ALL IN THE FAMILY: THE ELEVATOR STORY (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedies about a working-class household presided over by the opinionated Archie Bunker. In this episode, Archie gets trapped in an elevator with four other people of very different backgrounds: a hysterical white woman; a snobbish, rich African-American man, who shares Archie's prejudice toward Latinos; and a Puerto Rican husband and his very pregnant wife. While Gloria, Mike, and Edith wait for Archie to return to the Italian restaurant where they are celebrating Edith's birthday, Archie rushes to their nearby insurance company to drop off a payment. He only gets as far as the elevator, where he and the other four occupants receive a nasty surprise: the elevator gets stuck, and they must wait for someone to find and save them. As the tension mounts, the occupants trade insults, and the pregnant woman goes into labor. Commercials deleted.
(This copy of the program is the syndicated version of an episode that originally aired on Jan. 1, 1972.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Verizon Foundation, 2002.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: January 1, 1972 Saturday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:25
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:13800
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1971-1979
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Norman Lear … Producer, Developed by
- George Turpin … Associate Producer
- John Rich … Director
- Alan J. Levitt … Writer
- Johnny Speight … Based on "Till Death Do Us Part" by
- Lee Adams … Theme Music by, Opening Theme "Those Were the Days" by
- Charles Strouse … Theme Music by, Opening Theme "Those Were the Days" by
- Roger Kellaway … Theme Music by, Closing theme "Remembering You" by
- Carroll O'Connor … Theme Music by, Closing Theme "Remembering You" by
- Carroll O'Connor … Cast, Archie Bunker
- Jean Stapleton … Cast, Edith Bunker
- Rob Reiner … Cast, Mike Stivic
- Sally Struthers … Cast, Gloria Stivic
- Roscoe Lee Browne … Cast, Hugh Victor Thompson III
- Hector Elizondo … Cast, Carlos Mendoza
- Eileen Brennan … Cast, Angelique McCarthy
- Edith Diaz … Cast, Serafina Mendoza