I have been reading a lot of old reviews and articles about 'All in the Family' and I noticed in a couple of the articles, it stated that this show brought America together. I guess you can take that statement a few ways, but, was it a true statement?

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I have been reading a lot of old reviews and articles about 'All in the Family' and I noticed in a couple of the articles, it stated that this show brought America together. I guess you can take that statement a few ways, but, was it a true statement?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/All_in_the_family.jpg/225px-All_in_the_family.jpg



I have yet to see Cleveland's Amory review in TV Guide of AITF, wonder what he was saying at the time.

I have yet to see Cleveland's Amory review in TV Guide of AITF, wonder what he was saying at the time.


He probably hated it. lol

He probably hated it. lol


I'm in the process of tracking down Amory's review of

AITF
Rhoda
Maude


He hated

Sanford and Son
Jeffersons


Loved

Grady
That's my Mama


:lol:

I'm in the process of tracking down Amory's review of

AITF
Rhoda
Maude


He hated

Sanford and Son
Jeffersons


Loved

Grady
That's my Mama


:lol:


Not a great track record there. lol

Not a great track record there. lol


Oh I left one out

Mary Tyler Moore

Oh I left one out

Mary Tyler Moore


He hated it Sol?

He hated it Sol?


I have to get his review. I'm going to see if he liked Rhoda, I think I had that one

I have to get his review. I'm going to see if he liked Rhoda, I think I had that one


Please post them when you get them, because now I am curious too. lol

Please post them when you get them, because now I am curious too. lol



Oh he loved Good Times too. And you know I will definitely post them

Oh he loved Good Times too. And you know I will definitely post them


Thanks

Armory sounded like a loon! LOL

I wish I had started collecting tv guides when he was still the critic. lol

I wish I had started collecting tv guides when he was still the critic. lol


I remember him predicting in TV Guide Lionel from the Jeffersons would get his own show.-lol

I remember him predicting in TV Guide Lionel from the Jeffersons would get his own show.-lol
I do have one tv guide from the 70's. In it he previews the short lived sitcom Doc. lol

I do have one tv guide from the 70's. In it he previews the short lived sitcom Doc. lol


I just have this vision of him sitting in a room smoking a cigar while sampling a TV show:lol:

I wish I had started collecting tv guides when he was still the critic. lol

I used to have a fairly nice TV Guide collection, spanning the years 1967 to 1975. But the books got dirty from being stashed in a hot dusty attic for many years, I ended up selling them to a guy who runs an antique shop. I sold him some old comic books too, I got $250 for the whole lot. I didn't like parting with the TV Guides, but I was preparing to move and wanted to get rid of some old stuff. I did keep my collection of Dennis The Menace comic books, I have a bunch of those bonus magazines that were issued from the 1950's to the 70's.

Cleveland Amory's reviews were interesting, he had a mind of his own that's for sure. The current TV guide is a piece of junk, I don't buy it anymore since they converted to that larger magazine style format.

I used to have a fairly nice TV Guide collection, spanning the years 1967 to 1975. But the books got dirty from being stashed in a hot dusty attic for many years, I ended up selling them to a guy who runs an antique shop. I sold him some old comic books too, I got $250 for the whole lot. I didn't like parting with the TV Guides, but I was preparing to move and wanted to get rid of some old stuff. I did keep my collection of Dennis The Menace comic books, I have a bunch of those bonus magazines that were issued from the 1950's to the 70's.

Cleveland Amory's reviews were interesting, he had a mind of his own that's for sure. The current TV guide is a piece of junk, I don't buy it anymore since they converted to that larger magazine style format.
Wow I would have loved to have those. I'm sure we picked up tv guides during the years in the 70's but I never thought of collecting them. I didn't start collecting tv guides until 1983. Cleveland Amory was long gone by then. I had a good comic book collection too. I used to go down every week to get some. I sold them at a flea market for 10 cents a piece. I really regret that now. I still collect the tv guides but they're mostly a tabloid magazine now. The only good issue is still the fall preview edition.

I still have the last TV Guide before the Large Format.

I still have the last TV Guide before the Large Format.
I do too. I also have the first large format. Half the time I don't even read them. I just collect them out of habit. TV Guide is a shell of what it used to be.

I wouldn't say that "All in the Family" brought America together.

I would say that this show brought up issues that were NOT previously seen in television sitcoms at that time.

This show revolutionized the TV sitcom. We were coming out of the unreal and sometimes inaccurate sitcom world of the 60s and this show brought the gritty reality of the 70s into TV Land and shows were never the same again.

If anything, we should get down on our knees and thank God for Norman Lear. :notworthy

I have yet to see Cleveland's Amory review in TV Guide of AITF, wonder what he was saying at the time.

Who is that??

I wouldn't say that "All in the Family" brought America together.

I would say that this show brought up issues that were NOT previously seen in television sitcoms at that time.

This show revolutionized the TV sitcom. We were coming out of the unreal and sometimes inaccurate sitcom world of the 60s and this show brought the gritty reality of the 70s into TV Land and shows were never the same again.

If anything, we should get down on our knees and thank God for Norman Lear. :notworthy

LOL not me I won't bow to Norman Lear, he is at least partially to blame for the current poor shape TV is in with all the crude behavior, foul language and violence that is allowed in TV shows. All In The Family has it's funny moments, but I would much rather watch any 60's sitcom over any 70's and later sitcoms, with very few exceptions. 60's shows were made with care and class, family values were at the forefront. The fantasy and rural sitcoms of the 60's are some of the best sitcoms ever made. All In The Family introduced the de-evolutionizing of TV, it's been slowly downhill since then. TV shows haven't been the same since the classic era of the 60's, and we as a society are worse off because of it. TV network executives today should be ashamed of themselves, there are no decent shows anymore it's all garbage.

Another thing about 70's sitcoms, most of them look unattractive with an urban setting and everyone seems to live in a drab apartment in a high rise building. I guess that was the happening thing in those days. Give me the 60's sitcoms where people lived in their own house in the land of suburbia. One exception to this is Family Affair, they lived in New York in a high rise apartment building. That was a pretty cool looking apartment though, the two doors that opened into the apartment had the doorknobs placed in the center of the doors, that is unique. Doorknobs are usually on one side of the door or the other, not placed in the middle.

Who is that??he was the big wig reviewer in tv guide back in the 60s and 70s

I do too. I also have the first large format. Half the time I don't even read them. I just collect them out of habit. TV Guide is a shell of what it used to be.my mother asked me the other day if tv guide even still existed i told her that it did but the new format stunk

my mother asked me the other day if tv guide even still existed i told her that it did but the new format stunk
Yea it's not the tv guide that we all remember. It started to get bad even before they switched to the large format. They stopped putting in the local listings.