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All in the Family Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
The Very Moving Day
Mon, Sep 8, 1975
As Mike and Gloria prepare for their move out of the Bunker house, Gloria has some good news: she is going to have a baby. However, when she tells Mike, he is not as enthusiastic because of his feelings about bringing up a child in a world full of problems, and it eventually leads to a fight between the two. Mike then storms out of the house and Gloria is so distraught that she even considers taking a drastic step to save her marriage.
Episode 2
Alone at Last
Mon, Sep 15, 197530 mins
The day has come that Mike and Gloria are moving into their new home and Archie is practically pushing them out the door. Archie is being so obnoxious that Mike finally reaches a boiling point until he declares his independence and calls Archie a fathead. He and Gloria spend the night in their new home without electricity, plumbing or heat. Archie is overjoyed that the meathead is suffering but Edith's motherly instinct force her to intercede, she walks out and intends to suffer right along with the kids. Archie is all to happy to take care of himself but while making a mess in the kitchen, he runs across Gloria's bowl from when she was a baby and it melts his heart. He goes next door with a half-hearted apology and tells Mike and Gloria that they can stay at his house until the heat gets turned on.
Episode 3
Archie the Donor
Mon, Sep 22, 197530 mins
Archie is up for a promotion to dispatcher at the loading dock against Black Elmo, and decides to darken his hair to look different. He'll do anything to get the position, even sign an organ-donor card without even reading it. Fearful that he won't get into heaven if he donates his organs (because he fears that the recipients will use them for sinful purposes), he goes back to the office and asks the boss to tear up the donor card, claiming that he isn't a well man. His boss, Mr. Sanders, agrees--and decides that the dispatcher job needs a healthy man who will be around for a long time, so he gives the job to Black Elmo.
Episode 4
Archie the Hero
Mon, Sep 29, 197530 mins
Archie comes home all excited because he has been deemed a hero. It seems that while driving Munson's cab the woman in the backseat passed out, and he administered mouth-to-mouth and brought her around again. Later, the woman, named Beverly, comes by the house to thank him. While talking to Edith, Beverly reveals something startling - she is really a man, a female impersonator. When Archie comes back and attempts conversation, Beverly takes the wig off and reveals the truth. Archie is humiliated and doesn't want any press, despite the fact that a reporter is looking for him. The reporter catches up with him at Kelcy's and starts asking questions but Archie wants to forget the whole thing. The reporter goes into the men's room where he catches Beverly and returns demanding the truth from Archie. Beverly saves him by telling the reporter that it was a truck driver who administered CPR. Archie is grateful and tells her that for a dame, she's one hell of a guy.
Episode 5
Mike's Pains
Mon, Oct 6, 1975
As Gloria enters her fourth month of pregnancy, Mike begins to have doubts about wanting to be in the delivery room for the birth. Gloria becomes angry that he wants to back out of the delivery when he certainly wasn't resistant to the conception, and stops talking to him. Later, Edith invites Sybil Gooley over to the Stivics' so she can use an old family trick to predict the baby's gender. Sybil and Edith discuss their children's births and how they wish their husbands had been with them for the blessed moment. This changes Mike's mind; he decides that he wants to be present for the birth.
Episode 6
Chain Letter
Mon, Oct 20, 197530 mins
Edith is busy mailing a series of chain letters, thinking that good luck will befall her if she sends them and bad luck with pursue her if she doesn't. Archie thinks she's crazy, and when he receives one himself, he promptly throws it into the wastebasket. Irene warns him about the dangers of throwing the letter away, but Archie scoffs her suggestion. Almost immediately, bad things begin to happen, the worst of which takes place at Kelsey's when Archie accidentally drinks beer from a glass that was previously used by Bert Munson--who has hepatitis. In a panic, Archie goes to the emergency room and runs afoul not only of a smart-aleck Black doctor but also a humorless nurse.
Episode 7
Mike Faces Life
Mon, Oct 27, 197530 mins
When Gloria gets her paycheck in the mail, it is good news and bad news: The good news is that the check is more than she expected; the bad news is the enclosed pink slip. Determined to find out why she has been fired, she and Mike pay a visit to the boss, Mr. Crenshaw. Mike becomes angry and demands to know why Gloria was let go. Crenshaw secretly records the parts of their conversation that makes Mike look like he is threatening him, but turns it off to confess that he fired Gloria because she is pregnant, stating that she looks like Alfred Hitchcock in drag. The smug little man assures Mike that he and Gloria can sue him but that they have no evidence. Gloria organizes a protest outside the store that is interrupted by the cops--one of whom is pregnant and joins the protest. The store, with its back to the wall, gives Gloria her job back.
