All in the Family: Season 9

1978 · 27 episodes · ★ 8.0

What Season 9 of All in the Family

The season kicks off when Stephanie, a nine-year-old girl, shows up on the Bunkers' doorstep, abandoned by her father, and the family ends up keeping her. Archie keeps clashing daily with Michael, whom he calls "Meathead," while Gloria stands up for her feminist ideas. Edith, sweet and always willing to help, runs into the mistrust of a bank that won't lend her money because she's a stay-at-home housewife with no job. Trips and family visits bring out prejudices, grudges and tensions between the couple. Each episode blends humor with debates about religion, sexism and living together.

27episodes

Sep 24, 1978premiered

Apr 8, 1979Latest episode

11.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 9 Episodes

9x01 Little Miss Bunker
Sep 24, 1978 · 25 min
Edith's cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers' doorstep.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin · Starring: Bern Bennett, Jason Wingreen
9x02 End in Sight
Oct 1, 1978 · 25 min
Archie spends a night wallowing in self-pity when an insurance physical reveals an ominous spot on his liver.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Danny Dayton, Phil Leeds, Jason Wingreen
9x03 Reunion on Hauser Street
Oct 8, 1978 · 25 min
The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Estelle Parsons, Gloria LeRoy
9x04 What'll We Do with Stephanie?
Oct 15, 1978 · 25 min
The Bunkers decide to keep Stephanie after her father fails to reclaim her as promised.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin · Starring: Abbey Lincoln
9x05 Edith's Final Respects
Oct 22, 1978 · 25 min
Edith is the sole mourner at her Aunt Rose's funeral.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller · Starring: Howard Morton, Charles Siebert
9x06 Weekend in the Country
Oct 29, 1978 · 25 min
Archie and Edith are invited to spend a fishing weekend with Barney and Blanche at their cottage. But after a game of Monopoly, an argument between Barney and Blanche begins. That night, Archie is uncomfortable to sleep with a man (Barney) in bed, while Edith and Blanche rate their husbands as a lovers. By the end, Blanche and Barney makeup and Archie tries to forget everything.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Estelle Parsons
9x07 Archie's Other Wife
Nov 5, 1978 · 25 min
At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller · Starring: Harvey Lembeck, Jonelle Allen, Eugene Roche
9x08 Edith Versus the Bank
Nov 19, 1978 · 25 min
With the TV broken, Edith decides to buy a new one for Archie for their 30th wedding anniversary. But when the clerk won't let Edith buy a TV without Archie's signature because she's a woman, she goes to the bank for a loan. There too, she can not borrow money because she is just a housewife with no job, making Edith furious. Helpless, Edith goes home and asks Archie for $500, but she won't tell him why (surprise). During their conversation, Edith discovers that Archie may be sexist also.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin · Starring: John Harkins
9x09 Return of the Waitress
Nov 26, 1978 · 25 min
Edith finally confronts the waitress who tempted Archie's fidelity after Harry unwittingly hires her to work at Archie's Place.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Janis Paige, Danny Dayton, Jason Wingreen, Bill Quinn
9x10 Bogus Bills
Dec 3, 1978 · 25 min
Edith is arrested for passing phony $10 bills she got from Archie's Place.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller · Starring: Charles Hallahan, Sandy Kenyon, Danny Dayton, Jason Wingreen
9x11 The Bunkers Go West
Dec 10, 1978 · 25 min
After Mike and Gloria cancel their trip home for Christmas, the Bunkers decide to travel west for the holidays.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin
9x12 California, Here We Are (1)
Dec 17, 1978 · 25 min
The Bunkers head out to California for Christmas to find out that Mike and Gloria are having marital problems.
Directed by Paul Bogart · Starring Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner
9x13 California, Here We Are (2)
Dec 17, 1978 · 25 min
separation is Archie's reaction when he discovers that Gloria has been unfaithful to her husband: For the first time in nine years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael. The script, rife with disturbing details of the petty cruelties that have already poisoned the Stivics' marriage, avoids the easy out of a tidy resolution. Mike and Gloria do effect a spontaneous reconciliation under the tree, but the tentative exchange lacks the conviction of a permanent reunion. They've been through enough to know, as we do, that the optimism of Christmas morning doesn't always stand up to the cold light of the new year. years, he turns his back on his daughter and sides with Michael.
Writing: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller · Starring: Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner
9x14 A Night at the PTA
Jan 7, 1979 · 25 min
When Edith develops laryngitis on the eve of her singing debut at Stephanie's PTA recital, Archie steps in to understudy the duet.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin
9x15 A Girl Like Edith
Jan 14, 1979 · 25 min
