The Worst Episodes of All in the Family

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

Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

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 insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

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 takes out her frustrations about being pregnant on Mike.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

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

The stiyics' love life reaches another imprasses when Michael is put off by Gloria's romantic aggressiveness.

Director: N/A

Writer: Michael Ross

Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: Mel Tolkin

The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: Mel Tolkin

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

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

Archie spends a night wallowing in self-pity when an insurance physical reveals an ominous spot on his liver.

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: N/A

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 Schiller, Bob Weiskopf