EPISODES GUIDE-ALL IN THE FAMILY
1. MEET THE BUNKERS | A surprise anniversary party is the setting for the latest high-decibel debate between Archie Bunker and his son-in-law, Michael Stivic. |
2. WRITING THE PRESIDENT | Mike writes a letter to the White House protesting the sorry state of the Union, prompting Archie to take pen in hand for his own rebuttal. |
3. ARCHIE'S ACHING BACK | Archie is convinced he'll collect a larger settlement from a petty traffic accident if a Jewish lawyer handles the case. |
4. ARCHIE GIVES BLOOD | Archie refuses to donate blood because he's afraid his vital fluids might get mixed in with those of a different race. |
5. JUDGING BOOKS BY COVERS | Archie scorns one of Mike's effeminate friends, unaware that one of his toughest beer-drinking buddies is himself a well-adjusted gay. |
6. GLORIA IS PREGNANT | Archie's dreams of becoming a grandfather are dashed when Gloria suffers a sudden miscarriage. |
7.
NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE WAY, LET'S BE STRANGERS |
Mike invites one of his hippie friends to spend the night in the Bunkers' living room, despite Archie's strenuous objections. |
8. LIONEL MOVES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | Archie does his best to keep a black family from buying the house next door, only to discover that the prospective buyers are Lionel's parents. |
9. EDITH HAS JURY DUTY | Edith abandons the kitchen for the courtroom when she is chosen for jury duty, leaving Archie to fend for himself. |
10. ARCHIE IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS JOB | No one in the family gets any sleep when Archie spends the night worrying that he might lose his job. |
11. GLORIA DISCOVERS WOMEN'S LIB | Gloria leaves the house in a rage when Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in her marriage. |
12. SUCCESS STORY | Archie reevaluates his definition of success after he meets an old army buddy who's become wealthy in the used-car trade. |
13. THE FIRST AND LAST SUPPER | The Jeffersons arrive for dinner at the Bunkers' -- minus husband George, who refuses to socialize with his white neighbors. |
14. THE SAGA OF COUSIN OSCAR | Archie is incensed when his sponging cousin Oscar has the nerve to drop dead in the upstairs bedroom. |
15. GLORIA POSES IN THE NUDE | Mike has second thoughts after he agrees to let Gloria pose as a nude model for one of his artist friends. |
16. ARCHIE IN THE LOCK-UP | Archie suffers the ultimate indignity when he's arrested along with a group of radicals at a protest rally. |
17. EDITH WRITES A SONG | A pair of burglars holds the family at bay with Archie's own pistol. |
18. FLASHBACK: MIKE MEETS ARCHIE | On the Stivic's first wedding anniversary, the family recalls the day Archie and Michael met |
19. THE ELECTION STORY | Mike and Gloria campaign for the liberal candidate in a local election, while Archie places himself in the opposing camp. |
20. EDITH'S ACCIDENT | A priest pays a call to reward Edith's honesty for leaving a note on his car after she accidentally dents it with a large can of cling peaches. |
21. THE BLOCKBUSTER | An unscrupulous black real estate salesman tempts Archie to sell his house to a black family at an inflated profit |
22. MIKE'S PROBLEM | Gloria is upset when Mike's nervousness over his grades causes him to become temporarily impotent. |
23. THE INSURANCE IS CANCELED | Archie lays off a Puerto Rican worker during a cutback at the dock; and his homeowner's policy is canceled when his neighborhood is redlined as a bad risk. |
24. THE MAN IN THE STREET | Archie Bunker becomes the voice of the American working man when his man-on-the-street interview is scheduled to appear on Walter Cronkite's "Evening News." |
25. COUSIN MAUDE'S VISIT | Edith's feisty cousin, Maude, drops in for a visit during a flu epidemic at the Bunker House. |
26. CHRISTMAS DAY AT THE BUNKERS | Archie casts a pall on the family's yuletide spirits when he complains that he was passied over for this year's Christmas bonus |
