All in the Family – The Complete Eighth Season

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All in the Family – The Complete Eighth Season

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  1. andy8047 says:
    September 6, 2010 at 10:54 am

    CBS’s ALL IN THE FAMILY Season 8 is likely,the most memorable of all. Archie Bunker(the late great Carroll O’Connor),a former loading dock foreman,invests the Bunkers’ savings into his longtime local hangout,Kelsey’s Bar. He reopens the pub as Archie’s Place,thus inpiring the spinoff ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE. ABP wouldn’t happen until September 1979,though. Tommy Kelsey,portrayed recurringly by Bob Hastings,became too ill to continue operating the pub. So I guess Archie wanted to save the pub from closing down. Another episode has Archie and his son-in-law Mike “Meathead” Stivic(Rob Reiner) locked in Archie’s Place’s storeroom by a thief. Archie even hosts a Super Bowl party in the pub. During the party,two guys come in and hold up the joint and everyone else present,hostage. Edith’s(Jean Stapleton) aunt Iola(guest star Nedra Volz) visits the Bunkers and the Stivics. The worst moment of Edith’s life occurs this season. She is raped by an intruder on her 50th birthday. The intruder,portrayed by guest star the late David Dukes,even talked about that episode on THE E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY-ALL IN THE FAMILY. Mike,who has been tutoring,accepts a teaching job at a California college. So this is the most touching situation of all. Mike and Gloria(Sally Struthers) prepare to move to California,with their young son Joey in tow,of course and against Archie’s preference(he labels California as “the land of fruits and nuts”). The Stivics’ home is still owned by former resident George Jefferson. In one episode,George(guest star Sherman Hemsley,now a star of the AITF spinoff THE JEFFERSONS) visits the Stivics with news that he found someone interested in purchasing the home. In the two-part season finale,Gloria and Mike are back with Archie and Edith like old times,but for only a few days because the Stivics had already found their new California home. Edith prepares a farewell dinner for Gloria and Mike but Edith has hurt by the Stivics’ plan of going out to dinner with one of Mike’s new colleagues. For Edith’s sake,Mike calls the colleague and cancels. Like old times,Archie,Edith,Mike and Gloria are all together for the last time at the Bunkers’ dining room table. And of course,Archie and Mike exchange heated words. Mike is so infuriated that he refused to never speak to Archie again. The next morning,with heavy persuasion from Edith,Archie and Mike make up. The foursome renew their respective wedding vows just before the big departure. This mediocre ceremony was performed by an Oriental minister. Then Mike thanks Archie for letting him live under the Bunkers’ roof,the free meals,despite the frequent differences between them. Archie calmly states to Mike,”You take care of yourself,and Joseph and most of all,my “little goil”. The episode ends with Archie and Edith in silence in their living room chairs with the camera lens zooming out. For the last time,the original closing theme plays with Reiner saying “ALL IN THE FAMILY was recorded before a live audience.”. Reiner and Struthers decided to quit AITF after the end of season 8 for their own ventures. The other episodes are great. Reiner wanted to act less and concentrate more on producing and directing.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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  2. Joseph Forestano says:
    September 6, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    Thank you for buying the distribution from Sony. It’s refreshing to see a company getting creative instead of forgetting timeless properties like All in the family. Im smart enough to know marketing 3d technology (for the millionth unsucessful time in film history) and the fight to bring Blu Ray out of the photo finish department are their primary concerns so let them keep spending on bankrupting themselves. Sony let it sit in the doldroms until. Shout! Factory picked it up and will see a healthy return on their investment…from me and thousands of others who await the release of the remaining All in The Family seasons..

    TO SHOUT! FACTORY…PLEASE PICKUP THE DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS TO “ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE”…MOST OF US WOULD LOVE TO BUY THAT FROM YOU TOO!!!!
    Rating: 5 / 5

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  3. Johnny K says:
    September 6, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    I have to give a great big THANK YOU to SHOUT Factory for picking up season seven of AITF. I can hardly wait to watch it again (yep, I pre-ordered it here on Amazon the minute I saw it). Season seven and season eight are very special seasons, as they contain storylines with amazingly crisp writing and the actors are so deeply into character that their talent shines like a bright star. We learn even more about the Bunkers, especially Archie and Edith, who were the true anchors of the show all along. We see more of the intimate aspects of Archie and Edith, their true feelings for each other really come to light in seasons seven and eight. We see their hopes and dreams, some lost but some become a reality, too. The comedy is still there, as it always was but with even more meaningful touches that make these two seasons of AITF my favorites. There is nothing as brilliant as AITF on the weak television schedule these days, so I look forward to watching AITF seasons 7 and 8 again and again (Season seven coming real soon to DVD and please release season eight on DVD as soon as possible). Thanks for reading my review.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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