List of All in the Family episodes

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

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 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]

Archie is visited by an old Army buddy, Eddie Frazier (William Windom), who's now a wealthy car dealer. Mike, who openly resents Eddie's wealth, secretly learns that Eddie isn't 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

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

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

• Recording date: September 21, 1971

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.

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.

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

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.

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

• Recording date: January 23, 1973

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.

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

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

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

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

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

• Recording date: December 11, 1973

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 doesn't think she loves Mike anymore, so Edith tries to help her.

• Recording date: February 14, 1974

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

• Recording date: August 6, 1974

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

• Recording date: September 20, 1974

Guest Star: James Cromwell as Stretch Cunningham

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

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

Guest Star: James Cromwell as Stretch Cunningham

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Edith gets a volunteer job despite Archie's objections.

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

• Recording date: October 19, 1975

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.

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's 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.

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's 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.

Archie gets a new job, then has to talk the man who lost it to him off the ledge. Second part to a 4 part story arc.

Archie is about to undergo a cholecystectomy (gallbladder surgery), and the hospital staff doesn't make him feel any better about it. Third part of a 4- part story arc.

• Recording date: September 10, 1976

Just as Archie is complaining about receiving what he considers poor medical care, he gets some bad news about his job. Concluding part of a 4-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.

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.

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]

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.

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

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

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

Archie accidentally backs his car over Barney's dog.

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

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.

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.

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 can't bring herself to praise the product.

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

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.

The Stivics move west, leaving the Bunkers to try and adjust without them. Conclusion of a 2-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 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

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

• Recording date: December 7 & 8, 1978

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.

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

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

• Recording date: February 19, 1979