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| Original Air Date—12 January 1971 In the series' premiere, Mike and Gloria plan a surprise party to celebrate Archie and Edith's 22nd anniversary. But it quickly turns into a shouting match between conservative Archie and the liberal "Meathead" on virtually every topic. |
| Original Air Date—19 January 1971 Archie learns that Mike has written to President Nixon to criticize his policies. So Archie takes pen in hand and writes his own letter of praise. |
| Original Air Date—26 January 1971 Archie is involved in a minor, non-injury car accident, then finds out that Lionel Jefferson's family used an insurance settlement to open a dry-cleaning business. He gets an idea ... and a sudden aching back. |
| Original Air Date—2 February 1971 Archie won't donate blood over his concerns a non-Caucasian will be the recipient. |
| Original Air Date—9 February 1971 Archie is irritated at Mike's offbeat friend, who dresses and behaves in a way that leads him to mistakenly conclude he is a homosexual. But Archie soon learns that one of his best friends is gay. |
| Original Air Date—16 February 1971 Archie hits the roof when he learns Gloria is pregnant and unemployed college student Mike has no means to support his soon-to-be child. But just as he's changing his tune, Archie learns that Gloria became suddenly ill and suffered a miscarriage. |
| Original Air Date—23 February 1971 Mike invites his unmarried hippie friends to spend the night in the Bunker's living room, over Archie's strong objections. |
| Original Air Date—2 March 1971 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. |
| Original Air Date—9 March 1971 Edith is the lone holdout in a high-profile murder case, in which the prosecution's case seems clear-cut. Archie whines because Edith has been sequestered for the duration and refuses to help himself around the house. |
| Original Air Date—16 March 1971 Archie can't sleep because he's worried about possible layoffs at the loading dock where he works. |
| Original Air Date—23 March 1971 Gloria reads up on women's liberation and then tells Mike that she should be an equal partner in their marriage. Mike doesn't agree and Gloria storms out of the house. |
| Original Air Date—30 March 1971 Archie's old buddy, Eddie Frazier, has amassed a fortune in the used car trade. However, Eddie's quest for money comes at a huge price: his estranged family wants nothing to do with him. |
| Original Air Date—6 April 1971 Edith accepts a dinner invitation from the Jeffersons. After a series of objections and miscommunications, everyone settles on having dinner at the Bunkers. Louise Jefferson's brother-in-law, Henry, poses as George (since George refused to come) and gets into a huge argument with Archie. |
| Original Air Date—18 September 1971 Archie's freeloading cousin, Oscar, dies in the guest room. Archie and Mike host an impromptu wake in their home, as they ponder whether to hold a funeral service or simply dispose of Oscar's body. |
| Original Air Date—25 September 1971 An artist friend of the Stivics wants to paint a portrait of Gloria in her birthday suit, prompting a debate over the morality of nude art. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 1971 Archie tries to stop Mike and Lionel from attending an anti-war protest. While Mike and Lionel get away before the mob clashes with police, Archie is arrested and locked in a holding cell with his "favorite" people - the Pinkos, the commies and the hippies. |
| Original Air Date—9 October 1971 When the Bunkers and Stivics arrive home and interrupt a burglary in progress, they are held at gunpoint by the culprits. An argument ensues on whether to spend the family's cash reserves for a security system or to publish Edith's newly written song. |
| Original Air Date—16 October 1971 On their first anniversary, Mike and Gloria reminisce (in flashback) the first time Gloria brought the Meathead home to meet the man that would become his father-in-law. |
| Original Air Date—30 October 1971 The Bunkers recall (in flashback) the first time Gloria brought the Meathead home to meet the man that would one day become his father-in-law. |
| Original Air Date—6 November 1971 Edith's shopping cart gets away from her, resulting in a minor paint scratch. Out of the cart pops a can of "mmmm-mmmm" (cling peaches) in heavy syrup, causing a dent in the hood. Edith leaves a note on the car and the owner comes by to collect the damages. |
| Original Air Date—13 November 1971 A corrupt real estate agent encourages Archie to sell his home for more than it's market value. |
| Original Air Date—20 November 1971 Mike's anxiety over his upcoming college exams causes him to temporarily become sexually impotent. |
| Original Air Date—27 November 1971 At the same time Archie is told to lay off part of his crew at work, he gets a notice informing him that his homeowner's insurance has been canceled. |
| Original Air Date—4 December 1971 Archie is eager to watch his "man-on-the-street" interview on "The CBS Evening News" with Walter Cronkite, but can't find a working television set. |
| Original Air Date—11 December 1971 Edith's liberal cousin, Maude Findlay, arrives to help in caring for a flu-ridden Archie and Mike. |
| Original Air Date—18 December 1971 Archie is depressed at Christmas because his boss canceled his holiday bonus (purportedly for screwing up a work order) and he doesn't know how to break the news to his family. |
