All in the family

Jean Stapleton’s portrayal of Edith Bunker on All in the Family may have made her a TV legend, but there’s so much more to the […]

Long before streaming services and social media debates, one sitcom had the courage to put America’s toughest conversations on prime-time television. All in the Family, […]

Few on-screen partnerships in television history have left as lasting an impression as Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton in the iconic sitcom All in the […]

It was a surreal night of TV on ABC. The network aired a live special called Live In Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s […]

When viewers tuned in for the final episode of All in the Family on April 8, 1979 (44 years ago this month), there was no […]

At 5′ 1” tall, TV legend Sally Struthers is quite petite. Her showrunners took advantage of this, surrounding the diminutive actor with performers that towered […]

Dwight Blocker Bowers discusses the show’s iconic donation to the American History Museum and its place in television The housewife that Jean Stapleton portrayed on […]

The ’70s sitcom All in the Family is often dismissed today as “that show about the bigot” by Millennials and members of Gen Z who […]

All in the Family was the first program to genuinely reckon with the cultural upheaval of 1960s America. TV would never be the same. By […]

1. Early days Born John Carroll O’Connor on August 2, 1924 in New York City, the oldest of three sons, he enrolled at North Carolina’s […]