Episode 8
Edith Breaks Out
Mon, Nov 3, 197530 mins
Archie comes home to an empty house--no Edith, no dinner, and no beer in the fridge. Edith comes home and starts preparing dinner, telling Archie that she has been volunteering at a nursing home. She feels a sense of pride that she is doing something fulfilling but Archie is angry that it is taking her away from home. She insists that the volunteer work is important, but Archie determines to put her in her place. Edith won't be put in her place and an argument breaks out with Archie trying to control her and Edith standing her ground. He tries to leave, but she leaves first. Later she returns in Archie takes her out to dinner and surprises him by telling him that she isn't volunteering at the Home anymore: they have offered to pay her for her services.
Episode 9
Grandpa Blues
Mon, Nov 10, 197530 mins
Archie's company physical is fast approaching, and he needs to remain calm for an entire weekend for the blood pressure test. Of course, a variety of situations arise that test Archie's ability to keep an even temper.
Episode 10
Gloria Suspects Mike
Mon, Nov 17, 197530 mins
Gloria, now in her seventh month, is feeling unattractive just when Mike happens to be tutoring an attractive young woman in Economics, so she suspects that something else might be going on. One night when Mike goes to tutor the woman, they become mutually attracted to each other and kiss. Meanwhile, Archie gets an idea to trap Mike in a confession: Knowing that he can't hold his wine, Archie decides to liquor him up as a truth drug. They both get drunk, and Archie passes out--and misses Mike's confession that he simply got up and left the woman's apartment.
Episode 11
The Little Atheist
Mon, Nov 24, 1975
If it's a major holiday and Archie and Mike are sitting at the table, it's sure to mean one thing: verbal fireworks. This time, the holiday is Thanksgiving and the topic is the religion of the Stivics' unborn baby. Archie wants to raise his grandchild as a Christian; Mike suggests that the child will make the decision when he or she is old enough.
Episode 12
Archie's Civil Rights
Mon, Dec 1, 1975
Archie comes home with a wounded wrist and the news that he was mugged. He tells Edith and Gloria that, while driving his cab, a young man pulled a switch blade on him and demanded money. Archie fought him off with a small tear gas sprayer that he got from a magazine. A police officer comes around and begins asking questions, and shocks Archie when he informs him that it is illegal for him to possess a tear gas sprayer and gives him a summons to appear in court. Later, in court Archie tries to explain his case to the judge (who is black) and is informed that using the sprayer could cost him up to seven years in prison. He is also surprised to learn that the mugger was caught but set free because the cop read him his rights in English and he did not understand English. Also, the cop is at fault because he searched the Bunker house for the sprayer without a warrant. The case is dismissed.
Episode 13
Gloria Is Nervous
Mon, Dec 8, 1975
Gloria is an emotional wreck due to the fact that she is nine days overdue. Mike tries unsuccessfully to make her feel better, but it all for nothing, she'd rather make war than love. She accuses him of being ignorant of her needs, especially when he decides to go to a basketball game rather than stay home for the baby shower. During the shower, Gloria makes it known that she currently has a distaste for Michael when suddenly he bursts through the door in a panic. While at the basketball game, he heard Gloria's doctor paged over the loudspeaker and assumed that she had gone into labor. Gloria realizes that he does care and they make up. He admits that he can never understand what she is going through, but out of sympathy he had six pickles with ice cream at the game.
Episode 14
Birth of the Baby: Part 1
Mon, Dec 15, 1975
Archie is a nervous wreck because he wants to back out of the annual minstrel show at the lodge, which he has successfully avoided for several years. Lodge brothers Barney Hefner and Ed Bradley blackmail him by asserting that if Archie doesn't go on with the show, he will be kicked out of the lodge and lose all the benefits therein. Meanwhile, Mike and Gloria try to have a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant to take their minds off the fact that she is a week overdue. When Gloria admits that she is having contractions, which she didn't want to admit because she didn't want to spoil the evening, Mike panics and tries to get her to the hospital. Trying to call the lodge to tell her mother and father that she is in labor, she becomes stuck in the phone booth. Meanwhile, Archie and Edith get the message and have to leave the lodge to get to the hospital. Barney and Ed think that it is just one more excuse to get out of going onstage, and they take the cold cream, forcing Archie to have to show up at the hospital in black face.
Episode 15
Birth of the Baby: Part 2
Mon, Dec 22, 1975
Archie is forced to show up at the hospital for his grandchild's birth in blackface when his lodge brothers refuse to give him their cold cream because he left. He and Edith are surprised to discover that Mike and Gloria haven't arrived--first Gloria was stuck in a phone booth at the restaurant, then they got stuck in traffic. All is well: they get to the hospital, Gloria gives birth, and Archie manages to borrow cold cream from a terrified elderly woman. The lodge brothers show up to say that they understand and that it would be heartless to throw him out of the lodge at the birth of his first grandson: Joseph Michael Stivic.
