Reiner’s “All in the Family” role didn’t just capture the arguments of its time. It gave us a preview of our own. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief TV critic of The New York Times. In ...

He played a crucial role as Meathead, a foil to Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker on ‘All in the Family.’ When TV viewers tuned in on March 19, 1978, for the Season 8 finale of CBS’s landmark comedy ...

Archie Bunker, for those of us who are old enough to remember the “All in the Family” television series, was a comical bigot who often argued with his son-in-law, a liberal whom Archie called ...

The grisly murders last week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their deranged son, moved me to go back and watch two of my favorite “All in the Family” ...