| Original Air Date—1 January 1972 Archie is a passenger in an elevator that stalls between floors, and reacts predictably to his fellow passengers: A black businessman, a scatterbrained secretary and a Puerto Rican man and his very pregnant wife, who goes into labor. |
| Original Air Date—8 January 1972 Edith's irritability as of late may be a sign of her going through menopause. Archie is frustrated when he finds out she can't possibly have her "change of life" in 30 seconds. |
| Original Air Date—15 January 1972 A visiting FBI agent's investigation puts Archie's longtime friendship with an old war buddy in jeopardy. |
| Original Air Date—22 January 1972 Mike's ex-girlfriend arrives, contending he fathered her 4-year-old son. Mike strongly denies he ever became serious with the woman, but a furious Gloria or an irate Archie isn't interested in his side of the story. |
| Original Air Date—29 January 1972 Archie doesn't want to appear in court as a witness when he sees a mugging. When finally approached by a detective, he claims gangsters were responsible. |
| Original Air Date—5 February 1972 When Mike and Gloria are gone, Archie and Edith get a chance to share quality time at home alone. |
| Original Air Date—12 February 1972 Edith's wealthy cousin gives her a mink as a present. |
| Original Air Date—19 February 1972 The classic tale about the time Sammy Davis Jr. stopped by to visit the Bunkers. It begins with a briefcase he left in Archie's cab ... and ends with the kiss of infamy. |
| Original Air Date—26 February 1972 Edith tries to mediate a grievance after Archie is accused of breaking a coin-operated washing machine at the Laundromat. Will her efforts succeed before the matter proceeds to small-claims court? |
| Original Air Date—4 March 1972 Archie frets over the man with whom Edith shared something special before they met. |
| Season 2, Episode 24: MaudeOriginal Air Date—11 March 1972 Archie and Edith travel to upstate New York to attend Carol Findlay's wedding. |
| Original Air Date—16 September 1972 Archie is invited to give a "man-on-the street" editorial on television, where he speaks against gun control. He then meets two people who saw the editorial ... who promptly rob him at gunpoint. |
| Original Air Date—23 September 1972 Archie fails to report the extra income he made by driving Munson's taxicab, and is audited by the IRS. |
| Season 3, Episode 3: The ThreatOriginal Air Date—30 September 1972 The Bunkers' house guest is the new, much younger wife of a war buddy. Archie, who can't take his eyes off of her, believes that she made a pass at him, and Edith overhears him telling Gloria and Mike so. |
| Original Air Date—7 October 1972 Gloria's riddle, where the punchline is about women doctors, exposes sexist attitudes held by Archie and Mike about professions once predominantly held by men. |
| Original Air Date—14 October 1972 Archie goes berserk when he discovers that his visiting niece has been seeing Lionel, whose own family is just as unhappy about it. |
| Original Air Date—21 October 1972 Edith worries she may be a kleptomaniac when she absent-mindedly shoplifts from a department store and is subsequently arrested. |
| Original Air Date—28 October 1972 Edith answers a magazine personal ad from a couple seeking new friends ... unaware that they engage in a swinging lifestyle. |
| Original Air Date—4 November 1972 Mike donates his $275 inheritance to donate to the George McGovern presidency campaign, against Archie's express wishes that the money be used for room and board. |
| Original Air Date—11 November 1972 On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family reminisces about how Archie and Mike's Uncle Cashmir conflicted while planning Mike and Gloria's wedding. |
| Original Air Date—18 November 1972 The family continue to reminisce about the Stivics' wedding, recalling how Archie and Uncle Cashmir resolved their differences, only for Mike and Gloria to debate whether to allow a minister or a judge to give the vows. |
| Season 3, Episode 11: The LocketOriginal Air Date—25 November 1972 When Edith can't find her heirloom necklace, Archie wants to report it missing so he can collect the insurance money. He then runs into problems when an agent comes over to verify the claim |
| Original Air Date—2 December 1972 Mike needs emergency surgery to remove his appendix, but is uncomfortable with the idea of a female surgeon doing the operation. |
| Original Air Date—9 December 1972 Archie inquires Edith about four lottery tickets, purchased several months prior, that she had forgotten about. Upon finding out one is a winner, Archie shows a sudden interest in keeping them, despite Edith insisting the tickets actually belong to Louise Jefferson. Archie, reminding Edith she paid for the tickets with her own money, says otherwise. |
| Original Air Date—16 December 1972 Archie and a black man vie for the last spot on a bowling team. |
| Original Air Date—6 January 1973 Hospital patient Archie strikes up a quick friendship with his roommate ... unaware that he is black. |
| Original Air Date—20 January 1973 "Live like you were young" - that's the advice from Archie's old friend. |
| Original Air Date—27 January 1973 Archie snoops through Mike and Gloria's room, sparking a debate over privacy and prompting everyone - Edith included - to storm out of the house. |
| Original Air Date—10 February 1973 Edith reunites with her high school boyfriend during her class reunion, prompting Archie to worry about whether his wife will rekindle the romance. |
| Original Air Date—17 February 1973 Mike worries that Archie may have unwittingly purchased a stolen watch. Matters become complicated when the watch is broken and Archie must find a repairman who will fix it and abstain from asking questions. |