Episode 16
New Year's Wedding
Mon, Jan 5, 197630 mins
In the wake of the birth of little Joey, Gloria and Michael are at odds with one another over communication issues. Gloria is upset because Michael keeps making big and little decisions without consulting her despite the fact that their marriage is suppose to be an equal partnership. The crux of their argument is over plans for their friends who are getting married before the year ends. Problems with the arrangements cause them to lose their original location and so it is suggested that they have it in the Stivic's living room. Mike comes to understand why Gloria is upset when she re-writes the speech he was suppose to make as best man.
Episode 17
Archie the Babysitter
Mon, Jan 12, 197630 mins
It is finally time for Mike and Gloria to have a break from little Joey for the evening and they hire a babysitter named Sharyn to watch him. Archie checks in but is not thrilled by her choice of studies--Aboriginal sexuality--or her hippie boyfriend, whom she takes to smooching with on the couch. Archie throws them both out and takes little Joey to his house just as the guys are converging for their poker night. He becomes irritated by the chatter and noise from his buddies until they come together to help little Joey get to sleep.
Episode 18
Archie Finds a Friend
Mon, Jan 26, 197630 mins
Archie befriends an elderly Jewish watchmaker named Bernie Bernstein who has come up with an invention that he thinks could make the both of them millionaires, a remote control for the doorbell. All he needs from Archie is $1000 to get started, which Archie just happens to have. Edith objects, and the more Archie tries to shut her up, the louder her objections become, especially when the remote control either fails to work or rings every doorbell in the neighborhood simultaneously. Eventually, it comes to light that Mr. Bernstein is a very sick man, and he eventually dies right there on Edith and Archie's couch.
Episode 19
Mike's Move
Mon, Feb 2, 1976
Mike is up for a big promotion at work that would send him and Gloria to Minnesota. Archie and Edith aren't too happy. Edith is disappointed but is willing to let them live their own lives, but Archie behaves like a child and makes all kinds of rude comments about their decision. The only stumbling block between Mike and the job is that the other candidate is a Black man, and the university must hire him because they don't want any problems. The other candidate gets the job and Mike is upset. He tells the Dean that he is fine, but upon leaving, he slams the door and breaks the glass.
Episode 20
Archie's Weighty Problem
Mon, Feb 9, 197630 mins
Archie begins behaving like an angry child when Edith puts him on a diet when his doctor orders him to lose 25 pounds. Fed up with Edith's attempts to lower his sodium and cholesterol, he storms out of the house and starts taking his meals at Kelcy's, but even Kelcy gets irritated with his constant temper tantrums. Finally, he gets some useful advice from Justin Quigley while the old man is out jogging. He shows Archie pictures of his family, all of whom died young because they didn't take care of themselves, and warns Archie that he'd better do the same if he wants to dance at Joey's wedding someday.
Episode 21
Love by Appointment
Mon, Feb 16, 1976
Mike is upset that all of Gloria's time is spent taking care of Joey while his needs are being ignored. Gloria becomes angry and tells him that his job ends at 5:00, but she doesn't get to punch out. They have an argument and Mike runs next door to play cards with Archie. Edith comes over to talk to Gloria and lets her know that some friction between new parents is normal with all the changes that happen, especially in the bedroom. Archie is not quite as successful in talking to Mike, but then Gloria comes over and the two share a passionate kiss.
Episode 22
Joey's Baptism
Mon, Feb 23, 1976
Archie fears for Joey's mortal soul because he hasn't been baptized and Mike and Gloria don't want to put religion in his life. So Archie gets the idea to sneak down to the church while he and Edith are babysitting and have it done before Mike and Gloria return for Joey. Edith is completely against it, locking Archie's hat and coat in the closet and refusing to give up the key. While her back is turned, he grabs a hat and sweater out of a box of donated clothes for the poor, grabs Joey out of his pram, and runs to the church. The minister refuses to perform the baptism without the parents' consent, so Archie sneaks into the sanctuary and does it himself.
Episode 23
Gloria and Mike's House Guests
Mon, Mar 1, 1976
The furnace at the Bunker house goes kaput, so Archie and Edith are forced to stay with Mike and Gloria for a few days to keep warm. Mike and Archie still don't get along, and now there's the boiling issue that Archie had Joey baptized without his parents' consent. Archie makes a fool of himself with his annoying habits and nearly drives Mike right out of his own house. Things go from bad to worse until the power goes out and everyone sits in the dark by candlelight and all is calm again.
Episode 24
Edith's Night Out
Mon, Mar 8, 1976
Gloria buys Edith a suit, complete with pants, but Edith isn't sure about it because Archie is against women wearing pants. She encourages Edith to ask Archie to take her out somewhere. Archie comes home in a foul mood, unimpressed with the suit and demanding that Edith get dinner on the table. She insists that he take her somewhere but he refuses, so she puts on her coat and goes down to Kelcy's. The place is crowded and Edith makes a few new friends and starts playing the piano. Archie comes in, irritated at her new found popularity and demands that she come home. She goes, but first tells her new friends that she'll be back.
