All in the Family

Archie's Brief Encounter (2)

1976-09-22 · 25m

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretions after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

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Episode 3

Archie's Brief Encounter (3)

1976-09-29 · 25m

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

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Episode 4

The Unemployment Story (1)

1976-10-06 · 25m

Archie's self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock.

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Episode 5

The Unemployment Story (2)

1976-10-13 · 25m

A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a jaintor's job to Archie.

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Episode 6

Archie's Operation (1)

1976-10-27 · 25m

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.

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Episode 7

Archie's Operation (2)

1976-10-27 · 25m

Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work-with a raise and a promotion.

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Episode 8

Beverly Rides Again

1976-11-06 · 25m

As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.

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Episode 9

Teresa Moves In

1976-11-13 · 25m

The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget.

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Episode 10

★ 2.7

Mike and Gloria's Will

1976-11-20 · 25m

Mike and Gloria are having a discussion over who will take care of Joey, just in case there comes a time when both of them are unable to care for the little tyke before his 18th birthday. Mike has serious reservations over allowing in-laws Archie and Edith to get custody of Joey, particularly due to what he perceives as Archie's bad influences. Gloria is having a hard time convincing Mike otherwise and gives in to Mike's rhetoric. Mike's suspicions are confirmed when Archie and Edith return with Joey after a day of playing in the park. What's that Joey's got in his hands? Why, a toy machine gun that Grandpa had bought him. Of course, Mike (being dead set against gun violence) immediately is very angry and tells Archie that toy guns could influence children's behavior later on. Tempers really escalate when Mike grabs the plastic gun from Archie and breaks it over his knee. After the two continue to argue, Mike lets slip that he is considering including a clause in the Stivics' will that

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Episode 11

Mr. Edith Bunker

1976-11-27 · 25m

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.

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Episode 12

Archie's Secret Passion

1976-12-04 · 25m

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.

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Episode 13

★ 6.0

The Baby Contest

1976-12-11 · 25m

Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.

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Episode 14

Gloria's False Alarm

1976-12-18 · 25m

Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.

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Episode 15

The Draft Dodger

1976-12-25 · 25m

The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.

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Episode 16

The Boarder Patrol

1977-01-08 · 25m

Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.

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Episode 17

★ 7.5

Archie's Chair

1977-01-15 · 25m

Mike accidently breaks Archie's Chair.

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Episode 18

Mike Goes Skiing

1977-01-22 · 25m

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

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Episode 19

Stretch Cunningham, Goodbye

1977-01-29 · 25m

Archie reluctantly agress to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unawware that his departed friend was Jewish.

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Episode 20

The Joys of Sex

1977-02-05 · 25m

Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husband's Mistress.

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Episode 21

Mike, the Pacifist

1977-02-12 · 25m

Stranded in a subway train with different personalities, Mike is shocked when he punches a man for the very first time in his life after the man had pushed Gloria aside.

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Episode 22

Fire

1977-02-19 · 25m

The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.

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Episode 23

★ 5.0

Mike and Gloria Split

1977-02-26 · 25m

Before bedtime, Mike and Gloria have a game of Scrabble in which Mike ends up winning. He uses this game as an opportunity to rub Gloria's nose in the fact that he has to be better at everything, leading to an argument between the two. Gloria asserts that this is because Mike has had the chance to go to college and use his skills, while she hasn't had the chance yet, bringing up the fact that Mike promised her three years ago that chance. Gloria accuses Mike of ruining her life, causing him to walk out and try to spend the night at Archie and Edith's house. Archie and Mike reluctantly become roommates, which ends up in disaster. Archie then scolds Mike for trying to correct everybody's way of doing and saying things. Realizing his mistake, Mike goes home and apologizes to Gloria for being pompous, and Gloria apologizes to Mike for saying he ruined her life.

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Episode 24

★ 7.5

Archie, the Liberal

1977-03-05 · 25m

When Archie and the guys at the lodge are being called bigots in the papers because they are only white, Archie suggests to initiate a black jewish guy.