All in the Family

Barney wasn’t always a friend to Archie. Playing the role of Archie Bunker’s best friend is no easy task, but actor Allan Melvin, famously known […]

The laughs on and off the set of All in the Family. When you have fun at your job, is it really work? Yes, the […]

“Edith helped work a change in America,” O’Connor wrote. That lived-in chemistry on All in the Family was no coincidence. While they’d become closest while […]

Edith loved Archie but didn’t agree with him. Sometimes, when we love someone, we have to quite willfully ignore parts of them. Sure, the healthiest […]

O’Connor wasn’t worried about being Archie Bunker forever. Carroll O’Connor had a lot to be thankful for in his career. In an interview with The […]

Frank and Irene Lorenzo loved each other, so why did Frank leave the show? While the Bunker family was able to stir up some hefty […]

“I cannot work with strikebreakers,” O’Connor said. While a show like All in the Family is timeless, that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t without its […]

The popular episode that almost never was. On the already well-regarded series All in the Family, the episode “Sammy’s Visit” has earned a reputation as […]

“She was a sad little kid when she started on the show.” A later addition to the cast of All in the Family, the addition […]

Best friends with Larry Hagman, O’Connor won an Emmy and Golden Globe for ‘In the Heat of the Night’ If you were to reduce Carroll […]