| All in the Family | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Based on | Till Death Us Do Part byJohnny Speight |
| Developed by | Norman Lear |
| Directed by |
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| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Lee Adams (lyrics), Charles Strouse (music),Roger Kellaway (ending theme) |
| Opening theme | "Those Were the Days" Performed byCarroll O'Connor andJean Stapleton |
| Ending theme | "Remembering You" byRoger Kellaway, (music) andCarroll O'Connor (additional lyrics added in 1971; instrumental version) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 205(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Production locations | CBS Television City Hollywood, California (1971–75) Metromedia Square Hollywood, California (1975–79) |
| Running time | 25–26 minutes |
| Production companies | Tandem Productions Sony Pictures Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | January 12, 1971 (1971-01-12) – April 8, 1979 (1979-04-08) |
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All in the Family is an Americansitcom television series that aired onCBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was later produced asArchie Bunker's Place, a continuation series, which picked up whereAll in the Family ended and ran for four seasons through April 4, 1983.
Based on the British sitcomTill Death Us Do Part,[1][2]All in the Family was produced byNorman Lear andBud Yorkin. It starredCarroll O'Connor,Jean Stapleton,Sally Struthers, andRob Reiner. The show revolves around the life of aworking-class man and his family. It broke ground by introducing challenging and complex issues into mainstream network television comedy:racism,antisemitism,infidelity,homosexuality,[citation needed]women's liberation,rape,religion,miscarriage,abortion,breast cancer, theVietnam War,menopause,divorce, andimpotence. The series became arguably one of television's most influential comedies, as it injected the sitcom format with more dramatic moments and realistic, topical conflicts.[3][note 1]
All in the Family has been ranked as one of the best American television series.[6] The show became the most watched show in the United States during summer reruns of the first season[7] and topped the yearlyNielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976,[8] the first television series to have held the position for five consecutive years. The episode "Sammy's Visit" was ranked number 13 onTV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[9]TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time rankedAll in the Family as number four.Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.[10] In 2013, theWriters Guild of America rankedAll in the Family the fourth-best written TV series[11] In 2023,Variety rankedAll in the Family number 16 on its list of the 100 greatest TV shows.[12]
All in the Family centers on a working-class White American family living inQueens, New York. Its patriarch,Archie Bunker (O'Connor), is an outspoken, narrow-minded man, seemingly prejudiced against everyone not like him or not holding his ideas of how people should be. Archie's wife,Edith (Jean Stapleton), is sweet and understanding, which can make her appear naive and uneducated. Her husband often treats her dismissively and uses disparaging language, calling her "dingbat."[13]
Their one child,Gloria (Sally Struthers), is generally kind and good-natured like her mother but displays traces of her father's stubbornness and temper. Unlike them, she is a feminist. Gloria is married to college student, later graduate student, later college instructorMichael Stivic (Reiner)—referred to as "Meathead" by Archie—whose values are likewise influenced and shaped by thecounterculture of the 1960s. The two couples represent the real-life clash of values between theGreatest Generation andBaby Boomers. For much of the series, the Stivics live in the Bunkers' home to save money, providing abundant opportunity for the family members to irritate one another.
The show is set in theAstoria section of Queens, with the vast majority of scenes taking place in the Bunkers' home at 704 Hauser Street. Occasional scenes take place in other locations, especially during later seasons, such as Kelsey's Bar, a neighborhood tavern that Archie spends a good deal of time at and eventually purchases, and the Stivics' home after Mike and Gloria move out.
Supporting characters represent the changing demographics of the neighborhood, especially the Jeffersons, a Black family, who live in the house next door in the early seasons and then leave the area for the higher-endUpper East Side of Manhattan after George (the husband) makes a fortune through hisdry cleaning business. The Jeffersons then rented their home to Gloria and Mike.
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Lear said the idea forAll in the Family came to him after he read an article inVariety magazine on the successful British sitcomTill Death Us Do Part.[24] He said he immediately knew it portrayed a relationship just like the one between his father and himself.[25] However, in a 2025 episode of the podcastLet's Talk About That!, Struthers disputed that claim, saying that idea originated with O'Connor, who had seenTill Death Us Do Part during a visit to the U.K. O'Connor, she said, wanted to produce an American version but couldn't get the necessary backing as an actor alone. Eventually he got the idea to Lear who backed it and put it into production without crediting O'Connor. She said she waited until after Lear died to share what she knew.[26][27]
Lear bought the rights to the show and incorporated his own family experiences with his father into the show. Lear's father would tell Lear's mother to "stifle herself" and she would tell Lear's father "you are the laziest white man I ever saw" (two "Archieisms" that found their way onto the show).
