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74-399: GLT's artistic directors have included Arthur Lithgow , Lawrence Carra , Vincent Dowling , and Gerald Freedman . A professional regional theater, The Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival (GLTF), was launched in 1962 with a $ 50,000 budget (equivalent to US$ 503,630 in 2023). Supported by community members and volunteers at its inception, the theater continues to operate as a non-profit with

148-586: A $ 3.6 million annual operations budget. Later to become the first GLTF director, Arthur Lithgow directed Shakespeare Under the Stars, a professional summer theater troupe at Antioch College where he was a faculty member. Between 1952 and 1957, the troupe performed all of Shakespeare ’s plays and began traveling across Northeastern Ohio to perform at Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, in a movie theater in Cuyahoga Falls , and at

222-717: A Dominican of American descent, who was a vice consul and vice commercial agent in the country. He first appeared onstage in December 1920 at age 5 as a cherub in a Christmas pageant at the Unitarian Church in Melrose, Massachusetts . He appeared in student productions at Antioch College , where he founded the Antioch Summer Theater in 1935 and where he received his BA in 1938. He made his New York City debut in November 1938, as

296-547: A Salesman (1994). Holbrook is best known for his award-winning one man show Mark Twain Tonight . Additionally, the theater lists among its alumni actors who went on to play famously known television and film characters, such as Major Frank Burns of MASH performed by alum Larry Linville and Freddy Krueger played by former GLTF actor Robert Englund . Several actors returned to GLTC for performances even after achieving fame. For example, paying tribute to his father, Arthur Lithgow

370-594: A contemporary production of Hamlet based on the shooting of Robert Kennedy . During Vincent Dowling 's tenure from 1976 to 1985, the company moved from its Lakewood Civic Auditorium home to the Ohio Theatre of the Playhouse Square Center in 1982. Dowling had been a veteran actor of the Dublin Abbey Theater prior to taking on this post and was quoted as saying that his primary goal was to provide

444-642: A cutest-baby contest sponsored by the Long Island Daily Press , a then-operating local newspaper in Queens and Long Island. The writers of All in the Family continued throughout the series to have the Bunkers and other characters use telephone exchange names when giving a telephone number. Most other series at the time, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show , were using the standard fictitious 555 telephone exchange at

518-516: A drama diet for the Ohio community. Gerald Freedman became the artistic director in 1985 and left in 1997 when the board required that the director be in residence year round. Increasing the theater's prestige, Freedman successfully attracted well-known actors and directors to the GLTF stage, including: George Abbott , Jean Stapleton , Hal Holbrook , and Ruby Dee . Under his direction, GLSF changed its name to

592-555: A fortune with his dry cleaning business. The Jeffersons then rented their home to Gloria and Mike. The show came about when Norman Lear read an article in Variety magazine on Till Death Us Do Part and its success in the United Kingdom. He immediately knew it portrayed a relationship just like the one between his father and himself. Lear bought the rights to the show and incorporated his own family experiences with his father into

666-444: A live studio audience. In the 1960s, most sitcoms had been filmed in the single-camera format without audiences, with a laugh track simulating an audience response, with videotape at that time mainly reserved for news programming and variety shows. Lear employed the multiple-camera format of shooting in front of an audience, but used tape, whereas previous multiple-camera shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show had used film. Due to

740-526: A neighborhood tavern that Archie spends a good deal of time in and eventually purchases, and the Stivics' home after Mike and Gloria move out. Supporting characters represent the changing demographics of the neighborhood, especially the Jeffersons, a Black family, who live in the house next door in the early seasons and then left the area for the higher end Upper East side of Manhattan after George (the husband) made

814-774: A photograph with him. At the moment the picture is taken, Davis suddenly kisses a stunned Archie on the cheek. The ensuing laughter went on for so long that it had to be severely edited for network broadcast, as Carroll O'Connor still had one line ("Well, what the hell — he said it was in his contract!") to deliver after the kiss. (The line is usually cut in syndication.) During the show's sixth season, starting on December 1, 1975, CBS began airing reruns on weekdays at 3   p.m. (EST), replacing long-running soap opera The Edge of Night , which moved to ABC. The show would later move to 3:30   p.m. and in September 1978, 10   a.m. This lasted until September 1979, when Viacom distributed

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888-523: A prominent feature on the Manhattan skyline. This did not happen until the end of 1971. Despite this change in the Manhattan skyline, the original, somewhat grainy 1968 footage continued to be used for the series opening until the series transitioned into Archie Bunker's Place in 1979. At that time, a new opening with current shots of the Manhattan skyline were used with the Trade Center towers being seen in

