TMC
11-27-2022, 05:01 AM
Remember Carroll O'Connor announcing during the end credits, All in the Family was played to a studio audience for live responses"?
They shot and edited it first, then showed the finished show to the studio audience of another Norman Lear show, recorded their reactions and put them on the show before it went out to air. Barney Miller did something similar.
Jean Stapleton once explained that each episode of All in the Family was performed twice, before two different audiences (on the same day) and they edited the two recordings into one show, using the best takes.
When Sally Struthers came back to guest star in the final season of All in the Family, she had a hard time adjusting to not having an audience there. She requested that the crew laugh out loud. All of Archie Bunker's Place was taped without an audience.
They shot and edited it first, then showed the finished show to the studio audience of another Norman Lear show, recorded their reactions and put them on the show before it went out to air. Barney Miller did something similar.
Jean Stapleton once explained that each episode of All in the Family was performed twice, before two different audiences (on the same day) and they edited the two recordings into one show, using the best takes.
When Sally Struthers came back to guest star in the final season of All in the Family, she had a hard time adjusting to not having an audience there. She requested that the crew laugh out loud. All of Archie Bunker's Place was taped without an audience.