All in the Family

All in the Family is an American Sitcom that was originally broadcast on CBS television network for Nine Seasons. All in the Family was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin and starred Carroll O'Conner, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner

Plot
All in the Family is about a working-class white family living in Queens, New York. Its patriarch is Archie Bunker (O'Connor), an outspoken, narrow-minded man, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who is not like him or his idea of how people should be. Archie's wife Edith (Jean Stapleton) is sweet and understanding, though somewhat naïve and uneducated; her husband sometimes disparagingly calls her "dingbat". Their one child, Gloria (Sally Struthers), is generally kind and good-natured like her mother, but displays traces of her father's stubbornness and temper; unlike them, she's a feminist. Gloria is married to college student Michael Stivic (Reiner) – referred to as "Meathead" by Archie – whose values are likewise influenced and shaped by the counterculture of the 1960s.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.
 * 2) the series became arguably one of television's most influential comedic programs, as it injected the sitcom format with more dramatic moments and realistic, topical conflicts
 * 3) It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years

Reception
All in the Family is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series in history. It ranked number 1 for 5 consecutive years in Nielson Ratings. TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as number four. Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked All in the Family the fourth-best written TV series ever.

Trivia
The show was originally a pilot called Justice for All, but following the Turn-On controversy in 1969, ABC rejected it, claiming Archie Bunker was "foul-mouthed and bigoted".