962-488: A romance were never heard in the actual series. In July 1986, vocalist Helen Merrill 's contrastingly jazz-flavored rendition, accompanied by a Kellaway-led trio and introduced by O'Connor, was featured on The Merv Griffin Show . Except for some brief instances in the first season, scenes contained no background or transitional music. Lear and his writers set the series in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria . The location of

1036-696: A second summer Shakespeare season in 1961, he produced the festival at the Ohio Theater in Cuyahoga Falls. In the summer of 1962, he founded the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio (today known as the " Great Lakes Theater "). He appeared on Broadway in A Cure for Matrimony , Steel and the musical Lorelei (which starred Carol Channing and was based on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ). In 1963, he became artistic director of

1110-552: A single on Atlantic Records , reaching number 43 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in early 1972. The additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s. A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically. In

1184-806: A soldier in Jacques Deval's anti-Nazi drama, Lorelei . A nomad all his life, Lithgow was in Rochester, New York near the end of World War II, where he appeared in amateur productions such as the glib cockney scoundrel in an amateur production of the English comic melodrama Ladies in Retirement , produced by the Rochester Community Players . Lithgow received his MA from Cornell University on playwriting in 1948 and served as assistant professor of dramatics at Antioch from 1947 to 1956. In summer 1951 he

1258-407: A spin-off of their own: At the height of the show's popularity, Henry Fonda hosted a special one-hour retrospective of All in the Family and its impact on American television. It included clips from the show's most memorable episodes up to that time. It was titled The Best of "All in the Family" and aired on December 21, 1974. On February 16, 1991, CBS aired a 90-minute retrospective, All in

1332-640: A still shot of a lower middle-class semidetached home, presumably representing the Bunkers' house in Astoria, suggesting that the visit to the Bunkers' home has begun. The house shown in the opening credits is actually located at 89–70 Cooper Avenue in the Glendale section of Queens, New York. A notable difference exists, between the Cooper Avenue house and the All in the Family set: the Cooper Avenue house has no porch, while

1406-459: A time when the Bell System was trying to discontinue them. At different times throughout the series, the exchanges Ravenswood and Bayside – both valid in the area – were used for the Bunkers' telephone number. Actual residents of the Bunkers' age continued using exchange names into the early 1980s, which is referred to in the 1979 episode "The Appendectomy", in which Edith gets confused between

1480-524: Is an Emmy- and Tony-winning actor. Lithgow died of heart failure at age 88 in Amherst, Massachusetts . All in the Family All in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was later produced as Archie Bunker's Place , a continuation series, which picked up where All in

1554-589: Is one of three television shows ( The Cosby Show and the reality music competition American Idol being the others) that have been number one in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive TV seasons. The show remained in the top 10 for seven of its nine seasons. The series finale was seen by 40.2 million viewers. As of 2009 , All in the Family has the most spin-offs for a US prime-time television series, directly spawning five other shows, three of which were very successful, as well as two of those spin-offs each having

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1628-556: Is sweet and understanding, which can make her appear naïve and uneducated. Her husband often treats her dismissively and uses disparaging language, calling 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 is a feminist. Gloria is married to college, later graduate student, later college instructor Michael Stivic (Reiner)–referred to as "Meathead" by Archie–whose values are likewise influenced and shaped by

1702-607: The Archive of American Television that he suggested to the writers many of the locations to give the series authenticity. For example, Archie is said to have attended Flushing High School , a real school in Flushing, Queens , although in the "Man of the Year" episode of Archie Bunker's Place , Archie attended Bryant High School in nearby Long Island City. As another example, the 1976 episode "The Baby Contest" deals with Archie entering baby Joey in

1776-835: The McCarter Theatre at Princeton University until 1972, when he and his family relocated to Boston , where he was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston . He served as administrative director of the Brattleboro Center for the Performing Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont . In 1976, he became a Visiting Associate Professor of the Theatre Arts at the University of South Florida at Tampa. While there he began directing

1850-680: The Toledo Zoo . By 1962, the troupe was seeking a space to perform permanently while, simultaneously, a group of citizens led by the Lakewood Board of Education president, Dorothy Teare, were seeking cultural activities to occupy the Lakewood Civic Auditorium during the summer months. Thus, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival formed and premiered the first production, As You Like It , on July 11, 1962. It continued at