The original pilot was titledJustice for All[28] and was developed forABC.Tom Bosley,Jack Warden, andJackie Gleason were all considered for the role of Archie Bunker. In fact, CBS wanted to buy the rights to the original show and retool it specifically for Gleason, who was under contract to them, but producer Lear beat out CBS for the rights and offered the show to ABC.Mickey Rooney was offered the role but turned it down as he felt the character was "un-American".
In the pilot, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton played Archie and Edith Justice. Kelly Jean Peters played Gloria andTim McIntire played her husband, Richard. It was taped in October 1968 in New York City. After screening the first pilot, ABC gave the producers more money to shoot a second pilot, titledThose Were the Days,[29] which Lear taped in February 1969 inHollywood.Candice Azzara played Gloria andChip Oliver played her husband Dickie.D'Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots.
After stations' and viewers' complaints caused ABC to cancelTurn-On (a sketch comedy series developed byLaugh-In'sGeorge Schlatter)after only one episode in February 1969, the network became uneasy about airing a show with a "foul-mouthed, bigoted lead" character, and rejected the series[30][31] at about the timeRichard Dreyfuss sought the role of Michael. Rival network CBS was eager to update its image and was looking toreplace much of its then popular "rural" programming (Mayberry R.F.D.,The Beverly Hillbillies,Petticoat Junction andGreen Acres) with more "urban", contemporary series and was interested in Lear's project; by this point, Gleason was no longer under contract to CBS (his own show was among those eliminated), allowing Lear to keep Carroll O'Connor on as the lead. CBS bought the rights from ABC and retitled the showAll in the Family. The pilot episode CBS developed had the final cast and was the series' first episode.
Lear wanted to shoot in black and white asTill Death Us Do Part had been. While CBS insisted on color, Lear had the set furnished in neutral tones, keeping everything relatively devoid of color. Ascostume designerRita Riggs described in her 2001Archive of American Television interview, Lear's idea was to create the feeling of sepia tones, in an attempt to make viewers feel as if they were looking at an old family album.[32]
All in the Family was the first major American series to bevideotaped in front of a live studio audience. In the 1960s, most sitcoms had been filmed in thesingle-camera format without audiences, with alaugh track simulating an audience response, with videotape at that time mainly reserved for news programming and variety shows. Lear employed themultiple-camera format of shooting in front of an audience, but used tape, whereas previous multiple-camera shows likeThe Mary Tyler Moore Show had used film. Due to the success ofAll in the Family, videotaping sitcoms in front of an audience became a common format for the genre during the 1970s, onward, until the advent of digital HD. The use of videotape also gaveAll in the Family the look and feel of early live television, including the original live broadcasts ofThe Honeymooners, to whichAll in the Family is sometimes compared.
For the show's final season, the practice of being taped before a live audience changed to playing the already taped and edited show to an audience and recording their laughter to add to the original sound track, and the voice-over during the end credits were changed from Rob Reiner's voice "All in the Family was recorded on tape before a live audience", to Carroll O'Connor's "All in the Family was played to a studio audience for live responses." (Typically, the audience was gathered for a taping ofOne Day at a Time, and got to seeAll in the Family as a bonus.) Throughout its run, Norman Lear took pride in the fact thatcanned laughter was never used (mentioning this on many occasions); the laughter heard in the episodes was genuine.
The series' opening theme song, "Those Were the Days", was written byLee Adams (lyrics) andCharles Strouse (music).[33] It is presented in a way that was unique for a 1970s series: Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton are seated at a console orspinet piano (played by Stapleton) and sing the tune together on-camera at the start of every episode, concluding with applause from a studio audience. The song dates back to the firstJustice For All pilot filmed in 1968, although on that occasion, O'Connor and Stapleton performed the song off-camera and at a faster tempo than the series version.
Six different performances were recorded over the run of the series, including one version that includes additional lyrics. The song is a simple,pentatonic melody that can be played exclusively with black keys on a piano, with lyrics in which Archie and Edith express nostalgia for the past. A longer version of the song was released as a single onAtlantic Records, reaching number 43 on the USBillboard Hot 100 and number 30 on theBillboard Adult Contemporary chart in early 1972. The additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s.
A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically. In the original version, the lyric "Those Were The Days" is sung over thetonic (root chord of the song's key), and the piano strikes adominant 7th passing chord in transition to the next part, which is absent from subsequent versions.
Jean Stapleton originally struck a slightly sour note (deliberately) on the word "were" in the phrase "and you knew who you were then", which prompted laughter from the live audience; as the seasons progressed, she delivered this note as an increasingly exaggerated shriek. Carroll O'Connor's pronunciation of "welfare state" added more of Archie's trademark whining enunciation, and the closing lyrics (especially "Gee, our oldLaSalle ran great") were sung with increasingly deliberate articulation, as viewers had complained that they could not understand the words. Also in the original version, the camera angle was shot slightly from the right side of the talent as opposed to the straight-on angle of the next version. Jean Stapleton performed the theme song without glasses beginning in season 6.
In addition to O'Connor and Stapleton singing, footage is also shown beginning with aerial shots of Manhattan, and continuing to Queens, progressively zooming in, culminating with a still shot of a lower-middle-class semidetached home, representing the Bunkers' house in Astoria, suggesting that the visit to the Bunkers' home has begun. The house shown in the opening credits is actually located at 89–70 Cooper Avenue in the Glendale section of Queens, New York.[34][35]
A notable difference exists between the Cooper Avenue house and theAll in the Family set: the Cooper Avenue house has no porch, while the Bunkers' home features a front porch. Since the footage used for the opening had been shot back in 1968 for the series' first pilot, the establishing shot of the Manhattan skyline does not feature theWorld Trade Center towers, which had not yet been built. When the series aired two years later, the Trade Center towers, although under construction, had still not yet risen high enough to become a prominent feature on the Manhattan skyline. This did not happen until the end of 1971.
Despite this change in the Manhattan skyline, the original, somewhat grainy 1968 footage continued to be used for the series opening until the series transitioned intoArchie Bunker's Place in 1979. At that time, a new opening with current shots of the Manhattan skyline were used with the Trade Center towers being seen in the closing credits. This opening format—showing actual footage of the cities and neighborhoods in which the show was set—became the standard for most of Norman Lear's sitcoms, including others in theAll in the Family franchise—Maude,Good Times, andThe Jeffersons.
At the end of the opening, the camera then returns to a last few seconds of O'Connor and Stapleton as they finish the song. At the end of the original version, Edith smiles at Archie and Archie smiles off at a slight distance. In the longest running version (from season 2 to season 5), Edith smiles blissfully at Archie, and Archie puts a cigar in his mouth and returns a rather cynical, sheepish look to Edith. From season six through eight, Edith smiles and rests her chin on Archie's shoulder.
In the final season, Edith hugs Archie at the conclusion. In the first three versions of the opening, Archie is seen wearing his classic trademark white shirt. In the final version of the opening for the series' ninth season, Archie is seen wearing a gray sweater-jacket over his white shirt. In all versions of the opening, the song's conclusion is accompanied by applause from the studio audience.
In interviews, Norman Lear explained that the idea for the piano song introduction was a cost-cutting measure. After completion of the pilot episode, the budget would not allow an elaborate scene to serve as the sequence played during the show's opening credits. Lear decided to have a simple scene of Archie and Edith singing at the piano.
The closing theme, aninstrumental, is "Remembering You", played by its composerRoger Kellaway, with lyrics later added by Carroll O'Connor. It's played over footage of the same row of houses in Queens as in the opening, but moving in the opposite direction down the street, and eventually moving back to aerial shots of Manhattan, suggesting the visit to the Bunkers' home has concluded. O'Connor recorded a vocal version of "Remembering You" for a record album, but though he performed it several times on TV appearances, the lyrics about the end of a romance were never heard in the actual series. In July 1986, vocalistHelen Merrill's contrastingly jazz-flavored rendition, accompanied by a Kellaway-led trio and introduced by O'Connor, was featured onThe Merv Griffin Show.[36][37][38]
Except for some brief instances in the first season, the show contains no incidental or transitional music.
