their differences in opinion regarding womens roles. The wedding is off, much to Maudes dismay.

Archie is audited by the IRS after he fails to report income he made driving Munsons taxicab.

Gloria tests Mike and Archies male chauvinism with a riddle that stumps the men but is easily answer by Edith.

Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store.

Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGoverns presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.

The Stivics wedding is jeopardized when Michaels uncle insists, over Archies virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.

When Edith finds some old lottery tickets that she has totally forgotten about, Archie hits the roof, claiming she was wasting money. However, Archies attitude quickly changes when the family discovers one of the tickets is a winner; but there is a catch; Edith claims the tickets dont belong to her.

Ediths antique locket is missing and Archie sees it as a way to collect from the insurance company to buy a new television set. Confident of getting the insurance money, Archie orders a new color set, only to have an insurance adjuster arrive at the house to question the claim.

Middle-aged Archie can only envy the eternally youthful outlook of his friend and contemporary Bill Mulholern. He is especially impressed that the toupeed, flashily garbed Bill has managed to attract a sexy young bedmate named Tina. But by episodes end, Archie is made to realize how lucky he is to be spending his declining years with a loving wife like Edith.

Archie refuses to tag along to Ediths thirtieth high school reunion-- until he finds out that one of her beaus will be attending.

Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.

Archie attends night-school classes to qualify for a high school diploma

In a foul mood, Gloria lambastes Edith for her constant acquiescence to Archies whims.

As the Lorenzos settle in, Archie grows jealous of Ediths friendship with Irene.

Gloria brings home a Rodin replica for the living room, but the erotic sculpture makes Archie cringe.

Archie finally meets George Jefferson at Henrys going away party.

Mike childishly refuses to accept criticism during an informal group-therapy game.

Locked in his cellar with a bottle of vodka,Archie spends a long night contemplating his life through the haze of a drunken stupor.

Archie and Edith rekindle their romance during a second honeymoon in Atlantic City.

Irene challenges Archie to a pool match, but he begs off, complaining of a sore back.

The stiyics love life reaches another imprasses when Michael is put off by Glorias romantic aggressiveness.

Archie sabotages an old friends efforts to land a job at the loading dock because hes afraid the man might be in line for his position.

The family attends Lionels engagement party, where his parents discover that one of his fiancés parents is white.

Gloria is bewildered after she falls temporarily out of life with Michael, until she discovers her mother went through the same thing with Archie.

Archies spirit soars on Mikes graduation day, until he discovers that his meat-head son-in-law has accepted a fellowship and wont be moving out for another year.

Tempers flare in the Bunker household when Archie finds himself with nothing to do but sit around the house.

Archies union settles the strike,but under terms that effectively leave him worse off than he was before the walkout.

The rising tide of feminism confronts Archie on all sides when Edith joins a womens group and Irene lands a job alongside him on the loading dock.

Edith holds her first Tupperware party under a cloud of worry when Archie disappears on his way to a union convention in Buffalo.

Archie returns from his sorry adventure -he get the sidetracked to a podiatrists convention in Rochester- to find his friends and family celebrating his return with kissing contests,Hula Hoops, and ballroom dancing.

George Jefferson seeks Archies help when he runs for local political office.

Gloria is made to feel like an intellectual outcast when she spends the evening with Mike and his graduate-school friends.

Henry Fonda hosts an hour-long retrospective of high points from the shows first four years.

The Bunkers bid fond farewell to the Jeffersons when their neighbors abandon Queens for the nouveau-rich life in a Manhattan high rise.[This episode was the pilot for ""The Jeffersons.""]

Edith is surprise to discover that her cousin Amelias ideal marriage is rotten to the core.

Archie feels the weight of his own mortality after a magazine quiz on life expectancy gives him another seven years- tips.

The Bunker house is locked in a little of will after Mike vows he can go without food longer than Archie can abstain from smoking.

Teary farewells turn into fireworks when Mike hits Archie with five years of repressed rage, only to discover that he and Gloria cant move out for another week after Mike reveals he forgot to turn on the gas and electricity of his new home.

Archie gets a rude shock when the tall,classy dame whose life he saved in a taxicab turns out to be a man.

Archies refused to participate in a chain letter triggers a string of unlikely events.

Archie feels abandoned after Edith begins to volunteer part-time at the Sunshine Home for the Elderly.

Gloria suspects handy-panky when she meets the beautiful blonde Mikes been tutoring after school hours,

Archie gets a lesson in civil liberties when hes arrested using outlawed tear gas to protect himself against a mugger.

It appears that Gloria may have her first baby in an Italian restaurant.

Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.

It looks like Archie has turned over a new leaf when he befriends a Jewish man.

Energetic Justin Quigley inspires Archie to stick with the strict diet his doctor has recommended.

Archie Baptizes Baby Joey without Mike and Glorias Permission.

Edith abandons her stick-in-the-mud husband to liven things up on her own during an evening out at Kellys Bar.

Edith forgives Archies indiscretions after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

Archies self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock.

Archies trip to the hospital is an ethnic nightmare. Hes admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor.

As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.