1924-508: The Vietnam War , menopause , and impotence . 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. All in the Family has been ranked as one of the best American television series. The show became the most watched show in the United States during the summer reruns of

1998-598: The Writers Guild of America ranked All in the Family the fourth-best written TV series In 2023, Variety ranked All in the Family #16 on its list of the 100 greatest TV shows. All in the Family centers on a working-class White American family living in Queens , New York. Its patriarch, Archie Bunker (O'Connor), is an outspoken, narrow-minded man, seemingly prejudiced against everyone not like him or his ideas of how people should be. Archie's wife Edith (Jean Stapleton)

2072-642: The counterculture of the 1960s . The two couples represent the real-life clash of values between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers . For much of the series, the Stivics live in the Bunkers' home to save money, providing abundant opportunity for them to irritate each other. The show is set in the Astoria section of Queens, with the vast majority of scenes taking place in the Bunkers' home at 704 Hauser Street. Occasional scenes take place in other locations, especially during later seasons, such as Kelsey's Bar,

2146-555: The "Great Lakes Theater Festival. Freedman was followed by James Bundy in 1998. James Bundy was the artistic director between 1998 and 2002 when he left to become the Dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of Yale Repertory Theater. During Bundy's direction the theater realized its most attended season to date in 2001, with 77,000 audience attendees. Charles Fee has been the artistic director since 2002. Under Fee's direction,

2220-745: The Alice People Theatre. He returned to Antioch College to direct two summer Shakespeare festivals in 1981 and 1982. At Antioch in 1981, he directed the rarely produced complete versions of all three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI , performed over three nights. From 1982 to 1984 he taught at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio . In Ithaca, New York, he co-founded the Ithaca Theater Guild along with former Cornell University classmate Edward Kamarck. Lithgow married actress Sarah Jane Price in 1939. They had four children, including John , who

2294-470: The Bunkers' home featured a front porch. Since the footage used for the opening had been shot back in 1968 for the series' first pilot, the establishing shot of the Manhattan skyline was completely devoid of the World Trade Center towers, which had not yet been built. When the series aired two years later, the Trade Center towers, although under construction, had still not yet risen high enough to become

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2368-493: The Bunkers' house at 704 Hauser Street is fictitious. No Hauser Street exists in Queens. The address is not presented the way addresses are given in Queens: most address numbers are hyphenated, identifying the number of the nearest cross street. Nevertheless, many episodes reveal that the Bunkers live near the major thoroughfare Northern Boulevard , which was the location of Kelsey's Bar and later Archie Bunker's Place. The exterior of

2442-641: The Family ended and ran for four seasons through April 4, 1983. Based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , All in the Family was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin . It starred Carroll O'Connor , Jean Stapleton , Sally Struthers , and Rob Reiner . The show revolves around the life of a working-class man and his family. It broke ground by introducing challenging and complex issues into mainstream network television comedy: racism, antisemitism , infidelity , homosexuality, women's liberation , rape, religion, miscarriages , abortion, breast cancer,

2516-469: The Family 20th Anniversary Special , hosted by Norman Lear to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary. It featured a compilation of clips from the show's best moments, and interviews with the four main cast members. The special was so well received by the viewing audience CBS aired reruns of All in the Family during its summer schedule in 1991, garnering higher ratings than the new series scheduled next to it, Norman Lear's sitcom Sunday Dinner . The latter

2590-658: The GLTF won the Northern Ohio Live Magazine Award for Excellence in Theater and in 2006 won The Free Times Readers Choice Award for Best Performing Arts Group. Further accolades include the prestige as one of two Cleveland theaters, alongside the Cleveland Play House , with membership in the League of Resident Theaters , a designation that makes Cleveland only one of 11 US cities with that acclaim. "Festival"

2664-505: The Lakewood Civic Auditorium that season and performed six Shakespeare plays in rotation. The theater had begun with performing exclusively Shakespeare. The repertoire expanded to other plays beginning in 1965. To better capture that scope, the name was changed to Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) in 1985. In 1982, the GLTF moved from Lakewood to the Ohio Theater in Cleveland to become

2738-467: The audience was gathered for a taping of One Day at a Time , and got to see All In the Family as a bonus.). Throughout its run, Norman Lear took pride in the fact that canned laughter was never used (mentioning this on many occasions); the laughter heard in the episodes was genuine. The series' opening theme song "Those Were the Days", was written by Lee Adams ( lyrics ) and Charles Strouse (music). It

