In early 1976, All in the Family was the top-rated series on television. Created by Norman Lear, the CBS comedy starred ...

All in the Family is widely remembered for the sociocultural barriers it broke on TV, but its responsibility for another, less lofty first is less well known.

Reiner’s “All in the Family” role didn’t just capture the arguments of its time. It gave us a preview of our own. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief TV critic of The New York Times. In ...

Most people remember "All in the Family," the hit 1970s sitcom starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, the prejudiced but ultimately loving patriarch of the Bunker family. Fewer people, however, ...