On the Bunkers' wedding anniversary, Gloria and Mike bicker with Archie.
After Mike writes a protest letter to President Nixon, Archie tries to rebut the letter with one of his own.
Archie tries to collect a large settlement from a petty traffic accident by hiring a Jewish lawyer.
Archie thinks Mike's friend is gay, but learns his ex-football player buddy is homosexual.
Archie hesitates to donate blood, fearing it may be mixed with that of a different race.
Archie hits the roof when he learns Gloria is pregnant and unemployed college student Mike has no means to support his soon-to-be child. But just as he's changing his tune, Archie learns that Gloria became suddenly ill and suffered a miscarriage.
Mike invites an unmarried hippie couple to spend the night in the living room, despite Archie's strenuous objections.
Archie and several neighbors learn that a black family is moving into the neighborhood, unaware that it is the Jeffersons. Lionel finds out about the effort to purchase the Jeffersons' new house and gets Archie to reveal his plans.
Edith abandons the kitchen for the courtroom when she is chosen for jury duty.
Archie spends a sleepless night worrying that he might lose his job.
Gloria spars with Mike when she feels she is not recognized as an equal partner in the marriage.
Archie's old army buddy has achieved success and wealth but not happiness.
The Jeffersons come to dinner at the Bunkers' without racist husband George, who refuses to socialize with his white neighbors.
Mike has second thoughts after Gloria poses nude for an artist friend.
Archie's strange cousin dies in the upstairs bedroom.
On the Stivics' first anniversary, the family recalls the day Archie and Michael met.
Two black burglars hide in the Bunkers' house after robbing a jewelry store.
Archie is arrested along with a group of radicals at a protest rally.
Mike and Gloria campaign for the liberal candidate in a local election, while Archie places himself in the opposing camp.
A priest visits to reward Edith's honesty for leaving a note on his car after she accidentally dents it with a can of peaches.
Mike's nervousness over his grades renders him temporarily impotent.
An unscrupulous real-estate salesman tempts Archie to sell his house to a black family at an inflated price.
Archie's insurance policy is canceled when his neighborhood is redlined as a bad risk.
Archie complains that he was passed over for a Christmas bonus.
Archie is the subject of a man-on-the-street interview scheduled to appear on the evening news.
Everyone in the family is sick, so Edith calls Cousin Maude to help out.
Edith is suddenly moody and irritable with the approach of menopause.
Archie is stuck in an elevator with a pregant Puerto Rican and her husband, an aging hippie and a black businessman.
Archie's paranoia during a mysterious government investigation drives him to betray a long-standing friendship.
Archie refuses to get involed with the police, even though he's the only witness to a neighborhood mugging.
Mike's old girlfriend claims he is the father of her young son.
The Bunkers are alone for eight days while Mike and Gloria visit a commune.
Archie won't let Edith accept a mink stolen from her cousin, until he sees a chance to make a big profit.
Sammy Davis Jr. visits the Bunkers and plants a kiss on Archie's cheek.
Edith arbitrates a dispute between Archie and the irate proprietor of a laundromat.
Archie is disturbed to discover Edith once spent an entire weekend with an old beau.
Archie and Edith visit cousin Maude and her soon-to-be-married daughter.
Archie rails against gun control in a TV editorial.
After Munson tells Archie that he is reporting Archie's income from driving his cab, Archie goes to the tax office to amend his return.
Gloria stumps Mike and Archie with a riddle that Edith easily answers.
The attractive young wife of Archie's old army buddy spends an eventful night at the Bunkers'.
Archie is aghast to find out that his visiting niece plans to go out dancing with Lionel Jefferson.
Edith unwillingly invites a pair of wife-swapping swingers to dinner when she responds to a newspaper ad for pen pals.
Mike's emergency appendectomy precipitates an argument between Archie and Gloria regarding the proficiency of women doctors.
Edith is worried she may be a kleptomaniac after she absent-mindedly takes a wig from a department store.
Archie conspires to use an insurance claim to turn Edith's missing locket into a new TV set.
Mike sparks a family feud when he donates to George McGovern's campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.
On the Stivics' second anniversary, the family recalls the comedy of errors that transpired on the wedding day.
Continuation of the flashback to the Stivics' wedding, when Michael's uncle insists that the marriage be performed by a Catholic priest.
The family discovers an old winning lottery ticket, but Edith claims the ticket doesn't belong to her.
Archie wakes up to find a swastika painted on his front door.
Archie gets a shot to try out for a prestigious bowling team.