2812-411: The closing credits. This opening format – showing actual footage of the cities and neighborhoods in which the show was set – became the standard for most of Norman Lear's sitcoms, including others in the All in the Family franchise – Maude , Good Times , and The Jeffersons . At the end of the opening, the camera then returns to a last few seconds of O'Connor and Stapleton, as they finish the song. At

2886-401: The conclusion. In the first three versions of the opening, Archie is seen wearing his classic trademark white shirt. In the final version of the opening for the series' ninth season, Archie is seen wearing a gray sweater-jacket over his white shirt. In all versions of the opening, the song's conclusion is accompanied by applause from the studio audience. In interviews, Norman Lear explained that

2960-416: The end of the original version, Edith smiles at Archie and Archie smiles off at a slight distance. In the longest running version (from season 2 to season 5), Edith smiles blissfully at Archie, and Archie puts a cigar in his mouth and returns a rather cynical, sheepish look to Edith. From season six through eight, Edith smiles and rests her chin on Archie's shoulder. In the final season, Edith hugs Archie at

3034-592: The festival partnered with the Toledo Zoo and works were presented outdoors at Antioch and at the zoo. After leaving Antioch, Lithgow went to Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts ; Waterville, Ohio ; and Stockbridge, Massachusetts . In 1958, he moved to Northern Ohio as Executive Director of Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, Ohio . He produced a summer Shakespeare festival in 1960, but was fired from Stan Hywet in May 1961. Having already scheduled

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3108-558: The first GLTC director, John Lithgow performed a tribute show titled "Stories by Heart" in 2010. Lithgow is known for his television roles in Third Rock from the Sun and Dexter , as well as film appearances in the World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment . Directors who gained experience at the theater include George Abbott among others. Arthur Lithgow , father of John Lithgow ,

3182-424: The first five seasons. As one of US television's most acclaimed and groundbreaking programs, All in the Family has been referenced or parodied in countless other forms of media. References on other sitcoms include That '70s Show , The Simpsons , and Family Guy . Popular T-shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers showing O'Connor's image and farcically promoting "Archie Bunker for President" appeared around

3256-644: The first resident company in Playhouse Square , an historic district home to several 1920s venues. Since 2008 it has performed in the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square . The Hanna seats 550. In addition to foundations and financial donations, Tom Hanks raised money for renovations through his performance of "Tom Hanks at the Hanna." The theater reached its goals for the renovation as well as securing an endowment that would support operations in years to come. In 2005,

3330-460: The first season, and topped the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976, the first television series to have held the position for five consecutive years. The episode "Sammy's Visit" was ranked number 13 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time . 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,

3404-409: The house shown at the show closing is a home located at 89-70 Cooper Avenue, Glendale, Queens , New York, across from St. John Cemetery ( 40°42′45″N 73°51′39″W  /  40.712492°N 73.860784°W  / 40.712492; -73.860784 ). Many real Queens institutions are mentioned throughout the series. Carroll O'Connor, a Queens native from Forest Hills , said in an interview with

3478-450: The idea for the piano song introduction was a cost-cutting measure. After completion of the pilot episode, the budget would not allow an elaborate scene to serve as the sequence played during the show's opening credits. Lear decided to have a simple scene of Archie and Edith singing at the piano. The closing theme, an instrumental , was "Remembering You", played by its composer Roger Kellaway , with lyrics later added by Carroll O'Connor. It

3552-443: The network became uneasy about airing a show with a "foul-mouthed, bigoted lead" character, and rejected the series at about the time Richard Dreyfuss sought the role of Michael. Rival network CBS was eager to update its image and was looking to replace much of its then popular "rural" programming ( Mayberry R.F.D. , The Beverly Hillbillies , Petticoat Junction and Green Acres ) with more "urban", contemporary series and

3626-529: The original version, the lyric "Those Were The Days" was sung over the tonic (root chord of the song's key), and the piano strikes a dominant 7th passing chord in transition to the next part, which is absent from subsequent versions. Carroll O'Connor's pronunciation of " welfare state " added more of Archie's trademark whining enunciation, and the closing lyrics (especially "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great") were sung with increasingly deliberate articulation, as viewers had complained that they could not understand

3700-437: The practice of being taped before a live audience changed to playing the already taped and edited show to an audience and recording their laughter to add to the original sound track, and the voice-over during the end credits were changed from Rob Reiner's voice " All in the Family was recorded on tape before a live audience." to Carroll O'Connor's" All in the Family was played to a studio audience for live responses." (typically,

