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(More customer reviews)Archie Bunker's Place ran for 4 seasons from 1979-1983. The first season, though, still had Jean Stapleton playing Edith. It isn't until the second season when she leaves the show and is put into the script that she died in her sleep. (Not in real life, of course.) This first season will bring many people good memories, too. There is the Thanksgiving Reunion Two-part episode that features Gloria, Mike, and Joey coming back for a visit after moving to California. There is another good episode where Sammy Davis, Jr. makes a second appearance on a Archie Bunker show, first being the one second season episode of All In The Family. Relive all these memories by buying the first season of Archie Bunker's Place. Its only $29.99, and thats without the AMAZON DISCOUNT!
Here is an episode guide for the first season:
(1). "Archie's New Partner, pt. 1"
(Original Air Date 9/23/79)
Archie decides to expand the bar in to the defunked restaurant next-door which he already in the process of leasing. Not wanting anything to do with the ownership of a restaurant Harry decides to sell his half of the bar to Jewish liberal Murray Klein who likes Archie's idea to expand. Archie tries in vain to get a loan to buyout Harry .
(2). "Archie's New Partner, pt. 2"
(Original Air Date 9/23/79)
Harry finalizes the sale of his half of the Bar to Murray. Archie learns he has a new partner and must come to grips with that. Murray discovers there is more to Archie then you may see at first glance.
(3). "Edith Gets Hired"
(Original Air Date 9/30/79)
Edith gets a job as working as a recreation assistant at the Rego Park Center for the mentally ill but Archie has some reservations about her working.
(4). "Archie and the Oldest Profession"
(Original Air Date 10/7/79)
Murray makes Archie take notice Archie that a new regular customer named Dottie is a Prostitute and is brokering her Business at their bar. Murray convinces Archie this is bad for their bar's Image and that they must convince her to conduct her business elsewhere.
(5). "Edith Versus the Energy Crisis"
(Original Air Date 10/14/79)
Because of heat limit of 60 degrees imposed because of the energy crisis Archie finds himself in the cold at the Bar, but things are even worse at home where Edith is conserving Energy with a vigor. But soon Archie feels hot even without heat, when he comes down with a strep throat. Which it turns out he caught from Dr. Sydney Shapiro when he sneezed in Archie's face during Stephanie's visit the previous week.
(6). "Bosom Partners"
(Original Air Date 10/21/79)
The State of New York finds Fraud in Archie's lack of payment of sales tax questionable record keeping method. Murray Must romance the State Tax Agent to keep Archie out of Jail and the Bar open.
(7). "Building the Restaurant"
(Original Air Date 10/28/79)
Archie and Murray have problems with Swensen their unreliable contractor who is demanding even more money which Archie tries to get from Louie the Loan Shark not knowing that Back at that Murray, Harry, Barney and Mr VanRanseleer have chipped in to finish the work on the restaurant themselves.
(8). "The Cook"
(Original Air Date 11/4/79)
Murray and Archie hire cook named Veronica Rooney (Anne Meara) who insist that her Gay Nephew Fred be the Waiter. Naturally Archie is uncomfortable with this and soon tries to fire Fred, but if Fred is fired Veronica will quit too. Murray convinces Archie to keep Fred.
(9). "Murray and the Liquor Board"
(Original Air Date 11/11/79)
Murray's latter Pardoned Conviction for punching a cop in a Anti-Napalm Protest threatens the liquor license. When the man hearing the case is an overzealous conservative.
(10). "Thanksgiving Reunion, pt. 1"
(Original Air Date 11/18/79)
Edith arranges for Mike, Gloria and Joey come home to surprise Archie with a Thanksgiving Visit. But what Archie does not know was that Mike was fired from his teaching job after he was arrested for protesting nude agents a proposed Nuclear power plant after his picture at the protest was published in the paper. To make this worse Joey has hid the knobs from the TV.
(11). "Thanksgiving Reunion, pt. 2"
(Original Air Date 11/18/79)
Murray tries to convince Archie that he is being too hard on Mike. Murray asks Archie if he would protest nude if it would make the word a safer place. Archie comes home and starts eating the leftover turkey in the kitchen after he wakes up Mike. Mike Joins him at the table. Archie offer to loan Mike money to help him get back on his feet. They are then joined by Edith and latter Gloria around the kitchen table. Archie asks Gloria how she could let her husband march in a parade where everyone was naked ? Her answer? Because she didn't want to march alone.
