Caught a few episodes of this show on TV recently (one of those channels that plays nothing but old junk.) The existence of this show is always confusing to me as someone who isn't fully caught up on the All In The Family lore. This sequel/spinoff series isn't as good or hard hitting as All In The Family but it's serviceable and Carroll O Conner always gives a great performance.
"Although the Bunker home, long familiar to viewers, continues to be featured, the scenes are primarily set in the title's neighborhood tavern in Astoria, Queens, which Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) purchased in the eighth-season premiere of All in the Family. During the first season as Archie Bunker's Place, Bunker takes on a Jewish partner, Murray Klein (Martin Balsam), when co-owner Harry Snowden decides to sell his share of the business. Early in the first season, to increase business, Archie and Murray build a restaurant onto the bar: the additions include a separate seating area for the restaurant and a well-equipped kitchen with a service window. Regular patrons include Barney Hefner, Hank Pivnik, and Edgar Van Ranseleer.[1]
Archie Bunker's Place is the sounding board for Archie's views, support from his friends, and Murray's counterpoints. Later in the series, after Murray remarries and leaves for San Francisco, Archie has one of his attorneys, Gary Rabinowitz (Barry Gordon), take on the role of business manager. Gary's views are liberal, in contrast to Archie's conservatism."
https://archive.org/details/archie-bunkers-place-complete-series
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Towards the end of All in the Family Archie forged Edith's signature to put the house up as collateral so he could buy a bar. Edith is dead in the series.
The entire premise of the show is "Less Kino All In The Family" so great title work.
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Ah, thank you for the context. I knew Edith died but I didn't understand the bar stuff.
The show is definitely more of a average sitcom tone than the usual Archie stuff in the original show. Luckily it doesn't go fully into that which is why it's still pretty kino but it feels a lot more restrained. I wonder if that was more a side effect of "Archie's gone through 9 seasons of TV and has changed as a character in some ways" or if it was more "we've been writing this character for 9 seasons we're running out of steam"
one of the episodes I watched was Season 3 Episode 21 "Love Is Heck". From what I remember Stephanie has a crush on some boy in her class that all the girls like and Archie is mad cause he wants her to stay young forever ("Can't you go back to talking about Cartoons?"). The boy ends up having a date at her house despite Archie's protests and this young kid ends up hitting on and grabbing Archie's adult niece Billie to kiss her. She and Archie obviously tell him to GTFO but then Stephanie thinks they're trying to ruin her love life or some shit and she gets all moody. Then they debate over whether or not to tell her what happened, they eventually do, Stephanie is STILL mad at Billie cause she "stole him from her" and the arguing keeps going until they somehow resolve it in the end. I tend to end up just absorbing the show more than I do actively paying attention to it just because it doesn't have the same punch or draw you in energy as All In The Family does
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Hey, I saw that you just joined rdrama and a group of people who hate me are trying to smear my name by calling me a date male feminist. I just wanted to let you know that it's not true. If you want all the receipts proving it they're right here.
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Just out of curiosity, how did you find this place?
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