Carroll O'Connor as Archie Justice, Jean Stapleton as Edith Justice, Kelly Jean Peters as Gloria, Tim McIntire as Richard, D'Urville Martin as Lionel

Carroll O'Connor as Archie Justice, Jean Stapleton as Edith Justice, Candy Azzara as Gloria, Chip Oliver as Richard, D'Urville Martin as Lionel

Archie and Edith (Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton) come home from church early, interrupting Mike and Gloria's (Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers) privacy.

• Recording date: December 15, 1970

Because Mike wrote a critical letter to President Nixon about the current state of the U.S., Archie decides to write one of his own that praises him.

Archie hurts his back in an accident while in his cab, so he tries to find a Jewish lawyer in order to collect in a lawsuit.

• Recording date: January 5, 1971

Archie questions who might receive some of his blood at a blood bank, thinking that different races have different blood.

• Recording date: January 12, 1971

Archie learns about judging people after incorrectly declaring Roger (Anthony Geary) a seemingly effeminate friend of Mike and Gloria to be gay—only to discover that one of his old football buddies Steve (Phil Carey) is gay himself.

The Stivics start apartment hunting after Gloria reveals that she is pregnant, making Archie furious. Although he eventually comes around, Gloria has a miscarriage, and he comforts her.

Mike's friends—an unmarried couple—plan to share a sleeping bag in the Bunker home, over Archie's objections.

Archie is not happy that a black family is moving into the neighborhood.

• Recording date: February 15, 1971

Edith goes on jury duty for a murder trial, and she alone thinks that the accused is not guilty. Archie is upset that Edith is not at home to take care of him.

• Recording date: February 23, 1971

Archie spends the night worrying about his job when his company announces layoffs.

• Recording date: March 2, 1971^[1]

As a supporter of women's lib, Gloria accuses Mike of chauvinism and storms out of the house. She comes back, and they make up.

Archie is visited by an old Army buddy, Eddie Frazier (William Windom), who is now a wealthy car dealer. Mike, who openly resents Eddie's wealth, secretly learns that Eddie is not as successful in one area of his life as he is in business.

• Recording date: March 16, 1971

Just as Archie is campaigning to keep black families out of the neighborhood, Edith accepts a dinner invitation from the Jeffersons.

• Recording date: March 23, 1971

Archie's freeloading cousin Oscar unexpectedly dies during a two-week visit and none of Archie's relatives are willing to help with funeral expenses. Mike and Archie are then left to decide whether to give Oscar a proper funeral or have him buried in a potter's field.

Archie and Mike have a difference of opinion over Mike's artist friend Szabo Daborba (David Soul) offering to paint Gloria in the nude.

Archie ends up in jail when he tries to save Mike and Lionel from trouble at a demonstration. Tim Reid appears in an uncredited role as Archie's cellmate.

Edith wants to spend money in the Bunker family cash pot to enter a songwriting contest, but Archie would rather use the money to buy a gun due to a recent series of burglaries in the neighborhood. The family later has an encounter with two black crooks, Coke (Cleavon Little) and Horace (Demond Wilson).

• Recording date: August 17, 1971

Flashbacks show the first tempestuous meeting between Archie and Mike.

• Recording date: August 10, 1971

Archie intends to vote in the local elections just for his candidate to beat Mike and Gloria's.

• Recording date: August 31, 1971

While shopping at Ferguson's Market, Edith has an accident with a car (involving a shopping cart full of canned cling peaches in heavy syrup) and leaves a note for the owner, a Catholic priest (Barnard Hughes), which does not sit well for Archie on both counts.

A black realtor (Thalmus Rasulala, credited by Jack Crowder) offers Archie $35,000 to sell the house. Lionel refers to him as an Oreo cookie, "black on the outside and white on the inside."

Mike has become impotent due to anxiety over his final exams, so he goes to Archie for advice.

• Recording date: September 21, 1971

As if it were not bad enough that the Bunkers' home insurance has been canceled, Archie has to decide which of three men at work must be fired.

The Bunkers' TV set breaks down just as Archie is preparing to see his "man in the street" interview about his political beliefs.