Lear and his writers set the series in the Queens neighborhood ofAstoria. The location of the Bunkers' house at 704 Hauser Street is fictitious. No Hauser Street exists in Queens. The address is not presented the way addresses are given in Queens: most address numbers are hyphenated, identifying the number of the nearest cross street. Nevertheless, many episodes reveal that the Bunkers live near the major thoroughfareNorthern Boulevard, which was the location of Kelsey's Bar and later Archie Bunker's Place.[39]
The exterior of the house shown at the show closing is a home located at 89-70 Cooper Avenue,Glendale, Queens, New York, across fromSt. John Cemetery (40°42′45″N73°51′39″W / 40.712492°N 73.860784°W /40.712492; -73.860784).[34]
Many real Queens institutions are mentioned throughout the series. Carroll O'Connor, a Queens native fromForest Hills, said in an interview with theArchive of American Television that he suggested to the writers many of the locations to give the series authenticity. For example, Archie is said to have attendedFlushing High School, a real school inFlushing, Queens, although in the "Man of the Year" episode ofArchie Bunker's Place, Archie attendedBryant High School in nearby Long Island City. As another example, the 1976 episode "The Baby Contest" deals with Archie entering baby Joey in a cutest-baby contest sponsored by theLong Island Daily Press, a then-operating local newspaper in Queens and Long Island.[40]
The writers ofAll in the Family continued throughout the series to have the Bunkers and other characters usetelephone exchange names when giving a telephone number. Most other series at the time, such asThe Mary Tyler Moore Show, were using the standard fictitious555 telephone exchange at a time when theBell System was trying to discontinue them. At different times throughout the series, the exchangesRavenswood andBayside—both valid in the area—were used for the Bunkers' telephone number. Actual residents of the Bunkers' age continued using exchange names into the early 1980s, which is referred to in the 1979 episode "The Appendectomy", in which Edith gets confused between the two versions of a number she is dialing.
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | Rank | Rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First released | Last released | |||||
| Pilots | 2 | 1968 | 1969 | — | — | |
| 1 | 13 | January 12, 1971 (1971-01-12) | April 6, 1971 (1971-04-06) | 34 | 18.9 | |
| 2 | 24 | September 18, 1971 (1971-09-18) | March 11, 1972 (1972-03-11) | 1 | 34.0 | |
| 3 | 24 | September 16, 1972 (1972-09-16) | March 24, 1973 (1973-03-24) | 1 | 33.3 | |
| 4 | 24 | September 15, 1973 (1973-09-15) | March 16, 1974 (1974-03-16) | 1 | 31.2 | |
| 5 | 23 | September 14, 1974 (1974-09-14) | March 8, 1975 (1975-03-08) | 1 | 30.2 | |
| 6 | 24 | September 8, 1975 (1975-09-08) | March 8, 1976 (1976-03-08) | 1 | 30.1 | |
| 7 | 25 | September 22, 1976 (1976-09-22) | March 12, 1977 (1977-03-12) | 12 | 22.9 | |
| 8 | 24 | October 2, 1977 (1977-10-02) | March 19, 1978 (1978-03-19) | 4 | 24.4[a] | |
| 9 | 24 | September 24, 1978 (1978-09-24) | April 8, 1979 (1979-04-08) | 9 | 24.9[b] | |
"Sammy's Visit", first broadcast in February 1972, is a particularly notable episode, whose famous episode-ending scene produced the longest sustained audience laughter in the history of the show. Guest starSammy Davis Jr. plays himself. Archie is moonlighting as a cab driver and Davis visits the Bunker home to retrieve a briefcase he left in Archie's cab earlier that day. After hearing Archie's bigoted remarks, Davis asks for a photograph with him. At the moment the picture is taken, Davis suddenly kisses a stunned Archie on the cheek. The ensuing laughter went on for so long that it had to be severely edited for network broadcast, as Carroll O'Connor still had one line ("Well, what the hell—he said it was in his contract!") to deliver after the kiss. (The line is usually cut in syndication.)[41]
During the show's sixth season, starting on December 1, 1975, CBS began airing reruns on weekdays at 3 p.m. (EST), replacing long-running soap operaThe Edge of Night, which moved to ABC. The show would later move to 3:30 p.m. and in September 1978, 10 a.m. This lasted until September 1979, whenViacom distributed the reruns to the off-network market where many stations picked up the show. In 1991,Columbia Pictures Television began syndicating the show, and Columbia's successor companies have continued to do so.
