It’s You!
CBS tried to purchase the rights to the original show and then to retool it specifically for Gleason, who at the time was under contract to them, but the producer Lear beat out CBS for the rights and thus offered the show to ABC.
The Best of “All in the Family”
On December 21, 1974, Henry Fonda held a special one-hour retrospective of “All in the Family” and the impact the show had on American television. There were even clips from the show’s most memorable episodes, up to that point of course.