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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404991811
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404991816
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 03, 2006
Running Time: 621 minutes
Sales Rank: 4021
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1971
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Amazon.com:
Expecting anything resembling growth from Archie Bunker is like asking the sun to rise in the west: it ain't gonna happen. Accordingly, the most unrepentantly incorrigible character in TV sit-com history is his old self throughout this three-disc box set, which includes all 24 episodes from the fifth season of producer Norman Lear's All in the Family. Which is to say that Archie (played brilliantly as always by Carroll O'Connor) is an irascible, intolerant, sexist, ignorant, cheap misanthrope. Funny, too.
Still, a few subtle changes are apparent. For one thing, this was the mid-'70s, the Gerald Ford era, and after the tumultuous Richard Nixon years, things were a little mellower… sometimes even Archie. Sure, he's still a guy with a blue collar and red state politics (on Nixon and Watergate: 'He did not lie. He forgot to tell the truth'), a bigot ('the whole place is locked up tighter than a Jew's purse') and a master of malapropisms ('that's the crotch of the problem'). But Archie's political arguments with son-in-law Mike 'Meathead' Stivic (Rob Reiner) are fewer and farther between; in fact, the overall tone of the show seems a bit lighter, with more outright slapstick humor, and the almost constant bickering is less shrill than before. That's a welcome development, as are the occasional moments when Archie reveals that he might even have a heart.
Season Five also finds George and Louise Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford) and son Lionel (Mike Evans) moving out of the neighborhood (the pilot for The Jeffersons is one of the episodes here), while daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and Meathead move into the Jeffersons' house next door at season's end. But perhaps the most notable change is Edith's gradual willingness to stand up to her husband. She's still a dingbat, but her assertiveness and confidence show through from time to time, especially in the hilarious episode 18 ('All's Fair'), in which Edith, coached by Mike and Gloria, learns how to engage Archie in a fair fight.
Although the box set contains no bonus material, it does include a 'Best Of' episode with highlights from the first 100 shows, hosted by Henry Fonda, of all people. And look for future Oscar winner James Cromwell in the recurring role of Stretch Cunningham, one of Archie's co-workers. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - All in the MPI Home Video
Sony Pictures, selling All in the Family to MPI Home Video would be a perfect idea for the fans, who have waited 7 years to collect all 9 Seasons of the series on DVD. Please do not say no to my suggestion. MPI Home Video will be willing to re-release the first 6 seasons, and release the 3 remaining seasons with no problems. Please sell All in the Family to MPI Home Video!
Rating: - The greatest sitcom ever ... despite what NBC thinks
NBC loves to hang the moniker "greatest ____ ever" on its TV shows as if saying so makes it so. First, The Cosby Show was the greatest sitcom ever, then Seinfeld, then Friends. Of course, according to NBC, ER is the greatest program in the history of television, so we all have to discuss comedy programs in and of themselves. If NBC spent nearly as much time creating good new shows as it does in shamelessly overhyping their old shows, they probably would still be ahead of CBS in the ratings.
For my money, no sitcom will ever top the great All in the Family in any respect -- acting, writing and overall influence. To get an idea of what dire straits TV comedy was in before All in the Family, take a look at an episode of one of the other sitcoms that was on the air at the time: Family Affair, The Brady Bunch, the last, sad days of Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies. The country had grown up, but television sitcoms had stayed rooted in the same dated themes of the 1950's and 1960's: either sterilized white bread families or gimmicky hocus pocus that took the place of the quality writing of classics like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Subjects like Vietnam, flower children, drugs, poverty, racism, homosexuality and rape were taboos.
Enter Archie, Edith, Mike and Gloria who dealt with all those issues and more head on in every episode. While Carol Brady scolded her children for saying the word "stinker," Archie Bunker held a lengthy dissertation on ... Read More
Rating: - All In The Family - A Groundbreaker
I love the All In The Family episodes. I enjoyed all of these shows on the first run starting in the 70's. The show explored a lot of subjects that were pretty much "taboo" when I was growing up. People only hear about Archie and his bigotry. I don't think that many people really sit down and watch the shows and realize that Archie was a product of the times. All that he learned was basically learned at home. Carroll O'Connor was a comic genius and he "made" Archie be the success that he was.
I purchased Season Five to add to the first four seasons. My complaints are that after Season Two - the DVD's no longer have spanish subtitles. The other complaint is that it takes a long time for each season to be put out for purchase.
Rating: - Awesome!!!
Season 5 is one of the best of all! Archie and mike are still doing what they do best....arguing about anything and everything. The best part of the whole season is when Archie finds out that the meathead has bought the Jedderson's old house next door...Arch's expression is PRICELESS!!! I'f you buy this set u won't be sorry
Rating: - THE BEST EVER
THIS WAS VERY FUNNY AND BROUGHT BACK THE GOOD OLE DAYS. VERY ENJOYABLE!!!!!
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