One of the classic episodes in the series, Sammy Davis Jr. plays himself, a passenger in Archie's taxi cab who has inadvertently left his briefcase behind. Arrangements are made to retrieve the briefcase at the Bunker house. As usual, Archie displays his ignorance and bigotry, but Sammy plays along. Before Sammy has to leave, Munson decides to have the two pose for a picture. HE KISSES ARCHIE!!! Archie is too astonished to say anything.

Edith is suddenly moody and irritable with the approach of menopause.

Archie is aghast to find out that his visiting niece plans to go out dancing with Lionel Jefferson.

When Edith tells the story to the family in tears, Gloria and Mike believe she should report to the police while Archie fears Edith will be the one going to jail. Two weeks later, Edith is still ironing sheets for no reason and keeps running upstairs when someone knocks on the door. Gloria tells her dad to give her some TLC (Tender Loving Care). But while he does so, Gloria gets a call from the policemen asking her to identify the rapist. Edith fears. But with convincing, Archie takes Edith to the police stations.

Stephanie's father, Floyd, finally arrives with a devastating proposition for the Bunkers: They can keep Stephanie if they agree to pay him $1000 cash!

The Bunkers are alone for eight days while Mike and Gloria are spending a week at a commune.

separation is Archie's reaction when he discovers that Gloria has been unfaithful to her husband: For the first time in nine years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael. The script, rife with disturbing details of the petty cruelties that have already poisoned the Stivics' marriage, avoids the easy out of a tidy resolution. Mike and Gloria do effect a spontaneous reconciliation under the tree, but the tentative exchange lacks the conviction of a permanent reunion. They've been through enough to know, as we do, that the optimism of Christmas morning doesn't always stand up to the cold light of the new year. years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael.

The Bunker house is the scene of many tearful good-byes when Mike and Gloria finally leave for California.

Archie refuses to get involed with the police, even though he's the only witness to a neighborhood mugging.

Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals.

Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.

When Cousin Liz dies, Edith and Archie learn more about her than they ever thought. When roomate of Liz, Veronica, comes out of the closet to Edith, she also admits that she was more than just roomates with Liz.

When Kelsey finally decides to sell his bar, nothing will stop Archie from getting it--even if it means forging Edith's signature against her will.

The Jeffersons arrive for dinner at the Bunkers'--minus husband George, who refuses to socialize with his white neighbors.

The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.

It looks like Archie has turned over a new leaf when he befriends a Jewish man.

The family attends Lionel's engagement party, where his parents discover that one of his fiancé's parents is white.

Archie's steals a box of nails from work and finds himself at the center of a household debate on morality.

Energetic Justin Quigley inspires Archie to stick with the strict diet his doctor has recommended.

Mike accidently breaks Archie's Chair.

After he rails against gun control in a TV editorial. Archie meets his two biggest supporters -a pair of stickup artist who rob him at gunpoint.

Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store.

Archie casts a pall on the family's Yuletide spirit when he complains that he was passed over for this year's Christmas bonus.

Thanksgiving dinner becomes a family battleground when Archie discovers that Mike and Gloria don't want to impose the family's religious beliefs on their baby.

Archie's estranged brother returns, after twenty-nine years, to smooth things over before he enters the hospital for a serious operation.

Before Edith arrives home, Gloria and Mike teaches Archie the plan for Edith 50th birthday surprise party which will be taken at 6 o'clock at the Stivics house. Edith comes back home while Archie and the Stivics leave to decorate the house for the party. A sudden knock at the door reveals a cop. Edith welcomes the policeman inside the house who claims that there's a rapper in town but he slips out that it's him. Edith is held at gunpoint and pushed on the couch. The rapist slowly strips Edith! Before it can go any longer, the phone rings. The rapist orders Edithto get rid of the caller as soon as possible. When she does, Archieknocks at the door, wondering why the hell is the door locked. Therapper hides himself in the closet and once again orders Edith to getrid of Archie. She does as quickly as possible. Still stranded in the house with the armed man, they suddenly smell something burning. It was the cake which Edith previously started to bake. They rush to the oven where the room

It's Edith and Archie Bunker's wedding anniversary. Edith manages to drag Archie to church. Daughter Gloria and her husband Mike try to whip up a party atmosphere for the parents.

Henry Fonda hosts an hour-long retrospective of high points from the show's first four years.

Everyone in the family is sick, so Edith calls Cousin Maude to help out.

As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.

Archie reluctantly agress to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unawware that his departed friend was Jewish.

Archie's refused to participate in a chain letter triggers a string of unlikely events.

Teary farewells turn into fireworks when Mike hits Archie with five years of repressed rage, only to discover that he and Gloria can't move out for another week after Mike reveals he forgot to turn on the gas and electricity of his new home.

The Bunker house is locked in a little of will after Mike vows he can go without food longer than Archie can abstain from smoking.

Archie Baptizes Baby Joey without Mike and Gloria's Permission.

Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat.

Archie gets a lesson in civil liberties when he's arrested using outlawed tear gas to protect himself against a mugger.

A plumber's assistant causes Archie agony when he finds out the worker is a convict on a work-release program from Sing Sing.

