All in the family

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 […]

The “All in the Family” episode “Archie’s Brief Encounter” initially aired as a one-hour special, as it dealt with some pretty heavy subject matter. Notably, […]

I was too young to get the joke about “Those Were the Days” back then, but it was the most arresting theme song on TV […]

John Carroll O’Connor was best known for playing Archie Bunker on All in the Family and its sequel series Archie Bunker’s Place. While he was […]