27. THE ELEVATOR STORY | Archie gets caught in an elevator, along with a pregnant Puerto Rican and her husband, an aging hippie, and an erudite black businessman. |
28. EDITH'S PROBLEM | Edith is suddenly moody and irritable with the approach of menopause. |
29. ARCHIE AND THE FBI | Archie's paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship. |
30. MIKE'S MYSTERIOUS SON | An old girlfriend of Mike's suddenly arrives at the Bunkers' with a four-year-old boy that she claims is his son |
31. ARCHIE SEES A MUGGING | Archie refuses to get involved with police, even though he's the only witness to a neighborhood mugging. |
32. ARCHIE AND EDITH ALONE | The Bunkers are on their own for eight days after Mike and Gloria go off to spend a week at a commune |
33. EDITH GETS A MINK | Archie is too proud to let Edith accept a mink stole from her cousin Amelia, until he sees a chance to make a three-hundred-dollar profit. |
34. SAMMY'S VISIT | Sammy Davis, Jr., encounters Archie Bunker in all his glory when the star ventures out to Queens to retrieve a briefcase he left in Munson's taxicab. |
35. EDITH THE JUDGE | Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat. |
36. ARCHIE IS JEALOUS | Archie is disturbed to discover Edith once spent an entire weekend with an old beau. |
37. MAUDE | The Bunkers attend the wedding of cousin Maude's daughter, Carol. [This episode was the pilot for "Maude."] |
38. ARCHIE AND THE EDITORIAL | After he rails against gun control in a TV editorial, Archie meets his two biggest supporters -- a pair of stickup artists who rob him at gunpoint. |
39. ARCHIE'S FRAUD | Archie is audited by the IRS after he fails to report income he made driving Munson's taxicab. |
40. THE THREAT | Archie can barely contain himself when the attractive young wife of an old army buddy spends an eventful night in the Bunker household. |
41. GLORIA AND THE RIDDLE | Gloria tests Mike and Archie's male chauvinism with a riddle that stumps the men but is easily answered by Edith. |
42. LIONEL STEPS OUT | Archie is aghast to find out that his visiting niece plans to go out dancing with Lionel Jefferson. |
43. EDITH FLIPS HER WIG | Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store. |
44. THE BUNKERS AND THE SWINGERS | Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals. |
45. MIKE COMES INTO MONEY | Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board. |
46.
FLASHBACK: MIKE AND GLORIA'S WEDDING (PART 1) |
On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on their wedding day. |
47.
FLASHBACK: MIKE AND GLORIA'S WEDDING (PART 2) |
The Stivics' wedding is jeopardized when Michael's uncle insists, over Archie's virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest. |
48. MIKE'S APPENDIX | Gloria is outraged when Mike insists that a male doctor perform his appendix operation. |
49. EDITH'S WINNING TICKET | Archie schemes to bilk the Jeffersons out of their winnings from a lottery ticket that Edith bought for Louise. |
50. ARCHIE AND THE BOWLING TEAM | Archie loses his spot on a top bowling team to a black player. |
51. THE LOCKET | Archie tries to cheat the insurance company out of three hundred dollars after Edith misplaces her family heir-loom locket. |
52. ARCHIE IN THE HOSPITAL | Archie befriends the other patient in his semiprivate hospital room, unaware that he's black |
53. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE | An old school chum tries to convince Archie that his fears of growing old are all in his mind. |
54. ARCHIE GOES TOO FAR | Edith and Gloria end the latest family brawl when they storm out of the house to spend the night on their own. |
55. CLASS REUNION | Archie refuses to tag along to Edith's thirtieth high school reunion -- until he finds out that one of her old beaus will be attending |
56. HOT WATCH | Archie buys an expensive watch of dubious pedigree and has to find a jeweler who'll fix it with no questions asked. |
57. ARCHIE IS BRANDED | Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door. |
58. EVERYBODY TELLS THE TRUTH | It's _Rashomon_ Bunker-style when the family recounts vastly different versoins of the same disastrous encounter with a pair of handymen in the Bunker kitchen |