| Original Air Date—24 February 1973 Archie thinks a swastika painted on his door may be juvenile pranksters, but Mike is concerned that the Bunkers' home may have been mistaken for the residence of a Jewish radical. |
| Original Air Date—3 March 1973 All about how the time a repairman and his black apprentice came over to fix the Bunkers' refrigerator. Mike and Archie exchange wildly inaccurate versions about what happened, but Edith knows the real story. |
| Original Air Date—10 March 1973 Archie sneaks out at night ... and it isn't to go bowling (as he claims). Rather, he's been working on the sly to get his GED. |
| Original Air Date—17 March 1973 A shaken Gloria tells the family she was nearly sexually assaulted while walking by a construction site. But what a police detective tells her - that the suspect's attorney will argue that the encounter was consensual - may shake her up even more. |
| Original Air Date—24 March 1973 Gloria finally loses patience with Archie's oft-demeaning treatment of Edith ... and Edith's willingness to take his verbal assaults with a grain of salt. |
| Original Air Date—15 September 1973 When a house in the neighborhood is put up for sale, Archie starts a petition to keep ethnic groups out. Henry Jefferson joins the effort when a Hispanic couple show interest. All this happens during a stifling heat wave in New York City. |
| Original Air Date—22 September 1973 Frank and Irene Lorenzo, an eccentric Italian couple, settle into the house next door, irritating Archie to no end. |
| Original Air Date—29 September 1973 Edith brings home an elderly man who ran away from the nursing home where he is a resident. Archie complains about the situation while Edith tries to contact the man's family. |
| Original Air Date—6 October 1973 Archie hits the roof when Gloria brings home a sculpture of Rodin's "The Kiss," insisting it is pornography. |
| Original Air Date—13 October 1973 Archie showers the family with expensive gifts, then is pressed to explain. Archie finally admits he's been betting on the horses, something he vowed he'd given up 20 years earlier. |
| Original Air Date—20 October 1973 The Bunkers hold a farewell party for Henry Jefferson, who is opening his own cleaning store in another city. When Archie tries to toast Henry, George Jefferson - Henry's outspoken and even more bigoted brother, whom heretofore had been an unseen character - shows up. |
| Original Air Date—27 October 1973 An early satire on computers: A mix up on a rebate results in Edith inheriting a fortune in quarters from a prune company; Archie is (mistakenly) declared dead. |
| Original Air Date—3 November 1973 Mike participates in a game of "Group Therapy," which asks participants tough questions and requires them to be honest with one another. Mike can't take the constructive criticism and quits, and later fumes to Edith about how Archie got everything in life despite his bigotry. Edith, however, refuses to give in to Mike. |
| Original Air Date—10 November 1973 When Irene Lorenzo invites Edith to attend Catholic Mass with her, Archie begins to get suspicious that Edith will soon be converting to Catholicism. |
| Original Air Date—17 November 1973 When the rest of the family is away for the weekend, Archie accidentally locks himself in the basement, and has only a tape recorder and a bottle of vodka to keep him entertained. |
| Original Air Date—24 November 1973 Gloria buys a black wig and when she models it for Mike, he gets really turned on. But what happens when she takes off the wig leads to a huge fight about their sex life. |
| Original Air Date—1 December 1973 Archie and Edith try to rekindle their romance by traveling to Atlantic City for their 25th anniversary. |
| Original Air Date—8 December 1973 Archie is robbed while driving Munson's cab, and finds himself at odds with a corrupt politician who doesn't want him to report the crime. |
| Original Air Date—15 December 1973 When Archie boasts that men are superior to women in every way in sports, Irene sets out to prove him wrong ... by challenging him to a game of pool at Kelsey's Bar. |
| Original Air Date—22 December 1973 On Christmas Day, Edith tells Gloria that she has found a lump in her breast and worries that she may have cancer. |
| Original Air Date—5 January 1974 The Stivics quarrel over sex roles in their marriage when Mike complains that Gloria has become the aggressor as of late. |
| Original Air Date—12 January 1974 Archie's family and friends throw a surprise party for his 50th birthday, but Archie insists that he's only 49, and is upset to find out he's older than he thinks. |
| Original Air Date—26 January 1974 Archie learns his old friend is unemployed and engaged in an all-out effort to find a job ... any job, even if it means a job at the loading dock. |
| Original Air Date—2 February 1974 Archie learns that the mentally disabled have some real abilities, not to mention savvy, when he causes Gloria's friend, a stock boy at Ferguson's Market, to lose his job. The young man then finds himself another job. |
| Original Air Date—9 February 1974 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. |
| Original Air Date—16 February 1974 Archie learns that the canned mushrooms he just ate may have been part of a product recall because of reports of food poisoning. Mike urges Archie to investigate, but Archie decides he's sick and needs hospital treatment. |
| Original Air Date—2 March 1974 Gloria's bout with depression takes its toll on the family. |
