All in the Family

American television showcased Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker for nearly a decade. The CBS comedy All in the Family. The show itself ran from January […]

Television executive Fred Silverman has passed away at the age of 82 after battling cancer. He worked for the Big Three broadcast networks in his […]

Tragedy can strike anyone anywhere. Despite dealing heavily in comedies, All in the Family actor Carroll O’Connor faced no shortage of grief. The most heartbreaking […]

There are actors you can look at and say that they were born to play a certain role, whether it be Sean Connery as James […]

It’s difficult to believe that an actor or actress could be cast in one of the most iconic television shows of the 1970s, yet find […]

For CBS, the early 1970s represented a time of tremendous change that would impact television as a whole. For starters, new network programming president Fred […]

One of the biggest tropes within episodic television — though it isn’t done as much now — is the so-called “bottle show.” Usually devised as […]

By the time the original One Day at a Time premiered on December 16, 1975, series producer Norman Lear already had All in the Family, […]

Insofar as series creator/producer Norman Lear was concerned, if an episode of All in the Family wasn’t pushed — if not tearing to little pieces […]

Over half a century ago, the concept for what would become All in the Family was put into development by ABC, the network has become […]