(12). "Barney and the Hooker"
(Original Air Date 11/25/79)
Murray Bails Dottie out from Jail and convinces
Archie to hire her as a waitress to keep her from returning to her from returning to her old profession, but newly divorced Barney falls for her and is soon asking for her hand in marriage.
(13). "Man of the Year"
(Original Air Date 12/2/79)
Phil Weber A Con Man who claims to be an old Briant High Classmate of Archie's Tells Archie that he has been made an organization's man of the year. Archie and Murray decide to hold the ceremony at the bar which Archie's high school classmates are invited to and are asked for as an entrance fee which is supposed to pay for an organ in Archie name at Briant High. Archie and Murray realize Phil has run off with the money, but Archie insist Murray not tell his classmates feeling they will lose respect for him if they knew the truth.
(14). "The Shabbat Dinner"
(Original Air Date 12/9/79)
Edith and Stephanie prepare a Shabbat diner. Murray brings his non-Jewish Girlfriend not knowing that Edith has also invited his mother and his aunt who would prefer that Murray only dates Jewish Women. Edith convinces Murray's Mother to give his girlfriend a chance.
(15). "Barney's Lawsuit"
(Original Air Date 12/16/79)
Barney gets hurt after his lucky bar stool which he has been sitting on since Mets won the 1969 World Series collapses. Archie fears Barney will sue after her learns Barney has hired a shady lawyer and the Bar's liability insurance policy was voided when it was expanded into to restaurant extension.
(16) . "Blanche and Murray"
(Original Air Date 12/30/79)
Barney's Sex Crazy ex-Wife returns to town and starts putting the moves on Murray and Barney can't take it.
(17). "Murray's Daughter"
(Original Air Date 1/6/80)
Murray's estranged Daughter shows up at the bar looking for her dad only to sign off on a hose she inherited from her grandmother. She is married to Puerto Rican husband and they have two small children. Archie takes it upon himself to help reconcile the relationship between Murray and his daughter.
(18)."The Ambush"
(Original Air Date 1/27/80)
The partners fear a neighborhood burglar named the Saturday Night Bandit. Archie decides to stay at the bar overnight to try to catch "him" Murray comes back to because he thinks Archie might be putting himself in danger. The "burglars" turns out to be not quite what Murray and Archie expect when they take Archie and Murray by surprise and turn out to be women.
(19). "The Return of Sammy"
(Original Air Date 2/3/80)
After Archie calls Sammy Davis Jr on a local TV Talk Show on which Sammy is a guest, Archie convinces Sammy to visit the bar, but When Sammy chokes of some food Veronica has given him to try, Archie performs the Heimlich maneuver but in the process Archie hurt some of Sammy's ribs which Sammy thinks they may be broken, putting Sammy in the hospital. At the hospital It turns to Sammy's ribs are not broken after all. Sammy has seen some changes in Archie and when the freelance reporter who has been following Sammy for a story on race relations wants to write about Archie's bigotry Sammy stands up for Archie. Unfortunately Sammy is unable to convince her not to write it. In the end Archie who was kissed by Sammy in "Sammy's Visit" kisses Sammy this time.
(20). "Archie Fixes up Fred"
(Original Air Date 2/10/80)
After a customer named Tom who is Archie's lodge brother in the Kings of Queens complains about Fred the Gay waiter. Archie tries to fix Fred up with the Linda girl from the laundry hoping this will turn him around. In the end it turns out Tom's real reason for complaining about Fred is in that Tom is in closet and Fred turned him down. Fred decides to quit his job as waiter.
(21). "Father and Daughter Night"
(Original Air Date 2/17/80)
Stephanie needs a father for a talent show. When Archie is unwilling Murray steps in. Archie becomes jealous of Murray and Stephanie. Archie and Murray decide they will both perform with Stephanie. They louse the contest but the gang at the bar convinces the trio to give them a personal performance.
(22). "VanRanseleer's Operation"
(Original Air Date 3/2/80)
When Barney finds possible cure for Mr. VanRanseleer's blindness in the newspaper. Archie and the gang raise money thinking that lack of money is the reason Mr.VanRanseleer seems to be unwilling to have this operation, but It turns out the Dr. Larkin the doctor from the article has been both Mr. Van Ranseleer's doctor and friend for years and the story from the news paper was misleading. Infarct as Dr.Larkin already knows and the gang at the bar doesn't is that Mr. Van Ranseleer made a fortune on the stock...Read more›
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