I've been watching them all and I have to say my favorite is The Draft Dodger.
shareI think mine to.
When Archie's friend accepts Mike's friend.
Only other one I can think of at the moment is when Archie didn't get his Christmess bonus because he sent something to the wrong place.
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Strange that they didn't have one each season.
My favorite is when the Bunkers and Stephanie go to California.
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They're all great. No one mentioned Beverly LaSalle's murder yet. Classic.
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That pretty much just showed everyone bumming out. Not very enlightening to watch. And the one with Edith thinking she had breast cancer wasn't too fun to watch either, although that one had more humor.
shareOh, Gloria making Archie put on Santa's beard and hat was pretty funny. Their interactions were great.
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I'll be starting on my AITF rewatch soon. It's been about three years, other than the ones I caught on MeTV fairly recently. And of course they weren't uncut.
shareMy would be from season 3 The Locket with the Neighborhood Mugger...
Fa la la la la la la...
...get outa my chair, Meathead!
I can hardly remember it. There's Christmas episodes far more memorable.
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There weren't that many, actually.
The season one episode.
Edith thinks she has breast cancer.
The Draft Dodger.
Season nine had a bunch:
The counterfeit bills, and the three-part "California" episodes (part one had Edith buying the plane tickets, and two and three - that were actually one hour-long episode originally - at the Stivics').
The first Christmas episode was from season 2...
You're right, my error.
I've always associated that one with season one, which actually makes no sense, since the show debuted in January.
I think I have mentioned this before but I always thought that it was strange that there weren't any Christmas decorations during the birth of Joey of 1975 season. Whether it was at the Bunker home, restaurant, or lodge. Christmas wasn't mentioned period by anyone...
Yah, that was odd...
shareIn the fifth season, instead of doing a Christmas episode, they reserved that for the Henry Fonda hosted Best Of All In The Family 100th episode...
That was pretty cool at the time. Two hours would've been even better, though. I think that was right before the Jeffersons "moved on up".
As for there being no sign of Christmas when the kid was born, possibly that episode (or episodes) were supposed to happen sooner, so no Christmas decorations were indicated in the script.
At the start of the season, Struthers went on strike for the first four episodes, so they had to shoot scripts out of order to accommodate that (possibly the Beverly LaSalle one and the Bunkers' battle over Edith's Sunshine Home job were supposed to be taped after the birth. Also, Reiner took a week off to guest star on a "Rockford Files" episode, moving Archie's appearance in court ahead of schedule).
Before I found out about her strike, I use to think Sally Struthers really was pregnant and that was why she missed out on a lot of the episodes...
I didn't know about any of that behind-the-scenes stuff until decades after the episodes were shown.
Considering Gloria was flat-stomached on the episode where she announced her pregnancy, I figured it was just a story idea. Usually the gals are already ballooned-up when the audience is told.
Quite the miscalculation on Struthers' part, thinking she had the producers by the balls with the pregnancy arc.
Weren't that many what, Fletch? Season 9 had a bunch of what?
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The show didn't have many Christmas episodes, but season nine had several.
shareDidn't have that many? It had like 4 or 5 that I can think of. That's a lot. Any other show I can think of never had more than 2 of 3.
1. The one where Archie didn't get his Christmas bonus
2. Beverly LaSalle's murder
3. The Draft Dodger
4. When the go to California
That's just off the top of my head. There might be another one or two.
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Edith thinks he has breast cancer is another. But they only had four in the first eight seasons. Then season nine had a bunch.
shareThat's 5 out of a 9 year run. That's superb. How can you have more than one Christmas episode in Season 9? Did it take place over the course of like 4 years or something?
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Well, the one with the counterfeit bills wasn't technically a Christmas episode, but it took place around Christmas. Remember it was Santa Clause that was passing the phony bills. And the Bunkers going to California is a three-part episode (originally two parts - the Calfornia ones were originally a one-hour episode). Part one starts with Archie and Barney hauling the tree Archie just bought into the house, then Edith buys three plane tickets to Calfornia after they find out the Stivics can't make it there supposedly because Mike's having back problems.
This is why I said there are four Christmas episodes in season nine.
That's stretching it, Fletch. One's a three part episode. Same continuous story, and the other is the Christmas season, not Christmas you said.
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Yah, but there are only four previous episodes that deal directly with Christmas.
share5 you said. And that's more than enough. Cheers only had one actual Christmas, and another dealing with it in a round about way. And that was on for 11 years.
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They usually air holiday episodes around that particular holiday, so they usually skip it during the show's regular rotation. TVLand does that.
shareCheers has two Thanksgiving episodes. One is considered one of the funniest things ever put on a tv screen, "Thanksgiving Orphans".
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I'd give it a watch if someone else had it on.
shareIt's in the top 10 funniest episodes of all time of anything ever on a Tv Guide list.
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I'm not interested enough to look it up on Netflix or something.
shareYour loss, sucka! Lol.
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I'll be starting my AITF rewatch soon, followed by ABP season one. That's what I'll be concentrating on.
shareDid you get it get, the Archie Bunker's Place dvds? I knew you were expecting them.
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Only season one. Undoubtedly the better season.
shareSeason 2 would be great if only to see Archie's reaction to Edith's death.
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He had no reaction until the very end. It was originally an hour-long episode. I saw a few season one shows, but that was the only season two one I saw and possibly the last.
shareTime will tell if the others are ever released on DVD.
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I hope I'm not walking with a white stick, old and stricken with glaucoma by the time that happens
shareYou might be.
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Could be.
shareI'd say my favorite would be Edith's crisis of faith.
"This is how ya bust a rib! This is how ya bust a face, and that and that and that!"