When all but Edith come down with the flu, her favorite (and extremely liberal) cousin Maude Findlay (Beatrice Arthur) comes to the house to help, and immediately clashes with Archie.

• Recording date: November 9, 1971

In 2009, TV Guide ranked this episode #9 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.^[2]

Archie is not in the holiday spirit on Christmas Day due to a mistake at work that cost him his annual Christmas bonus.

• Recording date: October 12, 1971

Archie gets stuck in an elevator with a dignified black lawyer (Roscoe Lee Browne), a ditzy secretary (Eileen Brennan), a Puerto Rican janitor (Hector Elizondo), and his very pregnant wife (Edith Díaz). When the janitor's wife goes into labor, everybody must help her to deliver the baby.

• Recording date: November 23, 1971

NOTE: Edith Díaz later guest stars in the season four premiere episode "We're Having a Heat Wave" as one half of a Puerto Rican couple looking to buy the house next door to the Bunkers, much to Archie's displeasure.

Edith begins menopause, making it hard for Archie to be understanding.

Archie believes his coworker and neighbor Larry Grundy (Graham Jarvis) is guilty of something after an FBI agent drops by asking questions about him.

An ex-girlfriend of Mike's, Marilyn Sanders (Marcia Rodd), drops by one night and leaves her four-year-old son Danny (Stephen Manley) with the Bunkers, claiming that Mike is Danny's father.

NOTE: Marcia Rodd later guest stars in the season two finale episode "Maude" as Carol Traynor, Maude Findlay's daughter.

Archie witnesses a mugging and gets himself in trouble with the victim, the police and the mob.

With Mike and Gloria out of the house for the weekend, an argument between Archie and Edith leads to Edith giving Archie the cold shoulder.

Archie is angry with Edith for accepting a mink cape as a gift from her rich cousin Amelia, then has a change of heart when the cape gets ruined at Jefferson Cleaners after it accidentally gets stained with spaghetti.

The Bunkers have the honor of Sammy Davis Jr. visiting their home to retrieve a briefcase he accidentally left in Archie's cab.

• Recording date: January 25, 1972

In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #13 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.^[4]

The owner of a local laundromat accuses Archie of breaking one of his washing machines by overloading it and it's up to Edith to resolve the issue.

• Recording date: February 8, 1972

Archie is furious that Mike and Gloria spent a weekend together before they were married, but that's nothing compared to what Edith tells him.

• Recording date: February 15, 1972

Carol Traynor (Marcia Rodd), the divorced daughter of Edith's favorite cousin Maude Findlay (Beatrice Arthur) is about to enter a mixed marriage with her Jewish fiancé, David Green (Bob Dishy), and Archie and Edith travel upstate to Tuckahoe to attend. This episode serves as the backdoor pilot for the spin-off series Maude.

• Recording date: February 22, 1972

Archie goes on television to protest an editorial in favor of gun control, then faces the consequences for opening his big mouth.

• Recording date: July 18, 1972

Archie tries to get out of paying the IRS for moonlighting as a graveyard-shift cabbie for his friend Burt Munson (Billy Halop).

Archie says his friend's wife flirted with him during an overnight visit.

Gloria presents a riddle to prove Archie and Mike's chauvinism, sparking a debate about women's liberation. Edith eventually provides the answer.

Archie is furious when his visiting niece Linda (Dianne Hull) goes out with Lionel.

When Edith gets arrested for shoplifting, she thinks she inherited her aunt's kleptomania.

Edith unwittingly answers an ad placed by a couple interested in wife-swapping (Vincent Gardenia and Rue McClanahan), and their visit to the Bunkers leads to confusion.

NOTE: Vincent Gardenia later becomes a semi-regular cast member in season four.

Archie gets upset when Mike donates $275 he recently inherited from his late uncle Alex towards George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of contributing towards his room and board.

Flashbacks show the wedding of Mike and Gloria where Archie argues with Mike's Polish uncle Casimir (Michael Conrad) over how the ceremony should go.

More flashbacks show the wedding of Mike and Gloria as an argument occurs over who should conduct the ceremony.

