midnight-460-446218 This wasn't suppose to be a knock off,of the All In The Family series but a personal look at the final creation of a man. The show isn't All In The Family. It's not just about a lovable bigot married to a saintly housewife with a grown daughter and liberal son-in-law that pushes the envelope just as much as the main character but in the opposite of ways. This show deals with evolution of a character. You see, when Archie started out you got to learn how and why he was the way he was and little by little you got to see him learn new ways. There was always an Dingbat, Meat head, or Coloured boy neighbor around for him to bounce his ways off of and he came off looking pretty crass but he was learning step by step how to be a better person. This show may not have been as ground-breaking to some because it didn't tackle the social issues like the former but it did wonders if you'd look at it not as a spin off but as putting to use all he has learned. His wife has passed, his child moved away, and he still has people he doesn't quite understand. He learns and he loves and is loved even though he says things from time to time people now know that that he's not just some bigot. You never got to see his true heart with the others around and he never really amounted to much until he learned to make it on his own and become invaluable to other people. He learned to forgive, love, accept and understand people from all walks of life. It's a show about a man that finally grows up and becomes a real man.

ciecie Like you, I also enjoy watching the re-runs of All In The Family and Archie Bunker's Place. You are right about it not being a spin-off of the original show. If you will listen, it says at the end of Archie Bunker's Place it says it was played before a studio audience for Live Responses. They changed it from being taped before a studio audience to this at the request of Carroll O'Connor. As I recall, the reason was that it because the studio audiences' laughter made O'Connor very nervous. By the way, a spin off is when one or more characters has another show written around them. The two big spin-offs from All In The Family were The Jeffersons and Maude. Maude spun-off another show, Good Times.

Brian Washington I would like to know who came up with the bright idea to keep the All In the Family franchise going. To me the show should have ended when Mike and Gloria left and moved to California. Without the dynamic between Archie and Mike, there was no way that this show would ever be as funny as it was. Also, for the most part, you know a show is in trouble when they decide to bring the cute kid in. This is just another case of a network trying to milk a show for everything its worth.

yonko This show never measured up to All in the Family. I was too young to really remember this show, but I have been watching it in TVland. It' not bad, but you can really see the Archie's jokes coming a mile away. I think this show lacked the emotion that All in the Family had. Archie's Place became your basic sitcom and it didn't have anything that really set it off from anything else. It had it's moments, though. But I think Murray Klein (Martin Balsam) was the best character on the show.