Archie befriends the other patient in his hospital room, unaware that his neighbor is black.
After a visit from a friend who has a young and beautiful companion, Archie realizes how lucky he is to have Edith.
Edith and Gloria end the latest family brawl when they storm out of the house to spend the night on their own.
Archie refuses to come to Edith's high-school reunion until he finds out that one of her beaus will be attending.
Archie's expensive watch may be stolen.
The family recounts vastly different versions of the same encounter with a pair of handymen in the kitchen.
Archie attends night-school classes to qualify for a high-school diploma.
After an attempted sexual assault, Gloria suffers through the legal aftermath of reporting the crime.
Gloria challenges Edith about her constant acquiescence to Archie's whims.
Henry Jefferson joins Archie in trying to prevent a Hispanic family from moving into the neighborhood.
As the Lorenzos settle in, Archie grows jealous of Edith's friendship with Irene.
Edith befriends a lonely old man.
Gloria's erotic sculpture upsets Archie.
Edith is disturbed to find out that Archie has been betting on horse races again.
Archie finally meets George Jefferson at Henry's going-away party.
A computer informs Archie that he's been declared dead.
Mike refuses to accept criticism during an informal group-therapy game.
Archie thinks Irene Lorenzo is trying to convert Edith to Catholicism.
Locked in his cellar with a bottle of vodka, Archie spends a long night contemplating his life.
Gloria's new wig raises Michael's libido.
Archie and Edith rekindle their romance during a second honeymoon in Atlantic City.
An influential politician attempts to dissuade Archie from pressing charges against his son.
Irene challenges Archie to a pool match, but he begs off, complaining of a sore back.
During the Christmas holidays, Edith tries to hide the fact that she may have breast cancer.
Michael is put off by Gloria's romantic aggressiveness.
Archie refuses to attend his own birthday party.
Archie sabotages an old friend's efforts to land a job at the loading dock because he's afraid the man might be in line for his position.
Archie's misconceptions run amok when Gloria befriends the retarded box boy from the local market.
The family attends Lionel's engagement party, where his parents discover that one of his fiancé's parents is white.
The Bunkers are in a panic after Archie eats a stew made from mushrooms that might have been contaminated.
Gloria is bewildered after she falls temporarily out of life with Michael, until she discovers her mother went through the same thing with Archie.
Archie unwillingly passes George Jefferson a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill.
Archie's spirit soars on Mike's graduation day, until he discovers that his meat-head son-in-law has accepted a fellowship and won't be moving out for another year.
Archie's union calls a strike.
Tempers flare in the Bunker household when Archie finds himself with nothing to do but sit around the house.
With Archie still on strike, Edith takes a job at the Jeffersons' store.
Archie's union settles the strike.
Lionel has a fight with his parents and moves into the Bunkers' house for a night.
Irene Lorenzo lands a job alongside Archie on the loading dock.
Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children.
Archie goes missing on his way to a convention in Buffalo.
The family faces the possibility that Archie may have run off with another woman.
Archie returns from the missing to find his friends and family celebrating.
A workplace accident makes Archie into a regular churchgoer.
George Jefferson seeks Archie's help when he runs for local political office.
Archie is scammed into buying aluminum siding.
Gloria feels dumb when Mike's graduate-school friend visits.
A look back at the show's best moments, hosted by Henry Fonda.
Archie is not happy to find the plumber's assistant is a convicted felon.
The Jeffersons move on up to their Manhattan apartment.
Gloria gives Edith a lesson in marriage assertiveness.
Edith is surprised to discover the truth about her cousin's supposedly ideal marriage.
Archie's steals a box of nails from work and finds himself at the center of a household debate on morality.
Archie is troubled when a magazine quiz on life expectancy only has him living seven more years.
Edith is reunited with her childhood sweetheart when she returns to her hometown for a wedding.
Mike vows he can go without food longer than Archie can abstain from smoking.
Mike and Gloria rent the Jeffersons' old house.
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 feels abandoned after Edith begins to volunteer part-time at the Sunshine Home for the Elderly.
Mike must decide if he wants to be in the delivery room during the birth of the baby.
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 rude shock when the tall,classy dame whose life he saved in a taxicab turns out to be a man.
Archie's refusal 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 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,
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.
Archie babysits little Joey with the help of his friends during their poker game.
Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.
Archie has ulterior motives when he befriends a Jewish watchmaker, who has a sure-fire invention that the world has been waiting for.
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 suspects him of infidelity.
Archie's loses his job on the loading dock.
