All in the Family - Season 8

First aired: 10/2/1977 24 episodes

Episodes

1. Archie Gets the Business (1)

Aired: 10/2/1977

When Kelsey finally decides to sell his bar, nothing will stop Archie from getting it--even if it means forging Edith's signature against her will.

2. Archie Gets the Business (2)

Aired: 10/2/1977

Edith is upset when she discovers Archie has forged her signature to get the bar. But Mike will influence Mrs. Bunker to change her mind.

3. Cousin Liz

Aired: 10/9/1977

When Cousin Liz dies, Edith and Archie learn more about her than they ever thought. When roomate of Liz, Veronica, comes out of the closet to Edith, she also admits that she was more than just roomates with Liz.

4. Edith's 50th Birthday (1)

Aired: 10/16/1977

Before Edith arrives home, Gloria and Mike teaches Archie the plan for Edith 50th birthday surprise party which will be taken at 6 o'clock at the Stivics house. Edith comes back home while Archie and the Stivics leave to decorate the house for the party. A sudden knock at the door reveals a cop. Edith welcomes the policeman inside the house who claims that there's a rapper in town but he slips out that it's him. Edith is held at gunpoint and pushed on the couch. The rapist slowly strips Edith! Before it can go any longer, the phone rings. The rapist orders Edithto get rid of the caller as soon as possible. When she does, Archieknocks at the door, wondering why the hell is the door locked. Therapper hides himself in the closet and once again orders Edith to getrid of Archie. She does as quickly as possible. Still stranded in the house with the armed man, they suddenly smell something burning. It was the cake which Edith previously started to bake. They rush to the oven where the room

5. Edith's 50th Birthday (2)

Aired: 10/16/1977

When Edith tells the story to the family in tears, Gloria and Mike believe she should report to the police while Archie fears Edith will be the one going to jail. Two weeks later, Edith is still ironing sheets for no reason and keeps running upstairs when someone knocks on the door. Gloria tells her dad to give her some TLC (Tender Loving Care). But while he does so, Gloria gets a call from the policemen asking her to identify the rapist. Edith fears. But with convincing, Archie takes Edith to the police stations.

6. Unequal Partners

Aired: 10/23/1977

Archie must delay his weekend fishing trip with Barney when Edith announces that she has invited people from the SunShine Home to attend an elderly couple's wedding at 704 on the same day Archie planned to leave.

7. Archie's Grand Opening

Aired: 10/30/1977

On the eve of his grand opening, Harry quits Archie's bar when the bigot bosses Harry around. Helpless, Edith and the Stivics come on time and gladly decide to help out. With a great crowd, Archie faces more problems; Mike can't get the right mixes, Edith sings, the guys are after Gloria and not only that, Archie's boss at the loading docks arrive where Archie quits, upseting Edith.

8. Archie's Bitter Pill (1)

Aired: 11/6/1977

Archie is depressed when his saloon has gone slow. That's when his friend offers him some pills that cheers up. Archie takes in two when Edith and the Stivics visit Archie at the bar. Archie, overly excited, discusses his dreams of his bar where it will be extended to other states and people will love it. When the pills slowly fade out of Archie's system, he realises that his dream may never come true, and falls in the arms of his wife in tears

9. Archie's Bitter Pill (2) (aka Archie's Road Back)

Aired: 11/13/1977

A despondent Archie retreats to his bedroom, until Harry offers to bail him out with a partnership offer for the bar.

10. Archie and the KKK (1)

Aired: 11/27/1977

Archie is invited to a meeting with some pals. THey discuss about Mike's article in the newspaper on how offending it is. The leader asks Archie if he wants to join them and give Mike and lesson he'll never forget. Archie agrees, little does he know he just initiated the KKK (Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders).

11. Archie and the KKK (2)

Aired: 12/4/1977

Archie desives a plan to prevent the Klan from burning a cross on Mike and Glorial's lawn.

12. Mike and Gloria Meet

Aired: 12/11/1977

The family relive the Mike and Gloria's blind date by their friends, where they first insulted each other and ended up having sex in the kitchen.

13. Edith's Crisis of Faith (1)

Aired: 12/25/1977

Edith's religious faith is shaken after her friend female impersonator Beverly LaSalle is brutally murdered by street thungs at Christmas.

14. Edith's Crisis of Faith (2)

Aired: 12/25/1977

Mike is put in the hospital and Beverly LaSalle is murdered by a thug at Chistmas.

15. The Commercial

Aired: 1/8/1978

Edith is chosen to appear in a tv commericial but finds herself unable to lie when she begins to doubt the quality of the sponsor's detergent.

16. Super Bowl Sunday

Aired: 1/15/1978

Archie's Place is robbed on Super Bowl Sunday, the buiest day of the year.

17. Aunt Iola's Visit

Aired: 1/22/1978

Archie refuses to let Edith's elderly aunt move into their spare bedroom, even after she's been turned away by every other relative.

18. Love Comes to the Butcher

Aired: 2/5/1978

Archie is jealous when a lonely butcher lavishes attention on Edith.

19. Two's a Crowd

Aired: 2/12/1978

Mike and Archie's have a long talk after they find themself locked in the storeroom of Archie's Place.

20. Stalemates

Aired: 2/19/1978

Mike and Gloria are sure the romance has gone out of their marriage when even a weekend in the Poconous fails to reignite the spark.

21. The Brother

Aired: 2/26/1978

Archie's estranged brother returns, after twenty-nine years, to smooth things over before he enters the hospital for a serious operation.

22. Mike's New Job

Aired: 3/5/1978

The stivics prpare to move to California after Mike is offered a teaching position in Santa Barbara.

23. The Dinner Guest

Aired: 3/12/1978

Edith is crushed when Mike and Gloria make their other plans after she's prepared a special farewell dinner in their honor.

24. The Stivics Go West

Aired: 3/19/1978

The Bunker house is the scene of many tearful good-byes when Mike and Gloria finally leave for California.