| Original Air Date—9 March 1974 George Jefferson storms into the house, demanding Archie to explain why he paid him using a counterfeit $20 bill. |
| Original Air Date—16 March 1974 Mike graduates from college, an occasion that to Archie means Mike will soon be moving out of the house. |
| Original Air Date—14 September 1974 Archie's union calls a strike, leaving the family to begin adjusting to not having a steady income. |
| Original Air Date—21 September 1974 The strike continues to drag and Archie is left to sit home and complain. The household budget, meanwhile, begins to take a beating with the high cost of meat and gasoline. Finally, Louise Jefferson offers the family some stew. Archie doesn't want to accept charity, but Edith persuades him to take the helping hand. |
| Original Air Date—28 September 1974 Three weeks into the strike, there seems to be no progress between Archie's union and company representatives; in fact, negotiations on both sides seem to be getting worse. With Mike's tutoring jobs only bringing in very little money, Edith decides the Bunkers need some real income, and does so by getting a cashier's job at Jefferson Cleaners. |
| Original Air Date—5 October 1974 Archie's union finally negotiates a contract with his company that the workers ratify. When Mike finds out the terms - a flat pay rate for the next three years - he tells Archie that his union should have turned down the offer and started to fight for a cost-of-living escalator, especially with the onset of sky-high inflation. Archie, however, is just glad the strike has ended. |
| Original Air Date—12 October 1974 Lionel and George get into a huge late-night fight over Jenny and her mixed-race parents, prompting Lionel to spend the night at the Bunkers. Louise pressures her stubborn husband to apologize, and finds an unexpected ally in Archie, but only because he wants Lionel out of his hair. |
| Original Air Date—19 October 1974 Archie persuades his boss to hire Irene as a bookkeeper. While she'd undoubtedly do a good job in that job, the boss thinks she'd do even better as a forklift operator. It isn't long before Archie finds himself working alongside Irene! |
| Original Air Date—26 October 1974 Four years into the Stivic marriage, Mike and Gloria still have no children. That's just fine by Mike, and his wishes cause yet another argument between him and Gloria. |
| Original Air Date—2 November 1974 Archie mysteriously disappears while traveling to a union convention in Buffalo, leaving Edith fraught with worry. |
| Original Air Date—9 November 1974 After fearing the worst when Archie fails to contact the family for 48 hours, Edith, Mike and Gloria begin speculating about his whereabouts. |
| Original Air Date—16 November 1974 The family is relieved to learn that Archie is safe and sound - he had been sidetracked at a podiatrist's convention. But Archie's reaction is priceless when he arrives home to find plenty of wackiness going on - hula hoops, ballroom dancing, and Mike trying to make good on Gloria's dare that they hold a kiss for hours and hours. |
| Original Air Date—23 November 1974 Archie narrowly escapes a potentially deadly accident at the dock, prompting him to see the light. But can he deal with the demands of Christianity, especially after he is asked to drive a church bus on the same day he was looking forward to going to a New York Jets game? |
| Original Air Date—30 November 1974 Archie becomes suspicious when political office-seeker George is suddenly very nice to him. |
| Original Air Date—7 December 1974 A corrupt door-to-door salesman takes advantage of Archie's reluctance and inability to study the finite details of a home improvement contract, and sells him $2,000 worth of aluminum siding, purportedly to prevent heat loss in the home. Irene and the Jeffersons are left to bail Archie out after the siding is found to be worthless. |
| Original Air Date—14 December 1974 Mike's college friend Stu comes to the house to play chess. However, Mike's intellectual conversation leaves Gloria feeling inferior. |
| Original Air Date—21 December 1974 A special one-hour retrospective, celebrating the 100th episode of the groundbreaking sitcom. Host Henry Fonda narrates and shares clips from the series' most memorable episodes up to this point in the series. |
| Original Air Date—4 January 1975 Archie can't help but feel uncomfortable - and uneasy - when a plumber's apprentice is a convict on a work furlough from prison. |
| Original Air Date—11 January 1975 The pilot episode for "The Jeffersons," where George and Louise move to "a deluxe apartment in the sky." |
| Season 5, Episode 18: All's FairOriginal Air Date—18 January 1975 Mike and Gloria are dumbfounded by Edith's continual submissiveness to Archie. Gloria finally decides it's time to give her mother a long-overdue lesson in how to become more assertive in her marriage. |
| Original Air Date—25 January 1975 The Bunkers are shocked when the seemingly happy marriage of Edith's favorite cousin is anything but. |
| Original Air Date—8 February 1975 Archie "borrows" some supplies (a hammer and nails) from the dock for a household project. Mike questions Archie's actions and calls it stealing. Archie snaps back, "Everybody does it," then gets on Mike's case when he overhears him using codewords to tell a friend placing a collect call to call back on Sunday (so he can take advantage of weekend rates). |
| Original Air Date—15 February 1975 Out of curiosity, Archie takes a magazine test about his health habits. When he scores the test, he learns he might die at age 57. Rather than take the test for what it is worth (or heed the advice of the accompanying article), Archie fumes about his apparent fate. |