A college grad threatens to commit suicide after he loses a job to Archie.
Hospitalized Archie must accept a blood transfusion from a black doctor.
Archie recuperates in time to return to work with a raise and a promotion.
Archie fixes up a drinking buddy with a female impersonator.
The Bunkers take in a boarder to help revive their battered budget.
Mike and Gloria ponder Joey's fate should they both die.
After Edith saves a man's life, Archie is jealous of her heroine status.
Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounter with an old high school friend.
Archie enters Joey in a contest against the wishes of Mike and Gloria.
Gloria insists that Mike get a vasectomy.
Archie spars with Mike's draft-dodger friend at Christmas dinner.
Returning home unexpectedly, Archie and Edith surprise a scantily clad Teresa and her boyfriend.
Mike accidentally breaks Archie's chair.
Mike leaves Gloria behind when he joins his friends on a weekend ski trip.
Archie delivers Stretch Cunningham's eulogy, unaware that his departed friend was Jewish.
Gloria and Mike try to get Edith and Archie open up about sex.
Stranded in a subway train, pacifist Mike punches a man who had pushed Gloria.
After a minor house fire, Archie hopes to cash in from his insurance policy.
The Stivics spar and separate before Mike comes to his senses and returns home.
Archie proposes admitting a black Jew to the lodge.
Archie accidentally runs over Barney's dog with his cab.
Archie is determined to buy Kelcy's bar.
Edith is upset to learn Archie has forged her signature to buy Kelcy's bar.
Edith learns a troubling secret about a deceased cousin.
Edith is attacked by a rapist posing as a policeman.
Edith must deal with her sexual assault and identify the perpetrator.
Archie's weekend fishing plans conflict with Edith's offer to use the house for a wedding.
The grand opening of Archie's bar is a fiasco.
With business at the bar slowing down, Archie starts taking pills.
Archie tries to shake his dependence on pills and finds a new business partner.
Archie unwittingly joins a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
Archie schemes to stop the local KKK group's plans.
The family remembers Mike's and Gloria's first date.
Edith's religious faith is shaken after a friend is murdered.
Edith's family helps restore her faith.
Edith is chosen to appear in a TV commercial but comes to doubt the quality of the sponsor's product.
Archie's Place is robbed on Super Bowl Sunday.
Archie refuses to let Edith's aunt stay in the spare bedroom.
Archie is jealous when a lonely butcher lavishes attention on Edith.
Mike and Archie are locked in the storeroom at the bar.
Mike and Gloria try to spark their listless marriage.
Archie's estranged brother appears and wants to reconcile before a major operation.
The Stivics prepare to move to California after Mike is offered a teaching position.
Edith farewell dinner for the Stivics poses a conflict for Mike.
Mike and Gloria leave for California.
Edith's cousin abandons his nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie, on the Bunkers' doorstep.
Archie frets when a physical exam reveals an ominous spot on his liver.
The Bunkers attempt to reunite Barney Hefner and his wife.
The Bunkers decide to keep Stephanie after her father fails to reclaim her as promised.
Edith is the sole mourner at her aunt's funeral.
Archie and Edith spend a disastrous weekend with the Hefners.
At a convention, Archie awakens to find a black stewardess who swears they were married the night before.
Edith finds her gender is a barrier to borrowing money.
Harry unwittingly hires the woman who had nearly led Archie astray.
Edith is arrested for passing phony $10 bills she got from Archie's Place.
The Bunkers visit Mike and Gloria for the holidays.
While visiting California, the Bunkers learn that the Stivics are having marital problems.
The Bunkers have arrived in California and learn that the Stivics are hiding the fact that they've separated.
When Edith develops laryngitis, Archie steps in to sing at Stephanie's recital.
A butcher seems to favor Edith over his girlfriend, Edith's exact likeness.
Stephanie has an emergency appendectomy on the eve of her tenth birthday.
Stephanie admits to stealing personal items as a way to remember the people she loves.
Archie fixes up a despondent Barney Hefner with an overweight but wealthy widow.
Archie's brother returns with a teenage bride.
Archie comes to terms with the fact that Stephanie is Jewish.
Edith is fired from the nursing home after assenting to an elderly woman's dying wish.
To celebrate the 200th episode, Norman Lear hosts an affectionate look back at the groundbreaking series.
Edith helps Louise Jefferson sell her old house to a black cop and his wife.
Stephanie's deadbeat father threatens to reclaim her unless the Bunkers pay him $1,000.
Edith's sudden illness prompts Archie to express how much she means to him.