Edith finally confronts the waitress who tempted Archie's fidelity after Harry unwittingly hires her to work at Archie's Place.

Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husband's Mistress.

Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.

An old girlfriend of Mike's suddenly arrives at the Bunkers' with a four-year-old boy who she claims is his son.

Archie desives a plan to prevent the Klan from burning a cross on Mike and Glorial's lawn.

After a fruitless search for new lodgings, Mike and Gloria agree to rent George Jefferson's old house-even though it means living next door to Archie.

On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on their wedding day.

Archie can barely contain himself when the attractive young wife of an old army buddy spends an eventful night in the Bunker's household.

On the Stivic's first wedding anniversary, the family recalls the day Archie and Michael met.

Archie's paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship.

Stranded in a subway train with different personalities, Mike is shocked when he punches a man for the very first time in his life after the man had pushed Gloria aside.

Mike and Archie's have a long talk after they find themself locked in the storeroom of Archie's Place.

Edith is crushed when Mike and Gloria make their other plans after she's prepared a special farewell dinner in their honor.

Mike must decide if he wants to be in the delivery room during the birth of the baby.

A priest pays a call to reward Edith's honesty for leaving a note on his car after she accidentally dents it with a large can of clind peaches.

Edith's religious faith is shaken after her friend female impersonator Beverly LaSalle is brutally murdered by street thungs at Christmas.

Archie is audited by the IRS after he fails to report income he made driving Munson's taxicab.

Mike and Gloria are sure the romance has gone out of their marriage when even a weekend in the Poconous fails to reignite the spark.

Archie gets a rude shock when the tall,classy dame whose life he saved in a taxicab turns out to be a man.

Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work-with a raise and a promotion.

Irene challenges Archie to a pool match, but he begs off, complaining of a sore back.

The Stivics' wedding is jeopardized when Michael's uncle insists, over Archie's virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.

Mike becomes the sole support of a growing family when Gloria loses her job because of her pregnancy.

Mike and Gloria's sex life suffers after they have to begin planning their encounters around the baby's feeding schedule.

Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when his accidently runs over Barney's annoying--but cute--dog with his cab.

Archie and Edith are invited to spend a fishing weekend with Barney and Blanche at their cottage. But after a game of Monopoly, an argument between Barney and Blanche begins. That night, Archie is uncomfortable to sleep with a man (Barney) in bed, while Edith and Blanche rate their husbands as a lovers. By the end, Blanche and Barney makeup and Archie tries to forget everything.

Barney Hefner is suicidal when Blanche finally deserts him, until Archie fixes him up with an overweight but wealthy widow.

The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles

After Mike and Gloria cancel their trip home for Christmas, the Bunkers decide to travel west for the holidays.

With no word from Archie after twenty-four hours, the family faces the possibility that he might've run off with another woman.

When Archie's brother, Fred, visits Archie to open up a business, he also brings his 18 year old wife, Katherine. Both, Archie and Edith, and even Stephanie, are shocked as they find out. While the new bride and Edith cook supper, Archie and Fred argue about Katherine's age. Before dinner, Fred (and Katherine) leave the Bunker's home, canceling the business. In bed, Edith asks Archie if he were a single 55 year old man, would he go for a young girl. Archie answers no.

Edith holds her first Tupperware party under a cloud of worry when Archie disappears on his way to a union convention in Buffalo.

Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.

The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.

George Jefferson seeks Archie's help when he runs for local political office.

Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children.

Archie refuses to attend his own birthday party.

The Bunkers are in a panic after Archie eats a stew made from mushrooms that might have been contaminated.

Archie is depressed when his saloon has gone slow. That's when his friend offers him some pills that cheers up. Archie takes in two when Edith and the Stivics visit Archie at the bar. Archie, overly excited, discusses his dreams of his bar where it will be extended to other states and people will love it. When the pills slowly fade out of Archie's system, he realises that his dream may never come true, and falls in the arms of his wife in tears

Gloria is bewildered after she falls temporarily out of life with Michael, until she discovers her mother went through the same thing with Archie.

Archie's spirit soars on Mike's graduation day, until he discovers that his meat-head son-in-law has accepted a fellowship and won't be moving out for another year.

After Stephanie comes back from Sunday School, Rev. Chong visits Edith to tell her that even though she is welcome anytime at Sunday School, Stephanie is Jewish. Edith accepts it, unlike Archie. Selfishly, Archie decides to change Stephanie's religion but Edith interrupts that it's not his decision. So Edith brings Archie and herself to visit a Rabbi to get more information of the religion. Later that night, Stephanie awaits at the porch for the return of Edith and Archie. She and her uncle discuss and he approves that it's her decision and whatever religion she'll be, he'll love her the way he has.

Tempers flare in the Bunker household when Archie finds himself with nothing to do but sit around the house.

Archie refuses to let Edith's elderly aunt move into their spare bedroom, even after she's been turned away by every other relative.

Archie and Edith are shocked when they discover that Stephanie has been stealing some of her favorite teacher's belongings, and the Bunkers's also. But Stephanie admits that she stole these things so that when she returns to her dad's, she'll have something to remember them by.

