Archie Bunker's Place
Actually his house not the bar. In the credits it is shown as a duplex so you would think he would have some interaction with whomever he shares the frontage of the abode.
shareNorman Lear explained that the Bunkers didn't live in a duplex and the house depicted in the credits was not meant to be their exact house - just a house representing the type of neighborhood they lived in. Notice that the credits house didn't have an open front porch, which the Bunker house did have.
shareLears explanation does not really hold water because the camera pans down the street of duplex houses while they are singing and the credits roll and then it stops at the one house and the camera pans in right to the door as if you are going into that house. I think he offered that version because of the discrepancy of the lack of open porch.
shareThe early episode where the Jeffersons move in was originally said to be "two doors down", but always said to be the house next door. Being the first season, they may have confirmed (at least in that episode) that they lived in a duplex.
shareThe Jefferson house isn't part of a duplex with the Bunkers. In the later years, when the Stivics live there, Archie describes it as being "across the alley" (when he's talking about how Mike and Gloria always show up for breakfast on Saturday morning).
shareThey always described the Jeffersons as living "across the alley". But on the episode where they move in, Archie also says that they're "two doors down", inferring that he himself lives on the right side of a duplex (looking at it from the street), as shown on the opening credits.
shareDoes it really matter, folks?
RIP Gene Wilder. RIP Barbara Hale. You were great in Perry Mason. RIP William Christopher.
Louise did tell Archie that she was picking up the keys for house number 708, which would've been "two doors down" as Archie put it. But that was the one and only episode that inferred that the Bunkers lived in a duplex.
shareWasnt lousise also able to get to her house from the bunkers kitchen.
shareNone of this matters...that what's fun about it.
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