Reiner’s “All in the Family” role didn’t just capture the arguments of its time. It gave us a preview of our own. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief TV critic of The New York Times. In ...
He played a crucial role as Meathead, a foil to Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker on ‘All in the Family.’ When TV viewers tuned in on March 19, 1978, for the Season 8 finale of CBS’s landmark comedy ...
Archie Bunker, for those of us who are old enough to remember the “All in the Family” television series, was a comical bigot who often argued with his son-in-law, a liberal whom Archie called ...