24 episodesFirst aired 18 September 1971
E1Sept 197125m
Archie is incensed when his sponging cousin Oscar has the nerve to drop dead in the upstairs bedroom.
E2Sept 197125m
Mike has second thoughts after he agrees to let Gloria pose as a nude model for one of his artist friends.
E3Oct 197125m
Archie suffers his ultimate indignity when he's arrested along with a group of radicals at a protest rally.
E4Oct 197125m
Archie buys a gun to protect his family, but a pair of burglars hold the family at bay with Archie's own pistol.
E5Oct 197125m
On the Stivic's first wedding anniversary, the family recalls the day Archie and Michael met.
E6Oct 197125m
Mike and Gloria campaign for the liberal candidate in a local election, while Archie places himself in the opposing camp.
E7Nov 197125m
A priest pays a call to reward Edith's honesty for leaving a note on his car after she accidentally dents it with a large can of clind peaches.
E8Nov 197125m
An unscrupulous black real-estate salesman tempts Archie to sell his house to a black family at an inflated price.
E9Nov 197125m
Gloria is upset when Mike's nervousness over his grades causes him to become temporarily impotent.
E10Nov 197125m
Archie lays off a Puerto Rican worker during a cut back at the dock; and his homeowner's policy is canceled when his neighborhood is redlined as a bad risk.
E11Dec 197125m
Archie Bunker is the voice of the American working man when his man-on-the-street interview is scheduled to appear on Walter Cronkite's Evening News.
E12Dec 197125m
Everyone in the family is sick, so Edith calls Cousin Maude to help out.
E13Dec 197125m
Archie casts a pall on the family's Yuletide spirit when he complains that he was passed over for this year's Christmas bonus.
E14Jan 197225m
Archie gets caught in an elevator, along with a pregant Puerto Rican and her husband, an aging hippie, and an erudite black businessman.
E15Jan 197225m
Edith is suddenly moody and irritable with the approach of menopause.
E16Jan 197225m
Archie's paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship.
E17Jan 197225m
An old girlfriend of Mike's suddenly arrives at the Bunkers' with a four-year-old boy who she claims is his son.
E18Jan 197225m
Archie refuses to get involed with the police, even though he's the only witness to a neighborhood mugging.
E19Feb 197225m
The Bunkers are alone for eight days while Mike and Gloria are spending a week at a commune.
E20Feb 197225m
Archie is too proud to let Edith accept a mink stolen from her cousin Amelia, until he sees a chance to make a three-hundred-dollar profit.
E21Feb 197225m
One of the classic episodes in the series, Sammy Davis Jr. plays himself, a passenger in Archie's taxi cab who has inadvertently left his briefcase behind. Arrangements are made to retrieve the briefcase at the Bunker house. As usual, Archie displays his ignorance and bigotry, but Sammy plays along. Before Sammy has to leave, Munson decides to have the two pose for a picture. HE KISSES ARCHIE!!! Archie is too astonished to say anything.
E22Feb 197225m
Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat.
E23Mar 197225m
Archie is disturbed to discover Edith once spent an entire weekend with an old beau.
E24Mar 197225m
Archie and Edith visit Maude's house for Carol's wedding to David Green, a Jewish man. Archie doesn't want to go, and Carol doesn't want him there. Archie is invited to the bachelor party, but declines the invitation, and ends up staying at the hotel, where the bachelor party is held (which he doesn't know). Archie calls the police because the party is too loud. Edith stays for the bridal shower. After David and Walter return from the bachelor party, David and Carol fight over their differences in opinion regarding women's roles. The wedding is off, much to Maude's dismay.
