seemed like it was extra slow during this season. Wonder why?

It was indeed. I don't know if they did that to differentiate from previous seasons, especially since Rob Reiner was no longer there to say "All in the Family was filmed on tape, before a studio audience".

Season 9 seemed very depressing to me. The house seemed not as lit up. Knowing too that there was not a live audience to react anymore made it seem like it was almost comatose. The episode where Edith's Aunt Rose died was uber depressing, as was the final episode where Edith was ill but didn't tell Archie about it. It was a foreshadowing of things to come :(

Seems only fitting that the ending theme would be much slower and kind of mundane, almost lifeless.

It was indeed. I don't know if they did that to differentiate from previous seasons, especially since Rob Reiner was no longer there to say "All in the Family was filmed on tape, before a studio audience".

Season 9 seemed very depressing to me. The house seemed not as lit up. Knowing too that there was not a live audience to react anymore made it seem like it was almost comatose. The episode where Edith's Aunt Rose died was uber depressing, as was the final episode where Edith was ill but didn't tell Archie about it. It was a foreshadowing of things to come :(

Seems only fitting that the ending theme would be much slower and kind of mundane, almost lifeless.

When did the live audience stop? Was it when the masterful writing and brilliance of this series left once Mike and Gloria moved to California? That should have been the last episode.

Jack

It was indeed. I don't know if they did that to differentiate from previous seasons, especially since Rob Reiner was no longer there to say "All in the Family was filmed on tape, before a studio audience".

Season 9 seemed very depressing to me. The house seemed not as lit up. Knowing too that there was not a live audience to react anymore made it seem like it was almost comatose. The episode where Edith's Aunt Rose died was uber depressing, as was the final episode where Edith was ill but didn't tell Archie about it. It was a foreshadowing of things to come :(

Seems only fitting that the ending theme would be much slower and kind of mundane, almost lifeless.


to me the show was very lit up during season 9

It was indeed. I don't know if they did that to differentiate from previous seasons, especially since Rob Reiner was no longer there to say "All in the Family was filmed on tape, before a studio audience".

Season 9 seemed very depressing to me. The house seemed not as lit up. Knowing too that there was not a live audience to react anymore made it seem like it was almost comatose. The episode where Edith's Aunt Rose died was uber depressing, as was the final episode where Edith was ill but didn't tell Archie about it. It was a foreshadowing of things to come :(

Seems only fitting that the ending theme would be much slower and kind of mundane, almost lifeless.

Agreed

Yes it was slower. And it was in a lower key. It was in the key of F major for seasons 1-8 but it dropped down to E major in Season 9. But it went back to F major when it became Archie Bunker's Place.

Yes it was slower. And it was in a lower key. It was in the key of F major for seasons 1-8 but it dropped down to E major in Season 9. But it went back to F major when it became Archie Bunker's Place.


yes I knew something was different

Now I’m watching some season 9 episodes on the binge on Catchy and it appears they must have different prints because the closing seems even slower and it’s a semitone even lower in the key of E Flat.

Since no one posted the closing credits, here they are. Notice "filmed before a live studio audience" is gone and replaced by "played in front of a studio audience for a live response"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzsnpoXLtw

Since no one posted the closing credits, here they are. Notice "filmed before a live studio audience" is gone and replaced by "played in front of a studio audience for a live response"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzsnpoXLtw

Yeah thats the slow dry theme lol