When Edith invites butcher Klemmer and his new sweetheart, a Russian who is the spitting image of Edith, she notices that Klemmer might have the hots for Edith and not for her.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller · Starring: Theodore Bikel
9x16 The Appendectomy
Jan 21, 1979 · 25 min
Edith and Archie rush Stephanie to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy on the eve of her 10th birthday. Luckily, the surgery goes perfectly, so they celebrate both Stephanie's birthday and the success of her operation.
Directed by: Paul Bogart · Written by: Mel Tolkin · Starring: George Wyner
9x17 Stephanie and the Crime Wave
Jan 28, 1979 · 25 min
Archie and Edith are shocked when they discover that Stephanie has been stealing some of her favorite teacher's belongings, and the Bunkers's also. But Stephanie admits that she stole these things so that when she returns to her dad's, she'll have something to remember them by.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin
9x18 Barney, the Gold Digger
Feb 4, 1979 · 25 min
Barney Hefner is suicidal when Blanche finally deserts him, until Archie fixes him up with an overweight but wealthy widow.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Phil Sharp · Starring: Peggy Rea
9x19 The Return of Archie's Brother
Feb 11, 1979 · 25 min
When Archie's brother, Fred, visits Archie to open up a business, he also brings his 18 year old wife, Katherine. Both, Archie and Edith, and even Stephanie, are shocked as they find out. While the new bride and Edith cook supper, Archie and Fred argue about Katherine's age. Before dinner, Fred (and Katherine) leave the Bunker's home, canceling the business. In bed, Edith asks Archie if he were a single 55 year old man, would he go for a young girl. Archie answers no.
Directed by: Paul Bogart · Written by: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller
9x20 Stephanie's Conversion
Feb 18, 1979 · 25 min
After Stephanie comes back from Sunday School, Rev. Chong visits Edith to tell her that even though she is welcome anytime at Sunday School, Stephanie is Jewish. Edith accepts it, unlike Archie. Selfishly, Archie decides to change Stephanie's religion but Edith interrupts that it's not his decision. So Edith brings Archie and herself to visit a Rabbi to get more information of the religion. Later that night, Stephanie awaits at the porch for the return of Edith and Archie. She and her uncle discuss and he approves that it's her decision and whatever religion she'll be, he'll love her the way he has.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Clyde Kusatsu
9x21 Edith Gets Fired
Feb 25, 1979 · 25 min
When an ill woman tells Edith to let her die with dignity at the SunShine Home, the woman's family are furious after her death. The manager fires Edith for her selfishness, even though Edith honoured the woman's wish. Later that night, the woman's daughter thanks Edith to be with her mother as she passed away since she (the daughter) never got to visit her own mother back then.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: Angela Clarke, Barbara Cason, Leonard Stone, Victor Kilian
9x22 All in the Family Retrospective (1)
Mar 4, 1979 · 25 min
Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series.
Directed by: Walter C. Miller
9x23 All in the Family Retrospective (2)
Mar 4, 1979 · 25 min
Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series.
Directed by: Walter C. Miller
9x24 All in the Family Retrospective (3)
Mar 4, 1979 · 25 min
Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look at the high points of his ground-breaking TV series.
Directed by: Walter C. Miller
9x25 The Family Next Door
Mar 11, 1979 · 25 min
Louise Jefferson returns for a visit at the Bunker's place to ask Edith if she can sell her (Louise's) former house. Edith doubts but Archie makes her agree so that they (mostly he) can choose white people to move in. When Edith sells the house to a couple and she invites the lady to her house, Archie realises that the woman is black and so is her husband. But Archie isn't disturbed when he finds out that the man is a cop, which could be good for Archie's safety.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin · Starring: Richard Ward, Isabel Sanford
9x26 The Return of Stephanie's Father
Mar 25, 1979 · 25 min
Stephanie's father, Floyd, finally arrives with a devastating proposition for the Bunkers: They can keep Stephanie if they agree to pay him $1000 cash!
Directing: Paul Bogart · Writing: Mel Tolkin · Starring: Victor Kilian
9x27 Too Good Edith Season Finale
Apr 8, 1979 · 25 min
On Archie's St. Patrick's Day Party at the tavern, he discovers that Edith is terribly ill after doing a lot of cooking for him. Sidney comes to the rescue and is able to save Edith before it's too late and he also tells Archie that he knew about her illness before and so did Edith. Sidney mentions that he did tell Edith to stay off her feet, but obviously, with the cooking for Archie, she didn't listen to his instruction. Archie visits Edith upstairs and is disappointed that she didn't get rest instead of doing something for his party. Instead of leaving to host it, Archie falls asleep in the arms of his lover, Edith.
Directing: Paul Bogart · Starring: George Wyner