All in the Family: Season 3

1972 · 24 episodes · ★ 6.9

What Season 3 of All in the Family

The season opens with the Bunker family in their Queens home, a working-class neighborhood in New York. Archie, a World War II veteran, distrusts anyone who doesn't think like him, while Edith, his wife, responds with patience and sweetness. Their daughter Gloria, a feminist as stubborn as her father, lives with Mike, whom Archie calls Meathead, and the arguments between father-in-law and son-in-law set the pace of nearly every episode. Tensions multiply with a TV editorial against gun control, an IRS audit, a dinner with swingers that Edith accidentally invites over, and Mike's donation to McGovern's campaign instead of paying rent. Archie also clashes with his sons-in-law's wedding and with the debate over whether women can be doctors.

24episodes

Sep 16, 1972premiered

Mar 24, 1973Latest episode

10 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Archie and the Editorial
Sep 16, 1972 · 25 min
After he rails against gun control in a TV editorial. Archie meets his two biggest supporters -a pair of stickup artist who rob him at gunpoint.
Directing: Norman Campbell · Starring: Val Bisoglio, Diane Sommerfield, Brendan Dillon, Sorrell Booke
3x02 Archie's Fraud
Sep 23, 1972 · 25 min
Archie is audited by the IRS after he fails to report income he made driving Munson's taxicab.
Directing: Norman Campbell · Writing: Michael Ross, Bernie West · Starring: Billy Halop, Ed Peck, James McEachin, Diana Hale
3x03 The Threat
Sep 30, 1972 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
Archie can barely contain himself when the attractive young wife of an old army buddy spends an eventful night in the Bunker's household.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Lila Garrett · Starring: Gloria LeRoy
3x04 Gloria and the Riddle
Oct 7, 1972 · 25 min
Gloria tests Mike and Archie's male chauvinism with a riddle that stumps the men but is easily answer by Edith.
Cast: Billy Sands, Allan Melvin, Brendan Dillon, Patricia Stich
3x05 Lionel Steps Out
Oct 14, 1972 · 25 min
Archie is aghast to find out that his visiting niece plans to go out dancing with Lionel Jefferson.
Starring: Mel Stewart, Mike Evans, Dianne Hull
3x06 Edith Flips Her Wig
Oct 21, 1972 · 25 min
Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store.
Writing: Sam Locke · Starring: James Gregory, Barnard Hughes
3x07 The Bunkers and the Swingers
Oct 28, 1972 · 25 min
Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals.
Directing: Norman Lear, John Rich · Writing: Lee Kalcheim, Michael Ross · Cast: Rue McClanahan, Vincent Gardenia, Isabel Sanford, Justin Coto-Diaz
3x08 Mike Comes Into Money
Nov 4, 1972 · 25 min
Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Norman Lear, Burt Styler · Cast: William Benedict, Jack Grimes, Peggy Rea, Connie Sawyer
3x09 Flashback: Mike and Gloria's Wedding (1)
Nov 11, 1972 · 25 min
On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on their wedding day.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Rob Reiner · Cast: Michael Conrad
3x10 Flashback: Mike and Gloria's Wedding (2)
Nov 18, 1972 · 25 min
The Stivics' wedding is jeopardized when Michael's uncle insists, over Archie's virulent objections, that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Rob Reiner · Cast: Michael Conrad, Mike Evans, Peggy Rea, Peter Hobbs
3x11 Mike's Appendix
Dec 2, 1972 · 25 min
Mike's emergency appendectomy precipitates an argument between Archie and Gloria regarding the proficiency of women doctors.
Cast: John Zaremba, Ann Summers
3x12 Edith's Winning Ticket
Dec 9, 1972 · 25 min
When Edith finds some old lottery tickets that she has totally forgotten about, Archie hits the roof, claiming she was wasting money. However, Archie's attitude quickly changes when the family discovers one of the tickets is a winner; but there is a catch; Edith claims the tickets don't belong to her.
Starring: Mel Stewart, Isabel Sanford
3x13 Archie and the Bowling Team
Dec 16, 1972 · 25 min
Archie is ecstatic when, after waiting six years, there finally is an opening on the most prestigious bowling team, the Cannonballers, and he is asked to try out.
3x14 The Locket
Dec 23, 1972 · 25 min
Edith's antique locket is missing and Archie sees it as a way to collect from the insurance company to buy a new television set. Confident of getting the insurance money, Archie orders a new color set, only to have an insurance adjuster arrive at the house to question the claim.
Cast: Liam Dunn, John Randolph, Louis Guss
3x15 Archie in the Hospital (aka Archie Goes to the Hospital)
Jan 6, 1973 · 25 min
Archie befriends the other patient in his semiprivate room, unaware that he's black.
Directing: John Rich · Cast: Mike Evans, Roscoe Lee Browne, Isabel Sanford, Priscilla Morrill
3x16 Oh Say Can You See
Jan 20, 1973 · 25 min · ★ 4.6
Middle-aged Archie can only envy the eternally youthful outlook of his friend and contemporary Bill Mulholern. He is especially impressed that the toupeed, flashily garbed Bill has managed to attract a sexy young bedmate named Tina. But by episode's end, Archie is made to realize how lucky he is to be spending his declining years with a loving wife like Edith.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Michael Ross · Cast: Arlene Golonka, Larry Storch, Bob Hastings
3x17 Archie Goes Too Far
Jan 27, 1973 · 25 min
Edith and Gloria end the latest family brawl when they storm out of the house to spend the night on their own.
Directing: John Rich, Bob LaHendro · Writing: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish · Starring: Mary Kay Place, Mike Evans, Patty Weaver, Pamela Murphy
3x18 Class Reunion
Feb 10, 1973 · 25 min
Archie refuses to tag along to Edith's thirtieth high school reunion-- until he finds out that one of her beaus will be attending.
Directing: John Rich · Starring: Rae Allen, Joshua Shelley, Bernie Hamilton, Harvey Lembeck
3x19 Hot Watch
Feb 17, 1973 · 25 min
Archie buys an expensive watch of dubious pedigree and soon becomes paranoid that it's stolen. When it breaks, he has to find a jeweler who'll fix it with no questions asked.
Directing: John Rich · Writing: Sam Locke · Cast: Mike Evans
3x20 Archie is Branded
Feb 24, 1973 · 25 min
Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.
Directing: John Rich · Cast: Michael Gregory, Billy Halop, Gregory Sierra, John Putch
3x21 Everybody Tells the Truth
Mar 3, 1973 · 25 min
It's -Rashomon-Bunker-style when the family recounts vastly different versions of the same disastrous encounter with a pair of handyman in the Bunker kitchen.
Directing: John Rich · Cast: Ron Glass, Maurice Marsac, Ken Lynch
3x22 Archie Learns His Lesson
Mar 10, 1973 · 25 min
Archie attends night-school classes to qualify for a high school diploma
Written by: Michael Ross
3x23 Gloria, the Victim
Mar 17, 1973 · 25 min
After an attempted sexual assault. Gloria turns to the family for guidance as she suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime.
Directing: John Rich · Cast: Charles Durning, Mel Stewart, Mike Evans
3x24 The Battle of the Month Season Finale
Mar 24, 1973 · 25 min
In a foul mood, Gloria lambastes Edith for her constant acquiescence to Archie's whims.
Written by: Michael Ross