Fifty-five years ago this month, January 12, 1971, a disclaimer appeared on television screens tuned to CBS across the nation: “The program you are about to see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices, and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show – in a mature fashion – just how absurd they are.” It was a watershed moment, even if it went by without much notice at the time.
The show featured heated arguments about everything from the women’s movement, residential segregation, and the war in Vietnam to the right order to put on your socks and shoes (“the whole world puts on a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe,” Archie insisted while Mike explained that he “likes to take care of one foot at a time”).
It became the most successful television show of the 1970s and is considered one of the most influential shows of all time. It topped the ratings for a record-breaking five consecutive seasons with as many as 60 percent of all television sets in the US tuned to the show.
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Dear God, man.... I remember that episode! It still pops into my head every now & then when I'm putting my socks on. (I'm both socks first then shoes.)
ReplyDeleteIt has been a long time since entertainment was entertaining.
ReplyDeleteLeftist propaganda promoted by William Lear and "People for the American Way". Carroll O'Connor was another Hollywood liberal useful idiot for the small doses of wokeness Lear perpetrated on clueless American sheeple.
ReplyDeleteAnd somehow I fortuitously managed to never watch that show and I still haven't missed it.
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