Mike has to choose between two doctors for a much-needed appendectomy, one of whom is a woman.

Archie is delighted that Edith has a winning lottery ticket, but is disappointed when she claims it belongs to Louise Jefferson (Isabel Sanford).

• Recording date: October 24, 1972

Archie competes with a black man for a position on his district's bowling team.

When an antique locket given to Edith by her grandmother goes missing, Archie plans an insurance scheme.

Archie goes to the hospital for back pain and makes friends with a patient on the other side of the curtain in his room, who, unbeknownst to him, is black.

• Recording date: December 12, 1972

Archie starts worrying about his age when he sees an old high school friend who looks 15 years younger.

While looking for a magazine, Archie finds a poem that Mike wrote to someone other than Gloria, bringing up the issue of invading one's privacy.

Archie accompanies Edith to her high school reunion when he learns her old boyfriend will be there.

• Recording date: January 23, 1973

Archie buys a $300 watch for just $25, but Mike suspects the watch could have been stolen, making Archie an accomplice in a crime.

Archie discovers a swastika painted on his front door one Sunday and dismisses it as a prank, but Mike believes it's something far more serious.

NOTE: Jean Stapleton's son, John Putch, appears in a small role as a Boy Scout.

While dining out, Archie and Mike have opposing (and exaggerated) accounts of the events of earlier that evening, involving Archie and the repairmen who came to repair the refrigerator.

Archie attends night school to earn his GED so he'll get a promotion and tries to keep a secret from Mike and Gloria.

While walking past a construction site on her way home from work one evening, Gloria is a victim of attempted rape and must decide whether or not to press charges against her attacker.

Edith and Gloria get into an argument over women's lib, forcing Archie and Mike to deal with the fallout.

As the Bunkers go through a September heat wave, Archie fumes after finding out that a Puerto Rican couple is planning to buy the house next door.

• Recording date: August 7, 1973

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NOTE: Effective this episode, Vincent Gardenia and Betty Garrett become semi-regular cast members.

As the heat wave continues, Archie continues to be irritated by the Lorenzos—who happen to be Irish (Irene) and Italian (Frank).

Archie is not happy with Edith allowing a nursing home runaway (Burt Mustin) to stay with them.

• Recording date: August 21, 1973

Irene gives Gloria a statue of "The Kiss," which Archie finds filthy.

• Recording date: September 4, 1973

Archie arrives home in a good mood and bearing presents for Gloria and Edith. But when Edith learns he has been betting on the horses, she becomes furious, as Archie once had a compulsive gambling problem many years earlier.

• Recording date: July 24, 1973

The Bunkers and the Jeffersons have a farewell party for Henry, where Archie incites another argument.

• Recording date: July 31, 1973

NOTE: On May 22, 2019, this episode was remade as a live special for ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience. This is the first appearance of Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson.

A computer error keeps sending quarters to Edith and another declares Archie dead.

• Recording date: September 11, 1973

During a group therapy game, Mike gets offended by the honest opinions about him.

Archie is worried that Edith will convert when she befriends Irene's sister, a Catholic nun.

• Recording date: October 2, 1973

While the rest of the family is away for the weekend, Archie accidentally locks himself in the cellar.

• Recording date: October 9, 1973

Gloria buys a black wig to change her look, but she becomes upset when Mike becomes more attracted to her with the wig on.

• Recording date: October 16, 1973

Edith takes a reluctant Archie on a second honeymoon to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

• Recording date: October 30, 1973

Archie is robbed while moonlighting as a cabbie for his friend Burt Munson, then agrees to drop the charges in return for a payoff, only to get in trouble with the police.

Archie and Irene play a game of pool to settle an argument, then Archie makes a remark that leads to Frank putting a curse on him.

At Christmastime, Edith tries to maintain the holiday spirit after discovering a lump in her breast.

• Recording date: December 11, 1973

Mike and Gloria argue over who should be the aggressor in their marriage.

Archie mopes about his age on his 50th birthday.

• Recording date: December 18, 1973

Archie worries that an old friend whose job he took is planning to get it back.

