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All in the Family 1 - Boxed SetVHS, 2 Tapes (1971) Only $16.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
All in the Family Collection
VHS, 10 Tapes (1971) DESCRIPTION- There are 10 great videos in this boxed set with 3 of the best episodes on each tape. Only $99.90 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
All in the Family - Archie Meets MeatheadVHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- In "Meet the Bunkers," Archie and Mike have plenty to argue about during a surprise anniversary party. Meanwhile, Archie's put-upon wife, Edith (the brilliant Jean Stapleton), and daughter Gloria try to keep things upbeat. Archie likes Lionel (Mike Evans) just fine--but then Archie finds out that Lionel's parents, George and Louise (Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford), are the black family he's trying to prevent from moving in next door. Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
All in the Family - Sammy Takes Bunker Hill
VHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- While the residents of 704 Hauser Street offered plenty of opportunities for Archie to, well, show what a jerk he could be, it occasionally took an outsider to make that special brand of Bunker idiocy really shine. Enter Sammy Davis Jr. in "Sammy's Visit," this collection's first of three episodes. When Sammy agrees to pick up the briefcase he left in Archie's cab, Archie is beside himself with excitement, commanding Edith to open up a fresh box of Twinkies. "It's a kind of Wasp soul food," Meathead explains to Sammy. Of course, Archie can't leave the evening unmarred for long: "Bein' colored... I know you had no choice in that. But whatever made ya turn Jew?" Sammy rises above it all in the end, though, with a kiss smack-dab on the cheek and a zinger that flies way over Archie's head: "I can honestly say, having spent these moments with you, you ain't no better than nobody." In "Maude," staged largely on the set of Bea Arthur's eventual spinoff, Edith and Archie arrive to attend a wedding that never quite gets off the ground. The Bunkers are still in town long enough for Archie to get into it not only with Maude but also her daughter, a kind of Meathead minus the Y-chromosome. Finally, in "The Very Moving Day," news of Gloria's pregnancy is the cause of an actual tender moment between Archie and Mike. It also paves the way for a whole new genre of pregnancy-hysteria-induced Bunkerisms: "Don't run! You'll fall off your shoes and wake the baby up!" --Bob Michaels Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
All in the Family - In the Family Way
VHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- In the Family Way collects three episodes from the groundbreaking All in the Family show. The first, "Gloria's Pregnancy," centers around the Bunkers' daughter's miscarriage. The way the show dealt with topics such as these is what put it way ahead of its competition in the 1970s. What's truly amazing, however, is the way an episode like this holds up decades later. Comforting his daughter, O'Connor lets the purest of hearts shine through the often prickly-as-a-porcupine Archie, the character himself becoming a symbol of what the show was trying to communicate: the bittersweet complexity of living. Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Archie Tells It Like It IsVHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- Archie Bunker's singularly fractured take on the political and social upheaval of the 1970s is deftly encapsulated in this three-episode videocassette of the classic sitcom All in the Family. Grouped by theme rather than chronological order, it features Archie (Carroll O'Connor) arguing in convoluted logic against gun control (he proposes to end the problem of skyjacking by arming all the passengers), trying to prevent Meathead (a.k.a. his liberal son-in-law) from mailing a critical letter to President Nixon, and attempting to get his TV fixed before the evening news--starring Archie in a man-in-the-street interview--airs. Laughing at Archie's ridiculous bigotry is part of the fun, particularly when he tries in vain to convince an Orthodox Jewish TV repairman to fix his TV after sundown on the Sabbath. Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Dingbat's LiberationVHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- Armchair commentators may prefer to forever seal up the character of Edith Bunker within the Dingbat nutshell, but the real All in the Family aficionado will realize this is not the case. As was true for all of the principal players, the character of Edith was about evolution beyond that easy archetype. Here as testimony to that journey are three stepping-stone episodes toward Dingbat's Liberation, the first and third episodes being more obvious instances of Edith's rebellion. In "The Threat," a combination of Archie's lust and big mouth cause the often-mousy Edith to throw the bombshell wife of Archie's buddy out of the house. In "Archie Goes Too Far," the Bunker doyenne demands an apology from Archie and lets loose at Gloria's friend's slumber party. While featuring the least onscreen time, "Archie the Hero" is perhaps the most important of the three episodes presented here, in that it serves to introduce Beverly LaSalle, the transsexual character whose ultimate fate brings about "Edith's Crisis of Faith," an episode unfortunately unavailable on tape. --Bob Michaels Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Hot Pants Vs. MeatheadVHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- While many of All in the Family's laughs arose from self-righteous Mike Stivic's exchanges with cantankerous Archie, Mike's own wife Gloria often gave him a pretty good run for his money. The three-episode collection Hot Pants Vs. Meathead features two gems along this theme. Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Rise & Fall of MeatheadVHS (1971) DESCRIPTION- A collection of three episodes, The Rise and Fall of Meathead chronicles two battles in Mike Stivic's inner war: being a liberal, swingin' 1970s guy versus someone who might be a lot closer to Archie than Mike would care to admit. The first episode, however, is relatively Mikeless. In need of a can of cling peaches, the Bunker kingdom is almost lost in "Edith's Accident," when the dingbat dents someone's car in the supermarket parking lot and--horror of horrors--leaves her name and number on the car's hood. Archie is convinced this will lead to their financial ruin. The second episode of the collection begins to plumb the familiar territory of Mike's liberal nature: Just how liberal is it? When "Mike's Appendix" has to be removed, he is forced to choose between a man and a woman physician. Despite her lower fees and excellent reputation, the idea of a female doctor doesn't sit very comfortably with Mike. The real problem, however, is that with the current state of his appendix, it's getting less possible to sit comfortably at all. Rounding out the collection is "Mike's Problem," in which exam anxieties throw a wrench into Mike and Gloria's normally robust sex life. A mark of true desperation, Gloria turns to Edith for advice, and Mike turns to Archie. Archie then seeks counsel from Henry Jefferson, since, according to Archie, "his people" are such expert lovers. --Bob Michaels Only $9.95 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Archie Goes to the Big House
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