59. ARCHIE LEARNS HIS LESSON | Archie attends night-school classes to qualify for a high school diploma |
60. GLORIA, THE VICTIM | After an attempted sexual assault, Gloria turns to the family for guidance as she suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime. |
61. THE BATTLE OF THE MONTH | In a foul mood, Gloria lambasts Edith for her constant acquiescence to Archie's whims. |
62. WE'RE HAVING A HEAT WAVE | Henry Jefferson joins Archie in trying to prevent a Hispanic family from moving into the neighborhood. |
63. WE'RE STILL HAVING A HEAT WAVE | As the Lorenzos settle in, Archie grows jealous of Edith's friendship with Irene. |
64. EDITH FINDS AN OLD MAN | Edith befriends a lonely old man, though Archie is less than thrilled to have a constant reminder of his own advancing years hanging around the house |
65. ARCHIE AND THE KISS | Gloria brings home a Rodin replica for the living room, but the erotic sculpture makes Archie cringe. |
66. ARCHIE THE GAMBLER | Edith is deeply disturbed to find out Archie's been playing the horses after he promiesed never to gamble again. |
67. HENRY'S FAREWELL | Archie finally meets George Jefferson at Henry's going-away party. |
68. ARCHIE AND THE COMPUTER | Edith receives a small fortune in quarters as a result of a computer error, while another computer informs Archie that he's been officially declared dead. |
69. THE GAMES BUNKERS PLAY | Mike childishly refuses to accept criticism during an informal group-therapy game. |
70. EDITH'S CONVERSION | Archie thinks Irene Lorenzo is trying to convert Edith to Catholicism |
71. ARCHIE IN THE CELLAR | Locked in his cellar with a bottle of vodka, Archie spends a long night contemplating his life through the haze of a drunken stupor. |
72. BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S WIG | Gloria is insulted when Michael's ardor is renewed after she dons a cheap dime-store wig |
73. SECOND HONEYMOON | Archie and Edith rekindle their romance durin a second honeymoon in Atlantic City. |
74. THE TAXI CAPER | An influential politician attempts to dissuade Archie from pressing charges against his son after the boy robs Archie in Munson's cab. |
75. ARCHIE IS CURSED | Irene challenges Archie to a pool match, but he begs off, complaining of a sore back. |
76. EDITH'S CHRISTMAS STORY | During the Christmas holidays, Edith tries to hide the fact that she may have breast cancer. |
77. MIKE AND GLORIA MIX IT UP | The Stivics' love life reaches another impasses when Michael is put off by Gloria's romantric aggressiveness. |
78. ARCHIE FEELS LEFT OUT | Archie refuses to attend his own birthday party. |
79. ET TU, ARCHIE | Archie sabotages an old friend's efforts to land a job at the loading dock because he's afraid the man might be in line for his position. |
80. GLORIA'S BOYFRIEND | Archie's misconceptions run amok when Gloria befriends the retarded box boy from the local market. |
81. LIONEL'S ENGAGEMENT | Archie squares off with George Jefferson's mother when he and Edith attend Lionel's engagement party. |
82. ARCHIE EATS AND RUNS | The Bunkers are in a panic after Archie eats a stew made from mushrooms that might have been contaminated. |
83. GLORIA SINGS THE BLUES | Gloria is bewildered after she falls temporarily out of life with Michael, until she discovers her mother went through the same thing with Archie. |
84. PAY THE TWENTY DOLLARS | Archie unwittingly passes George Jefferson a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill and sets off a string of hilarious exchanges as the family attempts to rectify the error. |
85. MIKE'S GRADUATION | Archie's spirits soar on Mike's graduation day, until he discovers that his meathead son-in-law has accepted a fellowship and won't be moving out for another year |
86. THE BUNKERS AND INFLATION | The Bunkers' breadwinner tries to avoid breaking the news that his union has called a strike. |
87.
THE BUNKERS AND INFLATION ARCHIE UNDERFOOT |
Tempers flare in the Bunker household when Archie finds himself with nothing to do but sit around the house. |
88.
