If Archie Bunker were ever alive, he'd be rolling over in his grave

[lennypartiv]

Archie Bunker couldn't exist today. That's why we need him more than ever

Norman Lear's cantankerous, bigoted creation ignited dialogue, not a culture war. We could use him now.

www.latimes.com

 

[lennypartiv]

Well what do you know, Americans wanted the working class represented on TV.

---Working class representation on television was meager in the late 1960s and early 1970s---

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=jj_pubs