All in the family

A comedy writer turned television creator and producer, Norman Lear has single-handedly helped define American TV. In the late 1960’s Lear began trying to sell a TV […]

Tributes continue to pour in after the death this week of 101-year-old television pioneer Norman Lear. Amid the celebration of and reflection on his towering legacy, a present-day […]

I recently asked my colleague Ainsley Andrade to watch a few episodes and write a critique of one of television’s most significant classics, All in the […]

Few sitcoms have been as dominant throughout the history of television as All in the Family was. Created by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin way back in […]

It’s usually a given that Republicans will win voters 65 and over, but that’s not the case in this election. Instead, polls show President Biden […]

The 1960s were an eventful and divisive time for the United States. Public discourse revolved around the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the […]

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. has a ton of incredible television artifacts. The collection prides itself in offering an […]

Norman Lear is a singular entity in the history of American television production. Nobody has dominated network TV for such a sustained period (until, perhaps, […]

In 1971 Jean Stapleton won an Emmy award for her performance as Edith Bunker on the hit ’70s sitcom, All in the Family. This would be […]

Norman Lear’s seminal sitcom “All in the Family” was known for bringing laughs and thought-provoking discussions, but a 1977 episode entitled “Edith’s 50th Birthday” was an outlier. […]