THE BUNKERS AND INFLATION EDITH THE JOB HUNTER |
When strike negotiations bog down, Archie grudgingly trades places with Edith and allows her to take a job at Jefferson's dry cleaners. |
89.
THE BUNKERS AND INFLATION ARCHIE'S RAISE |
Archie's union settles the strike, but under terms that effectively leave him worse off than he was before the walkout. |
90. LIONEL THE LIVE-IN | Lionel arrives to spend a few days with the Bunkers after a big blowup with his father. |
91. ARCHIE'S HELPING HAND | The reising tide of feminism confronts Archie on all sides when Edith joins a women's group and Irene lands a job alongside him on the loading dock. |
92. GLORIA'S SHOCK | Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children. |
93.
WHERE'S ARCHIE? (PART 1) |
Edith holds her first Tupperware party under a cloud of worry when Archie disappears on his way to a union convention in Buffalo. |
94.
ARCHIE IS MISSING (PART 2) |
With no word from Archie after twenty-four hours, the family faces the possibility that he might've run off with another woman. |
95.
THE LONGEST KISS (PART 3) |
Archie returns from his sorry adventure -- he got sidetracked to a podiatrists' convention in Rochester -- to find his friends and family celebrating his return with kissing contests, Hula Hoops, and ballroom dancing. |
96. ARCHIE AND THE MIRACLE | After an accident on the loading dock brings Archie within inches of his life, he suddenly becomes a devout -- if somewhat hypocritical -- churchgoer. |
97. GEORGE AND ARCHIE MAKE A DEAL | George Jefferson seeks Archie's help when he runs for local political office. |
98. ARCHIE'S CONTRACT | Irene and the Jeffersons bail the Bunkers out after Archie buys two thousand dollars' worth of aluminum siding from a fast-talking salesman. |
99. MIKE'S FRIEND | Gloria is made to feel like an intellectual outcast when she spends the evening with Mike and one of his graduate-school friends. |
100.
THE BEST OF ALL IN THE FAMILY (ONE HOUR) |
Henry Fonda hosts an hour-long retrospective of high points from the show's first four years. |
101. PRISONER IN THE HOUSE | A plumber's assistant causes Archie agony when he finds out the worker is a convict on a work-release program from Sing Sing. |
102. THE JEFFERSONS MOVE UP | The Bunkers bid a fond farewell to the Jeffersons when their neighbors abandon Queens for the nouveau-riche life in a Manhattan high rise. [This episode was the pilot for "The Jefffersons."] |
103. ALL'S FAIR | Gloria gives Edith a lesson in marriage assertiveness. |
104. AMELIA'S DIVORCE | Edith is surprised to discover that her cousin Amelia's ideal marriage is rotten to the core. |
105. EVERYBODY DOES IT | Archie steals a box of nails from work and finds himself at the center of a household debate on morality. |
106. ARCHIE AND THE QUIZ | Archie feels the weight of his own mortality after a magazine quiz on life expectancy gives him another seven years -- tops. |
107. EDITH'S FRIEND | Edith is reunited with her childhood sweetheart when she returns to her hometown for a wedding. |
108. NO SMOKING | The Bunker hous is locked in a battle of wills after Mike vows he can go without food longer than Archie can abstain from smoking. |
109. MIKE MAKES HIS MOVE | After a fruitless search for new lodgings, Mike and Gloria agree to rent George Jefferson's old hous -- even though it means living next door to Archie. |
110. THE VERY MOVING DAY | Gloria is nervous about announcing her unexpected pregnancy because of Mike's stubborn attitude toward overpopulation. |
111. ALONE AT LAST | Teary farewells turn into fireworks when Mike hits Archie with five years of repressed rage, only to discover that he and Gloria can't move out for another week. |
112. ARCHIE THE DONOR | Archie tries to impress his boss by making the maximum contribution to his favorite charity and unwittingly donates his body to medical science. |
