The more I enjoy this show (and Archie Bunkers Place). I was so young when these shows aired initially and watching them recently on N@N and TVLand has been great.

Until I started to watch, and pay attention, I never really understood what was so great about these shows.

Now I do ~ I wish I had been paying attention earlier!

You know, I can't really remember if I liked AITF right off the bat. I think when it first aired on TVL, they had some sort of week long marathon for the show. I never watched it during that marathon because I thought I wouldn't like it. Then I started to watch it and I just grew to love it. I started recording the show and still watch it today.

Everybody knows how I felt about ABP at first and now I like it, so I won't go into that again.

I love this show. It was one of those shows that my whole family loves, They didn't like the Maude episode though, I love it. My favorite spinoff of AITF. Same goes for Archie Bunkers Place.

I have to admit that I am old enough to have watched AITF right from its premiere episode in January 1971. I thought it was the freshest, most innovative show I had ever seen on TV at that time, and I still feel the same way 30 years later.

I wish I could remember AITF when it first came on, but I was born near the end of AITF (in 1978). I don't even remember ABP and would not become a fan of either show until 2002. And you're right, the more I watched it, the more I liked it. Not many shows do that to me today.
-Kristi

For me, AITF is not a show I liked off the bat. It just sort of grew on me as time went on.

I liked All in The Family from the first time I started watching it in the 70's. I didn't care as much for Archie Bunker's Place though.

I was in the 6th grade when AiTF first aired, and if I remember right, at least in my area it was on about 10:30 at night. But I remember the promotional ads for it and I could tell it was different from what was still the mode in TV comedy, such as Mayberry RFD, My Three Sons, and Family Affair. It even stood out among a few comedies that were less 'innocent,' such as Room 222.

By fall of '71 AiTF was on primetime on SAT nights, and my parents took note of it and said such subjects were not fit for 'children' (there were 2 younger than I) to be watching. But before long they were talking fondly of Archie and Edith. I'm sure many people went through that; that the new openness about real issues was somewhat shocking at first, but they could really relate to the characters, who acted real with "a point to windward" [slightly more to the force of direction of what they were meant to be (bigot, dingbat, pinko)].