Mike and Gloria are having a discussion over who will take care of Joey, just in case there comes a time when both of them are unable to care for the little tyke before his 18th birthday. Mike has serious reservations over allowing in-laws Archie and Edith to get custody of Joey, particularly due to what he perceives as Archies bad influences. Gloria is having a hard time convincing Mike otherwise and gives in to Mikes rhetoric. Mikes suspicions are confirmed when Archie and Edith return with Joey after a day of playing in the park. Whats that Joeys got in his hands? Why, a toy machine gun that Grandpa had bought him. Of course, Mike (being dead set against gun violence) immediately is very angry and tells Archie that toy guns could influence childrens behavior later on. Tempers really escalate when Mike grabs the plastic gun from Archie and breaks it over his knee. After the two continue to argue, Mike lets slip that he is considering including a clause in the Stivics will that

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend shes invited to dinner.

Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy hes talked about for years.

Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husbands Mistress.

The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out hes guilty for starting the fire.

When Archie and the guys at the lodge are being called bigots in the papers because they are only white, Archie suggests to initiate a black jewish guy.

When Kelsey finally decides to sell his bar, nothing will stop Archie from getting it--even if it means forging Ediths signature against her will.

Before Edith arrives home, Gloria and Mike teaches Archie the plan for Edith 50th birthday surprise party which will be taken at 6 oclock at the Stivics house. Edith comes back home while Archie and the Stivics leave to decorate the house for the party. A sudden knock at the door reveals a cop. Edith welcomes the policeman inside the house who claims that theres a rapper in town but he slips out that its him. Edith is held at gunpoint and pushed on the couch. The rapist slowly strips Edith! Before it can go any longer, the phone rings. The rapist orders Edithto get rid of the caller as soon as possible. When she does, Archieknocks at the door, wondering why the hell is the door locked. Therapper hides himself in the closet and once again orders Edith to getrid of Archie. She does as quickly as possible. Still stranded in the house with the armed man, they suddenly smell something burning. It was the cake which Edith previously started to bake. They rush to the oven where the room

On the eve of his grand opening, Harry quits Archies bar when the bigot bosses Harry around. Helpless, Edith and the Stivics come on time and gladly decide to help out. With a great crowd, Archie faces more problems; Mike cant get the right mixes, Edith sings, the guys are after Gloria and not only that, Archies boss at the loading docks arrive where Archie quits, upseting Edith.

A despondent Archie retreats to his bedroom, until Harry offers to bail him out with a partnership offer for the bar.

Archie desives a plan to prevent the Klan from burning a cross on Mike and Glorials lawn.

Ediths religious faith is shaken after her friend female impersonator Beverly LaSalle is brutally murdered by street thungs at Christmas.

Edith is chosen to appear in a tv commericial but finds herself unable to lie when she begins to doubt the quality of the sponsors detergent.

Archie refuses to let Ediths elderly aunt move into their spare bedroom, even after shes been turned away by every other relative.

Mike and Archies have a long talk after they find themself locked in the storeroom of Archies Place.

Archies estranged brother returns, after twenty-nine years, to smooth things over before he enters the hospital for a serious operation.

Edith is crushed when Mike and Gloria make their other plans after shes prepared a special farewell dinner in their honor.

Ediths cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers doorstep.

The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles

Edith is the sole mourner at her Aunt Roses funeral.

At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before.

Edith finally confronts the waitress who tempted Archies fidelity after Harry unwittingly hires her to work at Archies Place.

After Mike and Gloria cancel their trip home for Christmas, the Bunkers decide to travel west for the holidays.

separation is Archies reaction when he discovers that Gloria has been unfaithful to her husband: For the first time in nine years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael. The script, rife with disturbing details of the petty cruelties that have already poisoned the Stivics marriage, avoids the easy out of a tidy resolution. Mike and Gloria do effect a spontaneous reconciliation under the tree, but the tentative exchange lacks the conviction of a permanent reunion. Theyve been through enough to know, as we do, that the optimism of Christmas morning doesnt always stand up to the cold light of the new year. years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael.

When Edith invites butcher Klemmer and his new sweetheart, a Russian who is the spitting image of Edith, she notices that Klemmer might have the hots for Edith and not for her.

Archie and Edith are shocked when they discover that Stephanie has been stealing some of her favorite teachers belongings, and the Bunkerss also. But Stephanie admits that she stole these things so that when she returns to her dads, shell have something to remember them by.

When Archies brother, Fred, visits Archie to open up a business, he also brings his 18 year old wife, Katherine. Both, Archie and Edith, and even Stephanie, are shocked as they find out. While the new bride and Edith cook supper, Archie and Fred argue about Katherines age. Before dinner, Fred (and Katherine) leave the Bunkers home, canceling the business. In bed, Edith asks Archie if he were a single 55 year old man, would he go for a young girl. Archie answers no.

When an ill woman tells Edith to let her die with dignity at the SunShine Home, the womans family are furious after her death. The manager fires Edith for her selfishness, even though Edith honoured the womans wish. Later that night, the womans daughter thanks Edith to be with her mother as she passed away since she (the daughter) never got to visit her own mother back then.

Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series.