Change Up
During the show’s final ever season, the traditional practice of being taped before a live audience was changed to play an already taped and edited show to an audience while they recorded their laughter to the original sound track. As a result, the end credits voice over was changed from Rob Reiner’s “All in the Family was recorded on tape before a live audience” to Carroll O’Connor’s saying, “All in the Family was played to a studio audience for live responses”.
Change Up
Consistent
All in the Family is just one of three television shows, with The Cosby Show and American Idol as the others, to have placed as number one in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive television seasons. The show went on to remain in the top 10 for seven out of its nine seasons.
Consistent