3774-518: The reruns to the off-network market where many stations picked up the show. In 1991, Columbia Pictures Television began syndicating the show, and Columbia's successor companies have continued to do so. Since the late 1980s, All in the Family has been rerun on various cable and satellite networks including TBS (although it held the rights locally in Atlanta, as well), TV Land , Nick at Nite , and Sundance TV . From January 3, 2011, to December 31, 2017,

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3848-446: The rights to the original show and retool it specifically for Gleason, who was under contract to them, but producer Lear beat out CBS for the rights and offered the show to ABC. Mickey Rooney was offered the role but turned it down as he felt the character was "un-American". In the pilot, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton played Archie and Edith Justice. Kelly Jean Peters played Gloria and Tim McIntire played her husband, Richard. It

3922-515: The rights to the series and has since released the remaining three seasons. In October 2012, Shout! Factory released All in the Family – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 28-disc boxed set features all 208 episodes of the series, as well as bonus features. In February 2018, Sony released All in the Family- Seasons 1–5 on DVD in Region 1. The 15-disc set features all episodes from

3996-411: The set furnished in neutral tones, keeping everything relatively devoid of color. As costume designer Rita Riggs described in her 2001 Archive of American Television interview, Lear's idea was to create the feeling of sepia tones, in an attempt to make viewers feel as if they were looking at an old family album. All in the Family was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of

4070-463: The show aired on Antenna TV . As of January 1, 2018, the show began to air on GetTV . Since February 5, 2023, MeTV aired episodes of the show on Sunday nights at 8:00 PM ET/7:00 PM CT. All episodes have been airing nightly on the Catchy Comedy (formerly Decades) digital retro TV network. The cast forfeited their residual rights for a cash payout early in the production run. All in the Family

4144-409: The show. Lear's father would tell Lear's mother to "stifle herself" and she would tell Lear's father "you are the laziest white man I ever saw" (two "Archieisms" that found their way onto the show). The original pilot was titled Justice for All and was developed for ABC . Tom Bosley , Jack Warden , and Jackie Gleason were all considered for the role of Archie Bunker. In fact, CBS wanted to buy

4218-414: The song off-camera and at a faster tempo than the series version. Six different performances were recorded over the run of the series, including one version that includes additional lyrics. The song is a simple, pentatonic melody, that can be played exclusively with black keys on a piano, in which Archie and Edith were nostalgic for the simpler days of the past. A longer version of the song was released as

4292-416: The success of All in the Family , videotaping sitcoms in front of an audience became a common format for the genre during the 1970s, onward, until the advent of digital HD. The use of videotape also gave All in the Family the look and feel of early live television, including the original live broadcasts of The Honeymooners , to which All in the Family is sometimes compared. For the show's final season,

4366-621: The summers of 1977-1979 as an intern and core company member, Hanks credits that time for teaching him to act. Other Academy Award-winning alumni include Olympia Dukakis , recognized for her performance in the film Moonstruck (1987), Ruby Dee who won for her performance in the film American Gangster (2007), and Cloris Leachman best known for her roles in The Facts of Life and the Mary Tyler Moore Show . The theater's reputation and strong artistic direction attracted talented actors across

4440-733: The theater began partnerships with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival , Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival , and the Playhouse Square Foundation. Fee inherited more than $ 1 million in debt, but by making savvy decisions, such as becoming a summer-fall repertory theater, he has put the organization in strong financial standing. The theater began as a citizen-led endeavor to support community cultural engagement and maintains educational outreach as central to its mission today. Approximately 50,000 students in Northeast Ohio experience

4514-675: The theater each year through various programs. Arthur Lithgow Arthur Washington Lithgow III (September 9, 1915 – March 24, 2004) was an American actor and director. He helped pioneer the regional theater movement in the United States and founded two Shakespeare festivals. Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata , the Dominican Republic , the son of Ina Berenice ( née Robinson), an American nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an American-Dominican entrepreneur born to Ellen Prentiss Peirce, American, and Washington G. Lithgow,

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4588-481: The two versions of a number she is dialing. "Sammy's Visit", first broadcast in February 1972, is a particularly notable episode, whose famous episode-ending scene produced the longest sustained audience laughter in the history of the show. Guest star Sammy Davis Jr. plays himself. Archie is moonlighting as a cab driver and Davis visits the Bunker home to retrieve a briefcase he left in Archie's cab earlier that day. After hearing Archie's bigoted remarks, Davis asks for

