Like the Good Book says, "Let him who is without sin... be the rollin' stone."
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Air date: 1972-09-16
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: After he rails against gun control in a TV editorial. Archie meets his two biggest supporters -a pair of stickup artist who rob him at gunpoint.
Air date: 1972-09-23
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie is audited by the IRS after he fails to report income he made driving Munson's taxicab.
Air date: 1972-09-30
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie can barely contain himself when the attractive young wife of an old army buddy spends an eventful night in the Bunker's household.
Air date: 1972-10-07
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Gloria tests Mike and Archie's male chauvinism with a riddle that stumps the men but is easily answer by Edith.
Air date: 1972-10-14
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie is aghast to find out that his visiting niece plans to go out dancing with Lionel Jefferson.
Air date: 1972-10-21
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store.
Air date: 1972-10-28
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals.
Air date: 1972-11-04
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.
Air date: 1972-11-11
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on their wedding day.
Air date: 1972-11-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: The Stivics' wedding is jeopardized when Michael's uncle insists, over Archie's virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.
Air date: 1972-12-02
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Mike's emergency appendectomy precipitates an argument between Archie and Gloria regarding the proficiency of women doctors.
Air date: 1972-12-09
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: When Edith finds some old lottery tickets that she has totally forgotten about, Archie hits the roof, claiming she was wasting money. However, Archie's attitude quickly changes when the family discovers one of the tickets is a winner; but there is a catch; Edith claims the tickets don't belong to her.
Air date: 1972-12-16
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie is ecstatic when, after waiting six years, there finally is an opening on the most prestigious bowling team, the Cannonballers, and he is asked to try out.
Air date: 1972-12-23
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Edith's antique locket is missing and Archie sees it as a way to collect from the insurance company to buy a new television set. Confident of getting the insurance money, Archie orders a new color set, only to have an insurance adjuster arrive at the house to question the claim.
Air date: 1973-01-06
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie befriends the other patient in his semiprivate room, unaware that he's black.
Air date: 1973-01-20
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Middle-aged Archie can only envy the eternally youthful outlook of his friend and contemporary Bill Mulholern. He is especially impressed that the toupeed, flashily garbed Bill has managed to attract a sexy young bedmate named Tina. But by episode's end, Archie is made to realize how lucky he is to be spending his declining years with a loving wife like Edith.
Air date: 1973-01-27
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Edith and Gloria end the latest family brawl when they storm out of the house to spend the night on their own.
Air date: 1973-02-10
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie refuses to tag along to Edith's thirtieth high school reunion-- until he finds out that one of her beaus will be attending.
Air date: 1973-02-17
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie buys an expensive watch of dubious pedigree and soon becomes paranoid that it's stolen. When it breaks, he has to find a jeweler who'll fix it with no questions asked.
Air date: 1973-02-24
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.
Air date: 1973-03-03
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: It's -Rashomon-Bunker-style when the family recounts vastly different versions of the same disastrous encounter with a pair of handyman in the Bunker kitchen.
Air date: 1973-03-10
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Archie attends night-school classes to qualify for a high school diploma
Air date: 1973-03-17
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: After an attempted sexual assault. Gloria turns to the family for guidance as she suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime.
Air date: 1973-03-24
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: In a foul mood, Gloria lambastes Edith for her constant acquiescence to Archie's whims.