All In The Family: Season 7
Columbia TriStar (1976)
Comedy
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10 hr 0 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Mike Evans
Vincent Gardenia
Betty Garrett
Sherman Hemsley
Carroll O'Connor Archie Bunker
Rob Reiner Michael Stivic
Isabel Sanford
Jean Stapleton Edith Bunker
Mel Stewart
Sally Struthers Gloria Bunker Stivic
Danielle Brisebois Stephanie Mills
Liz Torres Theresa Betencourt
Director
Paul Bogart

All in the Family was first seen in January of 1971 and immediately changed the face of television. Not only was this the number one television series from 1971 through 1976, but it also signified an avalanche of other situation comedies that dealt with controversial subjects in realistic ways, including Chico and the Man, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times and Sanford and Son. The series centered around the Bunker family who lived in a home located at 704 Houser Street in Queens, New York. Archie Bunker was the main character, and what a character he was. He was televisons most famous bigot, crass and down right rude. Yet he was loveable, with a soft side just beneath the surface. Edith Bunker was his somewhat dizzy wife whom he called "Dingbat". Edith put up with Archie and had qualities about her that made her one of television's most unforgetable characters. Also living in the Bunker household were Archie and Edith's daughter, Gloria, and her husband Mike, or "Meathead".
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    9/22/1976  1.  Archie's Brief Encounter (1)
Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtati ous waitreess while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Janis PaigeScott Brady, Teddy Wilson, André Pavon
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    9/22/1976  2.  Archie's Brief Encounter (2)
Edith forgives Archie's indiscreations after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Scott Brady, Maxine Elliot, Bella Chronis, Harry Davis
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    9/29/1976  3.  Archie's Brief Encounter (3)
Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Scott Brady, Maxine Elliot, Bella Chronis, Harry Davis
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    10/6/1976  4.  The Unemployment Story (1)
Archie's self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Ben Starr  / Chuck Stewart 
Guest starring:  Jinaki,  F. Murray Abraham
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    10/13/1976  5.  The Unemployment Story (2)
A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a jaintor's job to Archie.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Ben Starr  / Chuck Stewart 
Guest starring:  Gerald Hiken,  Neva Patterson, Eliza Garrett, Jeannie Linero, Ellen Travolta
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    10/27/1976  6.  Archie's Operation (1)
Archie's trip to the hospital is an ethnic nightmare. He's admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor.
Director:  Paul Bogart  / Calvin Kelly  Writer:  Mort Lachman  / Milt Josefsberg 
Guest starring:  Vinnette Carroll,  Milton Selzer
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    10/27/1976  7.  Archie's Operation (2)
Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work-with a raise and a promotion.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Vinnette Carroll, Frances Fong, Danny Dayton
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    11/6/1976  8.  Beverly Rides Again
As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Douglas Arango  / Phil Doran 
Guest starring:  Lori Shannon, Eugene Roche, Phoebe Dorin, André Pavon
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    11/13/1976  9.  Teresa Moves In
The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Michael Loman 
Guest starring:  Alex Colon
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    11/20/1976  10.  Mike and Gloria's Will
Mike and Gloria are having a discussion over who will take care of Joey, just in case there comes a time when both of them are unable to care for the little tyke before his 18th birthday. Mike has serious reservations over allowing in-laws Archie and Edith to get custody of Joey, particularly due to what he perceives as Archie's bad influences. Gloria is having a hard time convincing Mike otherwise and gives in to Mike's rhetoric. Mike's suspicions are confirmed when Archie and Edith return with Joey after a day of playing in the park. What's that Joey's got in his hands? Why, a toy machine gun that Grandpa had bought him. Of course, Mike (being dead set against gun violence) immediately is very angry and tells Archie that toy guns could influence children's behavior later on. Tempers really escalate when Mike grabs the plastic gun from Archie and breaks it over his knee. After the two continue to argue, Mike lets slip that he is considering including a clause in the Stivics' will that
Writer:  Bill Richmond  / Gene Perret 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    11/27/1976  11.  Mr. Edith Bunker
Edith saves a man's life and becomes the toast of the town,but Archie isn't happy standing in the shadow of her limelight.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Priscilla Morrill,  Phil Leeds, Florence Halop, James Greene, Maxine Elliot, Bella Chronis, Bob Duggan
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    12/4/1976  12.  Archie's Secret Passion
Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Michael Loman 
Guest starring:  Estelle ParsonsMike Kellin
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    12/11/1976  13.  The Baby Contest
Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.
Director:  Paul Bogart  / Ed Haas  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Allan Melvin, Danny Dayton,  Jason Wingreen
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    12/18/1976  14.  Gloria's False Alarm
Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.
Writer:  Douglas Arango  / Phil Doran 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    12/25/1976  15.  The Draft Dodger
The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Mike Milligan  / Jay Moriarty 
Guest starring:  Renny Temple, Eugene Roche
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    1/8/1977  16.  The Boarder Patrol
Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Guest starring:  Patrick Cronin,  William Lanteau, Juan DeCarlos
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    1/15/1977  17.  Archie's Chair
Mike accidently breaks Archie's Chair.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Douglas Arango  / Phil Doran 
Guest starring:  Michael PatakiAllan Rich, Doug Robinson, Colin Hamilton, Tyler McVey
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    1/22/1977  18.  Mike Goes Skiing
Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Ben Starr  / Chuck Stewart 
Guest starring:  John KarlenRod Loomis, Tom Fitzsimmons, Mark Lonow
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    1/29/1977  19.  Stretch Cunningham, Goodbye
Archie reluctantly agress to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unawware that his departed friend was Jewish.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Milt Josefsberg  / Douglas Arango 
Guest starring:  Charles Siebert, Jay Gerber
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    2/5/1977  20.  The Joys of Sex
Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husband's Mistress.
Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    2/12/1977  21.  Mike, the Pacifist
Stranded in a subway train with different personalities, Mike is shocked when he punches a man for the very first time in his life after the man had pushed Gloria aside.
Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    2/19/1977  22.  Fire
The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.
Writer:  Erik Tarloff 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    2/26/1977  23.  Mike and Gloria Split
Before bedtime, Mike and Gloria have a game of Scrabble in which Mike ends up winning. He uses this game as an opportunity to rub Gloria's nose in the fact that he has to be better at everything, leading to an argument between the two. Gloria asserts that this is because Mike has had the chance to go to college and use his skills, while she hasn't had the chance yet, bringing up the fact that Mike promised her three years ago that chance. Gloria accuses Mike of ruining her life, causing him to walk out and try to spend the night at Archie and Edith's house. Archie and Mike reluctantly become roommates, which ends up in disaster. Archie then scolds Mike for trying to correct everybody's way of doing and saying things. Realizing his mistake, Mike goes home and apologizes to Gloria for being pompous, and Gloria apologizes to Mike for saying he ruined her life.
Writer:  Douglas Arango  / Phil Doran 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    3/5/1977  24.  Archie, the Liberal
When Archie and the guys at the lodge are being called bigots in the papers because they are only white, Archie suggests to initiate a black jewish guy.
Director:  Paul Bogart  Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Michael Loman 
Guest starring:  Roger C. Carmel
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 30 mins    3/12/1977  25.  Archie's Dog Day Afternoon
Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when his accidently runs over Barney's annoying--but cute--dog with his cab.
Writer:  Larry Rhine  / Mel Tolkin 
Edition Details
Series All In The Family
Distributor Shout! Factory
Release Date 10/5/2010
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1