CanyonAg77 said:
"All in the Family" was copied from a British show, and was supposed to make you hate Archie Bunker and his politics
It backfired. People loved Archie and his opinions.
I may have had a crush on Gloria
That's what I was trying to say above that he was supposed to be hated, but he wasn't. He had a lot of ignorant views, but he also made sense.
He just really resonated with a big part of America. Not because of the racist stuff, but just the middle America stuff. But again, I don't think a lot of other actors could've carried that off and made it as successful.
It was weird when a few years later, he played the southern cop on Heat of the Night. Just shows you what an amazing actor he was.
Now he was a big-time liberal too. But that was back when people could be liberal and be sane and not shove it in everybody's faces.
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