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LIFE All In The Family
We Are Family • It has been 50 years since America first stepped into the home of Archie Bunker. While much has changed, the show remains painfully relevant—and funny
Those Were THE DAYS • For nine seasons All in the Family served up classic—and sometimes cringeworthy—TV moments
CREATING A NEW FAMILY • A belligerent father, unrest in the world, and a groundbreaking British sitcom inspired Norman Lear to create All in the Family, a show about the conservative head of a household who cannot stomach change, and doesn’t hesitate to let everybody know what’s on his mind
CAN A FOUL-MOUTHED BIGOT CHARM AMERICA? • When All in the Family debuted in 1971, CBS braced for the ire of their audience. Instead, viewers not only warmed to Archie and the rest of his clan but saw themselves in the Queens household, as they laughed at, pondered, and debated searing real-life issues of that turbulent time
KING LEAR RULES TV • Soon after the rise of All in the Family, Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin started creating a string of series and spin-offs, from Sanford and Son and Maude to The Jeffersons. At one point, they had five hit shows on television at the same time, and attracted 120 million viewers each week
Black Lives, Front and Center • Beginning in the 1970s, sitcoms became a vehicle for African Americans to highlight and confront issues that matter
LIFE AFTER HAUSER STREET • All in the Family opened the door for all involved to move on to other projects—from playing leads in hit television shows and movies to directing some of the most popular films of the 1980s and ’90s to the bruising world of political activism and the culture wars
Norman Lear on His Legacy • At 98, the creator of All in the Family, One Day at a Time, and a host of other TV series is not only active but hopeful for the future of the country he spent decades exploring, analyzing, and loving
ARCHIE & EDITH’S POP CULTURE LEGACY • Norman Lear’s creation spawned a long line of working class sitcoms and opened the way for a broad range of shows, both live action and animated. All in the Family’s DNA can be found in series from The Simpsons to Roseanne, and its artifacts live on in museum galleries
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Smart. Daring. Hilarious. • Tackling issues of a divided America and casting them in humorous, sometimes absurd light, All in the Family kept a moral center, dominated TV ratings for years, and remains richly relevant (and funny!) today.
