All in the Family Cast & Crew

"All in the Family" is touted as the series that brought reality to prime-time television entertainment. The lead character, Archie Bunker, is a loudmouthed, uneducated, racist and bigoted individual who believes every stereotype he's ever heard. His sweet wife, Edith - who isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, their daughter Gloria and her husband Mike all live with him in their lower-middle-class home. Unfortunately for Archie, he can't get away from the people he disdains. The family next door, the Jeffersons, is black. Mike (a.k.a. "Meathead"), Archie's son-in-law, is an unemployed (a student) Pole. Edith has a feminist cousin in Maude. Later, when he bought the local tavern, he had Jewish business partners. "All in the Family" changed the face of American television. Its blunt humor addressing all forms of racism and prejudice awoke a nation lulled by the sticky sweet characters and story lines of series past. A number-one hit for 5 years, "All in the Family" was rerun in prime time by CBS during the summer of 1991 through early 1992. Loosely based on the British series called "Till Death Do Us Part," "All in the Family" spawned the successful series "Maude" (which then spun-off "Good Times") and "The Jeffersons."