All in the Family

Losing a major character from a weekly television series is not often done. Oftentimes when it is, it’s either a disaster (i.e. the death of […]

Television characters are created for all sorts of reasons, but when Norman Lear came up with the concept for the character of Maude Findley — […]

Carroll O’Connor. Archie Bunker. As far as the television audience is concerned, they’re one and the same — at least visually, though obviously not in […]

Television producer Norman Lear always had very specific visions and goals in mind when airing All in the Family. Whenever network executives wanted to dictate […]

Norman Lear’s All In The Family addressed social issues that would normally be taboo on television, and CBS, able to predict the kind of feedback […]

All in the Family was the story of a working-class man and his family experiencing changing times in 1970s New York. The series ran for […]

Renowned screenwriter and TV producer Norman Lear died in December last year, and the cast members of one of his creations, All In The Family, […]

All in the Family, an emerging American sitcom that aired from 1971 to 1979, is significant in television history. Norman Lear, its creator, ingeniously used […]

The 1974 All In The Family episode “Gloria Sings The Blues” features Carroll O’Connor’s Archie trying to get Rob Reiner’s Michael up early for a […]

Those were the days! With its powerful cast and sharp writing, All in the Family was centered around a working-class opinionated man and his family, […]