All in the Family (TV Series) The Man in the Street (1971) User Reviews

Say a few Hail Moses'

[vitoscotti · 10/10 · 22 October 2021]

Episode is go-go from start to finish. Poor Archie. Nothing ever works out for him. Even his idol President Nixon has it in for him. Archie has a funny exchange with the Jewish tv repairman.

All the President's "Man"

[stones78 · 2 June 2016]

This early episode revolves around Archie being interviewed at work, which has something to do with the economy, I think. I believe he mentions "pinko Cronkite", a term he uses several times during the series' run. As Archie comes home from work in a good mood, that soon changes when he realizes his television is broken, and he's having trouble finding someone to fix it. During this time, there's a funny exchange with a repairman named Levy(Neil J. Schwartz), who you may recognize from "Happy Days" although he is unable to fix the set because of a Jewish holiday revolving around sunset. A scene or 2 before or after this, Archie hurls around some ethnic jokes that wouldn't be allowed on the tube nowadays, but they are very funny. Since I'm an old CBS logo buff(hard to explain), there's a very cool "special report" logo on the set at Kelsey's bar; Archie had nowhere else to watch the news, so he bribed the guys with a round of beer to let him see the news, as they were watching a basketball game. Look for familiar faces in Bob Hastings and Billy Sands, both from "McHale's Navy". I won't spoil the ending, but let's just say that Nixon didn't do Archie any favors, even considering that Archie voted for him!