4662-427: The words. Also in the original version, the camera angle was shot slightly from the right side of the talent as opposed to the straight on angle of the next version. Jean Stapleton performed the theme song without glasses beginning in season 6. In addition to O'Connor and Stapleton singing, footage is also shown beginning with aerial shots of Manhattan, and continuing to Queens, progressively zooming in, culminating with

4736-464: The works of Shakespeare, bringing the attention and praise of even the Queen of the United Kingdom. Set on an elaborate, multilevel stage behind Antioch's Main Building, the festival attracted during its five-year run a total attendance of over 135,000. Directing and acting in many of these productions, he played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew opposite Nancy Marchand 's Kate, and also played Stephano, Peter Quince, Dr. Caius and Henry IV. In 1956,

4810-461: The years. In 1994, years after she played opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961), Piper Laurie performed Lyuba Ranevsky in the GLTF production of The Cherry Orchard . Jean Stapleton , who played Edith Bunker in the comedy series All in the Family , performed on the GLTF stage in 1986 ( Arsenic and Old Lace ). Hal Holbrook collaborated with Gerald Freedman , artistic director, on King Lear (1990), Uncle Vanya (1991), and Death of

4884-514: Was Lear's return to TV series producing after a seven-year absence, and was canceled after the six-week tryout run due to being poorly received by audiences. On May 22, 2019, ABC broadcast Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons , produced by Lear and Jimmy Kimmel and starring Woody Harrelson , Marisa Tomei , Jamie Foxx , Wanda Sykes , Ike Barinholtz , Kerry Washington and Ellie Kemper . A second Live in Front of A Studio Audience special

4958-460: Was announced in early November 2019 to air on Wednesday December 18, this time pairing the show with Good Times . Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment) released the first six seasons of All in the Family on DVD in Region 1 between 2002 and 2007. No further seasons were released, because the sales figures did not match Sony's expectations. In June 2010, Shout! Factory announced that it had acquired

5032-425: Was associate producer of the Shaw Festival at the Rice Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard , where he performed in several plays by George Bernard Shaw . He first began directing Shakespeare at Antioch College in 1952, when he became the Founder and Artistic Director of the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, or "Shakespeare under the Stars," as it came to be known. Within a period of six years, this festival produced all of

5106-410: Was eliminated from the title in 2011 to better reflect its September through May season and programming format. Having staged over 300 productions, the theater celebrated its 50th season in 2011-2012 and commemorated the milestone with a gala in April 2012. One of the most well-known alumni of the GLTF is Tom Hanks, who went on to become an Academy Award winning actor. Having worked with the theater in

5180-469: Was interested in Lear's project; by this point, Gleason was no longer under contract to CBS ( his own show was among those eliminated), allowing Lear to keep Carroll O'Connor on as the lead. CBS bought the rights from ABC and retitled the show All in the Family . The pilot episode CBS developed had the final cast and was the series' first episode. Lear wanted to shoot in black and white as Till Death Us Do Part had been. While CBS insisted on color, Lear had

5254-409: Was played over footage of the same row of houses in Queens as in the opening, but moving in the opposite direction down the street, and eventually moving back to aerial shots of Manhattan, suggesting the visit to the Bunkers' home has concluded. O'Connor recorded a vocal version of "Remembering You" for a record album, but though he performed it several times on TV appearances, the lyrics about the end of

5328-408: Was presented in a way that was unique for a 1970s series: Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were seated at a console or spinet piano (played by Stapleton) and sang the tune together on-camera at the start of every episode, concluding with applause from a studio audience. The song dates back to the first Justice For All pilot filmed in 1968, although on that occasion O'Connor and Stapleton performed

5402-749: Was taped in October 1968 in New York City. After screening the first pilot, ABC gave the producers more money to shoot a second pilot, titled Those Were the Days , which Lear taped in February 1969 in Hollywood . Candice Azzara played Gloria and Chip Oliver played her husband Dickie. D'Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots. After stations' and viewers' complaints caused ABC to cancel Turn-On (a sketch comedy series developed by Laugh-In ' s George Schlatter ) after only one episode in February 1969,

5476-508: Was the founding artistic director and worked as such until 1966. Alongside Dorothy Teare, Lithgow established a strong orientation to educational programming for local schools delivered through student matinees as well as classroom partnerships, subsidized in part by the Cleveland Foundation . Lawrence Carra , a drama professor at Carnegie Mellon University , was the artistic director between 1966 and 1975, during which time he directed

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