Episode list

Archie can't help but feel uncomfortable - and uneasy - when a plumber's apprentice is a convict on a work furlough from prison.

The pilot episode for The Jeffersons (1975), where George and Louise move to "a deluxe apartment in the sky."

Mike and Gloria are dumbfounded by Edith's continual submissiveness to Archie. Gloria finally decides it's time to give her mother a long-overdue lesson in how to become more assertive in her marriage.

The Bunkers are shocked when the seemingly happy marriage of Edith's favorite cousin is anything but.

Archie's sense of morality is questioned when he borrows tools and equipment from work in order to complete a home repair project.

Out of curiosity, Archie takes a magazine test about his health habits. When he scores the test, he learns he might die at age 57. Rather than take the test for what it is worth (or heed the advice of the accompanying article), Archie fumes about his apparent fate.

Edith attends a wedding in her hometown of Scranton and runs into her childhood sweetheart, who is interested in rekindling the old romance

A contest between Archie and Mike, to see who can abstain from his favorite indulgence (Archie's being smoking cigars, Mike's eating everything in sight) becomes a battle of wills. Who will win this 48-hour contest?

Mike accepts a job, which pleases Archie because it means that Mike and Gloria will be moving. Finding a new home proves difficult. George Jefferson schemes to rent his old house next door to them cheap, just to annoy Archie.

With the Jeffersons' old house now ready for the Stivics to move in, Mike and Gloria look forward to some peace and quiet. Then Gloria has some really wonderful news: she's pregnant.

The day has come that Mike and Gloria are moving into their new home and Archie is practically pushing them out the door. Archie is being so obnoxious that Mike finally reaches a boiling point until he declares his independence and calls Archie a fathead. He and Gloria spend the night in their new home without electricity, plumbing or heat. Archie is overjoyed that the meathead is suffering but Edith's motherly instinct force her to intercede, she walks out and intends to suffer right along with the kids. Archie is all to happy to take care of himself but while making a mess in the kitchen, he runs across Gloria's bowl from when she was a baby and it melts his heart. He goes next door with a half-hearted apology and tells Mike and Gloria that they can stay at his house until the heat gets turned on.

Archie will do anything to get a promotion at the loading dock, so he agrees to help Mr. Sanders with his latest charity, unaware that it involves something that goes against his morals: organ donation.

While driving Munson's cab, Archie saves the life of a beautiful woman who becomes unconscious. Uh, was that a woman? Sorry, that was no woman, thanks to female impersonator Beverly LaSalle's convincing act.

Everyone debates whether Mike should be with Gloria in the delivery room when she gives birth--especially Mike.

Archie rips up a chain letter, thinking it to be nothing more than baloney. Then a whole bunch of accidents happen. Coincidence? Or did Archie really set off the string of mishaps?

When Gloria gets her paycheck in the mail, it is good news and bad news: The good news is that the check is more than she expected; the bad news is the enclosed pink slip. Determined to find out why she has been fired, she and Mike pay a visit to the boss, Mr. Crenshaw. Mike becomes angry and demands to know why Gloria was let go. Crenshaw secretly records the parts of their conversation that makes Mike look like he is threatening him, but turns it off to confess that he fired Gloria because she is pregnant, stating that she looks like Alfred Hitchcock in drag. The smug little man assures Mike that he and Gloria can sue him but that they have no evidence. Gloria organizes a protest outside the store that is interrupted by the cops--one of whom is pregnant and joins the protest. The store, with its back to the wall, gives Gloria her job back.

Archie is unhappy with Edith doing volunteer work at The Sunshine Home for Seniors and orders her to quit.

Archie's company physical is fast approaching, and he needs to remain calm for an entire weekend for the blood pressure test. Of course, a variety of situations arise that test Archie's ability to keep an even temper.

Gloria, now in her seventh month, is feeling unattractive just when Mike happens to be tutoring an attractive young woman in Economics, so she suspects that something else might be going on. One night when Mike goes to tutor the woman, they become mutually attracted to each other and kiss. Meanwhile, Archie gets an idea to trap Mike in a confession: Knowing that he can't hold his wine, Archie decides to liquor him up as a truth drug. They both get drunk, and Archie passes out--and misses Mike's confession that he simply got up and left the woman's apartment.

Archie and Mike argue over the religious upbringing of baby Joey during a Thanksgiving Day dinner.

A mugger tries to attack Archie in his cab - but this time, Archie strikes back with some tear gas. So why is Archie the one facing criminal charges?

Worried when her baby is nine days overdue, Gloria snaps at Mike. Mike tries to be nice to his wife, but then he forgets that her baby shower is scheduled on a day when he has plans.

Archie is a nervous wreck because he wants to back out of the annual minstrel show at the lodge, which he has successfully avoided for several years. Lodge brothers Barney Hefner and Ed Bradley blackmail him by asserting that if Archie doesn't go on with the show, he will be kicked out of the lodge and lose all the benefits therein. Meanwhile, Mike and Gloria try to have a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant to take their minds off the fact that she is a week overdue. When Gloria admits that she is having contractions, which she didn't want to admit because she didn't want to spoil the evening, Mike panics and tries to get her to the hospital. Trying to call the lodge to tell her mother and father that she is in labor, she becomes stuck in the phone booth. Meanwhile, Archie and Edith get the message and have to leave the lodge to get to the hospital. Barney and Ed think that it is just one more excuse to get out of going onstage, and they take the cold cream, forcing Archie to have to show up at the hospital in black face.

Archie is forced to show up at the hospital for his grandchild's birth in blackface when his lodge brothers refuse to give him their cold cream because he left. He and Edith are surprised to discover that Mike and Gloria haven't arrived--first Gloria was stuck in a phone booth at the restaurant, then they got stuck in traffic. All is well: they get to the hospital, Gloria gives birth, and Archie manages to borrow cold cream from a terrified elderly woman. The lodge brothers show up to say that they understand and that it would be heartless to throw him out of the lodge at the birth of his first grandson: Joseph Michael Stivic.