113. ARCHIE THE HERO | Archie gets a rude shock when the tall, classy dame whose life he saved in a taxicab turns out to be a man. |
114. MIKE'S PAINS | Mike has second thoughts about natural childbirth when he gets queasy at the prospect of standing in the delivery room during Gloria's labor. |
115. CHAIN LETTER | Archie's refusal to participate in a chain letter triggers a string of unlikely events. |
116. MIKE FACES LIFE | Mike becomes the sole support of a growing family when Gloria loses her job because of her pregnancy |
117. EDITH BREAKS OUT | Archie feels abandoned after Edith begins to volunteer part-time at the Sunshine Home for the Elderly. |
118. GRANDPA BLUES | Archie has difficulty keeping his blood pressure down for a company physical after the family launches into a heavy debate over the baby's name. |
119. GLORIA SUSPECTS MIKE | Gloria suspects hanky-panky when she meets the beautiful blonde Mike's been tutoring after school hours. |
120. THE LITTLE ATHEIST | Thanksgiving dinner becomes a family battleground when Archie discovers that Mike and Gloria don't want to impose the family's religious beliefs on their baby. |
121. ARCHIE'S CIVIL RIGHTS | Archie gets a lesson in civil liberties when he's arrested for using outlawed tear gas to protect himself against a mugger. |
122. GLORIA IS NERVOUS | The baby is already nine days overdue, and the stress is turning Mike and Gloria into nervous wrecks. |
123.
BIRTH OF THE BABY (PART 1) |
Stuck in a phone booth in an Italian restaurant, Gloria goes into labor while Archie is busy rehearsing for his lodge's minstrel show. |
124.
BIRTH OF THE BABY (PART 2) |
Archie arrives at the hospital direct from his minstrel show -- in blackface -- just in time for Gloria's blessed event. |
125. NEW YEAR'S WEDDING | The Stivics have a spat when Michael volunteers their living room for a wedding ceremony without even consulting Gloria. |
126. ARCHIE THE BABY-SITTER | Archie's buddies form a lullaby quartet when Grandpa Bunker baby-sits Joey on his poker night. |
127. ARCHIE FINDS A FRIEND | Archie sees a chance to get rich quick when he befriends an old watchmaker who's got a surefire invention. |
128. MIKE'S MOVE | Mike's integrity is put to the test when he loses a teaching position to an equally qualified black candidate. |
129. ARCHIE'S WEIGHTY PROBLEM | Energetic Justin Quiqley inspires Archie to stick with the strict diet his doctor has recommended. |
130. LOVE BY APPOINTMENT | Mike and Gloria's sex life suffers after they have to begin planning their encounters around the baby's feeding schedule. |
131. JOEY'S BAPTISM | After Mike and Gloria refuse to have their son baptized, Archie stubbornly steals away to a church to douse the infant himself. |
132. MIKE AND GLORIA'S HOUSEGUESTS | A broken furnace forces Archie and Edith to spend a few nights under the Stivic's roof during a power blackout. |
133. EDITH'S NIGHT OUT | Edith abandons her stick-in-the-mud husband to liven things up on her own during an evening out at Kelcy's Bar. |
134.
ARCHIE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PART 1 -- ONE HOUR) |
Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated a flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home. |
135.
ARCHIE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PART 2) |
Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion. |
136.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT STORY (PART 1) |
Archie's self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock. |
137.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT STORY (PART 2) |
A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a janitor's job to Archie. |
138.
ARCHIE'S OPERATION (PART 1) |
Archie's trip to the hospital is an ethnic nightmare: He's admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor. |
139.