• Recording date: January 10, 1974

Archie disapproves of Gloria's friendship with George Bushmill (Richard Masur), a mentally challenged box boy at Ferguson's Market. Joseph Mascolo also guest stars as George's father, Pat Bushmill.

• Recording date: January 17, 1974

Archie comes to Lionel's engagement party over George's objections, and both he and George get a load of Lionel's fiancée's parents, an interracial couple.

• Recording date: January 24, 1974

Archie thinks he has botulism from eating canned mushrooms.

• Recording date: January 31, 1974

Gloria does not think she loves Mike anymore, so Edith tries to help her.

• Recording date: February 14, 1974

George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) accuses Archie of giving him a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for his drycleaning.

As Mike prepares for his final exams, Archie is anxious for the Stivics to move out.

Archie is troubled by the possibility of his union going on strike.

• Recording date: August 6, 1974

Archie mopes around the house about going on the picket line for his union.

Since Archie is still on strike, Edith goes looking for a job for the first time in 26 years. Louise offers her work at the Jeffersons's dry-cleaning shop, prompting anger from both Archie and George.

Archie is upset that he is the only one in his family not earning any money.

• Recording date: September 20, 1974

Guest Star: James Cromwell as Stretch Cunningham

Lionel stays with the Bunkers after an argument with his father and Archie is anxious for him to leave.

Archie gets Irene a job at the factory to get her away from Edith, but his plan backfires when she proves an incredible worker.

Gloria is shocked that Mike does not want any children since they never discussed it.

Edith and Gloria start to panic when Archie fails to call from a weekend convention.

NOTE: Due to a contract dispute, Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode.

Mike and Gloria believe Archie ran off with an attractive secretary.

Guest Star: James Cromwell as Stretch Cunningham

NOTE: Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode, due to a contract dispute.

Archie is finally found after having been missing for two days. The Bunkers, the Jeffersons, and the Lorenzos throw a party to celebrate.

• Recording date: July 30, 1974^[5]

A near-death experience convinces Archie that he owes his life to God, which naturally leads to another argument with Mike.

• Recording date: November 1, 1974

Guest Star: James Cromwell as Stretch Cunningham

A signature from Archie is required for George Jefferson to run for public office.

A salesman talks Archie into having aluminum siding installed, but it turns out to be a scam.

Mike leaves Gloria out of an intellectual conversation with his friend.

NOTE: Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode.

Henry Fonda hosts this one-hour special that celebrates the best moments of All in the Family.

Archie is not happy that the plumber's assistant is a Sing-Sing prisoner in a work-furlough program.

• Recording date: December 6, 1974

Louise Jefferson (Isabel Sanford) has second thoughts about moving to the East Side of Manhattan. Pilot for The Jeffersons.

NOTE: Carroll O'Connor, Rob Reiner, and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

Archie is shocked when Edith defies his demands and orders him to show some respect.

A surprise visit from Edith's cousin Amelia and her husband reveals some things about their marriage.

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

The Stivics show Archie the error of his "borrowing" nails and an electric drill from work.

Edith reads a life-expectancy quiz and informs Archie he does not have much longer to live.

Edith reunites with her friend Roy when she goes to a family wedding by herself.

The cigar-smoking Archie and food-loving Mike make a bet over which of them can go two days without their preferred vice.

• Recording date: February 14, 1975

George Jefferson offers to rent the Stivics his house.

Gloria announces her pregnancy on the very day she and Mike are moving into the Jeffersons' house next door.

The Stivics are about to move next door, but Mike forgot to have the utilities turned on.

Archie signs up for an organ-donor program to increase his chances at getting a dispatcher's job, only to get upset when he learns that other people may have "his" organs when he dies.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode, due to a contract dispute.

While moonlighting as a cabbie for his friend Burt Munson (Billy Halop), Archie performs mouth-to-mouth on an unconscious passenger named Beverly LaSalle (Lori Shannon)—only to discover that Beverly is really a transvestite.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode, due to a contract dispute.

Mike has second thoughts about being in the delivery room with Gloria.

• Recording date: September 21, 1975

Archie throws out a chain letter thinking it's baloney, but bad luck soon befalls him.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode, due to a contract dispute.

