It's Edith and Archie Bunker's wedding anniversary. Edith manages to drag Archie to church. Daughter Gloria and her husband Mike try to whip up a party atmosphere for the parents.

Mike writes a letter to President Nixon, protesting everything that's wrong with America, including the state of the environment and the nation's involvement in Vietnam. Archie finds out, and to refute his son-in-law's claims he decides he too will write a letter praising the nation's chief and attempting to explain the Meathead as an ignorant. While penning the letter, Archie pictures the family all standing behind him, dressed in his Sunday best, all supporting his positions.

Archie is convinced he'll collect a large settlement from a petty traffic accident if a Jewish lawyer handles the case.

The stylistic minimalism of the Bunkers' sparsely furnished set is on full display in this early episode. According to director John Rich, who grew up not far from Archie's neighbood, the Spartan look of the Bunkers' living room deco was achieved as a result of painstaking efforts. The director remembers personally supervising the cracking of windows and repainting of walls to give the place a run-down, lived-in look. "I told the set designers to take all the color out of it," remembers Rich. "Norman and I wanted to do the show in black and white, but CBS nearly went into a coma. So we decided to do the next best thing and shoot the entire show in muted sepia tones."

Archie refuses to donate blood because he's afraid that his vital fluids might get mixed in with those of a different race.

Archie scorns one of Mike's effeminate friends, unaware that one of his own beer-drinking buddies is a well-adjusted gay man.

Archie's dream of becoming a grandfather is dashed when Gloria suffers a sudden miscarriage.

Mike invites one of his hippie friends to spend the night in his living room, despite Archie's strenous ojections.

Louise Jefferson makes her first appearance, through husband George will remain an offscreen character for another two seasons. Their son, Lionel, had been a regular visitor to the Bunkers since the pilot episode, when the writers discovered how effective the street-smart black youth was at gently letting the air out of Archie's sails.

Edith abandons the kitchen for the courtroom when she is chosen for jury duty, leaving Archie to fend for himself.

No one in the family gets any sleep when Archie spends the night worring that he might lose his job.

Gloria leaves the house in a rage after Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in their marriage.

Archie reevaluates his definition of success after he meets an old army buddy who's become wealthy in the used-car trade.

The Jeffersons arrive for dinner at the Bunkers'--minus husband George, who refuses to socialize with his white neighbors.

Archie is incensed when his sponging cousin Oscar has the nerve to drop dead in the upstairs bedroom.

Mike has second thoughts after he agrees to let Gloria pose as a nude model for one of his artist friends.

Archie suffers his ultimate indignity when he's arrested along with a group of radicals at a protest rally.

Archie buys a gun to protect his family, but a pair of burglars hold the family at bay with Archie's own pistol.

On the Stivic's first wedding anniversary, the family recalls the day Archie and Michael met.

Mike and Gloria campaign for the liberal candidate in a local election, while Archie places himself in the opposing camp.

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.

An unscrupulous black real-estate salesman tempts Archie to sell his house to a black family at an inflated price.

Gloria is upset when Mike's nervousness over his grades causes him to become temporarily impotent.

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.

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.

Everyone in the family is sick, so Edith calls Cousin Maude to help out.

Archie casts a pall on the family's Yuletide spirit when he complains that he was passed over for this year's Christmas bonus.

Archie gets caught in an elevator, along with a pregant Puerto Rican and her husband, an aging hippie, and an erudite black businessman.

Edith is suddenly moody and irritable with the approach of menopause.

Archie's paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship.

An old girlfriend of Mike's suddenly arrives at the Bunkers' with a four-year-old boy who she claims is his son.

Archie refuses to get involed with the police, even though he's the only witness to a neighborhood mugging.

The Bunkers are alone for eight days while Mike and Gloria are spending a week at a commune.

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.

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.

Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat.

Archie is disturbed to discover Edith once spent an entire weekend with an old beau.

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.

Archie can barely contain himself when the attractive young wife of an old army buddy spends an eventful night in the Bunker's household.

Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals.

Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.

On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on their wedding day.

The Stivics' wedding is jeopardized when Michael's uncle insists, over Archie's virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.

Archie befriends the other patient in his semiprivate room, unaware that he's black.

Middle-aged Archie can only envy the eternally youthful outlook of his friend and contemporary Bill Mulholern. He is especially impressed that the toupeed, flashily garbed Bill has managed to attract a sexy young bedmate named Tina. But by episode's end, Archie is made to realize how lucky he is to be spending his declining years with a loving wife like Edith.

Edith and Gloria end the latest family brawl when they storm out of the house to spend the night on their own.

Archie refuses to tag along to Edith's thirtieth high school reunion-- until he finds out that one of her beaus will be attending.

Archie buys an expensive watch of dubious pedigree and soon becomes paranoid that it's stolen. When it breaks, he has to find a jeweler who'll fix it with no questions asked.

Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.

It's -Rashomon-Bunker-style when the family recounts vastly different versions of the same disastrous encounter with a pair of handyman in the Bunker kitchen.

After an attempted sexual assault. Gloria turns to the family for guidance as she suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime.

Henry Jeffersons joins Archie in trying to prevent a Hispanic from moving into the neighborhood.

As the Lorenzos settle in, Archie grows jealous of Edith's friendship with Irene.

Edith befriends a lonely old man,through Archie is less than thrilled to have a constant reminder of his own advancing years hanging around the house.

Edith receives a small fortune in quarters as a result of a computer error. Then another computer informs Archie that he's been officially declared dead.

Archie thinks Irene Lorenzo is trying to convert Edith to Catholicism.

Locked in his cellar with a bottle of vodka,Archie spends a long night contemplating his life through the haze of a drunken stupor.

Archie and Edith rekindle their romance during a second honeymoon in Atlantic City.

An influential politician attempts to dissuade Archie from pressure charges against his son after the boy robs Archie in Munson's cab.

Irene challenges Archie to a pool match, but he begs off, complaining of a sore back.

Archie refuses to attend his own birthday party.

Archie sabotages an old friend's efforts to land a job at the loading dock because he's afraid the man might be in line for his position.

Archie's misconceptions run amok when Gloria befriends the retarded box boy from the local market.

The family attends Lionel's engagement party, where his parents discover that one of his fiancé's parents is white.

The Bunkers are in a panic after Archie eats a stew made from mushrooms that might have been contaminated.

Gloria is bewildered after she falls temporarily out of life with Michael, until she discovers her mother went through the same thing with Archie.

Archie unwillingly passes George Jefferson a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill.

Archie's spirit soars on Mike's graduation day, until he discovers that his meat-head son-in-law has accepted a fellowship and won't be moving out for another year.