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ENCYCLOPEDIA  AND BOOK REFERENCES
hotels in ViennaArticle Title: Encyclopedia of Television... Published Date: 1977
All in the Family--a landmark series that changed the nature of situation comedies, opening them to realistic characters, mature themes, and frank dialogue. Written by Norman Lear and produced by Yorkin-Lear Productions, the series was introduced on CBS in January 1971 as a second season entry and did poorly in the ratings at the outset. Rare among TV programs, it developed its great popularity during the summer reruns. Based on an immensely peculiar and controversial British series, Till Death Us Do Part, created by Johnny Speight for a limited run on BBC-TV, Family is built upon the clashes of a working-class bigot, Archie Bunker, with his neighbors and his liberal son-in-law. (His British counterpart was named Alf Garnett.)

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The Jefferson's was the second successful spin-off from All in the Family after Maude.

Article Title: The Television Annual... Published Date: 1979
Gloria and Mike left the series, but the ninth season bounced along without a hitch. In fact, Archie and Edith were never better in a group of well-defined episodes. Nine year old Stephanie, played by Danielle Breisbois, was added to the cast, but she didn't do anything for the show. The 200th episode prompted a special which offered excerpts of some of the best scenes from one of TV's all time great series!

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Comedy. The story of the Bunkers, a white middle class Anglo-Saxon American Family. Archie, a dock foreman, for the Prendergast Tool and Dye Company, a prejudiced, uncouth, loud-mouth, hardhat conservative who is unable to accept a changing America. Edith, his dimwitted wife is sensitive and a totally honest wife. Gloria, their daughter, beautifully independent, and Mike, Gloria's Husband, an unemployed college student. Through the events of the series, the Bunker and Stivic families, led out of infancy and into maturity. The series, which reveals the little traces of Archie Bunker within everyone, allows the viewer to laugh at his own flaws as it presents life as it is: rampant with bigotry and racism.

OTHER REFERENCES:
Variety-January 13, 1971,Daily Variety-January 13, 1971,New York Times-January 12, 1971, New York Times-January 21, 1971, New York Times-January 24, 1971, New York Daily News-January 13, 1971, San Diego Union-January 14, 1971, San Francisco Examiner-January 12, 1971, Christian Science Monitor-January 18, 1971, Los Angeles Sentinel-January 28, 1971, Los Angeles Sentinel-February 4, 1971, Chicago Daily News-February 23, 1971, TV Guide-February 27, 1971, Life-March 18, 1971, Saturday Review-March 27, 1971, New York Times-September 12, 1971, New York Times-October 10, 1971, Newsweek-November 29, 1971, Educational Broadcasting Review-April 1972, Journal of Communication-Winter 1974, Journal of Communication-Autumn 1976, Journal of Broadcasting-Winter 1976, The New Republic-December 22, 1973, Christian Century-March 27, 1974,The New Yorker-March 10, 1975,The New Republic-May 24, 1975, Commentary-October 1975

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