The Worst Episodes of All in the Family
Every episode of All in the Family ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of All in the Family!
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "All in the Family" is "Mike Makes His Move", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Mike Makes His Move" aired on 3/8/1975 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "New Year's Wedding".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Mike Makes His Move
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 204 votes#2 - New Year's Wedding
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1976
Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 163 votes#3 - Stalemates
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1978
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.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Mel Tolkin
6.7/10 171 votes#4 - Mike Goes Skiing
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1977
Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
6.8/10 158 votes#5 - Gloria's False Alarm
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1976
Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
6.9/10 195 votes#6 - Mike's Friend
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1974
Gloria is made to feel like an intellectual outcast when she spends the evening with Mike and his graduate-school friends.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Baskin
7.0/10 165 votes#7 - Love by Appointment
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1976
Mike and Gloria's sex life suffers after they have to begin planning their encounters around the baby's feeding schedule.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 207 votes#8 - Mike and Gloria Mix it Up
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1974
The stiyics' love life reaches another imprasses when Michael is put off by Gloria's romantic aggressiveness.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Ross
7.1/10 171 votes#9 - Gloria is Nervous
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1975
Gloria takes out her frustrations about being pregnant on Mike.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 163 votes#10 - The Baby Contest
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1976
Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Mel Tolkin
7.1/10 161 votes#11 - Reunion on Hauser Street
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1978
The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 159 votes#12 - Weekend in the Country
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1978
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.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 188 votes#13 - A Girl Like Edith
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1979
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.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller
7.2/10 214 votes#14 - Where's Archie? (1)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1974
Edith holds her first Tupperware party under a cloud of worry when Archie disappears on his way to a union convention in Buffalo.
Director: Wes Kenney
Writer: Barry Harman, Harve Brosten
7.2/10 218 votes#15 - Where's Archie? (2) (aka Archie is Missing)
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1974
With no word from Archie after twenty-four hours, the family faces the possibility that he might've run off with another woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 168 votes#16 - Archie's Dog Day Afternoon
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1977
Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when his accidently runs over Barney's annoying--but cute--dog with his cab.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mel Tolkin
7.2/10 154 votes#17 - A Night at the PTA
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1979
When Edith develops laryngitis on the eve of her singing debut at Stephanie's PTA recital, Archie steps in to understudy the duet.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Mel Tolkin
7.2/10 155 votes#18 - Stephanie and the Crime Wave
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1979
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.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Mel Tolkin
7.2/10 111 votes#19 - All in the Family Retrospective (1)
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1979
Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series.
Director: Walter C. Miller
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 189 votes#20 - Gloria's Shock
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1974
Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 186 votes#21 - Archie and the Quiz
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1975
Archie feels the weight of his own mortality after a magazine quiz on life expectancy gives him another seven years- tips.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 193 votes#22 - Archie's Brief Encounter (1)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1976
Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Mel Tolkin
7.3/10 164 votes#23 - Archie's Other Wife
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1978
At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller
7.3/10 162 votes#24 - Barney, the Gold Digger
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1979
Barney Hefner is suicidal when Blanche finally deserts him, until Archie fixes him up with an overweight but wealthy widow.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller
7.3/10 166 votes#25 - The Return of Archie's Brother
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1979
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.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller