All in the Family — Season 7

Aired 22 September 1976 • 25 min

Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.

Aired 22 September 1976 • 25 min

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretions after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

Aired 29 September 1976 • 25 min

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

Aired 6 October 1976 • 25 min

Archie's self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock.

Aired 13 October 1976 • 25 min

A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a jaintor's job to Archie.

Aired 27 October 1976 • 25 min

Archie's trip to the hospital is an ethnic nightmare. He's admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor.

Aired 27 October 1976 • 25 min

Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work-with a raise and a promotion.

Aired 6 November 1976 • 25 min

As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.

Aired 13 November 1976 • 25 min

The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget.

Aired 20 November 1976 • 25 min

Mike and Gloria are having a discussion over who will take care of Joey, just in case there comes a time when both of them are unable to care for the little tyke before his 18th birthday. Mike has serious reservations over allowing in-laws Archie and Edith to get custody of Joey, particularly due to what he perceives as Archie's bad influences. Gloria is having a hard time convincing Mike otherwise and gives in to Mike's rhetoric. Mike's suspicions are confirmed when Archie and Edith return with Joey after a day of playing in the park. What's that Joey's got in his hands? Why, a toy machine gun that Grandpa had bought him. Of course, Mike (being dead set against gun violence) immediately is very angry and tells Archie that toy guns could influence children's behavior later on. Tempers really escalate when Mike grabs the plastic gun from Archie and breaks it over his knee. After the two continue to argue, Mike lets slip that he is considering including a clause in the Stivics' will that

Aired 27 November 1976 • 25 min

Edith saves a man's life and becomes the toast of the town,but Archie isn't happy standing in the shadow of her limelight.

Aired 4 December 1976 • 25 min

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.

Aired 11 December 1976 • 25 min

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

Aired 18 December 1976 • 25 min

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

Aired 25 December 1976 • 25 min

The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.

Aired 8 January 1977 • 25 min

Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.

Aired 15 January 1977 • 25 min

Mike accidently breaks Archie's Chair.

Aired 22 January 1977 • 25 min

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

Aired 29 January 1977 • 25 min

Archie reluctantly agress to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unawware that his departed friend was Jewish.

Aired 5 February 1977 • 25 min

Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husband's Mistress.

Aired 12 February 1977 • 25 min

Stranded in a subway train with different personalities, Mike is shocked when he punches a man for the very first time in his life after the man had pushed Gloria aside.

Aired 19 February 1977 • 25 min

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.

Aired 26 February 1977 • 25 min

Before bedtime, Mike and Gloria have a game of Scrabble in which Mike ends up winning. He uses this game as an opportunity to rub Gloria's nose in the fact that he has to be better at everything, leading to an argument between the two. Gloria asserts that this is because Mike has had the chance to go to college and use his skills, while she hasn't had the chance yet, bringing up the fact that Mike promised her three years ago that chance. Gloria accuses Mike of ruining her life, causing him to walk out and try to spend the night at Archie and Edith's house. Archie and Mike reluctantly become roommates, which ends up in disaster. Archie then scolds Mike for trying to correct everybody's way of doing and saying things. Realizing his mistake, Mike goes home and apologizes to Gloria for being pompous, and Gloria apologizes to Mike for saying he ruined her life.

Aired 5 March 1977 • 25 min

When Archie and the guys at the lodge are being called bigots in the papers because they are only white, Archie suggests to initiate a black jewish guy.

Aired 12 March 1977 • 25 min

Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when his accidently runs over Barney's annoying--but cute--dog with his cab.