Since the late 1980s,All in the Family has been rerun on various cable and satellite networks includingTBS (although it held the rights locally in Atlanta, as well),TV Land,Nick at Nite, andSundance TV. From January 3, 2011, to December 31, 2017, the show aired onAntenna TV. As of January 1, 2018, the show began to air onGetTV. Since February 5, 2023,MeTV aired episodes of the show on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT.[42] All episodes have been airing nightly on theCatchy Comedy (formerly Decades) digital retro TV network, airing weeknights at 8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT.[43]
The cast forfeited their residual rights for a cash payout early in the production run.[44]
All in the Family is one of three television shows (The Cosby Show and the reality music competitionAmerican Idol being the others) that have been number one in theNielsen ratings for five consecutive TV seasons. The show remained in the top 10 for seven of its nine seasons.
| Season | Time slot | Nielsen ratings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Rating | Households | ||
| 1 (1970–71) | Tuesday at 9:30–10:00 p.m. on CBS | No. 34 | 18.9 | 11,358,900[45] |
| 2 (1971–72) | Saturday at 8:00–8:30 p.m. on CBS | No. 1 | 34.0 | 21,114,000[46] |
| 3 (1972–73) | 33.3 | 21,578,400[47] | ||
| 4 (1973–74) | 31.2 | 20,654,400[48] | ||
| 5 (1974–75) | 30.2 | 20,687,000[49] | ||
| 6 (1975–76) | Monday at 9:00–9:30 p.m. on CBS | 30.1 | 20,949,600[50] | |
| 7 (1976–77) | Wednesday at 9:00–9:30 p.m. on CBS(September 22 – October 27, 1976) Saturday at 9:00–9:30 p.m. on CBS(November 6, 1976 – March 12, 1977) | No. 12 | 22.9 | 16,304,800[51] |
| 8 (1977–78) | Sunday at 9:00–9:30 p.m. on CBS | No. 4 | 24.4 (tied with60 Minutes andCharlie's Angels) | 17,787,600[52] |
| 9 (1978–79) | Sunday at 9:00–9:30 p.m. on CBS(September 24 – October 1, 1978) Sunday at 8:00–8:30 p.m. on CBS(October 8, 1978 – April 8, 1979) | No. 9 | 24.9 (tied withTaxi) | 18,550,500[53] |
The series finale was seen by 40.2 million viewers.[54]
As of 2009[update],All in the Family has many spin-offs, directly spawning five other shows, three of which were very successful, as well as two of those spin-offs each having a spin-off of their own:[55]
At the height of the show's popularity,Henry Fonda hosted a special one-hour retrospective ofAll in the Family and its impact on American television. It included clips from the show's most memorable episodes up to that time. It was titledThe Best of "All in the Family" and aired on December 21, 1974.
On February 16, 1991, CBS aired a 90-minute retrospective,All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special, hosted by Norman Lear to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary. It featured a compilation of clips from the show's best moments, and interviews with the four main cast members. The special was so well received by the viewing audience that CBS aired reruns ofAll in the Family during its summer schedule in 1991, garnering higher ratings than the new series scheduled next to it, Norman Lear's sitcomSunday Dinner.[57] The latter was Lear's return to TV series producing after a seven-year absence, and was canceled after the six-week tryout run due to being poorly received by audiences.[58][59]
On May 22, 2019,ABC broadcastLive in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons, produced by Lear andJimmy Kimmel and starringWoody Harrelson,[60]Marisa Tomei,[61]Jamie Foxx,Wanda Sykes,Ike Barinholtz,Kerry Washington andEllie Kemper.[62]
A secondLive in Front of A Studio Audience special was announced in early November 2019 to air on Wednesday December 18, this time pairing the show withGood Times.[63][64]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment) released the first six seasons ofAll in the Family on DVD inRegion 1 between 2002 and 2007. No further seasons were released, because the sales figures did not match Sony's expectations.