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

An influential politician attempts to dissuade Archie from pressure charges against his son after the boy robs Archie in Munson's cab.

Louise Jefferson returns for a visit at the Bunker's place to ask Edith if she can sell her (Louise's) former house. Edith doubts but Archie makes her agree so that they (mostly he) can choose white people to move in. When Edith sells the house to a couple and she invites the lady to her house, Archie realises that the woman is black and so is her husband. But Archie isn't disturbed when he finds out that the man is a cop, which could be good for Archie's safety.

When Edith finds some old lottery tickets that she has totally forgotten about, Archie hits the roof, claiming she was wasting money. However, Archie's attitude quickly changes when the family discovers one of the tickets is a winner; but there is a catch; Edith claims the tickets don't belong to her.

Archie and Edith rekindle their romance during a second honeymoon in Atlantic City.

The stiyics' love life reaches another imprasses when Michael is put off by Gloria's romantic aggressiveness.

Archie sabotages an old friend's efforts to land a job at the loading dock because he's afraid the man might be in line for his position.

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

During the Christmas holidays, Edith tries to hide the fact that she may have breast cancer.

The family relive the Mike and Gloria's blind date by their friends, where they first insulted each other and ended up having sex in the kitchen.

Archie spends a night wallowing in self-pity when an insurance physical reveals an ominous spot on his liver.

A despondent Archie retreats to his bedroom, until Harry offers to bail him out with a partnership offer for the bar.

Gloria leaves the house in a rage after Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in their marriage.

Archie feels abandoned after Edith begins to volunteer part-time at the Sunshine Home for the Elderly.

The stivics prpare to move to California after Mike is offered a teaching position in Santa Barbara.

At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before.

Archie tries to impress his boss by making the maximum contribution to his favorite charity and unwittingly donates his body to medical science.

Archie is convinced he'll collect a large settlement from a petty traffic accident if a Jewish lawyer handles the case. The stylistic minimalism of the Bunkers' sparsely furnished set is on full display in this early episode. According to director John Rich, who grew up not far from Archie's neighbood, the Spartan look of the Bunkers' living room deco was achieved as a result of painstaking efforts. The director remembers personally supervising the cracking of windows and repainting of walls to give the place a run-down, lived-in look. "I told the set designers to take all the color out of it," remembers Rich. "Norman and I wanted to do the show in black and white, but CBS nearly went into a coma. So we decided to do the next best thing and shoot the entire show in muted sepia tones."

Archie is jealous when a lonely butcher lavishes attention on Edith.

The Bunkers decide to keep Stephanie after her father fails to reclaim her as promised.

The rising tide of feminism confronts Archie on all sides when Edith joins a women's group and Irene lands a job alongside him on the loading dock.

Edith's cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers' doorstep.

As the Lorenzos settle in, Archie grows jealous of Edith's friendship with Irene.

Archie must delay his weekend fishing trip with Barney when Edith announces that she has invited people from the SunShine Home to attend an elderly couple's wedding at 704 on the same day Archie planned to leave.

Edith is arrested for passing phony $10 bills she got from Archie's Place.

Archie's misconceptions run amok when Gloria befriends the retarded box boy from the local market.

Archie returns from his sorry adventure -he get the sidetracked to a podiatrists' convention in Rochester- to find his friends and family celebrating his return with kissing contests,Hula Hoops, and ballroom dancing.

It appears that Gloria may have her first baby in an Italian restaurant.

Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.

Archie reevaluates his definition of success after he meets an old army buddy who's become wealthy in the used-car trade.

Archie is invited to a meeting with some pals. THey discuss about Mike's article in the newspaper on how offending it is. The leader asks Archie if he wants to join them and give Mike and lesson he'll never forget. Archie agrees, little does he know he just initiated the KKK (Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders).

Gloria takes out her frustrations about being pregnant on Mike.

Gloria is made to feel like an intellectual outcast when she spends the evening with Mike and his graduate-school friends.

When Edith invites butcher Klemmer and his new sweetheart, a Russian who is the spitting image of Edith, she notices that Klemmer might have the hots for Edith and not for her.

Gloria is insulted when Michael's ardor is removed after she dons a cheap dime-store wig.

Archie is ecstatic when, after waiting six years, there finally is an opening on the most prestigious bowling team, the Cannonballers, and he is asked to try out.

Gloria is upset when Mike's nervousness over his grades causes him to become temporarily impotent.

Gloria gives Edith a lesson in marriage assertiveness.

Archie unwillingly passes George Jefferson a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill.

After an attempted sexual assault. Gloria turns to the family for guidance as she suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime.

Gloria brings home a Rodin replica for the living room, but the erotic sculpture makes Archie cringe.

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.

On the eve of his grand opening, Harry quits Archie's bar when the bigot bosses Harry around. Helpless, Edith and the Stivics come on time and gladly decide to help out. With a great crowd, Archie faces more problems; Mike can't get the right mixes, Edith sings, the guys are after Gloria and not only that, Archie's boss at the loading docks arrive where Archie quits, upseting Edith.