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- Project: Video: All in the Family: Discrimination in Housing & Marriage |
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| Plot Line: All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed
American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television
network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original
episode aired. In September 1979, the show was retooled and given a new
name, Archie Bunker's Place. With that title, the sitcom lasted another
four years, finally ending its run in 1983.
Produced by Norman Lear and based on a British television series Til Death Us Do Part, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously deemed unsuitable for network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, breast cancer and impotence. The show was wildly popular, and ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. Only one other program, The Cosby Show, has tied All In The Family in terms of years at the top of the ratings. In 2002, it ranked #4 on TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time. TV Guide also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family#Sample_episode:_.22Sammy.27s_Visit.22 |
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| Archie and several neighbors learn that a black family is moving into the neighborhood, unaware that it is the Jeffersons. Lionel finds out about the effort to purchase the Jeffersons' new house and gets Archie to reveal his plans. 2 March 1971 | |||||
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| The Bunkers, Stivics and Jeffersons attend Lionel's engagement party. His fiancée is a young woman whose father is white and mother is black, much to the chagrin of Archie and (especially) George. 9 February 1974 | |||||
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