| Original Air Date—22 February 1975 Edith attends a wedding in her hometown of Scranton and runs into her childhood sweetheart, who is interested in rekindling the old romance |
| Season 5, Episode 23: No SmokingOriginal Air Date—1 March 1975 A contest between Archie and Mike, to see who can abstain from his favorite indulgence (Archie's being smoking cigars, Mike's eating everything in sight) becomes a battle of wills. Who will win this 48-hour contest? |
| Original Air Date—8 March 1975 Mike finally gets a steady job as an associate professor, allowing him and Gloria something they have been looking forward to for a long, long time: The chance to get the heck out of Archie's house. Now, if only they can find suitable housing ... and accept some assistance from George Jefferson. |
| Original Air Date—8 September 1975 With the Jeffersons' old house now ready for the Stivics to move in, Mike and Gloria look forward to some peace and quiet. Then Gloria has some really wonderful news - she's pregnant. |
| Original Air Date—15 September 1975 Mike and Gloria begin moving into the Jeffersons' old house. But before they move in, Mike speaks his mind about what he thinks of Archie. Then, the furnace breaks down and - since it requires some repairs - will delay the move. Bad for Mike, but good for Archie, who is just champing at the bit to get back at his loud-mouthed son-in-law. |
| Original Air Date—22 September 1975 Archie will do anything to get a promotion at the loading dock. So, he agrees to help Mr. Sanders with his latest charity, unaware that it involves something that goes against his morals - organ donation. |
| Original Air Date—29 September 1975 While driving Munson's cab, Archie saves the life of a beautiful woman who becomes unconscious. Uh, was that a woman? Sorry, that was no woman, thanks to female impersonator Beverly LaSalle's convincing act. |
| Original Air Date—6 October 1975 Mike - along with everyone else - debate where he should be when Gloria is in the delivery room giving birth to their baby. |
| Original Air Date—20 October 1975 Archie rips up a chain letter, thinking it to be nothing more than baloney. Then a whole bunch of accidents happen. Coincidence or did Archie really set off the string of mishaps? |
| Original Air Date—27 October 1975 A pregnant Gloria is laid off from her saleslady's job at the department store, and both she and Mike suspect that the dismissal smacks of blatant discrimination. Mike wants justice for his wife and decides to confront her boss, Mr. Crenshaw ... but Mike soon finds himself in deep trouble. |
| Original Air Date—3 November 1975 Archie comes from an age when women stayed at home and did the housework. That's exactly what Archie wants back when he asks, then demands Edith to resign from the Sunshine Home. Only thing is, Edith likes working at the Sunshine Home and she isn't about to give it up. Archie complains as usual, but he's resigned to the fact the Bunker home is a two-income household ... and that Edith is an independent woman. |
| Original Air Date—10 November 1975 Archie's company physical is fast approaching, and he needs to remain calm for an entire weekend for the blood pressure test. Of course, a variety of situations arise that test Archie's ability to keep an even temper. |
| Original Air Date—17 November 1975 Mike begins tutoring a beautiful college co-ed named Linda Galloway. Gloria's already concerned that Mike is fooling around with the blonde bombshell - and that's just when he's going to see her once a week! Of course, Archie does little to reassure Gloria that nothing's going on. |
| Original Air Date—24 November 1975 If it's a major holiday and Archie and Mike are sitting at the table, it's sure to mean one thing: verbal fireworks. This time, the holiday is Thanksgiving and the topic is the religion of the Stivics' unborn baby. Archie wants to raise his grandchild as a Christian; Mike suggests that the child will make the decision when he or she is old enough to. |
| Original Air Date—1 December 1975 A mugger tries to attack Archie in his cab ... but this time, Archie strikes back with some pepper spray. So why is Archie the one facing criminal charges? |
| Original Air Date—8 December 1975 Worried when her baby is nine days overdue, Gloria snaps at Mike. Mike tries to be nice to his wife, but then he forgets that her baby shower is scheduled on a day when he has plans. |
| Original Air Date—15 December 1975 A number of situations arise on the day Gloria goes into labor: She's stuck in a phone booth at the Italian restaurant where she and Mike were dining; Mike can't track down a ride; and Archie learns that his "Little Goil" has gone into labor during his minstrel show act at the lodge. |
| Original Air Date—22 December 1975 Archie unwittingly creates havoc when he shows up at the hospital when he shows up in blackface - ahead of Mike and Gloria, who are stuck in traffic and the labor pains about five minutes apart. However, Gloria arrives in time and delivers a beautiful, bouncing little boy. Welcome to the world, Joseph Michael Stivic! |
| Original Air Date—5 January 1976 Their roles in the Stivic marriage continue to cause friction between Mike and Gloria. This time, it has to do with Mike's little habit of making plans without Gloria's knowledge - and this time, his decision to change some plans the two made jointly. Will their marriage end at 11:59 p.m. and 59.9 seconds on New Year's Eve 1975? |