Gloria loses her job at Kressler's Department Store due to her pregnancy, so she and Mike decide to protest.

Edith gets a volunteer job despite Archie's objections.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode, due to a contract dispute.

Archie has to lower his blood pressure for a physical and it does not help that he is arguing with Mike over the name of the baby.

Gloria suspects Mike of fooling around with a pupil (Bernadette Peters) he is tutoring for extra money.

• Recording date: October 19, 1975

At Thanksgiving, Archie and Mike argue over the upbringing of the Stivics' baby.

While moonlighting as a cabbie one night for his friend Burt Munson, Archie uses a tear-gas device against a mugger in self-defense, then gets cited for possessing an illegal weapon.

• Recording date: October 24, 1975

NOTE: Rob Reiner does not appear in this episode.

Gloria is antsy since her baby's nine days overdue, and Mike gets nervous at the baby shower.

• Recording date: November 14, 1975

NOTE: Final appearance of Betty Garrett as Irene Lorenzo. Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode.

As Archie participates in his lodge's annual minstrel show under duress, Gloria goes into labor while at an Italian restaurant with Mike.

The Bunkers and the Stivics each race to the hospital for the birth of Gloria's baby. Mike panics in the delivery room while Edith and Archie eagerly await news in the waiting room.

• Recording date: December 12, 1975

Mike and Gloria get into an argument just as they're about to participate in their friends' New Year's wedding.

• Recording date: November 21, 1975

NOTE: Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton do not appear in this episode.

Archie fires his grandson's babysitter and babysits him himself—even though he is hosting a poker game.

• Recording date: October 31, 1975

NOTE: Jean Stapleton does not appear in this episode.

Edith is surprised that Archie's made friends with a Jewish watchmaker, then gets upset when he asks her to invest $1,000 in the watchmaker's new invention.

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

Mike's liberal thinking is put to the test when he learns he may lose a teaching job to an African-American colleague.

• Recording date: January 9, 1976

Archie's doctor instructs him to lose weight, but he is not impressed by Edith's attempts to cook healthier meals. He sneaks out to Kelcy's Bar for junk food, prompting arguments.

• Recording date: January 23, 1976

Now that Gloria's a mother, she is unable to make time for Mike.

• Recording date: January 30, 1976

Archie decides to baptize Joey himself after arguing with Mike about it.

• Recording date: February 6, 1976

The Bunkers' furnace breaks down, forcing them to spend a few days with the Stivics.

• Recording date: February 13, 1976

After getting a new red pantsuit, Edith wants Archie to take her out, but he refuses, so she goes out by herself. When Archie sees her as the life of the party at Kelcy's, he realizes he should appreciate her more.

• Recording date: February 20, 1976

Archie has a brief encounter with an attractive waitress.

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in part 1.

Mike and Gloria try to get Archie and Edith back together after the business with the waitress.

Archie loses the job he has had for 30 years just as the family is planning to celebrate Mike's career. First part of a four-part story arc.

Archie gets a new job, then has to talk the man who lost it to him off the ledge. Second part to a four-part story arc.

NOTE: Rob Reiner does not appear in this episode.

Archie is about to undergo a cholecystectomy (gallbladder surgery), and the hospital staff does not make him feel any better about it. Third part of a four-part story arc.

• Recording date: September 10, 1976

Just as Archie is complaining about receiving what he considers poor medical care, he gets some good news about his job. Concluding part of a four-part story arc.

• Recording date: September 17, 1976

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

Archie sets his friend Pinky Peterson (Eugene Roche) up with Beverly LaSalle (Lori Shannon) to get even with his practical jokes.

• Recording date: October 15, 1976

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

Teresa Betancourt (Liz Torres), a smart aleck Puerto Rican nurse from the hospital where Archie had his gallbladder surgery, moves into the Bunker household as a boarder to help pay Archie's medical bills.

NOTE: Rob Reiner does not appear in this episode.

After Mike is almost hit by a subway train, he and Gloria decide to make out a will, but they do not name Archie and Edith as Joey's guardians.

When Edith saves a young man's life while volunteering at the Sunshine Home, she is named a hero and gets a television interview, making Archie jealous.

