Gloria is nervous about announcing her unexpected pregnancy because of Mike's stubborn attitude over population.

Teary farewells turn into fireworks when Mike hits Archie with five years of repressed rage, only to discover that he and Gloria can't move out for another week after Mike reveals he forgot to turn on the gas and electricity of his new home.

Archie tries to impress his boss by making the maximum contribution to his favorite charity and unwittingly donates his body to medical science.

Archie gets a rude shock when the tall,classy dame whose life he saved in a taxicab turns out to be a man.

Mike must decide if he wants to be in the delivery room during the birth of the baby.

Archie's refused to participate in a chain letter triggers a string of unlikely events.

Mike becomes the sole support of a growing family when Gloria loses her job because of her pregnancy.

Archie feels abandoned after Edith begins to volunteer part-time at the Sunshine Home for the Elderly.

Archie has difficulty keeping his blood pressure down for a company physical after the family launches into a heavy debate over the baby's name.

Gloria suspects handy-panky when she meets the beautiful blonde Mike's been tutoring after school hours,

Thanksgiving dinner becomes a family battleground when Archie discovers that Mike and Gloria don't want to impose the family's religious beliefs on their baby.

Archie gets a lesson in civil liberties when he's arrested using outlawed tear gas to protect himself against a mugger.

Gloria takes out her frustrations about being pregnant on Mike.

It appears that Gloria may have her first baby in an Italian restaurant.

Edith and Archie cause havoc at the hospital when Gloria is about to have her baby.

Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.

When Archie finds out that one of Mike's students is babysitting Joey and she invited her hippie boyfriend over to listen to music, he takes over and brings Joey to his house, even though he is hosting a poker game with his buddies.

It looks like Archie has turned over a new leaf when he befriends a Jewish man.

Mike's integrity is put to the test when he loses a teaching position to an equally qualified black candidate.

Energetic Justin Quigley inspires Archie to stick with the strict diet his doctor has recommended.

Mike and Gloria's sex life suffers after they have to begin planning their encounters around the baby's feeding schedule.

Archie Baptizes Baby Joey without Mike and Gloria's Permission.

A broken furnace forces Archie and Edith to spend a few nights under the Stivic's roof during a power blackout.

Edith abandons her stick-in-the-mud husband to liven things up on her own during an evening out at Kelly's Bar.

Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretions after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

Archie's self-esteem takes a beating when he loses his job on the loading dock.

A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a jaintor's job to Archie.

Archie's trip to the hospital is an ethnic nightmare. He's admitted by a Puerto Rican receptionist, treated by a Jewish physician, and is forced to accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor.

Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work-with a raise and a promotion.

As a practical joke, Archie fixes up one of his drinking buddies with female impersonator Beverly La Salle.

The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget.

Mike and Gloria are having a discussion over who will take care of Joey, just in case there comes a time when both of them are unable to care for the little tyke before his 18th birthday. Mike has serious reservations over allowing in-laws Archie and Edith to get custody of Joey, particularly due to what he perceives as Archie's bad influences. Gloria is having a hard time convincing Mike otherwise and gives in to Mike's rhetoric.

Mike's suspicions are confirmed when Archie and Edith return with Joey after a day of playing in the park. What's that Joey's got in his hands? Why, a toy machine gun that Grandpa had bought him. Of course, Mike (being dead set against gun violence) immediately is very angry and tells Archie that toy guns could influence children's behavior later on. Tempers really escalate when Mike grabs the plastic gun from Archie and breaks it over his knee.

After the two continue to argue, Mike lets slip that he is considering including a clause in the Stivics' will that

Edith saves a man's life and becomes the toast of the town,but Archie isn't happy standing in the shadow of her limelight.

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.

Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.

Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.

The clash of two worlds explodes in this episode. Mike's friend is a Draft Dodger and it is Christmas dinner and unbeknownst to Archie this guy is sitting at his Christmas dinner table. The guy is exactly everything Archie hates about Mike's generation. On top of this Archie's friend is also spending Christmas dinner with the Bunkers and he lost his son to the war.

Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.

Mike accidently breaks Archie's Chair.

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

Archie reluctantly agress to deliver Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unawware that his departed friend was Jewish.

Both Gloria and Mike help Edith and Archie express their sexual interaction after catching Edith reading How to be your Husband's Mistress.

Stranded in a subway train with different personalities, Mike is shocked when he punches a man for the very first time in his life after the man had pushed Gloria aside.

The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.

Before bedtime, Mike and Gloria have a game of Scrabble in which Mike ends up winning. He uses this game as an opportunity to rub Gloria's nose in the fact that he has to be better at everything, leading to an argument between the two. Gloria asserts that this is because Mike has had the chance to go to college and use his skills, while she hasn't had the chance yet, bringing up the fact that Mike promised her three years ago that chance. Gloria accuses Mike of ruining her life, causing him to walk out and try to spend the night at Archie and Edith's house. Archie and Mike reluctantly become roommates, which ends up in disaster. Archie then scolds Mike for trying to correct everybody's way of doing and saying things. Realizing his mistake, Mike goes home and apologizes to Gloria for being pompous, and Gloria apologizes to Mike for saying he ruined her life.

When Archie and the guys at the lodge are being called bigots in the papers because they are only white, Archie suggests to initiate a black jewish guy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Edith's cousin Floyd abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers' doorstep.

Archie spends a night wallowing in self-pity when an insurance physical reveals an ominous spot on his liver.

The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles

The Bunkers decide to keep Stephanie after her father fails to reclaim her as promised.

Edith is the sole mourner at her Aunt Rose's funeral.

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.

At an American Legion convention, Archie awakens facing a beautiful black airline stewardess who swears they were married the night before.

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.

Edith finally confronts the waitress who tempted Archie's fidelity after Harry unwittingly hires her to work at Archie's Place.

Edith is arrested for passing phony $10 bills she got from Archie's Place.

After Mike and Gloria cancel their trip home for Christmas, the Bunkers decide to travel west for the holidays.

The Bunkers head out to California for Christmas to find out that Mike and Gloria are having marital problems.

When Edith develops laryngitis on the eve of her singing debut at Stephanie's PTA recital, Archie steps in to understudy the duet.

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.

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.

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.

Barney Hefner is suicidal when Blanche finally deserts him, until Archie fixes him up with an overweight but wealthy widow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.