ARCHIE'S OPERATION (PART 2) |
Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work -- with a raise and a promotion. |
140. BEVERLY RIDES AGAIN | As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly LaSalle. |
141. TERESA MOVES IN | The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget. |
142. MIKE AND GLORIA'S WILL | The Bunkers are stunned to hear that Mike and Gloria plan to appoint another couple as Joey's legal guardians in their will. |
143. MR. EDITH BUNKER | Edith saves a man's life and becomes the toast of the town, but Archie isn't happy standing in the shadow of her limelight. |
144. ARCHIE'S SECRET PASSION | Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounter with an old high school friend she's invited to dinner. |
145. THE BABY CONTEST | Archie enters Joey in a newspaper's beautiful-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria. |
146. GLORIA'S FALSE ALARM | Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years. |
147. THE DRAFT DODGER | Sparks fly when Mike invites a former draft resister to the Bunkers' Christmas dinner, where the guest of honor is the father of a vet who was killed in Vietnam |
148. THE BOARDER PATROL | The Bunkers return home unexpectedly to find Teresa in bed with her boyfriend. |
149. ARCHIE'S CHAIR | Archie's beloved easy chair ends up in an art museum after the repair shop accidentally sells it to a modern artist. |
150. MIKE GOES SKIING | Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip. |
151. STRETCH CUNNINGHAM, GOOD-BYE | Archie reluctantly agrees to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unaware that his departed friend was Jewish. |
152. THE JOYS OF SEX | Edith sneaks a peek at a best-selling sex manual and decides her romantic life could stand a little perking up. |
153. MIKE THE PACIFIST | Mike feels guilty for punching a man on the subway, even though he acted in defense of Gloria. |
154. FIRE | Archie tries to collect on a fraudulent insurance claim after a small fire breaks out in the upstairs bathroom. |
155. MIKE AND GLORIA SPLIT | Mike spends a night with Archie after a fight with Gloria. |
156. ARCHIE THE LIBERAL | When his lodge comes under fire for discrimination, Archie tries to knock off two quotas at once by courting a black Jew for membership. |
157. ARCHIE'S DOG DAY AFTERNOON | Archie accidentally runs over Barney Hefner's dog. |
158.
ARCHIE GETS THE BUSINESS (ONE HOUR) |
Archie, desparate to realize his personal dream and buy Kelcy's Bar, forges Edith's signature on the mortgage papers. |
159. COUSIN LIZ | At the funeral of Edith's cousin Liz, the Bunkers are shocked to learn that she'd been living with a lesbian roommate for years. |
160.
EDITH'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY (ONE HOUR) |
Edith misses her birthday party when a rapist holds her at gunpoint in her own living room. |
161. UNEQUAL PARTNERS | Edith ruins Archie's weekend fishing trip when she stages a wedding in the Bunkers' living room. |
162. ARCHIE'S GRAND OPENING | The family steps in to serve drinks and tend bar at Archie's tavern after his staff deserts him on opening night. |
163.
ARCHIE'S BITTER PILL (PART 1) |
Archie takes a few pep pills to keep pace with the increased demands of running his own business and winds up with an amphetamine addiction. |
164.
ARCHIE'S ROAD BACK (PART 2) |
A despondent Archie retreats to his bedroom, until Harry offers to bail him out with a partnership offer for the bar. |
165.
ARCHIE AND THE KU KLUX KLAN (PART 1) |
Archie is nominated for membership in a mysterious fraternal order that turns out to be the local branch of the KKK. |
166.
ARCHIE AND THE KU KLUX KLAN (PART 2) |
Archie devises a plan to prevent the Klan from burning a cross on Mike and Gloria's lawn. |
167. MIKE AND GLORIA MEET | A flashback explores Mike and Gloria's first blind date. |
168.