• Recording date: October 22, 1976

NOTE: Rob Reiner does not appear in this episode.

Archie is worried when a couple of old friends visit, because he once had an affair with the woman.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

Archie enters Joey's picture in a beautiful baby contest, and tries cheating to ensure that his grandson wins.

A visit to the doctor reveals that Gloria may be pregnant again, leading to an argument with Mike about responsibility.

NOTE: Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode.

• Recording date: November 5, 1976^[6]

The Bunkers have Christmas dinner with Archie's friend Pinky Peterson (Eugene Roche), whose son Steven died fighting in the Vietnam War, and an old high school friend of Mike's who is a draft dodger.

Teresa (Liz Torres) invites her boyfriend Brian (Patrick Cronin) to stay overnight while Archie and Edith travel out of town to visit Edith's aunt Iola. Things get sticky when Archie and Edith return home sooner than expected due to a missed bus and Teresa must find a way to sneak Brian out of the house without being noticed.

Mike accidentally breaks Archie's easy chair, which is then lost by a repair shop, making Archie very angry.

Mike fakes being tired in order to avoid going to a party with Gloria so he can go skiing with his office friends.

Archie is asked to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of his coworker and friend Stretch Cunningham, only to discover that Stretch was Jewish.

• Recording date: January 7, 1977

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

Gloria finds Edith reading a sex manual, so Mike has a talk with Archie on the subject.

Mike feels guilty for hitting a subway passenger who was abusing his wife.

NOTE: Jean Stapleton does not appear in this episode.

Archie vandalizes his own house to increase his insurance claim for a small fire.

NOTE: Liz Torres' final appearance as Teresa Betancourt.

Mike is forced to share a bed with Archie after arguing with Gloria over a word game.

Archie's lodge makes a token effort to recruit a new member when the press and civil-rights groups criticizes their discrimination.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

Archie accidentally backs his car over Barney's dog.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

Archie wants to mortgage the house to buy Kelcy's Bar, but Edith is against it.

NOTE: The show begins its transformation from the setting of the Bunker home to Archie's bar which will continue into Archie Bunker's Place.

Edith's cousin Liz, a schoolteacher, passes away, and Edith and Archie travel out of town to attend her funeral, where Edith learns a shocking secret about her late cousin.

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

A rapist posing as a police detective (David Dukes), attacks Edith on her 50th birthday. Edith is so traumatized by the attack she refuses to leave the house, or identify the man to bring him to justice.

• Recording date: August 26, 1977

Archie tries to rush the wedding ceremony of two rest-home residents so he can go on a fishing trip.

NOTE: Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

At the opening of Archie's Place, Mike must replace the bartender at the last minute.

Archie takes unprescribed pills to deal with the stress of his waning business.

Archie goes into depression after he stops taking pills.

Archie unknowingly joins a KKK-style group (the Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders) that plans to target Mike via cross burning.

Archie tries to dissuade the Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders from carrying out their plans.

Flashbacks show Mike and Gloria's first date, arranged by Gloria's friend Debbie Ballantine (Priscilla Lopez).

Beverly LaSalle (Lori Shannon) is murdered at Christmastime in a brutal hate crime, causing Edith to lose her faith in God.

• Recording date: November 18, 1977

The rest of the family try to help Edith regain her faith on Christmas following Beverly LaSalle's murder.

• Recording date: December 2, 1977

Edith is chosen to star in a laundry detergent commercial for a detergent, but cannot bring herself to praise the product.

NOTE: Sally Struthers does not appear in this episode.

A pair of robbers target Archie's bar on Super Bowl Sunday.

NOTE: The episode aired right after Super Bowl XII.

Edith's aunt Iola (Nedra Volz) comes to visit for two weeks and Archie fears she may never leave.

The neighborhood butcher falls for Edith due to her words of kindness.

• Recording date: January 13, 1978^[7]

Archie and Mike get themselves locked in the storeroom of Archie's Place, where a surprise revelation gives Mike a sad new insight of his father-in-law.

NOTE: Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.

Mike and Gloria go on a second honeymoon to the Poconos to revive their marriage.

