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All in the Family
All in the Family, with fellow CBS series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and M*A*S*H, redefined the American situation comedy in the early 1970s. Based on the hit British show Till Death ...
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Critical Essay by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
I was … taken instantly with [the] clever show [All in the Family], and count myself today as one of its many yet unjaded enthusiasts. Part of my delig...
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Critical Essay by Fred Ferretti
Tonight the Columbia Broadcasting System Television Network will find out if Americans think bigotry and racism, as the prime elements of a situation comedy, are funny....
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Critical Essay by M. J. Sobran, Jr.
All in the Family we have always with us. It is now reduced to buttocks humor—at the expense, of course, of Archie's arse. The latest episode showed h...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Harrington
"All in the Family," is kind of like wishing for a little more frankness in political dialogue and getting your wish in the form of Spiro Agnew. A ...
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Critical Essay by Laura Z. Hobson
I have a most peculiar complaint about the bigotry in the hit TV comedy, "All in the Family." There's not enough of it.
Here, spade, spic, coon, ...
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Critical Essay by Norman Lear
I have a most peculiar complaint about Mrs. Hobson's complaint [see excerpt above]. Nigger, kike, and sheeny were the words she found missing from in "All i...
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Critical Essay by Charles L. Sanders
Suddenly we have a new American hero. He's not an Audie Murphy or a Charles Lindbergh or an Ike or a Huck Finn or anybody like that. He's a wholly ig...
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Critical Essay by Frank Levy
To assert, as the program's apologists do, that "All in the Family" is satire like "Till Death Do Us Part" is plainly to misunderstand w...
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All in the Family
Critical Essay by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