EDITH'S CRISIS OF FAITH (ONE HOUR) |
Edith's religious faith is shaken after her friend female impersonator Berverly LaSalle is brutally murdered by street thugs at Christmas. |
169. ARCHIE AND THE SUPER BOWL | Archie's Place is robbed on Super Bowl Sunday, the busiest day of the year |
170. THE COMMERCIAL | Edith is chosen to appear in a TV commercial but finds herself unable to lie when she begins to doubt the quality of the sponsor's detergent. |
171. AUNT IOLA'S VISIT | Archie refuses to let Edith's elderly aunt move into their spare bedroom, even after she's been turned away by every other relative. |
172. LOVE COMES TO THE BUTCHER | Archie is jealous when a lonely butcher lavishes attention on Edith. |
173. TWO'S A CROWD | Mike and Archie have a long talk after they find themselves locked in the storeroom of Archie's Place |
174. STALE MATES | Mike and Gloria are sure the romance has gone out of their marriage when even a weekend in the Poconos fails to reignite the spark |
175. ARCHIE'S BROTHER | Archie's estranged brother returns, after twenty-nine years, to smooth things over before he enters the hospital for a serious operation |
176. MIKE'S NEW JOB | The Stivics prepare to move to California after Mike is offered a teaching position in Santa Barbara |
177. THE DINNER GUEST | Edith is crushed when Mike and Gloria make other plans after she's prepared a special farewell dinner in their honor. |
178. THE STIVICS GO WEST | The Bunker house is the scene of tearful good-byes as Mike and Gloria finally leave for California |
179. LITTLE MISS BUNKER | Edith's cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers' doorstep. |
180. END IN SIGHT | Archie spends a night wallowing in self-pity when an insurance physical reveals an ominous spot on his liver |
181. REUNION ON HAUSER STREET | The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles |
182. WHAT'LL WE DO WITH STEPHANIE? | The Bunkers decide to keep Stephanie after her father fails to reclaim her as promised. |
183. EDITH'S FINAL RESPECTS | Edith is the sole mourner at her Aunt Rose's funeral |
184. WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY | Once again, Archie and Edith try to preserve peace between Barney Hefner and his extremely wayward wife. |
185. ARCHIE'S OTHER WIFE | At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before |
186. EDITH VERSUS THE BANK | Edith is disillusioned when her bank refuses to grant a loan without her husband's signature. |
187. THE RETURN OF THE WAITRESS | Edith finally confronts the waitress who tempted Archie's fidelity after Harry unwittingly hires her to work at Archie's Place. |
188. BOGUS BILLS | Edith is arrested for passing phony ten-dollar bills she got from Archie's Place. |
189. THE BUNKERS GO WEST | After Mike and Gloria cancel their trip home for Christmas, the Bunkers decide to travel west for the holidays. |
190.
CALIFORNIA, HERE WE ARE (ONE HOUR) |
The Bunkers arrive in Santa Barbara for Christmas and soon discover that all is not right with Mike and Gloria |
191. A NIGHT AT THE PTA | When Edith develops laryngitis on the eve of her singing debut at Stephanie's PTA recital, Archie steps in to understudy the duet. |
192. A GIRL LIKE EDITH | Edith meets butcher Klemmer's new sweetheart, a woman who just happens to be her spitting image |
193. THE APPENDECTOMY | Edith and Archie rush Stephanie to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy |
194. STEPHANIE AND THE CRIME WAVE | The Bunkers are at odds over Stephanie's punishment when they catch her stealing petty items from around the house. |
195. BARNEY THE GOLD DIGGER | Barney Hefner is suicidal after Blanche finally deserts him, until Archie fixes him up with an overweight but wealthy widow |
196. STEPHANIE'S CONVERSION | Archie is forced to reevaluate his religious prejudice after Stephanie tries to conceal the fact that she's Jewish |
197. EDITH GETS FIRED | Edith loses her job at the Sunshine Home after she honors an invalid woman's final wish to be allowed to die with dignity. |
198.
THE BEST OF "ALL IN THE FAMILY" (NINETY-MINUTE SPECIAL) |
Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series. |
199. THE RETURN OF ARCHIE'S BROTHER | Archie's brother, Fred, arrives with his latest wife -- a child bride of eighteen. |
200. THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR | Archie hits the roof when Edith rents out the old Jefferson house to a black couple |
201. THE RETURN OF STEPHANIE'S FATHER | Stephanie's father, Floyd, finally arrives with a devastating propostion for the Bunkers: They can keep Stephanie if they agree to pay him one thousand dollars cash. |
202. TOO GOOD EDITH | Archie is hurt and outraged when Edith tries to hide a serious illness from him |