Archie and his younger brother Fred (Richard McKenzie) reunite after being estranged for 29 years.

Mike and Gloria prepare to move to California, but circumstances force them to temporarily move back in with the Bunkers.

Mike has to choose between Edith's farewell dinner and his new boss' social meeting. Part one of a two-part story arc.

The Stivics move west, leaving the Bunkers to try and adjust without them. Conclusion of a two-part story arc.

• Recording date: March 3, 1978

Archie and Edith are joined by their young niece Stephanie Mills (Danielle Brisebois), the daughter of Edith's ne'er-do-well cousin Floyd.

• Recording date: August 24 & 25, 1978^[8]

Archie thinks he is dying due to a spot on his liver, so he starts being nice.

Barney is miserable since his wife Blanche left him again and it's ruining Archie's business.

Archie and Edith have a disagreement over what to do with Stephanie.

• Recording date: September 14 & 15, 1978

Edith is the only one to attend the funeral of her Aunt Rose, who never approved of Edith and Archie's marriage.

• Recording date: August 31 & September 1, 1978

The Bunkers spend a weekend in the country with Barney Hefner (Allan Melvin) and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons).

• Recording date: August 17 & 18, 1978

As another one of his practical jokes, Archie's friend Pinky Peterson (Eugene Roche) gets Archie drunk and arranges for him to wake up in his motel bed with a beautiful black stewardess (Jonelle Allen).

• Recording date: October 5 & 6, 1978

Edith tries to buy a television set for Archie, but the bank refuses to give her credit, leading her to try taking out a loan, which falls through.

• Recording date: October 19 & 20, 1978

The waitress Harry hires at Archie's Place is the same one with whom Archie nearly had an affair.

• Recording date: October 26 & 27, 1978

As soon as Archie finds counterfeit $10 bills in the bar's cash register, Edith calls to tell him she has been arrested for using said counterfeit money.

The Bunkers prepare for a visit from the Stivics at Christmastime—until Gloria says they cannot come due to Mike hurting his back.

The Bunkers arrive in California to learn that Mike and Gloria are separated and contemplating divorce.

• Recording date: December 7 & 8, 1978

Edith is excited to perform the song "Sister Kate" with Stephanie in her school's talent show, until she contracts laryngitis from over-practicing.

Klemmer the butcher stops by to show off his fiancée, Judith Klemmerstadt (Jean Stapleton in a dual role), who thinks he still has feelings for Edith.

NOTE: Although Jean Stapleton played Klemmer's fiancée Judith in this episode, she is credited in the closing credits as "Giovanna Pucci", an Italian translation/play on words of Stapleton's first name, Jean, and her married name, Putch.

Stephanie develops appendicitis on her tenth birthday, but the Bunkers' doctor, Seymour Shapiro is unavailable to perform Stephanie's appendectomy. However, his son Sidney (George Wyner) is available, but Archie is reluctant to let him operate on his niece, putting Stephanie's life in danger.

Stephanie is accused of stealing at school as several items go missing from the Bunker household.

When Barney Hefner's wife Blanche leaves him again, the Bunkers fix him up with a wealthy widow (Peggy Rea).

• Recording date: January 11 & 12, 1979

Archie's newly repaired relationship with his younger brother Fred (Richard McKenzie) is in danger of crumbling again when Fred drops by with his new 18-year-old wife, causing Archie to hit the roof.

When the Bunkers learn that Stephanie was born Jewish, Archie raises her in that faith (albeit under duress).

Edith is fired from the Sunshine Home for not getting help for a terminally ill patient (Angela Clarke) who wanted to die in peace.

Norman Lear hosts a 90-minute retrospective looking back at the best moments of All in the Family.

• Recording date: February 19, 1979

Archie wants Edith to preserve the dignity of the neighborhood in picking new tenants for the Jeffersons' old house. Guest starring: Isabel Sanford.

Stephanie's deadbeat father Floyd wants $1,000 from the Bunkers if they want her to keep living with them.

Edith tries to prepare a St. Patrick's Day dinner in spite of her phlebitis. This is the final AITF episode leading up to the series' spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place.