All in the family

On ABC’s special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons, there were a bunch of new faces breathing […]

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 […]

Carroll O’Connor, best known for playing the character Archie Bunker on All in the Family, died on June 21, 2001. How did O’Connor die? Here’s […]

At the time that All in the Family star Carroll O’Connor was still the show’s future star, the actor was convinced the sitcom would never be a success, feeling it […]

The classic sitcom All in the Family premiered on Jan. 12, 1971, and ran till April 8, 1979. The TV show created by Norman Lear starred Carroll O’Connor as Archie […]

Some actors become so identified with their most famous roles that people sometimes assume that they’re just playing themselves, or at least some approximation of […]

In her iconic roles as kind but stubborn Gloria Stivic on All in the Family and the frequently inappropriate Babette Dell on Gilmore Girls, actress Sally Struthers established herself […]

‘All in the Family’: The Viewer Advisory CBS Required of the Show Airing in the 1970s, it’s well-documented that the comedy series All in the Family pushed […]

“All in the Family”was the first TV series to ever be number 1 in the Nielsen ratings for five straight years — from 1971 to […]

Shows like The Office, Game of Thrones and Friends have helped define the 21st century TV landscape, but they’re honestly footnotes compared to the impact that Norman Lear TV shows […]