| Original Air Date—12 January 1976 Mike and Gloria go out for the evening and hire a college co-ed named Sharyn to babysit their 3-week-old son, Joey. When Archie goes over to check up on how Sharyn is getting along, he sees her smooching her hippie boyfriend. Archie immediately fires Sharyn and brings Joey over to the house - just in time for his poker night with his buddies. It isn't easy, and it isn't long before Archie turns to his poker partners for some assistance. |
| Original Air Date—26 January 1976 Archie has ulterior motives when he befriends a Jewish watchmaker, who has a sure-fire invention that the world has been waiting for. |
| Original Air Date—2 February 1976 Mike's support of hiring quotas faces a stern test when he is passed over for a promotion to a less-qualified black man. Mike confronts the hiring manager, but his big mouth gets him in trouble again. |
| Original Air Date—9 February 1976 Archie is told by his doctor to go on a diet, or else he'll suffer serious health problems. He rejects the efforts of Edith, Mike and Gloria to stick with the diet, but Justin Quigley may provide the inspiration Archie needs. |
| Original Air Date—16 February 1976 With a lot of demands on Mike and Gloria's time - Joey needs a lot of care, and both of them working - the Stivics begin wondering when...or if they'll ever have time for each other. |
| Original Air Date—23 February 1976 Archie is determined to baptize Joey, especially over Mike's express wishes against it. When Edith begins refusing to allow Archie to be with Joey alone (knowing what will happen), Archie begins getting very sneaky. |
| Original Air Date—1 March 1976 Mike finds out that Archie baptized Joey without his consent, prompting another argument between the agnostic and so-called Christian. The argument begins to simmer ... until the Bunkers' furnace breaks down. |
| Original Air Date—8 March 1976 Edith takes matters into her own hands when Archie continually refuses to treat his wife to one night out on the town. An evening at Kelsey's Bar shows Archie that Edith is no social wallflower. |
| Original Air Date—22 September 1976 Archie finds himself in a compromising situation with an attractive waitress after Edith ignores his amorous advances and dashes off to the Sunshine Home. Janis Paige guest stars as Denise, the attractive waitress whose flirtations with Archie lead him to trouble on the home front. |
| Original Air Date—22 September 1976 Archie finds himself in a compromising situation with an attractive waitress after Edith ignores his amorous advances and dashes off to the Sunshine Home. Janis Paige guest stars as Denise, the attractive waitress whose flirtations with Archie lead him to trouble on the home front. |
| Original Air Date—29 September 1976 Episode #137 - And estranged Archie and Edith are determined to prove to each other that they are perfectly content going their separate ways, in the conclusion of a three-part presentation. The going gets tough for a while when the Bunkers continue to resist Mike and Gloria's efforts to reconcile them. |
| Original Air Date—6 October 1976 Episode #137 - And estranged Archie and Edith are determined to prove to each other that they are perfectly content going their separate ways, in the conclusion of a three-part presentation. The going gets tough for a while when the Bunkers continue to resist Mike and Gloria's efforts to reconcile them. |
| Original Air Date—13 October 1976 Episode #138 - While celebrating Mike's newfound success, the Stivics are shocked when they are told that Archie has joined the ranks of the nation's unemployed. After 30 years on the job, Archie now faces the frustration and humiliation of coping with the bureaucracy of the unemployment office. |
| Original Air Date—27 October 1976 Archie goes into the hospital and has a verbal run-in with a Puerto Rican nurse and gets a blood transfusion from a black doctor.
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| Original Air Date—27 October 1976 Archie goes into the hospital and has a verbal run-in with a Puerto Rican nurse and gets a blood transfusion from a black doctor.
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| Original Air Date—6 November 1976 Archie is tired of being the butt of Pinky Peterson's practical jokes and sets out to get revenge by fixing Pinky up on a date with Beverly Lasalle.
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| Original Air Date—13 November 1976 The outspoken Puerto Rican nurse that Archie met at the time of his operation moves into Mike and Gloria's old room.
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| Original Air Date—20 November 1976 When Mike and Gloria are preparing their will, they have problems with having Archie and Edith as guardians for little Joey.
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| Original Air Date—27 November 1976 Edith saves a man's life and becomes a local celebrity much to Archie's annoyance.
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| Original Air Date—4 December 1976 Episode #135 - Archie finds himself in a compromising situation with an attractive waitress after Edith ignores his amorous advances and dashes off to the Sunshine Home. Janis Paige guest stars as Denise, the attractive waitress whose flirtations with Archie lead him to trouble on the home front.
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| Original Air Date—11 December 1976 Despite the objections of Mike and Gloria, Archie enters his grandson in a beautiful baby contest.
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| Original Air Date—18 December 1976 Gloria wants Mike to have a vasectomy when she thinks she might be pregnant.
