All in the family

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 […]

One of television’s most groundbreaking series hit the airwaves over 50 years ago, and the small screen hasn’t been the same since. Emmy-winning “All in […]

Audiences loved “All in the Family,” Norman Lear’s hit sitcom about lovable bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor), his long-suffering wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), their daughter Gloria […]

In the “All in the Family” episode “Gloria Sings the Blues” (March 2, 1974), Archie (Carroll O’Connor) wakes up Michael (Rob Reiner) so that they […]

Before I knew her as Archie Bunker’s little girl Gloria on “All in the Family,” I knew Sally Struthers as Rebecca Cunningham on “TaleSpin.” A […]

Before she was one of America’s most famous sitcom daughters, actor Sally Struthers made her primetime debut dancing on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” the […]

Norman Lear knew what he was getting into with “All in the Family.” The late TV giant was warned from the outset that Americans (white, […]

Movies and television have often had a push-pull relationship. When brands and intellectual properties became king near the start of the 21st century, TV became […]

The line between reality and fiction in television hasn’t always been obvious to people. Be it “Gilligan’s Island” viewers badgering the Coast Guard to rescue the S.S. […]

There’s a fine art to ending a great TV series. Agonizing as it was when “The Good Place” and “Succession” recently packed it in after […]