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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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"Mike Makes His Move" is the worst rated episode of "All in the Family". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/8/1975. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "New Year's Wedding".

  • Mike Makes His Move
    NaN/100 votes
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    #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

  • New Year's Wedding
    6.6/10209 votes
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    #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

  • Mike Goes Skiing
    6.6/10176 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Stalemates
    6.6/10164 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Gloria's False Alarm
    6.7/10161 votes
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    #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

  • Mike's Friend
    6.9/10199 votes
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    #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

  • Gloria is Nervous
    7.0/10175 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Love by Appointment
    7.0/10169 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Mike and Gloria Mix it Up
    7.1/10209 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Baby Contest
    7.1/10168 votes
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    #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

  • Reunion on Hauser Street
    7.1/10161 votes
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    #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

  • Weekend in the Country
    7.1/10160 votes
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    #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

  • Where's Archie? (1)
    7.2/10217 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Where's Archie? (2) (aka Archie is Missing)
    7.2/10222 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Archie's Dog Day Afternoon
    7.2/10170 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • A Night at the PTA
    7.2/10155 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • A Girl Like Edith
    7.2/10190 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Stephanie and the Crime Wave
    7.2/10158 votes
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    #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

  • All in the Family Retrospective (1)
    7.2/10113 votes
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    #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

  • Gloria's Shock
    7.3/10192 votes
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    #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

  • The Longest Kiss
    7.3/10208 votes
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    #21 - The Longest Kiss

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1974

    Archie returns from his sorry adventure -he get the sidetracked to a podiatrists' convention in Rochester- to find his friends and family celebrating his return with kissing contests,Hula Hoops, and ballroom dancing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Archie and the Quiz
    7.3/10188 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Mike Faces Life
    7.3/10187 votes
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    #23 - Mike Faces Life

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1975

    Mike becomes the sole support of a growing family when Gloria loses her job because of her pregnancy.

    Director: Paul Bogart

    Writer: Mel Tolkin

  • Archie's Brief Encounter (1)
    7.3/10202 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Fire
    7.3/10190 votes
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    #25 - Fire

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1977

    The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.

    Director: Paul Bogart

    Writer: Erik Tarloff