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| Original Air Date—25 December 1976 Episode #149 - Christmas dinner at the Bunkers finds Archie playing host to a draft dodger and a father whose son was killed in the war. Archie's convictions put a strain on the holiday spirit until an exchange between the Gold Star father and the draft dodger leaves him stunned and speechless. |
| Original Air Date—8 January 1977 Episode #150 - The Bunker's unexpected return from a weekend trip puts Edith in a precarious situation when she discovers that Teresa has her boyfriend in her bedroom. Edith and the embarrassed Teresa agree that the only course of action is to try to sneak out the visitor before Archie finds out. |
| Original Air Date—15 January 1977 After Mike accidentally breaks Archie's chair he has it repaired, however it mistakenly gets thrown out and ends up in an art exhibit. |
| Original Air Date—22 January 1977 Against his wife's wishes Mike goes skiing with his buddies. |
| Original Air Date—29 January 1977 Episode #153 - Archie is touched twice by tragedy - - the first is the news of Stretch Cunningham's death, and the second is that he has been chosen to deliver Stretch's eulogy. Archie's fear of speaking in front of a group turns to panic when he finds out just what sort of group it is. |
| Original Air Date—5 February 1977 Mike and Gloria help advise the Bunkers on their sex life after they find Edith reading a sex manual. |
| Original Air Date—12 February 1977 Mike gets very upset when he defends Gloria on the subway since he never once in his life advocated violence. |
| Season 7, Episode 22: FireOriginal Air Date—19 February 1977 A bathroom fire drives the Bunkers from the house in the middle of the night. Later Archie expects a handsome insurance check. |
| Original Air Date—26 February 1977 Mike and Gloria have an argument after a Scrabble game about Mike always being right and that she never did get to go to college as Mike had promised. Mike also ends up with Archie as a roommate for one night. |
| Original Air Date—5 March 1977 To change the public perception of their lodge Archie proposes that they let in a black Jewish fellow from his work. |
| Original Air Date—12 March 1977 Archie starts another battle when he goes one-on-one with a neighborhood dog. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 1977 Archie buys Kelsey's Bar, but has to forge Edith's signature to get the money. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 1977 Mike has to soothe Edith's feelings after she learns that Archie forged her signature to buy the bar. |
| Season 8, Episode 3: Cousin LizOriginal Air Date—9 October 1977 After Edith's cousin Liz dies her female roommate admits to Edith that they were lovers. |
| Original Air Date—16 October 1977 Archie, Mike and Gloria plan a surprise party for Edith to celebrate her 50th birthday. But an unwelcome visitor to the Bunker's home - while Edith is home alone - has a much different surprise in mind for the Bunker matriarch. |
| Original Air Date—16 October 1977 A badly shaken Edith tells Archie, Mike and Gloria about her encounter with the rapist and that she managed to fight him off. Two weeks after the attack, Edith is still shaken by what happened and refuses to come to the station to identify the suspect. Gloria finally manages to persuade her mother to snap out of her shaken self and help bring her attacker to justice. |
| Original Air Date—23 October 1977 Archie has to delay his fishing trip when Edith has an anniversary party for a couple from the Sunshine Home. |
| Original Air Date—30 October 1977 Harry the bartender quits after Archie keeps bossing him around. Edith and the Stivics end up helping out during the grand opening of Archie's Place. |
| Original Air Date—6 November 1977 Archie is depressed and someone gives him some pills that eventually wear off. |
| Original Air Date—13 November 1977 Archie's depression returns and remains until Harry the bartender offers to become his partner and invest in Archie's Place. |
| Original Air Date—27 November 1977 A power outage and reports of looting in the city prompt Mike to write a letter to the editor about how greedy governments do the same in the name of free enterprise. At the bar, Archie vents his frustrations about how Mike always argues his point and doesn't see things his way. Two men - who have been listening in - approach Archie and suggest that he come to a meeting of the Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders (a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan), where they will come up with a more severe way of "teaching" Mike a lesson. |
| Original Air Date—4 December 1977 Archie learns that Gordie and Mitch - the two men he met earlier at his bar - plan to burn a cross on the Stivic's lawn and must come up with a way to stop them. When Archie tries to persuade Mike to write a new letter to the editor (recanting his previous stance on free enterprise), he lets slip that he had spoken with known Klu Klux Klan members. Mike is outraged and tells Archie to go away, but Archie is still determined to stop the cross burning - even if it means he will be the KKK's next target. |
| Original Air Date—11 December 1977 The story of Mike and Gloria's first blind date, the first time Archie calls Mike a Meathead and the first time Mike and Gloria have sex. |
| Original Air Date—25 December 1977 Edith's faith is severely shaken when their friend Beverly, the female impersonator, is murdered at Christmastime. |
| Original Air Date—25 December 1977 Edith's faith is severely shaken when their friend Beverly, the female impersonator, is murdered at Christmastime. |
| Original Air Date—8 January 1978 Honest Edith just can't lie during a detergent commercial. |
| Original Air Date—15 January 1978 On Superbowl Sunday, Archie's Place is robbed. |
| Original Air Date—22 January 1978 Archie will not allow Edith's aunt to move in after she was rejected by the rest of her family. |
| Original Air Date—5 February 1978 The butcher falls in love with Edith. |
| Original Air Date—12 February 1978 Mike and Archie get locked together in the storage room at Archie's Place and have a long talk. |
| Season 8, Episode 20: StalematesOriginal Air Date—19 February 1978 Even a Pocono weekend doesn't seem to spark the romance in the Stivic's marriage. |
| Original Air Date—26 February 1978 Before an operation, Archie's brother tries to smooth over differences that occurred long ago. |
| Original Air Date—5 March 1978 Mike accepts a job on the west coast and the Stivics prepare to move. |
| Original Air Date—12 March 1978 Mike and Gloria can't make the special dinner that Edith prepared for the departing Stivics. |
| Original Air Date—19 March 1978 Episode #183 - Saying goodbye to Mike and Gloria proves traumatic for the Bunkers. Before they leave for their new life in California, Mike and Gloria share some long-hidden feelings, confused tears, and much, much more with Archie and Edith |
| Original Air Date—24 September 1978 Edith's cousin leaves his daughter nine year old daughter Stephanie with the Bunkers. |
| Original Air Date—1 October 1978 Episode #184 - Archie and Edith Bunker face an "empty nest," but if Edith's cousin has his way, it won't be for long. Edith's cousin Floyd drops in for dinner with hopes of leaving his daughter, putting a severe strain on the family ties and Archie's digestion. |
| Original Air Date—8 October 1978 Edith and Archie try and get their friends Barney and Blanche back together. |
| Original Air Date—15 October 1978 After her father fails to return for Stephanie, the Bunkers decide to raise her themselves. |
| Original Air Date—22 October 1978 Edith goes to the funeral of her Aunt Rose and is the only mourner. She has a long talk with her aunt. |
| Original Air Date—29 October 1978 During a weekend in a fishing cabin, a disagreement over a Monopoly game has the men and women sleeping in separate bedrooms. |
| Original Air Date—5 November 1978 At a convention Archie awakens next to a black woman who claims that they were married. |
| Original Air Date—19 November 1978 No one will loan Edith money to buy a new television because she has no job and is just a housewife. |
| Original Air Date—26 November 1978 Episode #192 - Archie is caught between sympathy and self-preservation when the "other woman" from his past really needs his help. Janis Paige guest stars as Denise, the attractive waitress who was the other half of an evening that Archie - and Edith - will always remember. |
| Original Air Date—3 December 1978 Edith is arrested for passing counterfeit money that she got from Archie at the bar. |
| Original Air Date—10 December 1978 The Bunkers plan to go to California to visit the Stivics after they cancel their Christmas trip to New York. |
| Original Air Date—17 December 1978 When the Bunkers visit the Stivics in California, Mike and Gloria are hiding the fact that they have separated. |
| Original Air Date—17 December 1978 When the Bunkers visit the Stivics in California, Mike and Gloria are hiding the fact that they have separated. |
| Original Air Date—7 January 1979 Edith can't sing at the PTA meeting because she has laryngitis. |
| Original Air Date—14 January 1979 The butcher returns with his fiancee who is the spitting image of Edith who he still seems to have feelings for. |
| Original Air Date—21 January 1979 On her tenth birthday Stephanie is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis. |
| Original Air Date—28 January 1979 Stephanie has been stealing from school and from the Bunkers. |
| Original Air Date—4 February 1979 Barney is distraught after Blanche finally leaves him so Archie tries a bit of matchmaking himself. |
| Original Air Date—11 February 1979 Archie's brother shows up with an eighteen year old wife. |
| Original Air Date—18 February 1979 The Reverand Chong visits Edith to tell her that Stephanie is Jewish. Archie wants her to convert, but Edith backs Stephanie's decision. |
| Original Air Date—25 February 1979 Edith is dismissed when she honors a patient's wishes and lets her die in peace. |
| Original Air Date—18 March 1979 The Jeffersons finally sell their house next door to a black family. |
| Original Air Date—25 March 1979 Episode #206 - Archie's fighting instincts are aroused when Stephanie's derelict father returns and uses blackmail to try an get his daughter back. Edith panics at the thought of losing Stephanie, and does her best to help Archie with a plan. |
| Original Air Date—8 April 1979 Episode #207 - Archie keeps a sick Edith so busy cooking for his big St. Patrick's Day party, that she doesn't get the chance to tell him that "hard work is hazardous to her health." When Archie finds out the truth about Edith's illness, he takes steps to make sure she will never "forget" to tell him again. |
| Original Air Date—1968 The original pilot. The family name was Justice. |
| Original Air Date—1969 Second unaired pilot about a family named Justice that used different actors for the children and their neighbor Lionel. |
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