In June 2010,Shout! Factory announced that it had acquired the rights to the series and has since released the remaining three seasons.[65][66][67][68]
In October 2012, Shout! Factory releasedAll in the Family – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 28-disc boxed set features all 208 episodes of the series, as well as bonus features.[69]
In February 2018, Sony releasedAll in the Family- Seasons 1–5 on DVD in Region 1. The 15-disc set features all episodes from the first five seasons.[70]
| DVD name | Ep # | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 13 | March 26, 2002 |
| The Complete Second Season | 24 | February 4, 2003 |
| The Complete Third Season | 24 | July 20, 2004 |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 24 | April 12, 2005 |
| The Complete Fifth Season | 23 | January 3, 2006 |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 24 | February 13, 2007 |
| The Complete Seventh Season | 25 | October 5, 2010 |
| The Complete Eighth Season | 24 | January 11, 2011 |
| The Complete Ninth Season | 24 | May 17, 2011 |
| The Complete Series | 208 | October 30, 2012 |
As one of US television's most acclaimed and groundbreaking programs,All in the Family has been referenced or parodied in countless other forms of media. References on other sitcoms includeThat '70s Show,The Simpsons, andFamily Guy.
Popular T-shirts, buttons, andbumper stickers showing O'Connor's image and farcically promoting "Archie Bunker for President" appeared around the time of the1972 presidential election. In 1998,All in the Family was honored on a 33-cent stamp by theUSPS.[71]
Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs are on display in theSmithsonianNational Museum of American History.[72] The originals had been purchased by the show's set designer for a few dollars at a localGoodwillthrift store and were given to the Smithsonian (for an exhibit on American television history) in 1978. It cost producers thousands of dollars to create replicas to replace the originals.
Then-US PresidentRichard Nixon can be heard discussing the show(specifically the 1971 episodes "Writing the President" and "Judging Books by Covers") on one of the infamousWatergate tapes.[73][74]
RapperRedman has made references to Archie Bunker in a few of his songs, specifically his smoking of large cigars.[75]
Mad parodied the series in its 1973 special issue No. 11 entitled "Gall in the Family Fare", which also included a free flexi-disc record so the reader could listen to the parody as they read it.[76][77][78]
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series | John Rich(for "Meet the Bunkers") | Won | [79] |
| 1972 | John Rich andBob LaHendro(for "The Bunkers and the Swingers") | Nominated | [80] | |
| 1977 | Paul Bogart(for "Edith's 50th Birthday") | Won | [81] | |
| 1978 | Paul Bogart(for "California, Here We Are") | Won | [82] | |
| 1979 | Paul Bogart(for "Too Good Edith") | Nominated | [83] |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Won | [84] | |
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Won | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actor – Television | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress – Television | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| 1972 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Won | ||
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Won | ||
| Best Supporting Actor – Television | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress – Television | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| 1973 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Won | ||
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Won[a] | ||
| Best Supporting Actor – Television | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress – Television | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| 1974 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | ||
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress – Television | Betty Garrett | Won | ||
| 1975 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | ||
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actor – Television | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| 1976 | Nominated | |||
| Best Supporting Actress – Television | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| 1977 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Won | ||
| Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| 1978 | Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | ||
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| 1979 | Nominated | |||
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television | Mel Tolkin andLarry Rhine(for "Archie's Brief Encounter: Part 2") | Nominated | [85] |
| 1978 | Larry Rhine and Mel Tolkin(for "The Brother") | Won | ||
| 1979 | Harriett Weiss, Patt Shea, andMort Lachman(for "Edith Gets Fired") | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Television Hall of Fame: Productions | All in the Family | Inducted | [86] |
| 2021 | Television Hall of Fame: Characters | Archie Bunker | Inducted | [87] |
| Edith Bunker | Inducted | |||
| Television Hall of Fame: Theme Songs | "Those Were the Days" –Charles Strouse andLee Adams | Inducted | [88] | |
| 2023 | Television Hall of Fame: Episodes | "Meet the Bunkers" | Inducted | [89] |
| "Sammy's Visit" | Inducted |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Norman Lear | Won | [90] |
