Cutting-Edge Facts You Don’t Know About ‘All in the Family’

Published on July 30, 2017
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Jean Stapleton is actually an incredible singer.

Despite consistently portraying Edith Bunker as a terrible singer, Jean Stapleton is actually a wonderful vocalist. She started off her entertainment career on Broadway singing in the shows Damn Yankees as well as Funny Girl.

Jean Stapleton Is Actually An Incredible Singer

Jean Stapleton Is Actually An Incredible Singer

Three Minutes

Turns out that back in 1975, CBS actually cut old episodes of All in the Family by a whopping three minutes in order to allow for more time for commercials. Norman Lear attempted to haggle with CBS to keep those three minutes, and even offered the network more money for those minutes! However CBS declined the offer.

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