All in the family

Due to last summer’s twin labor strikes, the broadcast television season opened last month with the kind of scripted-content shortage unseen since 1980, when a summerlong actors’ […]

It’s been half a century since Johnny Carson hosted the 24th Emmy ceremony on CBS on May 14, 1972. It was a year in which now-classic comedies […]

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 big send-off, […]

The success of “Key and Peele,” the sketch comedy show ending its run today, was built on racial satire at a time when racial tensions […]

CBS’ “ All in the Family ” was ahead of its time when it introduced a gender-nonconforming character ― and an inclusive plotline that unfolded over three episodes ― […]

The first drag queen to be “afforded dignity, love and respect” on mainstream television came some 34 years before the debut of “ RuPaul’s Drag Race,” via a 1975 […]

Norman Lear changed the television landscape forever with the creation of shows like “All in the Family” and “The Facts of Life.” Lear died of natural […]

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 […]

It was easy for television viewers to forget the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights struggle and women’s liberation when immersed in the gauzy nostalgia of The Andy […]

Jean Stapleton was a character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in the groundbreaking 1970s US comedy All in […]