| Outstanding New Series | Won | |||
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Won | ||
| Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | John Rich(for "Gloria's Pregnancy") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Norman Lear(for "Meet the Bunkers") | Nominated | ||
| Stanley Ralph Ross(for "Oh, My Aching Back") | Nominated | |||
| 1972 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Norman Lear | Won | |
| Outstanding Program of the Year | Norman Lear(for "Sammy's Visit") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Won | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Sally Struthers | Won[c] | ||
| Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | John Rich(for "Sammy's Visit") | Won | ||
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Norman Lear andBurt Styler(for "The Saga of Cousin Oscar") | Nominated | ||
| Alan J. Levitt and Philip Mishkin(for "Mike's Problem") | Nominated | |||
| Burt Styler(for "Edith's Problem") | Won | |||
| Outstanding Achievement in Live or Tape Sound Mixing | Norman Dewes(for "The Elevator Story") | Won | ||
| 1973 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Norman Lear and John Rich | Won | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | John Rich andBob LaHendro(for "The Bunkers and the Swingers") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Michael Ross,Bernard West, andLee Kalcheim(for "The Bunkers and the Swingers") | Won | ||
| 1974 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Norman Lear and John Rich | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy | Rob Reiner(for "The Games Bunkers Play") | Won | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| 1975 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, and Bernard West | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Rob Reiner | Nominated | ||
| 1976 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Hal Kanter, Norman Lear, Heywood Kling, Lou Derman, and Bill Davenport | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Mort Lachman andMilt Josefsberg | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | Paul Bogart(for "The Draft Dodger") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series | Don Roberts(for "The Unemployment Story: Part 2") | Nominated | ||
| 1978 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Mort Lachman and Milt Josefsberg | Won | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton(for "Edith's 50th Birthday") | Won | ||
| Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Rob Reiner | Won | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Sally Struthers | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series | Paul Bogart(for "Edith's 50th Birthday") | Won | ||
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Bob Weiskopf,Bob Schiller,Barry Harman, andHarve Brosten(for "Cousin Liz") | Won | ||
| Bob Weiskopf and Bob Schiller(for "Edith's 50th Birthday: Part 1") | Nominated | |||
| Mel Tolkin,Larry Rhine, and Erik Tarloff(for "Edith's Crisis of Faith: Part 2") | Nominated | |||
| 1979 | Outstanding Comedy Series | Mort Lachman and Milt Josefsberg | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Carroll O'Connor | Won | ||
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Jean Stapleton | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Sally Struthers(for "California, Here We Are") | Won | ||
| Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | Paul Bogart(for "California, Here We Are: Part 2") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Milt Josefsberg,Phil Sharp, Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf(for "California, Here We Are: Part 2") | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Picture Editing for a Multi-Camera Comedy Series | Hal Collins and Harvey Berger(for "The 200th Episode Celebration ofAll in the Family") | Nominated | [91] |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Heritage Award | All in the Family | Nominated | [92] |
| 2013 | Won | [93] |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Episodic Comedy | Stanley Ralph Ross(for "Archie's Aching Back") | Nominated | [94] |
| Don Nicholl(for "Christmas Day at the Bunkers") | Nominated | |||
| Michael Ross,Bernard West,Alfred Lewis Levitt, and Helen Levitt(for "Edith's Accident") | Nominated | |||
| Jerry Mayer(for "Gloria Has a Belly Full") | Nominated | |||
| Alan J. Levitt and Phil Mishkin(for "Mike's Problem") | Nominated | |||
| 1972 | Burt Styler and Steve Zacharias(for "Edith's Problem") | Nominated | ||
| 1975 | Lou Derman and Bill Davenport(for "Archie the Hero") | Nominated | ||
| 1976 | Mel Tolkin,Larry Rhine, andMilt Josefsberg(for "Joey's Baptism") | Nominated | ||
| 1977 | Larry Rhine and Mel Tolkin(for "Archie Gets the Business") | Won | ||
| Erik Tarloff(for "The Joys of Sex") | Nominated | |||
| 1978 | Milt Josefsberg,Phil Sharp,Bob Schiller, andBob Weiskopf(for "California, Here We Are") | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Best Juvenile Actress in a TV Series or Special | Danielle Brisebois | Nominated | [95] |
Norman Lear's controversial work led to a disclaimer from CBS.
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In a clip from the 1970s, Richard Nixon is heard complaining that the sitcom "All in the Family" glorifies homosexuality.
